From University Lecturer to Chief Academician

After completing the landing sampling work on Europa, the spacecraft is ready to end its journey to Jupiter.

The spacecraft first started to leave the top of Europa and continued to fly around Jupiter. After orbiting Jupiter for three times, the spacecraft got rid of Jupiter's gravity and officially entered the voyage back to Earth.

The return journey is very similar to the outbound journey.

The spacecraft still accelerated for more than ten hours, and then sailed towards the established route at a stable speed. The route was not a straight line, but an arc shape that had been calculated in detail, because the earth is not fixed and unchanging. It is constantly rotating around the sun, with an average revolution speed of 107,244 kilometers.

After more than ten hours of acceleration, the speed of the spacecraft stabilized, and then continued to move toward the earth at a steady speed.

The end of the acceleration process also means that the spacecraft has become stable.

The news reached the ground and caused a lot of discussion. "Looking at the first media reports, it was said that the spacecraft has completed acceleration and is flying towards the earth at a stable speed..."

"The voyage plan is almost over. I didn't expect it to go so smoothly."

"It's safe now. There may be problems during the acceleration process. Once the speed is stable, there will be no problems."

"Are there any attrition during this trip?"

"I haven't heard any news yet. Even if there is, it is impossible to report it now, right? And it is said that the people who went up are all young scientists, so there should be no problems..."

Paul Phil-Jones may have a different opinion, because he feels that he is about to be 'attrited'. He simply cannot stand the continuous acceleration of the spacecraft. Whether he is sitting, standing or lying down, he feels uncomfortable all over and suffers from vomiting and diarrhea. .

As the spacecraft accelerated, Paul Phil-Jones had forgotten all about research and missions. All he wanted to do was to return to the ground quickly, "I will never participate in this kind of plan again!"

"Xiao Ding, if I fail to go back, please bring my ashes to Jin Cui. I know she must be very sad..."

"When the time comes, tell her not to be sad. I am a hero who explores Jupiter, and I am great..."

"Ahem~~~"

James couldn't stand listening any more. He shook Paul's head vigorously and said, "Sure up, the acceleration is over, and you are a scientist, why don't you scatter your ashes on Jupiter? We can do it."

"You can throw you out now, Paul, do you want to think about it? Let us throw you out?"

"I remember you once said that you are not a regular human being. Your body belongs to the entire universe. We can help you realize your dreams."

Ding Zhiqiang gave James a thumbs up, feeling that the other person had said everything he wanted to say.

Paul Phil Jones was not in the mood to argue with James. He whispered weakly, "I have said that, yes, but now I just want to go home, I just want to go home and see Jin Cui..."

James looked at Ding Zhiqiang in confusion and asked in a low voice, "Jin Cui is his wife, right? What does she look like that she can charm him to this extent...?"

Ding Zhiqiang thought carefully, pursed his lips and said politely, "Sometimes, suitability is more important than looks... Or, you can take a look at his wallet?"

"That makes sense!"

James took Paul's wallet without hesitation, opened it and saw a photo of Paul and Jiang Jincui inside. He stared at Jiang Jincui carefully for a long time and commented, "With my taste..."

He finally shook his head, "You're right. Suitability is indeed more important than looks, at least, that's the case for Paul."

"He's a genius and we're just human beings."

"yes."

Ding Zhiqiang nodded in approval.

Alvalier also came over and glanced at the photo, nodded in approval and said, "Don't think I am a prince, but I am only a mortal."

"Perhaps, the entire spaceship is filled with mortals."

…

When the spacecraft enters a stable period, the probability of successfully returning to Earth is very high.

There was a lot of publicity in the domestic media.

There are also many reports internationally. Everyone who boarded the spacecraft will be regarded as a hero. They are heroes who represent mankind beyond the Earth-Moon system. They bravely took the spacecraft to Jupiter and completed enough to be recorded in history for future generations to admire. feat.

At the same time, Tianhang Spacecraft Industry Company also became famous.

There has been a lot of international discussion about the SpaceX spacecraft company before. Several tests of the light pressure engine have attracted a lot of attention. However, no matter how good the performance of the spaceship is, it still needs real testing. There are still many doubts before the voyage plan begins.

