novelweb Page 428
Page 428
Now that Chen Nuo had personally admitted it, Yu Chongyang asked excitedly.
"100Kw/27.8N! Converted, the thrust of the whole device is 11.12 tons, plus nuclear fusion fuel and propellant, there is almost 3.5 tons of remaining thrust, which is enough to accelerate the whole device to Mach 20 in a few seconds gone."
At present, the nozzle speed of the best ion thruster in the world can reach 40km/s, far exceeding the speed of any chemical fuel, while the nozzle speed of the Starburst ion thruster designed by Chen Nuo can reach 300km/s, and the acceleration can naturally reach design needs.
Everyone in the conference room was stunned, especially people like Zhou Zhengfeng and Yu Chongyang, who were technically savvy, with their mouths open and their eyes as if they had seen a ghost.
It took a long time for everyone to wake up completely, and everyone's eyes were shining with hot light.
Although this broke their cognition, no one questioned it.
Because it will be verified in three days.
"Minister Zhou, there are three things that need to be done. The first is to prepare for the energy to ignite the fusion; the second is that I need a test site for the test; the third is to clean up the enemy satellites in the sky!"
"pass it to me!"
Zhou Zhengfeng agreed very seriously. The capture device is a secret weapon and cannot be exposed.
Although the Dong'an Nuclear Power Base is remote, the capture device can fly several kilometers in one second, which is definitely not suitable for testing.
After arranging everything, Mr. Qi and the others chatted for a while and then left, while Chen Nuo stayed at the base.
Three days passed in a flash.
At seven o'clock in the morning, in the small smart factory in the southeast corner of Dong'an Nuclear Power Base, Chen Nuo and his group gathered together, including several chief engineers of the general staff.
"It's just assembling a piece of equipment, there's really nothing to see!"
Chen Nuo looked helplessly at the group of people behind him.
The entire assembly is programmed by the No. [-] brain and assembled by robots.
"It's okay, let's watch the fun!"
"Yes, we have nothing to do anyway, so we should relax!"
……
Chen Nuo directly ignored everyone's responses, and after entering a series of commands on the computer next to him, he pressed the start button.
Dozens of robotic arms in the smart factory moved like a group of demons dancing wildly. They looked chaotic, but they were actually orderly. They were assembled at the speed of dozens of parts per second.
When each mechanical arm falls, the corresponding device will appear in the holographic image in front of everyone, just like Tetris.
In just a few hours, the miniaturized nuclear fusion reactor was assembled, and the efficiency was so high that the assembly of the Pangu Reactor was thrown out of N streets.
"Hey, if only our Pangu reactor could use this program!"
A chief engineer sighed.
Chen Nuo rolled his eyes when he heard that, what was he thinking?
The worst part of Pangudui is tens of kilograms for the smallest parts, and nearly a thousand tons for the largest ones. A little inertia can cause the parts to collide, and the result is that all previous efforts will be wasted.
So far, humans have not really been able to build an intelligent robotic arm weighing thousands of tons.
The assembly continued, and when it was time to eat at noon, the whole set of devices had been completed, and even the propellant for the nuclear fusion fuel and ion thrusters had been filled.
Presented in front of everyone is a rocket-like aircraft with a diameter of 6 meters and a height of nearly 12 meters, but with several retracted mechanical arms on the main body.
"Assembly completed, it took 4 hours, 39 minutes and 16 seconds."
"Start the self-inspection system, start self-inspection!"
An electronically synthesized voice sounded in the workshop, and then data flashed on the holographic image.
After a few minutes, the self-test completes.
Listening to the system's report, Chen Nuo let out a long sigh. The No. [-] brain is still very reliable.
Glancing at the time, Chen Nuo asked, "How about eating first..."
Before the words were finished, the eager look in everyone's eyes had already betrayed their inner anxiety.
"Forget it, let's talk after the test!"
After Chen Nuo finished speaking, he turned around and walked outside, and everyone followed, anyway, it wouldn't take long.
At the same time, the capture device was also grabbed by the machine and headed towards the launch pad.
A few minutes later, the capture device had arrived at the predetermined location, and everyone also appeared in a temporary command room a hundred meters away.
"Minister Zhou, start in 1 minute!"
Chen Nuo looked at the device in the distance and said something to Zhou Zhengfeng.
Zhou Zhengfeng held the walkie-talkie: "Attention all units, the 1-minute countdown starts, 59, 58..."
Chapter 742 Accidents
"5, 4... 1, light the fire!"
At the end of Zhou Zhengfeng's countdown and the moment he gave the order, Chen Nuo pressed the start button.
Hu Fangheng, who was in charge of the nuclear fusion power system hundreds of meters away, watched the violently beating curves on various monitors, and the corners of his eyes also twitched.
In just a few seconds, the curve reached a stable value and continued to stabilize.
At this point, Hu Xingquan became even more nervous. If this is to ignite the reactor, then this step is just a superconducting magnet to generate a magnetic field. The next step is the laser ignition is the biggest test.
After going on for a few more seconds, the steady curve once again rose in a straight line, reaching the maximum value in less than a second, then slowly falling back, and finally returned to the normal value.
"Professor Hu, the Pangu pile was not lit, what is it?"
"Have you forgotten the discipline of secrecy?"
Hu Fangheng snorted coldly, but his eyes never left the various monitors.
In fact, he was also a little puzzled. Zhou Zhengfeng found him three days ago and asked him to do a good job of coordination. Three days later, he would need a power supply with a total power of 30MW.
