Chapter 255: Preparing for the launch of the satellite
The speed of the spaceship needs materials to support it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
It is necessary to be strong, and all kinds of corrosion-resistant, cosmic ray radiation and other high-grade materials with enduring characteristics, and the spaceship can be built in order to cross the sea of stars.
So, the first requirement is the material.
The second requirement is energy.
The energy output must be strong enough and last long enough to propel the spacecraft to reach the corresponding speed.
It is necessary to have a strong heart and a tough body, so that such an existence can crisscross in the harsh cosmic environment.
This is a spaceship.
Now on Earth, these two main aspects are the restrictions on spacecraft.
As long as these two hard conditions can be solved, then the spaceship is not a dream.
And Zhou Yu solves more than just these two problems.
Through the ability of Pangu-1, more than 30 alloys have been researched, which are the materials used to make this first spaceship!
These alloys, after careful calculations by Zhou Yu, have been determined to be able to meet the standard - the hard conditions of materials that exceed the speed of the third universe by more than twenty times!
In other words, theoretically, the spaceship that Zhou Yu is building now can fly conventionally in the starry sky at a speed twenty times the speed of the third universe.
The minimum speed of three hundred and thirty or forty kilometers per second.
As a result, the time between Jupiter and Earth is reduced by more than twenty times. Eight or nine hundred days is reduced to thirty or forty days, or even less. The gap is almost incomparable.
Although Zhou Yu is still not very satisfied, it takes thirty or forty days and months to go back and forth to Jupiter, how can he cross the sea of stars?
However, it is a pity that it is difficult to make a breakthrough in the study of various materials on the existing earth.
With the help of Pangu No. 1's ability, Zhou Yu encountered a bottleneck.
That's not because of the limitations of computing power and research capabilities, but because of the limitations of the material itself.
The Earth is indeed very special in the starry sky, after all, it can give birth to life. But the earth is far from representing the entire universe, not even a speck of dust.
Indeed, what is on Earth is not on other planets. But what is available on other planets, not necessarily on Earth. Zhou Yu set his sights on other planets in the solar system - the materials of the earth can't meet the needs of higher-level spaceships, so look for them from other planets!
Now, of course, the spacecraft that is about to be built is still only theoretical. Although Zhou Yu can be sure that there is no problem with the theory he deduced, but what the specific situation is, it has to be built, and after trying it, it can be completely understood.
Materials are temporarily bottlenecked, and energy is about the same.
Of course, the energy source with the highest power supply researched by Zhou Yu at this stage is optimized nuclear energy. This is still nuclear energy, but it is several notches ahead of other ways of using nuclear energy on the planet today.
First of all, this optimized use of nuclear energy has reduced it many times over, although it has not completely solved the problem of nuclear radiation. The harm to human beings has been reduced to a level that is temporarily acceptable.
In this way, nuclear radiation is also converted into usable energy. But the technology is still not perfect, which is more difficult. Once perfected, then nuclear energy will no longer be subject to any restrictions, but will be used perfectly -- even nuclear radiation will be used, is it not perfect?
However, compared with the utilization of other energy sources, the utilization mode of optimized nuclear energy is much less sustainable -- the solar new energy has completely exploded the optimized nuclear energy in terms of sustainability.
As long as there is a place where the sun shines, there will be a steady stream of new sunlight.
Zhou Yu plans to further study the new energy of sunlight, and he feels that the potential of solar energy is greater than that of nuclear energy -- the sun bursts out energy, not only light, but also many kinds of rays. Most of these rays are blocked by the Earth's atmosphere and cannot descend to the Earth's surface. But that doesn't mean that the energy contained in these rays is not large!
As long as the solar energy can be thoroughly understood through the new energy of sunlight, and can be used perfectly, then in terms of functional power, most of the time can surpass nuclear energy. Add to that its sustainability, and it's a perfect source of energy!
Now in Zhou Yu's hands, the energy source for spacecraft power is only optimized nuclear energy. According to Zhou Yu's calculations, the optimized nuclear energy source made of 20 kilograms of nuclear raw materials can fully support the maximum speed allowed by the existing materials of the spacecraft he wants to build, and continue to travel back and forth to Earth - Jupiter four times!
Looks like it's enough for the time being.
However, he will not relax in the research of new energy, if the spacecraft uses more power than the optimized nuclear energy, then the overall ability of the spacecraft will rise to another level.
Leaving the manufacture of the spaceship to Nuwa-1 to be responsible, Zhou Yu began to think of another plan.
Weapons!
It's the kind of weapon he discussed with Tina earlier to fight against the whole world!
You don't need to blow up the earth at once, as long as you can blow up a state in the United States at once, that's enough.
The most powerful weapon on earth right now is nuclear weapons.
Fission nuclear weapons, atomic bombs, fusion nuclear weapons, hydrogen bombs, and even the offshoot of the hydrogen bomb, the neutron bomb, and so on. TNT equivalent is used as the standard.
