A big country of aerospace with black technology

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief!"

"The Tiangong-1 unmanned engineering spacecraft has completed its final verification work and is ready for launch at any time."

The engineer with a serious face reported to Zhang Xingyang.

Most people in the launch center looked calm and calm.

For them, this is just an ordinary rocket launch mission.

Since the beginning of the new millennium, the number of launch missions has increased every year.

Sometimes the number of launch missions in a month can exceed the number of launches in an entire year of the last century.

Even manned spacecraft have to be launched every few months.

The unmanned cargo spacecraft makes one trip almost every month.

It is no longer what it used to be.

Thousands of successes have given everyone the confidence to face it calmly.

"You did a great job, thank you for your hard work."

Zhang Xingyang said pleasantly, and then looked at his watch.

"There is still some time before the launch, so please be on standby."

Although there have never been any problems in nearly a thousand launches, space missions have never been slack.

Maintain a high level of vigilance at all times.

Geng Bo, who was standing aside, was calmer than the others.

I was a lot more nervous and my palms were constantly sweating.

"Brother Xingyang, will there be any problems with our unmanned engineering ship?"

Geng Bo, who was really unsure, couldn't help but ask Zhang Xingyang.

The overall design of the unmanned engineering ship comes from the sketch provided by Zhang Xingyang.

The details were completed by the team led by Geng Bo.

It can be said that Geng Bo is the actual person in charge of Tiangong Spaceship.

"A few minor issues, but nothing serious."

Zhang Xingyang replied to him with a line he had said before.

The Tiangong unmanned engineering spacecraft will be the first professional space construction spacecraft.

After it is launched, the core component of the star port, the keel, will also be launched into the sky one after another.

The unmanned spacecraft completes the assembly and matching work of the keel.

"The Tiangong engineering ship will be manned in the future. These issues are all for preparation for the future."

If we look at Tiangong simply from the perspective of an unmanned spacecraft.

Then you will find many unreasonable designs.

The ship has a lot of redundant space.

However, these spaces are all prepared for future astronauts to move in.

The unmanned spacecraft is even equipped with a complete life cycle system.

It can provide necessary resources such as water and oxygen for at least fifteen days of living.

"The unmanned spacecraft is just for transition."

Zhang Xingyang looked at the red countdown on the display and said calmly.

Today’s unmanned construction technology is not perfect.

In particular, the design plan for the star port is very complex.

There are more than 500 large components with a length of more than ten meters.

The number of small components with a size of less than one meter is roughly estimated to be more than 10,000 pieces.

In addition, the coordination between various parts is also very complicated.

It is not advisable to rely entirely on automatic robotic arms.

Even remote control is almost impossible.

Because of distance.

The area where the star port is stationed is in geosynchronous orbit.

The altitude is 36,000 kilometers.

The delay of the radio signal exceeds 0.1 seconds.

For a star port that operates at the same speed as the earth's rotation, it is almost unbearable.

In this 0.1 second, the position of the star port can deviate greatly.

When the unmanned spacecraft assembles large components such as the keel, the deviation is still within the tolerance range.

For small components with millimeter-level precision, it is unbearable.

"emission!"

The countdown ended, and with a command, the rocket took off.

From the appearance, there is nothing special about this rocket.

It’s not even the super-heavy rocket that was just launched.

Just an ordinary long triple B rocket.

In this way, he took the first batch of equipment for the construction of the star port into space.

The rocket launch was very smooth, and there was no launch failure scene like Geng Bo's nightmare.

In fact, if the launch of Changsha 3B fails, then the aerospace system will undoubtedly face a major earthquake.

An engineering spacecraft, whose appearance is not much different from that of a cargo spacecraft, is flying steadily in space.

"The robotic arm is being deployed and it is expected to take three minutes."

The biggest difference between the engineering spacecraft is that it has multiple mechanical arms with different precisions.

Able to perform different refined tasks.

At the same time, these robotic arms are equipped with panoramic cameras and various types of measurement equipment.

If you want the installation accuracy to meet the standard, you need to exclude the accuracy of the robotic arm itself.

