Ultra-Dimensional Technology Era

Like the nuclear fusion engine, the photon engine was established as a research project in the first year of the new era. Compared with the nuclear fusion engine, the photon engine has three fatal flaws that have not been resolved.

The defects of the photon engine are: the fuel photon generation rate or photon conversion rate is low, the gamma ray penetration is extremely strong, and the reflectivity of the engine photon action plate is low.

These three defects are fatal problems that plague photon engines. Yang Tiansheng, Gao Zishang and others used nuclear fusion reactions to generate high-energy photon flows, and combined with reflectors made of gamma-ray passivation materials, developed the first generation of photon engines.

The engine has been developed, but the structure of the engine itself is overweight, and the fuel load ratio at a speed of 500 kilometers per second is 34, and the fuel utilization rate is lower than that of a nuclear fusion direct injection engine.

Apparently this engine would not be accepted by the Spacecraft Institute.

Until the emergence of degenerate materials and antimatter can be produced on a large scale, the three defects of photonic engines can be easily solved.

Degenerate materials generally block photons, and even gamma rays cannot penetrate degenerate materials.

As antimatter is used as engine fuel, 96% of the products are various photons and 4% are pure heat energy, which means that the photon conversion rate of antimatter fuel is 96%, which is hundreds of times higher than that of nuclear fusion fuel.

According to the research data of the photon engine on the Nibelung spacecraft, to accelerate the spacecraft to 10% of the speed of light, the fuel load ratio is about 0.4. If braking and other needs are added, the fuel load ratio is about 1.

The fuel load ratio is 1, that is, a 1000-ton spaceship carries 1000 tons of fuel and can fly at 10% of the speed of light.

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Assembling custom-made degenerate parts on the engine, although the performance is worse than that of the Nibelung's photon engine (degenerate materials cannot be integrally formed to cause performance degradation).

The engine of the same level, the engine of new humans, brings a fuel load ratio of about 1.2, and the fastest speed is about 8.5% of the speed of light.

Looking at the engine, which was about 80% complete, Yang Tiansheng turned his head and said: "Old Zhang, you go to prepare the spacecraft for the experiment. We will put the engine on it and take a walk the day after tomorrow."

"no problem."

October 4, New Era 5.

On port 4 of the new Constantinople satellite city.

Not only the people from the Photonic Engine Research Institute, but also the people from the Spacecraft Research Institute were also present.

The spacecraft for the experimental photon engine was provided by the Spaceship Research Institute.

The spaceship is transformed from the Tianzhou class, and the main body of the spaceship still inherits the format of the Huo Qubing class, but this time the three photon engines added are different from the previous tail-mounted engines.

The three photon engines are installed in the middle of the spacecraft, which is somewhat similar to the first-stage booster sub-body in a space rocket. The sub-engines are hung in the middle of the spacecraft and can rotate 360 ​​degrees. In addition, the engine nozzles can be controlled by vectors, which can quickly realize manufacturing Move and change track.

The use of this type of external engine that can be mounted in the middle can not only brake quickly and change orbits, but also facilitate the upgrading of old spacecraft.

Inside the control tower at the port, Gao Zishang asked a little worriedly: "Is this spaceship reliable?"

After all, anyone who sees a spaceship covered in rivets will be heartbroken.

The researchers of the Spaceship Research Institute on the side also looked embarrassed. They had no choice but to make do with it before there was no integrated molding technology of degenerate materials.

Yang Tiansheng quickly relieved the embarrassing atmosphere at the scene: "There should be no big problem, after all, it is the shell of a degenerate material."

Three spaceship testers boarded the spaceship, and because it was a modified version of the Tianzhou class, the testers entered the anti-G life support compartment with ease.

[Deep Space is ready. ]

[The control tower receives it. ]

A tugboat pulled the Deep Space and flew in the distance. The nozzle of the photon engine was as good as the laser.

Although the active plate of the engine can effectively passivate some gamma rays, once the engine is running at full capacity, the gamma ray stream emitted by the engine can severely damage unprotected targets within 5000 kilometers.

If the passivation grid is revoked, the gamma ray flow emitted by the engine has a maximum range of 70 kilometers. Within 10 kilometers, the old-fashioned gamma ray protection technology will not help at all.

This is a proper high-power laser, and the photon engine can be used as a weapon at a critical moment.

Therefore, you must not fly casually near the satellite city, otherwise, if you accidentally wipe your own satellite city or other spacecraft, something serious may happen.

The tugboat pulled the Deep Space 10 kilometers away from the new Constantinople satellite city, and the test officially started.

Chapter 349 The first voyage in deep space (repair)

Three professional spaceship testers, in the anti-G life support cabin, manipulated the deep space spaceship through the control method of brain wave induction.

Captain Ren Yingwu and two team members Li Wei and Park Quandao conducted the last systematic routine self-examination.

[The fuel tank is normal. ]

[The communication system is normal. ]

[The detection system is normal. ]

[...]

The overwhelming flow of big data was quickly refreshed on the virtual screen in front of the three of them.

[Confirmation completed, the spacecraft system is normal. ]

Ren Yingwu opened the star map of the solar system, the sun, the eight planets, the asteroid belts, and the Kuiper belt are all on the star map.

The natural celestial bodies all use blue as the background color, while the man-made celestial bodies of new humans use yellow as the background color, and the unidentified celestial bodies use red as the background color.

On the star map of the solar system, apart from the blue and yellow markers, the only red marker is the Nemesis wormhole.

With the assistance of the spacecraft's supercomputer, artificial intelligence began to plan the flight path of the spacecraft, and the test path was quickly planned.

Considering that the space on the solar ecliptic plane is relatively crowded, not only are there many celestial bodies, but also the spaceships of the new human beings are densely covered on the solar ecliptic plane.

Therefore, the flight path goes upwards obliquely to the small summer region of the asteroid belt, first flies upwards for 1000 million kilometers, and then turns and flies parallel to the solar ecliptic and faces the outer circle of the solar system.

Ren Yingwu ordered through brain wave communication: [Azimuth 2569/8071/2517, power 5%, set off. ]

[receive. ]

The fuel distribution system of the spacecraft accelerates the injection of antihydrogen atoms and hydrogen atoms into the antimatter annihilation furnaces. There are 10 antimatter annihilation furnaces inside each photon engine.

Each antimatter annihilation furnace passes through 10% of the power of the engine. At this time, only two antimatter annihilation furnaces are activated, and only a quarter of the power is used.

Pros and anti-atoms ejected at high speed attract and annihilate each other in the annihilation furnace, and a torrent of photons hundreds of times stronger than nuclear fusion spews out and directly hits the action plate of the main action chamber of the engine.

Active plates and passivation grids composed of degenerate materials reflect the torrent of photons and neutrinos away toward the engine nozzle.

Photons and neutrinos act on the action plate, generating a huge interaction force, which propels the spacecraft forward and fast.

Even though there was an anti-grunt living room, the three of Ren Yingwu still felt a slight sense of oppression, mainly because the acceleration was too violent.

The speed and acceleration time of the virtual display in front of him are floating up.

[13 km/s...3 seconds]