After the launch of Dark Aerospace Corporation's "Moon Star Mining" plan.
Since we accept investment from private, official or any other source of capital, there is no upper limit on the investment amount and you can invest as much money as you want.
As long as the relevant transport spacecraft and mining vehicles are put into actual use, the corresponding investments can begin to pay off.
And until August 2025.
Dark Space Corporation has put into use a total of transport spacecraft and 1,390 mining vehicles.
It has attracted nearly 300 billion yuan in investment.
But only a very small portion of the funds are actually activated.
According to the principle of "first come, first served", there are still more than 10 trillion yuan of funds waiting in line... After obtaining the consent of investors, Dark Aerospace Company can embezzle these funds in advance and pay a daily interest of one ten-thousandth.
In addition, he went to the Central Bank of Xia State and borrowed a total of 10 trillion yuan in cash at an annual interest rate of 5%.
In this way, Dark Aerospace Company has more than 20 trillion in sufficient cash flow.
In addition, millions of tons of various minerals are mined from the Moon every day. As long as the space factory is built, at least 60% of the materials will no longer need to be imported from Blue Mercury.
Once a relatively complete space industrial system is established, it may be possible to completely get rid of dependence on blue Mercury and basically achieve self-sufficiency in five years.
So for the next period of time.
The "Space City" plan has been significantly accelerated.
And it is constantly accelerating!
Take the electromagnetic catapult track at the foot of Kunlun Mountain in Xia Country as an example. Before August, the frequency of launching the "Scimitar" space shuttle from this track was about 50 times a day on average.
But in September, the number increased to 200 flights per day.
By October, the frequency of use of the electromagnetic catapult track reached the upper limit of 300 flights per day and could not be increased any further.
Fortunately, the second sky rail with greater ejection power, more mature technology and higher efficiency has been basically completed and will be put into use within two months. By then, the number of space shuttles launched per day will exceed thousands, transporting more materials into space.
Of course, compared with the catapult capability of the electromagnetic rail, the main transportation role is actually played by the transport boat equipped with power reactor energy.
The upper limit of the high-orbit carrying capacity of the Scimitar-type space shuttle is about 10 tons. Even if it launches a thousand times a day, it can only transport about 10,000 tons of supplies.
The maximum carrying capacity of the transport boat can reach 150 tons.
In the past few years, Levi has produced 100 high-power power reactors and asked related factories to produce 100 low-end "transport boats". Together with the five boats that originally carried out long-term round-trip transportation missions between the earth and the sky, there are a total of 105 powerful transport boats.
A single transport boat can perform a maximum of two round-trip transport missions per day.
Dozens of transport boats can also work together at the same time, using carbon fiber ropes to tie up large factory components weighing thousands of tons and pull them into space.
More than 30,000 tons of equipment or materials can be transported into outer space in a single day, continuously adding to the "Space City".
A few months later.
December 2025.
Quantitative change leads to qualitative change. Twenty thousand kilometers away in space, a huge monster finally appeared. It was so huge that humans could see it with the naked eye even if they were standing on the surface of Blue Mercury.
It consists of several parts.
The outermost part is 12 iron pot-shaped solar power plants that look like petals and are facing the stars. They are evenly distributed like the twelve scales of a clock. At the same time, due to the existence of light pressure and solar wind, these twelve petal-like power plants can generate a backward push force, but this force is cleverly utilized like a windmill, and through the connecting structure of the outer ring, it actually makes the space city slowly rotate.
Although the ring-shaped space city rotates very slowly, its diameter is 50 kilometers long. Even if the angular velocity is very slow, it can still generate a centrifugal gravity of 0.5G in the "settlement belt" that is 500 meters wide and has a circumference of more than 157 kilometers and is shaped like a straight lane.
Of course, there will definitely not be only one "settlement belt" on the central longitudinal connecting axis (like the axis in the center of a cylinder). The first ring of "settlement belt" is basically completed at present, and twelve parallel ring-shaped "settlement belts" will be built in the future.
Assume that each ring of settlement can accommodate 300,000 people.
Multiplying by twelve means that this space city can accommodate up to 3.6 million people to settle and immigrate.
And these are just purely civilian facilities.
Facilities like "vegetable factories" specifically used for growing vegetables will occupy two new rings on the central connecting axis extending outward and engage in agricultural production.
In addition, four loops with different angular velocities will be set up to arrange light industrial production activities.
As well as one ring channel each dedicated to storing water resources and purifying the air.
The medical system and urban management and control system must also occupy a ring each.
Both the outermost and innermost rings of the space city must have military defense systems, occupying the two rings at the head and tail.
A total of 24 loops have been properly arranged and utilized.
But the heavy industrial system and future space docks are not included.
Levi planned to build a space dock first (even if it was very simple), and then let intelligent industrial robots in the space dock to manufacture a number of multifunctional and special heavy industrial spacecraft, and put all the heavy industrial production tasks in the more maneuverable industrial spacecraft.
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