The space carrier slowly moored on a large flat Gobi desert on the east side.
This behemoth, parked on the ground, looks taller than the buildings in Harij Aerospace City.
After a while, the security convoy of the Space City Base rushed out from the east gate of the base, bringing up a large amount of sand and dust. More than thirty armored vehicles came from three directions.
Obviously the base director attaches great importance to Li Qingye's safety and has dispatched almost a quarter of the base's security force.
Although the security force around Li Qingye was very strong, the aerial fleet in the sky turned on the magnetic field radar at maximum power, not letting go of any disturbance within a radius of several hundred kilometers.
In fact, the location of Harij Aerospace City is already in the hinterland, surrounded by the locations of all the subsidiaries of Homo sapiens Corporation.
Especially in a place like Harij Space City, there are basically no outsiders around, they are all new human employees of the Homo sapiens company.
More than twenty minutes later.
When Li Qingye saw the security convoy arriving, he took the elevator down from the space carrier.
Outside the car window, the scenery that comes into view is rarely green except for the Gobi Desert and sand.
Although this area belongs to the Harij Oasis area, to be precise, it is actually a desert highland.
This is also to make full use of land resources. The core area of the Harij Oasis is a low-lying area with an altitude of less than 200 meters, while the altitude of the space city is about 320 to 340 meters.
Low-lying areas are prioritized as seawater agricultural development zones, while cities, industrial bases, security bases, etc. are distributed in the Gobi Desert and desert highlands on the edges.
Soon the security convoy escorted Li Qingye into the space city.
The entire Harij Aerospace area is very vast and is mainly divided into four areas: living area, industrial area, transportation system, and launch site.
Among them, the launch site is the farthest from the base. It is connected by a special super track and highway. The distance between the two places is 27 kilometers.
The reason why we go this far is mainly for safety reasons.
After all, submetallic hydrogen is, to put it bluntly, a super explosive, and the technical path of Harij Space City is to use submetallic hydrogen as the propulsion fuel of the space shuttle. A single flight requires several thousand tons of submetallic hydrogen, which is roughly equivalent to
Hundreds of thousands of tons of TNT.
With such a huge amount of submetallic hydrogen, once an accident occurs, it can spread to a radius of 10 kilometers in an instant.
Therefore, submetallic hydrogen is produced locally and used on the spot. It will not be transported over long distances or stored for a long time. The production workshop of submetallic hydrogen is also on the side of the launch site, not in the industrial area.
The managers of Harij Aerospace City do not dare to take this kind of terrifying explosives lightly. After all, this kind of thing is related to their own lives.
Li Qingye went to the living area of the base and visited the ordinary employees working there.
Then I met with the base director Du Hai and chief engineer Mikoyan.
Mikoyan explained with some embarrassment: "Mr. Chairman! I'm very sorry! The original plan for the launch in June this year has to be postponed to the end of the year due to some technical reasons."
"It doesn't matter, things will never be smooth sailing." Li Qingye looked at Du Hai again: "You came to work here from the Luzon branch, you should get used to it!"
Du Hai nodded: "It's okay, just get used to it."
"Tell me what problems you encountered?"
Dr. Mikoyan quickly explained: "The main problem is the control of the explosion time."
Then he turned on the holographic projection and projected the design model of the super space shuttle Ra.
Li Qingye quickly saw the problem mentioned by Dr. Mikoyang.
The problem lies in the space shuttle's engine, which adopts the design of a solid-state rocket engine. After the engine ignites submetallic hydrogen, a violent explosion will occur instantly, thus promoting the space shuttle's acceleration.
However, here's the problem. Dr. Mikoyan's design plan is to use special barrier materials to separate the time of the submetallic hydrogen explosion, thereby achieving even distribution of the explosion thrust.
The idea is very good, but the barrier material is difficult to work with.
The intensity is too low to provide a temporary barrier.
If the intensity is too high, the metallic hydrogen explosion may be delayed, resulting in the two explosions being unable to continue, or even directly tearing open the engine explosion chamber in the next explosion.
Even though Dr. Mikoyan and a group of researchers have found a relatively reasonable strength range for the barrier layer through repeated tests, in a series of actual tests, there are still problems with sudden premature explosion or delayed explosion.
"...The main reason why this problem occurs is that violent explosions will produce some unpredictable disturbances, resulting in the stagnation time of the barrier layer being sometimes short and sometimes long." Dr. Mikoyan was a little helpless.
Li Qingye also looked at the simulation advancement in the holographic projection and fell into deep thought.
Suddenly an idea flashed through his mind. Li Qingye, who has a super brain, is not only very powerful in biology and medicine, but also at the top level in other subjects. It's just that he doesn't usually perform well.
"You should try electric cooling."
"Huh?" Dr. Mikoyan was confused.
Li Qingye reminded: "Gold-based materials can be quickly refrigerated, and coupled with nuclear batteries, an ultra-low temperature environment of minus 180 degrees Celsius can be quickly created, and the system is very simple and compact."
"Gold-based electrothermal material?" Dr. Mikoyan certainly knows about this material. After all, part of his space shuttle design plan requires the use of this material.
It's just that he can't turn around the problems of electric heating material refrigeration and explosion delay control.
"Abandon the design plan of using a solid rocket motor and use a detonation engine! Then make submetallic hydrogen into small balls, use a design similar to a magazine, and spray the small balls one by one into the explosion chamber of the detonation engine."
Detonation engine?
Small ball?
clip?
Gold-based electrothermal material refrigeration?
Dr. Mikoyan reorganized it in his mind and found that this system can indeed effectively control the problem of submetallic hydrogen explosion control.
Originally, the reason why they designed the space shuttle's engine as a solid rocket motor was that submetallic hydrogen was difficult to preserve.
Although the super space shuttle is huge, it is difficult to integrate a compact and efficient ultra-low temperature system.
After all, it is necessary to refrigerate thousands of tons of submetallic hydrogen and maintain ultra-low temperatures for several hours. The space shuttle cannot fit a bloated refrigeration system inside.
The emergence of gold-based electrothermal materials has solved this problem, allowing the space shuttle to be equipped with an ultra-low temperature containment system.
Feeling that this plan has a great success rate, Dr. Mikoyan also became excited: "Mr. Chairman, please allow me to simulate this plan."
"Don't be too formal. You can simulate this plan."
"Then I'll excuse you." Dr. Mikoyan hurriedly took his assistant to do the simulation experiment.
Du Hai quickly apologized: "I'm sorry! Mr. Chairman, Dr. Mikoyan is a bit stubborn."
Li Qingye waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, let's go shopping in other industrial zones."
"Yes." Du Hai secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Dr. Mikoyan, on the other hand, had returned to his office. He immediately summoned a dozen engine design engineers and related researchers from the Space City to start preparing for simulation experiments.
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