"The signal is stable, and the depth of the atmosphere is expected to be 150 kilometers!"

Venus's atmosphere is much less thick than Earth's, only about 250 kilometers.

The flyer will detach from the atmosphere at the moment of contact with the atmosphere and enter a water-drifting trajectory with the help of a small gas engine, which can descend to an altitude of about 90 kilometers and then bounce up, and now according to the autonomous judgment of the probe, it is planned to go deep to an altitude of 100 kilometers for sampling.

This altitude is almost in the thermosphere and the fugitive layer, the air pressure is not higher than 10pa, and if a Venusian person observes from the ground, he can probably see a meteor that flashes briefly after it.

Taibai, which is already orbiting in orbit, is also being monitored, and its large mass brings an accurate and powerful shortwave communicator, which establishes a solid connection with the two detectors that are about to separate.

"Flyer separation!"

"Altitude 270 km!"

"Ballistic correction!"

"Lander Air Shield Activated, Ready to Unfold!"

One program after another was activated as expected, and Shen Zuozhou didn't notice anything abnormal, which was a great thing.

Before Mars, Venus became the first stop for the exploration of extraterrestrial planets in China.

……

"China has made great achievements in the exploration of extraterrestrial planets."

"In the early hours of July 21, two Venus probes launched in April arrived at their destinations at the same time and began normal exploration activities.

Among them, the flyer has successfully completed gas sampling of the atmosphere of Venus at an altitude of 100 kilometers and will return to Earth in March and April next year, and the lander has completed a soft landing on the surface of Venus at 7:40 a.m.

As of the press release, the Venus-1 Venus soft landing probe had been working continuously for 134 minutes, surpassing the 127 minutes of the former Soyuz-13 Venus 13 and becoming the longest-surviving probe on the surface of Venus.

It will provide us with important scientific information on the origin of planets in the solar system, the existence of extraterrestrial life, and many other aspects......"

Robert put down his phone and crossed his fingers to look at Musk, who was sitting diagonally across from him:

"Our adversaries are moving rapidly toward deep space, haven't had a Venus lander in decades, and don't know how long their Daystar will live."

Elon Musk: "I still believe that Mars is the future, and by 2024 I think that 1,000 starships can be used to colonize Mars and build Martian cities that are enough for 100,000 people to live."

The second Starship is about to make its maiden flight, and we have made significant improvements and are on our way to success. ”

“……”

Robert knew that Musk was expressing SpecaX's displeasure:

Thanks to Sullivan and John's reassuring countermeasures, and the fact that the established military-industrial giants have agreed to make concessions to ensure that the development cost of the Nova is expected to be no more than $6 billion, and the cost of a single launch is not more than $500 million, NOVA has become the next generation of NACA's officially recognized giant reusable rocket to replace the SLS.

But SpecaX's starship did not give up, the starship originally had DARPA's nuclear power modification program, and NACA decided to use the starship in the early exploration of Mars and the preparation of unmanned materials, and the manned mission was handed over to the "nova".

He also admitted that this operation is a bit ugly, and the positioning of the "new star" is basically the same as that of the starship, but Lockheed guarantees that it will achieve its first flight in 2018, and in general, the program evaluation is more reliable than the starship.

In order to boost the confidence of Starship, Musk's second B7 and SN17 Starship combination is ready to be launched at the end of the month, only two months after the first one.

But given the first fiasco of failure, Robert was still a little skeptical.

"Elon, please understand...... Let's talk about the rest, have you put the FGD system into practical use? ”

More than four months ago, Lao Ma proposed the flexible gravity system plan, and at that time, he was working with Lockheed to transform the Dragon spacecraft, and seeing that the Advance was about to be completed, Robert suddenly thought of it.

Musk nodded: "Of course, the spacecraft has been fully modified, and now it is being tested on the rope ground, and we will be able to launch it for testing next month." ”

"That's good, I want you to get this technology done as soon as possible, and develop a rotation system that can be used on a starship or a nova, which is a thousand tons of big guys, and it needs to be extremely tough."

"I have an idea to use Starship for a space station in low Earth orbit."

Musk gestured with his hand:

"Starship can be converted into a super-large in-orbit space station, just like the giant modules made by XAP, which are quick and cheap to build, and if we use it to form a new artificial gravity space station, it will be about the same weight as Advance."

The composition he said was that the two starships were connected to each other and rotated, but they were hard-connected.

"The length of each starship is 50 meters, and if we connect to each other with the tail and a connecting pipeline in the middle, then it will not be much worse than the 60-meter diameter of the Advance, and the crew compartment can still reach 0.3G gravity.

It can even be four, six, eight, each starship can weigh 300 tons, maybe we can also add a multi-directional connector, no trusses, the overall steel structure only needs to be slightly strengthened to achieve rotational strength.

As long as Starship is successful, such a super space station can be built within a year, which is much more advanced and convenient than FGD, I call it 'Super Starship', which can not only operate together, but also be used as landers separately, which is structurally more advanced than Advance. ”

Robert: "That's a good idea, but we'll have to figure out the starship in orbit first." ”

“……”

……

Capital.

The Aviation Development Commission is very concerned about the landing of Daystar 1, and shares data from the base in real time.

Daystar 1 performed quite well, it used a combination of an inflatable cone-shaped air shield and a parachute at the bottom to slow down, but in fact it was quite easy to slow down due to the ultra-high atmospheric pressure on the surface of Venus, mainly because of the strong winds and the bad temperature.

However, the storm was okay, "Taibai" had reconnoitred in advance that there was no atmospheric rotation, and the biggest problem that the lander had to face was the high temperature.

800 kilograms of the 3.8-ton mass of Qixing No. 1 are protective measures, and the inside and outside are wrapped tightly with composite materials, sulfuric acid can basically be immune, and high temperatures rely on thermal insulation materials to resist, praying that they can resist aging and corrosion together with sulfuric acid.

But the results were much better than expected, and the Venus-1 slowed down with a hydrazine-fueled engine at an altitude of 55 km for a short time, detecting the expected atmospheric environment of 180 Kpa, and the concentration of nitrogen and oxygen is almost the same as that of the earth, and the content of other gases is extremely low, so that humans can breathe directly.

After landing, the protection system performed much better than expected, not only completing the most urgent 15-second rapid sampling mission, but also not interrupting contact, and has survived tenaciously for more than 300 minutes.

It took less than 200 minutes for the AI to complete all the sampling and observation plans as planned, which is the maximum time the ground thinks it could survive, but at this point Venusstar 1 is still working well, and is even transmitting a video back through the "Taibai" relay.

(End of chapter)