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The manned spacecraft currently used by human civilization are relatively backward in all aspects of performance. Not to mention the flight speed in space, the limited carrying capacity alone means that space exploration will not be fast.

What's more, it has the disadvantage of being non-repeatable, and each launch consumes a lot of resources.

This is also why the space industry cannot be developed by countries other than major powers.

Now, Xu Yuan proposed a global space exploration alliance, and the first project to be undertaken is the interstellar spacecraft.

Naturally I was very excited.

They knew very well what an interstellar spacecraft represented, especially one that used nuclear fusion power.

After all, the Kunlun is still in low-Earth orbit.

If the interstellar spacecraft can be realized, it can transport a large amount of resources to the moon at one time, helping to speed up the construction of the lunar base.

For example, building a lunar nuclear fusion reactor and using robots to automatically construct a scientific research station base.

At that time, astronauts will only need to move in normally and carry out scientific experiments.

Besides, only after completing the construction of the lunar nuclear fusion hypersonic four-stage reactor and base can we further develop lunar resources.

You should know that lunar minerals are rich in helium-3, which can be used as fuel for nuclear fusion reactions, which is exactly what Hyperloop and Hyperloop need for their operation.

Another reusable interstellar spacecraft means that humans can set foot on Mars at any time.

Therefore, when everyone in the audience learned about the project, overseas professor Wood was the most excited.

"This is really great news. Humanity needs interstellar spacecraft."

"I can not wait any more."

He originally came from Space Exploration Technologies Corporation and had been in charge of the research and development of starships.

There must be special feelings about humans landing on Mars.

I eagerly hope that day will come.

Although he had made a lot of progress in developing the starship, there was still a long way to go to Mars. It was precisely because of this that he decisively chose to join the Global Space Exploration Alliance after it was established. He wanted to help humans realize the great dream of going to Mars as soon as possible with Xu Yuan.

The moon is the planet closest to the earth. Although it is a miracle that humans have completed manned lunar landings, the difficulty is incomparable to that of traveling to Mars.

Only by actually setting foot on the surface of Mars can human civilization be said to have officially acquired the ability to leave the Earth.

He had originally thought that it would take time to achieve this goal.

Unexpectedly, after the establishment of the Global Space Exploration Alliance, the first project undertaken was related to spacecraft.

This is like before the company's job application email comes, you originally thought it would be great to be a vice president, but in fact you are directly promoted to a full-time employee.

Far exceeded expectations.

Xu Yuan raised his eyes and looked at Wood. He was not surprised by Wood's behavior.

At the same time, I was very satisfied with the responses of many experts in the audience.

I thought there was no different sound.

If hundreds of top experts from all over the world come together and work together, the research and development efficiency will undoubtedly be amazing, and it may not take long to build this interstellar spacecraft. But if the goals are not consistent, it will be no different from loose sand, and it may even drag down the progress of the project.

Fortunately, judging from the current atmosphere, there are basically no problems.

His thoughts were working quickly, and after thinking all this in his mind, Xu Yuan did not pause to give everyone time to digest it.

He immediately continued with the previous topic.

"If everyone has no objection to this project, then it will be officially launched."

……

After the final decision was made, Xu Yuan did not hold another separate meeting. Instead, he assigned the various tasks of the interstellar spacecraft project according to the grouping that had been completed previously.

The first thing is the design of the entire spacecraft, including its appearance, capacity and various components.

If we only rely on Xu Yuan and the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, it will definitely be delayed longer and the entire project will require a longer period of time.

But now, this problem has been effectively improved.

no way.

The forces currently implementing this project come from all over the world.

The entire meeting lasted about three hours. When Xu Yuan finally announced the end of the meeting, everyone's faces were filled with joy.

Obviously very satisfied with the content of the meeting.

From the establishment of the Global Space Exploration Alliance to the official launch of the Starship project today.

Everyone finally got into work mode and focused all their attention on the interstellar spacecraft as soon as they returned to the office.

Xu Yuan is no exception.

He plans to finalize the design of the interstellar spacecraft with everyone within the next period of time, so as to facilitate the formal production of subsequent spacecraft.

