Deep Space Fleet

There are a total of 21,400 such small nuclear fusion engines in the "Kunlun Mountains", which are distributed in various locations around the Kunlun Mountains. This design not only brings superiority in mechanical construction, but also brings another benefit-the ability to bear risks is very strong.

Even if part of the Kunlun Mountain's small engine is damaged, as long as the rest can be started, the spacecraft can still sail normally without loss of mobility.

These small nuclear fusion devices are off-the-shelf technology for the earth's civilization and are quite mature to this day. It uses nuclear fuel more efficiently than previous large engines and is able to convert more mass into energy.

The huge energy generated by the nuclear reaction, one part will form high-energy microblogs through special devices in the engine room to propel the spacecraft, and the other part is the traditional ion engine method, which sprays out hot plasma streams.

Only the dual approach of microwave propulsion and plasma propulsion can give this billion-tonne-class mother ship sufficient forward power.

"Have the last batch returned?" After carefully checking the parameters of each key part, Zhang Yuan asked the assistant next to him.

The young assistant of the secretary's office is named Li Cheng. He is 43 years old and is proficient in physics and mathematics. At the age of 43, he is still the standard of young people, but he is already one of the candidates for the Deputy Captain Kunlunshan. It has to be said that for so many years in the entire civilization, many talents and elites have emerged, and many geniuses have been born.

"Report Captain, they are all back."

Now that all the issues of the Glitzer came to an end, Zhang Yuan was relieved. "Then, six hours later, the first test flight of Kunlun Mountain officially started!"

The captain's order was quickly conveyed, and the various crew members on the ship were busy.

Of course, this voyage was just a test flight. The mothership was not loaded with a large number of people and cargo. For the first test flight, a large number of defects will inevitably be exposed during the voyage, and uniform improvements will be needed at that time.

Six hours passed quickly, and the beautiful female reporter on the television was riding a small spacecraft for a lively live broadcast.

"The Wandering Plan guides us to touch all kinds of civilizations ... even if this road may be abnormally bumpy, it may be full of thorns, we may encounter powerful enemies, and risk us from extinction ..."

"But we won't regret it ..."

About 10 million people are witnessing the first trial of the mothership on the surface. The lively discussion and the sound of the TV station are intertwined.

As the last second elapsed, all of a sudden, the milky light bloomed in the sky, covering up all the noise. It seemed as if more than 20,000 little sun suddenly appeared, completely lighting up the whole earth!

Seen from the ground, powerful plasma pulses marked out fluorescent lights that stretched for tens of thousands of kilometers.

The power of 21,400 small engines is too strong, and the camera is already flooded with white light. Even the live-streaming reporter lady stayed for so long for a few seconds, and then she remembered the business, lowered the aperture of the camera, and started common sense microwave popularization.

"Ah, after such a long distance, the temperature of our spacesuits has risen to 300 degrees Celsius ... this is exactly a powerful little sun ... they are our latest engine technology, microwave engines."

"The specific impulse of this energy engine is very high and may have reached the extreme of conventional propulsion ..."

"Let's compare the two approaches."

"The theoretical jet speed of a traditional nuclear fusion engine can reach a maximum of 20,000 km / s. The reverse speed of the microwave is the speed of light, which is roughly 300,000 km / s. It seems that the latter is more than 15 times higher than the charge. A class of pure energy engines consume a lot of energy. "

"The propulsion consumption of the microwave engine is about 100 MW / Newton, and the fusion propulsion is about 10 MW / Newton at the jet speed of 20,000 km / s. With the same driving force, the energy consumption of the microwave engine is 100 times that of the ion engine! "

"In fact, it is a simple sentence. The total energy and total mass ratio are constant. The specific impulse has an optimal value. The material utilization efficiency is the highest ... so the combination of the two engines can maximize the spacecraft's maneuverability."

"Of course, these two types of propulsion are only a supplementary means for ultra-long distance interstellar navigation, because we have discovered a new type of cosmic string advancement using the universe itself ... new technology from the human branch of the Golden Sun ! "

However, no one took care of the science popularization of the TV station. The engineers, scientists, and students on the surface all cheered enthusiastically for the first long-distance test voyage of "Kunlun Mountain".

"When I graduate from college ~ www.novelmtl.com ~ I can just get on the spaceship! Haha!"

"I can't wait a bit!"

A middle-aged man over a hundred years old said, "No, no, no, you know, interstellar voyage is actually a very boring thing. The vast majority of the time is spent in the void ... sometimes it may not be Without hibernation, it's actually not so happy. "

The young man shook his head. "But don't you think this kind of interstellar travel is very romantic? And we now have a new way of advancing ... it doesn't take a lifetime to reach another planet."

"" Thank you to the humans of the Golden Sun, when will we send them information, and our development is also very good! "

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Inside the main control room of "Kunlun Mountain", Zhang Yuan and others were also nervously observing the changes of various parameters in the spacecraft. To be honest, because the tonnage of this spacecraft is too large, it places very high requirements on the properties of the material and the mechanical structure of the spacecraft itself.

Therefore, the vast majority of the spacecraft's area consists of a distributed structure. Because a single keel cannot withstand such a huge tonnage, rather than being a super mothership, Kunlun Mountain is a combination of 36 large spaceships!

The complexity of navigation and the cooperation between them far surpass the "Earth Age"!

"Fortunately, the productivity of 13 universal factories has been increased, otherwise it would not have been possible to produce so many new materials in just a few decades." Zhang Yuan looked nervously at the various data on the screen. By this time, it was extremely large. Most commands are executed by artificial intelligence, and the part that humans can operate is very small.

"Kunlun Mountain" also uses biological materials similar to the universal factory in some parts, especially the sensor location.

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