Chapter 109

2265.9.27, the final departure date.

The cold Europa is empty, the starry harbor is empty, and there is no busy scene in the past. All industrial spaceships will make way for the departure of earth age.

Looking down from the astronomical observation room, you can see all kinds of industrial lights on the ground. They are arranged in a variety of regular images, constantly flashing.

This ancient aviation language will not be disturbed by electromagnetic radiation, which is what every astronaut must learn.

Looking at the time approaching, Captain Ma said in a low voice: "I hope our future parent star is better than this one..."

"In theory, it should be." An assistant nearby responded, "our home star is brighter, and the gravity is more appropriate."

Glitzer 581g has a mass 3.1 times that of the earth, a radius 1.4 times that of the earth, and a theoretical gravity 1.08 times that of the earth.

Only with the current observation methods, there is no way to know the specific atmospheric conditions of the planet.

"In the solar system, have the results of astronomical observations come out?" Captain Ma asked again.

"As a result, the risk of meteorite attack in the solar system is about 0.7 parts per million, which has been reduced to the lowest level."

"So Let's go

Orders from the captain's office were soon issued to all departments.

"Countdown to the launch of the spaceship, ten, nine, eight..."

"Main engine up!"

Zhang Yuan watched the slow heating of the nuclear engine with great emotion. One after another, high-energy microwaves heat the whole device, and the plasma soon emits bright light.

At this time, what they can do is very small. At most, they can only focus on the changes of some parameters.

The artificial intelligence in the spaceship can notice the mistakes earlier than they are human beings.

Zhang Yuan certainly doesn't want any accidents.

Soon, the core temperature of the engine room reached 500 million degrees.

The velocity of plasma turbulence becomes faster and faster.

"Five, four, three, two, one..."

He recited the countdown in his heart, staring at the screen without blinking.

As the last second passed, all of a sudden, 16 bright blue lights appeared on the tail of the spaceship!

This blue light is a powerful plasma pulse.

The nuclear engine will start at maximum power, providing acceleration of three thousandths of a second per second. The whole hull vibrated slightly, especially in the engine room.

Three hours later, with the gradual distance from the space port, the earth age launched a huge light sail.

Large lasers from the earth's surface shine on the light sail one after another, making it reflect a golden color as brilliant as a mirror.

On the surface of Europa, there has never been such a strong reflection of light. So that the staff on the surface saw another little rising sun.

Huge cheers broke out from the sea of people, and many staff members raised their hands and looked up to witness the great miracles in the sky.

At this time, elder martial brother Zhao, sitting on one side, said gently, "seven thousandths of the speed of light is a great achievement in my cognitive field, which needs a lot of technical support. But it's too slow for interstellar navigation. "

"No way..."

Zhang Yuan replied: "if the underlying theory does not break through, curvature navigation is still science fiction. If it's a small spacecraft, it can accelerate to 10 percent of the speed of light by using light path and nuclear fusion. No matter how fast our materials are, there is no way to support them.... "

"Do you think there will be a breakthrough in this field in the future?"

Zhang Yuan thought, "I don't know."

After a while, he said, "I don't think so."

Europa's gravity is very small, one day, the Mothership broke away from its gravity, heading for Jupiter.

The next path is very complicated.

First of all, the first stage is to use Jupiter's gravity to make a gravitational catapult and make a turn.

The ability of gravitational catapult to pull wool is limited, but the average revolution speed of Jupiter is 13.07 km / s, and the average orbit radius is 5.2 Au. According to the current spacecraft speed, it is not a problem to pull wool from Jupiter.

Then it entered the second stage. In the inner solar system, it circled eight cycles in an elliptical orbit, making full use of the light path devices of Europa and the moon and the light of the sun itself to accelerate the spacecraft.

In these eight cycles, the speed of the spacecraft will be faster and faster.

The last is the third stage, straight to "glitzer 581".

It sounds complicated, but the artificial intelligence inside the spacecraft can be fully competent for this kind of computing task, so there's no need to worry too much about it.

After all, the earth age is a new spacecraft, and all the designs have fully considered the situation of long-distance navigation, so the probability of error in a short time is not big.……

Two months later, the sober population has been compressed to 20000, and it is still decreasing.

This part of the sober population, mainly the main staff of the spacecraft and graduate students.

Zhang Yuan is getting busier and busier. He doesn't have as much personal time as he used to, and he's confused because of the work meetings again and again.

The spaceship has begun to issue a planned mission, and he needs to learn something new. For example, the operation of the nuclear power plant is mainly responsible for the normal operation of the unit, the supervision and control operation of the control interface in the main control room, and the local operation of the power plant equipment and system.

“…… The next time you wake up from hibernation, when the population is extremely small, you need to take on more responsibility, which is equivalent to the real leadership. "

"Graduate students are trained for this purpose. Everyone needs to shoulder the burden. "

At the end of this meeting, his work level has risen to level 16, which can be regarded as the middle and high level in the spacecraft. However, Zhang Yuan did not feel happy.

He saw that Li Zhendong was depressed and patted him on the shoulder: "why, are you in a bad mood? You are already at level 11. You are also a middle-level cadre. "

Li Zhendong said with a dry smile: "it has nothing to do with the work level. It's OK to be a little lower than you, but My girlfriend is hibernating. The next time I see her, it will be hundreds of years later. I feel very boring. "

Life partners do not have the right to hibernate at the same time, only the right to wake up almost at the same time, so they do not support idle people.

Zhang Yuan joked: "affect the mood, I said, keep single, is to maintain the best form of high combat effectiveness."

"You are envious, envious!" Li Zhendong suddenly thought of something and made a hippy smile: "Comrade Zhang Yuan, the biggest wish of my life, do you know what it is?"

"What?"

"That is You can find a wife before I close my eyes

"Go away!" Zhang Yuan's face was slightly red. "Can it be a matter of looking for a wife?"