Inside the empty test ground.

As the photonic engine was activated, the 560 beta ray laser heads in the condenser chamber instantly erupted beta rays that were enough to kill people.

Due to the deflection of the magnetic field, the vast majority of the beta rays are focused on the mirror.

In an instant, an invisible stream of beta rays erupted from the engine vent.

Inside the control room.

As a result, the testing instruments have changed dramatically.

[Engine thrust: 342 kg...... 527 kg ...... ］

[Cabin beta radiation level: 0.0006...... 0.0007…… ］

[Engine nozzle radiation level: 3416...... 4371…… ］

[System Power Consumption: ...... ］

……

"No problem for the time being." Anatoly?? Ilkin said as he looked at the data.

"I don't know until the end." Zhou Botong clasped his hands to his chest and said calmly.

At this time, the warm-up phase of the photonic engine was over, and the staff began to continuously increase the power.

10% Power...... 15% power ......

Although the beta rays are invisible, the radiation is powerful enough to ionize air molecules near the vent, and around the engine vent, a pale blue plasma and crackling electric current are forming.

If a living organism is within 100 meters of the engine at this time, it may be killed on the spot; Even within 1,000 meters, it can be severely affected by radiation.

"This level of radiation is terrifying, it is even more terrifying than the poison hair of the Ilgin family." Sun Liancheng teased.

Anatoly?? Ilkin smiled awkwardly, after all, Lucia used highly toxic compounds as fuel in order to facilitate the storage of liquid rockets, and this matter was well known in Bluestar.

"I see that photon engines cannot be used in the atmosphere of the blue star, otherwise it is easy to cause accidental injury." Zhou Botong said helplessly.

"There is no way to do this, photonic engines must be willing to give and take for the sake of performance." Anatoly?? Ilkin's last sentence was spoken in Chinese.

Inside the testing ground, testing continues.

The power of the photonic engine has soared to 80%, and the huge thrust has broken through the sky.

This power has almost reached the cruising power, Zhou Botong looked at the data on the holographic display screen, and calculated it in his heart.

They designed a prototype to propel a 3,000-ton spacecraft, and after some quick mental arithmetic, he came up with a statistic: 12% of the speed of light.

For the next hour, they kept testing the photonic engine.

Anatoly?? Ilkin with a preliminary test report:

"It's a little slower than expected, with a cruise speed of 12.3% of the speed of light and a maximum speed of 15.2% of the speed of light."

"How much does it consume?" Zhou Botong asked.

"The maximum power is 6.47 million ~ 6.51 million kilowatt hours per second, and the cruising power is 5.17 million ~ 5.22 million kilowatt hours per second." Anatoly?? Ilkin smiled bitterly.

"In terms of the power generation efficiency of the current nuclear fusion reactor, at cruising speed, it needs to consume 70 grams of nuclear fuel per second, 252 kilograms of nuclear fuel per hour, and 6.048 nuclear fuel a day." Zhou Botong's head suddenly grew a little.

Anatoly?? Ilkin was also very helpless: "We need to maintain the isolation of the magnetic field, and the efficiency of the laser head is not good, and the energy consumption of our imitation is at least about twice that of the Anluo Xingren." ”

"Let's see that we must urge the Materials Research Institute and the Laser Research Institute to let them improve the beta ray laser head as soon as possible, otherwise the huge energy consumption is not conducive to the long-distance navigation of the spacecraft." Zhou Botong scratched his hair and said.

Anatoly?? Of course, Ilkin knows the terrible energy consumption, the speed of light in a vacuum is about 300,000 kilometers per second, and the cruising speed is 12.3% of the speed of light, which is about 36,900 kilometers per second.

If you go to Mars from Blue Star, the distance between the two is about 55 million kilometers ~ 400 million kilometers, which is equivalent to 1490 seconds ~ 10840 seconds (24 ~ 180 minutes), and the nuclear fuel required is 104.3 kg ~ 758.8 kg.

Of course, there is no need for so much nuclear fuel, because in addition to the acceleration phase, a large part of the time is in the inertial flight phase, and the fuel consumption is about 20%.

But even so, it would cost at least 42 kilograms of nuclear fuel to get back and forth to Mars, and it would be unimaginable to fly between star systems.

"Zhou, we continue to test for a while to see what needs to be improved." Anatoly?? Ilkin said.

"Okay, Ilkin, take a look, I'll sort out the test data just now and send it to the research institute."

"No problem."

Inside the test site, the photonic engine erupting with powerful radiation and plasma is still running tirelessly.

At this time, the system stability of the photonic engine is being tested, and the conditions under long-term operation need to be tested in detail to avoid problems during outer space flights.

The other side.

Inside the Ion Engine Research Institute.

Mishima Ji, Jin Rucai and others have already received the test data sent back by Zhou Botong.

"Jin Sang, it seems that our imitation consumes a lot of energy, 206%~214% higher than that of Anluoxing." Mishima Ji shook his head and said.

"The power of the laser head and the isolation of the magnetic field have a very large impact on the overall energy consumption, which is unavoidable." Jin Rucai was also quite helpless.

After looking at the test data, the two hurriedly summoned the researchers in the institute and began to adjust and improve the design of the prototype.

And the other research institutes are also working hard, many of them know about the existence of the Anluo Star and the Triangular civilization, and the urgency of the storm makes them constantly squeeze their potential.

At this moment, they are not living for themselves, but for their relatives and friends, for human civilization, and for the homeland of Blue Star.

"Jin Sang, I have an improvement plan, you can help me with supercomputing deduction."

"Yes."

Jin Rucai turned on the supercomputer of the research institute, and Mishima Ji hurriedly said some data and improvement plans, and his improvement plan was actually in the nuclear fusion reactor, which was to use the reaction waste of the nuclear fusion reactor as the propellant of the ion engine.

"Mishima, your plan still has a certain effect on speed improvement." Jin Rucai looked at the results of the supercalculation and said.

"How much has it improved?"

"The cruising speed has been increased from 12.3% to 12.41% of the speed of light, and the maximum speed has been increased from 15.2% to 15.62% of the speed of light," Kim said. ”

"It's good that it works." Mishima said happily.

……

Meanwhile.

Institute of Materials.

Li Xiang, who still has difficulty breaking through superconductors at room temperature, had to put down the project at hand this time to help the Materials Research Institute complete the artificial radium element project.

Huang Haojie's stand-in robot is also in the Materials Research Institute, due to the scarcity of radium in Blue Star and even the solar system, the key material of the laser head cannot meet the mass production standard due to the lack of radium.

As for how the Anluo people solved the problem of radium, it was that there was a planetary remnant asteroid in the Anluo system, which was an asteroid with a mass equivalent to one-fifth of the moon, and contained more than 100,000 tons of radium.

This kind of innate condition that is unattainable, the Human Innovation Alliance can only envy, envy and hate, so now Huang Haojie and Li Xiang can only find a solution.

Either an alternative material will be developed, or a large-scale artificial synthesis of radium will be realized.

There is no other way.