Expert companies can always create some miracles that make it difficult for others to breathe!
First of all, at the end of June, Gaoshou Company announced an unprecedented bounty - a bounty on an asteroid. To be precise, there is a bounty of steel. But obviously, the purchase price of 8,000 yuan per ton cannot be obtained from the earth or the moon. Because even if one ton of steel is transported from the moon, the transportation price exceeds 10,000 yuan. So, based on this calculation, only by dragging asteroids from the asteroid belt can there be sufficient profit margins.
For a time, interstellar exploration activities ushered in the first real peak. Hundreds of spacecrafts have launched from the earth, and basically all asteroids with a diameter of more than 50 meters have been explored.
In fact, as mentioned before, the so-called asteroid belt can only be said to be a relatively concentrated area of asteroids; but the entire solar system is full of asteroids, but some places have more and some places have less. But under such a wide-net search, as long as the asteroids are large or small, they will all be paid attention to by n number of eyes.
The asteroids that once worried scientists have all changed from dangerous objects that destroyed the earth to mineral stars that everyone is jealous of! If an asteroid with a diameter of 50 meters had half the iron content, its value would be as high as: 200 million yuan! ! ! This is simply a gold mine in space - well, the price of gold in space has now fallen below that of steel. In the space age, practicality determines value.
As you can imagine, the explorers went crazy.
At the end of August, the first adventure group to go straight to the asteroid belt came back. It was the adventure team of Fengchen Transportation Company. An irregular asteroid with a diameter of about 300 meters was dragged back, and its iron content was as high as 86%! On the day of the transaction with the master company, everyone went crazy. The price given by Gaoshou Company is 9.8 billion yuan!
What's even crazier is what's behind: Fengchen Transportation Company directly said - we don't want any money, just give it all to a spaceship! I want to build a unique spaceship and spend 9.8 billion yuan to build it!
In crazy times, there are always crazy stories. Fengchen Transportation Company was just the beginning; as more and more expeditions returned, a full circle of "meteorites" surrounded the outer space of the moon - becoming satellites of the moon. This is the method used by master companies to store ore. Ore asteroids are placed in space one by one, making the whole world drool, but no one dares to have any evil thoughts. The largest one is more than 400 meters, and the small one is only a dozen meters. No matter how big it is. I can't drag it anymore. In other words, it takes too long, the investment is too high, and the risk is too great, and the gains outweigh the losses; no matter how small it is, the same is true.
Capital is the driving force for progress; under such stimulation, the adventure group began to expand, and more people on the ground began to allocate funds. Enter this space age. And in space. The adventure team worked non-stop. Traveling back and forth through space.
On the other hand, a second or even more transportation companies finally appeared on the ground and in the sky. Baojian Group and Fengchen Transportation Company also began to have competitors. because. The master company actually opened up the sales business of low-level space shuttles and ordinary spaceships. Of course, the prerequisite is that you have a Chinese resident certificate.
When a full 10 Giant spacecraft were dispatched at the end of 2066, the world once again attracted attention. Last time, four Titan spacecrafts sortied out and towed Ceres for a little interstellar pinball! I wonder what kind of heartbeat I want to play this time?
There were seventy or eighty spaceships following the ten Titans, which belonged to the adventure group. The master company does not object to these people following: now is the stage of support and development, with a fragile private foundation, it will take some time to develop into a mature company with good self-expansion capabilities.
Of course, these adventure groups also bring generous support to the master company. Massive mineral resources and sufficient space human resources have allowed the development of the master company to reach a new level. The development of modern science and technology, apart from the research and development of cutting-edge technology, the rest is basically the expansion of copying - and this requires materials. Obviously, the number one material for technology is steel! Therefore, today on earth, steel production is still regarded as an important national symbol.
In the vast space, ten Big Macs rumbled past; and around the Big Macs, small spaceships of various sizes were scattered in teams. Among these spaceships, the largest is only a little over 300 meters tall. The larger spaceship is more than 500 meters long, which is obviously not something that today's small adventure team can afford - it was custom-made by Fengchen Transportation Company. Moreover, the spacecraft is too big, maintenance is very cumbersome, and the requirements for the pilots are also high.
The dark red Vesta has a distinctive shape. Vesta, which has a diameter of about 500 kilometers, actually has a crater of about 460 kilometers. This made Vesta look like it had been chewed by a tengu. In the middle of the crater, there is a "small" bulge, which is a mountain peak 18 kilometers high; the outer edge of the crater is 4-12 kilometers above the ground. On the entire planet Vesta, there are actually more than a thousand mountains, which are higher than the highest peak on earth - Mount Everest, which is about 8.8 kilometers high!
There is also ice on Vesta, but it is very little, but it is just enough to make Vesta beautiful. Looking closely, the dark red surface is covered with blue, yellow, red and other colors. It is a mixture formed after the combination of ice and minerals, which reflects the beautiful sunlight.
Everyone felt a sense of shock when observing Vesta up close for the first time!
Viewed from one side, it looks like a large bowl with a diameter of 500 kilometers!
From the other side, it looks like a beautiful lotus mountain range that only appears in animation!
From a certain angle, it looks like a human brain.
"So beautiful!" This is the sigh of most people.
"How much would this be worth if it were towed back? Let me do the math. Calculated based on a diameter of 450 kilometers and an iron content of 50%, that would be..."
"Money fans, go away! Even if you drag it for a thousand years, we can't drag this thing with our aircraft."
In the distance, the staff of Gaoshou Company have started working, and a small space shuttle is flexibly shuttled through space. An extremely strong carbon fiber mesh completed the siege within seven days. Because the purpose of Vesta is different from that of Ceres, Vesta must be completely dragged within the gravitational range of the Earth and ensure the safety of the Earth. Therefore, Vesta must accelerate at the beginning; but when it reaches around the Earth, it must begin to slow down. And for the safety of Earth, Vesta needs to orbit the moon.
But at this moment, there are no adventure groups following around. After all, the supplies carried by the adventure group are relatively tight. Under the protection of the Master Company, these people have already found their targets and returned. Most of them are asteroids below 300 meters with rich mineral resources. "Start!" Following Li Canglan's command, another huge asteroid was killed! (To be continued...)