Chapter 280: Space Traffic Accident
It's Father's Day, I wish all the fathers in the world a happy O(∩_∩)O haha~ For the master company, this may be the last big meal in the space age, but it also has a round belly; In the future, it seems that there is no special business that can be widely spread around the world.
The master company looted a part of the profits, and then the state's personnel came to the scene, opened a port, lowered tariffs, and lifted a little ban on China...... Then the master company gets all kinds of feedback from the country, and everyone kills multiple birds with one stone and benefits together.
In addition, the behavior of the master company asking for cultural relics makes the Chinese people a little excited, and what is even more excited is to belong to the fields of archaeology and ancient culture research. In fact, under the influence of master companies, over the years, the ancient culture research organizations in China have rejuvenated the ancient culture of China, one after another. What is ingenious is that the researchers of Huaxia really found inspiration from the ancient culture of Huaxia, and under the influence of the technology of the master company, they have developed another scientific and technological road.
Therefore, the return of cultural relics, especially a large number of returns, makes Huaxia extremely excited. It's a pity that these returned cultural relics are the private property of the master company; Fortunately, the master company promised to open it to Chinese citizens for free.
On the other hand, the master company is already starting to prepare the plan for the Space Mirror. However, this matter is almost entirely the responsibility of the Ministry of Space Environment, including various calculations, the development of related technologies, and so on.
Different from general aerospace equipment, this time the space mirror plan is actually two plans, one is to use a large number of mirrors on the back of the earth to reflect sunlight back to the earth, in order to ensure that the earth is exposed to 24 hours of sunlight, a large number of mirrors need to be distributed into a hemispherical shape, wrapped outside the earth, which is facing the part of the earth's shadow, which needs to be vacated, because there is no sunlight here; According to the existing demand on the earth, at least about 100 million square kilometers of reflectors, or reflective films, are needed; In addition, there will be about 20 million square kilometers of sunshades. These visors must be mesh and not completely block out the sun. It is necessary to ensure that the shaded area not only has enough sunlight, but also does not get too hot or too bright, and maintains two degrees of light in the early morning when the sun first comes out. Only a small number of lifeless ice fields, such as high mountains, completely block out the sun.
This is a huge project, especially since these two large objects must always remain in a straight line with the Earth and the Sun, which requires powerful engines to adjust their position in space at any time, otherwise these things will soon become free floating objects in space.
Under the guidance of Zhong Yuanxing, as well as the corresponding scientific numbers, as well as the convenience of management, etc., each reflector covers an area of about 10 square kilometers, and the distance between two adjacent pieces is unequal, between 1 and 100 kilometers, and can be adjusted to each other; But here in the sun visor, the master company brushed a small trick and used other people's funds to install its own photovoltaic cells. This is not a reflector, only a small number of photovoltaic cells to support self-use; Instead, all the sunny sides must be installed with photovoltaic cells! It is to be turned into a power plant in space for master companies.
These sunshades are blocked between the earth's equator and the sun, with a diameter of about 4,000 kilometers, directly shading the most violent part of the earth by the sun, and the design adopts the distribution of blank space and sunshade intervals, each square meter as a unit, the maximum can shade 1/2 of the high-altitude sunlight, and the minimum can be adjusted to shade the sun.
In addition, in places such as the North and South Poles, parts of the deserts of China and parts of the deserts of Australia, separate sunshades are set up beyond the coverage area.
However, the amount of work is very large now, and the master company can only come step by step. But the first point is to shade the light of the desert, increase the time of exposure to the jungle and large cities, and restore the atmosphere as much as possible, which is the worker's. The positioning of large cities is a general large city with a population of one million, a large city with a population of 5 million and an international city with a population of 10 million. Priority is given to international cities, where lighting costs the most.
Compared with the construction of the space base, the restoration of the earth's environment is more important, especially the recent construction of the space base has entered the stage of meticulous crafting, and the existing two Rise aircraft can be transferred in a short time to serve the space reflective sunshade.
The first wave is installed with reflectors, which will be placed around the earth to reflect back the sunlight that does not hit the earth, increasing the light time on the earth. Because the reflector uses a small number of photovoltaic cells (for self-use) and a large amount of aluminum foil, supported by a perforated plastic plate, and then used as a bracket with aluminum profiles, the excellent design makes the weight very light, and the average weight per square meter is only 1.5 kg under the premise of ensuring good quality.
It's just that these things are still sent to the space station in Huaxia for assembly before being delivered to the designated space location. However, in this way, 150 tons of reflective film and 120 tons of sunshade can be transported into space at one time, because the sunshade is attached to the photovoltaic cells, which is much heavier. Even if it is because of the master company and the national construction of Huaxia, a large number of photovoltaic cells are used to promote the upgrading of the industry; But now photovoltaic cells are still around 5 kilograms per square meter. Of course, it is possible to use the kind of thin-film batteries used in satellites, but the cost price is too high to be universal.
Thus, on average, both aircraft are capable of transporting 0.1 square kilometers of reflective film and 0.03 square kilometers of sunshades into space each time. The rest of the tools, materials, personnel, etc., followed the Dream, Explorer or Flying Space Shuttle to space.
The whole world is fighting for the cause of space, except for those countries that are poor and backward and waiting for death. It looks like a thriving scene; Although for this, humanity pays a high price.
However, God always likes to joke; To be precise, human technology cannot guarantee 100% accidents in spaceflight. No matter what country it is, there have been countless accidents of various kinds, and it is only then that the current technology has been developed.
And this time, it's Russia's turn!
The use of a large number of launch vehicles, especially the thrusters of launch vehicles, can be recycled; In order to save costs, Russia has even pushed recycling technology to the top of the world. But metal has a term called metal fatigue. The core temperature of the launch vehicle is up to more than 3300 degrees or more, and without special materials, steel is melted. Luckily, these temperatures are quickly expelled from the thrusters and then filled with cold fuel. However, such a harsh working environment has gradually overwhelmed the thruster.
However, over the years, in order to make up for the disadvantage of not having enough space shuttles, Russia has used a large number of propulsion rockets, and the propulsion of the rockets has to be recycled. Under such conditions, finally today, April 1st, something went wrong!
It's just that the timing of the problem is really a bit - too coincidental!
Just as the thruster was about to disengage, one of the thrusters exploded. Large amounts of liquid hydrogen and oxygen caused an explosion comparable to that of a small nuclear warhead, which exploded more than 200 kilometers above the ground. The explosion directly disintegrated the Russian transport capsule. However, under the action of inertia, coupled with the explosive thrust of the explosion, more than three-thirds of the debris of the transport module erupted into a space low-earth orbit of 300-500 kilometers. Tens of thousands of fragments move unscrupulously here, some faster than 3 kilometers per second, or even seven or eight kilometers per second; The slower ones are much slower than the bullets.
It's good to die, now ninety percent of the space bases, satellites, facilities, etc. on the earth are in low-earth orbit!
When the Russian public channel urgently informed the world of this information, for a moment, the whole world fell silent!!