Chapter 114: The Boring First Landing
In space, just taking the 30 kilometers distance between the Earth and the Moon as an example, the communication delay using traditional means is as high as 3 seconds.
Not to mention the average 5-minute delay between Earth and Mars.
Due to this communication delay, all the army's actions will appear extremely slow.
This may even cause major losses such as delays in fighter jets.
Once this link is filled, Daxia's space force will have no major weaknesses that can be targeted.
Fan Ren turned his gaze to Li Jiandong.
"Director Li, based on these two technologies, the Ministry of Industry should start designing related spacecraft that can travel in space in advance. Xinghai will provide the Ministry of Industry with relevant technical support free of charge."
He hasn't mentioned the space dock construction plant in his mind. After all, that cannot be completed in a short time.
This requires the continued construction of space modular factories after all current space projects are completed to process and produce the tri-titanium alloy produced by the refinery.
After completing this goal, his space dock construction plant can be established.
Otherwise, we have to rely on the space elevator to transport materials, which would be too inefficient.
Li Jiandong nodded and took a pen to write down what Fan Ren had just said.
Having said that, Fanren’s meaning is very clear.
Although Xinghai is his private company, he always stands with Daxia on major issues.
Everyone looked at him with a look of awe at the young man.
At the aerospace base, the testing of the space elevator has come to an end. Thousands of Daxia workers from all walks of life have gathered around it. After this, they will continue to build a large hub platform on top of the elevator.
This is also a big project, but because there is a space elevator as a prerequisite for transportation, the cost is actually not high.
After leaving Kyoto, Fan Ren plunged directly into the nuclear fusion engine laboratory.
Not only does the Daxia military's aerospace force need new spacecraft to complete future space patrol missions, the star sea also needs a large number of various types of space ships to transport ores, personnel, equipment, etc.
The 80-ton payload of the Star Series spacecraft has become very low as the use of tri-titanium alloys has increased.
Large space transport ships must be put into use as soon as possible.
Only in this way can we quickly get rid of the embarrassing situation of South Australia's increasing ore export prices.
The press conference hosted by Jin Qiaoying and the media meeting with Chief Zhao Bo were released one after another.
Especially after announcing a series of measures by the Daxia military.
This directly caused the global situation, which had just calmed down, to become turbulent again.
In terms of trade, just as Fan Ren expected, after the price of technology licensing increased by 200%, a number of foreign high-tech companies in related industries immediately complained.
As relevant information was revealed, the news that the United States was using an abandoned space station to destroy Daxia's space elevator also spread around the world.
Although these companies were angry about Xinghai's arbitrary increase in licensing prices, they really had no reason to refute this time.
It's so fucked up.
In the past few months, the president of Fruit's Ku Ke flew to the Xinghai headquarters again and again to meet with Jin Qiaoying, but he only got one result.
Cancel tariff restrictions on all Xinghai products.
Otherwise, there is no need to discuss anything.
For this reason, Xinghai even insisted on this statement despite being boycotted by various high-tech companies.
However, this joint boycott is very fragile under the pressure of various similar products of Daxia. As I said before, the market is there, if you take a step back, Daxia's related companies will take a bite.
Of all the companies under the influence of the White Alliance, only Spieth's company is now an exception.
In the office, Mark was reading the relevant news during this period. While lamenting Wells's stupidity, he couldn't help but feel fortunate that he had strongly requested to sign a series of high-level cooperation agreements.
Yes, this incident has nothing to do with his Spieth company.
He even called Fanren and received a very positive answer that Xinghai's space elevator project would also be open to their Spieth company if the demand was met.
Mark knew that this was not out of kindness.
This is why that guy opened up a series of cooperation with Spieth's company because he thought Spieth could help him explore the way to Mars.
But it doesn't matter anymore.
The stock price of Spieth's company has risen sharply again during this round of turmoil.
In the aerospace command hall outside, a group of engineers were busy working.
The five spacecraft that flew to Mars in advance have already arrived in Mars' synchronous orbit for a week.
During this period, the astronauts successfully completed the construction of the space station and other preliminary work such as data mapping of the Mars landing site.
According to the plan, today is the day to land on Mars.
Pity!
Because the communication delay between the Earth and Mars is as high as 5 minutes, the communication channel is extremely precious, so there will be no live broadcast today.
There was only a group of reporters on site in the command hall, watching the live broadcast on the data display screen that ordinary people could not understand.
Mark knew that this kind of live broadcast would be ineffective.
"This is Mars. We have landed safely on the surface of Mars. My god, it's so desolate here."
The astronauts' brief words traveled 2 million kilometers of space and reached the command hall.
After hearing this, Mark wanted to fire the astronaut from his company on the spot.
It’s a pity that communication channels are extremely precious, and their ground command center cannot make any effective commands.
Everything just goes according to the predetermined plan.
He walked into the hall, picked up the microphone, thought for a while, and pressed the recording button.
"This is the Spieth Command Center on Blue Planet. Congratulations on completing this landing mission. Congratulations, you are now the first pioneers in human history to land on Mars. On behalf of all mankind, thank you for your brave actions! Please continue to carry out our base construction work according to plan."
Mark released the call button, thinking that his words would probably be recorded in textbooks in the future.
Warm applause broke out in the command hall.
But he didn't seem particularly excited. The 10-minute time difference in communication made the scene seem particularly deserted.
Although today is indeed a great moment worthy of being recorded in the history of human space flight.
But he knew that on the other side of the Blue Star, Xinghai's space elevator had been officially put into operation. Equipped with a nuclear fusion reactor generator set, the cost of sending materials into space was close to zero!
He also knew that in the next phase, the Daxia Engineering Department would be responsible for building a space elevator to the moon, with a very short construction period.
When completed, Daxia's overall aerospace level will be completely far ahead of the United States.
In Mark's eyes, the "Mars Project" they are currently working on is just like a child's play compared to the other side.
Just as he was distracted, the phone rang.
(End of this chapter)
