[Chapter 555: Mars Express, Departure!! 】
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After completing the passenger transport, the mission of the "Archawk Nine" has ended and it has begun to return to Earth. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Ren Hong and other eight astronauts or scientists entered the interior of the star port one after another under the response of Li Xingfeng.
This is the end of the live broadcast, and three hours later, a more shocking picture appeared, but unfortunately, the general public could not see it.
In the middle and lower parts of the "Tiangong Ring Orbit Star Port" presenting the shape of "Yu", two huge trusses carry a large number of space capsules or inflatable space cabins and other materials tied to the trusses, which are detached from the orbit star port at the moment, the sum of the two trusses is more than 800 meters, if the maximum length is extended, it will be more than 1,000 meters, which is more than twice the length of a large aircraft carrier, and a lot of them are bundled on the truss like shrinking air bags, and like a suction cup on the limbs of an octopus, the "suction cup" is wrapped with materials. It was the "Beam inflatable capsule", which was shrinking at the moment, and no gas was injected because it was not yet time.
In one-third of the truss, two spacecraft are fixed, forming a diameter of up to 145 meters, slowly rotating, the two spacecraft resemble the flat outline of the matrix shape, the two spacecraft are important vehicles for landing on Mars, such an alien outline is designed according to the thin atmosphere and gravity of Mars, landing on Mars is bound to be a hard landing. The two spacecraft are fixed to the main truss by two slender alloy brackets up to 30 meters long at this moment, and the resistance in space is negligible, the alloy brackets look very slender and long, but the two vehicles that land on Mars are extremely strong.
The end of the truss is a centrifugal cabin, which has not been started at the moment, in addition, the central part of the truss is the core module, and at present, 11 astronauts or scientists such as Ren Hong have been located in the core module, in addition to Ren Hong and Xiao Kerui, several top astronauts including Ning Zebo and Li Xingfeng are also among them.
They are all one of 11 people who are going to Mars.
That's right, this is a truss object with a length of nearly 400 meters is the "Firefly", don't look at its current appearance is a straight single, the truss is tied with all kinds of materials, and when it arrives in the orbit of Mars, it will produce earth-shaking changes, just like the transformers will become extremely complex space station, "packed" on the truss "beam inflatable capsule" will be fully inflated, so that this "single" becomes extremely full.
At this moment, the "Firefly" seems to be a straight single more than 400 meters long, while another artificial celestial body made of a huge and large truss presents a "T" shape, and it also has its own name - "Mars Express".
Ren Hong and his "Firefly" want to reach Mars, they can't do without the "Mars Express", which is like a traction locomotive, acting as the core source of transportation power.
When the two trusses are separated from the orbital starport, they begin to change their orbits synchronously, and the distance between them and the starport is getting larger and larger.
If an outsider looks at it, it will definitely not be able to understand that after the two trusses are combined into one, the tail of the "Firefly" is just a centrifugal cabin, and the middle part does not have a super-large diameter engine vent like the "Noah".
There are only a couple of small engine vents at the ends of the flanks, so where are the main engines? It is estimated that it is only for the purpose of adjusting the space station over Mars to maintain the smooth operation of the orbit, and it is simply impossible to send the "Firefly" and "Mars Express" to Mars.
Since the "Mars Express" is to play the role of a locomotive, it is natural to take the "Firefly" to Mars, but this man-made vehicle does not have any main engine propulsion vents, which is really incredible.
The secret lies in the "one" shape at the head of the "T" shape of the "Mars Express", which is 260 meters long and 108 meters wide at its widest point, which is a giant space sail in the shape of a leaf made of alloy support, but this area is only so large after shrinking, and when it is all stretched, it will show a giant light sail in the shape of a larger leaf.
Three hours later, the centrifugal chamber that made gravity was officially put into operation, and Ning Zebo served as the main pilot of the "Mars Express". Three and a half hours later, the Mars Express officially departed from Earth's orbit with the Firefly space station for its first acceleration.
At this moment, Mars is almost the farthest distance from the current Earth, and at this moment, it is estimated that the Americans' "Noah" is about to arrive on Mars, and it has been more than seven months since they set off. In terms of the current distance between Earth and Mars, it is estimated that it will take 850 days to reach Mars from Earth at the speed of Noah, and a one-way journey is almost three years.
But the fact is that Ren Hong and the others did choose to start at this time period, not only at this point in time, but also to complete the goal of sailing more than 370 million kilometers in 100 days and reaching Mars.
What is the current rocket propulsion speed of humans? The speed is about 50,000 kilometers per hour, and the goal of completing 370 million kilometers in 100 days is a fantasy in the eyes of outsiders, and it is simply impossible to complete the task, and it takes more than 20 minutes to travel such a distance at the speed of light.
Of course, this is only in the eyes of outsiders, only in terms of rocket propulsion, and the "Mars Express" is not propelled by rockets.
At 4 hours and 37 minutes, the giant sail of the "Mars Express" far away from the earth was officially unfurled in space, and this "leaf" gradually stretched from the longest length of less than 300 meters, and finally reached an incredible length of 16.8 kilometers.
When the giant sail of the "Mars Express" is unfurled, it is like a flat boat in the universe. At this time, thousands of lasers around the truss in the center of the "Mars Express" truss began to operate, and the amethy source crystal, which has a high energy reserve inside the vehicle, provides stable energy output for these thousand groups of lasers.
In the field of laser technology, China has long left the Americans eight streets, here is once again interpreted, the Dark Axe Base has been researching laser technology, Bai Hua is also researching, although the "Righteous Boy" has not been able to create a light laser attack weapon in science fiction war movies, but here, conventional lasers have been applied.
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