Chapter 368 , the Xingchen scientific research spacecraft
The Ningcheng County headquarters of Xinghai Aerospace Technology Group is here.
In the huge workshop, a huge spaceship was quietly carrying out its work. The three characters "Star" were clearly spray-painted on the outer shell of the spacecraft.
This is a very large spacecraft at this stage.
It is more than 200 meters long, more than 50 meters high, and more than 70 meters wide. It is huge and looks a bit like a whale, full of streamlines and curves.
"Boss, this is the spaceship we are going to use to conduct scientific research on Mars, the Star."
"It uses the largest anti-gravity engine we have developed so far, which is a quad-core drive. It is also equipped with 12 heavy-duty rocket thrusters."
"In space, its speed can reach up to 500,000 kilometers per hour, which is about twice that of Juno. It is also the fastest aircraft currently designed by humans."
"Based on the current distance between the Earth and Mars of 80 million kilometers, it only takes 160 hours to reach Mars, which works out to 6 days."
"Of course, if you include the acceleration and deceleration stages, it is estimated that it will take about 10 days to reach Mars."
Tang Peng was taking Liu Yuan to visit this huge spacecraft, and proudly introduced some data about this huge spacecraft to Liu Yuan.
One of the biggest features of the Star is its fast speed and strong power.
Four super-powerful anti-gravity engines and 12 heavy-duty rocket thrusters are installed. When accelerating in space, this huge spacecraft can accelerate to 500,000 kilometers per hour.
This speed is very terrifying. It works out to a speed of nearly 140 kilometers per second. This speed is faster than the Juno spacecraft accelerated by Jupiter's huge gravity.
The distance between Mars and the Earth is very long, 55 million kilometers at the closest point, and 400 million kilometers at the farthest point.
But based on the terrifying speed of the Star, calculated based on the current distance between the Earth and Mars, it will only take about 10 days to reach Mars. This shows how terrifying its speed is.
"With a speed of 500,000 kilometers per hour, it will reach Mars in about 10 days."
"This speed is not bad, but compared to the vast interstellar universe, this speed is still no different from standing still."
After hearing this, Liu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.
It can be said that the speed of the Star has reached the limit that human technology can currently achieve, with a speed of 1.4 million kilometers per second and a terrifying speed of 500,000 kilometers per hour.
It doesn't take an hour to fly to the moon at this speed.
But flying to Mars will still take about 10 days. This is because the distance between Mars and the Earth is relatively close now. If they were farther away, it would probably take longer.
The interstellar universe is simply too vast.
This is only the situation inside the solar system. It is the planet closest to the earth. If you want to go to Jupiter, the distance is even further and it will take longer. It is estimated that it will be calculated on a monthly basis.
"Yes, the interstellar universe is so vast that our human steps are no different from standing still."
Tang Peng also nodded and said.
"The star universe, we have only taken an extremely insignificant step now. If we have not left the solar system, it cannot actually be considered an interstellar universe."
Liu Yuan smiled and nodded.
Then we boarded the Star and started to visit carefully.
"Boss, the number of crew we designed for the Star is about 1,000 people. At that time, there will be about 100 doctors, chefs, cleaning staff, etc. on board the ship. In addition, about 900 astronauts, scientists, and engineers will go with the ship.
Mars for investigation.”
"The Star is equipped with 30 laboratories of various sizes, as well as a small smelting and processing workshop. It can mine resources to smelt and process some parts on its own. In case of emergency, it can
Perform maintenance on the spacecraft."
"There is also a vegetable planting area that can grow more than 50 kinds of common vegetables. The fresh-keeping warehouse can also keep enough vegetables, fruits and meat to feed 1,000 people for about a year."
"The stored water can be used by 1,000 people for about a year. There is also a water circulation system. If the water is recycled, it can be used for several years."
Tang Peng took Liu Yuan to visit this huge spaceship carefully.
Because it is far away from the earth, and the trip to Mars may take more than half a year, it does not mean that you can come back in just ten days and a half.
Therefore, we were fully prepared and carried enough water, food, vegetables and fruits, etc., which also occupied a large part of the storage space of the Star.
