Chapter 653 Accelerating

February 28th.

Large-scale protests triggered by the Dongyue incident are still raging around the world.

Dasha Space City, the 5th launch site.

James, who returned to Australia safely, took a month's leave and took his family to visit the rocket launch.

At this time, on the runway of the 5th launch site, the latest version of the Golden Winged Dapeng-space transport aircraft has been refueled and final inspections have been completed.

Although the Golden Winged Dapeng is no longer the largest space vehicle in the Federation, it is still the most cost-effective space vehicle in the atmospheric stage.

"Dad, is this our space shuttle?" A little girl was held by James.

James' eyes were slightly complicated, but he quickly put away the emotion. He didn't want to convey anything to the child, and replied with a smile:

"Yes, Kelly, maybe we will go to outer space to live in the future."

His wife Ruth, who had her hair tied in a ponytail, was operating a special telescope on the observation deck and did not notice her husband's fleeting complex emotions.

Although James has mixed feelings in his heart, it does not mean that he is a fool. Someone who can be a double agent has a very clear understanding of this era.

His life in Australia and his business trips in Britain and North America were two completely different worlds.

In Australia in the past, although the welfare was not bad, for ordinary people, the pressure of life was not that low no matter where it was.

In Queensland, where he lives, there are many ordinary people living average lives. The James family can barely be considered a middle-class family, but they have to pay for the education, medical care, insurance, etc. of their two children, so their life can only be considered barely adequate.

If Australia were not a large agricultural area and had relatively cheap local supplies of agricultural products, their lives would not necessarily be very good.

Many people think that things in the Western world are cheap, but in their lives, there are still many expenses that Chinese people cannot imagine.

For example, insurance, medical care, daily taxes, labor costs, education, etc. These expenses may add up to a huge amount.

The most obvious example is that in North America, if you don’t have insurance, calling an ambulance will cost you thousands of yuan; the fire brigade is privately contracted and also charges a fee; you may owe hundreds of thousands of yuan to go to school. Student loans; installing an air conditioner, the total cost is tens of thousands of dollars...

These things are most vividly displayed in North America, but in other Western regions, it does not mean that they do not exist, but they are not as serious.

After Australia integrated into the new system, what seemed reasonable before has become increasingly glaring.

Especially with the arrival of a large number of immigrants, many things in Australia are changing rapidly.

If Australia is abandoned now, it is estimated that most ordinary Australians will not agree with this.

In the past, due to the influence of public opinion and the transportation and communication barriers between the two sides, many local talents were invisibly led astray by capital forces with ulterior motives.

Which Australian hospital now says that calling an ambulance requires paying thousands of dollars? I guess they don’t want to do it anymore.

After abolishing direct taxes and switching to indirect taxes, a lot of troubles have been eliminated. Otherwise, if you buy something, you have to pay a tax once. Although the amount of tax paid has not changed much, the trouble it brings is not small at all.

It can be included directly in the product, and then the amount of tax paid can be indicated on the invoice. It is too troublesome to list it additionally.

There were many changes that the locals were not used to at first, but as they gradually adapted, one word came to their minds: It smells so good.

Now let them go back to the past. Unless they use force to force it, most people are not willing to return to their previous lives.

And James is even more like this. He has seen darker things before he realizes how hard-won the beauty in front of him is.

Just when his thoughts were racing, the Golden Winged Dapeng space transport aircraft started to start, with its eight main engines spitting out light red flames.

The powerful chemical energy propelled the 3,372-ton aircraft to take off rapidly toward the southeast.

Hundreds of spectators on the observation deck suddenly cheered and screamed. Even if it was not the first time, everyone was shocked.

In the aerospace field in recent years, the Federation's progress has been accelerating and its scale has been expanding.

Although the Golden Wing Dapeng series is no longer the largest spacecraft of the China Space Administration, its amazing cost performance still has an irreplaceable position.

Otherwise, 16 would not have been manufactured successively for spacecraft launches.

The spacecraft launched this time is actually part of the Chang 13 launch vehicle, which is ready to be transported to the Tianmen Space Station and assembled into the first Chang 13-B.

After the efforts of the space agency, the Tianmen Space Station finally officially entered service this month.

The assembly of the Chang-13 carrier rocket on the Tianmen Space Station will have a huge acceleration effect on the transportation of materials and personnel between Blue Star and the moon.

After internal discussions, the space agency decided to rename the outer space assembly version of Chang 13. It was included in the Tianzhou series, and its official level is: Tianzhou 3 spacecraft.

The maximum lunar load of the Tianzhou 3 type is 450 to 480 tons in a two-way trip; 900 to 960 tons in a one-way trip; in the extreme state, all unnecessary equipment is abandoned, and the three-backup system is changed to a double-backup system, and the maximum one-way transportation The capacity can be increased to about 1150 tons.

This is a transport spacecraft with an extremely large transport capacity.

Of course, this is only the largest in the current era. In the spacecraft design departments of Aerospace Science and Industry and Eagle Aerospace, tens of thousands of tons of spacecraft have begun to be designed.

Among them, the Eagle-5 spacecraft designed by Eagle Aerospace has a maximum weight of about 36,000 tons.

Such a huge spacecraft is naturally impossible to build on the ground.

Even if it is built on the ground, there is no way to launch it into outer space. Only by desperately using a nuclear-powered engine can it be possible to launch the spacecraft up at low cost.

The problem is that nuclear fission engines are tantamount to suicide when used in the atmosphere. They can easily cause the collapse of the local ecological environment and then destroy the global ecology.

No matter how eager the major human forces are, they will not easily use this kind of doomsday engine. Once it is used, there is no way to survive in outer space for a long time, and then humans will really have to take the lead.

As for the chemical energy engine, it is estimated that there is only the envisioned Hailong launch vehicle, but the cost performance of the Hailong is too low. Even the wealthy Greater China does not want to build such a gold-swallowing behemoth.

At present, whether it is Aerospace Science and Industry or Eagle Aerospace, the super giant spacecraft they design uses the route of manufacturing parts on the ground and assembling them in outer space.

In the future, some components will even be produced at the lunar base, and then a space shipyard will be built on the moon to assemble the spacecraft directly on the moon.

Some radical young researchers even plan to build a spacecraft using nuclear power engines on the moon to explore other planets in the solar system.

If it weren't for the current lack of productivity on the moon and the relative lack of manpower, they would have launched a nuclear-powered spacecraft long ago.

After all, nuclear pollution from nuclear-powered spaceships does not have much negative impact on interstellar navigation. The radiation intensity in the subvacuum region of the universe and even the existence of specific strong radiation areas.

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