359 Saturn Scramble (7)
According to the pre-planned plan, Mordin will be transported to the target spacecraft at the lunar space base in a few hours, on a shuttle ship to the lunar space base.
This operation was in a state of top secret, and no more than 5 people knew that he had been sent into the spaceship in advance, and even his companions Lin Xuan and Mei Qing did not know about it.
A mecha about 2.5 meters tall was loaded onto an airplane at this naval base and flew directly to the Xichang Aerospace Launch Base in the northwest, where it was unloaded from the transport plane as a general cargo, and after a simple inspection by the operator, the mecha was sent to the cargo compartment of a launch vehicle that was about to take off.
An hour later, the launch vehicle undergoes primary ignition, the 500-ton rocket takes off, and after 10 seconds it reaches 5 times the speed of sound, at which point the rocket engine stops working, and instead the air ramjet engine starts up, sending the rocket all the way to the near-outer atmosphere at an altitude of 50 km, where the ramjet engine stops working, and the rocket's second-stage engine ignites and detaches from the first-stage booster.
The first booster is returned to the ground and can be used again after recovery.
The speed of the second-stage rocket reached about Mach 15 at this time, and the altitude was 50 kilometers, although its speed was still quite far from the second cosmic speed of Mach 30, but because it had risen to the outer atmosphere of the earth, the air was thin and the resistance was very small, so it only needed to spend a small amount of fuel to boost, and it could soon reach the second cosmic velocity.
The use of ramjet engine and rocket engine for combined propulsion is also the main mode of space launch at present, which is characterized by high safety, less launch fuel required, and lower cost.
The spaceship began to leave its low-Earth orbit and fly straight towards the moon, while Mordin was lying quietly in the ordinary mech, waiting for the shuttle to send him to the Saturn landing spacecraft.
It's funny to say, this time in the name of transporting a working mecha, he was packed in a mecha and secretly transported to the target spaceship, that is, he became a typical Trojan horse this time!
The speed of the shuttle ship is generally not fast, and it takes more than ten hours to fly to the moon, and Mordin lies in the mecha, waiting with peace of mind.
"The world is really inexplicable, last night I was still thinking about which day I could go to the moon, I didn't expect that today's dream will come true, if I can always enjoy things like this, then I am willing to suffer from this silence and loneliness!"
Although the rocket cargo yard is sealed and has a certain thermal insulation effect, after a long time, the temperature in the cabin still drops rapidly, and Mordin feels the cold all around. This should be the first flaw or omission in this project, and similar to this omission, in such a vast ascent project, the time is so short, and the preparation is so hasty, it is simply impossible to avoid it.
"It's a long road to land on Saturn, and there are many dangers, I don't have anything, it's just that I can survive without any conditions for survival, but it's hard for Lin Xuan and Mei Qing to say, so I'm going to use the 3 days before the launch to think about how to ensure the safety of the two of them!"
Mordin thought about it all the way, and the shuttle ship flew steadily towards the moon, and soon after, it was already close to the Earth-Moon orbit.
Compared with the previous long lunar landing process, modern aerospace technology has been able to ensure that the spacecraft can land directly on the moon, without having to go around those complex orbits, because the spacecraft carries enough propulsion fuel, and has enough power to decelerate and form a relatively synchronous state with the moon, which greatly shortens the landing time from the earth to the moon.
There are dozens of space bases built by mankind on the moon, and they belong to different countries and civil organizations, and there are also lunar bases built by super-oligarchs alone.
Due to the relationship between communication and other aspects, many of these bases are built on the side of the moon facing the earth, which is called the front. However, the spacecraft construction base opposite the space acceleration ring is built on the far side of the moon, because it is relatively quick to launch the spacecraft into the acceleration ring.
The shuttle landed steadily on a platform at the base. An automatic elevator appeared on the side of the ship, the cargo door was opened, and Mordin's mech was dragged out of the cargo hold by the elevator, and slowly drove along a flat road to a giant ship.
The giant spaceship was quietly parked more than 1 kilometer away from the base, its shape was like a flying saucer-like disc, about 50 meters high in the middle, and its edge diameter reached an astonishing 300 meters!
"This spaceship should be the one chosen to land on Titan this time, right?" Mordin is not invisible to the inside of the mecha, even if he does not use his external sense, he can see the surrounding environment clearly, because around the mecha, several hidden cameras are specially installed, 360° all-round scan of the surrounding environment, including sound, all transmitted to a ring display in front of Mordin.
The elevator drove into the lower part of the edge of the ship, into the shadows, and suddenly disappeared into the darkness. This kind of darkness is real darkness, without any reflection, and that is because there is no air on the moon, and light cannot be scattered, so in a place where there is no light, you will never be able to see anything.