Especially water, which cannot be compressed and takes up a lot of space. Air and other things are easy to solve. With compressed air, you can easily carry enough air.
"If we can develop space technology and master space storage technology, the interstellar universe will be much more convenient, and we can carry a large amount of materials casually."
"Before space technology is mastered, the spacecraft can really only be made bigger and bigger, because there must be enough space to carry enough supplies."
"When a person is in space, he needs to eat, drink, have entertainment, etc. These all require corresponding space to achieve, but the space of the spacecraft is limited after all, and many times it can only be compressed continuously.
If you live on a spaceship for a long time, you will easily get some diseases, and people with atrial dysplasia often cannot stay on a spaceship for too long."
Being in a small, closed environment and space is a great test for people. This is well reflected on submarines. Many submarine officers and soldiers suffer from various diseases, more or less, seriously or slightly.
disease.
Liu Yuan carefully visited every area on the spacecraft.
Although this spaceship is designed to be large enough and the space is relatively large, it still feels very depressing, closed and small.
In space, coupled with the weightless environment, people are very susceptible to various diseases. Especially during long-term space travel, it is even easier to get sick and suffer from mental illnesses.
"If we want to achieve real interstellar travel, we probably need to develop gravity technology. With gravity technology, there will be gravity on the spacecraft, and various diseases and conditions can be greatly alleviated."
"In addition, communication technology must be upgraded. Quantum communication technology must be developed. Otherwise, if the distance between the earth and Mars relies on radio waves to communicate, the delay will be too serious and real-time communication will be impossible."
"In the future, if we go to more distant interstellar universes, traditional communication technology will be even less useful. If there is no quantum communication technology, space communication technology, etc., they will be truly separated, and it will be very difficult.
It’s hard to have any contact anymore.”
Liu Yuan combined some of the information he learned from the inheritance seeds and kept thinking in his mind.
Every step in the development of interstellar civilization is extremely difficult and full of countless hardships and sweat.
If humans want to get out of the earth and into the interstellar universe, the road they have to take is really long, and there are still a lot of technologies that need to be developed.
If it weren't for my good luck and the inheritance in the inheritance seeds, it is estimated that it might take hundreds of years, maybe thousands, thousands or even tens of thousands of years for the people on earth to develop anti-gravity technology.
All times are possible.
The development of civilization is not always smooth sailing, and sometimes it even goes backwards.
It often happens that barbarism defeats civilization. Coupled with religion, culture, customs, interests, etc., many times a civilization will go downhill and retreat as it develops.
Just like when the electric light first came out, on the John Bull side, because the electric light harmed the interests of the kerosene company, the kerosene company strongly opposed the promotion of the electric light. It was not until decades later that the John Bull side slowly started to
Go use the electric light.
This is a good example. The development of science and technology and civilization is not a smooth straight line, but a complete curve. Sometimes it even keeps spinning in circles, and one rotation may last hundreds of years.
There has been no progress or development in the long years of thousands of years.
"Boss, this is the flight area on the spacecraft. The Star can carry hundreds of small private anti-gravity aircraft, and it can also carry three medium-sized anti-gravity aircraft. In addition, we are also planning to equip it with various engineering machinery.
This way, when we get to Mars, we can drill and take samples to study the conditions on Mars."
"You can also explore the terrain on Mars and build a Mars base on Mars with people stationed there for a long time to study Mars, explore Mars, conduct scientific experiments, etc."
Tang Peng took Liu Yuan to a huge warehouse area, where large and small anti-gravity aircraft and various construction machinery have been parked.
These engineering machines are all specially made, specially customized, and can be used on the lunar surface. They will be shipped to Mars together and will be specially used to build a Mars base on Mars, explore, and mine Mars resources.
Going to Mars this time is not only to conduct scientific research on Mars, but also to see if it is possible to establish a Mars base on Mars. We may even leave some scientists and engineers on Mars to use
Come to study the climate, geology, etc. of Mars for a long time and make basic scientific preparations for studying the feasibility of Mars immigration.
"Not bad, not bad~"
Liu Yuan listened carefully and kept thinking in his mind. After listening, he nodded in appreciation.