Ye Changsi: "Achieving controlled nuclear fusion within this century should be the goal of the entire human scientific community, and although it is difficult, we must do it.

Think about it in another direction, without the third generation of helium triple fusion technology, people would not have much incentive to develop the moon and would not have the ability to conduct interstellar exploration. ”

Lin Ju: "......"

Ye Changsi is right, nuclear fusion technology is not only a major node in human history, but also an important milestone in aerospace technology.

Only a small amount of nuclear fuel is needed to maintain the consumption of spacecraft for hundreds of thousands of years, and if it is applied to the current electric propulsion technology, it has the ability to initially have interstellar navigation.

For example, a 100-ton unmanned probe uses a Hall thruster with 0.1 tons of thrust, and uses the fusion device function to accelerate for a year, and can also reach one-thousandth of the speed of light, which is difficult for traditional aerospace technology to achieve.

More recently, for development and exploration missions within the solar system, nuclear fusion can also bring unimaginable efficiency gains, allowing extraterrestrial colony construction to be carried out at a lower cost.

But...... With Xinyuan's figure, I'm afraid I can't bear it.

Lin Ju's worries were clearly seen in Ye Changsi's eyes, and he smiled:

"The research we're going to do now isn't about building experimental devices like EAST or ITER, which are not really necessary, and the focus of controlled fusion is on how to make the fusion reaction pass continuously, not how to achieve fusion.

The first five years should be in the theoretical research stage, and there may be some small experiments, but they can all be carried out on the Qingshan base, which does not cost much money. ”

"Theoretical research, that's easy to do, projects below one billion don't need to ask for instructions." Lin Ju finally breathed a sigh of relief, it was just a theoretical research in the early stage...... It shouldn't cost anything, right?

"Old Ye, which way do you think is most likely to succeed? Tokamak? Or is it inertial constraints? ”

Ye Changsi: "Personally, I prefer inertial restraint, I think that is the way to maintain spontaneous reaction, but magnetic restraint is also a usable auxiliary means, in fact, the two can be done together, in high pressure and high heat ......"

After taking a free fusion course taught by a cutting-edge physicist, Lin Ju decisively decided to stop the topic.

Nuclear fusion or something is still too tall, compared to robots and rockets are closer to life.

Ye Changsi saw Lin Ju's pain, and said with a smile: "There is one more thing, the Qingshan base needs a particularly powerful supercomputer, which is stronger than Xingchen No. 2, and I need 5 months of production capacity of the chip production line and a special processor for research and development." ”

"This is no problem, Seryov can coordinate it, X32055 should be under development, that is, a server-specific chip."

……

"Wow, this cockpit view is fantastic, and the porthole area is much larger than the H1, I feel more like a spaceship."

Li Sheng sat in the driver's seat of the Pioneer and imagined himself pushing the throttle valve while gently clicking a button on the console to ensure that the autopilot system was online.

Deng Lei, Zhang Zhiguang, Hu Dong, Liu Ming, and Li Sheng, five people, as the No. 1 crew, took the Pioneer to carry out the installation of the first batch of three spoke cabins and trusses of the Advance.

Because the Advance orbit is higher, the Pioneer, which is hit to low orbit, needs to fly under its own power for a while to get to the place, with two hours of taxiing time in between.

So Li nephew and Zhang Zhiguang switched places and sat in the driver's seat and experienced the feeling of driving this giant beast.

"It's so wide, the driver's seat can actually put down 3 positions, 2 positions are too spacious."

Nephew Lee's left hand brushed over a clutter of buttons, mechanical switches that gave him a sense of reliability.

The internal control system of the Pioneer is divided into two sets, one is the HUD mask display of the spacesuit in the cabin and the projection that can only be seen by the main and co-pilot, which is biased towards auxiliary flight, and the SC09 is more involved.

The second set is pure physical interaction, in order to avoid accidental touches are designed as full buttons and aviation switch design, there are dense buttons and flashing status indicators everywhere, which is very mechanical.

Zhang Zhiguang floated in the corner, staring at the screen on the inner wall of the crew compartment while moving his slightly uncoordinated and somewhat stiff-looking right arm.

This is the latest generation of gesture control system developed for the robotic arm, replacing the previous joystick operation.

Some joints and sensors have been added to the right arm segment of his spacesuit, which can learn through gestures and achieve gripping operations more flexibly.

This system can also be used with VR, but Zhang Zhiguang prefers to stare at the picture composed of several cameras, anyway, it is operated outside the cabin, and the naked eye can also be used as a means of final confirmation.

As a large space shuttle with a maximum weight of more than 130 tons, H2M has many internal functions and structures, and the five astronauts are actively familiar with the environment here until Deng Lei sits back in the driver's seat:

"There are still 30 minutes, fix yourself, Zhiguang, you take the time to check the status of the cargo hold node."

After everyone sat down and confirmed that there were no objects still floating, Deng Lei confirmed the last orbit change command planned by SC09, and the engine in the tail ignited again.

The acceleration of the Pioneer orbit change was small, and the perceived overload was almost negligible, but it was still approaching the Advance at a rapid pace, and after about half an hour, the flight computer popped up a prompt and ended the autopilot.

Deng Lei looked up from the porthole, the sun shone on the huge assemblage above, and the Pioneer couldn't even see their full picture from more than a hundred meters away.

The three spoke compartments launched by the No. 3 rocket a few days ago are still fixed to maneuverable carriages, which are now docked to one side of the axial compartment and need to be separated one by one when the astronauts arrive, and then the installation work will be carried out.

This makes the connected assembly more than 150 meters long, which is the length of two H2Ms.

The cargo hold of the Pioneer carried more than 20 tons of steel trusses, and during the construction of the Advance, these trusses that were constantly launched with the space shuttle would successively wrap the entire space station, so that the module segment was attached to the truss, so as to achieve the purpose of achieving an extremely high level of overall strength.

Deng Lei could already see the structure on the surface of these giant modules on the way to fine-tune the RCS approach the space station, and he couldn't help but worry about the workload of his crew.

It was now the 24th, the expected construction time was 15 days, and the installation of a spoke cabin and trusses was completed in 5 days, and now he suddenly felt that the time was even a little short.

Or...... Spring Festival or goodbye? Chinese New Year's Eve astronauts also have to work to build a space station?

Just as he was thinking like this, Hu Dong's voice came from the back row:

"The ground is okay this time, and it brought us more than thirty kinds of food, and a little liquor, so I said, what's so good about wine.

Huh? Is it illegal to fly a space shuttle while drunk? ”

Zhang Zhiguang: "......"

Li Sheng: "Maybe not?" The space shuttle is an orbiter and is not an airplane. ”

Liu Ming: "The sum of the shares of the five of us is less than 20 milliliters, and we can't check it out after drinking blood draws, right?" ”

"Pioneer, this is the ground, watch out for your words, driving any motorized device under the influence of alcohol is illegal!"

Yesterday was a bit too busy, and today I will try to do more

(End of chapter)