Everything went well. On October 20th, the first lunar baby Xihe was born.

The official name is Xihe. On the moon table, the couple did not give her a new name, but just had an extra surname.

The successful birth of Xihe is not only a major achievement in China C's aerospace system, but also a concern for the future of all mankind.

Modern medicine ensures the safety of mother and son when Xihe was born. Next, as long as the health of bones and blood circulation system in infancy and low gravity environments can be seen, astronauts can reproduce and continue themselves.

The subsequent tasks do not require new equipment, and mainly rely on remote support from surface nutritionists and medical expert groups.

So even if humans lose all surface launch capabilities now, the remaining humans can still look forward to the future.

Once the news was made public, it caused a global sensation... but it was only a slight sensation.

As the overall industrial power on the ground continues to weaken, it is no longer possible to launch a new space permanent residence system during this period. At the same time, in order to ensure the living space of new humans in the space, a small amount of expansion work cannot provide more admission tickets to the surface.

Therefore, the news is good news, but it has nothing to do with people who are existing on the ground and who can watch TV online.

In addition, the old problems in Country A have occurred again. Seeing Country C appearing in the limelight, some people who have been affected by the previous demonization and spread can no longer hold back and start to do their jobs.

A few verbal shots appeared first. By the end of October, the spokesperson of the General Commander's Office suddenly announced that the Doomsday Space Station would add 150 places, and the hot spots would naturally be transferred.

The per capita material conditions for permanent residence in space and the launch capabilities of various places were introduced.

150 places correspond to nearly 10,000 tons of materials and buildings. They can’t be found just by blowing a bubble. Where does the extra launch capacity come from?

The answer is... the big country has also used electromagnetic track launch devices.

Country A had the ability to produce black and white magic weapons as early as last year, but due to the impact of scale, floating silver raw material costs, depreciation of A coins, etc., it has never been able to take up major projects.

The scale and quality of the Doomsday Space Station are related to the survival of the descendants of the chaebols, and sufficient funding guarantees are sufficient. The problem is that in the environment of rapid depreciation of currency, fewer things can be done with funds alone.

Another problem is the deep-rooted high-tech cooperation dilemma between a and c. This is a historical legacy and the superposition of dominance at the space level.

Country a cannot directly obtain a complete set of technical data for electromagnetic orbital transmitters from Country c. It will take time to rely on Western Central China launchers and construction data for reverse engineering, and then supplemented with local research to master and learn to build.

It was not until this time that their electromagnetic rail transmitters were built.

Most critics believe that the transmitter is not enough to be fully loaded.

It seems that the launcher development in Country C is smooth and smooth, but in fact, many problems need to be solved.

The instantaneous load of a 3.6-meter caliber transmitter is more than that of an industrial city with a population of 500,000. At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of the transmitter itself, power must be turned on some time before launch.

In addition, it does not mean that once the transmitter is landed, everyone will be fine as soon as the transmitter is landed. It will take at least several months to coordinate the production and logistics of various manufacturers.

Excluding C country, the fastest-promoting electromagnetic orbit emitter efficiency in the world is.

According to the calculation standard of the average daily delivery volume of near-earth orbit, the Are transmitter still had a capacity increase of 15% last month compared with the previous month. According to the analysis of relevant institutions, the average daily capacity will only approach the peak in about one year.

Even if the country a is stronger, it will always be necessary for eight to ten months.

Based on the changes in industrial product supply in recent months, there will be problems in the procurement of rocket parts by then.

The relevant dilemma, the launcher practitioners in Country A are not unclear, but there is nothing they can do.

Capital drivers need to see profits before taking action. In the early stage of the uncertain outcome of the Monster Crisis, superconductors, electromagnetic rockets/silos are not fully funded, and they will definitely be one step slower.

On the other side of the planet, Country C is preparing for the last big move of the astronaut system, the future space station will upgrade orbit.

In the future, the space station is now about 600 kilometers from the surface. It was originally planned to upgrade the orbit before the surface production system collapsed.

But the plan never keeps up with the changes.

After the incident in the Dajiang Triangle District, the three-station system of the space station began an autonomous operation preview, with astronauts directing the three stations and requiring as little reserve materials to be used as possible.

