Chapter 489 Struggle Desperately

When the space shuttle Ra reentered the atmosphere from low Earth orbit.

At this time, a group of management from the Land Alliance also entered the safe house and held a secret video conference.

The spokespersons of the four major forces, as well as Kong De, as the president, all looked bad.

"Judging from the analysis and conclusions of the technical department, this space shuttle..." Bill paused for a moment: "Okay! Let's call it a space shuttle! Its volume is very large, and its mass has most likely reached 20,000 to 30,000 tons. "

The four major forces all have outer space monitoring methods and have also obtained some data. Naturally, there is no doubt about the data Bill said.

Duke, the spokesperson of the Europa Consortium, raised his glasses, his face full of solemnity:

"Judging from the appearance of the space shuttle, the weight of the spacecraft on its back is about 40 to 45% of its total weight. In other words, the load ratio of this space shuttle is 40 to 45%, which is too much. It’s scary.”

Very scary indeed.

Because currently the launch vehicle with the best payload ratio is the latest improved version of the Space Exploration Company's Falcon Heavy, with a maximum takeoff weight of 1,557 tons, a low-Earth orbit payload of 71 tons, and a payload ratio of 4.6%.

When comparing the two, the gap immediately appears.

The gap of nearly 10 times is simply terrifying.

If the gap was 2 to 3 times, then they would not be so fearful and powerless, but with a gap of almost 10 times, it is really difficult to compete and catch up.

The person from the fourth force also spoke: "Logically speaking, ordinary fuel cannot reach this load ratio at all, but our detection satellite did not detect the gamma rays produced by nuclear explosions. What kind of fuel did they use? "

"There are currently only two types of fuels that have an energy density that is more than 10 times higher than current ordinary fuels." Duke glanced at everyone: "One is total nitrogen anion, and the other is metallic hydrogen."

"Zhang, I remember that one of your research institutes successfully researched total nitrogen anions?" Alexander asked.

The man shook his head: "It was successful, but the stability is very poor. There is currently no way to passivate it, and the production process is only at the laboratory level and has not yet reached industrial standards."

"We need to strengthen cooperation!" Bill took the opportunity to suggest.

"Of course there is no problem with cooperation, but I don't see your sincerity." The man spread his hands with a smile on his face.

Kongde hurriedly came out to smooth things over: "Cooperation! We must communicate with each other. I heard that a 500-meter-high airbag has been built in the recent space tower project in Jeju Island. The progress of this project must be accelerated!"

When they heard about the space tower project, everyone agreed to accelerate it.

After all, Homo sapiens has built a space tower-like project in the Nemanya region and operates suborbital flights every day.

Faced with the increasingly strong pressure from Homo sapiens in the aerospace field, the Earth Alliance also hopes to succeed in the space tower project at this time.

Ground Alliance even regards the space tower project as one of the core means to catch up with Homo sapiens companies.

According to calculations, if the space tower project can succeed, the fuel consumption of launching from regional Earth to low-Earth orbit will be reduced by about 20%.

If the 1,557-ton Heavy Falcon is launched on the space tower platform, it means that its payload can be increased by 311.4 tons, the total payload can reach 382.4 tons, and the payload ratio will reach 24.5%.

Although it is still not as good as the super space shuttle of the Homo sapiens company, at least the gap will not be too big.

Of course, the management of Ground Alliance are very aware that the load-bearing capacity of Jeju Island’s space tower platform is limited.

According to the design plan, the launch platform of the Jeju Island Space Tower has a maximum carrying capacity of about 860 tons, minus the 600 to 700 tons of supporting facilities. The final capacity that can be used to carry the launch vehicle is only about 160 to 260 tons.

With this load-bearing capacity, there is no way to use the Heavy Falcon. Even the Chang 5B of more than 800 tons cannot go up. We can only use some small launch vehicles.

It’s not that Ground Alliance doesn’t want to do it, but as an experimental project, the first-generation prototype system will definitely not directly build a very large space tower.

Dilian doesn’t have that much money either.

If the project fails, it will become even more difficult for the local government to run out of funds.

At this moment, the management of Terrestrial Alliance was extremely envious, jealous and hateful towards the space division of Homo Sapien Company.

If you look at the projects you get, you have to be careful with your budget, and you have to make compromises and wrangling internally.

The Homo sapiens company can casually build a large space tower platform in the Nemanya area without even blinking an eye.

However, they are also very complicated about Homo sapiens companies.

After all, without the emergence of Homo Sapiens Corporation, the four major forces would never have come together to cooperate in establishing the Earth Alliance, let alone provide the Earth Alliance with more than $200 billion in annual funding.

The existence of the Homo sapiens company has indeed brought a huge impact to the entire earth.

This is not just the aerospace field, but also in other fields.

In order to win over those ordinary people and prevent these people from being sucked away by the Homo sapiens company, all parties are now trying their best, basically using both soft and hard tactics, sticks and carrots.

The tax on the rich in North America has been raised to the extreme. Big families such as Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon, and DuPont are gritting their teeth and giving some meat to ordinary people.

Now it's no longer enough to give them. If the deductions and searches continue, all ordinary people would rather go work for the Homo sapiens company than stay and breathe the free air of America.

At the same time, the four major forces also began to collude together. Those who had money provided money, those who had mines provided mines, those who had industry provided industry, and those who had people provided people.

Anyway, the goal is to keep the production costs in all aspects as low as possible and improve the living standards of ordinary people, so as to retain people.

This is not just a matter for the North American and Europa Commonwealth.

But the four major forces must achieve high welfare within themselves, otherwise they will have no way to compete with the Homo sapiens company.

You must know that in the second half of the first year of the Galaxy, the number of permanent migrant families in Asia who went to Homo sapiens companies exceeded 47.36 million, with a population of more than 173 million people.

Adding in permanent migrant workers from Africa and Latin America, the number of employees at Homo sapiens companies is quickly approaching the 3 billion mark.

Even if a large number of obstacles are set up, there is still no way to stop this trend.

Perhaps many people think that the middle class or the small rich want ordinary people to work for Homo sapiens companies, and it is best never to go back and compete with them.

In fact, the middle class and the small rich are now the most embarrassed group, and they actually really want ordinary people to stay.

After all, the labor force and consumer market of ordinary people are the cornerstone of the entire social system.

Assume that in a city with a population of 1 million, 95% are ordinary people, 4% are middle class, and 1% are rich.

Then comes the problem.

When 95% of ordinary people disappear from this city, can the remaining 5% still maintain their previous decent life?

The answer is that 95% of the 5% will fall back to ordinary people, the 4% of the 5% can maintain a worse but relatively decent life than before, and the 1% of the 5% will continue to be their rich people.

Ordinary people are the cornerstone of the existence of the middle class and the rich.

Without ordinary people, how can you maintain a high-quality and decent life?

There are no waiters in the restaurant.

There are no workers in the factory.

There are no farmers on the farm.

There are no migrant workers on the construction site.

There are no ordinary customers in the market.

do not change? The population will be directly sucked dry by the Homo sapiens company, and it will destroy itself without a fight.

Therefore, the four major forces have reached a situation where they have to change.

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