Homo sapiens

Although the new aerospace engine in the Lunar Mendeleev Base City has not yet reached the level envisioned.

But for use within the solar system, it is more than enough.

After all, the problem of the service life of the lithium carbon nanolayer is actually just a problem in a specific environment.

Navigating within the solar system can completely increase the thickness of the lithium carbon nanolayer, thereby extending the service life of the lithium carbon nanolayer.

Therefore, after 37 days of trouble-free operation of this engine, the Space Division, Space Defense Department, Space Colonization Department, and Earth Defense Department jointly planned to replace engines and thrusters for all current spacecraft.

Since the moon belongs to the defense zone of the Earth Defense Department, Maungku directly transferred five space battleships to the Mendeleev Base City and asked them to install new nuclear fusion engines and plasma thrusters on them.

For the Blue Dragon-class space battleship weighing 120,000 tons, only one "Karl 1B" is needed.

The Carl 1B type is specially supplied for nuclear fusion power systems used within the solar system. The 3 times thicker lithium carbon nanolayer is enough to ensure that the nuclear fusion power system can operate without failure for 90 to 120 days.

The spacecraft will also be equipped with spare lithium carbon nanolayers that can be quickly replaced at any time.

In addition, according to simulation tests, spacecraft traveling in the inner solar system do not need to use a speed of 6,000 kilometers per second. This speed is too low in cost performance in the inner solar system.

According to simulation test results, a limit speed of 200 to 1,000 kilometers per second is the optimal limit speed for a spacecraft equipped with a nuclear fusion power system.

For example, traveling from the Earth to Venus, Mars, and Mercury, a speed of 200 kilometers per second is the most cost-effective, and the journey only takes about 3 to 15 days.

Although it is possible to use a speed of 1,000 kilometers per second, the cost performance of this speed is too low. The flight process is completely accelerating and decelerating. For a manned spacecraft, continuous violent acceleration and deceleration will make the riding experience very bad.

The speeds to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are 400 kilometers per second, 500 kilometers per second, 600 kilometers per second, and 700 kilometers per second respectively.

Going to Pluto and the Kuiper belt, the speed is 800 to 1,000 kilometers per second.

This is a limit value specially calculated based on the distance between the two planets.

Normally, these limit values ​​are constantly adjusted according to changes in the distance between the two planets to ensure the most cost-effective voyage.

The Karl 1B type spacecraft sailing in the inner solar system will not operate at full power. Under normal circumstances, only 2 to 4 Levis rings will be activated.

On the one hand, this can save fuel, and on the other hand, it can extend the overall service life of the lithium carbon nanolayer of the power system.

In less than half a month, one of the Azure Dragon-class space battleships was upgraded.

This is the terrifying productivity of Homo sapiens. As long as the product design is determined, the transformation of the production line can be completed very quickly.

The current Karl 1B nuclear fusion power system production line in the Lunar Mendeleev Base City can produce 50 Karl 1B units per month if operated at full capacity.

After the Azure Dragon-class space battleship completed the upgrade of its power system, it was quickly pulled to the spaceport on the side of the base.

Considering the Karl 1B plasma thruster, the plasma tail flame it ejects is very terrifying, basically no different from a particle cannon.

Therefore, during the take-off process of this improved version of the Qinglong class, you must pay attention to the direction of the thruster nozzle. If the nozzle is aimed at the equipment and facilities of the spaceport, it is very likely to cause unnecessary losses.

The management personnel in charge of the spaceport arranged a special diagonal upward runway for the Qinglong class.

Captain Yin Siyong looked at the star chart.

At this time, the far side of the moon was facing the orbit of Mars. He immediately ordered: "Everyone is here, target Mars, move forward at full speed!"

"receive."

The two Levis rings in the power system quickly entered nuclear fusion operation.

When the soldier who controls the thruster presses the start button, the thruster begins to spit out aluminum ions that are ionized into plasma.

The aluminum ions accelerated to 15% of the speed of light left a cutting trajectory on the runway, and the blocking plate set up behind also appeared densely packed with potholes.

If this is aimed at other spaceships, it can tear a hole in the spacecraft in an instant.

Soon, driven by the manic plasma, the Qinglong class slowly moved forward, and its speed became faster and faster.

In less than 100 seconds, the battleship flew along the slope runway towards the universe. The moon with low gravity and no atmosphere is very convenient for taking off large spaceships.

But as the Qinglong-class ship flew into the universe, the staff of the spaceport also controlled the robot and conducted a careful inspection of the runway.

The results are not optimistic.

A very obvious crack was cut out of the runway by the plasma. The depth of this crack reached 4 to 6 centimeters and the width reached 15 meters.

This situation basically means that this runway has been abandoned.

The person in charge of the spaceport quickly reported the situation.

But there is no solution above. After all, the damage to the runway caused by the ultra-high-speed plasma thruster is basically unsolvable.

The existing spaceport runways are all made of six-claw silicon steel or biosilicate polymers. No matter how good these materials are, they cannot withstand dense particle impacts.

The high-speed plasma thruster is a necessary condition for realizing the high-speed navigation of the spacecraft, which is indispensable.

After discussions, the development research departments of several departments came up with some plans.

For example, the landing of spacecraft equipped with high-speed plasma thrusters will be reduced, and a special handover spacecraft will be used to be responsible for the transportation between spacecrafts, planets and space stations.

Those spaceports that require landing are specially equipped with exclusive runways. This kind of runway has several requirements. The first is that it is cheap, the second is that it is disposable, and the third is that it is convenient for quick maintenance.

After all, it is impossible not to land all the time. The Homo sapiens company's spacecraft needs maintenance once a year.

Of course, the company can also choose another option, which is to use a space dock to arrange the annual maintenance work of the spacecraft at the space dock.

But now the spacecraft owned by the Homo sapiens company is very large, including 758 military warships and 9,673 civilian spacecraft.

And the scale is still increasing every year.

However, Homo Sapien Company has only three space docks, and the remaining space shipyards and maintenance plants are all located on the moon, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter's satellites.

Now we must make two-pronged preparations. On the one hand, we must increase the scale of the space dock, and on the other hand, we must transform a number of specialized ground spaceports to facilitate the landing of upgraded spacecrafts.

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