Although this amount of electricity is huge, it is far from enough to ignite the Pangu pile, but he doesn't know where it will be used.
He turned his head, and looked through the window to see the extremely heavily guarded small hill built with flattened soil a thousand meters away.
But then he turned his eyes back. He has worked in the scientific research department for decades, and he knows very well that he should ask what should be asked, and should not ask what should not be asked.
If he fails, he will be invited in for tea, that's why he is so strict with the students.
However, in the eyes of Chen Nuo and his team in the temporary command room, a bright light suddenly rose, which was the light produced after the plasma in the low-configuration nuclear fusion reactor in the capture device was ignited.
If everyone hadn't made preparations in advance, that ray of light alone might blind everyone intermittently.
"The system detected deuterium, and the fusion ignition was successful!"
The sound of machinery sounded in the temporary command room, and everyone was a little confused.
So successful?
No one is operating the whole process?
Well, no, if pressing the start button counts as participation.
If it wasn't for the fear of exposing the No. [-] brain, Chen Nuo and his party wouldn't need to appear here, and they could get it done with a single sentence.
After a moment of bewilderment, there was applause in the temporary command room.
Zhou Zhengfeng couldn't believe it: "So simple?"
"Otherwise, if the normal process is followed, the satellite and radar will find the rod of God, and then the daylily will be cold when the fire is ignited."
If it is a normal reactor, it takes hundreds of people to cooperate for more than half an hour to check the airtightness of the excuse, superconducting electricity, injecting liquid helium, injecting fuel, etc. A series of complex mileages.
Not to mention half an hour, in 10 minutes, the rod of God fell to the ground.
Although Chen Nuo's device is simple, it has serious shortcomings and cannot last long.
Seeing that the energy output was stable, Chen Nuo looked at Zhou Zhengfeng, preparing for the next step.
Zhou Zhengfeng got the signal and took out the satellite phone: "The action begins!"
At the same time, sparks suddenly appeared from a satellite orbiting the earth above the space, and then the speed increased sharply, and it flew across the space.
"Oh, my god!"
An exclamation sounded in the command center of a base thousands of miles away, and everyone who was awakened looked at a surveillance screen, and their pupils dilated instantly.
"No!"
"Fuck!"
A sound of cursing and exclamation sounded.
On the screen, a satellite with electric light flashed rapidly from behind, and then collided with a satellite in front, and then the two satellites left the orbit around the earth at the same time, and flew into the unknown deep space.
"drop!"
A piercing alarm sounded.
"Alarm, satellite 87 has been hit and lost contact!"
The mechanical sound sounded in the command center, and all the staff were stunned.
"Check it out for me!"
A roar resounded through the command center.
A few minutes later, the results of the accident investigation came out. Kelvin, the person in charge of the base, listened to the report and looked at the pictures taken by other satellites with a gloomy expression.
"How long will it take for satellite 86 to reach the other side's sky?"
"26 minutes and 52 seconds!"
Kelvin was silent while listening to his subordinates' report.
They have three satellites monitoring each other all the year round, and the 3th satellite is one of them. The sudden crash at this juncture made him full of doubts.
"Your Excellency Kelvin, the other side's space agency has received news that one of their satellites was hit by space junk, causing the propulsion system to fail out of control and crash into our satellite. They apologize for the incident and are willing to compensate us for the loss!"
While Kelvin was thinking about various possibilities, a staff member came to report.
"Get me the other space agency!"
Kelvin snorted coldly, he always felt that there was something wrong with it.
"24 minutes and 19 seconds, countdown!"
Chen Nuo didn't know all of this, when Zhou Zhengfeng heard a powerful voice from the satellite phone, "Professor Chen, let's start!"
As soon as the words fell, Chen Nuo pressed the button to start the ion thruster.
Two blue flames shot out from under the catcher, and the blue flames reflected in everyone's eyes like the light of two comets attacking and burning.
whoosh...
The capture device rose slowly in everyone's eyes, very slowly!
It was so slow that everyone was afraid that this thing would fall from mid-air at any time. After a few minutes, it rose to an altitude of [-] meters. Everyone saw a black dot with their binoculars.
"Arrived in the designated airspace, the attitude is being adjusted, the destination coordinates ***!"
A mechanical voice sounded in the temporary command room, and in the next second, everyone saw a sudden increase in the blue light at the tail of the aircraft at an altitude of [-] meters.
In the next moment, he disappeared from everyone's sight.
“3马赫、12马赫……25马赫，用时4.8秒，预计7分钟后到达预定地点。”
The mechanical sound sounded continuously, and it only took 4.8 seconds from starting to reaching the maximum speed, which shocked everyone.
41 can also reach this speed, but the result after an hour of flight and several boosts at that time is simply weaker than this.
"It would be great if the Dongfeng series could use this thruster!"
Yu Chongyang, who was in the final assembly, muttered to himself, his eyes were full of light.
Chen Nuo and the others rolled their eyes when they heard this. This is simply wishful thinking.
一枚41重达60吨，而这么一个捕获装置的造价近5亿RMB，想要推动60吨的41，推进器的造价至少得30亿以上。
And a 41, from manufacturing to maintenance, to the rocket car, to the final launch, basically costs 20 billion RMB, plus the total price of the propeller is 50 billion, even the country can't afford it.
The current 41 terminal speed and orbit change cannot be intercepted, so it seems unnecessary to manufacture this kind of thing again.
Although 41 and thrusters are ready-made, the combination of the two is a big project, and the gains outweigh the losses.
But it's not impossible to try.