Although when the supply of meat was restored, in order to ensure that people's gastrointestinal problems would not occur, the supply of meat was limited, but in the past few days, major hospitals were still full. People with diarrhea and abdominal pain were everywhere.
There is no way. I haven’t eaten so much meat in several years, so I ate more without noticing.
After solving the problem of food and meat, Cheng Xuanjia finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing people all weak and sallow, he felt uncomfortable. The most important thing was that without adequate nutritional supplements, people would not have much strength or energy in the subsequent construction.
I cannot ask everyone to be like the original leader Zhao Changxing, who could eat starch paste and perform heavy physical labor at the same time. That is unrealistic.
Now that this biggest problem has been solved, the next step of construction can begin.
Therefore, in addition to those who had to stay in the Voyager spacecraft, such as teachers, minors, spacecraft maintenance personnel, etc., there were more than 28,000 people left, all of whom rushed to the front line of construction.
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Under the premise of increasing the degree of automation as much as possible and using robots to replace human labor as much as possible, people's construction activities have shown a momentum of rapid progress.
Railways appeared on the surface of Ganymede, factories rose from the ground, fusion power plants began to transmit electricity to the outside world, and mining bases began to produce huge amounts of ore.
The steel mills were spewing thick smoke day and night, countless trains were running on the railway tracks, and many aerial and aerial spacecrafts frequently shuttled between the spacecraft and the ground base. The originally desolate surface of Ganymede was a prosperous scene.
Among all these constructions, the one that Cheng Xuanjia paid the most attention to was the construction of the No. 1 electromagnetic rail gun located in space.
The electromagnetic railgun can be located on the surface of the planet, or of course it can be located in space. Anyway, their function is the same, which is to accelerate the standard resource box.
In Cheng Xuanjia's plan, the way the Jupiter system transports resources to Sedna is not like other dwarf planets, which is to send materials directly from the surface.
Jupiter is too far away from Sedna, so the standard resource boxes sent must have extremely high speeds. This means that the power of the electromagnetic railgun must be as high as possible.
Moreover, in the later planning, the four Galileo satellites will usher in "land reclamation" and be integrated into the task of supplying resources to human civilization. Even in the further future, the remaining ones will be even more powerful than Sedna.
Small satellites will also be included in this system.
Maybe one day in the future, people will go directly deep into Jupiter's atmosphere to mine resources.
If it is launched directly from the surface of the planet like other dwarf planets, then at least one electromagnetic railgun with such huge power needs to be built on each planet. Obviously this will cause huge waste.
So in the planning process, Cheng Xuanjia decided to build No. 1, the main electromagnetic railgun, in space, and only build small and medium-sized electromagnetic railguns with lower power on the surface of the planet.
Therefore, the complete system will become like this: Whether it is Ganymede or other planets, the resources mined on all planets will first be launched to the resource transfer base through small and medium-sized electromagnetic rail guns, and then
The No. 1 electromagnetic railgun at the resource transfer base will then send them to Sedna.
With one more transfer node, the construction tasks are greatly reduced, but the efficiency is actually improved.
At this moment, it is too early to talk about the construction of the No. 1 main electromagnetic rail gun. This requires people to first complete the No. 2 electromagnetic rail gun on the surface of Ganymede. Only by completing it first can it build the main electromagnetic rail gun.
The building materials needed for the cannon are transported into space.
This task was completed in the fourth year after arriving on Ganymede.
At this time, the supporting factories have almost been completed. Various mineral bases, steel plants, copper plants, foundries, precision processing plants, etc. are all in place. The construction of standard resource boxes is also on the right track.
As a result, standard resource boxes filled with supplies were launched into space one after another. Many space operators wearing spacesuits began processing and assembly directly in space. It took another four years to complete the main task.
Construction of electromagnetic railgun.
This electromagnetic railgun is not so much an electromagnetic gun as it is a complete base.
It consists of three main parts in total. The first part is the material transfer center, which is mainly responsible for receiving standard resource boxes launched from other places and transferring them to the main electromagnetic railgun launch module. The second part is the large-scale fusion
power plant.
The energy consumption of the main electromagnetic railgun is too high, and an extremely high-power fusion power plant must be built to support its operation.
The third part is the electromagnetic railgun itself.
These three parts are connected together to create this giant space base.
