After a half-day visit to the laboratory, Huang Mingzhe already knew the progress of the second-generation nuclear fusion engine.

The Qinhuangdao Nuclear Fusion Engine Research Institute has almost perfected the technology to the extent that it has been put into use, and now Qin Changge and they are doing the final debugging and improvement, hoping to make the second-generation nuclear fusion engine reach maximum efficiency.

The second-generation fusion engine is also intended for the next generation of spacecraft.

With the same weight of fuel reserves, the second-generation fusion engine can increase the flight range by 26%, and if the working fluid can be collected along the way, the flight range can be increased by about 85%.

Huang Mingzhe immediately put the stand-in robot back into the preservation cabin, and through the virtual network, he came to the stand-in robot in another research institute.

This is the new Xichang Satellite City located in the 36,000-kilometer orbit of Blue Star.

At present, there are a total of 4 satellite cities in the Blue Moon system, namely the New Wenchang Satellite City with a 1,500-kilometer orbit, the New Jiuquan Satellite City with a 1,500-kilometer orbit, the New Xichang Satellite City with a 36,000-kilometer orbit, and the Kunlun Satellite City at the Blue Moon Lagrange Point L1.

The functions of the four satellite cities are not the same.

Among them, the new Wenchang Satellite City serves as a space port, a space garbage recycling station, and a spacecraft supply center.

As a spacecraft shipyard, spare parts processing plant and spacecraft maintenance plant, the new Jiuquan Satellite City is positioned as an industrial satellite city.

The new Xichang Satellite City, where Huang Mingzhe is now located, is used as a space research city.

The last Kunlun satellite city is actually a Blue Moon stationary satellite city transformed from a rocky asteroid with a diameter of 1817~2237 meters as the main body.

Kunlun Satellite City is used as a future alien colony experimental site, specially used to test artificial simulation environment, which is an indispensable step for new humans to truly step into outer space.

Biocomputers and cell robots can reduce space sickness to a certain extent, but it is impossible to completely ensure safety, for example, most of the current astronauts are middle-aged people who have given birth to offspring.

The biological computer even directly locked the reproductive function of astronauts, just to avoid unpredictable consequences.

In the low-gravity, high-vacuum, and high-radiation environment of outer space for a long time, unpredictable mutations may occur in the new human body.

Pregnancy and childbirth in outer space are things that are forbidden by the Supreme Will.

Therefore, the Kunlun Satellite City, which simulates the blue star environment, came into being, where the study of cosmobiology, cosmic environment, and the physical condition of astronauts is studied.

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On the new Xichang Satellite City, the scale here is not large, only 800 tons of weight, large and small 27 cabins.

Most of the researchers working here work in outer space as stand-in robots, and there are only three soldiers stationed in the Space Force who really come up as human beings.

At present, there are only five laboratories on the New Xichang Satellite City, namely the Institute of Space Materials under the Institute of Materials, the Gravity Laboratory under the Institute of High Energy, the Cosmic Particle Laboratory, and the Cosmic Observation Laboratory under the Astronomical Research Association.

The last is Hwang's destination, a space test lab at the Spacecraft Research Institute.

"The chairman is welcome to come and inspect." The person in charge of the laboratory, East China, floated over.

Although they are all stand-in robots, there are nanobots on the stand-in robots, which can simulate the user's appearance and facilitate others to identify the identity of the stand-in robot.

"Dongfeng, how are your tests going?" Huang Mingzhe asked as he floated in the cabin.

"Chairman, this is the test situation of the past few days." Huadong Feng shared several test reports in the past.

Huang Mingzhe looked at the data and knew the test experiment data of the equipment.

A week ago, the Spaceship Research Institute sent a small 50-ton spacecraft to test it, which is a very simple spacecraft with a small fusion engine and a particle collector.

The focus is to test the function of this particle collector, which can release an ionized magnetic field with a radius of about 10~50 kilometers.

In the open interstellar space, hydrogen atoms are the most widely distributed particles, but due to the weak magnetism of hydrogen atoms, it is difficult to attract free hydrogen atoms through electromagnetism under ordinary circumstances.

At this time, the ionization magnetic field is required to enhance the magnetic properties of hydrogen atoms, so that the particle collector can collect hydrogen atoms by means of electromagnetic attraction.

In the inner circle of the Blue Moon system, where the particle concentration is very high, the particle collector activates the most cost-effective 24 km ionization magnetic field, and can collect 0.2~0.5 kg of hydrogen atoms per hour on average.

These hydrogen atoms can be used directly as nuclear fuel, further enhancing the spacecraft's self-sustaining capabilities.

Of course, if you can encounter asteroids and the like, it is even more perfect to directly mine the material from the asteroid as nuclear fuel and heating working fluid.

Particle collectors are primarily designed to sail in the open space of interstellar space, but are of little use in the solar system.

Neutrino detectors can scan as fuzzy as 1.5 million kilometers, and even down to the atomic level if they are within 5,000 kilometers.

With the support of neutrino detectors, spacecraft can easily find asteroid recharge fluids.

In addition, the new humans plan to place supply stations along the interstellar route, so that in the inner solar system, the particle collectors are a little more frivolous.

However, this technology spacecraft research institute has still invested in research and development, even if it is not used now, it does not mean that it will not be used in the future.

After inspecting the laboratories of the New Xichang Satellite City, Huang Mingzhe went offline again to the New Jiuquan Satellite City.

The scale of the new Jiuquan Satellite City is more than ten times larger than that of the new Xichang Satellite City, and the construction of three spaceships is being started at the same time on the space dock of the spaceship assembly plant.

Two of them are Huo Quzhi-class space warships, and the other is a Kunpeng-class space transport ship.

The Kunpeng class is a variant of the Huo Quzhi-class space battleship, with a total weight of 2,600 tons, and the sacrificial speed has been increased by the payload, which has reached 1,300 tons.

It adopts nuclear fusion direct injection engine, which can reach a maximum speed of 14 kilometers per second, which is suitable for internal transportation of the Blue Moon system.

Huang Mingzhe looked at the main body of the spacecraft on the dock, except for the engine part, which was not in place, the other parts were almost completed.

This is waiting for the second-generation nuclear fusion engine to be sent on the ground of the Blue Star, and these warships and transport ships can be put into use.

Zhang Siping and Liu Dawei of the War Committee also used stand-in robots to inspect the site.

Seeing Huang Mingzhe here, Zhang Siping floated over to say hello: "Mingzhe, why are you here?"

Huang Mingzhe smiled and replied: "Come and investigate, some projects of the scientific committee need to use large space carriers. ”

"I see." Zhang Siping then added: "You may have to wait until next year, when we are forming a Mars expeditionary fleet. ”

"So fast?"

Zhang Siping explained: "I'm afraid that there will be many dreams at night, so it's better to eliminate them as soon as possible." ”

"That's just as well." Huang Mingzhe agreed with the idea of the War Council, after all, the existence of the lizardman and the remnants of the HRE Federation was a time bomb.

If the other party is allowed to develop in Mars and the asteroid belt, sooner or later there will be big trouble, and Huang Mingzhe is a person who does not like trouble.

The dockyard of the spacecraft assembly plant is being expanded, and by the end of the year, it is expected that it will be expanded to 20, and 20 spacecraft of less than 5,000 tons can be started at the same time.

It seems that the determination of the War Council was very great.

After Huang Mingzhe and Zhang Siping said goodbye, they immediately inspected the important projects of the Scientific Committee and the progress of their understanding.