Chapter 513: New Record: Fourth Cosmic Speed!

Psionic technology and modern technology take different paths, so there are differences in the difficulty of solving the same problem between the two.

It may seem like a simple problem in psionic technology, but modern technology is very difficult. The reverse is also true. Many of the problems that can be easily solved with modern technology are troublesome in psionic technology.

Having said that, Yang Chen only showed the first situation, so in this way, it seemed that the psionic technology was quite superior. At least, for now, it's enough to make all the viewers of the moon landing live aware of this. Maybe they will have a more accurate and sober understanding after leaving, but now, they are crazy.

"Hello Yang Chen, on behalf of the people of the whole country, on behalf of our government, government, scientists, and aerospace workers, I would like to congratulate you on your achievements, and wish you a successful landing on the moon and the ......fulfillment of the dream of the Chinese people for thousands of years."

In the trembling voices of the experts, the No. 1 leader also began to talk to Yang Chen, expressing his condolences to the Xingchen and so on, in short, he made a statement of support.

Yang Chen knew that as long as he and the others really landed on the moon, then this support could be firmly obtained.

Because of this, Yang Chen's original idea of turning on the stealth mode to land on the moon was abandoned.

Who can believe that no one has observed your landing on the moon, and you just keep saying that you have been to the moon? In the case of stealth mode, it is difficult for optics and radio to detect the Xingchen, and if you can't detect it, you can't win people's trust.

Even though it may be risky, it's worth it.

So, in this way, under the attention of high-level officials and experts in China, the Star further increased its speed, slowly approaching the second cosmic velocity required for the artificial object to break away from the Earth's gravity: 11.2 kilometers per second.

However, since the Moon has not yet exceeded the range of the Earth's gravity, the initial velocity of the lunar spacecraft launched from the ground is not less than 10.848 kilometers per second.

In other words, the star only needs to reach 10.848 kilometers per second to reach the moon.

But the Star is not an ordinary flying machine, so its speed is far beyond people's imagination.

As a result, after reaching 10.848 kilometers per second, the speed of the Star increased further, reaching the second cosmic speed of 11.2 kilometers per second, but it still refused to give up and continued to increase further.

The experts who had been paying close attention to the data on the Star were starting to be a little surprised.

At the second cosmic velocity, it would take about seven and a half hours to reach the moon, and in fact, due to factors such as acceleration, deceleration, and orbital differences, it would actually take longer than seven and a half hours.

But in any case, in the universe, any change in velocity consumes energy. The greater the kinetic energy possessed by the aircraft, the more drastic the change in velocity, and the greater the energy consumption.

Therefore, the usual lunar spacecraft and lunar probes, even if they may reach higher speeds, will still only fly at a speed equivalent to the second cosmic speed.

After all, fuel is limited, even if you can fly faster, but when you reach the moon's gravitational circle, you still have to slow down, and the faster you fly before, the more energy you consume, which is uneconomical.

The Star certainly doesn't have such a problem.

Therefore, in the eyes of experts, the speed of the Star has been constantly improving. At first, people didn't realize it, but when the speed of the star reached 1.5 times, 2 times, or even 3 or 10 times the speed of the second universe, it was very surprising.

It was especially impressive when the Star exceeded the speed of the second universe by ten times, even reaching 120 kilometers per second.

Because it can break out of the sun's gravitational circle and fly out of the solar system's third cosmic velocity, it is only 16.7 kilometers per second.

At 120 kilometers per second, that's more than the fourth cosmic velocity that can break away from the gravitational pull of the Milky Way and fly out of the Milky Way.

The fourth cosmic velocity was proposed by scientists in 1991, but because human beings know little about the Milky Way, and the mass and radius of the Milky Way cannot be valued, the exact value of the fourth cosmic velocity is still unknown, and 120 kilometers per second strictly belongs to the upper limit of the fourth cosmic velocity. The true Fourth Universe is even lower.

At present, human science and technology reached the first cosmic speed in 1948, the second cosmic speed in 1955, and the third cosmic speed in 1969, but the fourth cosmic speed has not yet been reached by human beings.

In other words, it is very likely that the Star will be the first artificial object to reach the fourth cosmic velocity!

This is another record, and this record is set by a Chinese for the first time.

Since Xingchen does not adopt stealth mode, it is not only Huaguo who has observed Xingchen, but other astronomical institutions with sufficient capabilities can also observe Xingchen's flight speed.

Therefore, this record is not like the so-called world record created by many Chinese countries before, it is just self-talk, and it is not recognized internationally. Now this record has been observed by astronomical agencies around the world, and even if you want to deny it, it is impossible to do it.

Realizing this, even though the Star is not from the official Chinese space agency, all the Chinese aerospace scientists and staff who are watching the live broadcast are still jubilant!

