Awesome!

After nearly three months of experiments, the ultra-high-power plasma engine of Weile Aerospace Technology has finally been finalized and can officially start mass production.

Although Qin Tian had long known that this would be the result, after all, it was still quite not easy to turn technical and theoretical materials into practical equipment.

And the most important thing is that if the core problem of the engine is solved, the entire 'Kunpeng' cargo spacecraft will not be a problem in other aspects.

So...... So what are you waiting for?

Hurry up and build a super ship that will definitely shock the world!

That day.

After Qin Tian heard that the engine was officially finalized, he immediately notified the group's finance department that all employees of Weile Aerospace Technology would double their salaries and benefits this month, and those who made significant contributions would be rewarded with additional rewards.

What is Motivation?

Employees are working overtime and staying up late and tired, what are they trying to do? Aside from the desire to soar, it's not to make money!

Nothing is more inspiring than a material reward.

Although Qin Tian made a decision, the group would have to spend millions more yuan, but the effect was naturally leveraged!

Qin Tian arrived at the aerospace assembly factory, and in the spacious and bright power assembly workshop, he saw the officially finalized L-01 plasma engine.

Like other liquid or solid rocket engines, the engines used for space flight are not small things, they are all giants.

What appeared in front of Qin Tian's eyes was a tail spout with a diameter of 3 meters and a total height of 14 meters, like a giant with a super horn.

The F-1, the largest single-combustion chamber liquid rocket engine ever built in human history, can push the Saturn 5 rocket weighing more than 3,000 tons in parallel to an altitude of more than 60,000 meters and a speed of 9,920 kilometers per hour in 150 seconds.

But this achievement comes at the cost of a single F-1 engine consuming nearly two tons of liquid oxygen and 800 kilograms of kerosene every second.

Four of these engines work together, and the rocket stores enough propellant to work for just over a hundred seconds, after which they are ruthlessly abandoned and plunged into the sea or desert.

Because of this, every launch of high-thrust rockets is costly, and more than a billion dollars are 'burned' in just over 100 seconds.

And now......

The L-01 plasma engine manufactured by the black technology information provided by Qin Tian was born, and it was completely superior to the existing rocket engines of mankind in all aspects!

In terms of thrust, the thrust of a single engine of this type killed the sum of several F-1 engines in seconds, so strong that there are no friends on earth!

In terms of energy consumption, the engine consumes ultra-high-voltage electricity and extremely cheap water, rather than burning propellant at a very fast rate like a rocket engine, which is quite cheap.

In terms of economic availability, the rocket engine pursues a short burst of high thrust, and only needs to work for one or two hundred seconds, anyway, no matter how expensive the cost is, it will be thrown away at one time.

The plasma engine of Weile Aerospace Technology can be installed on a cargo spacecraft and used repeatedly, just like the engine of a jet aircraft or car, which only needs to be overhauled on time, and then overhauled after a certain life span, and the availability is very strong.

In terms of cost, the technical level of rocket engine is low, in contrast, it must be that the plasma engine manufacturing materials are more high-grade, the process is more advanced, and the working hours are longer, so the cost is several times more expensive, but it is easy to use for the Weile Group, which is not bad for money, not to mention that the price is evenly distributed to the use time, and it is also cheap to invincible!

……

With the plasma engine in hand, the entire Kunpeng cargo spacecraft is still short of one last critical system - energy!

Energy is everything!

The L-01 plasma engine, the reason why it has strong thrust performance, its main root is the use of more efficient electricity as the main energy source, its work process is to convert electrical energy into kinetic energy through plasma, so the strength of electric energy determines the strength of its thrust.

In various experiments on the ground, this type of engine is powered by ultra-high voltage power transmission and transformation lines, and is supplied to the engine after further step-up rectification by Weile Aerospace Technology.

However, in the future, when the engine is equipped on the cargo spacecraft, it will not be able to pull the power transmission line from the ground to the sky, right?

So what device provides a steady stream of abundant electrical energy to the plasma engine?

Diesel generators, gas turbines,

Obviously, these are too low-level, and if you want to provide enough power and add a booster device, then I am afraid that it is not enough to install a thermal power plant on the ship.

In such a situation, the controlled nuclear fusion technology that Qin Tian had previously invested heavily in came in handy.

Although it is not easy to achieve industrialized nuclear fusion power generation, after all, the energy release of the supercritical fusion process is very powerful, and the laboratory can use magnetic confinement methods to do it in a short time, but it is still a little far from practical use, but even fusion can be magnetically confined on a small scale, and the relatively less difficult nuclear fission is of course no problem.

In fact, as early as more than a month ago, shortly after the second smart factory in the Weile Technology Industrial Park was put into operation, the miniature nuclear reactor manufactured by intelligent robots was already successful.

Conventional nuclear power generation is to release heat energy through the fission of uranium elements, people make pressurized water reactors, use fuel assemblies to control the reaction intensity, and then use water as a coolant to turn the heat energy into gas through steam generators, and finally boost gas turbines to generate electricity.

In fact, the whole process is still very cumbersome, and the process must be fine, a little negligence will cause nuclear leakage, resulting in large-scale nuclear pollution, and even so, the energy generated by fission through hot water, and then from hot water to steam to drive the turbine to generate electricity, the utilization rate of thermal energy is not very high.

Therefore, no matter how small the nuclear reactor is, it is huge in size and not light in weight, and only large ships dare to assemble and use it.

Qin Tian's 'Kunpeng' cargo spacecraft is to be used to transport goods to outer space, and it is obviously unrealistic to load a nuclear reactor weighing several thousand tons on the spacecraft.

Therefore, the miniature nuclear reactor produced by Weile Technology uses the principle that the decay of radioactive materials will release charged particles and directly obtain continuous current.

This principle is not uncommon, because mankind has already invented nuclear batteries with the same principle, but the technical conditions cannot be reached, so the power manufactured is very small, and it is not very stable.

In the research of controllable nuclear fusion technology, Weile Technology has mastered the strong magnetic field confinement technology, which restricts the elemental fission process within a specific range, so as to avoid the overflow radiation from the energy reactor and stabilize the supply current.

Today, two pre-production miniature nuclear reactors have already begun work, one serving the industrial park and the other has been given to the Huaxia Nuclear Power Industry Group.

If the miniature nuclear reactor can pass the official certification test, it can be used as a main source of power for aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines and other equipment in the future, after all, once the ship solves the problem of power supply, then laser weapons, electromagnetic guns and other high-tech weapons that rely on electricity can begin to be equipped, and the combat effectiveness is absolutely a bombing sky.

However, the certification test of national defense equipment has always been extremely strict, and Qin Tian is not in a hurry to mass-produce a miniature nuclear reactor with a unit price of more than 100 million yuan to make crazy money, so let the smart factory produce two sets to assemble the first 'Kunpeng' cargo spacecraft prototype for test flight.

……

10,000 years is too long, Qin Tian only seizes the day!

Late at night on October 15, 2018.

Electric arc welding, machine roaring.

With more than 100 intelligent robots working day and night, in the majestic and huge aerospace assembly factory, a light yellow painted air giant ended the last process and appeared in front of you with an absolutely domineering attitude......