Measurement accuracy is also very important.

Panoramic camera images began to appear on the big screen.

"The No. 1 robotic arm was deployed successfully!"

"Robotic arm No. 4 was deployed successfully!"

"Robotic arm No. 8 was deployed successfully!"

The first engineering spacecraft is experimental in nature.

Only four evenly distributed mechanical arms are installed at both ends of the cylindrical spacecraft.

There are eight robotic arms in total.

"Test the ship's ion thruster."

After the mechanical arm of the engineering spacecraft was deployed, Zhang Xingyang ordered.

Similar to construction machinery on the ground, engineering spacecraft want to complete construction tasks well.

Must have good athletic ability.

On the ground, it appears as crawlers or heavy pairs of tires.

In space, they are represented by ion thrusters with different directions.

Seriously speaking, the difficulty of controlling a spaceship is much higher than that of a surface ship.

Its operation is actually similar to flying an aircraft.

Because its range of motion is three-dimensional.

Rather than a two-dimensional plane like a surface ship.

The Tiangong-1 unmanned engineering spacecraft has 32 ion thrusters in different aspects.

Therefore, it is also very complicated to control.

In addition to conventional thrust control, the angle of the ion thruster must also be controlled.

"Propulsor No. 1, working normally!"

The inspection work of ion thrusters is also more complicated than that of robotic arms.

It can be seen from several panoramic camera images that the spacecraft seems to be drunk.

One goes up, one goes down, one goes forward, one goes backward.

In the universe, there is no distinction between up and down.

But if the direction closer to the earth is downward, the direction away from the earth is upward.

The Earth's rotation direction is forward.

It is still possible to establish a complete set of direction systems.

The direction recognition within the spacecraft computer is more complicated.

It uses several neutron stars in the starry sky to determine its position.

"Propulser No. 32, working normally!"

Even the later inspection work of several thrusters was accelerated a lot.

It still took nearly three hours.

After completing most of the self-test work, the spacecraft began to adjust its flight trajectory.

Waiting for the arrival of the first batch of star port construction materials.

"Is the axis keel ready?"

Zhang Xingyang asked in the command hall after the unmanned engineering spacecraft was launched.

"The axis keel and the first batch of auxiliary keels have been shipped and are ready for launch at any time."

Geng Bo said with bright eyes.

Today's successful launch undoubtedly gave him great confidence.

The structure of the star port is drum type.

The huge ring structure rotates around the central axis.

If it were above the ground, the ring's huge gravity would produce unimaginable pressure.

This produces extremely strong friction.

But in space, gravity is almost non-existent.

The shaft body will not be subject to too strong friction.

However, when designing, original designs were still adopted.

That is to add a layer of superfluid to the outer layer of the axis body.

Superfluids have no viscosity at all

For example, liquid helium reaches a superfluid state below 2.17K.

It can flow endlessly inside the pipe.

That is, it has no friction at all.

Can effectively improve friction problems.

"Then get ready and launch immediately."

"The sooner the better."

Zhang Xingyang thought for a while and said.

The construction of the star port can be done quickly or not slowly.

Once it slows down, it will definitely cause a lot of problems.

That night, a super-heavy launch vehicle was erected on the launch pad.

It even raised questions from many aerospace staff.

What kind of mission needs to be launched in such a short period of time.

The next day, the super-heavy launch vehicle was launched.

The first titanium alloy keel with a total length of 450 meters and a mass of nearly one hundred tons entered space.

On the third day, a second titanium alloy keel of the same size also entered geosynchronous orbit.

The same launch mission lasted for a week.

It even attracted the attention of the Eagle Air Force Command on the other side of the Pacific.

Especially the super long size of the titanium alloy keel and its shiny silver appearance.

Although it is 36,000 kilometers away in space.

But when one surface of the titanium alloy keel reflects sunlight.

It will still create a gorgeous silver flash in the sky.

Many people who don't know the truth even think they have seen silver meteors during the day.

"What the hell is this?"

Chief of Staff of the Air Force Yingjiang frowned and looked at the photo in his hand.