What 10 million tons, tens of millions of tons of nuclear weapons and the like, it does sound awesome. But in fact, the direct lethality of nuclear weapons is not very strong.
I've never heard of a nuclear weapon that can blow up a state. It's just that nuclear radiation is discoloring.
If you want to blow up a state in the United States, if you want to make a comparison, it is probably the asteroid that the scientific community speculated that the asteroid that made the earth's dinosaurs extinct collided with the earth.
Such power is often calculated by the power produced by the explosion of many nuclear bombs together.
To develop such a weapon, it is difficult!
Zhou Yu also envisioned space-based weapons -- another deterrent weapon that is different from nuclear weapons on the earth today is space-based weapons. In the orbit of the earth, put a metal rod, several tons and more than ten tons, and at most add a little propulsion equipment, so that it will fall from the sky, producing a meteorite-like effect, and there will be no pollution.
But this weapon, to be honest, is very rigid.
Zhou Yu is not really ready to be the Great Demon King of the World, what do you want this kind of thing to do? If you want to threaten someone, you must first show the effect to them. After all, he Zhou Yu is just a person, and if the United States threatens to create a weapon that can destroy a state with one blow, then other countries may believe it. But Zhou Yu only has one mouth, and people won't believe it.
So, you have to show them.
Show them, you can't experiment with the earth, right?
Like he said, knock out a moon of Jupiter and set off fireworks for people to see.
So this weapon has to be flexible.
He thought about it for a moment and prepared to place it on the spaceship that was being built. And in all aspects, there must be corresponding considerations.
For example, attack range. Like accuracy.
If there is a limit to the attack range, it is difficult to ensure that it will not be defeated by the ranged weapons on Earth and the spaceship before launch. That's going to be far. In space, you can accurately hit the target.
Secondly, it must be powerful and there will be no sequelae.
All kinds of considerations gave Zhou Yu a headache.
There are only two options, the first is to continue to study nuclear weapons in depth. Enhance power, weaken and even erase sequelae.
The second is to conduct in-depth research on solar new energy. After all, spaceships are meant to crisscross the starry sky. Sunlight has a bright future for new energy, and if the solar energy can be thoroughly studied so that it can burst out with power beyond nuclear energy, then it is not bad. And convenient.
All you need to do is keep the spaceship in the starry sky and recharge it at any time.
After thinking about it, he finally chose Sunlight New Energy.
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When Zhou Yu was thinking about his research, Musk's phone called.
The four satellites that Zhou Yu needed have been manufactured.
This gave Zhou Yu an inspiration.
He postponed it for a few days before he arrived in Houston in person with four Life Spirit Force Field Detectors.
SpaceX launches the satellite, this time at the Houston Satellite Launch Center.
When he arrived at the ground, Zhou Yu didn't say a word, and directly asked to attach the life spirit force field detector to the satellite.
Some people say why not hang it quietly?
It's not okay. The launch of the satellite is very precise. Multiple mass, how fast the speed, how much energy is needed to promote, and the accuracy of orbit positioning cannot tolerate a trace of sloppiness.
If something goes wrong, it will cause the launch to fail.
The Life Spirit Force Field Detector is a metal ball with a diameter of about 30 centimeters, weighing 1,200 kilograms. If it hangs up abruptly, it will definitely have an impact on the launch of the satellite.
Therefore, it has to be directly indicated that the launch department will calculate this part of the mass and carry out a series of fine-tuning.
In this regard, the members of the launch department of SpaceX do not have any special opinions. Not to mention that Zhou Yu is their boss, just to talk about the orders placed by others, what they are going to launch, that is his freedom.
Of course, you also need to make sure that this thing is not a dangerous item.
Zhou Yu's statement to them is that this is a signal amplification device that he has researched himself. After a certain testing procedure, no danger was found, and although the people at the Houston launch center still wondered what the ball was for, it was not easy to stop it.
At the same time, attached to the detector was a palm-sized metal box - this is a device that Zhou Yu has researched in the past few days.
It is a miniature detection computer with a radiographic detection analysis device with a subroutine of Nuwa-1.
Zhou Yu is going to conduct in-depth research on solar new energy, so he must have an understanding of the relevant data of various rays in space.
Many rays in space cannot enter the earth, and can only be achieved through satellites.
In the first two days of the satellite launch, Zhou Yu had quietly tested several satellites, and sure enough, some backdoors were found in them!
He couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
If it weren't for the sake of confusing those people and gaining a certain amount of stable time, Zhou Yu could have made his own satellites, where would he use Space Exploration Technology Company?
He's already building spaceships, satellites are a piece of?
These satellites are just a façade.
Even the attached Life Spirit Force Field Detector, he was prepared to use it for a period of time in the early stage, and then let it go - when the time came, he would build his own satellite and launch it quietly, and now he will just leave it aside.