Chapter 303 You Are Breaking the Law

Ye Changsi: "Achieving controlled nuclear fusion within this century should be the goal of the entire human scientific community. Although it is difficult, we must do it.

Think about it from another perspective. If there is no third-generation helium-tri-fusion technology, people will not have much motivation to develop the moon, nor will they have the ability to conduct interstellar exploration."

Lin Ju: "..."

Ye Changsi is right. Nuclear fusion technology is not only a major node in human history, but also an important milestone in aerospace technology.

Only a small amount of nuclear fuel is needed to maintain the consumption of spacecraft for hundreds or thousands of years. If it is applied to the current electric propulsion technology, it has the initial ability to travel between stars.

For example, a 100-ton unmanned probe uses a Hall thruster with a thrust of 0.1 tons. With the function of the fusion device, it can continuously accelerate for one year and reach one thousandth of the speed of light, which is difficult for traditional aerospace technology to achieve.

More recently, it is the development and exploration mission within the solar system. Nuclear fusion can also bring unimaginable efficiency improvements, allowing the construction of extraterrestrial colonies to be carried out at a lower cost.

But...with Xinyuan's body, I'm afraid it can't bear it.

Ye Changsi clearly saw Lin Ju's worries, and he smiled:

"The research we are preparing to conduct now is not about building experimental devices like EAST or ITER. This is actually unnecessary. The focus of controlled nuclear fusion is how to make the fusion reaction continue to pass on, not how to achieve fusion.

The first five years should remain in the theoretical research stage. There may be some small experiments, but they can all be carried out based on the Qingshan base, which doesn't cost much."

"Theoretical research, that's easy, projects below one billion don't need to ask for permission." Lin Ju finally breathed a sigh of relief. It's just the initial theoretical research... It shouldn't cost anything, right?

"Old Ye, which method do you think is most likely to succeed? Tokamak? Or inertial confinement?"

Ye Changsi: "Personally, I prefer inertial confinement. I think that is the way to maintain spontaneous reactions, but magnetic confinement is also a usable auxiliary means. In fact, the two can be done together, under high pressure and high heat..."

After taking a free fusion course taught by a cutting-edge physicist, Lin Ju decisively decided to end the topic.

Nuclear fusion is still too high-end. In comparison, robots and rockets are closer to life.

Ye Changsi saw Lin Ju's pain and smiled, "There is one more thing. Qingshan Base needs a very powerful supercomputer, which is stronger than Xingchen 2. I need 5 months of production capacity of the chip production line and the development of a dedicated processor."

"That's no problem. Shelev just needs to coordinate. X32055 should be under development, which is a dedicated chip for servers."

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"Wow, the view from this cockpit is great, and the window area is much larger than that of H1. I feel like it's more like a spaceship."

Li Sheng sat in the driving seat of Pioneer, imagining himself pushing the throttle valve, and gently clicked the button on the console to ensure that the autopilot system is online.

Deng Lei, Zhang Zhiguang, Hu Dong, Liu Ming, and Li Sheng, as the No. 1 crew, took Pioneer to carry out the installation of the first three spoke cabins and trusses of the Forward.

Because the Forward's orbit is higher, the Pioneer, which was hit into low orbit, needs to fly for a while with its own power to reach the destination, with two hours of gliding time in between.

So Li Sheng and Zhang Zhiguang exchanged positions and sat in the driver's seat, experiencing the feeling of driving this giant.

"It's so wide, the driver's seat can actually accommodate three seats, and two seats are too spacious."

Li Sheng's left hand brushed over a complicated set of buttons, and these mechanical switches gave him a sense of reliability.

The internal control system of the Pioneer is divided into two sets. One set is the HUD mask display of the space suit in the cabin and the projection that can only be seen by the pilot and co-pilot. It is biased towards auxiliary flight, and SC09 has more interfaces.

The second set is pure physical interaction. In order to avoid accidental touch, it is designed as a full button and aviation switch design. There are dense buttons and flashing status indicators everywhere, which is extremely mechanical.

Zhang Zhiguang floated in the corner, staring at the screen on the inner wall of the crew cabin while moving his slightly uncoordinated and stiff right arm.

This is the latest generation of gesture control system developed for robotic arms, replacing the previous handle operation.

Some joints and sensors have been added to the right arm section of his space suit, which can be learned through gestures to achieve more flexible grasping operations.

This system can also be used with VR, but Zhang Zhiguang prefers to stare at the screen composed of several cameras. After all, it is operated outside the cabin, and the naked eye can be used as a means of final confirmation.

As a large space shuttle with a maximum weight of more than 130 tons, H2M has many improvements in internal functions and structures. The five astronauts are actively familiarizing themselves with the environment here until Deng Lei sits back in the driver's seat:

"There are 30 minutes left, everyone fix yourself, Zhiguang, you take the time to check the status of the cargo hold node."

After everyone is seated and confirmed that there are no objects still floating, Deng Lei confirms the last orbit change command planned by SC09, and the tail engine is ignited again.

The acceleration of the Pioneer during the orbit change is very small, and the overload it feels is almost negligible, but it is still approaching the Forward quickly. After about half an hour, the flight computer pops up a prompt and ends the autopilot state.

Deng Lei looked up from the porthole, the sun shone on the huge assembly above, and the Pioneer, which was more than 100 meters away, could not even see their full appearance.

The three spoke cabins launched by the No. 3 rocket a few days ago were still fixed on the mobile bracket, which was now docked to one side of the axial cabin. They needed to be separated one by one after the astronauts arrived, and then installed.

This made the connected assembly more than 150 meters long, the length of two H2Ms.

The cargo hold of the Pioneer carried more than 20 tons of steel structure trusses. During the construction of the Progress, these trusses that were continuously launched with the space shuttle would gradually wrap the entire space station, so that the cabins were attached to the trusses, so as to achieve the purpose of achieving an extremely high level of overall strength.

Deng Lei could already see the surface structure of these giant cabins while fine-tuning the RCS to approach the space station, and he couldn't help but worry about the workload of his crew.

It is now the 24th, and the expected construction time is 15 days. It takes 5 days to complete the installation of a spoke cabin and trusses. Now he suddenly feels that time is even a little tight.

Or... let's not celebrate the Spring Festival? Astronauts also have to work on the New Year's Eve to build a space station?

Just as he was thinking about this, Hu Dong's voice came from the back row:

"The ground is good this time. They brought us more than 30 kinds of food and some white wine. I said, what's so good about wine.

Eh? Is it illegal to drive a space shuttle after drinking?"

Zhang Zhiguang: "..."

Li Sheng: "Maybe not? The space shuttle is an orbital vehicle, not an aircraft."

Liu Ming: "The total share of the five of us is less than 20 ml. If we drank it, it wouldn't be detected even if we took a blood test, right?"

"Pioneer, this is the ground, please watch your words. Driving any motorized equipment after drinking is illegal!"

I was too busy yesterday, so I will try to update more today