From the photos, it doesn't look like anything other than huge and pretty.

Nothing like a space artifact.

Because it doesn’t have the usual solar panels, it doesn’t even seem to have a power source.

Another photo of a heat source shows a patch of blue.

This means it doesn't get hot at all.

The method of propulsion in space is still fluid propulsion.

This method of propulsion means that the thruster must have high heat.

But this thing is really like a piece of iron.

No heat source information at all.

"Could this be their latest space weapon?"

A staff officer said carefully after observing carefully for a long time.

"This looks a lot like God's War that we were trying to develop before."

Prior to this, they had invested a lot of money in developing the Rod of God system.

It is expected to consist of two satellites in a low orbit position.

One satellite provides a navigation system, and the other satellite is equipped with several tungsten alloy steel columns about ten meters in length.

Through kinetic energy strike, it is expected to be able to achieve the effect of a small nuclear bomb.

Later I gave up because of a paper.

That article detailed the actual effectiveness of the Rod of God as a kinetic strike weapon, which may be far less than they expected.

Not even as good as an ordinary ground-penetrating bomb.

The cost of a God's Rod is much higher than that of an earth-penetrating bomb.

After considering various aspects such as technology and cost, they gave up the plan.

"This is impossible!" the chief of staff retorted subconsciously.

"Weren't they the ones who wrote the paper that explained the striking power of God's rod?"

"Why are they developing the Rod of God again?"

Another staff officer had an idea: "Maybe this is a strategic deception for us, just like what they claimed in the development of fourth-generation aircraft."

In view of the previous painful lessons, the staff’s imagination is likely to be true.

The Chief of General Staff was a little disbelieving, and then a little skeptical, "Probably not. Has the scientific department found out the materials of these metal rods?"

"Could it be the material for the weapon - the Staff of God?"

He suggested that he was a staff officer from the Staff of God and handed over a report: "They just obtained the results through spectral analysis."

"It is believed that the main material is titanium, with a small amount of other metal components."

This is also an important basis for the staff to believe that it is the rod of God.

The hardness of titanium alloys is well known.

In their God's Rod design, tungsten-titanium alloy will be used as the main material for the strike.

It is normal for someone to use him as a weapon to attack others.

"Sir, if this is really a space weapon, that's really bad news for us."

After listening to this, another staff officer sighed.

"We currently don't have any weapons that can threaten them."

"Not even missiles."

The distance of 36,000 kilometers is far beyond the range of all weapons on the earth.

Even the range of intercontinental ballistic missiles is only more than 10,000 kilometers.

This also includes most of the gliding voyage.

If we only calculate the range of chemical propulsion, it will be reduced a lot.

Unless they detonate several megaton-level nuclear bombs directly in space, it is possible to have an impact on it in geosynchronous orbit.

The electromagnetic pulse generated by nuclear bombs can be extremely lethal to semiconductor devices and microelectronic equipment due to the electrical breakdown effect.

However, most staff believe that these metal pillars do not contain electronic equipment.

Because no heat source was found in the thermal imaging photos.

Even if it doesn't have a propulsion system, it only needs electronic equipment.

Operating equipment should also produce certain thermal radiation phenomena.

Instead of showing a patch of blue like now.

The chief of staff was also a little depressed, but he quickly cheered up.

"This is no longer something we can deal with, and it must be reported to higher levels."

The chief of staff's real thoughts are actually very simple.

That's the blame game.

He can't carry this pot, so he can only let others do it!

It would be best to let all senior military officials take the blame together.

"Immediately pass relevant information to the White House and the Pentagon."

The staff officer said: "It is midnight now, should I wait until tomorrow to send it to you during the day?"

The chief of staff sneered: "We can't sleep well tonight, so no one should sleep at all!"

"We can't let those gentlemen on Capitol Hill spend one night in such comfort."

The air force's intelligence, as expected, woke up a large number of senior military officials who were just about to fall asleep.

"FXXK!"

On this night, the number of mothers in the entire country skyrocketed. (End of chapter)