Generally speaking, the speed from the appearance of a spacecraft prototype to its finalization and mass production is not so fast. In the human world, if it were a little slower, it would take more than ten years. During this process, the spacecraft will be repeatedly tested, polished, and optimized until the accident rate is reduced to a minimum before it is mass-produced and put on the market. But for Li Qingsong, the whole process only takes about half a month. Everything happened incredibly fast. After the first batch of 100 Feitian-1 near-earth spacecraft were delivered, the second and third batches soon followed. In just one year, the number of Feitian-1 spacecraft flying over Luoshen exceeded 1,000. Although they are all Feitian-1 aircraft, their specific size, tonnage, appearance, engine power, purpose, etc. are different. Some spacecraft are designed to transport people and belong to the category of passenger ships. Some are designed to carry large tonnage of cargo and belong to the category of heavy-load spacecraft. Some are small, fast and agile and belong to the category of high-end fast spacecraft. Under the Feitian-1 series, there are many talented people working on various types of spacecraft. But the good times did not last long. Not long after, the first spacecraft crash occurred.
A heavily loaded spacecraft suddenly lost power during flight. Large amounts of liquid oxygen and methane mixed together and turned into a huge bomb, which exploded in the dark sky of Rosene. Not only was all the cargo on the spacecraft lost, but several clones were also killed. Li Qingsong's reaction to this was not surprising at all. Blowing up a spaceship is a normal thing. Is it worth making a fuss about? Li Qingsong doesn't have the time to spend several years or even dozens of years polishing a spacecraft design like the human world did in the past, and not launch it into the market until it is truly mature. In this case, it is inevitable that the spacecraft will malfunction or even explode. But this matter should be viewed from two aspects. Rushing to mass produce and use on a large scale will inevitably lead to frequent outbreaks of various hidden dangers and design defects. This will certainly lead to certain losses, but it can expose these hidden dangers and defects with the highest efficiency and then solve them in a centralized manner. The various hidden dangers that originally required repeated polishing for more than ten years to find and eliminate one by one can now be exposed in less than a year of mass production, and the efficiency has been improved by more than ten times. The only disadvantages are blowing up some spaceships, some cargo, and killing some clones. For Li Qingsong, it doesn't matter. So, on the one hand, there are frequent spacecraft failures and even explosions, on the other hand, there are clones of spacecraft engineers working day and night, and on yet another, there is the spacecraft production line being continuously iterated and optimized. The more violently the spacecraft exploded, the more spacecraft Li Qingsong put into use. In the first month, Li Qingsong blew up more than 50 spaceships. In the second month, the number dropped sharply to only 20. By the seventh month, there was not even a single spaceship that exploded. After the first year, at the cost of more than 300 spaceships exploding and being scrapped, the comprehensive performance of the spaceships manufactured in Li Qingsong's spaceship factory more than doubled. At this moment, the first real spaceship was built. Powered by the latest high-efficiency methane oxygen engine, its speed will be unprecedentedly increased to 900 meters per second, directly exceeding the first cosmic velocity of Rosene and entering its orbit! "ignition!" Following Li Qingsong's order, the tail of this huge spaceship, which was still a hemispherical structure, about 5 meters high and 16 meters in diameter, sprayed out unprecedented fierce and hot flames. It took off with a roar, and after rising to a certain height, it began to change its course and flew violently diagonally upwards.
The numbers on the speedometer kept jumping rapidly, and finally reached 900 meters per second, which is about 3240 kilometers per second. At this time, it was already 50,000 meters above the surface of Luoshen. The engine was shut down, and the gravity in the cabin suddenly disappeared. The bodies of the clones began to float up as if they were in water. But because of the seat belt, I was still restricted to my seat. At this moment, the spacecraft named "Kaitian Type 1" by Li Qingsong was orbiting Luoshen at a speed of about 110 minutes. A flying spacecraft is one that can only fly in the near-Earth space of Luoshen and cannot enter orbit. The one that can enter orbit is a Kaitian-type spacecraft. After several hours, the Kaitian-1 spacecraft, numbered 01, finally caught up with the Deep Space spacecraft and docked with it. So the clones and some supplies were transferred to the Deep Space spacecraft, completing the first space cargo mission. Li Qingsong had performed this kind of work many times before using landing spacecraft, but no matter which time he had done it before, he was not as excited as this time. Because this time we are using a spaceship we made ourselves! From this moment on, I finally possess the ability to travel in space! With a spacecraft that can enter orbit, you can build space stations in space, build zero-gravity factories, deploy a large number of satellites, probes, and telescopes. Your range of activities will be greatly extended, and you will finally not be restricted to the surface of the planet! At this moment, it was as if a door slowly opened in front of him, and as if the world had become vaster in an instant. After a moment of excitement, Li Qingsong immediately made up his mind. "I want to build a large space laboratory!" At this stage, a large space laboratory is of great significance to Li Qingsong. The reason is simple. Although the surface gravity of Luoshen is low, it still exists. Some experiments and research can only be carried out in a zero-gravity environment. For example, biological breeding, high-precision mechanical processing, high-integration chips, and so on. If there were a large space laboratory, Li Qingsong's technological development speed would definitely be further improved. At the same time, this large-scale construction task will inevitably require many Kaitian-1 spacecraft to take off and land multiple times, and to travel back and forth into space multiple times to carry out cargo missions. This will also have the same effect as when the Feitian-1 spacecraft was used on a large scale before, exposing defects and hidden dangers in a short period of time. In this way, Li Qingsong will be able to quickly improve the stability and reliability of the spacecraft in a short period of time, and ultimately improve its performance. Therefore, in addition to the spacecraft traveling back and forth in the near-Earth space of the planet, many spacecraft also quickly appeared in space flying at high speeds. In addition to the spacecraft used to transport building materials for the space laboratory, Li Qingsong also dispatched a large number of spacecraft into space to conduct high-speed, long-duration flight tests, trying every possible way to test them, and then trying every possible way to optimize and improve them. Time passed quietly under such circumstances. During a routine space flight test, Li Qingsong suddenly found something that looked like a metal plate near the spacecraft. The thing was about one meter in size and had a slightly curved shape, like the broken remains of a larger mechanical creation. “This doesn’t look like something I made, does it?”
With some doubts, Li Qingsong maneuvered the spaceship slowly towards it.