604 The long wait
The Snow Lake took refuge in 130b in time to avoid a wild storm of particles, but this was just the beginning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
A battleship is an integrated combat platform, not only a carrier of weapons, but also a place for all crew members to survive.
Fuel and ammunition are an important part of the supply chain, but food, drinking water and spare air are also indispensable necessities, and they are more important than incendiary ammunition.
The alliance fleet is not a big one who has money and no place to spend it, and according to the tasks received by the battleship, there are also differences in the materials carried when sailing.
Only for long-term missions to the outer reaches of the solar system will the fleet fill the ship's supply depots and fuel tanks, and if the voyage distance is short, the supplies will be reduced accordingly.
The minimum level of material reserves is that the sailing time is less than a week, the combat radius does not exceed five astronomical units, and the materials carried are only about one-tenth of the fully loaded reserves.
He Jun has always believed that the alliance fleet can save materials and avoid waste by doing so; Secondly, it is possible to reduce the mass of the battleship, reduce fuel consumption, and, perhaps, by this means, the factor of controlling the fleet.
When the Snow Lake set sail, it was only for a short-term mission, and the supplies carried on the ship were prepared according to the minimum amount.
Which Cheng thought of the most ordinary short-term mission, but turned it into a super voyage that flew more than 100 light years. The point carried on the ship is simply not enough to even stuff the teeth.
Fortunately, the aliens still have a conscience, and they sailed to replenish part of the supplies for the battleship, but there is still a considerable distance from the warehouse full of the Snow Lake.
If it weren't for the addition of a cryogenic cabin before the Snow Lake set sail, the officers and men on the ship would have gone hungry before the fleet flew out of the solar system. Another one. The warship's supply warehouse maintains a low temperature close to minus 200 degrees all year round, if it were not for this. The supplies in the storehouse had long since become moldy and spoiled, and had become a strange thing covered with green hair. No one dared to put it in their mouths when they were killed.
I can't even fill my belly, so what are you tossing with the ghost star?
This is the current situation of the Snow Lake, in order to save supplies and air as much as possible, He Jun ordered the crew to enter the cryogenic cabin, a huge battleship, only a little popularity is left near the bridge.
According to He Jun's original idea, everyone, including himself, should be stuffed into the freezer for a good night's sleep. After a few months, the solar storm will definitely be over, and then you don't need to shoot your buttocks, and you can go directly and return to the solar system.
However, the idea is always so full, the reality is always full of skinny, although his idea is good, he can't do it at all!
To put it simply, people must be left to guard the battleship!
Anyone with knowledge of astrophysics knows that any object that exists in a galaxy, regardless of size, mass. They are all within the gravitational range of stars, and the reason why they do not fall to stars is the speed of these celestial bodies. Orbital velocity above your location.
For example, if the speed of the moon decreases at a speed of just over a kilometer per second, then well, the huge ball will be dragged to the ground by the gravitational pull of the earth, and eventually fall into the atmosphere, smashing the earth into a mess.
The same is true of celestial bodies orbiting the sun, no matter how big or small, they cannot bypass the existing laws of physics. In other words, once the celestial body is flying at a speed less than the minimum orbital velocity. Then this celestial body will inevitably fall towards the star.
Even planets are not exempt from vulgarity, let alone the tiny battleship Snow Lake.
At this time, the Snow Lake with 130b. Maintain a distance of about one astronomical unit, and in this position, the speed of the battleship must be greater than thirty-eight kilometers per second in order to guarantee that the battleship does not crash into the >
And this position happens to be the waist of the cone-shaped safe space, where the diameter of the safe space is about 570,000 kilometers, and the battleship only needs four hours and a little to fly over it.
In order to avoid the particle storm and ensure the safety of the ship, the Snow Lake must make a U-turn every four hours to ensure that the ship is always in a safe airspace, and if the opportunity is missed, the Snow Lake will plunge headlong into the violent particle flow.
130b is a circle smaller than the Sun, and if there is only one star here, the battleship only needs to travel at 26 kilometers per second to counteract the stellar gravity.
The problem is that on the other side of 130b, there is a 130a larger than the Sun, and the masses of the two stars are superimposed, and Snow Lake will have to increase its speed to counteract the attraction of the stars.
He Jun didn't casually put the battleship at a distance of one astronomical unit.
Because it was not known how long the 130a outbreak would last, Snow Lake had to conserve as much fuel as possible.
The surface material of 130b is lost a lot under the impact of the particle flow, and most of these dangerous substances are swept away by the particle flow, and a small part is scattered into the safe space, forming a dangerous zone of about one-third of astronomical units at the bottom of the conical safe space.
Outside of this area, any place in the cone-space is safe, and the Snow Lake is no problem wherever it stays.
But no matter what the problem, I'm afraid of a but.
When the battleship is close to the star, the range of activity is indeed much expanded, but the gravitational force it receives must also increase accordingly, and the result is that it has to speed up again to counteract the gravitational force, and the expanded range of activity is directly offset by the increased speed, which is simply useless.
The farther away from 130b, the same is true, the closer you get to the top corner of the conic space, the more blurred the boundary between the safe space and the particle storm becomes, and no one can guarantee that the particle stream will not suddenly be swept into the safe space.
The distance of one astronomical unit is just the right place to ensure the safety of a battleship without worrying about getting involved in the flow of particles.
The flight of the Snow Lake is a bit like a swinging pendulum, if it is in an ordinary galaxy, the autopilot is fully capable of such a round-trip flight, but this galaxy is a binary star system.
When the two stars are ten astronomical units apart and rotate around each other, always in relative motion, when the Snow Lake is flying in the same direction as 130b, the speed must be a little faster, and vice versa, the speed must be reduced a little, and the result is that the round-trip time is slightly different, and each flight, the corresponding adjustment must be made.
The autopilot simply can't solve such a complex flight problem, so it is necessary to have enough people to control the battleship.
He Jun felt that his current self was like a marionette, forced to act according to the will of 130a, and he was not free at all.
He only hoped that the storm would end sooner, and if the particle storm lasted for a few months, just turning back and forth would consume most of the fuel stored on the Snow Lake.
Without fuel, the Snow Lake is a big stone of hard and cold steel, and He Jun called the heavens and the earth to be ineffective, and he will completely become an orphan who has no home. (To be continued.) )
PS: Thanks to the book friend Shuai Cheng for the data support in this chapter - the orbital data cited in this chapter have been not particularly rigorously calculated. After a while, I hesitated and thought it would be better to be more rigorous when it comes to orbital data, so I spent several hours studying the orbital velocity formula...... Don't laugh, I don't have a high degree of education, I didn't understand this paragraph in high school physics class, how can I want to graduate twenty years younger, and I have to go back and study it again. I advise the book friends who are still in school to cherish life, study hard, and use the knowledge they have learned in the future.