Humanity has been conducting research on controllable nuclear fusion technology for decades. During these years, although humans have not broken through the shackles of this technology, they have also accumulated a huge amount of research data in a large number of studies.
This information provided Xiao Yu with very important reference.
Especially when Jupiter and the moon collide, the phenomenon that occurred on Jupiter taught Xiao Yu a very important lesson.
On these foundations, and with the powerful computing power of photonic computers, Xiao Yu finally achieved a very important technological breakthrough today.
In the Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research Laboratory at Base No. 2, there is a huge glass box, and the outside is covered with various lines - these lines will produce a specific magnetic field. Under the constraints of this magnetic field,
In the center of the glass box, there is a very bright and dazzling light spot hanging in mid-air, radiating a huge amount of light and heat all the time, making it impossible for people to look directly at it.
They are undergoing nuclear fusion, fusing deuterium and tritium into helium. In this process, part of the mass is converted into energy.
Xiao Yu allocated 10% of his computing power to focus on this place, rapidly performing various calculations.
Looking at the experimental data one by one, Xiao Yu felt inexplicably excited. He had been waiting for this moment for too long.
It is unrealistic to rely on chemical fuels for interstellar navigation. Because its energy efficiency ratio is too low, if we really have to rely on chemical fuels to travel from the solar system to the Tianyuan 4 star system, Xiao Yu estimates that he will have to build a kilometer-level spacecraft to transport it
More than 90% of the space is filled with fuel, which is barely enough.
It can be said that controllable nuclear fusion technology is the stepping stone to the door to interstellar navigation. Without controllable nuclear fusion, relying solely on chemical fuels, Xiao Yu will be confined to the solar system forever, unable to escape.
"Okay, let's start building a new generation of nuclear fusion-powered spacecraft!"
Xiao Yu started a new plan. He wanted to build an epoch-making spacecraft that would use the latest technology in terms of power system, structural materials, and control system.
All the construction carried out in the early stage is to serve this purpose.
The huge special steel smelting blast furnace is constantly flowing out of dark red molten steel. After condensation, these molten steel will be turned into steel ingots for processing. However, Xiao Yu added another process before condensation.
This process is to allow the molten steel to receive radiation from "No. 1" for about five minutes before condensing.
After experiments, Xiao Yu discovered that when the metal is in a high-temperature liquid state, the radiation from "No. 1" can achieve the greatest performance improvement with the minimum radiation intensity. Therefore, poor "No. 1" was caught here by Xiao Yu,
Serving as a coolie who sells his blood.
These five minutes of radiation exposure are enough to increase the various properties of these special steels to more than three times their original value.
During the smelting process of these steels, Xiao Yu also added the corpses of black bugs in a certain proportion. In this way, the heat insulation and radiation protection properties of these steels were greatly improved.
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Xiao Yu is doing his best to build the highest quality materials. After being processed in the equipment manufacturing room, these materials will become parts of this great and epoch-making spacecraft.
In the huge assembly workshop of the main base, various components from at least hundreds of equipment manufacturing rooms are gathered. There are at least hundreds of robots busy here, assembling various precision components one by one, which is quite busy.
It took half a year for the spacecraft to be completed.
This is a saucer-shaped spacecraft with a diameter of 20 meters and a height of about five meters. The power system uses a nuclear fusion engine, the control system uses the latest photon computer, and the construction materials use the highest quality steel that Xiao Yu can produce.
.This is a spaceship that has been the work of Xiao Yu. It is the most advanced spacecraft that Xiao Yu can create with the current technology.
In order to build this spacecraft, the radiation intensity of "No. 1" was directly reduced to 30% of the maximum radiation intensity, and 70% of the radiation intensity was used. Nearly 200% of the black bug corpses were used
tons, accounting for 30% of current reserves.
Although the consumption is so huge, Xiao Yu believes that it is worth it. Even if the radiation intensity of "No. 1" is used up, he can still go to Jupiter to capture. As for the corpses of black bugs, Xiao Yu is not worried. Here
Within a period of time, Xiao Yu discovered this kind of creature in at least thousands of larger lakes on Titan. It is estimated that its total storage capacity will reach millions of tons. Such a large amount of reserves is enough for Xiao Yu
A large fleet has been built.
Today is the day for the test flight of this spacecraft.
Xiao Yu stopped most of the construction progress and allocated at least 40% of the computing power here - 40% of the total computing power of the photon computer, which is almost equal to the total computing power of all supercomputers on the earth.
Already.
