Quickly use the gravitational slingshot of the moon to fly towards the orbit of Mars.
The 2,864-ton Huozhi 107 spacecraft is flying in deep space about 70,000 kilometers away from the moon and about 480,000 kilometers away from the earth.
At this time, the flight speed of Huozhong 107 was 8.5 kilometers per second.
At this moment.
Huozhong 107 suddenly adjusted its flight attitude. The nozzle of the methane liquid oxygen engine became the flying head, and the head became the flying tail. The spacecraft temporarily relied on the previous inertia to fly.
After the head changed into a tail, the new tail began to deform. To be precise, it opened the fairing.
The fairing unfolds like a flower, forming a cover with a diameter of 20 meters. There is also a special nozzle with a diameter of 9.8 meters in the center of the cover.
After re-adjusting the direction.
Comte looked solemn: "The Homo sapiens company is really terrible! It has even built a nuclear-powered spaceship."
Bill quickly looked through it.
"Then what can you do? There is no way to catch up. We simply cannot keep up with the development speed of Homo sapiens. Even if there are risks, I will promote the nuclear-powered launch vehicle project." Bill was very tough.
I have already driven a nuclear-powered spaceship to Mars.
"OK." Davis, a little guilty, hurriedly called.
Deputy Director Davis said with a tangled look on his face: "Homo sapiens company just carried out a nuclear explosion."
Soon, Davis returned again, interrupting his thinking.
"Now we must follow up. Although there is no way to build a Daedalus spacecraft, we must have a nuclear-powered spaceship." Bill clenched his fists.
"What happened again?" He took a sip of espresso to refresh himself.
"Director, the security conference room is ready."
Are you still playing Little Rocket?
Davis took the document from the assistant and handed it to Bill.
Davis replied bravely: "Moon orbit."
However, the nuclear heat-nuclear power solution must consider heat dissipation. Otherwise, the nuclear battery or nuclear reactor will inevitably suffer from thermal melting due to the inability to dissipate heat, causing equipment failure and even directly scrapping the entire spacecraft.
NASA has launched three Falcon launch vehicles in succession in the past few days, and all of them were successful, making many people forgetful.
The Homo sapiens company put too much pressure on him. Compared with NASA and the other party, the two are not opponents at the same level at all.
Although he was a little angry about Davis going beyond him, he knew very well that the current board of directors would not easily change the generals on the spot. At least when the space competition was still in the early stages of burning money, his position was simply a chore.
The satellite responsible for monitoring the direction of the moon suddenly detected a burst of gamma rays and photons, and then gamma rays and strong light signals appeared every 60 seconds on average.
A sleepy-eyed Bill came to the office with an espresso.
In this dark, deep sky, a small sun seemed to appear.
Now the Homo sapiens company directly uses hard power to tell the world that your uncle is still your uncle.
The two arrived at the secure conference room, and several assistants had already opened the video conferencing software.
"Then let's go!"
A total of 50 micro-nuclear explosions were detected before and after. Calculated from the 60 seconds between explosions, it means that the speed of the Spark spacecraft has been increased to about 50 kilometers per second.
Even without satellite monitoring, many observatories that are observing the moon at this time can see a series of light spots near the moon through astronomical telescopes.
What he was more concerned about at this time was actually the use of nuclear explosive thrusters by the Homo sapiens company.
There are huge gaps in technology, resources, talents, and organizations.
Obviously, faced with this huge pressure and gap, they finally planned to adjust their flexible bottom line.
"I have informed you." Davis scratched his head.
Conde, president of the Terrestrial Association, Matthew Duke, the new head of the space agency of the Europa Consortium, and the head of the Lucia Space Department, etc., appeared in the video one after another.
In the bright light of the little sun, the speed of Huozhong No. 107 suddenly increased a lot.
A ball the size of a fist suddenly spewed out from the center of the tail nozzle of Fire No. 107.
Calculated at a speed of 50 kilometers per second, the spacecraft can fly 4.32 million kilometers in a day.
After about a few seconds.
However, this plan is actually more difficult than the nuclear explosion plan.
Nuclear explosion propulsion solutions do not need to consider heat dissipation issues.
"Wang Defa?! You said that the Homo sapiens company is conducting nuclear tests on the moon?" Bill jumped up from his seat.
Another little sun flickered behind Huozhong No. 107.
The next second, the ball emitted a burst of dazzling light.
NASA's ground command center.
The reason is that the speed of the Spark is too fast, exceeding the capture limit of Mars' gravity, so the Spark must take a period of time to slow down.
Bill took a deep breath: "Notify the Pentagon and the Board of Governors!"
But even so, this speed is already amazing.
After a heated discussion, although the Ground Alliance agreed to the proposal to develop a nuclear-powered launch vehicle, it required that it not be used in the atmosphere, and that it would not use a nuclear explosion solution, but a nuclear thermal-nuclear power solution.
The next second.
The four people participating in the video conference obviously already knew about the moon's orbit.
Then Bill, who was still sleeping, was hurriedly woken up by his subordinates.
Of course, Bill knew that 26 days was impossible.
In other words, it only takes about 26 Earth days for the Spark to reach Mars orbit.
Bill glanced at the other party meaningfully, and then changed the subject: "Then let me inform other partners that I want to hold a video conference with Dilian."
"To be more precise, we are conducting a nuclear explosion propulsion test. A Homo sapiens company's Pyrotype spacecraft is accelerating towards Mars under the propulsion of a nuclear explosion." Davis quickly explained.
At this time, Mars is about 110 million kilometers away from the Earth, and the distance between the two planets is approaching at a rate of 500,000 kilometers per day.
"Give me the details!" Bill felt bad.
"The problem is that the location of this nuclear explosion experiment is in orbit near the moon."
The person in charge of Lucia also nodded: "Nuclear-powered launch vehicles are indeed one of the few effective means for us to compete with Homo sapiens companies. There are definitely risks, but this is not the reason for us to reject nuclear-powered launch vehicles."
The reason why it is difficult is that the focus is on heat dissipation.
"Isn't it the moon...? Wait a minute, where did you say it is?" Bill's eyes widened.
"Nuclear explosion test? You should notify the Pentagon instead of waking me up." Bill rubbed his temples speechlessly, and then took another sip of espresso.
Although he hoped to force the Council to pay attention to NASA through the pressure of Homo sapiens Company, it is obvious that the pressure of Homo sapiens Company on NASA has almost exploded, which makes him not know how to deal with and catch up.
Conde hesitated: "Bill, wouldn't it be too dangerous to go directly to nuclear power?"
This made Bill feel a sense of frustration involuntarily.
The Homo sapiens company showed them the way, but they thought they were right.
Without the gold-based electrothermal materials of Homo sapiens, if you still want to play nuclear thermal-nuclear electric propulsion, the difficulty is not ordinary, but very difficult.
Of course, there are also thresholds for nuclear explosion propulsion solutions. For example, nuclear protection materials must be able to withstand micro-nuclear explosions at close range, which has very high requirements for materials.
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