In this way, if any problems are encountered during the process, they can be dealt with in a timely manner.

at the same time.

The news that the Global Space Exploration Alliance’s first project was confirmed was soon posted on the Internet.

It instantly attracted a lot of attention from everyone.

As a special global organization, the Space Exploration Alliance does not keep secrets on project development. On the contrary, it will announce the progress in real time.

Let the public know clearly what stage the project is currently at.

The main thing is that this is different from the previous situation. The whole world has become a whole, so there is no hostile competition.

Of course, there is no need to hide good things.

So when netizens learned that Xu Yuan was going to lead the world's top experts to build an interstellar spacecraft belonging to human civilization, their emotions immediately became high.

They all temporarily stopped what they were doing and discussed the issue on their commonly used social software.

It seems that we can already see the scene of a spacecraft sailing in the solar system.

"Fuck! Are they going to develop an interstellar spacecraft? As expected of the Space Exploration Alliance, with Academician Xu as the chief scientist, they dropped a trump card on their first attempt."

"This is a good thing. We have achieved controlled nuclear fusion. The aerospace field should really speed up."

"With an interstellar spacecraft, can we mine lunar resources?"

"Looking at Academician Xu's vision for the spacecraft, it should be easy to go to Mars, and it will certainly be even easier to mine lunar resources. Perhaps humans will usher in the era of interstellar space travel."

"It would be great if there was a way to transform Mars, at least it would give humans a new home."

"I told you that you can always trust Academician Xu. It looks like it won't be long before we see astronauts land on Mars."

"It is indeed a blessing to be able to live in the same era as Academician Xu. In just over 20 years, I have witnessed so much history."

"Do you think it's possible to buy a ticket on an interstellar spaceship to travel through the solar system in the future?"

"When we have enough interstellar spacecraft, perhaps the trip to the solar system you mentioned can become a reality. But if you can really experience it, there will be basically no regrets in life."...

Although many official media have carried out propaganda coverage of the heated discussions online.

This also includes overseas media.

But the headquarters of the Global Space Exploration Alliance seems to have entered a closed-door mode.

All my energy is focused on the research of interstellar spacecraft design, so I definitely don’t have time to check out what’s trending online.

Compared with traditional manned spacecraft, interstellar spacecraft can be said to be a product of science fiction movies.

Because the mission is to fly within the solar system and perform missions, the performance requirements in all aspects must be extremely high. You can imagine the difficulty.

In other words, we already have successful experience in aerospace fighters and aerospace motherships, so we can get started faster. Otherwise, let alone completing the design of the interstellar spacecraft as soon as possible, I am afraid that for a long time, everyone will be in an awkward state of being at a loss.

Time flies by like a fleeting moment.

As we enter May, the weather has gradually warmed up, and it feels like early summer.

On that day, more than a hundred senior experts, including Xu Yuan, gathered in the conference hall of the alliance headquarters to hold the third round of discussion and seminar on the design of interstellar spacecraft.

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After more than two months of hard work, we finally came up with a preliminary design plan.

However, some areas still need to be optimized and modified.

It is worth mentioning that this plan was not designed by Xu Yuan himself, but each team was responsible for different parts of the system.

Xu Yuan behaved very confidently here. After the meeting started, he asked his assistant Qin Ming to demonstrate the spacecraft plan.

As the screen in the conference hall displayed the picture, a drawing of a shuttle-shaped spacecraft came into everyone's sight. Its length reached more than 200 meters, only slightly smaller than the country's first aircraft carrier.

Once everyone's attention was drawn to it, Xu Yuan no longer hesitated.

Start explaining your design plan.

Since the purpose of the spacecraft is to transport supplies and astronauts and to explore planets in the solar system, the spacecraft's flight speed and payload space naturally have to be given top priority.

To do this, the spacecraft's weapon system had to be sacrificed, which means that the spacecraft does not carry any weapons.

……

"In addition to the exterior layout you have seen, I have also designed a brand new nuclear fusion engine specifically for the spacecraft. If my calculations are correct, the theoretical maximum speed of the spacecraft will exceed 1% of the speed of light."