"We must make sure that nothing goes wrong." Xiao Yu thought silently in his heart, "You carry our hope for interstellar navigation. Let's call you Hope."
The mass of the Hope is about three thousand tons. Spaceships of this level are classified by Xiao Yu into the "village" class spacecraft. If a spaceship of more than 10,000 tons is built in the future, it will be classified into the "township" class by Xiao Yu
In the spacecraft category, by analogy, with the increase in tonnage, there are several different categories such as "county level", "city level", "provincial level", and "national level".
Under Xiao Yu's full attention, the village-level spaceship, the Hope, sprayed out a stream of light blue flames from the bottom of the spacecraft and slowly left the ground.
Yes, the Hope spacecraft does not need a rocket to send it into interstellar space, but has the ability to take off directly. Because its powerful and efficient power system can provide it with enough lasting and strong power, and advanced material technology
, ensuring that it is not designed according to aerodynamics, nor will it be torn apart by the gravity of the planet and air resistance during high-speed movement.
Ten seconds later, the Hope was three thousand meters above the ground. The huge friction made its outer shell slightly red, and the temperature was estimated to be above 800 degrees Celsius. But Xiao Yu was not worried at all. It was made of special steel mixed with black insect corpses
It's not easy for the outer shell of the spacecraft to withstand this temperature.
Its speed is getting faster and faster. One minute later, Hope is 100 kilometers away from the earth and reaches the orbit around Titan, but it is still accelerating.
At this time, the communication between Xiao Yu and the Hope relied entirely on the twelve Ares satellites launched previously.
Xiao Yu controlled the Hope to leave Titan, and there was a sudden brake in the interstellar space. The speed suddenly dropped from three kilometers per second to almost stationary.
"The spacecraft overload resistance test...passed."
The acceleration of gravity on the earth is 9.8 meters per second. This means that on a spacecraft that is accelerating at a speed of 9.8 meters per second all the time, due to the effect of inertia, a person feels
The gravity reached is the same as on the earth.
If the spacecraft accelerates at a speed of 19.6 meters per second, the person will feel twice the gravity of the earth.
This is overload. A trained super pilot can withstand ten times the overload. In other words, the human body's endurance limit is an acceleration of ninety-eight meters per second. Beyond this acceleration, the human body will suffer irreparable damage.
even death.
The spacecraft hull also has a tolerable overload limit. Ordinary large aircraft can withstand a maximum overload of about twenty times. If this value is exceeded, the body will be torn apart by inertial force and air resistance.
Before the destruction of the earth, the spacecraft built by humans could withstand about thirty to forty times overload, which is a maximum acceleration of four hundred meters per second. If this limit was exceeded, the spacecraft would be torn apart by inertial force.
Xiao Yu has just tested his spacecraft. The test results show that it can withstand an overload of approximately 230 times at most! In other words, Xiao Yu's spacecraft can withstand an acceleration of up to 2,200 meters per second.
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This means that the Hope spacecraft can change from a static state to a state of running two kilometers per second in one second, and it can also stop instantly while running at a high speed of two kilometers per second.
This means extremely powerful flexibility. With such powerful flexibility, coupled with Xiao Yu's terrifying calculation speed, even if there are tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of guns firing at the Hope at the same time, Xiao Yu can still
Controlling the Hope, he completely dodged bullets in just a few seconds.
After the anti-overload test was completed, Xiao Yu started another test.
"Conventional fuel storage capacity, maximum operating speed test."
In space navigation, the only things that consume fuel are operations such as acceleration, deceleration, and course changes. Normal flight mainly relies on inertia, but no fuel is consumed at this stage.
The fastest spacecraft built by mankind that is powered by chemical fuel or nuclear fission is Voyager 1. Its speed reaches approximately 18 kilometers per second relative to the sun. Why can't its speed be increased? Precisely because
The problem of fuel limitation. Before Xiao Yu reached Titan, he had reached a speed of 60 kilometers per second because he received additional fuel.
What Xiao Yu wants to test now is the maximum speed that the Hope can support if it carries a conventional amount of fuel.
A powerful blue flame spewed out from the tail of the Hope, and it began to accelerate at a terrifying speed, getting faster and faster.
"Conventional fuel storage capacity, maximum operating speed... three hundred kilometers per second! Conventional fuel storage capacity can support the Hope to make more than six such accelerations and decelerations! If you don't consider the deceleration problem, only consider the maximum power of the engine, and keep accelerating.
If the fuel is used up, its speed can reach one thousand kilometers per second!"