Chapter 69: Let's go
At the beginning of October of the 26th year of Tian Yuan, the entire Tian Yuan Star civilization simultaneously broadcast the start of the super space project. Everyone prepared a melon seed drink and sat in front of the computer or TV.
Three spaceships have arrived on the target planet and have landed on it.
The gravitational pull of these planets is very low, and the gravitational pull on the smallest ice planets is even less than 0.5 meters of gravitational acceleration. Even a strong person can jump into space with a single jump on the planet.
Ice planets are mainly ice, have a small rocky core, and have an average density of less than 1.1, and the low density and large diameter of the planet lead to exceptionally small gravitational pull.
Three spacecraft, three small ice planets, are ready, and the first thing is to install the power system.
In fact, it is very simple, just plug the spaceship into the planet.
In order to stabilize the ice/ground, it is also necessary to erect some steel supports, etc. The range of the bracket is more than ten kilometers, and the ice is inserted by means of hot melting.
For ice, hot melting is the simplest and most effective. When the steel wedge is inserted into the ice, the ice will freeze automatically.
It took three days to prepare the spacecraft, and then it was just a matter of waiting. The movement of the planet does not mean that it can start immediately, and it can only be started when the planet arrives at the predetermined location.
The migration of three small ice planets requires one and a half circles around the sun, during which time they have to avoid various planets.
Taking the Tian Yuan Star as an example, once the planet is close to the 1.2 million km range of the Tian Yuan Star, it will be disturbed by the gravitational pull of the Tian Yuan Star. At least it will change the flight path, which needs to be recalculated and adjusted in the later stage; if it is slightly serious, it will trigger the gravitational slingshot effect, and the ice planet will be directly ejected to any corner of the galaxy by the gravitational force of the Tianyuan Star - the initial velocity is not enough to escape the gravitational pull of the star; the most serious is that it will be directly captured by the gravitational force of the Tianyuan Star and directly collide with heaven and earth.
Any asteroid with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers that hits the Tian Yuan Star will cause a global catastrophe.
Therefore, the asteroid's force time is calculated for the planets in the entire star system, and after dodging one trap after another (the gravitational range of the planet), it finally reaches Venus accurately.
It took more than half a month, and at the end of mid-October, the first asteroid arrived at its intended location.
At this time, the engine of the spacecraft on the first asteroid finally ignited.
In fact, in addition to the power system of the spacecraft, there are also additional engines and nuclear islands.
The ship only exerts its power at the beginning and when it finally approaches Venus, and the rest of the time, the ship leaves to do something else. The cost of the ship is too high to be wasted.
The 30 plasma engines on the spacecraft, plus an additional 40 plasma engines, can provide the planet with a deceleration of 0.0012 meters per second. That's right, 0.12 millimeters per second, and the planet itself is orbiting at 16.56 kilometers per second.
In order to use such a deceleration ability to completely stationary planets, it will take half a year to continue to work.
However, there is no need to slow down completely, just reduce the speed to 15.3 kilometers per second, and the sun's gravity will do the rest. Under the effect of gravity, the planet will be able to fly near Venus on its own for the next two years.
Even because of the Sun's gravitational pull, when it reaches the vicinity of Venus, its speed will be slightly higher than that of Venus.
At this point, the plasma engine will work again, adjusting the direction and speed of the orbit, and when the direction and speed of the orbit are basically similar to those of Venus, the spacecraft will be withdrawn, taking the expensive engines with it.
Eventually, the starry sky cannon on the Celestial Yuan Star will explode, shattering the ice planet and finally being captured by gravity.
At the headquarters of Dayang Group, Zhang Hao and the senior management of Dayang Group quietly watched the live broadcast in the starry sky through the big screen in front of them - in fact, this was the news 12 minutes ago.
At this time, between the Tian Yuan Star and the first ice planet, there is almost a quarter of the orbital distance of the Tian Yuan Star, and the electromagnetic signal and the speed of light will take more than 12 minutes each way. And now the distance between the two planets is widening.
At such a distance, what is really going on in space, one can only trust the astronauts and believe that they can solve everything. Otherwise, it will take more than 24 minutes for the signal to go back and forth, and it will take several hours to say a few words, and it will be too late for anything. Maybe you're reading the message here, and you've been dead for ten minutes.
The scene is spectacular and ...... Inspirational~
Compared to the huge planet, the spaceship and the engine are unimaginably small. The tail flame of its engine looks like a faint candle from space.
The difference is that the flame of this candle is shot into space. The gravitational pull of the small planet simply can't restrain these crazy flames.
However, it was this faint flame that left the mark of civilization in space, and the first planet was kicked out of its orbit and moved according to the will of the scientists.
Planetary orbits of two colors gradually appear on the large screen. One is reddish, which is the planet's original orbit. In addition, there is only one pale blue one, which is the new orbit of the small ice planet.
This new track, as the engine works, is changing little by little. As the orbit changes, the blue orbit gradually intersects with the orbits of Mars, Tianyuan, and Venus, and even several times the alarm erupts - it is a planetary impact warning. Some impact alarms are months, others more than a decade later.
This process continued until more than 290 hours later, when the blue orbit perfectly avoided all threats, and finally conjunct Venus. The confluence time will be 753 days, 12 hours, 13 minutes and 43 seconds later. That is, the winter of the 28th year of Tianyuan.
For more than 290 hours, Zhang Hao spent almost half of his time watching here. It's not just supervision, it's a pride. Under its own guidance, the current Dayang Group has created unprecedented brilliance.
It took less than 28 years to do this. It is undeniable that in this process, there are cultivation aids and materials from the Xuanhuang civilization, but in any case, it cannot change the fact that in less than 28 years, a world that knows nothing about science and technology and is dedicated to cultivation has been brought to the space age and begun to transform space!
