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Chapter 304 Mining the Asteroid Belt

Chapter 304 Mining the Asteroid Belt

After more than two months of training, the fifth and fourth brothers finally obtained the qualification to pilot a space mining ship issued by the space management center of the Ming Empire.

Although it was very hard during the training period, especially the fourth child with a relatively low education level, fortunately they successfully graduated from the Ming Empire Aerospace Piloting Academy. Although their results were not very good, being able to graduate smoothly was a great blessing to them. It is already beyond their own estimates, after all, and they have never been exposed to high-tech products such as spaceships.

They are just ordinary farmers, and now all four of them have successfully graduated from the Spaceship Piloting Academy. There are only more than 5000 students who can successfully graduate from the driving academy.

And although many of the more than 1000 people have not purchased their own space mining ships, those who do not have their own mining ships among the more than 1000 people have all been recruited by those who have purchased spaceships before leaving school. It’s gone, and the annual salary is also very high, and most of these drivers have a share of about 2% to 5% in addition to their salary.

Of course, only one or two pilots are enough for a Cosmic City Mine, and other crew members only need to do appropriate adaptive training.

So Xiao Wu is a brother and they are very lucky. All four of them passed the pilot test. It can be said that they can live very smartly even without their own spaceship with this skill, not to mention that they have already purchased their own spaceship. Your own space mining ship.

"This is the space mining ship Five Brothers. Please take off. Please take off." As the captain of this spaceship, the second child was holding the communicator in his hand and applying to the Ming Empire's Space Port Management Center for takeoff.

"Allowed to take off, I wish you good luck!" Soon the reply from the port management center came from the sound of the spaceship.

"Everyone get ready, take off the target asteroid belt!"

Following his words, a rather ugly spaceship slowly flew out of the space port of the Ming Empire. This spaceship is like a crab flying in the universe, with an oval hull and eight mechanical legs. From a distance, it is not much different from a crab, but it is only magnified countless times.

However, although this spaceship looks very ugly and looks very similar to a crab flying in space, the function of this spaceship is quite powerful, and these eight manipulators are the most important tools for this spaceship to mine.

These eight mechanical arms are very powerful. Not only can they fix the spaceship on a certain asteroid, but the eight mechanical legs are also equipped with various tools that can break down those huge asteroids. After all, this kind of space mining ship It has a volume of less than 500 tons, and the maximum pulling force is only 48 tons, so if you encounter those slightly larger asteroids that cannot be dragged away, then you can use the tools on these mechanical legs. to split.

However, this can only divide asteroids that are not very large in size. Once the asteroid is too large, even if this kind of mining ship has cutting equipment, it will not be able to divide those super-large asteroids.After all, this is just a small space mining ship.

The speed of the space mining ships is very fast. They reached the asteroid belt in less than two days. The asteroids are not very lively at this time. After all, the small mining ships sold by Yongan Group this time are only more than 300. , and the next batch of sales will wait until one month later, but the number of the next batch is much larger than the first batch. According to the official website of Yongan Group, the next batch of small space mining ships will have more than 700 ships for sale .

But at this time, they passed the spacecraft's radar system in the asteroid belt, and they knew that there were only two space mining ships within one astronomical unit of them, and all the space mining ships in the entire asteroid belt now add up to only about 20 ships. about.

However, the four brothers on the space mining ship Five Brothers know that it will be very lively in the asteroid belt in a few days. After all, when they came, they saw that there were many mining ships like theirs parked in the space port. It’s just that they haven’t started yet. After all, space mining doesn’t mean that you can come and go whenever you want, and you have to make a lot of preparations, especially for energy.

"Second brother, we have reached the asteroid belt now. Should we look for an asteroid on the periphery of the asteroid for mining, or go to the inside of the asteroid belt." The driver's Xiaowu said.

"Let's go inside and order some. After all, it won't take a few days outside the asteroid belt. There will definitely be many people mining all kinds of ores, and those of us who are the first to eat crabs must find a more valuable asteroid to drag Go back, this is the most cost-effective way!" Said the second child who was the captain.

"Good brother!" After speaking, Xiao Wu, the driver, continued to drive the space mining ship into the asteroid belt.

"Touch!" As the spacecraft continued to descend deeper into the asteroid belt, the speed of the spacecraft became slower and slower. After all, they came to the asteroid belt to mine, rather than directly passing through the asteroid belt, so they entered the asteroid belt. Soon after, their spacecraft slowed down and began analyzing nearby asteroids to determine their elemental composition.Just as they were analyzing the spectrum of an asteroid not far ahead, the entire spacecraft suddenly shook.

However, the four brothers in the spacecraft did not panic, because they knew that they had encountered a small meteorite around them, because this situation had happened many times after they entered the asteroid belt, but for the space mining ship This kind of impact is nothing, because the armored division that has finally been cast into the ore deposit is very thick, even if it is no more than the battleships in the army.

You must know that the armor of these space mining ships has reached the brazen half-meter thickness, which is absolutely impossible for ordinary spaceships. You must know that the thickest armor of ordinary civilian spaceships is only ten centimeters. Such a thick armor is considered too thick for civilian spacecraft by many people. After all, the thicker the armor, the more energy is consumed, and the lower the load capacity of the spacecraft.

In general, the armor of military spaceships that are about the same size as them is only 10 to 50 centimeters in the end. Even a [-]-ton military spaceship has an armor of only [-] centimeters, so the armor of these space mining ships is very Thick.

However, this is also understandable. After all, as a small space mining ship, these very bad ones often shuttle in the asteroid belt. If there is no heavy armor, then the safety of the spaceship can be said to be basically not guaranteed, so as a mining ship The ship must be able to withstand the impact of small cosmic meteorites.

(End of this chapter)