Many people believe that rashly embarking on a journey to Jupiter without sufficient experience is very risky, and the spacecraft and all the scientists on board are likely to never return.

This kind of idea does not only exist abroad, but also in China. The trip to Jupiter is really scary, and it feels like it is divorced from the actual situation, like a plan like the Great Leap Forward.

Now that the spacecraft has completed its acceleration and entered a stable period during its return journey, the possibility of its return is very high, and all doubts in public opinion have naturally disappeared.

Many reports are beginning to look forward to the return of the spacecraft, the material samples they bring back, and the return of each of the space heroes and top scientists.

There is a lot of relevant content internationally, and some countries specifically report on the personnel they send.

For example, news about Saudi Arabia focuses on Alwalir, saying that he is an aerospace hero from the royal family of Saudi Arabia and that he has made great contributions to human spaceflight on behalf of Saudi Arabia.

etc.

Other countries that send personnel are also very similar, including American, but the news about American always seems a bit sour, because they do not have personnel who enter the spacecraft at the national level, and some only enter on behalf of large companies. personnel.

Corrot James has naturally been given a lot of attention, and there are many things about him that attract attention.

For example, he was the head of the Groom Lake project team and became one of the focal points of the election campaign.

In the end, he could only resign sadly.

Then he boarded the Space Shuttle on behalf of the Monade Company. The media reported James like this, "It turns out that gold shines wherever it is. James left Groom Lake but obtained a ticket for the Space Shuttle. ."

"Aerospace Spaceship Company, or Wang Hao, did not reject James, but welcomed him."

"Perhaps, for Wang Hao, he and James are sympathetic to each other. They are both engaged in the research and development of annihilation technology, and they have a certain competitive relationship..."

As for the so-called competitive relationship, it is just the imagination of the media. The Groom Lake plan to be a competitor of the anti-gravity center is really not qualified.

For those countries where no personnel have obtained tickets for the spaceship, the media reports can only be sour, but they still have to say, "I wish the spaceship can return smoothly..."

"I hope to get news about the landing of the spacecraft in more than ten days..."

"This is a great plan, a great success!"

…

Tianhang base.

The entire base was already busy, just waiting for the spacecraft to return. The ground control center continued to communicate with the spacecraft, and the location was determined every half hour.

Wang Hao continued to stay in the base and kept paying attention to the return of the spacecraft. At the same time, he was always thinking about the research on strong S-waves.

The strong S-wave experiment discovered a suspected phenomenon of energy transmission, which may contain a brand-new physics and a very high-end scientific and technological foundation, which can be directly connected to the 'wormhole technology' that is only found in science fiction.

Wang Qiang has applied for the third experiment on behalf of the team. They hope to change the method of high-temperature shock and take some risks for testing.

The experiments were submitted by Wang Qiang, and the testing was submitted by the person in charge of the military stationed at the research base.

This shows that the base's regular R\u0026D team and military personnel have reached an agreement on the content of the new experiment. They all hope to conduct new experiments and hope to make more discoveries.

The new experiment is to study what kind of energy can be transmitted. In addition, it is also necessary to study whether the energy intensity will attenuate and what is the approximate rate of attenuation.

Each of these points is very important, but very difficult to detect.

Even with the application of military representatives, the plan they formulated is not perfect, and many problems are likely to arise in the process. After all, the strong S-wave thin layer is located in the Mediterranean Sea near the Port of Naples, and any plan can only be made secretly. The more detailed and complex the plan, the higher the likelihood that something will go wrong and leak information.

The content of the new experiment was still very attractive, but Wang Hao ultimately rejected the application. He only agreed to conduct a second experiment.

His response was, "Our most important priority that day was to identify the phenomenon, not to conduct further research."

The reason why Wang Hao rejected the new experiment was because the content of the new experiment was a bit too fast.

At present, they have not been able to determine whether what they discovered is the phenomenon of energy transmission or the 'excitation effect of penetrating field force'. The difference between the two is that the former is the transmission of energy, while the latter is the replication of energy properties.

