Three hundred kilometers per second, what does this speed mean?
The speed of the solar wind is probably similar to this. In other words, if a large-scale flare erupts on the sun at this moment, a strong solar wind erupts, and Xiao Yu escapes into outer space at this time, the solar wind will chase him forever.
Not as good as Xiao Yu.
Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft currently built by mankind, is about 17.8 billion kilometers away from the earth and 16 billion kilometers away from Xiao Yu. If Xiao Yu controls the Hope to set off at this moment,
It would only take less than two years to catch up with Voyager 1. Voyager 1 has been flying in space for a full thirty-eight years.
At this speed, it would only take more than two months to fly from Saturn to Earth. In the past, it would have taken only a few years, so don't even think about it.
This is the huge technological leap that controllable nuclear fusion has brought to Xiao Yu. It is also the reason why Xiao Yu attaches so much importance to controllable nuclear fusion.
A civilization can only be said to be an interstellar civilization after it has mastered controllable nuclear fusion technology!
Now Xiao Yu can proudly announce that mankind has entered the stage of interstellar civilization. Although Xiao Yu is the only one left in the entire human civilization.
There had never been such a moment before, Xiao Yu felt that his whole body was full of hope.
Xiao Yu couldn't put it down and controlled the Hope to fly around in space, and conducted various performance tests on it. Only when he had mastered all the performance data of the Hope and the fuel consumption was almost the same, did Xiao Yu control it.
Landed on the ground.
During this period of testing, Xiao Yu also discovered some problems that had not been considered before, as well as some technical flaws of the Hope. Next, Xiao Yu began a long process of testing and transformation. This is what Xiao Yu said
The first interstellar spacecraft built must be perfect.
Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, two years passed.
In the past two years, the number of Xiao Yu's bases on Titan has grown to ninety-three. Each base has its own main output. These materials are transported to the main base by the Fengshen helicopter.
After that, it will be transformed into various construction materials to provide strong support for Xiao Yu's era of great construction.
In the past two years, the number of Fengshen helicopters has grown to more than 100. These aircraft are busy shuttling in Titan's atmosphere, taking on the task of transporting supplies between various bases. Hundreds of thousands of robots, similar to Rare Earth
The situation like that of the Expeditionary Corps, where they reach their destination by walking, will never happen again.
This is a major technological advancement, which means that Xiao Yu is becoming more and more powerful.
The area of the main base has expanded to two square kilometers. Within the base, there are various factories and buildings, and countless robots shuttle back and forth - there are now about 100,000 robots in the main base alone. Titan
The total number of robots in all the bases above has probably exceeded one million.
These millions of robots, as well as various machines and sensors, are all under the unified control of Xiao Yu, and they work in an orderly manner. It can be said that Xiao Yu’s eyes are everywhere on Titan.
As long as Xiao Yu wants to know about any slight movement happening anywhere, it cannot escape Xiao Yu's perception.
Although he has mastered controllable nuclear fusion technology, Xiao Yu has not changed the power source in the base into nuclear fusion power. Because on Titan, methane is almost inexhaustible and easy to obtain.
, Fusion raw materials also need to be collected from Saturn. In comparison, conventional chemical fuels are cheaper and more practical.
Even so, Xiao Yu has begun to consider building a nuclear fusion power collection fleet. Although Xiao Yu only has one "village" class spacecraft now, Xiao Yu has to consider it for the future.
Moreover, the lack of titanium and zirconium elements also forced Xiao Yu to find a solution as soon as possible. The best situation is to find these two mineral deposits on the other satellites of Saturn. Otherwise, the search range will be
Expand to Uranus and Neptune. If you can't find it again, you have to go to Mars or the original Earth orbit to search.
Jupiter, Xiao Yu doesn’t plan to go there yet. The radiation source there has brought too much psychological shadow to Xiao Yu. Of course, in the future, Xiao Yu will definitely build a special force to capture the ghosts of Jupiter like "No. 1"
Fleet, but not now.
"Jupiter Ghost... Jupiter Ghost... this is a good name. Let's call those weird radiation source creatures Jupiter Ghost, or Wood Spirit for short." Xiao Yu thought, "As for these black bugs, let's call them Black
The bug is gone."
In the past two years, Xiao Yu launched three more hydrogen bombs, emptied three methane lakes, and harvested at least 1,500 tons of black insect corpses. Of course, with the Hope there, Xiao Yu did not waste any more
Time to build a rocket to launch a hydrogen bomb. With the speed of the Nozomi, it is enough to escape the impact of the hydrogen bomb before it explodes.
