interstellar involution king

Chapter 25 Sail ~ Set Sail!

Desolate star.

Synchronous geostationary orbit.

The cockpit of the Spaceship Hope.

Lin Yuan stretched out his hand and clicked on the main screen a few times, and the image of the cargo hold on the ground was displayed on the main control screen.

The display quality of the main screen is very good, and the external camera of the spaceship is also quite powerful. The lens is removed from an astronomical telescope, coupled with the high computing power and excellent graphics processing software of Supreme God, it makes the resolution of the final picture The speed reaches 1 centimeter, which is similar to the close observation with the naked eye.

You know, the distance between the Nozomi spacecraft and the ground cargo hold at this time has reached 9700km.

In the ground image, the cuboid cargo hold more than 70 meters long was erected. It was pulled up by a mining truck when it was empty, which wasted a lot of effort.

A conical fairing is installed on the top of the cargo hold, and several pieces of stabilizer fins are installed on the bottom, and three rows of thick steel frames are welded on each of the four sides of the cargo hold, and a 904 stainless steel pipe is welded on each steel frame .

The stainless steel pipe is 10 meters long and 30 centimeters thick. Compared with the thick cargo hold, it is like a matchstick tied around a big tree. It is too small.

Zheng Wan panicked in her heart: "Lin Yuan, it's up to you next."

This thing is too magical, she can't grasp it.

Lin Yuan nodded, took over the master control of the spacecraft, and began to input remote control commands to the cargo compartment.

"Power up, propellant warm up."

'The preheating is complete. The current temperature is 502K, and the fission catalytic enzyme has reached the optimal activity. '

"Introducing a starting neutron source.

'The neutron source is in place. '

"Activate thrusters."

This time it took a long time, about 10 minutes later, the main control brain received the feedback information.

"The propellant has been activated and the rocket is ready to launch."

The video shows that the bottom nozzles of each stainless steel rocket began to emit wisps of white smoke. From a distance, it looked like a 'toy cannon' that was about to explode after being ignited.

'Google~'

Zheng Wan's throat twitched, wanting to ask if this thing was about to explode, but felt that the words were unlucky, so she swallowed the words back abruptly.

Lin Yuan waited patiently for about five or six seconds, and then continued to enter instructions.

"Rockets 1, 4, 7, and 11 have entered the launch sequence."

As the command was sent, the rocket corresponding to the serial number changed again.

The white smoke from the nozzle at the bottom is getting thicker and thicker, and the lingering smoke almost covers the entire cargo hold.

"Why is there smoke?" Zheng Wan finally couldn't hold back.

"It's not smoke, it's the product of scattered electron clouds and atmospheric molecules."

Without waiting for Zheng Wan to ask, Lin Yuan took the initiative to explain: "After the nucleus enters the excited state, the electromagnetic effect is reduced, the binding of electrons outside the nucleus is weakened, and the electron activity is enhanced."

"Oh~"

Zheng Wan felt that she understood it, but when she thought about it carefully, she didn't seem to understand it, which felt weird.

After about 30 seconds, the main control brain responded with a message: "The rocket is ready."

Lin Yuan took a deep breath and entered the final command.

"emission!"

The next moment, the rocket's built-in neutron source launches to start the neutron flow.

The excited propellant is disturbed by this, and the unstable atomic nucleus suddenly collapses like an avalanche, ejecting neutrons that are exactly the same as the activated neutrons.

A large number of neutrons gathered together to form a huge jet, rushing out of the rocket's tail nozzle with a roar.

In the next instant, the image on the [-]D screen changed dramatically.

I saw a huge amount of white dust rushing out in all directions from the bottom of the cargo hold, as if a towering white mountain grew out of the ground.

And at the most central position, the 150-ton iron lump rushed straight into the sky with incomparable speed!
At 0 seconds, the velocity is zero.

In the first second, the speed broke through 1 meters per second.

In the second second, the speed directly broke through a hundred!
The sensor shows: the instantaneous acceleration of the cargo compartment is 6.7g, and it is still increasing.

It's as if there is a Titan superman with infinite strength, pushing the cargo hold with all his strength.

Zheng Wan's eyes widened: "My God, this can't be a targeted nuclear explosion technology?"

Thrust is really scary!

In comparison, the 40kn peak thrust of the Nozomi engine is simply like a firefly to the sun, not worth mentioning at all.

When the cargo compartment rose to a height of several hundred meters, it could be clearly seen that a nearly 4-meter-long beam of white light was dragging from the bottom of the four 904 stainless steel pipes around the cargo compartment.