The elevator turned on the pathfinder light, which was actually for the convenience of the staff operating the elevator, and it stopped near the center of the spaceship, where there was an entrance and exit of the spaceship that was open, and the elevator lifted the mecha, and then was accepted by a docking platform in the spacecraft cabin and moved into the spacecraft cabin, so that Mordin could be regarded as successfully reaching its destination.
His mecha was originally used to install antenna equipment on the spaceship, but according to the original plan, the antenna equipment could not be transported here until half a month later, so his mecha was temporarily in a state of no work mission.
In front of the mecha appeared a guiding signal, the mecha followed the light instructions, strode towards the spaceship, after entering a heavy door, the mecha came to a metal wall and stood against the wall, at this time, two metal locks stretched out from the wall, and the limbs of the Mordin mecha were firmly locked on this metal wall without moving.
In fact, this is not that the ship's operators are hostile to this mecha, but they follow the normal operation regulations, because this mecha is idle, in order to prevent it from wandering around and hindering the work of other equipment, and to prevent it from being maliciously manipulated by malicious people with bad intentions, so this kind of mecha is generally bound in the warehouse.
His limbs were restrained, but it didn't affect Mordin's activities inside, first, he could connect to the main control equipment on the spaceship at any time if he needed to get all the data information he wanted to see, etc., and second, he also had an external sense to scan the situation on the spaceship.
After entering the Transformation Stage, his external divine consciousness has a wider range and penetrates deeper depths of objects, and as far as this giant spaceship is concerned, there are basically no dead ends.
On the other hand, this mecha is very cleverly designed, even if the limbs can't move, but Mordin can still come out of the mecha at any time, that is in an emergency, he needs to fight the enemy with his own sword, Mordin prayed in his heart, never out of this mecha.
The interior of the ship is brightly lit, allowing Mordin to see his surroundings through the camera.
"You can't just be locked here, you should go out for a walk. He moved his hands and feet, and the mecha strangely detached his arms from the joints, and his legs from his knees, so that his torso broke free from the lock, and then, the legs and hands attached to the lock were smoothly pulled out of the other end, still attached to the torso, and in this way, Mordin was free again.
As he moved his hands and feet, he began to walk towards the door of the cargo hold, and when he reached the door, he looked up at a camera on the roof and grimaced at it.
It is not a serious safety incident for a mech to break free and run out of the cargo hold, it has happened a lot in the past, and security personnel are used to it, they may send a letter of inquiry to the owner, and then it will be hastily dismissed.
Mordine stepped out of the cargo hold and into the corridor outside.
He came to a blind spot for camera monitoring, and suddenly modified the safety identification information plate on the helmet, from an installer to a safety inspector.
The security patrol mech's status level is much greater than that of the installer, so that he can walk around the ship casually, and no security door can stop him.
All this was set up for him by the domestic security department in advance, and after he was transported to the spacecraft, he could immediately change his identity, conduct security patrols of all areas of the spacecraft, and retrieve the surveillance data of major security systems.
Mordin walked along the corridor to a large steel doorway, and after passing the identification with the identification tag, the steel door opened, and he entered the room behind the door, which was the ship's security monitoring center, in which three mechs on duty were sitting in front of the computer to check various security information.
Each of the three mechs belonged to three different countries, one of them was from China, and the other two were from the Oosme Group and another of his allied oligarchs.
When Mordin entered, the security mech from China immediately stood up, and after a brief handover with Mordin, he walked out of the control room, and Mordin took over his job.
After saying hello to two other colleagues, Mordin sat down in front of the surveillance system and began to review the various surveillance information.
This is a spaceship under construction, and in various parts of the spacecraft, there are mecha that are installing equipment, these installation mechs are from different countries, and they are all sent by the major shareholders of the world's largest space group to carry out the construction.
The largest shareholder of the Aerospace Group is the Osme Group, which occupies an absolute controlling stake, followed by China and the Zhu Group with the majority of the remaining shares, and the rest of the small shareholders are basically soy sauce.
As a shareholder of the aerospace group, one of the biggest advantages is that it can share the construction of the aerospace project, for example, the Zhu Group will share the energy project of the aerospace project, China will share part of the structural projects, and the most important computer, communication and electronic control parts will be monopolized by the Osme Group, so at this time, the construction of the spacecraft is mainly carried out by these three construction personnel.
The main project of the spacecraft has been completed, and now it is mainly the installation of some auxiliary systems, such as auxiliary antennas, thermostatic equipment and some detection and experimental devices, etc., and the huge fuel tank is still empty, because there is no launch plan in the near future, and the fuel has not yet been filled.
Mordin was inspecting the ship's main structure and various functional facilities, when suddenly, something caught his attention.