Super Dimension Technology Era

After visiting the laboratory for half a day, Huang Mingzhe already knew the progress of the second-generation nuclear fusion engine.

The Qinhuangdao Nuclear Fusion Engine Research Institute has almost perfected the technology to the point of being put into use. Now Qin Changge and the others are making final debugging and improvements, hoping to make the second-generation nuclear fusion engine reach maximum efficiency.

The second-generation nuclear fusion engine is also an engine prepared for the next generation of spacecraft.

With the same weight of fuel reserves, the second-generation nuclear fusion engine can increase the flight range by 26%. If the working fluid can be collected along the way, the flight range can be increased by about 85%.

Huang Mingzhe then put the stand-in robot back into the storage cabin, and through the virtual network, came to the stand-in robot in another research institute.

This is the new Xichang satellite city located in Blue Star’s 36,000-kilometer orbit.

At present, New Humanity has a total of 4 satellite cities in the Blue Moon system, namely the New Wenchang Satellite City with an orbit of 1,500 kilometers, the New Jiuquan Satellite City with an orbit of 1,500 kilometers, the New Xichang Satellite City with an orbit of 36,000 kilometers, and Kunlun at the Blue Moon Lagrange Point L1. satellite city.

The four satellite cities have different functions.

Among them, the New Wenchang Satellite City serves as a space port, space garbage recycling station, and spacecraft supply center.

The New Jiuquan Satellite City is positioned as an industrial satellite city as a spacecraft shipyard, spare parts processing plant and spacecraft repair plant.

The New Xichang Satellite City where Huang Mingzhe is now serves as a space science research city.

The last Kunlun satellite city is actually a Blue Moon geostationary satellite city that was transformed from a rocky asteroid with a diameter of 1817 to 2237 meters as the main body.

Kunlun Satellite City is used as a future alien colony experimental site, specifically used to test artificial simulation environments. This is an indispensable step for new humans to truly enter outer space.

Biocomputers and cell robots can reduce space diseases to a certain extent, but they cannot completely guarantee safety. For example, most of the current astronauts are middle-aged people who have given birth to offspring.

The biocomputer even directly locked the reproductive function of astronauts in order to avoid unpredictable consequences.

In the outer space environment of low gravity, high vacuum, and high radiation for a long time, the new human body may undergo unpredictable mutations.

Pregnancy and childbirth in outer space are expressly prohibited by the Supreme Will.

Therefore, the Kunlun Satellite City, which simulates the Blue Star environment, came into being, where astrobiology, space environmental science, astronauts' physical conditions, etc. are studied.

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Above the New Xichang Satellite City, it is currently not large in scale, with a weight of only 800 tons and 27 cabins of various sizes.

Most of the researchers working here use stand-in robots to go into outer space. The only people who actually come up using human bodies are three soldiers stationed in the Space Force.

Currently, there are only five laboratories in the New Xichang Satellite City, namely the Space Materials Research Institute affiliated with the Institute of Materials, the Gravity Laboratory affiliated with the Institute of High Energy, the Cosmic Particle Laboratory, and the Cosmic Observation Laboratory affiliated with the Astronomical Research Association.

The last one is Huang Mingzhe's destination, the Space Test Laboratory affiliated to the Spacecraft Research Institute.

"Welcome Chairman to come and inspect." Hua Dongfeng, the head of the laboratory, floated over.

Although they are all stand-in robots, the stand-in robots have nano-robots on them that can simulate the user's appearance, making it easier for others to identify the stand-in robot.

"Dongfeng, how is your test going?" Huang Mingzhe asked while floating in the cabin.

"Chairman, this is the test situation over the past few days." Hua Dongfeng shared several test reports.

Huang Mingzhe looked at the data and knew the test experimental data of the equipment.

The Spacecraft Research Institute sent a 50-ton small spacecraft for testing a week ago. It is a very simple spacecraft with a small nuclear fusion engine and a particle collector on it.

The key point is to test the function of this particle collector. The particle collector can release an ionizing magnetic field with a radius of about 10 to 50 kilometers.

In the open interstellar space, hydrogen atoms are the most widely distributed particles. However, due to the weak magnetism of hydrogen atoms, it is generally difficult to attract free hydrogen atoms electromagnetically.

At this time, the ionization magnetic field is needed to enhance the magnetism of hydrogen atoms, so that the particle collector can collect hydrogen atoms through electromagnetic attraction.

In the inner circle of the Blue Moon system, where the particle concentration is very high, the particle collector activates the most cost-effective 24-kilometer ionization magnetic field, and can collect an average of 0.2 to 0.5 kilograms of hydrogen atoms per hour.

These hydrogen atoms can be used directly as nuclear fuel, thereby further improving the self-sustainability of the spacecraft.

Of course, it would be even more perfect if we could encounter asteroids and the like and directly mine the asteroid materials as nuclear fuel and heating fluid.

Particle collectors are mainly designed for navigation in open interstellar space, but are actually of little use in the solar system.

The neutrino detector can scan blurry conditions as far as 1.5 million kilometers, and if it is within 5,000 kilometers, it can even be accurate to the atomic level.

With the support of neutrino detectors, spacecraft can easily find asteroids to replenish working fluids.

In addition, the new humans plan to arrange supply stations along the interstellar routes, so that within the solar system, particle collectors will become useless.

However, this technology and spacecraft research institute has still invested in research and development. Even if it is not used now, it does not mean that it will not be used in the future.

After inspecting various laboratories in the New Xichang Satellite City, Huang Mingzhe went offline again to the New Jiuquan Satellite City.

The scale of the new Jiuquan Satellite City is more than ten times larger than that of the New Xichang Satellite City. On the space dock of the spacecraft assembly plant, three spacecrafts are being built at the same time.

Two of them are Huo Qubing-class space battleships, and the other is a Kunpeng-class space transport ship.

The Kunpeng class is a variant of the Huo Qubing class space battleship. The total weight reaches 2,600 tons. The payload is increased at the expense of speed, and the payload reaches 1,300 tons.

Using a nuclear fusion direct injection engine, the maximum speed can reach 14 kilometers per second, which is suitable for internal transportation of the Blue Moon system.

Huang Mingzhe looked at the main body of the spacecraft on the dock. At this time, except for the engine part, which was not yet in place, other parts were nearly completed.

This is waiting for the second-generation nuclear fusion engine to be sent up from the Blue Star ground, so that these warships and transport ships can be put into use.

Zhang Siping and Liu Dawei from the War Committee also used stand-in robots to inspect.

Seeing Huang Mingzhe here, Zhang Siping floated over to say hello: "Mingzhe, why are you here?"

Huang Mingzhe smiled and replied: "Come here to investigate. Some projects of the Science Committee require the use of large space transport ships."

"That's it." Zhang Siping then added: "You may have to wait until next year, we are forming a Mars expedition fleet."

"So fast?"

Zhang Siping explained: "Afraid of long nights and dreams, it would be better to eliminate them early."

"That's true." Huang Mingzhe agreed with the war committee's idea. After all, the existence of the lizard people and the remnants of the Shinra Federation was a time bomb.

If the other party is allowed to develop on Mars and the asteroid belt, there will be big trouble sooner or later, and Huang Mingzhe is a person who doesn't like trouble.

The shipyards of the spacecraft assembly plant are being expanded. By the end of the year, it is expected to expand to twenty, and twenty spacecrafts of less than 5,000 tons can be started at the same time.

It seems that the war committee is very determined.

After Huang Mingzhe and Zhang Siping said goodbye, they then inspected various important projects of the Scientific Committee and the progress of their understanding.

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