Chapter 171 New Life!

In the vast space, a small spaceship quietly floats on the orbit of Yushen Star, orbiting it at a speed of more than 600 meters per second.

It is not big, only about seven or eight meters long, and the widest part is only more than three meters, just like the size of a small truck on Earth.

Its total mass is only a dozen tons. In front of the mass of interstellar transport ships of hundreds of thousands of tons, it is undoubtedly just a tiny thing.

But, even if it is just a tiny thing, it is also a real spaceship. It is a spaceship made by Han Yang with the industrial capacity and technological foundation of Yushen Star Base.

This is made by Han Yang himself, every screw, every cable, every component, is made by himself!

As everyone unanimously recognizes, spaceships are the most industrially integrated technological creations. Because the parts and technology required for a spaceship involve almost all industrial categories.

Correspondingly, what kind of spaceship can be made is also the most important indicator to measure the technological strength and industrial foundation of a civilization.

The manufacture of this spaceship is undoubtedly a comprehensive test of the industrial development level of the entire Yushen Star Base.

As long as there is an industrial category that is not developed to the standard, Han Yang will not be able to build it.

And now, Han Yang has built it!

This is a phased achievement, even with Han Yang's temperament, he is a little excited at this moment.

Under his control, a command was transmitted from the earth to the communication center of Yushenxing through long-distance communication, spanning more than 200 billion kilometers, and then transmitted to the small spacecraft named "Newborn" by Han Yang through radio waves.

Just like the birth of a new life, although it is weak at the moment, it contains infinite hope in the future!

On the Newborn spacecraft, the two low-power ion thrusters installed at the tail simultaneously ejected bright red light, pushing it to slowly accelerate.

"Well, the acceleration reached 0.3 mm/S^2, not bad."

At this moment, the speed of the Newborn spacecraft is 665 meters per second. The second cosmic speed of Yushenxing at about 100 kilometers is 790 meters per second.

In other words, as long as the speed of the Newborn spacecraft reaches 790 meters per second, it can break free from the gravitational field of Yushenxing and leave Yushenxing.

At this moment, the Newborn spacecraft was slowly accelerating. It had been accelerating for almost five days. When the orbit of the Newborn spacecraft became extremely flat, it finally escaped the gravitational control of Jade Star in a parabolic orbit when it reached the apogee, and flew into the vast space.

Everything was as Han Yang expected.

At this moment, the speed of the Newborn spacecraft was 792 meters per second relative to Jade Star. Although it had escaped the gravitational field of Jade Star, it had not yet escaped the gravitational field of the sun.

If it was not controlled and changed, the Newborn spacecraft would begin to orbit the sun.

But Han Yang would certainly not allow this to happen. After the Newborn spacecraft flew out for a distance, the engine was directly shut down. A small dual-purpose spacecraft caught up with it, dragged it back, and then transported it to the laboratory.

Han Yang immediately operated the robot to inspect it to determine the operating conditions of each system and component.

"The ion engine is working properly, the hydraulic system is intact, the electrical system is intact, the control system is intact..."

The results of the inspection made Han Yang very satisfied.

The only thing that made Han Yang dissatisfied was that the fuel tank of the Newborn spacecraft was... empty.

In order to support this experiment, Han Yang specially purified seven tons of high-purity methane and oxygen as fuel.

The combustion of methane and oxygen releases heat, which is converted into electrical energy through generators and then into kinetic energy through ion thrusters.

There is a lot of methane on Yu Shenxing, and oxygen can also be produced by electrolyzing water, so there is no shortage of it.

Methane is the main component of natural gas. In other words... the Newborn spacecraft actually burns gas.

In order to carry so much methane and oxygen, the entire Newborn spacecraft's payload was used up, and there was almost no space left. But even so, it only accelerated by more than 100 meters per second, and all the methane and oxygen were used up.

"The energy supply efficiency of chemical fuels is still too low."

Han Yang sighed.

But there is no way at this stage, he can't build a nuclear fusion reactor for the time being. Han Yang is confident that he can build a nuclear fission reactor or a fission battery, but there is an extreme lack of fission raw materials on Jade Star, so he can't build one even if he wants to, so he can only use chemical fuels temporarily.

"If the human civilization knew that I burned natural gas to propel spacecraft, I'm afraid they would laugh at me to death. Before the arrival of the Itars, fission batteries had already been widely used."

The technological development of the Jade Star base is actually not balanced. The more advanced development, such as the current ion propulsion technology, has far surpassed human civilization. But other aspects, such as energy technology, have only reached the end of the 20th century.

But there is no way, just take it slowly.

"At this stage, ion propulsion technology has made a breakthrough. The next step is to do our best to conquer fusion reactor technology. Even if we can't build a reactor as small and efficient as the Itars, at least it must be practical.

And computing technology, we must also seize the time to develop."

Han Yang thought secretly.

At this moment, Han Yang has already overcome all the technical difficulties of manufacturing 90-nanometer chips and using 90-nanometer chips to build supercomputers in the laboratory of the Yushenxing base. Compared with the past, the computing power has been greatly improved again, which supports the black hole of the Yushenxing base that devours computing power.

At this stage, Han Yang's computing power is barely enough, but there are signs of insufficiency. It is imperative to seize the time to develop a new generation of chips.

"A fusion reactor technology, a chip technology, and further in-depth research on ion thrusters, well, these are the three key points.

The other secondary focuses include materials research: high-temperature resistant materials, radiation-resistant materials, soft materials, high-strength materials, etc., as well as chemical industry and controller systems, which must also be promoted simultaneously."

Generally speaking, there are a total of nearly a hundred major science and technology and industrial categories.

On Earth, to promote so many research fields, it is impossible without millions of scientists, and they must also be coordinated, communicate smoothly, and work without sleep.

If there were a little more losses, more miscommunication, power struggles, intrigues, mutual hindrances and other such nonsense, it would probably take tens of millions of people to carry out this project.