But whether you have confidence is one thing, whether you work hard or not is another thing. After all, giant ants cannot threaten the survival of mankind for the time being, but Europa is the Sword of Damocles hanging over mankind!
Aliens threaten all mankind, not China alone. Resisting the threat of aliens naturally cannot rely on China alone, but requires the joint efforts of all mankind - the Mars Project is currently the only one that has the potential to successfully intercept Jupiter.
plan, what if Americans are willing to join?
Although the Americans have not expressed their position, since Beidu passed the plan, Beiyuezhou has suspended all work that can be stopped, and everyone has focused their energy on the Mars plan.
However, the Mars plan has just been released, and the corresponding design plan will take time. Construction cannot be carried out without drawings, so Beiyuezhou's industrial team went all out to prepare materials. As long as the drawings are in place, construction can start immediately. The military industry department even took a rare holiday. The only thing
The purpose is to keep employees refreshed.
At the same time, the design department was working hard and working overtime to design the drawings as required by the plan. However, designing is not something that can be accomplished overnight. The design institute needs enough time to sort out the design drawings to avoid leaving undue design risks.
But designing from scratch takes too long, and the design time limit given by the military is too short. It is simply impossible to complete the design in a conventional way. The only way is to modify the existing mature ship type!
The design drawings of several active space battleships come from this design institute. The designers are very familiar with several types of warships, but it is not easy to change the design drawings into the structures needed by the military.
On June 4, 2027, the President of the United States signed the cooperation plan for the Mars project after fully considering the opinions of all parties.
When he signed, he only had two staff members and a secretary beside him, but the wartime state gave the president great power, and relevant departments immediately started communicating with China on the implementation of the Mars plan.
In the next few days, various member states of the Al-Qaeda Group signed and approved the Mars plan. On June 7, the last member state of the Al-Qaeda Group signed the cooperation plan. Since then, the Mars plan has entered the international cooperation stage. This day is also known as
Later generations designated it as the anniversary of the Mars Project.
On June 10, 2027, the first engineering ship of the Mars project started construction at the Beiyuezhou Orbital Factory.
This is an engineering ship used for preliminary preparation. It is planned to be used for the exploration and preliminary construction of Phobos and Deimos. In order to save time, this battleship is not newly built, but directly built on a mostly completed 026-class battleship.
Modify!
Nearly a thousand engineers from Beiyuezhou Base and International Base participated in the modification work. They were divided into three groups and worked 24 hours a day to complete the modification in the shortest time.
The industrial system on the ground produces the equipment required for modification one by one and sends it to the orbital factory.
It’s not enough to just have a spaceship, you also need people to control the spaceship!
The military has no shortage of combatants, but satellite exploration requires sufficient professional knowledge, and the vast majority of military personnel do not have the basic conditions.
However, due to historical reasons, the military has always retained some special forces, including professional exploration forces. Beidou used the fastest speed to select the most suitable people.
However, most of these people work on the ground, and almost no one has been to space. If you want to send them out, you must undergo a period of aerospace training!
This is life-threatening. Even if the training course is reduced to the minimum, it will still take a year and a half. The training will not be completed before the spacecraft sets off!
This made Beidu worried. In desperation, Beidu simply sent everyone to Beiyuezhou and transferred the good ones to the fleet. It was amazing that two more people were sent to assist when performing tasks.
If it cannot adapt to the space environment, it can only be sent back to Earth.
It is relatively easy to find talents in geology, which can at least be solved within the military. However, it is not so easy to find talents in astronomy. We can only find suitable personnel from the astronomy community.
The military has also established a space major in military academies in recent years, but the first batch of students have not graduated yet, and the focus of these students is not on astral research.
After the news spread, the entire astronomical community exploded. From graduate students in their early twenties to senior professors in their late teens and early 80s, everyone enthusiastically signed up, eager to sign up on the first day and set off on the ship the next day!
Doing astronomy is very monotonous, and you even have to endure loneliness, but those who do astronomy also have a romantic heart!
An old professor put it well: "I have been doing astronomy all my life, but I have never even been outside the Earth. I finally waited for this opportunity to see Mars with my own eyes. I will die in peace!"
There are many astronomers who hold this attitude. Ever since Beiyuezhou was developed in Beidu, the astronomical community has been hoping to take advantage of this trend to prosper. However, Beiyuezhou was developed to fight against aliens. Military must be used at all times.
As the first priority, the astronomical community’s wishes have never been realized.
Now that we have such an opportunity, how can we not be enthusiastic?
However, the astronomical community also has the problem of insufficient training time. There were several suitable candidates among the astronauts before the development of Beiyuezhou, but these people are professionals in short supply in the military. They currently hold senior positions in the fleet. Everyone
There is a lot of work in hand, and sending any one of them out will be a loss for the military.
In desperation, the military could only select those with the best physiques among the qualified people and send them to Beiyuezhou, and continue to make the short ones taller.
Everyone who was selected was elated, and everyone who was not selected was dejected. A group of old professors and experts were blowing their beards and staring, and they almost came to Zhongnanhai. Before the aliens came, astronomy was an unpopular profession. After the aliens appeared, astronomy became a popular profession.
They received the attention they deserved. This group of old people said that it was no joke to find Zhongnanhai. They went straight to Brother Yi, who had to be comforted.
Amid the chaos, preparations were finally on track.
On June 18, 2027, the design of the first super nuclear power engine was completed, and the keel was laid at the Beiyuezhou Orbital Factory.
In order to shorten the design time, this engine uses mature large-scale nuclear power engine technology and arranges hundreds of single engines into a thruster array. When all engines work at the same time, pushing a mass of 100,000 tons is not a problem at all.
Even if part of the engines is damaged, at most it will lose a little acceleration - don't think that just stacking a large number of engines together is enough. The more engines are arranged, the higher the requirements for the energy supply pipeline, fuel release system and control system, and also
When it comes to the design of fuel tanks, the number, size and location of fuel tanks need to be designed reasonably. It is by no means simply stacking engines.
