The Storm space station installation mission took only 12 days to complete, but they still need to test the shuttle.

The first is the ability to supply electricity.

The power consumption of the Advance is not low, the power consumption of the six living cabins, the pilot module and the function module is more than 1,000 kilowatts, and at least 3,000 kilowatts of power generation capacity is required after completion.

Electricity is mainly provided by nuclear reactors carried by each of the six service modules, which can provide sufficient power while powering the nuclear engines, which of course is not available yet.

At present, the power supply of the Advance is a temporary single-sided solar panel hanging on a truss, which can provide 200 kilowatts of electricity, which is not much, but it is still enough for the space station that has not yet been officially operated, and it will be dismantled after completion.

After the Storm docked, it tried to power the space station, and the results were of course promising, with three A100s having a maximum power generation of 4MW (the actual potential is much greater due to the size of the heat sinks), which could easily supply the entire space station.

After a few more days of reactor inspections, the astronauts began packing up the space station, moving some necessary supplies into the shuttle and preparing for the voyage.

Equipped with three nuclear engines and more than 90% fuel remaining, is it appropriate not to go on a trip? Is it just withdrawn? Of course not.

The route of the test is also obvious, Storm cannot go to Mars, can only go to the moon for a circle.

When she took off, she brought some experimental instruments for the lunar orbit test, and she had already made preparations, but she brought a little living supplies from the Advance.

"Check the cabin pressure, check the seal of the interface."

"The A1 pair interface is ready and can be separated!"

A small thrust was generated as the interface separated, and Storm slowly exited the station at a rate of several centimeters per second, before the open cargo bay began to close.

Before that, the deputy commander went out and checked the heat sink to make sure it was fully deployed.

The X-shaped heat sink and wings at the tail of the Storm form a "meter" shape, making her overall shape look less like a space shuttle and more like a real spaceship.

Hu Dong pressed the headset: "Command center, apply to enter deep space mode." ”

"Storm, you can enter deep space mode after checking the status."

The sound of the ground is always spiritual, and the sound of the radio transmitted from the founding of the Republic is recognizable, and you can't help but feel like you have returned to that burning era.

When the computer switches from low earth orbit mode to deep space mode with authorization from the ground, the flight control mode and safety standards will be switched, and the center of gravity will be automatically detected and adjusted.

The seven astronauts all fixed themselves, SC09 passed the test, Hu Dong felt that the back of the chair was dragging him back, and at the same time his legs were raised, and the whole person's line of sight was almost perpendicular to the porthole.

The console in front of him also began to move, and the consoles that originally seemed to be fixed together were actually four moving plates, in order to be more in line with the operation state of deep space flight, they began to separate and surround the front in a C-shaped shape, and different status panels were also hung down on the five seats in the rear.

Each of the operational panels can be used as a bridge in the event of an emergency, which is one of the many safety redundant measures on the Storm, which the Pioneer and Glory do not have in place.

Hu Dong naturally places his hands on the consoles on either side, and the huge panel in front of him will be fine-tuned to catch his eyes to ensure the best display effect.

On the inner wall of the porthole behind it, a light blue laser hit the HUD on a large area of the window, and the entire Storm has officially transformed into a spaceship state from now on.

"Lao Hu, I really feel like I'm sitting in a spaceship now, as if as soon as I push down the accelerator, the stars will slide from the front to the side."

Deputy Commander Meng Forest did not shy away from talking about his feelings on the public radio, a large area of portholes wrapped him in a wide field of vision, and after adjusting the posture of the chair, the universe was half a meter closer to him, almost in the starry sky.

He is not an astronaut trained by Xinyuan, and he was not originally a Storm crew - the crew of the first flight of the Storm was completely different from the original plan, three of them were the crew of the Dawning 4 mission, and Meng Forest was the commander of the Dawning 4 mission.

The Dawning-4 mission is the first lunar mission team planned by the space agency, and he will be the first Chinese to set foot on the moon.

The speed of Storm's first flight disrupted the space agency's deployment, so the base discussed changing the Storm crew to include Dawn 4.

Fortunately, the Dawning 4 crew has also received H2 simulation training, so the substitution does not affect the mission.

The significance of the space agency's move is simple, it is to let the Dawning-4 crew fly around the moon once in advance to gain more experience.

Meng now thinks that if he first lands on the moon, he might be better off aboard Storm than Aurora.

Even though the Aurora spacecraft is still a traditional spacecraft with a huge improvement over the traditional spacecraft, the Storm is completely different, and in the Aurora spacecraft it is like driving a small RV to travel, and it is comfortable to have all the organs; And the Storm is more like letting the house fly in the sky and take you to your destination.

In general, it is completely a cross-generational gap.

Meng Linlin carefully felt the grip of the throttle valve on his right hand, and saw the HUD in the lower left corner of the mask indicating that his heartbeat was slightly high.

For safety reasons, the Storm still needs to wear an on-board spacesuit and mask when accelerating and decelerating, to prevent deformation of the airframe or unknown failures of the vibration of components during acceleration.

"Command center, the Storm self-inspection has been completed, the reactor is running well, the heat sink is all open normally, and the mission around the moon is requested."

The radio waves were transmitted back to the ground command center in the capital through the satellite, and Lin Ju stood in front of the microphone, paused for a second and then shouted vigorously:

"Command approval, can be accelerated!"

"Yes!"

Academician She on the side moved his gaze to the satellite telemetry system, and then heard the voice of Hu Dong from the sky.

"Storm, go forward!"

The propulsion system was energized, and the Storm, which had been nearly two hundred meters away from the Advance through the RCS, started its engines at 10% power, pale pink hydrogen plasma diffused along the nozzle, and the Advance's extravehicular camera saw a pink halo in the darkness of the shuttle's tail.

The Storm shook slightly, pushing itself farther away from the space station with a small acceleration, and when it reached a distance of 1,000 meters, Hu Dong pushed the throttle valve to the third gear.

"Storm, advance three!"

The forward one is used when leaving the port at low power, the forward two is the most fuel-efficient cruising speed, and the forward three is the maximum speed of normal maximum power, and Hu Dong dreamed of the forward four for dozens of nights is the acceleration command for the engine to be overloaded to design the limit operation.

Although you can only use Forward 3 now, you will be able to use Forward 4 commands when you return as planned.

At this time, the three huge tail vents finally began to eject the bright plasma at maximum speed, forming a tail flame in space that was more than a kilometer long, and the camera of the Advance towards it could already see that the three bright spots began to merge and gradually turn into a mass.

Storm will accelerate about 2 times around the Low Earth orbit before entering the Earth-Moon transfer orbit, heading from the right side of the Earth to the left side of the Moon and returning in a figure 8 shape.

With a tail flame more than ten times her own length, she headed towards the moon like a meteor.

(End of chapter)