The structure of this beam of light is very special, the inside is completely transparent and completely colorless.Only the outer circle glowed with white light like a flame, which was the atmosphere heated by the jet of neutrons.

Looking at the hillside where the cargo hold is located, it has disappeared.

The violent neutron jet leveled the hillside in an instant.

A few seconds later, a white ring-shaped air wave appeared in front of the cargo hold, and it disappeared after a flash. It was a sonic boom cloud.

"It's only 8 seconds, has it broken the speed of sound?!"

Hope is a classic car, so this thing is a super interstellar sports car with a horsepower of over [-].

The main control brain sent a message: "The rocket has 70% fuel remaining, the current speed is 398 meters per second, and the current acceleration is 6.5g."

Zheng Wan made a little calculation, and a look of surprise appeared on her face: "My God~ the specific impulse exceeds 30!"

This is almost three times that of the Nozomi engine, and as a deep-space engine, the specific impulse of the Nozomi engine is already quite high, almost reaching the limit of an ion jet rocket.

Lin Yuan smiled slightly: "To be precise, it is 32.8."

32.8 means that the speed of the neutron jet has reached 3280km per second, which is already one-tenth of the speed of light!

If this was made with a large accelerator, then this speed is nothing at all, but the carrier of this thing is just a 10-meter-long 904 stainless steel pipe!
Zheng Wan witnessed with her own eyes that apart from the heavy metal powder inside the stainless steel tube, there is no complicated structure. Rather than saying it is a rocket, it is better to say that it is a cannonball!

Zheng Wan was shocked at first, and then terrified: "This is an epoch-making new engine, and its appearance will definitely shock the whole world! We can't grasp such an engine!"

Nanliguo's space engine technology has been stagnant for nearly 800 years, and there has been no major theoretical breakthrough. All existing improvements are just improvements in the original theoretical framework.

But the thing made by Lin Yuan directly improved the quality of the jet engine to a level that was unimaginable before.

If this gets out, it will definitely drive all the space cities crazy!

Think about it, if on Earth, a group of guys hiding in a deep ditch came up with a mature warp drive, wouldn't the whole world go crazy?

After the madness, they will definitely try their best to get the technology, and the fate of the inventor is destined to become a victim of competition among various forces.

Lin Yuan nodded: "I really can't grasp it now, so I set up a complete self-destruct program."

Zheng Wan breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt curious: "But how did this happen?"

Lin Yuan thought for a while, and tried his best to explain: "There are four basic forces in the universe, right?"

"Ah."

"Every kind of force can be imagined as a rubber band. When the rubber band is tightened, energy can be accumulated. The current ion engine uses electromagnetic force as a rubber band, but this new gadget uses weak force as a rubber band."

Zheng Wan roughly understood: "The rubber band of weak force is stronger than electromagnetic force, and stores more energy, so the engine is also stronger."

"It's almost the same reason. Of course, if you want to really understand it, you need to add a little bit of detail."

As for the details, Lin Yuan didn't intend to say more.

"However, this rocket is still very rough, the propellant utilization rate is not high, and there are still problems with the disposal of nuclear waste. Can it be improved?"

Zheng Wan was still very perceptive, and quickly discovered the shortcomings of the new rocket.

Lin Yuan shrugged his shoulders and told a white lie: "I don't know about that. I just got the inspiration from the nuclear energy body, tried it, and it succeeded. As for the follow-up improvement, we can talk about it later."

In fact, there is indeed a huge room for improvement.

In the Red Covenant, this is called the neutron jet technology, which has been the main propulsion technology for human beings for as long as 5000 years.

A truly mature neutron jet engine with a specific impulse exceeding 100 million and a propellant utilization efficiency close to 100%, almost flawless.

Back to the topic.

The cargo compartment quickly lifted into the air, and under the remote control of Hope, the high-pressure airflow around the cargo compartment sprayed back and forth, maintaining the stability of the cargo compartment's flight attitude.

As the height of the cargo compartment continued to increase, the 904 stainless steel rockets also fell off one by one, and a self-destruct procedure was activated during the fall.

When the rocket flew to an altitude of 5 meters, the 12 stainless steel rockets were exhausted, but the speed of the cargo compartment had already broken through the orbiting speed of Desolate Star.

After that, with the existing kinetic energy, it is enough to slide the cargo compartment into the established orbit.

Lin Yuan still didn't dare to slack off in the slightest. He carefully controlled the high-pressure injection port on the cargo hold and adjusted the flight attitude of the cargo hold.

