Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 46 Feitian Type

This first test fire did not last long and no actual flight took place.

Just over ten minutes after it left the ground more than ten meters away, it landed under the control of Li Qingsong and the engine was shut down.

Afterwards, the clones guarding nearby rushed over, used various tools to cut it into pieces, and began to check one by one what changes had occurred to the various components that made it up during the process.

Among them, the engine system and injection system are particularly important.

So Li Qingsong saw that after only a dozen minutes of injection, due to the high temperature and high pressure, some unexpected changes had occurred in the engine components and injector components.

"This won't work. We still need to continue adjusting and optimizing."

A simple "optimization adjustment" becomes an extremely complex and comprehensive project involving multiple disciplines in reality.

On Earth, this kind of thing would be impossible to accomplish without tens of thousands of people working hard for a year or two.

But on Luoshen Star, the situation is different.

At this moment, the total population under Li Qingsong's command has reached 140 million, and the number of connected consciousnesses has increased to 60. Accordingly, the number of clones working in the research base, completely off-duty and dedicated solely to advancing technology, has also increased to 30.

In a civilization, half of the population is engaged in scientific research. What does this mean?
Compared with human civilization, although the population has increased to tens of billions, if all scientific research populations are counted - even the number of science and engineering students currently studying in college is counted, the total scientific research population of the entire civilization is only about 6 million, accounting for only 6%.

But just this 6% of the scientific research population has pushed the development of human civilization to an extremely high level, and even has the ability to launch a spacecraft to carry Li Qingsong to Luoshen, a planet on the edge of the solar system, for scientific research.

At this moment, Li Qingsong's scientific research strength is more than just 50%.

These 30 scientific research clones all have knowledge reserves in all disciplines, and there is no communication cost between them. They work 24 hours a day, all year round, without any internal friction, and all their energy is devoted to scientific research.

All in all, a rough assessment of one of his scientific clones is probably equivalent to 20 human scientists.

This is equivalent to 600 million high-quality scientific researchers conducting scientific research!

At this moment, about 5 scientific research clones, equivalent to about 100 million human scientists, are engaged in the optimization and adjustment of the aircraft.

So, just three days later, a new optimization plan was ready, and five days later, a new aircraft prototype was built.

This time, it flew to a height of several hundred meters, traveled several kilometers, and lasted for half an hour.

Then came further optimization and adjustments, which were repeated over and over again. Finally, half a year later, a finalized mass-production model aircraft was finally built.

"ignition!"

At a command, the liquid methane and liquid oxygen stored in the fuel tank of the aircraft, which still maintained a hemispherical shape, were released into the combustion chamber under the control of the automatic chip.

Electric ignition equipment ignited them, and they immediately began to burn violently, expanding rapidly in volume, and the temperature and pressure rose sharply.

Through specially designed jet pipes, these high-temperature and high-pressure gases are guided to the bottom of the aircraft and ejected from below.

The craft slowly ascended. Once airborne, the gas jets from below weakened and began to emanate from behind. The craft began to move, faster and faster, higher and higher.

Because Roselle has no atmosphere, it cannot use air buoyancy to maintain its altitude. The spacecraft must always keep jetting when descending, otherwise it will fall.

The process of jetting downward to maintain the altitude of the spacecraft and jetting backward to control the speed of the spacecraft is completely automatically adjusted by the chip, and the clone only needs to input the corresponding instructions.

Another advantage of flying on Luoshen is the lack of air resistance. Once the speed is accelerated to a sufficient level, it only needs to maintain altitude, and it can continue to fly under the action of inertia.

This saves a lot of fuel.

The first finalized spacecraft manufactured by Li Qingsong flew around Luoshen Star at a speed of up to 2000 kilometers per hour in several hours. After decelerating sharply, it hovered over the test site again.

The nozzle below sprayed violently, pushing it to the ground steadily at a relatively slow speed.

After another comprehensive inspection and confirmation that everything was as expected, Li Qingsong immediately gave the order.

Mass production!

Over the years, Li Qingsong has always been troubled by the slow circulation of goods.

Bulk cargo does not require speed, such as ore, which can be transported slowly along the railway line.

But some small, special goods, such as a base urgently needs certain parts, a chip factory has produced more advanced chips that need to be rolled out on a large scale, a base urgently needs more clones to supplement, etc., these goods and personnel have to be transported slowly by train, which is unbearable.

Now, the spacecraft named "Feitian Type 1" by Li Qingsong has been finalized and put into mass production, which can make up for the shortcomings in this part and further enhance the comprehensive productivity of the entire base cluster.

"It's a pity that at this stage, the Feitian-1 spacecraft can only operate near the surface of Luoshen and cannot enter space. It can't be considered a true spacecraft."

Li Qingsong felt a little regretful: "But it doesn't matter.

Anyway, on Luoshen, airplanes and spaceships are the same thing. During mass production and subsequent large-scale use, the shortcomings of the Feitian-1 will continue to be exposed, and I can then optimize them accordingly.

Once optimized and its performance is improved to a certain level, its maximum speed will naturally exceed 830 meters per second, exceeding the first cosmic velocity of Luoshen and entering orbit."

At present, the maximum speed of Feitian-2000 is 550 kilometers per hour, about 830 kilometers per second, which is still a long way from the speed of kilometers per second.

Of course, even at this speed, it can only orbit Luoshen. To escape its gravitational field and enter space, the speed must reach about 1.2 kilometers per second, or 4320 kilometers per second.

With the finalization of the Feitian-1, the spacecraft industrial base, which had been built in advance but never put into production, finally received confirmed specifications and production standards.

Tens of thousands of clones were immediately deployed to the production line. After a series of adjustments and tests, the line finally began operating at full capacity.

Not long after, a large number of Feitian-type spacecraft began to appear in the sky of Luoshen Star, dragging long tails of flames and roaring in the sky.

(End of this chapter)