The Blue Dragon-class space battleship flying to Mars, after 20 hours of continuous acceleration, reached a speed of 200 kilometers per second.
At this time, it is 160 million kilometers away from Mars.
At a speed of 200 kilometers per second, it will only take 222 hours to travel to Mars.
Of course, taking into account the deceleration and acceleration time, it is estimated that it will take 237 hours to reach Mars.
It takes less than 10 days to fly from the Earth to Mars, which is already very fast.
Captain Yin Siyong and several pilots were watching the star sector monitoring system in the cockpit.
The speed of battleships is extremely fast, but the risks involved also increase.
At the speed of the Qinglong class at this time, once it hits an asteroid, the result will be the destruction of the ship and the loss of lives. Although Yin Siyong and others are serving through synchronized robots, the cost of building a Qinglong class is quite high.
Therefore, they must pay close attention to the monitoring data of the star area. All asteroids with a diameter of more than 1 centimeter must be monitored.
"Report, an asteroid with a diameter of 3.4 meters was detected 14,783 kilometers ahead."
"Report……"
Yin Siyong looked at the densely packed asteroids on the star sector map that monitored the holographic projection, with a very cautious expression on his face.
Although there are very few large asteroids, there are quite a few asteroids that are a few centimeters to several meters in size between the orbits of the Earth and Mars.
These asteroids are a fatal threat to high-speed spacecraft.
Sailing too fast is also an annoyance.
First Officer Michel thought for a while, then turned his head and suggested: "Captain, if new power systems are installed on a large scale in the future, the speed of spacecraft will be very fast, and asteroids on the route must be cleared away."
"Well, I will propose it to the headquarters." Yin Siyong certainly knows that asteroids on the route are an issue that must be taken seriously.
If we don’t pay attention to it now, the company will have more and more spaceships in the future, which will be a huge hidden danger.
During the flight, the battleship constantly adjusts its flight direction.
Fortunately, the battleship has entered a state of inertial flight at this time and does not require additional power to continue accelerating. The auxiliary thruster to change the sailing direction and the internal power system of the battleship do not use nuclear fusion to generate electricity, but a nuclear fission reactor.
The reason why nuclear fission reactors are used is to use good steel on the blade for cost-effectiveness.
The nuclear fusion power system is mainly used to provide energy for main thrusters and weapon equipment, while the electrical energy from the nuclear fission reactor is used for auxiliary thrusters and internal power.
This way.
This voyage will take 20 hours of acceleration and 20 hours of deceleration before the nuclear fusion power system will start.
It was only powered on for 40 hours, and only two of the Levi's rings were activated, which greatly extended the service life of the lithium carbon nanolayer of the nuclear fusion power system.
According to this method, the Qinglong-class nuclear fusion power system can fly back and forth from the Earth to Mars 150 to 180 times before the lithium carbon nanolayer of the nuclear fusion power system needs to be replaced.
210 hours later.
At this time the battleship was very close to Mars.
Yin Siyong immediately ordered: "Start to slow down!"
Next to the main thruster at the back of the battleship, there are six secondary thrusters. The nozzles of these secondary thrusters are all slanted forward and outward, in the opposite direction to the main thruster.
The function of these six secondary thrusters is to slow down.
As the two Levi's rings of the nuclear fusion power system were activated again, the six secondary thrusters began to spit out dense high-speed plasma.
The battleship's speed subsequently decreased.
It is estimated that after 20 hours, the speed of the battleship will drop to about 6 kilometers per second. At that time, the battleship will be captured by the gravity of Mars and become a "satellite" of Mars.
And on the rotational orbit of Mars.
Phobos, Deimos, has completely transformed into the shape of a Homo sapiens company, and the surface of the star is densely covered with various man-made facilities.
Among them, Phobos is the location of Mars' first shipyard and the spaceport where the Blue Dragon-class battleship plans to park.
20 hours later.
This Azure Dragon-class space battleship docked slowly not far from Phobos, with the distance between the two sides less than 150 kilometers.
About half an hour later, a maintenance spacecraft arrived next to the Qinglong class.
A large number of maintenance personnel boarded the Qinglong class and began to conduct a comprehensive overhaul of the battleship. In particular, the nuclear fusion power system, which was put on the ship for the first time, was the focus of the overhaul.
In addition, the maintenance of the spacecraft also brings a large amount of water resources, which are the nuclear fuel of the nuclear fusion power system. The water is ionized, in which hydrogen is used as the fuel of nuclear fusion, and oxygen is used as the working fluid of the plasma thruster.
Water is the best fuel for spacecraft to navigate within the solar system. After all, pure hydrogen is very troublesome to store. Water kills two birds with one stone. Hydrogen is used as nuclear fuel and oxygen is used as the working medium for plasma thrusters. The storage of water is very simple.
When Yin Siyong and others saw that the maintenance would take about 50 hours, they offlined the battleship's synchronized robot, and then temporarily brought the synchronized robot of Mars Zhurong City online to visit here.
Mars Zhurong City.
Not on Mars, but in the synchronous orbit of Mars.
This is a huge spiral-arm space city with a spiral arm length of 15 kilometers. In order to build this space city, the Homo sapiens company hollowed out more than a dozen iron-nickel asteroids in the asteroid belt.
The end of the huge spiral arm is the standard gravity living area.
Eight spiral arms are connected in ring-shaped cabins.
Yin Siyong came to the standard gravity area through the synchronous robot. The pseudo-gravity here is almost the same as the earth's gravity.
The annular cabin is also very huge, with a diameter of 300 meters.
There are 2,793 new humans resident here.
Standing on the ground of the ring-shaped cabin, it feels like you are on the surface of the earth. There are special villas on the ground, as well as a large number of flowers, plants and trees.
Yin Siyong even saw some dragonflies and bees.
"It seems that this pseudo-gravity can replace the earth's gravity."
"Probably not yet!" First mate Michelle squatted next to a patch of tulips, and he smelled the strong fragrance of the tulips.
That's right, the new generation of synchronous robots can smell and feedback the same taste to the main body.
Yin Siyong shook his head: "Actually, Mars has a way to turn into the earth."
"Are you talking about the additive plan? This project is too risky, and the headquarters probably won't agree to it." Michelle stood up with a surprised look on her face.
The so-called additive plan is one of the Homo sapiens company's backup plans for transforming Mars.
Its core principle is to transport asteroids from the asteroid belt and dig out some of Jupiter's satellite minerals, and fill these minerals into Mars.
As long as the mass of Mars is the same as that of the Earth, then the gravity of Mars will be the same as that of the Earth.
This solution can solve the gravity problem of Mars once and for all, but the risks of doing so are very high, and the plan has been shelved at present.
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