103 Traveling in Space

"Still speeding up! It's already close to Mach 20! ”

"It's incredible, it's so fast! Can anyone tell me what the hell this is! ”

"The altitude is already more than 200 kilometers, and it is certain that there is no rocket boost! That's impossible!!! ”

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The space experts of major countries are all kinds of amazements and gaffes, the video signal from the space satellite is playing on the big screen in the control area, the aircraft in front of them has completely shown its form to the world, and the triangular integrated fuselage shining with silver-white luster is undoubtedly a man-made creation, and there is a high probability that it is a fighter jet. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, there are precedents for the triangular fuselage fighters developed by the world's major powers, and some models are even mass-produced and equipped, but in these precedents, the ability to climb to an altitude of 30,000 meters is already the limit, and the performance of this aircraft flying at high altitude is completely different.

And the power system of this mysterious aircraft has broken the inherent understanding of all experts, and it can be seen at a glance from the image that the aircraft does not have any auxiliary power equipment, no large external fuel tanks and booster rockets, and completely relies on the engines inside the aircraft to provide power, and it has climbed to such a height so easily. Following this trend, all experts do not doubt that this vehicle will continue to climb in this way, directly into outer space.

One word comes to most experts' minds irrepressibly: "Aerospace fighter", that is, a combat aircraft that can be used both in the atmosphere and in space.

Aerospace fighters are only a theoretical concept at this stage. At present, the global aerospace industry's R&D investment in this field is still in the previous stage of aerospace fighters -- aerospace planes, and some space powers hope to develop a transatmospheric vehicle that can be completely reused, transport personnel, equipment, and equipment to the space station, and reduce the cost of transportation between space and earth.

In this field, the United States is at the forefront of the world, having built a prototype of an aerospace plane and claimed to have conducted a successful test flight in Earth orbit. But in reality, it's still just the beginning, and it's more of a gimmick. The so-called successful test flight, the prototype is actually carried into space with a launch vehicle, and then it is independently tested in space.

In the United States, NASA's large command room, the huge room has never been so crowded, and the middle and senior leaders of the bureau and all the experts and personnel who have not traveled on business immediately put down their work at hand and gathered here to watch the real-time video.

A giant high-definition screen in the center of the room is showing the image of the aircraft hitting space: a triangular shape of a vehicle is located at an altitude of more than 200 kilometers above the ground, an area of the thermosphere of the atmosphere, with a temperature of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius.

The aircraft still maintains high speed, the high-spirited nose is resolutely pointing straight into space, the fuselage is due to high-speed movement and atmospheric friction, the silver-white fuselage is flashed with a circle of bright red, in the satellite view, it is like a meteor burning with blazing flames across the sky, but the trajectory is completely opposite to the direction of the meteor's downward fall.

The assistant to the NASA administrator huddled in the corner to answer a few phone calls, and then laboriously squeezed in from a group of experts who were having a heated discussion, and moved to the director's side to report the situation, "Director, the military has confirmed that it is not their plane." In addition, there was a call from the White House, and the president was very concerned about the matter and hoped to receive further reports. ”

The white man known as the director had a solemn face, nodded slightly to indicate that he had heard, and turned his head to ask the expert standing next to him, "Dr. Richie, what do you think?" ”

The attention of several experts standing around him, Dr. Ritchie was a technical advisor to the U.S. Aerospace Aircraft Program, and no one in the audience dared to say that he was more authoritative in the field.

Dr. Ritchie frowned, stared intently at the vehicle on the screen, shook his head, and said, "This is far beyond the level of human space science and technology currently known, at least the United States can't do it." He gestured, "Look at the flame in its tail jet area, it should be based on a combined supersonic ramjet engine, which can fly to the current altitude may provide liquid oxygen inside, but this speed can only be achieved by a high-power rocket engine." ”

"Also, note that the fuselage doesn't have any insulation tiles or anything like that, and the silvery-white color doesn't look like it's covered with insulating paint. The material used in the body of this aircraft is also very obvious beyond the world. ”

The NASA administrator kept his voice calm and continued to ask, "Is it possible that an alien spacecraft?" ”

"It's possible, but it's more likely that some great power has made an explosive breakthrough in the field of space, surpassing us and even everyone."

"What do you mean......," the NASA administrator mused, casting his gaze to a satellite map in the corner of the screen, with the spacecraft in the airspace over the Philippine Sea, near the East China Sea, and a new space power on one side. He took a breath of cold air, "Call the White House, and I'm going to speak directly to the president." ”

The chatter in the crowd suddenly increased:

"Oh my God, it's starting to pick up speed again!"

"Mach 25 (speed of 29,401 kilometers per hour), breaking through the first cosmic speed!"

"It did, it's really an aerospace plane!"

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Amid the exclamations of various accents of the crowd, the aircraft on the screen rushed to an altitude of more than 400 kilometers above the ground at a faster speed with a more stubborn upward attitude, and the space stations of the United States and Russia are basically located in this area. This is already the top of the thermosphere of the atmosphere, and the outermost escape layer of the atmosphere is one step outward, which means that you have stepped into real space.

Without any hesitation, the aircraft still maintained high speed, and after more than ten seconds, the aircraft rushed through the thermal layer and entered the escape layer. Although this is theoretically the Earth's atmosphere, the air in this layer is extremely thin, almost the same density as the air in space, and it is also filled with various cosmic rays, which is basically equivalent to the space environment.

At this moment, Chen Wenhao was sitting in the courtyard of the factory, his mood was surging, he looked up at the sky, although he knew that it was impossible to see anything, but it seemed that he could get closer to the aircraft.

On the retinal projection, the marked altitude of the aircraft is already 500 kilometers above the ground in outer space. Xiaoka sent the good news that the aircraft was in good condition, because it was an unmanned flight, there was no imaging equipment installed on the outside of the aircraft, and there was no picture of the environment of the aircraft at this time, but he could imagine that against the boundless dark black background, the distant planet came from a cold light, and the silver-white aircraft flexibly crossed the void.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of the name of the flying machine: Kunpeng.

"There is a fish in the North Underworld, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is; Turned into a bird, its name is Peng. Peng's back, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. Flying in anger, its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky. ”

[If the surveyor is fully turned on and the mode is turned off, do I need to enter the stealth flight mode?] A message from the card.

"Confirm, invisible!"