"Report to the Commander-in-Chief!"

"The Tiangong-1 unmanned engineering spacecraft has completed the final verification work and can be launched at any time."

The engineer with a serious face reported to Zhang Xingyang.

Most of the people in the launch center were calm and calm.

For them, this is nothing more than an ordinary rocket launch mission.

Since the beginning of the new millennium, the number of launches has increased every year.

Sometimes the number of missions launched in a month can exceed the number of launches in an entire year of the last century.

Even manned spacecraft are launched every few months.

Unmanned cargo spacecraft are almost once a month.

It's not what it used to be.

The success of thousands of times has given everyone the confidence to face it calmly.

"You've done a great job, you've done a great job."

Zhang Xingyang said with a pleasant face, and then looked at his watch.

"There's still some time before launch, so stay by first."

Although there have been no problems with nearly 1,000 launches, the space mission has never let up.

Be on high alert at all times.

Geng Bo, who was standing on the side, was calmer than others.

I have to be nervous a lot, and my palms are constantly sweating.

"Brother Xingyang, will there be a problem with our unmanned engineering ship?"

Geng Bo, who was really bottomless, couldn't help but ask Zhang Xingyang.

The overall design of the unmanned engineering ship comes from the sketches provided by Zhang Xingyang.

In terms of details, the team led by Geng Bo has completed the addition.

It can be said that Geng Bo is the actual person in charge of the Tiangong spacecraft.

"It's a little problem, but it doesn't hurt."

Zhang Xingyang replied to him a line that he had said once before.

The Tiangong unmanned engineering spacecraft will be the first professional space construction spacecraft.

After it is launched, the keel, the core component of the starport, will also be launched into the sky one after another.

The assembly and matching of the keel will be completed by the unmanned spacecraft.

"The Tiangong engineering ship will be piloted in the future, and these questions are all for the purpose of preparing for the future."

If you look at Tiangong purely from the perspective of an unmanned spacecraft.

Then you will find a lot of unreasonable design.

The spaceship has a lot of redundant space.

However, these spaces are all in preparation for the arrival of astronauts in the future.

The unmanned spacecraft even carries a well-developed life cycle system.

Able to provide the necessary resources such as water and oxygen for at least 15 days of life.

"The unmanned spacecraft is just for the transition."

Zhang Xingyang looked at the red countdown on the display screen and said calmly.

Today's unmanned construction technology is not perfect.

In particular, the design scheme of Starport is very complex.

There are more than 500 large components with a length of more than 10 meters alone.

Small components with a size of less than one meter are roughly estimated to be more than 10,000 pieces.

In addition to this, the coordination between the individual components is also complex.

It is not advisable to rely solely on automatic robotic arms.

Even remote control is almost impossible.

Because of the distance.

The area where the starport is stationed is in geosynchronous orbit.

The altitude is 36000 km.

The delay of the radio signal, more than 0.1 seconds.

For a starport that is running at the same speed as the Earth's rotation, it is almost unbearable.

At this 0.1 second, the position of the star port can be greatly deviated.

The unmanned spacecraft assembles such a large component as the keel, and the deviation is still within the tolerance range.

It's hard to endure small components with millimeter accuracy.

"Launch!"

The countdown ended, and with an order, the rocket took off.

Judging by the appearance, there is nothing special about this rocket.

And not even a super-heavy rocket that has just been launched.

It's just an ordinary long three-B rocket.

In this way, the first batch of equipment built by Starport was put into space.

The rocket launch went very smoothly, and there was no scene of a failed launch in Gengbo's nightmare.

In fact, if the launch of Chang Sanyi will fail, then the space system will undoubtedly usher in a major earthquake.

An engineering spaceship that does not differ much from a cargo spaceship in appearance, flying safely in space.

"The robotic arm is being deployed, and it is expected to take three minutes."

The biggest difference between engineering ships is that they have multiple robotic arms with different precisions.

Ability to perform different granular tasks.

At the same time, these robotic arms are equipped with panoramic cameras and different types of measuring equipment.

If you want to achieve the installation accuracy, remove the accuracy of the robotic arm itself.

