Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 465 Journey to Mars ([-])

[Official history, start to adjust the flight direction, aiming at the fourth planet in the solar system - Mars. ]
[Received, adjusting. ]
[Adjustments are complete, you can start. ]
[Start the photon engine and start to accelerate. ]
Fang Tianbo immediately pressed the photon engine start switch, and one of the Jinwu 3 nuclear fusion reactors in the spaceship immediately began to supply surging energy to the photon engine.

Because the matter in the outer space is very scarce, although the beta rays from the photon engine nozzle spew out, the beta ray flow cannot be observed with the naked eye.

Under the impetus of the photon engine, Sun Chaser began to accelerate towards Mars evenly.

The front half of the spacecraft is half-wrapped by the condensed matter shield, and as time goes by, the speed of the Sunwarder spacecraft is getting faster and faster.

[Report, there is an impact phenomenon. ]
[Note bearing and distance. ]
[receive. ]
The so-called impact phenomenon is actually a common problem of sub-light-speed spacecraft. Since the spacecraft is very fast, it will produce a violent impact phenomenon when it encounters any matter, even thin interstellar dust will produce a huge impact.

This is also a very troublesome problem when the sub-light speed spacecraft flies inside the star system.

If the Sun Reacher was not protected by the condensed matter shield, the hydrogen atoms or helium atoms in the interstellar dust would continuously wash away the spacecraft; The tragedy of the spaceship crashing.

The Anluo people use a high-power magnetic field deflection method to avoid the impact phenomenon. How other civilizations solve this problem is temporarily unknown.

……

"How is it possible?" Dr. Archimedes stared at the satellite monitoring information in front of him, and his eyes widened.

The others also couldn't believe it. They were monitoring the situation of the new Chang'an space station just now, especially the huge spaceship Sun Chaser, which was their main focus.

And 10 minutes ago, the Chaser Sun began to leave the parking area of ​​the new Chang'an space station, and NASA's satellites immediately detected relevant information.

At the beginning, the spaceship was flying slowly towards the outer orbit in a regular manner, until they encountered something like a ghost just now.

"Continue to test again." Archimedes calmed down and ordered.

"OK."

A group of staff operated the satellite's instruments and equipment, and continued to track the Sun Chaser spacecraft, but the more they tracked them, the more frightened they became.

Too fast, and getting faster and faster.

"Oh Maikar! It has reached a speed of 300 kilometers per second, which is equivalent to one-thousandth of the speed of light, and it is still accelerating."

"..." Dr. Archimedes looked at the real-time data in front of him, couldn't calm down for a long time, and suddenly patted him on the shoulder with a hand.

"Archimedes, what happened?" John Burns, NASA's new administrator, appeared behind him and asked.

"Director John, we were monitoring the spacecraft of the Human Revolution Alliance just now..." Dr. Archimedes quickly explained the situation just now.

"Are you sure?" John Burns' first reaction was disbelief.

Archimedes pointed to the monitoring database and everyone present and said, "Sir, I don't need to make such an international joke."

Although he is an administrator, he still has some academic qualities as the director of NASA, especially the knowledge of aerospace and aviation. John Burns quickly and carefully checked the monitoring database, and then looked at the current Instant monitoring results.

"The current speed has reached 3.2 kilometers per second, which has exceeded one tenth of the speed of light." A staff member exclaimed.

Dr. Archimedes felt his world view was impacted, and John Burns beside him was not much better. He sat on the chair with cold hands and feet, staring blankly at the constantly scrolling data on the old-fashioned screen.

[33723KM/S...33815KM/S...]
"Judging from the trajectories of their spacecraft, they are heading to Mars." Dr. Archimedes said with some frustration.

"With the speed of their spacecraft, how long will it take to reach Mars?" John Burns asked weakly.

Archimedes thought for a while and replied: "The last Mars opposition to the sun has just passed. Currently, the distance between Mars and Blue Star is relatively close. At the speed of their spaceship, it takes about two hours!"

At present, the distance between Blue Star and Mars is relatively close, the distance between the two sides is about 1.41 million kilometers. Why do you say that the distance between Blue Star and Mars is relatively close? In fact, this has something to do with the fact that Mars’ orbit is already in opposition to the sun.

What is Mars opposition?
Mars opposition means that Mars, the blue star and the sun are almost lined up, and the blue star is located between the sun and Mars. At this time, the side of Mars illuminated by the sun is completely facing the blue star, so it is bright and easy to observe.

火星相邻两次冲日的时间间隔约为779天，平均是780天冲日一次，最近两次分别是出现在2018年7月27日和2020年10月6日。

During the period of Mars opposition to the sun, it is the time when Blue Star and Mars are closest. This is also the time period when space agencies of various countries launched Mars probes in the past.

However, there are also distinctions between Mars oppositions, which are divided into major Mars oppositions and minor Mars oppositions.The big opposition means that Mars, the blue star, and the sun are not only on the same line, but the blue star is near the aphelion, and Mars is near the perihelion, which is the so-called Mars big opposition.

At opposition, Mars is within about 6 million kilometers from the blue star, and the farthest is more than 1 million kilometers.Since the eccentricity of Mars' orbit is nearly 1/10, it is 20670 million kilometers away from the sun at perihelion and 24920 million kilometers away from the sun at aphelion, with a difference of 4250 million kilometers between the two.

比如2003年8月27日的火星冲日，火星与蓝星的距离达到6万年来的最短，仅仅约5575.8万公里。

2018年7月27日的火星冲日就是大冲，而2020年10月6日的火星冲日则是小冲，小冲意味着距离最近在1亿公里左右。

With the speed of the spacecraft getting faster and faster, the monitoring on the ground has become very difficult, and we can only monitor and search carefully along the trajectory.

Kaohsiung Aerospace Center.

"Zhiri has reached its true maximum cruising speed, 4.1427 kilometers per second."

"It is expected to reach Mars synchronous orbit in 4197 seconds, and the estimated time for the whole journey is 6273 seconds."

"The spaceship has recovered and everything is normal."

"..."

Listening to the staff's methodical report, Wang Tu felt relieved for the time being. The danger of flying at sub-light speed is very great. Not only is the ground difficult to control, but the relative speed between the high-speed flying spacecraft and other things in space is very high. If there is no condensation Without a state shield, if the magnetic field is only deflected, the danger is still very high.

……

[Captain, the spaceship has reached the deceleration area. ]
[Braking to slow down immediately. ]
[yes. ]
Sunchaser started to brake and decelerate when it was 1500 million kilometers away from the Mars synchronous orbit. If it does not brake and decelerate now, Sunchaser will directly cross the solar orbit of Mars, and then rush to the asteroid belt and the orbit of Jupiter.

After all, at such a fast speed, Mars's gravitational closure, which is only 2/5 of the blue star, is not enough to capture Sun Chaser, so braking to slow down is a must.

[Yuri, report the fuel reserve of the spacecraft. ]
[Report, the current ion working medium of the Daily is 108.76 tons, and the nuclear fuel is 4316 kg]

Fang Tianbo is not too worried about the fuel, after all, the ionic working medium is submetallic hydrogen, which can be used as nuclear fuel
Even if all these fuels are consumed, the spacecraft can transport 2000 tons of cargo and use it as nuclear fuel. In addition, Sun Chaser can also capture asteroids and the like to supplement nuclear fuel.

(End of this chapter)