Chapter 117: Coming Soon
The farthest point of the orbit of Satellite 1 is already a full 10 million kilometers away from Aquila A. This time the orbit, after crossing the point of 10 million kilometers, will break free from the gravitational field of Aquila A in a curve and enter the orbit around Aquila.
As time passed, the distance of satellite 1 from the farthest end became closer and closer.
"There are a million kilometers left...... 900,000 ...... Lakh...... 50,000 ......"
Xiao Yu was silently calculating.
The speed of the satellite-1 has reached 100 kilometers per second. At this rate, it was predicted that in more than an hour, it would break free from the gravitational field of Aquila A.
"Three...... Two...... One...... Well, it worked. Xiao Yu watched with joy as Satellite No. 1 left Aquila A, and began to rotate around Aquila with Aquila A.
Because Satellite 1 was also following Aquila A around Aquila before breaking free from Aquila A, the speed at which it circled Aquila 1 after breaking free from Aquila A is the sum of Aquila A's orbital velocity and planetary engine acceleration.
Of course, this speed algorithm is only suitable for low-speed movement, in the universe, if a spacecraft is moving at a speed of 160,000 kilometers per second, and from this spacecraft, at a speed of 160,000 kilometers per second, and then a satellite is launched, then the speed of this satellite is not 320,000 kilometers per second of the sum of the two, and its speed is still below 300,000 kilometers per second. This is because of the relativistic effect.
The speed of light is insurmountable, and the speed of light is a constant, a fixed value in any frame of reference. Therefore, whether it is at rest or moving at a speed of 290,000 kilometers per second, the observed speed of light is a fixed number. The reason this happens is because of the change in time.
After breaking free from the Aquila A gravitational field. The speed of one revolution of the satellite-1 around the Aquila reached 173 kilometers per second. This speed will continue to increase under the influence of 10,000 planetary engines, and it is expected to start heading towards the Aquila II binary system after half a circle around the Aquila.
During this time, the strange beast fell into silence somewhat unusually, and it seemed to realize that it was doing useless work, so it no longer used spatial broadcasting to communicate with Xiao Yu.
This made Xiao Yu start to worry. Xiao Yu absolutely didn't believe that this strange beast would obediently wait for death, and it fell into silence, which only showed that it was planning some other conspiracy.
Xiao Yu became more and more vigilant in his heart. However, it is limited by the number of ships in the Aquila II system. As well as the accuracy limitations of the observation equipment, Xiao Yu could not perceive what it was doing. You must know that in the Sky Eagle II binary star system, most of Xiao Yu's spaceships were damaged, and only a dozen township and village-level spaceships were left. Reluctantly took on the task of surveillance.
Satellite 1 was followed by 5,000 new spacecraft. These ships are just in case. Prepared to prevent the planetary engine from being destroyed by some liliang.
In the middle of the vastness of space. A satellite was rapidly orbiting the Aquila, and finally, as it circled the side of the Aquila, its velocity reached escape velocity, and it flew directly out along the tangent of its orbit. It is getting farther and farther away from the Aquila One.
This means that it will leave Aquila for good and never return.
It is now relative to the velocity of the Aquila II binary galaxy. It reached about two hundred kilometers per second. That's not enough. According to the principle that the faster the speed, the greater the energy released by the impact, Xiao Yu will accelerate it for a long time during the voyage, and it is expected that when it reaches the Aquila II galaxy, its speed will reach 50,000 kilometers per second, which is one-sixth of the speed of light.
To this end, Xiao Yu built tens of thousands of large warehouses on the first satellite, each of which stored more than 100 million tons of fusion materials. In fact, in this year's time, all the spaceships that Xiao Yu was still stationed in the Aquila One Galaxy were put into this huge project of collecting fuel, so he was able to collect such a huge amount of fuel in just one year.
"After leaving the Aquila One Galaxy, without the gravitational constraints from the stars, I can accelerate it without any scruples......"
After a comprehensive calculation of fuel reserves, the working life of planetary engines, and the firmness of the crust of the No. 1 satellite, Xiao Yu decided to apply an acceleration of one meter per square second to the No. 1 satellite, that is, to accelerate the No. 1 satellite by one meter per second.
At this rate, in a year and a half, the satellite will reach a predetermined speed of 50,000 kilometers per second, at which point it will stabilize above this speed and reach the Aquila-2 binary galaxy in about seven years.
Thousands of planetary engines on the back of Satellite 1 started at the same time, shooting bright tailfires into space. Under the huge impetus, the speed of the No. 1 satellite slowly increased.