At this point, the entire Tian Yuan Star civilization can be regarded as officially entering the space age.
Time passed, and the three selected ice planets were activated one after another, entering the Great Shift Orbit, and then the Star Cannon of the Ocean Group finally completed its inspection.
At the end of November, Zhang Hao went into space again to watch the first launch of the starry sky cannon.
The finished Starry Sky Cannon looks ordinary, even a little plain...... Maybe a little ugly. The whole looks like an 80-kilometer-long pimple iron pillar. The diameter of the main body is 320 km due to skin and defense, etc.
On the rail gun, there are also regular distribution of 'acne'.
In fact, the seemingly small 'pox' is 30 meters in size, and it is a small, state-of-the-art nuclear fission reactor. The railgun is powered by 160 reactors and generators.
The generator used here is no longer a steam turbine. Steam turbines are economical, technologically mature, highly reliable, and simple to maintain, but large in size. The cooling water system alone is no small project.
This time, a ferrofluid generator was used.
The ferrofluid generator is the use of inert gas to carry a small amount of potassium, cesium and other alkali metals as the working medium, under high temperature and high pressure, the working fluid is ionized, and the minimum temperature is 2000 degrees Celsius - in fact, it is plasma, at this temperature, most of the metals will melt directly, even if they do not melt, they will be fragile and vulnerable.
That is to say, because of the recent technological progress of plasma engines and the maturity of electromagnetic vortex fluid technology, Dayang Group has found a solution.
Under the guidance of the electromagnetic field, the plasma inside the nuclear island directly passes through the filtered magnetic field and enters the confinement pipeline, and finally passes through the magnetic field, where the charge carried by itself is transferred to complete the power generation process.
The ferrofluid generator is highly efficient, theoretically up to 100%. Of course, because the magnetic field itself needs to consume a lot of energy, the temporary efficiency of the magnetofluid generator can reach more than 60%. In the current state, the best coal-fired thermal power plants, using steam turbines, have an efficiency of no more than 38%.
However, the technology of magnetofluid generators is still lacking, and it is difficult to operate for a long time, and related parts need to be designed and produced separately, and professional maintenance, maintenance, operation and management are required. The reliability is not very good, and once it gets out of control, it is a nuclear explosion.
But despite the number of disadvantages, the advantages are extremely obvious:
Small size, light weight, high efficiency, fast start-up, complex technology but simple structure, most of the core components are not large, the current carrying capacity is large, and the voltage is high.
The core components are not large, the structure is simple, and the maintenance is simple - the broken ones are replaced directly.
High efficiency, fast start-up, large current and voltage are the standards of military technology.
Small in size and light in weight, it can be used in sports machinery, such as spaceships, airplanes, and even aerospace aircraft. In fact, after the ferrofluid generator technology matured, the Ocean Group has already begun to study aerospace aircraft. The plane will be able to take off directly from the ground into space, even if it is the environment of the Tian Yuan Star.
It can be said that once the aerospace aircraft research is successful, at least in this field and in the field of applied science and technology, the Dayang Group will surpass the Xuanhuang civilization.
The Xuanhuang civilization's aircraft wanted to leave the planet, using particle propulsion technology. It is undeniable that particle propulsion technology is powerful and has a higher level of technology. But technology alone is not the same as 'applied technology'.
And at present, the energy system of this rail cannon uses such excellent technology.
Of course, because at the moment, this rail cannon still has some formations and magic weapon structures, so there is also an interface for installing spirit stones. But what we're going to test today is the electromagnetic system.
The electromagnetic system is successfully tested, and after re-inspection, the formation and magic weapon structure will be tested again. After another success, the maximum kinetic energy will be tested.
As for the firing direction of the rail cannon, it is in the direction of the Red River civilization. Anyway, at a distance of 700 light years, the shells of this rail gun should not be able to fly. Maybe you will be captured by the gravitational pull of a planet or star along the way. Or just hit one lucky planet.
Huang Mingshan was personally responsible for the launch and testing of the rail gun.
Different from the previous rail cannon built with magic weapon technology, this purely electromagnetic structure rail cannon does not have swirling electric sparks during the activation process.
It's actually quiet. If it weren't for a series of indicator lights on, if it weren't for the busy crowd in the command hall, you wouldn't even feel that the rail cannon had been activated.
But the first one was not the railgun's weapon system, but the propulsion system.
The tail of the huge rail cannon, as well as more than 50 plasma engines on the side, were the first to spew flames, and the entire huge rail cannon began to break free from the gravitational pull of Tianyuan Star with an acceleration of 5 meters.
Zhang Hao watched quietly, but some of the guests who came to watch the ceremony were unclear - or most of them were not clear.
We're going to see the rail cannon fire, are you going to run away? Am I misunderstanding the word 'fire'?
Some people are puzzled, but most of the 'big guys' cherish their feathers and are reluctant to speak. But there are people who 'don't go off the beaten path'. For example, Nangong Zhi, who finally landed on the space facility of the Ocean Group, opened his mouth to ask.
Over the years, Nangong Zhiyou has entered space, and he has also taken the spaceship of the Ocean Group into space to enlighten himself, but that has been rented by the Xuanhuang Group, not purely owned by the Ocean Group. Now, Nangong Zhi's cultivation has also reached the realm of cave void.
Later, the space technology of Xuanhuang Group also developed, and Nangong Zhi did not even enter the ASEAN space base and Dawning.
This is the first time that Nangong Zhi has set foot in space and completely belongs to the territory of the Ocean Group. And what made Nangong Zhi break the barrier in his heart was the power of the guide rail cannon in the propaganda.
It's just that Nangong Zhi doesn't quite understand, what's going on with starting the engine first?