First of all, we need to determine whether to 'transmit' or 'copy' before we can determine the next research direction.

Wang Hao thought about it carefully, and he believed that the safest way was to release strong S-waves into a controllable area.

"The Mediterranean Sea is really far away. It is more than 7,000 kilometers away from our experimental base in a straight line."

"If it is released into space, it is not impossible to reach a distance of more than 7,000km. Anti-gravity spacecraft can be sent to observe and study..."

"Of course, the possibility of being discovered in space is also very high, but it is still much better than the Mediterranean Sea."

"The first thing we need to do is to determine what the effect is, and then we will stabilize the equipment, improve technology, and shorten the manufacturing distance as much as possible..."

Wang Hao talked a lot with Wang Qiang. He pointed out the problems sincerely and determined the short-term work.

In fact, it is best to release strong S waves at close range, but it is very difficult to do so. The difficulty mainly lies in the magnetic field strength. The way they shorten the release distance of strong S waves is to increase the 'opening'.

The larger the opening of the magnetic field, the closer the release distance, but at the same time, the higher the magnetic field strength required.

The current intensity of the magnetic field produced experimentally has reached a maximum of more than 6T. It is not easy to continue to increase the intensity, and there may even be certain risks.

If the demand reaches more than 10T, it is simply impossible. It is not difficult to generate an instantaneous magnetic field above 10T, but a stable magnetic field is too difficult.

Although the research and development of shortening the distance faced a series of problems, Wang Hao decided to continue research from a technical perspective instead of conducting new experiments in leaps and bounds.

After talking with Wang Qiang for a while, Wang Hao continued to focus on the work of the Tianhang Base. He continued to pay attention to the location of the Tianhang Spaceship, and also participated in the internal meetings of the Tianhang Spaceship Company.

The Tianhang Spaceship Company held an internal meeting because the Tianhang Spaceship was about to return.

This made many people take a long breath.

When Zang Chunlai talked about the return of the spacecraft, he sighed, "I can't sleep peacefully until the spacecraft comes back..."

"Really, I worry every day, worry every day..."

He spoke what many people were thinking.

Not to mention other people, even Wang Hao often worries. The cosmic environment is full of uncertainties. This is the first time that humans have stepped out of the Earth-Moon system. No one can guarantee the safety of the route.

The internal meeting talked about the work of the spacecraft after its return, and then talked about a series of research and development and development directions of the company.

The leaders of the base and the company both spoke separately. They also talked about several contents and research and development directions, including the construction of an extraterrestrial research base, the mining of valuable planets with asteroids, and the demonstration of the manufacture of a second spacecraft. It also includes developing new technologies.

etc.

A lot of content is related to interstellar prospecting. The general direction of the development of spacecraft companies is also to realize interstellar mining.

This is related to whether the spacecraft company can obtain a steady stream of high profits to continue its rapid development, and the Spirit Star has been mentioned many times, because the Spirit Star is a planet with definite mining value.

The Spirit Star has also received a lot of attention, and how to mine natural minerals and transport them back to the earth has become the focus.

Some people have proposed building a super-large spaceship, that is, a super-large carrier ship based on light pressure engines, which can transport thousands or tens of thousands of tons of precious metal ore at a time.

Of course.

This method is very likely to continue to make losses. The earth is too far away from the asteroid belt, and starting the Skyliner ship to and from the asteroid belt will involve a lot of costs.

In fact, the so-called "interstellar mining" now proposed will eventually transport minerals back to Earth for application.

Before humans realize planetary migration, the earth is the only core. Anything will be valuable only if it can be transported back to the earth for application, otherwise it will be worthless at all.

At the meeting, someone actually put forward a feasible suggestion, "We can develop a new technology - gravitational pull."

"We already have the technology to create gravity, and we can create it over a very large area, several kilometers in radius."

"We can build a special spacecraft to release a gravitational field specifically to the asteroid to continuously change the trajectory of the asteroid until it falls to a predetermined location."

"The predetermined location can be on the moon, or other planets, or even the earth. It must be a location where transportation and mining can be done..."