Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 296: Kunlun Mountain Trial

There are a total of 21,400 such small nuclear fusion engines in the "Kunlun Mountain", and they are distributed in various locations in all directions of the Kunlun Mountain. Such a design not only brings the advantages of mechanical structure, but also brings another benefit-the ability to withstand risks is very strong.

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

These small nuclear fusion devices are off-the-shelf technologies of the earth’s civilization, and they are quite mature now. Compared with previous large engines, it has a higher utilization rate of nuclear fuel and can convert more mass into energy.

One part of the huge energy generated by the nuclear reaction will be converted into a high-energy microblog through a special device in the engine room to propel the spacecraft, and the other part will be a traditional ion engine method that ejects a hot plasma stream.

Only the dual methods of microwave propulsion and plasma propulsion allow this billion-ton mothership to have enough forward power.

"Have the last group of people come back?" After carefully checking the parameters of each key part, Zhang Yuan asked his assistant.

The young assistant in the secretary’s office is named Li Cheng, 43 years old, proficient in physics and mathematics, 43 years old is still the standard for young people in this era, but is already one of the candidates for deputy captain of the Kunlun Mountain One. It has to be said that the entire civilization has produced many talents and elites over so many years, and many geniuses have been born.

"Report to the captain, they are all back."

Now that all matters of the Gliese people have come to an end, Zhang Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief, "Then, six hours later, the first test flight of the Kunlun Mountain officially begins!"

The captain's order was quickly conveyed, and all the staff on the spacecraft became busy.

Of course, this voyage was just a test flight, and the mothership did not carry a large number of people and cargo. In the first test flight, a large number of defects will inevitably be exposed during the voyage, and unified improvements will be needed at that time.

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

"The wandering plan guides us to touch all kinds of civilizations...Even though the road may be extremely bumpy, it may be full of thorny thorns, and may encounter powerful enemies, putting us at risk of complete destruction. ……"

"But we will not regret it..."

About ten million people are witnessing the first test voyage of this mothership on the surface. The lively discussion and the sound of the TV station are intertwined.

As the last second passed, suddenly, a milky white light burst into the sky, covering up all the noise. It is as if more than 20,000 small suns suddenly appeared, illuminating the whole earth completely!

From the ground's surface, the powerful plasma pulse draws a line of fluorescent lamps that can be seen by the naked eye and stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers.

The power of 21,400 small engines is too strong, and the camera is already flooded with bright white light. Even the little sister of the reporter who was live broadcast was stunned for a few seconds. Then, she remembered what was going on, reduced the camera's aperture, and started to learn common sense in popular science and microwave advancement.

"Ah, after such a long distance, the temperature of our spacesuit still rose to 300 degrees Celsius... These are all powerful little suns... They are our latest engine technology, the microwave engine."

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

"Let's compare the two ways of advancing."

"The theoretical jet speed of traditional nuclear fusion engines can reach up to 20,000 kilometers per second. The reverse thrust of microwave is the speed of light, roughly 300,000 kilometers per second. It seems that the latter is more than 15 times higher than the impulse, unfortunately Yes, this type of pure energy engine consumes 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 a jet speed of 20,000 km/s. The energy consumption of the microwave engine is equivalent to that of the ion engine. 100 times!"

"In fact, it is a simple sentence. Under a certain ratio of total energy to total mass, the specific impulse has an optimal value, and the material utilization efficiency is the highest... Therefore, the combination of the two engines can maximize the maneuverability of the spacecraft. ."

"Of course, for ultra-long-distance interstellar voyages, these two kinds of propulsion are just auxiliary means, because we have discovered a new kind of cosmic string propulsion using the universe itself...from the human branch of the Golden Sun New technology!"

However, no one paid any attention to the science popularization of the TV station. The engineers, scientists, and students on the surface were all enthusiastically cheering, cheering for the first long-distance test of "Kunlun Mountain".

"Waiting for my university graduation~IndoMTL.com~ just can get on the spaceship! Haha!"

"I really can't wait!"

A middle-aged man over a hundred years old said: "No, no, no, you know, interstellar voyage is actually a very boring thing. Most logarithmic time is spent in the void... Yes At that time, I had to hibernate. In fact, it’s not that happy."

The young man shook his head, "But don't you think that 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 the humans of the Golden Sun, when will we send messages to them? Our development is also very good! "

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

So, most areas of this spacecraft are composed of distributed structures. Because it is impossible for a single keel to withstand such a huge tonnage, Kunlun Mountain is not so much a super mothership, as it is a combination of 36 large spacecraft!

The complexity of its navigation and the coordination between them far surpassed the previous "Earth Age"!

"Fortunately, the productivity of 13 universal factories has increased, otherwise it would be impossible to produce so many new materials in just a few decades." Zhang Yuan nervously looked at the various data on the screen, up to this time , Most commands are executed by artificial intelligence, and the part that humans can operate is very small.

The "Kunlun Mountain" still uses biological materials similar to the universal factory in some parts, especially the sensor position.

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