Chapter 375: Test Flight
"All personnel are out of the factory."
A shrill warning sounded inside the spaceship factory.
The engineers in the factory exited the factory in an orderly manner, leaving only the intelligent robot to be responsible for the routine work of the factory.
Engineers have already assembled the spacecraft and are about to make a test flight of the spacecraft.
In the office far away from the spaceship factory, Yuan Keqing said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, the engineers have finished overhauling the spacecraft in detail.
All the people in the factory were evacuated, and even if there was an accident with the spacecraft, there would be no casualties.
We can test fly it. ”
"President Yuan Keqing, since you have confidence, let's officially start the test flight.
Space activities with spacecraft participation and space activities without spacecraft participation are simply incomparable.
Don't stress either, the spacecraft is testing for the first time and there is a high chance that something will go wrong.
Now it's all about finding the problem and solving the problem. ”
Zhou Yu was afraid that Yuan Keqing would be under too much pressure on them, which would affect the flight test work of the spacecraft, so he said these words to comfort them.
The spacecraft flight test has officially begun, and the on-site engineers have taken over the command to lead the spacecraft flight test work.
"Filling fusion reactors with nuclear fuel and replenishing cooling water."
The intelligent robot began to operate in an orderly manner according to the instructions of the engineers.
"Connected to the external power grid via superconducting cables, the No. 1 fusion reactor attempts to ignite."
The spacecraft attempted the first ignition of a nuclear fusion reactor.
Only the No. 1 nuclear fusion reactor is ignited by an external energy source.
The nuclear reactors inside the spacecraft, even if the spacecraft stop working, will work at the lowest power, instead of extinguishing the fusion reactor.
The success rate of nuclear fusion reactor ignition is very low, and repeated nuclear fusion reactor ignition is very harmful to the life of nuclear fusion reactors.
The spacecraft's fusion reactor attempted to ignite, and Fusion Reactor No. 1 successfully began operating after only three ignition experiments.
The No. 1 nuclear fusion reactor outputs a huge amount of energy, and the ignition of the No. 2 to No. 5 nuclear fusion reactors has been completed sequentially.
Engineers are constantly staring at the spacecraft's energy system, and they have been waiting for all five fusion reactors to ignite.
"The spacecraft's energy system is normal, it starts to supply energy to the spacecraft, and the spacecraft begins to enter a self-test state."
[The control system is working normally]
[The power system is working normally]
[The life support system is working normally]
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"The spacecraft self-test is complete, all systems are working normally, and it is ready to start the test flight experiment."
Zhou Yu concentrates on watching the real-time scene of the spaceship taking off through the virtual world.
This is the most important moment, even if all the systems of the spacecraft are working properly, but it cannot take off, it is a product of failure.
The roof of the canopy above the spaceship factory was open, and the blue sky came into view, and white clouds drifted in the sky.
Everyone was focused and fixed on the spaceship.
The spacecraft receives the command to take off, and the quantum computer begins to control the state of the spacecraft.
At the same time, the energy system began to power the gravitational engine.
Quantum computers are also constantly sending data to the gravitational engine to adjust its working state.
The 500-meter-long, 30,000-ton spacecraft floats slowly, suspended in the air.
Yuan Keqing saw this situation, and his expression relaxed.
The spacecraft can levitate in the air, which proves that there is no problem with its two major systems, the energy system and the power system.
These two systems revolve around two key pieces of equipment, a fusion reactor and a gravitational engine.
They have very little room for modification, and if there is a major problem, the fusion reactor or the gravitational engine can only be redesigned.
This would be more cumbersome than redesigning the spaceship.
Now it is completely reassuring that there are no problems with the fusion reactor and the gravitational engine.
Even if there was a problem with the spaceship's other systems, they had more than one backup plan that could be dealt with quickly.
Zhou Yu was also very excited when he saw the spaceship suspended in the air.
The spacecraft weighs 30,000 tons, and its shell and main equipment are made of high-density materials on a large scale.
Spaceships are small in size, but massive in mass.
The spaceship travels through space, and it can withstand the impact of large comets, not to mention small cosmic dust.
It can rampage through the asteroid belt without any evasive maneuvers without causing any damage.
It is the huge weight of the spacecraft that it can only use the gravitational engine as a power source.
The spaceship hovered in the air, constantly adjusting its flight attitude.
The gravitational engine also plays a role, locking in the gravitational data of the surrounding celestial bodies, so that he can take advantage of the gravitational motion of these celestial bodies.
When the spaceship is ready, it begins to change from a horizontal to a vertical state.
Disappeared from the spaceship's factory in the blink of an eye.
Yuan Keqing looked at the monitoring data and sighed: "The speed of the spacecraft is too fast, and our company's detection radar can't keep up with its speed, and now it has lost its trace, so we can only wait for it to take the initiative to contact."
Zhou Yu looked at the performance of the spacecraft, and he also sighed at the powerful performance of the gravitational engine.
The spaceship disappeared in an instant, and he didn't actually disappear instantly, but started too fast.
It's not just the human eye that can't catch the trail of a spaceship, even the most powerful radar can't catch the trail of a spaceship.
The spacecraft soon sent back data, including the surrounding of the spacecraft, and everyone looked at the spaceship's travel records.
It flies very fast, and when flying in the atmosphere, the spacecraft can only reach its maximum speed in the atmosphere due to air resistance.
As the power of the gravitational engine increases, the power of the spacecraft continues to rise.
It quickly broke through the maximum speed limit within the atmosphere, and the atmosphere around the spacecraft was directly ionized.
The ionized atmosphere forms a ring-shaped ribbon that soars into the sky.
Half an hour after the flight, the spacecraft has reached geosynchronous orbit and it is preparing to return home.
Yuan Keqing said in shock: "The spacecraft is so fast, it only took half an hour to reach the geosynchronous orbit from the ground.
The spacecraft has been running at high speed for such a long time, and not a single system has gone wrong, and it is still in very good condition. ”
They waited again for half an hour while observing the spacecraft's motion.
Zhou Yu and the others saw the figure of the spaceship again, it was straight up, staying firmly in the spaceship factory.
As soon as the spaceship landed, a huge roar was heard, which was the sound of the spacecraft moving in the air and rubbing violently against the air.
The speed of the spaceship is too fast, much greater than the speed of sound, for the sound to arrive at such a long time.
At the same time, they saw a large colored ring floating in the air not far above the sky.
It wasn't until a few minutes had passed that the colored rings disappeared.
"It worked, we succeeded."
Yuan Keqing saw the spaceship parked steadily in the factory, and he said excitedly.
Engineers at the spaceship factory, who are also celebrating the successful test flight of the spacecraft.
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