Siheyuan: The Era of Core Generation

Chapter 268 Conception of Orbital Acceleration Projection
"Commissioner Zhao, which one do you prefer?" the people from the Aerospace Academy asked cautiously.From his heart, he is more inclined to the second type. For astronauts, this kind of technology is really priceless.With such technology, the service life of satellites can be increased several times at least.Many satellites are satellites in low-Earth orbit. This kind of satellite has an orbital height of only a few hundred kilometers.In this space, it is not a real vacuum state. Although some air particles are thin, they will still have a certain friction force on the satellite at this height.Although this friction is very small, it will also slow down the speed of the satellite over time.

When the speed decreases, the orbit of the satellite will drop. At this time, if certain measures are not taken, the satellite will gradually fall down until it enters the atmosphere and is burned to ashes.

Therefore, all low-earth orbit satellites must carry a certain amount of fuel.When its speed drops to a threshold, the engine on the satellite will start to increase the speed of the satellite and maintain the orbit.

If there is a power system that does not require chemical fuels, and the orbit of the satellite can be maintained only by the battery panels of the satellite, that is really a qualitative leap.

This allows all vehicles in low Earth orbit to greatly improve mission time.

"Frankly speaking, I'm more inclined to the second option, but I also tried the same device in the laboratory on the ground, but it didn't have such an effect at all." Zhao Ye said worriedly.

"That is to say, this kind of experiment must be placed in outer space?"

"Well, that's the only way to explain it. I even suspect that the experimental data I just obtained was disguised by the apocalypse. It has no reference value at all."

"If this is the case, then we have to develop the technology of manned spaceflight. If artificial intelligence is allowed to do this kind of time, maybe it will be an accident like this one." The people from the Aerospace Academy also frowned and said, this The conclusion is not a happy conclusion.

Manned spaceflight is not so much fun, not to mention burning money, but doing various scientific experiments step by step, so it can't be done in three to five years.

"Yeah, I think so too. But I have an immature idea, do you want to hear it?" Zhao Ye finally said what he wanted to say the most today.

"Of course, we are interested in any of your opinions and ideas."

"Well, I have a design, which is to use our superconducting technology to build an electromagnetic gun system that can launch non-living objects into space, or an electromagnetic projection system." After Zhao Ye said this, he looked at the The astronauts present wanted to hear what kind of expressions they had.

"Commissioner Zhao, I don't quite understand. What do you mean, use an electromagnetic cannon to shoot satellites into the sky?" The people in the Academy of Aerospace Sciences were expressionless. It wasn't that they decided that the idea was absurd, but that they were shocked I don't know what expression to show.

"Well, that's pretty much what it means."

"However, what kind of equipment can't withstand such a high overload."

"It's okay. Let's make the acceleration process longer, such as fifty kilometers, or one hundred kilometers. In this way, we can control the acceleration so that the overload of the projectile will not be so large."

"Fifty kilometers? A fifty-kilometer barrel? How is that possible?"

"Nothing is impossible. We can make the barrel of this gun into an arc shape, so that it will change from the horizontal state at the beginning of firing to the vertical state after firing."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Ye also became excited.He stood up directly, and led everyone to his laboratory.There, Zhao Ye has already made a small-scale model. Based on this model, according to his calculations, if it is built, then more than ten tons of materials can be projected into outer space at one time.

Although you can't shoot people out, but you can put materials on them at will, then the manned spaceflight project can save a lot of time.

Ten tons at a time, three or five launches a day, can catch up with the carrying capacity of a wagon.

What is the most important thing in the development of spaceflight?Of course it is material!Using a rocket to launch, the cost of an item weighing one kilogram is calculated in tens of thousands.Under such circumstances, aerospace engineering itself has been greatly restricted.

For example, in the space station, the wall of the warehouse may only be a few millimeters thick, and then various expensive materials are used to strengthen the strength of the wall of these few millimeters.

But with Zhao Ye's technology, it is convenient.The warehouse wall is too thin and unsafe?Then thicken it!They even have the luxury of making the outermost walls of armored steel.

Of course, this is only one aspect. With this device, it will be convenient to launch satellites in the future.Such a technology, they feel excited when they think about it.But excitement is excitement. Such a technology is extremely complicated when you think about it.

This is much more difficult than launching a rocket.The difficulty of rockets is nothing more than how to improve the efficiency of the engine and how to increase the diameter of the rocket. This involves mainly the issue of materials.In the theory of rockets, it is already very mature.

However, this thing looks a little unreliable. Although he is not a designer, but as a half-expert, he can casually raise countless problems that need to be solved.

For example, how to solve the friction problem of projectiles?At such a high speed, just overcoming air resistance is a headache.For another example, how to solve the material problem?For such a large project, how much superconducting material is needed?Although he knows that the country already has a superconducting material that can be mass-produced, the output really makes people anxious.

Such a large project, if it is to be constructed, will require a large amount of superconducting materials.With the current output speed, anyway, he didn't have to think about it before closing his eyes.

But looking at Zhao Ye's shining eyes, he inexplicably gained more confidence.Others may not be able to, maybe this person in front of him can really create miracles.

"Committee Zhao, how much superconducting material do you think this device needs?" The people from the Aerospace Academy asked the question they were most concerned about.

"Well, I roughly calculated this. If a [-]-kilometer-long orbital acceleration projectile is to be built, at least [-] tons of superconducting materials will be needed." Zhao Ye did not hold back, and directly stated the figure he estimated.

"[-] tons? I don't know how much our country produces in a year, but what I know is that our production has always been measured in kilograms. Thinking about this output, it doesn't necessarily mean how many tons a year?"

"Ha, this is not a problem, I have already figured out a way to solve it."

"What way?"

"Hey, keep it secret!" Zhao Ye smiled unscrupulously. He definitely couldn't just tell people who had nothing to do with this kind of thing.

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