Chapter 614: Heading for Deep Space
Galaxy 5 November.
It has been more than a month since Homo sapiens launched "Deadly Dark Star: Earth Defense".
During this period, the daily player size of the game is still in a state of steady increase, with an average of 5700~63 million players per day.
And in the shadows, Homo sapiens quickly invested in more synchronization robots and synchronization servers.
There are currently a total of 120,000 players, unknowingly, being placed on the synchronization server.
Although many employees with bright brains have been more or less aware of some of the hidden information of this game.
After all, there is too much technical and cultural information about those six-claw civilizations, and it doesn't look like a "virtual civilization" made up nonsense at all, but it looks like there really exists a six-clawed civilization.
It's just that these employees who are aware of the problem are also smart people, they know that since the company transmits information in this way, the company must have the company's ideas and plans, and they had better not talk too much and quietly watch the company operate.
And the game "Deadly Dark Star: Defend the Earth" is really very attractive.
After all, this is the second world created by Homo sapiens with all its might, and there are thousands of professional science fiction authors, sociologists, scientific researchers, and intelligence agents behind it.
These small stories and copies weaved out make the plot conflicts in the virtual world become ups and downs.
Many employees who don't have to worry about eating and drinking, pursuing excitement and a sense of achievement, etc., can also be realized in this virtual world.
With such a silent development, Homo sapiens' bases and industries in outer space have also expanded rapidly.
Moon.
A huge ring-shaped track on the back, at which point the laying of the last part of the solar panels has been completed.
Three of the towers connected to the ring track also connect the last part of the track to the ring track.
But when these ring orbits are connected to the tower orbit, it means that the spacecraft, which is accelerated by electromagnetism, can fly from the tower orbit to deep space.
The orbital direction of these three towers is also different, because this is to facilitate the direction of the spacecraft when it leaves the moon during the launch process.
The tower track itself can only adjust the direction in a small range, and for the direction of large angles, the tower track obviously has no way to adjust.
That's why it was necessary to build three towers.
In fact, the three towers are only preliminary, according to the planning and design, there are a total of six launch towers for the lunar mass projector.
However, now three are tentatively sufficient.
The reason why the mass projector is built on the moon is actually to carry people to alien planets such as Venus and Mars.
There is no way to do this.
Even if Homo sapiens has completed the research and development of high-power nuclear power plasma thrusters, the speed of spacecraft is still an obstacle to space development.
This high-power plasma thruster can increase the speed from 0 to 35 kilometers per second in 1.5 years.
This speed is basically the limit of the plasma thruster.
It's not that you can't exceed this speed, it's that you don't have to.
Astronautics is not just a brute force, if you keep accelerating, not only will the speed increase a little bit, the spacecraft fuel will also be quickly depleted, and when the spacecraft reaches the target area, it will also need to brake.
Therefore, to a certain extent, if the spacecraft can be given a relatively high muzzle velocity when it is launched, it can save a lot of fuel or working fluid.
And this work of giving the ship's muzzle velocity can only be given to the mass projector.
As for the previous Homo sapiens space division's specialty, the nuclear explosion propulsion program, there is definitely no way to use it in manned spaceflight.
In the final analysis, the nuclear explosion propulsion scheme is too simple and crude, which can instantly give the spacecraft a speed of more than ten kilometers per second in a sub-vacuum environment, and a continuous nuclear explosion can directly increase the speed of the spacecraft to the limit of 1,200 kilometers per second.
The problem is that this can only be used to transport goods and non-mammals, otherwise even if it is a newly modified human, the body will not be able to withstand the terrifying instantaneous acceleration.
The acceleration through the annular orbit of the mass projector is a uniform acceleration and will not cause too much pressure on the body.
The same muzzle velocity given by the mass projector can also reach 15 kilometers per second.
The sub-vacuum environment on the far side of the moon has a very good effect on the blessing of mass projectors.
With the three tower tracks closed to the ring tracks, this means that the mass projector is ready for use.
After the relevant situation was reported.
Dr. Mikoyan, the head of the Space Division, went to the base on the far side of the moon through a synchronous robot.
At this time the base is inside the spaceship shipyard.
A spacecraft, specially designed for electromagnetic acceleration, has completed the final checks.
The spacecraft is a variant of the Tinder-class called the Magnetic-class spacecraft and has a total weight of 7,600 tons.
The base commander accompanied Mikoyan to the side of the spaceship.
"Minister, we've placed the monkeys and anthropomorphs in the cockpit of the spacecraft, ready for the first test." The base chief said eagerly.
Mikoyan did not procrastinate, but asked them to prepare for the launch, and at the same time, the staff in charge of recording also quickly took pictures of this scene, which is one of the development history of Homo sapiens.
Moreover, Li Qingye has been studying the technology of the six-claw civilization recently, and he has no time to come over to investigate, so Mikoyan naturally wants to record this scene.
Soon the base commander was ordered to prepare for the launch.
The magnetic-class spaceship was dragged by the tractor and slowly moved towards a circular orbit not far away.
In addition to the tractor, there are various auxiliary fixtures to ensure that the 7,600-ton magnetic-class spacecraft arrives in the ring orbit unharmed.
After half an hour of slow movement, the Magnetic-class 0001 spacecraft was finally in place.
As the magnetic field binding layer of the side wall of the annular orbit closed, the countdown to the launch finally began.
"Start accelerating!" The base chief commanded very firmly on the surface.
"Roger." As the commander presses the accelerator switch.
The magnetic-class spacecraft, which had been motionless just a moment ago, slowly moved forward.
The speed increased very slowly, and even with the magnetic levitation orbit, it still did not make the speed of the spacecraft soar all at once.
This is electromagnetic acceleration, and if it accelerates suddenly, the terrifying acceleration is enough to instantly kill many large carbon-based creatures on the spaceship.
The 300-kilometer-long annular orbit, supported by the surging electrical energy of the nuclear power plant, propelled the magnetic-class spacecraft to accelerate little by little.
After a circle.
The speed of the spacecraft has been increased to about 1,000 kilometers per hour.
Then it's Mach 1, Mach 2......
By lap 12, the ship's speed had soared to an extremely terrifying 15 kilometers per second.
"Access Tower 2 tracks."
"Access Successful ......"
In less than ten seconds, the magnetic-class spacecraft flew in the direction of Jupiter along the orbit of the tower, reaching a speed of 15.3 kilometers per second.
And because there is no atmosphere barrier, the speed of the magnetic-class spacecraft does not slow down, but maintains inertia, flying in the direction of Jupiter.
Soon, however, the back of the Magnetic-class spacecraft will spew out yellow plasma, apparently the spacecraft's autopilot system activating the plasma thrusters.
At this rate, soon the spacecraft will be boosted to 35 kilometers per second.
This is the first milestone of humanity's entry into the universe.