Homo sapiens

The first year of Xinghe is November 28th.

After nearly two months of sailing.

Huozhi 107 finally reached the synchronous orbit of Mars.

The reason why it took nearly two months was mainly because we had to brake and slow down midway and gradually adjust the flight direction to avoid passing by Mars.

After arriving in Mars synchronous orbit, the Huozhi 107 spacecraft still has about 1,537 tons of mass, of which 337 tons are the working fluid, and the remaining 1,200 tons is the mass of the spacecraft itself.

In the Earth's Space Division, in order to manage extraterrestrial spacecraft, a "Solar System Exploration Office" was established to be responsible for this aspect of work.

The Solar System Exploration Office is responsible for the exploration and management of the solar system beyond the Earth-Moon system.

The office is currently headquartered in Ceylon, and the person in charge is astronaut Meng Haiyang, who returned to Earth from the Homo sapiens space station some time ago.

The office location of the Solar System Exploration Office is actually in Ceylon Space City.

At this time, Meng Haiyang was in the ground command center with dozens of people on duty.

Their office not only owns the Huozhong 107 fire detection spacecraft, but also has 16 geosynchronous orbit relay satellites, which are specially used to communicate with those spacecrafts on long voyages.

"Director Meng, Huozhi 107 has successfully reached the synchronous orbit of Mars and was captured by the gravity of Mars."

Meng Haiyang looked at the holographic Mars map on the big screen: "Then launch detection satellites and communication relay satellites!"

"OK."

It is in the synchronous orbit of Mars about 92.75 million kilometers away from the Earth.

It took about 310 seconds for the long-wave radio signal transmitted from the earth to be received by the Huozhong 107 spacecraft.

This is the communication problem between stars.

A distance that can easily start at tens of millions of kilometers would take hundreds of seconds even at the speed of light.

After receiving the order from Earth, Huozhong 107 began to take action.

This time, the Huozhong 107 spacecraft carried 30 special satellites. Each satellite weighed about 10 tons. They all used nuclear battery power supply solutions and did not use solar panels.

The 30 satellites are 6 communication relay satellites, 6 geological remote sensing satellites, 4 meteorological satellites, 4 gravity detection satellites, 4 magnetic field detection satellites, 2 laser ranging satellites, and 4 cosmic ray and high-energy particle monitoring satellites. satellite.

Soon the fire spacecraft launched these satellites one by one.

Since these satellites use a nuclear battery solution, their electric jet thrusters are very powerful and do not require the use of chemical fuel as auxiliary power.

The supercomputing system carried by the Spark spacecraft fine-tunes the satellite's position according to the preset program.

The Earth's command center is too far away. This is the only way to reduce the remote control problems caused by distance.

Although doing this will cause part of the working fluid to be wasted, it is at least safe.

Even though the company has a lot of money, Meng Haiyang does not act recklessly. After all, these satellites are the hard work of all the company's employees.

He kept paying close attention to various feedback data, and he breathed a little sigh of relief until the last satellite was deployed.

"Huhu..." After picking up the thermos cup and taking a sip of milk tea, he said helplessly: "This kind of communication distance is too far. Unless astronauts can be sent to station on Mars for a long time in the future, this kind of remote control is really difficult. Too much trouble."

"Director Meng, you have been to the space station. I heard that the space station can already create artificial gravity. It is also possible to have permanent employees on Mars in the future." A female employee asked with a smile.

But Meng Haiyang shook his head: "The artificial gravity of the space station is not yet mature, and it is still difficult to stay in outer space for a long time."

Another young man who was eager to try asked: "Chief, when will we land on the surface of Mars?"

Meng Haiyang laughed and scolded: "Why are you anxious? You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Now we need to detect the data first. With detailed geological and surface information, the risk of landing can be controlled within a reasonable range."

Although Homo sapiens has borrowed many databases from NASA, including a large amount of data about Mars.

But Meng Haiyang still did not take it lightly. After all, NASA has not explored Mars many times, and a lot of the data will definitely not be too comprehensive.

After chatting with the monitors for a while, Meng Haiyang returned to his office.

Before his butt could get hot, Foley, the leader of the exploration project team, came to his door.

"Director, this is the planning document I just made. Take a look."

As soon as Meng Haiyang looked through it, he immediately called him a good guy in his heart.

There are more than a dozen projects. In addition to the two fire detection spacecraft that have been confirmed to be launched next, there are also Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and asteroid belt exploration projects.

The focus is on Venus, the asteroid belt and Jupiter.

"It's too dense. Will it be too rushed?" Meng Haiyang expressed some of his concerns.

However, Foley hurriedly explained: "Director, I'm not in a hurry. This plan is calculated based on our space capacity. It will not affect our development and investment in other space projects."

Meng Haiyang was still confused: "But, would it be too radical to land humans on Mars next year? There are risks in the nuclear explosion propulsion plan, especially the manned spacecraft."

Although emotionally, he certainly hopes that the employees of Homo Sapiens can become the first humans to land on Mars.

But he must consider the lives of the astronauts.

"Director, Musk's Space Exploration Company has decided to launch an unmanned spacecraft to explore Mars in February next year to prepare for the subsequent manned landing on Mars. We cannot lag behind each other." Foley explained anxiously.

In this regard, Meng Haiyang frowned. Of course he knew the actions of Space Exploration Company and NASA, but he did not want to be led by Musk.

"Foley, you think too highly of Space Exploration and NSAS. I will not agree to carry out a manned mission to Mars until a safe nuclear explosion-propelled spacecraft is tested."

"But……"

Meng Haiyang interrupted the other party directly: "Foley! Stop talking, we don't need to take risks."

"...Okay!" Although Foley thinks that the company's technology is already good, there is no need to tie up its hands and it should be free to go big.

In fact, even if Meng Haiyang disagrees with his idea, even if it is submitted to the Space Division, it is unlikely to be approved.

After all, it has not been tested for a long time, and there is no plan to quickly return to Earth. If something goes wrong, the astronauts on the voyage to Mars will be in danger.

As for Musk’s grandiose ambitions, Homo sapiens doesn’t actually care.

The productivity of Homo sapiens companies will increase day by day, and technological development will change with each passing day.

And America can't even be fully integrated internally, let alone the Space Exploration Company that is parasitic in America's body.

The resources and technologies of both parties are not of the same magnitude.

It is basically impossible for Musk to land on Mars first.

Because the window period for traveling from Earth to Mars this year has passed, the next window period will take 600 days.

The landing spacecraft will definitely need to launch unmanned spacecraft and simulated landing spacecraft first. This requires at least 3 to 5 spacecrafts to be launched to Mars, and then we can prepare for manned landing on Mars.

After this set of procedures is arranged, it is estimated that the real manned landing on Mars will not be until around 2040 at the earliest.

If we just test unmanned spacecraft once or twice, and then directly launch a manned landing spacecraft, we are not going to colonize Mars, but going to Mars to die.

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