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There are 21,400 such small nuclear fusion engines in the "Kunlun Mountains", which are distributed in all directions of the Kunlun Mountains. 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 small engine of the Kunlun Mountains is damaged, as long as the rest can be started, the spaceship can still sail normally without losing its mobility.

These small nuclear fusion devices are off-the-shelf technologies of the Earth civilization, and they are now quite mature. 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 nuclear reactions will be converted into high-energy microwaves through a special device in the engine room to advance the spaceship, and the other part will be the traditional ion engine method, which jets high-temperature hot plasma jets. Get out.

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 a youngster standard in this era, but it is already the deputy captain of the Kunlun Mountains One of the candidates. It has to be said that the entire civilization has also produced many talents and elites over so many years, and many geniuses have been born.

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

Since all matters of the Gliese people have come to an end, Zhang Yuan also sighed in relief, "Then, six hours later , Kunlun Mountains, the first test flight has officially started!"

The captain's order was quickly conveyed, and the various staff on the spaceship were all busy.

Of course, the voyage at this time 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. When the time comes, unified improvements are needed.

Six hours passed quickly, and the beautiful female reporter on the TV station was riding a small spaceship 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 intense thorns, and may encounter powerful enemies, causing us to suffer The risk of annihilation..."

"But we will not regret it..."

There are about ten million people who are witnessing the first mothership on the surface. A trial flight. The lively discussion and the sound of the TV station are intertwined.

As the last second passed, suddenly, milk-white rays of 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 surface, the powerful plasma pulse draws out one after another naked eye. Visible, fluorescent lamps that stretch for tens of thousands of kilometers.

The power of 21,400 small engines is too strong, and the camera is already flooded with white light. Even the little elder sister, the reporter who was live broadcast, was stunned for a few seconds. Then, she recalled what was going on. She adjusted the aperture of the camera 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, 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 propulsion methods. "

"The theoretical jet speed of traditional nuclear fusion engines can reach up to 20,000 kilometers per second. The reverse thrust of microwaves is the speed of light, roughly 300,000 kilometers per second. It seems that the latter is 15 times higher than the impulse. Above, unfortunately, this type of pure energy engine consumes a lot of energy."

"The propulsion consumption of a microwave engine is about 100 MW Newton, and the fusion propulsion is about 10 at a jet speed of 20,000 kilometers per second. Megawatt Newtons. With the same driving force, the energy consumption of a microwave engine is 100 times that of an ion engine!"

"In fact, in a simple sentence, the ratio of total energy to total mass is constant. An optimal value, the highest material utilization efficiency... Therefore, the combination of the two engines can maximize the mobility of the spaceship."

"Of course, for ultra-long-distance interstellar sailing, this The two propulsion is just an auxiliary method, because we have discovered a new kind of propulsion using the cosmic strings of the universe itself...new technology from the human branch of the Golden Sun!"

However, simply no one Taking care of the science popularization of TV station, engineers, scientists and students on the surface are all cheering enthusiastically, cheering for the first long-distance test of "Kunlun Mountains".

"When I graduate from university, I will be able to go to spaceship! Haha!"

"I really can’t wait!"

A one hundred years old The middle age person said: "no no no, you know, the interstellar voyage is actually a very boring thing. Most of the logarithmic time is spent in the sky...sometimes I have to hibernate, in fact It’s not so happy."

youngster shook the 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 Arrived at another planet."

""Thank the humans of the Golden Sun, when will we transmit the news to them? Our development is also very good! "

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

So, the overwhelming majority area of ​​this spaceship is composed of distributed structures. Yes. Because a single keel is impossible to withstand such a huge tonnage, Kunlun Mountains is not so much a super mothership as it is a combination of 36 large-scale spaceships!

The complexity of its navigation With the cooperation between each other, far surpasses the former "Earth Era"!

"Fortunately, the productivity of 13 universal factories has increased. Otherwise, it would be impossible to produce so many new ones in just several decades. Material. "Zhang Yuan nervously looked at the various data on the screen. At this time, the overwhelming majority command is executed by artificial intelligence, and the part that humans can manipulate is very small.

"Kunlun Mountains" In some parts, especially the sensor position, biological materials similar to those of the universal factory are used.