Xu Yuan looked at the audience and spent half an hour explaining his plan.

Finally, when he mentioned the spacecraft's power engine, it can be said that before he had even finished speaking, it had already caused quite a commotion below.

There were endless exclamations.

"One percent of the speed of light, oh my god."

"This is really exciting news. If the spacecraft travels at this speed, it will only take a few hours to reach Mars at the closest distance."

"It's so exquisite."

"It's unimaginable."

For the people present, one percent of the speed of light was absolutely an unimaginable number.

The main thing is that everyone knows what this represents.

After all, it only takes a few hours to reach Mars, and we can travel between the Earth and Mars very easily, transport supplies and speed up the exploration of Mars.

As for the moon, it is naturally more convenient.

Even though everyone had absolute trust in Xu Yuan, they couldn't help but ask one more question at this time.

"Dear Chief Xu, can the new nuclear fusion engine plan really allow the spacecraft to reach a flight speed of 1% of the speed of light?"

Hearing the voice, Xu Yuan raised his eyes and saw that the person asking the question was an expert with black skin.

Xu Yuan was not at all surprised by the disbelief in his words, because he had already thought about it when he decided to design this engine.

Although the power engines used by both aerospace fighters and aerospace motherships can be considered very advanced, they have not broken away from traditional thinking and still mainly rely on the assistance of force field drive devices.

So the flight speed is limited.

In the future, interstellar spacecraft will travel within the solar system, so they cannot be careless about flight speed.

Therefore, after more than two months of continuous attempts, with the help of the panel progress bar, he successfully designed a new nuclear fusion engine.

Through calculations, the theoretical flight speed can exceed one percent of the speed of light.

And this is a relatively conservative estimate.

After all, the new interstellar spacecraft must be equipped with a force field drive device.

Just when Xu Yuan was thinking about this and hadn't answered yet, He Luping in the crowd suddenly stood up and took over the conversation with an excited smile on his face.

"Chief Xu has invested a lot of energy in the nuclear fusion engine of the spacecraft during this period. I have seen it all, so I believe that the effect of the engine will not disappoint everyone."

"If nothing unexpected happens, it will be even faster." Xu Yuan smiled and nodded when he heard that.

These words immediately made the man's face excited. He took a deep breath to calm himself down and sit down again.

Otherwise, faced with such a surprise, I would probably have to shout it out loud.

Xu Yuan then continued to preside over the discussion meeting and then turned his attention to Professor Wood in the front row.

"Professor Wood, please continue your explanation."

As the leader of one of the teams, Wood is also responsible for the design of some control systems for the spacecraft. According to the process, he also has to go on stage and explain it in detail.

This will allow everyone to conduct intuitive analysis and research to identify loopholes in the solution and areas that can be optimized.

Good for subsequent modification.

But what surprised Xu Yuan was that after Wood in the front row stood up, he did not show any intention of going up, but instead shook his head decisively.

"Chief Xu, your proposal is simply amazing, especially the fact that you increased the speed of the spacecraft to 1% of the speed of light. I'm afraid our control plan cannot be adapted to it, so please allow us to revise it."

Wood had mixed feelings at this time. He had thought that their team had completed the design of the spacecraft control system and could finally make a contribution to the alliance.

As a result, they never expected that the spacecraft could reach 1% of the speed of light, so their control system would definitely not work.

Further upgrade is needed.

However, this also made him realize Xu Yuan's strength and understand that joining the Space Exploration Alliance was the right decision.

At the same time, I am excited that human civilization can own such a spacecraft.

After listening to what Wood said, Xu Yuan was a little amused. He didn't expect that the solution would be incompatible because of his upgrade.

But the plan must be upward compatible, so he immediately agreed to Wood's proposal and said he would go over to help participate in the discussion. Hearing this, Wood was naturally happy and excited again.

In the following period, just when Xu Yuan and Wood had officially finalized the plan for the spacecraft, they suddenly received good news from the Luyang Quantum Innovation Institute.

...(End of chapter)