This is still true even at the space center where the core of the leadership collective such as the head of No. 1 is located.

Hearing the cheers, Chief No. 1 was a little puzzled: "What's the matter? Why are they so happy?"

An expert next to him hurriedly explained: "Chief No. 1, they are so happy because Xingchen has reached the fourth cosmic speed, and this is the first time in human history! This is the most undoubted space record created by our Chinese people, and it is also the best space record!"

In climbing the peak of the aerospace industry, the Chinese people have of course also set many records. There are also quite a few world records. But these records, strictly speaking, are not very impressive.

Because the path taken by the Chinese people is the road that has been verified by others, these records are rare, but more are just further improvement on the basis of others, originality and pioneering are not enough.

These records are okay to boost the morale of the Chinese people, and they are okay to counter the discrimination of foreigners, but if you want foreigners to really admire them, you can't.

Because as we all know, the pioneers tend to move slower than the chasers. It's not that the pioneers are incompetent, it's that the chasers can avoid the difficulties and troubles that the pioneers encounter, and this speed is not commendable.

The same is true for the Chinese. They avoided many problems in space exploration by the United States and the former Soviet Union, not because the Chinese were prescient, but because they had learned the lessons of the United States and the Soviet Union. Perhaps these records can show the capabilities of the Chinese people in space exploration, but their real contribution to human space exploration is limited.

And now it's different. As the first country to reach the fourth cosmic speed, this contribution will go down in the history of the world's aerospace industry, and no one or country can deny it.

As we all know, the earth is a low-speed world, and even the entire universe is also a relatively low-speed material world. It's good to say at low speeds, but in the high-speed world, there will be a lot of problems that have never been thought of or experienced before.

This was the case in the previous process of human beings reaching the first cosmic velocity, the second cosmic velocity, and the third cosmic velocity.

It is precisely by exposing these problems and solving these problems that human space technology can come to this day.

There is even a theory that since the United States landed in the last century, the reason why it has not been able to return to the moon or even land on Mars is because human beings have not reached or approached the speed of the fourth universe, and have not exposed more problems, so they cannot be solved, thus slowing down the development of science and technology.

Because it is an undeniable fact that after the American moon landing in the last century, human space technology reached its peak. The current space technology is more advanced than it was at that time, but it is not fundamentally different. Those advances are basically tinkering with existing technology, and there is nothing really groundbreaking.

This is why the era of landing on Mars has been repeatedly hyped as a topic by the media and the scientific community, but it has always arrived.

Think about it, the current generation is in the prime of life, and it is the forty or fifty-year-old people in the core of society who are still in their childhood, and they listen to the media and scientists all day long about landing on Mars, but until this generation grows up and is already forty or fifty years old, this day is still far away.

Why?

Of course, there are many reasons, but an important factor is that human beings have not reached the fourth cosmic speed, and the problems that will occur from the third cosmic speed to the fourth cosmic speed are not yet clear, so they cannot make breakthroughs in space science and technology, and can only improve and explore little by little.

And now it's different. Huaguo was the first to reach the fourth cosmic velocity, exposing these problems.

In addition, the vast majority of celestial bodies in the Milky Way are moving lower than the fourth cosmic velocity, and what happens when an object reaches this velocity, and why these changes occur, are data of great scientific value. These data may even allow scientists to further unravel the mysteries of the universe and the causes of the universe, not only in space technology, but also in astronomy, astrophysics and even theoretical physics.

As for further breakthroughs in space technology, it is even more just around the corner!

And all the data of this breakthrough are in the hands of the Chinese people, which means that the Chinese people really have a leading edge in space exploration!

These data may be open to the international space community in the future, but before that, Chinese scientists must study them thoroughly. The reason why the Americans' space technology is so powerful is because they are ahead of the curve in exploration. Later, although the data of these explorations were opened to the world, it was a long time after they had studied them, and it would be difficult for other countries to surpass them.

Not only the United States, the former Soviet Union and now Russia are still commendable in aerospace science and technology, that is also because the United States and the Soviet Union fought for space hegemony at the beginning, the United States and the Soviet Union were at the forefront in this regard, and the former Soviet Union also mastered a large number of key data.

Taking Mars exploration as an example, so far, there are only four countries and powers that have carried out Mars exploration: the United States, the former Soviet Union/Russia, Japan, and Europe.

But who will actually have a probe to Mars?

The United States, the former Soviet Union, Europe.

So who really succeeded in landing on Mars? The United States, the former Soviet Union.

This alone can make Russia comfortably rely on its old roots to rank second in the aerospace field.

It's just that when the Chinese reach the fourth cosmic speed, perhaps because of the background, they will not be able to pry the throne of the United States first, but there is no problem to surpass the second place of Russia.

This value cannot be overestimated!