Measurement accuracy is also very important.

Panoramic camera images began to appear on the big screen.

"The No. 1 robotic arm has been successfully deployed!"

"The No. 4 robotic arm has been successfully deployed!"

"The No. 8 robotic arm has been successfully deployed!"

The first engineering spacecraft, which was experimental in nature.

It's just that at each end of the cylindrical spaceship, four evenly spaced robotic arms are installed.

There are a total of eight robotic arms.

"Test the ship's ion thrusters."

After the mechanical arm of the engineering spacecraft was deployed, Zhang Xingyang ordered.

Similar to the construction machinery on the ground, the engineering ship wants to do a good job of construction.

Must have good athletic ability.

On the ground, it appears as several pairs of tracked or heavy tires.

In space, it is represented by ion thrusters in different directions.

Seriously speaking, it is much more difficult to control a spaceship than a surface ship.

It operates in a similar way to flying an aircraft.

Because of its range of motion, it is three-dimensional space.

And not a two-dimensional plane like a surface ship.

The Tiangong-1 unmanned engineering spacecraft has 32 ion thrusters in different aspects.

Therefore, it is also very complicated to control.

In addition to conventional thrust control, the angle of the ion thruster is also controlled.

"Thruster No. 1, working fine!"

The inspection of the ion thruster is also more complicated than that of the robotic arm.

Several panoramic camera footage shows the ship as if it was drunk.

One will go up, one will go down, one will go forward, one will go backward.

In the universe, there is no distinction between up and down, front and back.

But if you are in the direction close to the earth as the down, away from the earth as the direction up.

The direction of the Earth's rotation is forward.

It is still possible to establish a complete set of direction system.

Orientation recognition within the spaceship's computer is a bit more complicated.

It uses several neutron stars in the starry sky to determine its position.

"Thruster No. 32, working fine!"

Even with the later inspection of several thrusters, the speed has been much faster.

It still took nearly three hours.

After completing most of the self-checks, the ship began to adjust its flight trajectory.

Waiting for the arrival of the first batch of Starport construction materials.

"Is the axial keel ready?"

After the launch of the unmanned engineering spacecraft, Zhang Xingyang asked in the command hall.

"The axial keel and the first batch of auxiliary keels have been loaded into the ship and are ready to be launched."

Geng Bo said with bright eyes.

Today's successful launch undoubtedly gave him great confidence.

The structure of the star port is a drum type.

A massive circular structure that rotates around a central shaft.

If it is above the ground, the huge gravity of the ring will create unimaginable pressure.

This results in extremely strong friction.

But in space, gravity is almost non-existent.

The shaft body is not subjected to too much friction.

However, when it comes to designing, it still adopts an ingenious design.

That is to add a layer of superfluid to the outer layer of the shaft.

Superfluids are completely non-viscous

For example, when liquid helium is below 2.17K, it reaches a superfluid state.

It can flow endlessly within the pipeline.

That is, it doesn't have any friction to speak of.

It can effectively improve the friction problem.

"Then prepare and launch right away."

"The sooner the better."

Zhang Xingyang thought for a while and said.

The construction of Xinggang can be fast but not slow.

Once you slow down, it will definitely cause a lot of problems.

That night, a super-heavy launch vehicle was erected on the launch pad.

It even attracted questions from many astronauts.

What a mission, a launch is required in such a short time.

The next day, the super-heavy launch vehicle was launched.

The first titanium keel with a total length of 450 meters and a mass of nearly 100 tons went into space.

On the third day, a second titanium keel of the same size also entered geosynchronous orbit.

The same launch mission lasted for a week.

It even attracted the attention of the Eagle-chan Air Force command on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

In particular, the extra-long size of the titanium alloy keel, as well as the appearance of silver shining.

Although it is 36,000 kilometers away in space.

But when one side of the titanium keel reflects sunlight.

It will still be in the sky, creating a gorgeous silver glitter.

Many people who don't know the truth even think that they saw a silver meteor during the day.

"What the hell is this?"

The Chief of the General Staff of the Eagle Sauce Air Force frowned and looked at the photo in his hand.