It is even longer than the Voyager spacecraft. The length of the Voyager spacecraft is 7 kilometers, and its length is a full 20 kilometers.
Of course, most of the 20 kilometers in length is the length of the electromagnetic railgun barrel.
Overall, its shape is like a long, straight strip extending from a big iron ball.
The material transfer center, fusion power plant, transit warehouse, personnel living area, etc. are all in that big iron ball.
Now, almost nine years have passed since the Voyager spacecraft entered orbit. During these years, some people have died unfortunately due to accidents, and some people have contracted the genetic modification device due to various disasters or their own reasons.
There is nothing that can be done about the disease, and they can only wait to die in the sanatorium area of the Voyager spacecraft. Many people have found their lifelong lovers here, and have given birth to the crystallization of love.
Some people come and some people leave. The lives of people here in the Jupiter system and the lives of people on the planet Sedna inherently follow the same trajectory.
Just today, the development of the Jupiter system has reached a critical node.
Cheng Xuanjia has decided to send the first batch of supplies back to Sedna today, 17 years after he left Sedna and embarked on this voyage.
1,000 individual standard resource boxes with a total mass of 1,000 tons, each containing 850 tons of supplies, have been prepared and have been transferred to the launch bay of the main electromagnetic railgun base.
Among these materials, there are special steels, copper materials, water ice, chemical raw materials, gold and silver, and elements such as manganese, gallium, and indium.
The first standard resource box has been sent.
Amidst the low buzzing sound, the speed of this standard resource box immediately began to increase. When it finally rushed out of the 20-kilometer-long barrel, its speed had been increased to 1,000 times per second relative to Ganymede.
Bell up to 7 kilometers of highway.
At the moment it rushed out of the barrel, people in the main electromagnetic railgun base felt the base beneath their feet shake slightly.
The process of an electromagnetic railgun launching a standard resource box can also be compared to the process of a spacecraft engine injecting working fluid to provide itself with reverse thrust. The difference is that all electromagnetic railguns in the past were built on the surface of the planet.
The power is "digested" by the huge planet and will not cause any visible impact on the outside world.
But this is space. No object can absorb this reverse thrust.
If no measures are taken, the electromagnetic railgun base firing at a rate of one standard resource box every 5 seconds is equivalent to a spacecraft that sprays 1,000 tons of working fluid every 5 seconds. Sooner or later, it will be pushed away by this reverse thrust.
Therefore, people built a huge ion thruster in the "big iron ball" of the main electromagnetic rail gun base, and started it all the time, applying acceleration to the base all the time.
In this way, the act of launching a standard resource box essentially achieves the effect of decelerating the base in this direction, while the ion thruster at the rear achieves the effect of acceleration. The effects of both sides cancel each other out, and the electromagnetic rail gun can be
The base remains stable in the orbit of Ganymede for a long time.
It's the structural materials of the electromagnetic railgun base that suffer. They must withstand the squeeze from two directions at all times. If they cannot withstand it, the entire base will be crushed.
Of course, people will always pay attention to the stress and pressure data on the main structure of the base to ensure that this kind of thing does not happen.
At this moment, the first standard resource box has been launched. Five seconds later, the second standard resource box has also been launched. Then the third, fourth...
1,000 standard resource boxes with a total mass of 1 million tons took less than an hour and a half to launch.
This is just data that has not been debugged to the best state in the early stage. When it matures in the future, people can even achieve the efficiency of launching a standard resource box every 1 second.
By that time, if it operates at full power in one day, it will be able to send a full 86.4 million tons of supplies.
No matter how you look at it, this is an extremely large amount of material. It is enough to support the development of human civilization.
At this moment, the standard resource box that left the electromagnetic railgun had acquired an initial velocity of 7 kilometers per second.
Calculated at this speed, it would take about 70 years to reach the human civilization on Sedna from the Jupiter system.
This length of time is obviously unacceptable.
In fact, each standard resource box is equipped with 6 small ion thrusters, which also have small fusion batteries and corresponding working fluids inside. Later, they will start to accelerate again and reach Sedna.
If the deceleration is turned on before, it can still be parked in the orbit of the Sedna star.
In this case, the entire voyage will be shortened to 20 years.
This length of time is probably acceptable.
At this moment, the people who had completed the first batch of launches were rejoicing and truly felt their contribution to civilization. However, on the Sedna star more than 10 billion kilometers away, people were plunged into gloom and gloom.