Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 363 Quiet Icarus

Since the speed of the Star Reacher has increased greatly since it set off from Ceres, it will continue to sail in the asteroid belt.

In order to avoid hitting an asteroid, Hu Bo steered the Star Reacher away from the ecliptic plane, sailing at a position [-] kilometers above or below the ecliptic plane.

Anyway, in the interstellar space, it doesn't matter up and down, you can talk about up and down.

The ecliptic plane is an imaginary plane.

It can be simply understood that most of the orbits of all the planets in the solar system are on one plane, which is the ecliptic plane.

This is due to the gravitational force and centrifugal force that play a role in the universe. All the interstellar matter in the solar system has formed its current appearance under the shaping of these two forces during the evolution of billions of years.

Two hours later, the speed of Star Reacher had dropped to about 30 kilometers per second, and it was orbiting Icarus, stationary relative to its surface, at a distance of only 1 kilometer.

The small dot seen in the starry sky now reveals its true appearance, which is still incomparably huge.

The giant asterisk is like a four or five year old standing next to a robust adult.

Zhong Cheng ordered the execution of the first step of the Star Reaching Plan to quiet Icarus.

Icarus is slowly rotating, and the next step of the Star Reaching Project must stop its rotation.

The plan has already been drawn up. People will carry a large Zhurong electric pusher, land on Icarus, and then install the electric pusher in the impact crater above.

Then rely on Zhurong's electric push to accelerate in reverse, reducing the angular velocity of Icarus.

In the plan, 48 engineering personnel of Red Star Company are divided into two shifts and work outside in turn.

A class of 24 people is divided into 12 groups, and two people in a group are responsible for the installation and commissioning of a Zhurong electric pusher.

In the first step of the Star Reaching Project, a total of 120 Zhurong electric pushers will be installed, and a team can only carry one out of the cabin at a time, so everyone will take turns to go out 5 times.

Although everyone is already familiar with the operation, they can't help but get nervous when it comes to real swords and guns.

Seeing this situation, Zhong Cheng decided to bring a person to demonstrate first, and Yang Xi volunteered to be his assistant.

Hu Bo wanted to object to Zhong Cheng going out in person, but was stopped by Zhong Cheng's stern eyes.

Any words of dissuasion at this time will make everyone more nervous, and it is also unfair to other engineering personnel.

Zhong Cheng and Yang Xi put on engineering mechs and entered the decompression chamber under the belly of the tail of the Star Reacher.

The airtight door of the decompression chamber is closed and the air is started to be sucked out.

Two minutes later, the airtight door leading to the outside of the decompression chamber opened, Zhong Cheng picked up Zhu Rong's electric pusher, and Yang Xi carried a large bundle of cables.

This kind of cable is made of a new type of earthen wire, only the thickness of a finger, but it can withstand tens of thousands of tons of tension, and can be powered on to provide power for Zhurong's electric pushers.

Zhong Cheng first threw a large Zhurong electric pusher that looked like a 200-liter cylindrical gasoline barrel out of the cabin.

He glanced at the deep starry sky outside, which was boundless and bottomless.

He collected himself and jumped out.

Although he knew that there would be no danger, Zhong Cheng still had to overcome the fear in his heart when he entered the starry sky alone for the first time.

And this sense of fear will cause unexpected dangers, which is why he insisted on demonstrating it once, hoping to make other personnel reduce this negative emotion.

Zhong Cheng drove the mecha to catch up with Zhu Rong's electric pusher, and floated steadily in the starry sky.

He looked back at Yang Xi who was still in the decompression cabin, and waved to him.

Yang Xi stood inside the airtight door with trembling legs, one hand tightly grasping the door frame, not daring to jump out.

Seeing Zhong Cheng waving to him, he felt a little relieved, relying on his trust in Zhong Cheng for many years, with Zhong Cheng outside, nothing would happen to him.

He gritted his teeth and jumped out.

