Chapter 154 The Most Stringent Environmental Protection Measures in History

It is hoped that it will take less than two years for the No. 2 spacecraft to fly from Jade to outside the orbit of Pluto. After arriving at the predetermined location, the spacecraft will throw boxes to "smuggle" these cargo boxes into the orbit of Pluto, so that the spacecraft under Fuxing Transport can receive them.

Han Yang has already mastered this trick.

The vastness of interstellar space is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

If the sun is reduced to the size of a basketball, then the earth is equivalent to a little more than two millimeters of gravel 25 meters away, Pluto is equivalent to a grain of dust with a diameter of 0.4 mm 1,000 meters away, and Jade is about equivalent to a grain of dust with a diameter of 0.3 mm more than 40 kilometers away.

Imagine that there is only a basketball and a few grains of dust in the vast space, and the distance between them is often hundreds of meters or kilometers. There is nothing else. In such a vast space, there are occasionally a few things that are countless times smaller than dust passing through. How can they be detected?

Even the Itar people cannot closely monitor the entire solar system. That's unrealistic.

So Han Yang didn't worry about his cargo boxes being discovered by the Itars. How bad would that be?

Besides, even if they were discovered, Han Yang wouldn't be afraid. Because there were no markings on these boxes, and after the orbital disturbance, the Itars couldn't use orbital reverse thrust to target Jade Star.

Everything was foolproof.

After manipulating the Hope II spacecraft to set sail, Han Yang didn't continue to allocate much energy to it.

His main energy was still on the construction of the Jade Star base.

Time slipped away bit by bit. On this day, Han Yang's hidden monitor on the surface of Jade Star sent him a piece of data.

These data made Han Yang's heart a little heavy.

The data showed that the temperature on the surface of Jade Star had increased by about 0.06 degrees Celsius compared to before he came. And, in the near-Earth space of Jade Star, the particle density increased by about 0.7%.

The temperature difference of 0.06 degrees Celsius and the increase of 0.7% in particle density are not enough to cause any changes in properties that can be observed at the macro level. But it is still enough to make Han Yang alert.

Because this is a change caused by the existence of the Yu Shenxing base.

The changes are still small now and will not attract attention, but if the situation continues to deteriorate and eventually causes major changes, which will be detected by the Itar people's telescope?

"No, this trend must be curbed."

Han Yang secretly made up his mind.

After careful calculations, Han Yang quickly found a solution.

"The first is heat dissipation. The waste heat of the Yu Shenxing base can no longer be allowed to escape naturally into the outside space. Active waste heat treatment must be carried out.

The second is waste gas. Even after the waste gas is treated, it can no longer be discharged at will, and it cannot cause changes in the particle density and structure of the near-Earth space of Yu Shenxing."

Under Han Yang's control, a part of the robots and engineering forces were immediately separated and invested in a project that Han Yang called "the most stringent environmental protection measures in history."

Han Yang once again started large-scale tunnel excavation activities around and underground the Yushenxing base.

Through a specially developed small excavation equipment, Han Yang dug out countless small channels with a diameter of only one decimeter and laid pipes in them.

These pipes went deep into the underground or cliff walls of Yushenxing, and the longest extended to dozens of kilometers away. Han Yang poured special refrigerants into the pipes and let them flow in the pipes.

In this way, the heat from the Yushenxing base was continuously transported to the underground rock layer of Yushenxing, effectively reducing the temperature of the Yushenxing base, and also reducing the temperature of the Yushenxing base escaping to the surface space of Yushenxing.

The rock layer that constitutes Yushenxing has a large specific heat capacity. According to Han Yang's estimation, at this moment, the operation of the Yushenxing base of this scale for ten years is not enough to raise the temperature of the Yushenxing rock layer within the heat dissipation range by 0.1 degrees Celsius.

Even if they are heated up, it will take a long time for the temperature to spread to the surface. When this process is completed, maybe he has left Yushenxing, and there is no need to worry at all.

As for the exhaust gas generated by the Yushenxing base, Han Yang no longer emits it. Instead, he uses this cooling measure to freeze it into solids and then discard it with other waste in the mine or deeper in the canyon, thus avoiding changing the "atmospheric" structure of Yushenxing.

Everything is based on the highest purpose of "never causing any changes to the surface environment of Yushenxing".

After solving the environmental protection-related problems, Han Yang withdrew the corresponding computing power and invested in the research and development of aerospace technology again.

At the R&D center, a huge factory building quietly placed a thing with a mass of about 500 kilograms and an irregular shape.

Seven or eight robotic arms are busy on it, performing various extremely delicate operations.

After the last process is completed, a transport robot comes over, carefully picks it up, places it on its trailer, and then drags it to the launch site.

The launch site is located in another corner of the canyon. It is also covered by a lid, but the top is openable. At this moment, a small landing spacecraft came out of the camouflage shed, lifted up this strange-looking thing through the opening, and flew into the space about 100 kilometers away from the surface of Jade Star.

Here, the landing spacecraft gives this thing a speed of more than 600 meters per second. So it stayed in the orbit of Jade and would never fall again.

After completing all this, Han Yang solemnly issued an order.

"The 1102nd ion propulsion experiment begins."

Under the power of the energy battery, the new generation ion thruster that Han Yang had made by himself after painstaking research and development began to work and ejected a faint red light.

The red light is extremely weak, and even with the pure space as the background, one needs to be very careful to see it.

After the ion thruster started working, various precision equipment in the box also began to closely monitor its operating status and effects.

One day and one night later, the corresponding monitoring data was transmitted back to Han Yang's brain. At this moment, Han Yang's spirit suddenly lifted.

Han Yang saw that after a day and a night of pushing, the orbit of the test equipment had been pushed up by about two millimeters.

Where does the motivation come from?

Obviously it can only be the ion thruster!

After several years of hard research and development, seven major changes, and thirteen redesigns, Han Yang observed macro-level thrust for the first time on the ion thruster he made!

This can almost be regarded as a breakthrough from zero to one.