Judging by the photos, it has no features other than being huge and good-looking.

It's not like a space artifact at all.

Because it doesn't have the usual solar panels, it doesn't even seem to have a power source.

Another photograph of a heat source shows a patch of blue.

This means that it doesn't have a bit of a heat.

The propulsion mode in space is still the propulsion of working fluids.

This type of propulsion means that the thruster must have a higher heat.

But this thing really is like a piece of iron.

There is not a bit of heat source information.

"Could this be their latest space weapon?"

A staff officer said cautiously after carefully observing for a long time.

"It looks a lot like the battle of God that we were trying to develop before."

Prior to this, they had invested heavily in the development of the Staff of God system.

It is expected to consist of two satellites at the low orbit position.

One satellite provides the navigation system, and the other is equipped with several tungsten alloy steel columns about 10 meters long.

With a kinetic strike, it is expected to be able to achieve the effect of a small nuclear bomb.

Later, I gave up because of a thesis.

The actual effectiveness of the Staff of God as a kinetic strike weapon was detailed in that article may have been far less than they expected.

It's not even as good as a regular burrowing bomb.

The cost of a God's staff is much higher than that of a burrowing bomb.

After combining technology, cost, and other aspects, they abandoned this plan.

"It can't be!" The chief of staff subconsciously retorted.

"Didn't they write the paper that expounded on the power of the rod of God?"

"Why are they developing the Staff of God again?"

Another staff officer opened his mind: "Maybe this is a kind of strategic deception against us, just like they claim in the development of fourth-generation aircraft." ”

In view of the painful lessons of the past, it is very likely that the staff officer's brain hole is true.

The Chief of the General Staff was a little unconvinced, and then a little skeptical, "Probably not, has the scientific department found out the materials of these metal rods?" ”

"Is it possible that it is the material for the manufacture of weapons, the Staff of God?"

The staff of the staff who presented it was the staff of God, handed over a report: "Just got the results that they analyzed through the spectrum. ”

"It is believed that the main material is titanium, and there are a small amount of other metal components."

This is also an important basis for the staff to believe that this is the rod of God.

The hardness of titanium alloys is well known.

In their Staff of God design, tungsten titanium will be used as the main material for the strike.

It is naturally normal for some people to use him as a strike weapon.

"Sir, if this is really a space weapon, that's really bad news for us."

After listening to this, the other staff officer sighed and said.

"We don't have any weapons at the moment that can threaten them."

"Not even missiles."

The distance of 36,000 kilometers is far beyond the scope of all weapons on the earth.

Even ICBMs have a range of just over 10,000 kilometers.

This also includes most of the gliding range.

If you only calculate the range of chemical propulsion, it will shrink a lot.

Unless they detonate several megaton nuclear bombs directly in space, it is possible to have an impact on them in geosynchronous orbit.

The electromagnetic pulse generated by a nuclear bomb can be extremely lethal to semiconductor devices and microelectronic devices due to the electrical breakdown effect.

But the majority of the staff officers believe that none of these metal columns contains electronics.

This is because not a single heat source was found in the thermal imaging photographs.

Even if it doesn't have a propulsion system, as long as it has electronics.

The operating equipment should also produce a certain phenomenon of thermal radiation.

Instead of being like now, it took on a patch of blue.

The chief of staff was also a little depressed, but he quickly picked himself up.

"It's not something we can deal with, we have to report it to the higher-ups."

The real idea of the chief of staff is actually very simple.

That's throwing the pot.

He can't carry this pot, so he can only let others carry it!

It is better to let all the top leaders of the military bear this pot together.

"Immediately pass on the relevant news to the White House and the Pentagon."

The staff officer said: "It's midnight, are you waiting for tomorrow daytime to send it?" ”

The chief of staff sneered: "We can't sleep well tonight, so let's just don't sleep at all!" ”

"I can't let those old men on Capitol Hill spend a night so comfortably."

The intelligence of the Air Force unsurprisingly woke up a large number of military top brass who were just about to fall asleep.

“FXXK！”

On this night, the whole country's mom content skyrocketed. (End of chapter)