Xiao Yu also began to try to artificially raise black worms. After all, black worms are really useful. In this way, after leaving Titan in the future, Xiao Yu can still get a supplement of black worm resources. That is the wood spirit
Xiao Yu has never found a way to raise this kind of thing artificially. Seventy percent of the radiation intensity of "No. 1" has been used up. During this period of time, it has maintained this half-dead state, no matter what Xiao Yu
Yu tried his best to make it stronger again.
"Well, the artificial satellites surrounding Saturn have been built. There are eighteen in the first batch. Let's launch them first." Xiao Yu thought, controlling the robot and placing these satellites into the Hope.
Xiao Yu doesn't really believe in computer programs. No matter how powerful a computer program is, it's dead. How can it compare to the flexibility of a human mind? It is for this reason that Xiao Yu built twelve Ares satellites and made the entire Titan.
Signal coverage. Now, for the same reason, Xiao Yu plans to build a signal coverage for Saturn. Otherwise, when the Hope flies to the back of Saturn, it will lose contact with Xiao Yu.
There is another benefit to providing signal coverage for Saturn. Xiao Yu's plan is to launch 60 to 80 Saturn satellites. In this way, except for some signal dead spots, it will be equivalent to providing signal coverage for almost the entire solar system.
By then, Hope will be able to fly freely within the solar system without having to worry about losing contact.
After such a long period of testing, Xiao Yu has become quite comfortable in controlling the Hope. As the command was given, a light blue flame rose from the bottom of the Hope and flew quickly towards outer space.
Including the acceleration and deceleration time, it took about two hours for the Hope to arrive at a distance of 100,000 kilometers from Saturn. After adjusting to the appropriate speed and orbit, the Hope opened its cabin and the first Saturn artificial satellite was released.
come out.
In the distance, the huge earth-yellow Saturn is floating there quietly, and around it, the gorgeous rings of Saturn are surrounding it, making it look strange. With the huge Saturn as the background, the Hope spacecraft looks like a small ant.
After the satellite is released, the Saturn satellite will begin to orbit Saturn under the action of inertia. It carries some fuel on it, which can be used for orbit adjustment and daily consumption.
Then, Xiao Yu adjusted the orbit again, left here, and released the second satellite at the second position.
After repeating this process eighteen times, the mission was completed. These eighteen Saturn satellites, with orbital altitudes ranging from 50,000 kilometers to 2 million kilometers, basically covered the entire Saturn and its satellite system. Of course, at the beginning,
Due to the insufficient number of satellites, this coverage is only approximate. In the future, Xiao Yu will launch more satellites to complete this project.
After completing the mission, Xiao Yu controlled the Hope spacecraft and approached Saturn.
This takeoff also has another mission, which is to collect deuterium, tritium, helium and other fusion raw materials. After two years of consumption, Xiao Yu does not have much fusion fuel left.
The volume of Saturn is more than 760 times that of the Earth, but its mass is only 95 times that of the Earth. This means that the average density of Saturn is very low, even lower than the density of water.
Xiao Yu carefully controlled the Hope spacecraft and stopped at the edge of Saturn's upper atmosphere.
Compared to Jupiter, Saturn has always been very calm. However, this calmness is also relatively speaking. Saturn has the fastest storm in the entire solar system, with a speed of more than 1,800 kilometers per hour, which is infinitely faster than the storms on the earth.
How much stronger.
Xiao Yu carefully analyzed the atmospheric flow. After a long time, he chose a place and flew in quietly.
Xiao Yu is making observations at all times in order to adjust his trajectory according to the flow of Saturn's atmosphere, so as to minimize the risk.
After a while, several gaps were opened in the shell of the Hope, and several large air pumps began to work. Immediately, a large amount of Saturn's gas was pumped in, and then, inside the Hope, it went through a series of separation and purification processes.
Waiting for the formalities, useful elements are collected and useless elements are ejected from the ship.
Saturn's atmosphere is mainly composed of hydrogen, but ordinary hydrogen is not cost-effective as a fusion fuel. Xiao Yu mainly collects hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium, and helium-3. The content of these items is much less.
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But even so, its content is many times higher than that on the Earth or Titan. Xiao Yu comfortably roamed in the atmosphere of Saturn and did the work of a "scavenger". Of course, it was only limited to the surface atmosphere, and inside
, Xiao Yu doesn’t dare to go. It’s too dangerous there.
It took ten days for Xiao Yu to collect enough raw materials, and then Xiao Yu controlled the Hope to leave Saturn and return to Titan.
"Continue to build satellites, provide signal coverage for the entire Saturn system, and even the entire solar system, and then start the titanium and zirconium collection plan! The wood spirit capture plan should also be officially launched."