Ultra-Dimensional Technology Era

When the Strait Space Launch Base was working overtime for construction, Huang Mingzhe was not idle.

Inside the launch vehicle assembly plant in Tsu City.

Huang Mingzhe is discussing with Chen Yao, Li Guoqing, and former John Field of the British Interstellar Society.

At this time, they are in the virtual laboratory, and in front of them is a very rough spaceship, which is code-named "Daedalus". [Note: Daedalus is the builder of the Minoan labyrinth in ancient Greek mythology. ]

The Daedalus is a nuclear fusion spacecraft designed by the British Interstellar Society in the 70s, and it is currently the only confirmed feasible intergalactic spacecraft.

Of course, the scheme is feasible, but the engineering difficulty is very huge.

In 1978 AD, the British Interplanetary Society announced the final plan of the Daedalus project, which gave the first detailed design drawing of a nuclear-powered spacecraft in history, aiming to demonstrate the possibility.

Daedalus is an unmanned interstellar scientific research spacecraft, but the weight of this spacecraft is too impressive, weighing 5.5 tons, of which 5 tons is the weight of fuel, and the weight of scientific instruments is only 500 tons.

Moreover, the spacecraft can only be assembled in orbit. Looking at the International Space Station with only 300 tons, it took 20 years to assemble.

Even if the Long [-]-D of the new human race has lowered the launch cost to a very considerable level, the Daedalus spacecraft is still very unfriendly in terms of engineering.

The reason why Huang Mingzhe chose the Daedalus plan is mainly because this plan has no technical difficulty.

There are two types of nuclear fusion propulsion rockets, one is fusion direct injection, and the other is nuclear photon rockets.

The working principle of the fusion direct injection rocket is as follows: nuclear fusion produces a large number of helium nuclei (alpha particles), protons, and electrons, which are ejected through the guidance of a magnetic field, and can achieve high exhaust velocity and specific impulse, resulting in thrust and thrust-to-weight ratio. Nuclear propulsion is even higher.

The Daedalus scheme uses deuterium and helium 3 as fusion fuel, and the fusion fuel ball composed of deuterium and helium 3 is ignited by a high-energy electron beam in an inertial confinement reaction chamber to undergo fusion. The speed of 1 kilometers is discharged from the stern as the source of power.

Daedalus needs to consume 250 such fuel spheres per second. The exhaust gas ejection speed of the nuclear fusion thruster envisioned by Daedalus can reach about 15% of the speed of light in a vacuum.

Of course, Huang Mingzhe does not need the spacecraft to reach 15% of the speed of light. On the one hand, there is no need for inter-galaxy spacecraft for the time being. On the other hand, 5 tons of deuterium and helium-3 are a proposition.

It’s okay to say that deuterium can be extracted from seawater, but helium 3 is a scam. One kilogram of deuterium extracted from Blue Star is enough, and there are more than 2 tons of helium 3. Why can’t it go to the sky?

The moon does have millions of tons of reserves, but unfortunately the Illuminati occupy land on it, and there is no mining condition at all.

"Huang, if you don't need a high-speed nuclear fusion spacecraft, the fuel can be reduced a lot." John Field said while calculating the result with the rocket formula.

Huang Mingzhe certainly knows that if the spacecraft does not need to be too high, the fuel load ratio can be greatly reduced.

For example, to accelerate the Daedalus spacecraft to 0.2% of the speed of light in a vacuum, the required fuel load ratio is 0.029.

If the spacecraft is fully loaded with fuel, it is required to accelerate from rest to 0.2% of the speed of light in vacuum, then decelerate to rest, and repeat at least 10 times, then the final fuel load ratio is about 0.77.

That is, a spacecraft with a mass of 1 tons other than fuel must be able to carry 0.77 tons of nuclear fuel.

In fact, even if it is 0.01% of the speed of light (30 km/s), it is much faster than the speed of the first, second, and third universes.

"Huang, if you only require a maximum speed of 30 km/s, I can compress the fuel load ratio to 0.04. Considering the endurance, the final fuel load ratio is about 0.08." John Field explained pointing to the data.

Huang Mingzhe was quite satisfied with the final fuel load ratio data, he nodded and said:

"Directly using the small Jinwu nuclear fusion reactor, it can be transformed into a nuclear fusion direct injection engine."

