The first difficulty Li Qingsong faced was the transportation of materials and goods. If there is enough technology, Li Qingsong would certainly hope to build a space elevator, which would save the trouble of spacecraft transportation and allow large amounts of materials to be transported directly into space. It’s a pity that my technology has not yet developed to such a high level, and I can only rely on spacecraft at this stage. The existing spacecraft can only transport two tons of materials at a time, which is too inefficient. But developing a new spacecraft is not something that can be done overnight. In this case, the only option is to increase the quantity. So the first decision Li Qingsong made was to immediately expand the productivity of the spacecraft industry chain and build more spacecraft in the shortest time possible. At the same time, building more spacecraft and using them frequently is itself a process of finding hidden dangers, defects, and upgrade and optimization solutions. At this moment, dozens of precision machinery processing factories owned by Li Qingsong all switched production and devoted themselves to the task of producing spacecraft parts. On a certain open space, after simple leveling and reinforcement, and adopting a frame structure, a spacecraft assembly production line was completed in just one month, replacing the original small-scale production line. Thus, amid the constant roar of heavy-loaded trains and the Feitian-1 spacecraft, a large number of spare parts poured here like a tide.
The more than 10,000 clones working here, with the assistance of the most efficient automation technology possible, have become like robots and dare not relax for a moment. There are even dozens of clones ready behind them at all times. Normally they would just stay there quietly, not consuming Li Qingsong's precious consciousness connection share. Once a clone at a workstation needed to leave for something, even if it was just to pee, another clone would immediately take over his job without any hindrance, so that the production line would not be delayed for even a second. Under such circumstances, this new spacecraft assembly production line, with a total of hundreds of precision machinery processing plants, several high-reliability chip factories, and numerous connector, plastic film, screen, rubber, detector, controller and other factories working at full capacity, its production capacity soared to four spacecraft per day in a short period of time. Although four ships a day may seem few, you have to know that this is a large-scale mechanical device that integrates Li Qingsong's most advanced technologies in all aspects at this stage. Its complexity and precision are simply not comparable to a train or a factory. On the assembly line, huge spacecraft weighing more than 30 tons (more than 50 tons when fully fueled) are produced one after another and quickly put into transportation business without any delay. At the launch site, spacecraft are taking off or landing almost every moment. Because of the excessive frequency of takeoffs and landings, the ground at the take-off and landing field was even burned to the point of vitrification. And this is just one of the dozen or so existing launch sites. It was under such circumstances that one after another, the space laboratory building materials packed into boxes were transported into space, orbiting Rosen at a speed of about 900 meters per second. While trying his best to expand the number of spacecraft, Li Qingsong was also doing another thing at the same time. With more spacecraft, more fuel is consumed. The existing fuel reserves are not enough, and the production capacity of methane and oxygen must be increased to more than a hundred times the current level! A spacecraft consumes about 15 tons of fuel for one transport. Three times a day, that's 45 tons. There are about 220 spacecraft, which means about 10,000 tons of fuel per day. Moreover, as the number of spacecraft increases, this number will increase rapidly. It would not be surprising to see an average daily consumption of tens of thousands of tons of fuel in the future. In particular, with the construction of the space laboratory, the power consumption and energy consumption of the remaining factories have increased significantly. To generate enough electricity, there must be an adequate supply of fuel. According to Li Qingsong's statistics, in the previous stage, his base cluster consumed an average of about 100,000 tons of tholin and methane, and 30,000 tons of oxygen every day.
But now, including the fuel needed for the spacecraft, this number has suddenly doubled to 200,000 tons of tholin, methane and more than 60,000 tons of oxygen per day! As a result, the clones working in the oxygen mine, the Thorin mine and the methane mine also became busy. Large numbers of machines and clones joined the mining team, and heavy-loaded trains roared on the line all day long without stopping. In order to make up for the lack of transportation capacity, even the Feitian-1 spacecraft joined the task of temporarily transporting supplies. As the number of spacecraft increases, the consumption of chips also increases significantly. In addition to the main control computer, chips are also used in other parts of the spacecraft. Every sensor and every controller requires a chip. A spacecraft requires tens of thousands of chips! The daily production of four spacecraft means more than 200,000 chips, which means more than 70 million chips a year! What's more, the space laboratory that he wants to build also requires a large number of chips. According to Li Qingsong's estimate, at least hundreds of millions of them are needed. As a result, the chip factory also fell into a busy state. In addition, in order to allocate more manpower to production, the number of workers in planting, breeding and aquaculture bases has been reduced. However, the production of food and biological resources cannot be reduced. So things started to get busy there. At the same time, building this space laboratory itself means a lot of production tasks and scientific research tasks. Therefore, more factories and scientific research clones in the scientific research center are also busy. For a time, because of this space laboratory, all the bases owned by Li Qingsong, whether they were mining bases or industrial bases, scientific research bases or grain bases, were all plunged into busyness. Li Qingsong has almost fully utilized the 700,000 awareness link shares. Every minute and every second, a large number of clones trotted to the bed, and the moment they fell on the bed, the consciousness link was broken. At the same time, the clone on the other bed instantly opened his eyes, and his body almost jumped up. He finished his breakfast in two or three seconds and rushed out of the dormitory. At every moment, there are open-top buses parked in front of the dormitory, and a large number of clones jump off them. And every open-top bus that has just been emptied will be filled with clones within a minute. Then the bus roared and flew away, sending the clones to factories, bases, buildings, and research institutes... In space, thousands of clones wearing space suits are carrying out space walk missions, assembling parts one by one. Above the earth, spaceships took off and landed, transporting boxes of building materials into space. Everything was in order. Although they were extremely busy and efficient, there was no chaos at all, and no coordination errors occurred.