Three months have passed and all the information that should be counted has been obtained.

The overall construction basically meets the needs of life and production. According to the collected information, Yuegong needs to provide Kunpeng with a total weight of about 120 tons to the two stations in the future, and at the same time, about 60 tons of non-renewable garbage on the space station are recovered.

Unlike the garbage division on the surface, the non-renewable ones in the space station are just that there is no equipment to deal with in the space station, but there is the Moon Palace. The real non-renewable ones account for less than 10% of this part.

The space station system meets the self-sustaining requirements, and the surface negotiates and decides to allow the space station to upgrade orbit in advance in the future.

The low orbit is affected by the scarce atmospheric particles and requires a lot of maintenance work every year. After the orbit is upgraded, the situation will improve a lot.

But at the same time, the low-Earth orbit will lose the future material transfer station of the space station and the outer space aircraft assembly station, and the surface will reduce the supply efficiency of the space system.

In short, after Xihe was born, the space station will once again enter the major engineering stage in the future.

The newly built ring residential area and the original construction area need to be adjusted relative to meet the propulsion requirements of rail lifting.

Its annular area adopts different design concepts, it is very small, with a total diameter of 60 meters, less than half of Kunpeng.

In terms of appearance, Kunpeng's annular area looks like several concentric circles, while the future annular area tends to be drum-shaped, with the width of one layer much larger.

The rotation structure is also completely different. Kunpeng provides rotational power for the axis. In the future, there will be an outer frame outside the drum, and more small motors will be used to provide rotational power for the drum.

Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.

The structure of Kunpeng is easier to monitor and manage equipment, but the spacecraft has become a problem. It can only be parked in the stationary column section or the ring area is stopped.

In the future, the outer frame drum will not stop even if it breaks a few motors. The frame provides the spacecraft berth and does not affect the internal rolling (such as washing machines). At the same time, the outer frame, solar energy, and cooling equipment can also provide additional protection for the living area.

The disadvantage is that gravity is not good. Due to the diameter, when this drum simulates gravity above 0.15g during rotation, the human body will feel obvious lateral force and will become crooked while standing. As a result, the daily gravity is only 0.085g, which is no different from floating in a suborbital.

However, even if it is less than 0.1g, it is at least more suitable for humans than zero gravity.

Before upgrading the rail, the space station will need to send the original working platform to the drum to be parked in the drum and perform a lot of fixed work to achieve integrated rail lifting.

December soon comes, and after the fuel reserve reaches 1,600 tons, the space station will perform orbital lifting operations in the future.

The total weight of the current future space station is about eight times that of the asteroid mined at the time. 1,600 tons of fuel is only enough to send it to an altitude of 2,100 kilometers, and even a new engine is used.

Danbird, this is probably the last legacy left by the surface in terms of engines.

Danniao is a verification atmospheric round-trip engine. It can turn on external air intake and switch to the scram-pressure mode when it drops to a height of 30,000 meters.

However, it is still a fancy way, with intra-atmosphere specific impulse, thrust, and reliability, not done well. The only thing that can be seen is that the specific impulse in outer space can reach 480, which is close to the limit of the hydrogen and oxygen engine.

The 480 ratio is really not low. In order to pursue reliability under high thrust, the first stage of the conventional rocket often fails to achieve 300 ratios. With the atmospheric round-trip and partial deformation functions, the Danbi can achieve vacuum ratios of 480 seconds, which almost integrates all the achievements of C country in hydrogen and oxygen engines.

Unfortunately, in outer space, nuclear power and plasma are more promising.

The nuclear power ratio of the Hanba has exceeded 1,000. Although the thrust of the plasma thruster is small, it is considered to be tens of thousands of times.

Therefore, compared to practicality, Danbird is more about cooperating with relevant information to provide a development reference for astronauts.

In the future, after the space station completes its orbit upgrade, the surface will no longer provide resource-based and equipment-based supplies for the three-station system, and will only supply mechanical hard disk databases, as well as canned meat and jerky reserves with insufficient space self-sufficiency.
Chapter completed!