This is how black technology should be used

Chapter 273 Kilometer Class Spacecraft
When the outline was finished, people didn't realize what was going to happen next until Mr. Yang, the chief designer of the Stars space station system, came up.

Mr. Yang came up and introduced himself first, and then without any other nonsense, he said: "I don't know if anyone still remembers that in the new plan two years ago, it was mentioned that we would build a 'kilometer-class spacecraft', which was very topical at that time. Sex, but after many people thought about it, they found it impossible, so they slowly fell silent."

"What I want to say now is that we were very serious at the beginning and have been working hard in that direction, so this time the second phase of the space station construction plan is no longer the previous copying of the 'T' structure into the 'dry' character structure, but a brand new structure.”

As he spoke, he pressed the remote control in his hand, and the large screen behind him immediately displayed a rendering of the new space station.

As soon as the effect picture came out, the people at the scene and the audience who watched the live broadcast took a breath of cold air.

"Good guy!"

"The new space station is so big?!"

"Hey, is that the Muyuan aerospace plane? It's so small compared to the space station?"

"The wooden kite is 20 meters long, this new space station... hiss, it's terrifying!"

"However, it's several hundred meters long, and it looks like some individual cabins are so big."

"What are those balls?"

"What are those big circles?"

"Based on the sci-fi movies I've seen and the sci-fi games I've played, it's probably..."

People who care about aerospace news really have a little impression of the "kilometer-class spacecraft" mentioned by General Master Yang, because it was indeed a big hit at the time, and many people thought of it as Star Wars.

In fact, it is a project of the Department of Mathematics and Physical Sciences in the first batch of major project guidelines of the "[-]th Five-Year Plan" issued by the Fanxing Natural Science Foundation of China.

In this project, it is mentioned that in the future, the stars will build ultra-large spacecraft with a size of a kilometer through structural modular design, multiple launches and space assembly. This kind of aerospace equipment with great strategic significance will be used in the future. Utilization of space resources, exploration of the mysteries of the universe, long-term in-orbit residence and other tasks.

Once the guidelines for this major project were disclosed, it quickly aroused widespread attention and discussion.

After all, in "Star Wars", the Star Destroyer of the Old Republic Army has a total length of 1150 meters, and the main part of the Empire I Star Destroyer has a length of 1600 meters, while the supercarrier Ford on Earth is only about 300 meters long.

Speaking of things in space, the International Space Station jointly manufactured by multiple countries is 110 meters long, 88 meters wide, and has a total weight of 423 tons, which is a "[-]-meter-class" spacecraft.

Of course, there are actually not many cabins available on the International Space Station. They are not a "compact" structure like a battleship. They are basically the size of trusses and huge solar panels.

The Fanxing Space Station, which belongs to Fanxing alone, is even smaller, with a weight of only a hundred tons and a size of less than "50 meters."

In recent years, as Fanxing's national strength has increased, investment in scientific research and construction has also increased. Thanks to these investments, Fanxing's aerospace industry has gradually caught up with the international trend, and some of its latecomer advantages have reached the leading stage.

Fanxing has always been in the aerospace field step by step, completing each goal according to the plan, from lunar exploration to building its own space station, it is the result of continuous efforts.

On the premise of a strong country, aerospace researchers can boldly imagine and study the direction of the future aerospace field. The kilometer-level ultra-large spacecraft is one of the plans.

Many people think, especially those who have watched too many sci-fi movies and the high-level executives of the Freedom Federation, they feel that kilometer-class spacecraft are bound to be further developed and used in the military field, and space battleships in sci-fi works may not be far away.

After all, the Star Wars plan proposed by the Freedom Federation decades ago has a description of the space-based weapon system's ground attack, which has a great strategic advantage.

However, the Star Wars plan basically stayed at the stage of conception, because a series of reasons did not come true in the end.

But they think that the Stars project to build a huge spacecraft should come true.

At least that's what the lobbyists of the military-industrial complex say.

As for the "12-meter-class" international space station, many countries spent huge sums of money, and it took another [-] years to complete it. They will not say whether the "kilometer-class" space station can be built only with the strength of the stars.

Anyway, in addition to providing an excellent test platform in the field of scientific research, this huge spacecraft, once used in the military field, can be said to be an earth-shaking change in the military at this stage.

First of all, the global strategic projection and strike capabilities brought by this weapon are unmatched by aircraft and small spacecraft in the atmosphere.

When strategic deployment is required, this super-large spacecraft will immediately maneuver to the orbit of the corresponding area, and release the quick-response force that can be stationed for a long time on it to achieve the strategic goal of rapid deployment.

If at that time they knew that there would be a wooden kite aerospace plane in the stars, then this huge spacecraft would definitely become a space port or an interstellar mothership that docks and takes off and lands "space fighters".

Secondly, when space-based weapons are successfully developed in the future, they will inevitably be carried on such ultra-large spacecraft with a length of one kilometer for strategic deterrence and strategic strikes.

It can be said that if it is used as a military force, it is no longer a simple spacecraft, but a mobile military base and firepower platform in the universe.

In addition, this huge spacecraft in orbit itself is a very deterrent strategic force.

Just imagine what it would be like if Fanxing had already built such a huge spacecraft when other countries were still using conventional spacecraft?
Of course, Fanxing will definitely not admit this kind of thing, after all, Fanxing’s slogan when it first achieved manned spaceflight was "Use space peacefully for the benefit of all mankind".

In the Starry Project, this super-large spacecraft carries the heavy responsibility of exploring outer space targets. Compared with ordinary spacecraft, it can provide a stable and reliable space maneuvering test platform, which is more conducive to related research.

However, although the imagination is very beautiful, the reality is indeed cruel. When the utility technology aerospace company has not risen, these can only be imagined.

The "kilometer-level" that Fanxing said is actually just "a long stick", with only two ends and a center cabin, which is still a cabin with a diameter of more than 4 meters like the first phase of the Fanxing space station, and the rest is tied up with tough ropes.

In this way, with such a large size, as long as it rotates very slowly, this "kilometer-level" space station will have a "gravityless" cabin and a "gravity" cabin.

Not only will there be many more scenes for experiments, but the space life of astronauts will also be much more stable.

It's just the emergence of the Practical Science and Technology Aerospace Company, and all previous ideas, including those imagined by science fiction fans and high-level officials of the Free Federation, can be realized.

(End of this chapter)