It's a veritable planet bomb.
After a thousand seconds, its speed increased to two hundred and one kilometers per second. After 10,000 seconds, its speed increased to 210 kilometers per second.
Among the 5,000 spaceships, most of the village-class spacecraft stayed on the surface of Satellite 1, and the county-level spacecraft was stationed in the orbit of Satellite 1.
In this case, Xiao Yu's 5,000 ships will no longer have to spend extra fuel to accelerate. Because the gravitational pull of Satellite 1 is grasping and moving with itself.
If it weren't for the fact that these spaceships couldn't be recovered, Xiao Yu would even want to arrange tens of thousands of spaceships here.
Because these ships are accelerating with Satellite One, their final speed will reach 50,000 kilometers per second, which means that these ships will not have enough fuel to slow down, and they will have to follow the course and fly straight ahead, never to be recovered. With this in mind, Xiao Yucai did not increase the number of accompanying spaceships.
A year later, Satellite 1 reached the heliopause of Aquila 1 and came into contact with interstellar dust material for the first time.
This is the void of space, and before the arrival of Satellite One, there was nothing but dust. The arrival of Satellite 1 broke the calm here, and Xiao Yu saw that by the gravitational pull of Satellite 1, the infinite amount of interstellar dust began to converge around Satellite 1 and turned into an accretion disk.
This accretion disc is like a whirlpool of water formed by opening the plug of the bathtub. Satellite 1 is in the middle of this vortex, and every moment, a huge amount of dust gathers on it.
This scenario is very common in the universe. In fact, black hole accretion of matter is such a model, but one is large and the other is small.
While accretting matter, because the dust is accelerated by gravity and the energy of the collision with each other increases, there is also strong radiation ejected from the poles of Satellite 1, and even some weak jets are formed at the poles.
The length of these jets is only a few thousand kilometers, which is insignificant. Xiao Yu knows that when an extremely high-quality black hole accretes a large amount of matter, the jets at its poles are even so strong that they can erupt millions of light-years away, equivalent to the length of dozens of galaxies connected.
It was a heroic event at the cosmic level, and the event here at Satellite 1 was infinitely worse than that. After all, that's all it has for quality.
Replenished by a large amount of interstellar dust, the mass of Satellite 1 will increase by nearly 10,000 tons per second. It was like a large shark that had broken into the water full of fish fry, ferociously devouring the tiny substances.
If it stops here, it will stop increasing its mass after devouring the matter within a certain distance of itself. But the planetary engine is constantly pushing it forward, which will cause the matter around it to be swallowed forever. So its mass will continue to increase. Xiao Yu predicts that by the time it reaches the Aquila II binary galaxy, its mass will increase by about two megatons.
If it has been wandering in interstellar dust, it may even collect enough mass to grow into a star after millions of years.
However, Xiao Yu naturally has no interest in creating a star.
Another side effect of the impact of interstellar dust is that it slows down Satellite 1 and causes it to deviate from course. At the same time, because of the principle of conservation of angular momentum, the No. 1 satellite, which had stopped rotating a long time ago, had a weak rotation under the continuous accretion of matter.
For this reason, Xiao Yu had to start the planetary engine every once in a while, increasing its speed while correcting its course, and at the same time, counteracting its rotation tendency.
Four years have passed, and the relative speed of the No. 1 satellite has been maintained at 50,000 kilometers per second. In four years, it will reach the Aquila II binary system.
During this time, the beast had remained surprisingly quiet. But the more this happened, the more worried Xiao Yu became. If it comes to harass Xiao Yu from time to time, it will reassure Xiao Yu.
If it keeps trying to manipulate Xiao Yu, it can prove that it has no other way to change the current situation, and if it is quiet, it means that it is planning the rest of the things, and Xiao Yu is not sure that it can deal with the rest of the means. Such a scene made Xiao Yu very worried, but there was nothing he could do.
"It's only a matter of taking one step at a time." Xiao Yu pondered.
Time passed little by little, and in the blink of an eye, it was another four years.
Satellite 1, the distance from the white dwarf, is less than a month, about 130 billion kilometers away. (To be continued......)
PS: Well, there are more than 135 monthly passes, and there is one more in 135, and it seems that there are still 5 more today...... Khan, today is better to make up for yesterday's chapter first, this one will be added tomorrow, today is still four more.
The next shift is at half past three.
Also, ask for a commuter pass again!