Seeing Yang Xi rolling in the air, Zhong Chengfei went over to stabilize him.

Then push Zhu Rongdian to Yang Xi's side and let him grab it.

Zhong Cheng grabbed the cable connector in Yang Xi's hand, flew to a dedicated external channel at the tail of the Star Reacher, and extended the cable connector through the bowl-sized external channel.

After a while, the engineers in the cabin fixed the joints.

Zhong Cheng flew back to Yang Xi, took the bundle of cables, turned around, aimed at Icarus, and took the lead to fly forward.

Yang Xi held Zhu Rong's electric pusher with one hand and the cable with the other, feeling relieved, and boldly followed Zhong Cheng to fly forward.

Zhong Cheng drove the mech to control the speed and flight direction, while extending the cable in his hand.

In just 5 minutes, he was the first to fly to the surface of Icarus.

The above is bare hard rock, uneven, but it is a whole, without any gravel or even cracks.

He identified the direction, and under the guidance of Lin Wei in the intercom, he flew to a big pit more than ten meters away and jumped into it.

But he immediately realized that this was a wrong operation. Not only did he not jump into the big pit, but instead let him fly to the sky above the big pit.

If it wasn't for the engineering mech's power system, this jump would have sent him flying away from Icarus, never to return.

Zhong Cheng drove the mecha down to the bottom of the crater, an impact crater with a diameter of 30 meters and a depth of five meters.

He just wants to demonstrate how to install the Zhurong electric pusher for the engineering staff in this big pit.

Following the position indicated by the red laser shot down from the Asterisker, he came to the side wall of the big pit, and handed the cable in his hand to Yang Xi who was following him.

Because the first 120 Zhurong electric pushers were installed to stop Icarus from rotating, the Zhurong electric pushers need to be installed on the side of the pit wall in the same direction as Icarus's rotation.

Then, after Zhurong’s electric propulsion is running, it will generate a thrust in the opposite direction of Icarus’s rotation to reduce its rotation speed until it stops rotating.

These 120 installation positions have already been accurately calculated in the optical brain, and there is no need for the implementers to judge by themselves.

Zhong Cheng took off the small cutter on his back, drove the mecha, and began to punch holes in the side wall.

Working in deep space, the effect of action force and reaction force is very obvious. If you dig rocks with a cutting machine, if you can't fix yourself, you don't want to dig a small hole in a year.

Zhong Cheng was briskly cutting the rock while explaining the essentials of the movements to the engineers on the Asterisker through the intercom.

After a while, a standard cylindrical pit with a diameter of half a meter and a depth of 1.2 meters was dug out on the side wall.

He took Zhu Rong's electric pusher from Yang Xi's hand, put it in carefully, and led out the power cord and raw material delivery pipe from the groove cut next to it.

Then an electric drill was used to drill eight small holes evenly distributed in the rock around the pothole.

Take out eight self-locking bolts that are the length of chopsticks and the thickness of your fingers, and pass them through the holes of the connecting piece protruding outward from the top of the Zhurong electric pusher.

Hammer 8 self-locking bolts into small holes with a steel hammer, and then tighten the nuts on the self-locking bolts with a wrench.

The head of the self-locking bolt opened and got stuck in the small hole, which also firmly fixed the Zhurong electric pusher on the side wall.

Finally, Yang Xi used the new type of hot-melt glue he brought to fill the gap between the Zhurong electric pusher and the pothole.

The hot-melt glue cools and expands rapidly, making the Zhurong electric pusher integrated with the side wall. Unless the rock is broken, it is impossible to take out the Zhurong electric pusher.

Because the cables connected to the Zhurong electric pusher not only provide power for the Zhurong electric pusher, but also serve as traction and load-bearing cables, so the Zhurong electric pusher as the base must be fixed.

Zhong Cheng and Yang Xi put away the tools and clapped their hands habitually.

Their landing operation this time is considered to be successfully completed.

(End of this chapter)