Suyinshi area.

Khargay Oasis District, Khargaj Space City.

On six tracks with a width of 10 meters, a behemoth is moving slowly.

Dr. Mikoyan looked at the behemoth in front of him, and a trace of joy came to his heart, this is the super space shuttle he worked so hard to develop, Ra.

The full load reaches 32,000 tons, the payload is 15,000 tons, the body weight is 9,600 tons, and the special fuel is 7,400 tons.

This is one of the most furious spacecraft in history.

Dr. Mikoyan picked up the walkie-talkie: "Sitter, the shuttle is about to arrive at the filling station. ”

"Roger, Doctor."

The Ra-Space Shuttle has a very peculiar shape, somewhat similar to Lucia's Buran Space Shuttle, in that its body is an airplane in its own right, and the payload is on its back.

From the outside, it looks like two space shuttles stacked on top of each other, and the spacecraft on top of it is slightly smaller than the space shuttle.

After 7 minutes.

The shuttle entered the filling station, which is also the processing plant responsible for the production and processing of submetallic hydrogen particles, but the processing plant is hidden deep underground.

Liquid oxygen has been injected into the space shuttle's liquid oxygen storage tank.

The injection of submetallic hydrogen particles is not as simple as liquid oxygen.

In order to ensure safety, the temperature must be maintained at minus 180 degrees Celsius to ensure the stability of submetallic hydrogen particles.

The super refrigeration system inside the space shuttle, which has received the surging power of the nuclear battery, is running at full capacity.

In order to prevent the submetallic hydrogen particles from sticking together at low temperatures, the surface of these submetallic hydrogen particles is coated with a layer of film, which can ensure that the surface is smooth and non-sticky.

The container for storing submetallic hydrogen is also specially designed, and the whole container is composed of many pipes, which are buried with electromagnetic acceleration guides and magnetic attraction devices, and the submetallic hydrogen is filled in these pipes.

The reason for this design is very simple.

Because submetallic hydrogen is a superconductor, it is easy to be ejected by electromagnetic acceleration, and if other injection methods are used, the efficiency, reliability, and adjustability are not as good as electromagnetic injection.

After an hour and a half of filling, all the submetallic hydrogen particles were finally stuffed into the storage tube.

Dr. Mikoyan immediately picked up the walkie-talkie: "The departments immediately carried out the last inspection. ”

"Roger."

In fact, this kind of inspection is very fast, because the interior of the space shuttle is densely packed with a large number of biometric sensors, and once there is an abnormality, it will basically not be missed.

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In less than ten minutes, the inspection was complete.

"Report, everything is working with the cryogenic enclosure system."

Dr. Mikoyan took a deep breath, he knew that the launch had to be launched as soon as possible, even because of the ultra-low temperature containment system, there was no way to store the metallic hydrogen for more than 300 hours, so it had to be solved quickly.

He immediately ordered: "Launch immediately." ”

"Roger, start the launch procedure."

"Warning! Personnel within 1 km of the shuttle are to be asked to immediately enter the exclusive bunker. ”

"The runway is confirmed to be ready for takeoff."

"The weather was sunny and there were no large areas of clouds."

"Launched ...... by the Space Division"

Not for a while.

The shuttle enters the runway.

It is an inclined runway with a slight upward angle, and the direction of the runway is south-east, which is to take advantage of the angular velocity of the earth.

In addition, there are 6 guide rails on the runway, which are all magnetic levitation super heavy duty guide rails, which are also electromagnetic catapults, the purpose is to keep the space shuttle from contact with the ground and reduce the friction caused by contact with the ground.

"The space shuttle arrives in the area of electromagnetic acceleration."

"Magnetic levitation system start-up ......"

"Electromagnetic Acceleration Push Plate Connects Space Shuttle ......"

The space shuttle, which floated slightly less than a centimeter, was stuck on the landing gear by six specially designed electromagnetic accelerators behind it.

"Electromagnetic Acceleration System Startup ......"

The base's massive nuclear power was quickly injected into the electromagnetic accelerator thrusters.

Driven by six super-large electromagnetic accelerators, and in a state of magnetic levitation, the space shuttle soon flew off the runway.

The 12-kilometer-long electromagnetic acceleration guide will increase the take-off speed of the space shuttle to about 1.5 kilometers per second, or about four times the speed of sound.

On the wings of the space shuttle, a large number of miniature fins have also begun to be fine-tuned to make full use of the air lift.

Although it is not as metamorphosed as the Phoenix passenger plane and the Fortune Wings Wings transport aircraft, it can increase the lift by at least 11%~13%.

The 12-kilometer guide rail is not long or short.

For the space shuttle, which was getting faster and faster, it was quickly coming to an end.

The shuttle soared into the sky from a ramp at an angle of 33 degrees.

At the moment of breaking off the ramp, the shuttle's autopilot system ejects the first submetallic hydrogen particles.

The explosion chamber has been heated to several hundred degrees Celsius.

When submetallic hydrogen and liquid oxygen are injected in, a chain reaction is triggered.

Rumble!

In an instant, the equivalent of 260 tons of TNT was released.

However, this explosion is not the end, but the beginning.

Boom Boom Boom ......

A steady stream of submetallic hydrogen particles and liquid oxygen is injected into the four detonation engines.

The terrifying explosion shock wave made the space shuttle faster and faster, and coupled with the adjustment of the lift direction of the wings, the space shuttle began to soar towards the Kármán line at an angle of 48 degrees.

It took about 57 seconds for the Space Shuttle Pull to break through the Kármán Line.

This behemoth, which weighed more than 20,000 tons, rushed out of the Kármán line under the eyes of the whole world.

The Space Shuttle La did not separate from the Space Shuttle Lieyang on its back at this time, but continued to carry the Space Shuttle Lieyang.

It was not until it reached the 1,500-kilometer orbit that the Homo sapiens space station separated from the space shuttle Lieyang, and then the space shuttle turned around and returned to Earth.

That's the scary thing about the Super Space Shuttle.

To be precise, it is metallic hydrogen.

Without submetallic hydrogen as fuel, such a huge load would not be able to push into outer space, let alone have the energy to return to Earth on its own.

At this time, there was about 27.3% of the fuel left in Ra, which was enough fuel of this size for it to slow down and brake on its own during re-entry.

However, for this launch mission, the Space Division also arranged an additional space mission for the Space Shuttle.

That is to go to the space junk station 3 in low earth orbit to bring back to Earth a batch of scrapped satellites and previously collected space junk.

These scrapped satellites are owned by Homo sapiens, as well as by Lucia, America, Europa and other forces.

For example, some of the hundreds of scrapped communication satellites of the Space Exploration Company were concentrated in one area by the space recovery satellites, and then compressed into cubes.

Now the Space Shuttle is going to bring these things back to Earth.

Although it is a scrapped satellite, there are many rare metals and radioactive materials in it, which must be properly disposed of.

Soon the Space Shuttle Ra arrived at the Space Junk Station 3.

With the help of the large space junk recovery satellite, dozens of tons of space junk were stuffed into the built-in transport pod, fixed and counterweighted.

Then the Space Shuttle Ra started its engines again from a position of 420 kilometers in low-earth orbit.

However, this time to start the engine, it is only a slight acceleration, and it does not need to be too fast, after all, this is a re-entry into the atmosphere, and the earth's gravity and gravity will help accelerate.