Homo sapiens

Manumi, the manager of Motor Island Satellite Manufacturing Company, is from Tianzhu and talks a lot.

Li Qingye was introduced to Li Qingye in detail about the design of the Death Ray Satellite 2, as well as some of their company's unique designs.

After all, it’s rare for the chairman to come here once, so of course he can’t let his guard down.

Manumi pointed to a miniature model more than one meter high: "Chairman, this is our design department. The universal steering system designed by ourselves can allow the death ray cannon to turn quickly."

In fact, this system is as if two spheres are nested together. The outer sphere with a diameter of 10 meters is nested within the inner sphere with a diameter of 9.2 meters.

The inner sphere is the core component of the death ray cannon. There are five cobalt rod cluster nests inside, with a total of 5 tons of cobalt-60.

In addition, inside the inner sphere, there is a 15 cm thick lead-silicon-aluminum composite protective layer (150 tons), a thermal energy absorption layer (48 tons), a three-layer composite thermoelectric power generation system (72 tons), plus high-strength Including the support shell and other auxiliary systems, the entire inner sphere weighs 372 tons.

The outer sphere also weighs 183 tons due to the need for protective armor.

Then Manumi pointed to the cylindrical cabin under the sphere: "This part is the auxiliary cabin of the satellite. It contains 5 electric injection thrusters, 1 artificial magnetic field generator, cobalt rod quick replacement system, fuel reserve, and capture machinery. arms, waste recovery system and protective armor, weighing 445 tons."

"Robotic arm? Garbage recycling system?" Li Qingye was a little curious about these two devices.

Manumi quickly explained: "Chairman, this is also a unique design of our company..."

After Manumi's explanation, Li Qingye understood the reason for their design.

The cobalt rod of the Dead Ray Satellite 2 contains 5 tons of cobalt 60, and its maximum power generation power is 94 megawatts.

Perhaps many people have no idea about the power generation capacity of 94 megawatts.

But just compare the nuclear reactors of the Miniz-class aircraft carrier and you will know that the maximum effective power of the two nuclear reactions of the Miniz aircraft carrier is only 194 megawatts, and a single reactor is 97 megawatts.

In other words, the maximum power generation power of the Dead Ray Satellite 2 is almost the same as the single-nuclear reactor of the Minitz-class aircraft carrier.

The reason for this situation is actually related to the thermal efficiency of the nuclear equipment of both parties.

You must know that the single-core reactor of the Minitz-class aircraft carrier has a thermal power of 600 megawatts, but the effective power is only 97 megawatts, and the thermal efficiency is 16%.

The thermal power of the Dead Ray Satellite 2 is 94.02 megawatts, the effective power is 94 megawatts, and the thermal efficiency is 99.9%.

This is the huge difference between the two.

Since the power generated by the dead light satellites is so huge, the magnetic field generator alone cannot consume so much power.

Therefore, Motor Island Satellite Manufacturing Company is trying to find ways to utilize this part of the energy.

After all, as the core of the death ray cannon, the cobalt rod is equivalent to a nuclear decay battery. The characteristic of a nuclear decay battery is that it will release energy regardless of whether it is used or not. This is a characteristic that cannot be changed.

In this way, the dead light satellite is a bit embarrassing.

Although the company deploys death-ray satellites in low-Earth orbit to build a "Skynet", it does not mean that it will fire gamma ray cannons all the time after deployment.

After all, there are not that many satellites in low-Earth orbit that can be hit.

Therefore, we must find a way to utilize all the energy generated by the decay of cobalt rods during daily operation.

The first use is as a magnetic field generator.

The second use is the electric jet thruster, which is actually a type of plasma thruster, but it is different from the Hall thruster.

Motor Island Satellite Manufacturing Company uses the EFI thruster developed and manufactured by another sister company, Mandalay Industrial Company.

The principle of the so-called EFI thruster is very simple. It is similar to the electric furnace steelmaking technology. It heats the working fluid directly in the electric furnace, and then directly ejects the working fluid turned into plasma to generate strong thrust.

For this purpose, the Dead Ray Satellite also specially carries 50 tons of working fluid (i.e. fuel) to provide working fluid for five electronic injection thrusters.

However, the design plan of Motor Island Satellite Manufacturing Company also includes a robotic arm and a garbage recovery system. The purpose is actually very simple, that is, to use space junk in low-Earth orbit and turn these things into working fluids.

The advantage of this is that on the one hand, it can clean up space junk, and on the other hand, it can save the working fluid carried by the satellite itself. It is simply killing two birds with one stone.

In addition, the power of the dead-ray satellite will be wasted if it is not used, so using it to clean up space junk can be regarded as waste utilization.

"Chairman, in addition, our company has installed a satellite communication system on the Dead Light Satellite, which can transmit communication signals to the surface and outer space."

Li Qingye quite agreed with them for squeezing the power use of the Death Ray Satellite to the extreme.

It would also be a good thing to find some side jobs for the Dead Ray Satellite.

It can not only increase the overall value of the dead-ray satellite, but also confuse the outside world, making it impossible for people to judge the specific purpose of the dead-ray satellite.

After these improvements, the Dead Ray Satellite Type 2 has the functions of communication, obstacle clearance, and turret, but the turret function is obviously not easy to use.

Li Qingye admired their design very much: "It's a good design. This kind of multi-functional satellite is conducive to regular deployment."

"We also borrowed from the Death Ray Turret Power Station on land." Manumi replied excitedly.

Li Qingye also talked about some arrangements for the Dandelion Project: "You should communicate more with the Dandelion Project and the Space Division. They will launch a large amount of supplies to the space station in the near future."

"Understood, I will communicate with them as soon as possible." Manumi nodded.

Li Qingye did not stay here for too long. After about half an hour, he left here and went to a port city on Mada Island for inspection.

Manumi held a video conference with Su Changli of the Dandelion Project and people from the Space Division.

After communication, the Space Division decided to stop manufacturing Death Ray Satellite Type 1 and turned to Motor Island Satellite Manufacturing Company to purchase Death Ray Satellite Type 2.

According to estimates from the Space Division and the External Security Division, at least 300 dead-ray satellites need to be deployed to ensure that the Skynet system can lock the Earth's atmospheric aircraft.

If backup and redundancy are added, at least 900 dead-ray satellites are needed to meet the needs of the Skynet system.

Therefore, the Space Division placed an order with Motor Island Satellite Manufacturing Company for 900 Death Ray Satellite 2, which will be delivered in three years.

In other words, Motor Island Satellite Manufacturing Company needs to deliver 9 dead-ray satellites to the Space Division every 10 days on average.

Since Homo sapiens has recently announced that it has lowered the level of emergency, many factories have resumed daily production mode.

Motor Island Satellite Manufacturing Company is no exception. If the previous state of emergency were still the same, their company would be able to produce 1,000 dead-ray satellites within half a year.

Ten days later.

10 Death Ray Satellite Type 2 were sent to the underground base of the Dandelion Project.

The Spark space train can deliver four dead-ray satellites to low-Earth orbit in one go.

In fact, in the past ten days or so, major forces around the world have become paralyzed.

The main reason is that the launch missions of the Dandelion project are too frequent, and the payload is so huge. Within ten days, there were a total of 37 launches, transporting 133,200 tons of materials to the Homo sapiens space station in mid-level orbit.

At this time, the Homo sapiens space station looked completely different from before.

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