A new satellite city established in the ruined area after the HRE Federation was annihilated.
This is one of the aerospace research bases jointly established by the Ministry of Space and Space and the Science Committee. It contains research institutions on spacecraft, artificial satellites, satellite cities, and deep space detectors.
Among them, the Photon Engine Research Institute is located in the third affiliated city of New Constantinople. The Photon Engine Research Institute is a scientific research institution affiliated with the Engine Research Institute and specializes in the research and development of photon engines.
The chief researcher of the institute is Yang Tiansheng from the School of Mathematics, and the second researcher is Gao Zishang from the School of Mathematics.
Yang Tiansheng is a mathematician, physicist, and engine engineer, while Gao Zishang is a mathematician, high-energy physicist, antimatter scientist, and senior engineer.
Now New Era does not have many names on it, and it is embarrassing to say that it is the person in charge of the research institute. Moreover, the scientific research community now has special institutions and terms for the evaluation of principal investigators and other scientific committees.
Don't even think about fishing in troubled waters or eating from a big pot in a research institute. If you are found out, you may have to sing "Tears Behind Bars". Even if you don't go in, in this society, people who commit fraud will be indirectly socially killed.
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Zhang Yanghao, director of the Photon Engine Research Institute, hurried to Yang Tiansheng's office with a bill of lading.
"Tiantian, what you want is here."
Yang Tiansheng grabbed the bill of lading, glanced at the content on it, and suddenly smiled:
"Okay, the east wind has finally arrived."
He quickly floated towards the engine laboratory.
The two came to the engine laboratory. Gao Zishang was leading researchers and engineers, busy improving the three engines.
"Zi Shang, good news."
Well, Gao Zishang raised his head and took a closer look: "Shengsheng, what good news?"
"The batch of parts we customized have arrived."
"No..." Gao Zishang just blurted out and immediately reacted: "The batch of parts has arrived."
"Yes." Yang Tiansheng handed over the bill of lading.
Gao Zishang, who hurriedly took it, immediately said hurriedly: "Old Zhang, don't waste time, pull the thing over here quickly, my sword is already hungry and thirsty!"
Zhang Yanghao selectively filtered these catchphrases for secondary diseases: "The things are already at Port No. 3. The staff from the research institute have already gone to pick them up. They will arrive in about half an hour."
"Okay!" Gao Zishang turned to Yang Tiansheng and said, "Let's have a big fight!"
Really unable to stand this guy's chuunibyou, Yang Tiansheng put his hand on his forehead.
The Photon Engine Research Institute, which has more than 300 people, all took action. With the batch of degenerate material parts in place, they each performed their duties and assembled these parts on the three engines.
Like the nuclear fusion engine, the photon engine was researched in the first year of the new era. Compared with the nuclear fusion engine, the photon engine has three fatal flaws that have not been solved.
The shortcomings of the photon engine are: low fuel photon generation rate or photon conversion rate, extremely strong gamma ray penetrability, and low reflectivity of the engine photon action plate.
These three defects are fatal problems that plague photon engines. Yang Tiansheng, Gao Zishang and others used nuclear fusion reactions to generate high-energy photon flows, and combined them with reflective plates made of gamma-ray passivated materials to develop the first generation of photon engines.
The engine has been developed, but the structure of the engine itself is overweight, the fuel load ratio at a speed of 500 kilometers per second is 34, and the fuel utilization rate is lower than that of a nuclear fusion direct injection engine.
Apparently this engine would not be accepted by the Spacecraft Institute.
Until degenerate materials appear, antimatter can be produced on a large scale, and the three defects of photon engines can be solved.
Degenerate materials generally block photons, and even gamma rays cannot penetrate degenerate materials.
When antimatter is used as engine fuel, 96% of the product is various photons and 4% is pure heat energy. This means that the photon conversion rate of antimatter fuel is 96%, which is hundreds of times higher than the photon conversion rate of nuclear fusion fuel.
According to the research data of the photon engine on the Nibelon spacecraft, if the spacecraft is accelerated to 10% of the speed of light, the fuel load ratio will be about 0.4. If braking and other needs are added, the fuel load ratio will be about 1.
The fuel load ratio is 1, which means that a 1,000-ton spacecraft carries 1,000 tons of fuel and can fly at 10% of the speed of light.
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Customized degenerate parts are assembled on the engine, although the performance is worse than the Nibelon photon engine (degenerate materials cannot be integrally molded, resulting in reduced performance).
Engines of the same level, New Humanity's engines, bring a fuel load ratio of about 1.2, and the fastest speed is about 8.5% of the speed of light.
Looking at the engine that was about 80% completed, Yang Tiansheng turned his head and said: "Old Zhang, you go prepare the spacecraft for the experiment. We will install the engine and take it for a walk the day after tomorrow."
"no problem."
May 1, 4th year of the New Era.
On port 4 of the satellite city of New Constantinople.
Not only people from the Photon Engine Research Institute were present, but also people from the Spacecraft Research Institute were also present.
The spacecraft with the experimental photon engine was provided by the Spacecraft Research Institute.
The spacecraft was modified from the Tianzhou class, and the main body of the spacecraft still adheres to the format of the Huo Qubing class, but the three photon engines added this time are different from the previous tail-mounted engines.
Three photon engines are installed in the middle of the spacecraft, which is somewhat similar to the core first-stage booster sub-body in a space rocket. The engine sub-body is hung outside the middle of the spacecraft and can rotate 360 degrees. In addition, the engine nozzle can be vector controlled, which can quickly realize control.
Movement and orbit change.
The use of this mid-mounted rotary external engine can not only quickly brake and change orbit, but also facilitate the upgrading and transformation of old spacecraft.
Inside the control tower at the port, Gao Zishang asked worriedly: "Is this spaceship reliable?"
After all, anyone who sees a spaceship covered in rivets will be heartbroken.
The researchers at the Spacecraft Research Institute on the side also looked embarrassed. They had no choice but to make do without degenerate material integrated molding technology.
Yang Tiansheng quickly eased the awkward atmosphere at the scene: "There shouldn't be much of a problem. After all, it is a shell of degenerate material."
Three spacecraft testers boarded the spacecraft. Since it was a modified version of the Tianzhou class, the testers easily entered the load-bearing life support compartment.
[Deep Space is ready.]
[Received by tower.]
A tugboat pulled the Deep Space and flew into the distance. The nozzle of the photon engine was even worse than the laser.
Although the engine's action plate can effectively passivate some gamma rays, once the engine is operating at full load, the gamma ray stream emitted by the engine can severely damage unprotected targets within 5,000 kilometers.
If the passivation grid is cancelled, the gamma ray stream emitted by the engine has a maximum range of 700,000 kilometers. Within 100,000 kilometers, the old gamma ray protection technology will be of no help at all.
This is a proper high-power laser, and the photon engine can be used as a weapon at critical moments.
Therefore, you must not fly casually near the satellite city. Otherwise, if you accidentally wipe your satellite city or other spacecraft, serious trouble may occur.
The tugboat pulled Deep Space 100,000 kilometers away from the new Constantinople satellite city, and the test officially began.