"There is no problem with other components. We estimate the overall weight of the spacecraft to be around 1200 tons, which means we need 96 tons of nuclear fuel." Li Guoqing echoed.

Chen Yao shook his head and added: "No, Lao Li, you forgot the nuclear fuel needed for other nuclear fusion reactors. I guess it is about 100 tons!"

Huang Mingzhe looked through the current domestic deuterium reserves. The advantage of the Jinwu nuclear fusion reactor is that helium 3 is not needed, and the nuclear fuel of the spacecraft only needs deuterium.

At present, the domestic deuterium reserves are divided into three parts, one part is about 1600 tons of power generation reserves of the State Grid, one part is about 1050 tons of strategic reserves of the War Council, and the last part is about 342 tons of seawater desalination management company reserves.

Fortunately, due to the application of nuclear fusion reactors in recent years, there have been many heavy hydrogen refining plants in China, and the heavy hydrogen extracted from seawater desalination plants has so many reserves.

Of the 1600 tons of power generation reserves, a maximum of 600 tons can be taken out, while the strategic reserves of the War Council and the reserves of the desalination management company add up to a total of 1992 tons of heavy hydrogen.

Barely enough to use 20 spaceships, of course Huang Mingzhe and the war committee's plan is to build 10 spaceships.

This is a reasonable arrangement that can be made at present.

Huang Mingzhe thought for a while and ordered: "Old Li, you can complete the construction of the first batch of components as soon as possible, and you can launch them into low-earth orbit from the other three space launch centers."

"We are making arrangements, and we have completed part of the main skeleton." Li Guoqing also knew that the situation was urgent.

"In addition, the assembly orbit is chosen to be 650 kilometers in low-earth orbit. You should discuss it with each launch center."

"no problem."

In fact, the aerospace field is currently one of the few fields within the new human beings that has not withdrawn from the wartime mechanism. On the contrary, the scale is expanding like a snowball.

A lot of manpower and material resources have been invested in the aerospace field. After all, in the war inside the blue star planet, the new humans have obvious advantages.

The war in outer space is what deserves the attention of new humans.

One long five-D carrier rocket was manufactured, and then quickly put into service.

……

After passing the internal discussions of the Science Committee and the War Committee, the project code-named "Huo Qubing-class nuclear-powered space battleship" officially began to be implemented within the new humans.

This level of space battleship will gather the current top technology of the new humans, realize the comprehensive defense of the new humans against the Blue Moon system, and remove the deadly threat of the Illuminati to the Blue Star.

Once the construction is completed, it will be the day when the New Humanity and the Illuminati will resume their war.

Various supporting factories and enterprises have received a large number of spare parts orders, which involves the cooperation of tens of thousands of factories.

In fact, the most troublesome part of building this kind of spacecraft is the coordination of manpower and material resources.

Moreover, the cost of spare parts is very high, because one part generally produces dozens of sets, at most hundreds of sets, and it is a huge waste of manpower and material resources to open a production line to produce dozens of sets of parts.

But there is no way now, the War Council can be said to be promoting the construction of the Huo Qubing class regardless of the cost.

Various seawater desalination plants and heavy hydrogen refining plants along the coast are refining heavy hydrogen nuclear fuel at full capacity.

Under the wartime mechanism, the New Humans can do everything to win, and everything must make way for the war. Under this sense of urgency, the New Humans burst out with unprecedented productivity and cohesion.

Chapter 282 Survivor

North America, California.

With the continuous launch of ozone breeding bombs by the new humans, the previous extreme weather was finally suppressed, and the high temperature and high ultraviolet rays during the day and the low temperature at night gradually restored their balance.

A team of 30 people is driving on the road.

In a month's time, the once-prosperous human city was already desolate and dilapidated.

This is a biochemical elimination team, they are responsible for cleaning up the remaining biochemical monsters, even without the command of the lizardman, these biochemical monsters still stubbornly roam around with their super strong physical fitness and beast instinct.

A rough middle-aged man smoking a Cuban cigar stood on the chariot while smoking while observing the surroundings. The team has a special neutrino detector that can scan the surrounding area for about 80 kilometers.