About 5 minutes later, the cargo compartment flew towards the location of the Nozomi.

About 20 minutes later, the kitten suddenly pointed to the porthole and shouted: "Look there, I saw the cargo hold, it is flying towards us~"

At this time, the distance between the two sides was only 30 kilometers, and the cargo hold was more than 70 meters away. To the naked eye, it looked like a small building block.

"Fortunately, it succeeded." Lin Yuan exhaled lightly. This remote control all the way requires 100% correctness in every operation, which is really tiring.

"Is this thing really done?"

Although she witnessed the entire launch process, Zheng Wan still felt that the whole thing was very magical, and she had a sense of absurdity like crossing the Pacific Ocean on a hollow bamboo pole.

The main control brain sent a prompt: "Pay attention to the collision, the relative speed is 20 meters per second!" The main control brain sent a warning.

Lin Yuan lay down on the back of the chair and reminded: "Zheng Wan, the matchmaking job is up to you."

Next is the docking of the two cabins. Hope has no automatic docking function and can only be operated manually.

This is delicate work, which takes a lot of energy. Lin Yuan feels a little tired. He can't guarantee that his operation will not make any mistakes, so he can only rely on Zheng Wan.

Zheng Wan was still immersed in the shocking emotion, and hadn't recovered yet.

Lin Yuan turned up the volume: "Zheng Wan, wake up!"

"Huh? Oh, okay, I'll do it right now."

Zheng Wan came back to her senses and began to quickly operate the Hope spacecraft.

There is no engine in the cargo compartment, and the maneuverability is limited. Only the main control cabin can go to take the initiative to dock.

Zheng Wan took a deep breath, increased the engine power output again, first adjusted the speed of Nozomi, entered the accompanying flight state with the cargo compartment, and then approached the cargo compartment little by little.

She was very careful, because one bad accident would be a big accident where the ship crashed and people died.

Lin Yuan and the kitten remained silent, letting Zheng Wan concentrate on the operation.

Fortunately, Zheng Wan's space flight skills are as superb as ever.

Half an hour later, the main control cabin shook slightly, and a message came from the main control brain: "The docking of the cargo compartment was successful."

'Hoo~'

Zheng Wan let out a long breath, her tense body relaxed, and a relaxed smile appeared on her face: "Everything is settled, you can start at any time!"

As she spoke, she turned on the search radar, searched for a while, and found the nearest public locator.

The so-called locator is the navigation satellite of the space age.

Zheng Wan tried to send a message to the locator: "A request for a real-time star map."

After 40 seconds, the locator sent back a response: "The legal authority of the visiting spacecraft has not been detected, and the request has been denied."

As expected, because the Nozomi is an illegal spaceship, and an illegal spaceship is like an unregistered vehicle in the Earth Age, which cannot enjoy various public information services.

This means that Hope can only fly blindly.

Zheng Wan looked at Lin Yuan: "Without a real-time star map, it's not easy to fly."

They sell water and are going to the space city.

And the space city will not wait for them in place, it is revolving around the Nanli No. [-] star all the time, and because of the gravitational disturbance of the large celestial body, the orbit is not completely fixed and will be adjusted at any time.

Without a star map, maybe you can't even find the place.

Lin Yuan naturally had a solution, and said: "There is an expired star map in the memory of the Hope, call it up and have a look."

Soon, Zheng Wan called up the past star map records, there were a total of two hundred.

Lin Yuan browsed the past one by one, and after reading it, he manipulated the optical observation lens carried by Nozomi to carefully observe the surrounding sky areas.

After getting enough data, he closed his eyes and began to calculate silently.

About half an hour later, he said: "In about 328 hours, the Gold Mine Island Space City will move beyond 0.8 astronomical units. We will take the Hohmann transfer orbit, and use the gravitational acceleration of the blue fat man on the way. Confluence. If nothing else, 40% of the propellant remains."

Zheng Wan's eyes lit up: "Gold Mine Island has been built for 1200 years, and the water circulation equipment is seriously aging. Whether it is domestic water or industrial water, it consumes a lot. Our water will definitely sell for a good price!"

"Then, target: Gold Mine Island!"

Lin Yuan input the calculated waterway data into the main control brain.

Zheng Wan has no doubts about Lin Yuan's calculation ability.

With the precise channel, Zheng Wan immediately had full confidence.

Thinking about the 140 tons of pure water in the cargo hold, I felt an infinite sense of excitement.

She couldn't remember the last time she felt this way, but at this moment, she was full of hope for the future.

She cheered and shouted: "Sail ~ set sail!"

(End of this chapter)