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The discussion in the live broadcast room was still going on, but Ma Zhenxuan's speech was almost over. After answering several questions raised by reporters again, Ma Zhenxuan put away his speech and left the podium. The host returned to the stage to continue presiding over the subsequent ribbon-cutting and unveiling ceremony for the completion of the space dock. This time, Qiao Ruida, who had always kept a low profile, did not hide away. He was invited to the stage and, together with Ma Zhenxuan and two other leaders, picked up scissors and cut the red silk. Then they pulled the rope together to uncover the red silk covering a huge plaque. There was warm applause at the scene, and at the same time, the holographic projector was turned on again, projecting fireworks and ribbons all over the sky, further rendering the atmosphere of the celebration.

After the unveiling, a leader of the National Space Administration came on stage and symbolically pressed the remote control button. On the slipway not far away, a huge keel with a length of more than 100 meters and a weight of more than 10 tons was slowly lifted by a crane and laid in the huge dock. As the first keel of the space battleship was laid, warm applause rang out again. Amid the applause, hundreds of workers in blue work clothes entered the site one after another, operating various giant machines, hoisting keels, welding longitudinal beams and cross beams, and became busy in a tense and orderly manner. This is the first time that humans have tried to build a large space battleship, and there are many technical details that they need to explore and try. For the sake of conservatism, the construction of this space battleship adopts the most primitive keel shipbuilding method. In order to ensure the hull strength of the space battleship and reduce the uncertainty in the construction process, the segmented shipbuilding method and modular shipbuilding method widely used in some modern shipbuilding processes have not been applied to the construction of the first space battleship. Perhaps only when the engineers and workers of the China Space Administration and Ruida Aerospace Company have thoroughly mastered the construction methods of space battleships will they try these new methods to increase the construction speed of space battleships.

That night, news reports about the space dock, the star stream channel, and the Proxima galaxy appeared on major TV stations, online information platforms, and video platforms, attracting a large number of people to watch and causing an uproar at home and abroad. In just half an hour, several related topics rushed to the top ten hot searches. Star stream channels, superluminal flight, immigration to alien planets, and other words that used to only appear in science fiction works frequently appear in people's daily chats or online discussions. A large number of young people have been influenced and have the idea of ​​learning aerospace knowledge, joining aerospace companies, and developing other planets with life. It can be said that the discovery of the star stream channel and Proxima b has pointed out the direction for the development of human science and technology, and sounded the prelude to mankind's exit from the solar system and into the sea of ​​​​stars in the universe.

Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing stayed in the space dock for another two days, watching with their own eyes the first space battleship complete the keel laying and begin construction of the upper cabin frame. Only then, feeling unsatisfied, did they board the space plane that transported the steel plates and return to Ruida Space City.

In the following days, dozens of aerospace planes departed from Ruida Space City or Wenchang Space City every day, transporting steel plates, steel pipes, or other equipment and building materials to the space dock. The space battleships on the slipway are growing and improving every day, and the construction progress is constantly moving forward. About half a month later, the number of aerospace planes transporting materials between the earth and the space dock gradually began to decrease. However, the various building materials received by the dock every day did not decrease at all. This is because from this day on, a batch of lunar aerospace planes took off from the moon and transported a batch of metal materials collected and smelted from the moon to the space dock. After further processing, they were used in the construction process of space battleships.

The freight cost of transporting materials from the surface of the earth to the space dock at an altitude of 30,000 meters is too high. Even if the latest low-cost transportation plan is used, using recyclable rockets or aerospace planes that can be used repeatedly, the freight cost is still an astronomical figure. Moreover, the various resources on the earth are limited after all. There are not many minerals that can be mined in China. Even if all of them are used to build space battleships, only a few can be built. In contrast, the mining and transportation costs of mining various minerals from the moon, where the gravity is much lower than that of the earth, after purification, smelting and reprocessing, and then transporting them to the space dock, are much lower.

In order to meet the needs of the construction of space battleships, the National Space Administration and Ruida Aerospace Company cooperated to build two new mining bases and ore purification and processing bases on the moon, mainly collecting and processing common metals such as titanium, iron, aluminum and various rare earth elements. In addition, the space mining project carried out by Ruida Aerospace with a large amount of funds, manpower, and material resources has also achieved initial results in the near future. Four specially modified aerospace planes towed back two asteroids with a diameter of about two kilometers and rich in various metal elements from the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and the mother planet. They were handed over to the space dock for smelting and purification, and made into various steel plates, steel pipes, or other components for use in the construction of space battleships.

As the saying goes, "brothers should settle accounts clearly." The space dock, the lunar mining factory, and the space mining fleet belong to different companies or organizations. The metal ores and rare earth elements mined by the lunar mining factory or the space mining team are all paid on the same day after being transported to the space dock. The two asteroids brought back by the space mining fleet alone were sold for tens of millions. This shows that the space mining industry has great potential and is a truly profitable sunrise industry.

Recently, the low-key Ruida Aerospace Company suddenly did some high-profile things. For example, they live-broadcasted some images of lunar mining and space mining in the official live broadcast room of the Kuaipai platform, and even broadcast the transportation process and settlement process. This allowed the domestic people to see with their own eyes how simple and profitable space mining and lunar mining are. Some domestic entrepreneurs, business leaders, and even singers and actors with a certain economic foundation have set their sights on space mining and lunar mining, two emerging industries, and plan to invest heavily in purchasing aerospace planes and hiring professionals to join them.

On the second day after the live broadcast, Ruida Aerospace, the only company in China capable of producing space planes, received orders for hundreds of space planes in just one day. The high price of more than 300 million yuan did not stop the determination and enthusiasm of the business leaders and newly established aerospace companies to purchase space planes. Due to the large number of orders, relying solely on the production capacity of Ruida Aerospace Factory, these orders will have to be placed at least until the second half of next year before all production can be completed. (End of this chapter)