Chapter 6 Shipyards on Tracks
If someone were standing on the ground on Titan and looking up, they could see a meteor dragging a long flame across the sky.
From the moment it was designed, the "Hades" prospecting ship never thought that it would one day be able to go to the atmosphere for a day trip in this life, it was born in the low-earth orbit assembly plant of Jiangnan Shipyard, and it is a new generation of space born and raised.
In this era, the word "shipbuilding" has long referred not to surface ships, but to space ships...... The world-famous shipyards, Jiangnan Factory, Dalian Factory, Severodvinsk Factory, Newport News Factory, all build spaceships, and the largest man-made building complex in orbit on Earth and Mars is the shipyard, and Jiangnan Plant has 4,800 employees in orbit on Earth and Mars, and building spaceships is like making sausages.
So the design structure of the "Hades" has never considered aerodynamics, does not have the ability to fly in the atmosphere, it looks like a drilling platform - from a certain point of view it does inherit the shape of the ancient drilling platform, with a huge and flat base, the spacecraft are all this virtue, sacrificing the appearance for the sake of function, all of them are strange species, this base is actually a sensitive super-large radar, used to analyze the content of free hydrogen.
It was this radar that Stong had to rely on, and in his imagination, if the spacecraft plunged headlong into the atmosphere, it would be 100% burned.
But Qian Xuesen blesses, they have a flat bottom!
So they can hit the water!
Titan has the thickest atmosphere in the solar system, "Hades" is probably the largest man-made object ever to enter the Titan atmosphere, weighing more than 600 tons, it reduced its speed from Mach 100 to Mach 20 in just five minutes, this is a self-destructive landing, because their altitude is too low, under normal circumstances, landing on Titan should be slowed down a thousand kilometers away, but they only have room for 300 kilometers.
Stong had to slow down with all his power to prevent the ship from crashing headfirst into the surface at hypersonic speeds, and they relied on the bottom of the Hades to glide in the atmosphere at high speeds, with the only remaining fusion engine controlling the attitude and direction of flight - Steng remembered that there were people on Titan, and the remnants they left behind were still there, the only hope for the entire ship.
If they can find the shelter left by their predecessors, then they will hopefully persevere.
Sten enters the path into the ship's computer, aiming for the legendary Shangri-La Plain!
His eardrums were pierced by the sharp sound of metal twisting, and a loud "click, click" sound came from behind him, sounding like something was breaking, and the corners of Sten's mouth were spilling blood, and he gritted his teeth tightly.
Another big problem was exposed, the ship's own structure simply couldn't withstand such a huge overload.
Sten threw away all the parts that could be discarded, but the spacecraft was still completely torn apart, and the air resistance they encountered when they dropped to less than 200 kilometers suddenly increased, and the hull disappeared without a trace in an instant, and all the cargo in the cabin was thrown out by air pressure, scattered at an altitude of hundreds of kilometers, and the "Hades" prospecting ship seemed to have been torn off all its flesh and skin by a force, leaving only the skeleton running naked in the air.
The only thing that remained intact was the cockpit, which was a level more solid than the others, and Stern completely sealed the cockpit when he entered the atmosphere.
Although the cockpit can hold out.
But the crew may not be able to hold out.
Ge Zi had already vomited in the helmet, fortunately, the vomit did not block the airway, and the huge overload caused by deceleration exceeded the limit that the human body could bear, she began to feel dizzy and nauseous, and then her eyes were congested and her vision was black, her eardrum was tingling, and finally all the joints, muscles, including the spine were in severe pain, and her brain seemed to be about to explode, Ge Zi faintly heard others shouting in her confusion, as if it was Shi Teng and Liu Peijia, men's physical strength and resistance are really stronger than women, and Ge Zi is very difficult to even stay awake, They still have the strength to speak.
"Old History...... Are we still alive? ”
"It's not far from death."
"Where is this going?"
"Shangri-La." Stung gasped, he was breathing heavily, and his old face was red.
As the captain, he has lost control of the "Hades", and the whole person is wrapped in an airbag, and he can't even touch the operating lever.
Now they can only resign themselves to fate, praying that the ship's computer will successfully bring them to their destination.
"Shangri-La?" Dai Yue can still stay awake.
"I don't know about you...... There is no impression. Stong replied, "There were people on Titan who had been here and they had established settlements here. ”
"Awesome." Liu Peijia said, "Those who can stay in this ghost place are not mortals. ”
"Card ...... Ka ......," Dai Yue said.
"Cassini Station." Stung was firmly tied to his seat and couldn't move, it was the right choice to put on the Iron Float in time, if it wasn't for the Iron Float, they might have lost consciousness long ago, and the Iron Float helped them withstand most of the pressure.
"Where is it?" Liu Peijia asked.
"The other side."
"The other side?"
"The other side of the planet!"
There was another loud bang in the violent trembling, and then the spaceship began to spin, and Stern's heart said that it was not good!
Maintaining a stable posture is a prerequisite for successful landing, and if the posture is unstable, then they are 100% dead.
At this time, the fusion engine turned the tide, it divided a velocity vector to stop the spacecraft from spinning, and pulled it back, the lower the altitude, the higher the density of the atmosphere, Titan is a planet that blows storms all year round, and it is not easy to stabilize the posture in the wind.
The prospecting ship "Hades" jumped again at an altitude of 100 km, using its bottom to bounce in the atmosphere, and this jump was more than 1,000 km.
The Shangri-La Plain is far away on the other side of the planet, more than 4,000 kilometers away in a straight line, and the "Hades" is gradually shattering, and I don't know if it can hold on to its destination.
"Comrades...... What are the last words, take advantage of now, there is no longer a chance. Stong said, "Xiao Zi? Mumu? Boss Zhuo? ”
He turned his head with difficulty, but he didn't see the rest of the crew.
"Don't shout...... Liu Peijia couldn't hold it anymore, he felt that his heart was about to explode, "I don't know if they're still alive." ”
"You...... You help me shout them. ”
"Shout a hair." Liu Peijia said, "I'm about to hang up." ”
The "Hades" is burning against the atmosphere, and the highest temperature can exceed 3,000 degrees Celsius, at this temperature the stainless steel will be directly vaporized, and the temperature in the cockpit is rising in a straight line, and if someone looks out of the porthole, they can see that the edge of the spacecraft has been burned red.
The spaceship may disintegrate at any time, but Ge Zi doesn't know that she has fallen into a coma, and if the "Hades" collapses in the next second, then she will be thrown into the air dozens of kilometers high and die unconscious.