Homo sapiens.

The spacecraft, code-named New Luzon, flew to a higher orbit after separating from the Ape-eating Eagle launch vehicle.

The autopilot system on the spacecraft, with the help of the space positioning satellite system of the space business department, flies upward at a tangent angle.

At this time, the speed of the New Luzon spacecraft is the first cosmic speed—7.9 kilometers per second.

About 2533 seconds have passed.

"Arrive at the predetermined altitude and start adjusting the flight posture."

"Start to slow down..."

At this time, the position of the New Luzon spacecraft is in the middle orbit above the low earth orbit, with a height of about 1621 kilometers from the ground.

There is a special term for this height - the inner layer of the Van Allen radiation belts.

Few spacecraft have operated in this region, simply because the radiation intensity is so high here that it is filled with a lot of charged protons.

Without a specially designed spacecraft, operating in the Van Allen radiation belt, it is easy to be disturbed and damaged, resulting in a decrease in service life, or even direct scrapping.

The New Luzon spacecraft adjusted its flight direction and began to orbit the earth, and its speed dropped a lot.

……

Luzon Aerospace City recovered the first-level core of the 13th core of the ape-eating eagle that returned to the ground.

At the same time, on the No. [-] launch tower of the aerospace city, another ape-eating eagle launch vehicle is already in place.

Then quickly launched into space.

This ape-eating eagle No. 14 carried 5 astronauts.

The first manned spaceflight of Homo sapiens was to transport five astronauts into space at one time. Since it was a manned spaceship, the spaceship carried by the Ape-eating Eagle launch vehicle, the New Visayas, weighed 5 tons.

As the first batch of new humans in space, the astronauts were very excited.

Captain Meng Haiyang quickly ordered after the carrier rocket and spaceship separated: "Everyone take your place."

"receive."

Vice-captain Maung Chuangxin, psychological counselor Zhang Gongyu, correspondent David Fernando, and maintenance officer Sa Yue Gong each performed their duties and entered the working state.

Maung Chuangxin stared at the dashboard: "It is estimated that there are still 3:21 seconds before arriving at the predetermined position."

David, the communication soldier who also works on the radar, also has a very serious expression: "There are many Starlink satellites in the surrounding orbits, and they are continuing to track."

"Stay vigilant." Meng Haiyang replied while looking at the dashboard of the manual driving, ready for manual intervention at any time.

next second.

A shrill siren sounded in the cockpit.

David frowned: "The orbit of the target Starlink satellite 832 has changed abnormally, and the supercomputer is simulating its trajectory... The simulation is completed, and it is estimated that it will be 43 kilometers away from us in 2.7 seconds. It is not ruled out that it will get closer."

Meng Haiyang made a decisive decision, quickly intervened in the pilot manually, and cut into the No. 7 backup flight route.

The spacecraft's auxiliary engine spewed flames, changing its flight trajectory and avoiding the Starlink satellite.

Soon the New Visayas flew over the orbital area of ​​the Starlink satellite.

In fact, Starlink satellites are often "out of control", especially during the launch of spacecraft by Homo sapiens, the two sides often have friction.

In the last month, a spy satellite of Homo sapiens knocked out 3 Starlink satellites in one go.

Since Homo sapiens satellites are made of very good materials, and have special anti-collision design and protective armor, naturally they will not be afraid of the collision of Starlink satellites.

If the gamma ray cannon was not yet mature, Meng Haiyang would not choose to change orbit, but directly fired to destroy the Starlink satellite.

Homo sapiens are very aware of the purpose of the Starlink system. After all, the internal intelligence of the US military is transparent to Homo sapiens.

The U.S. military supports Musk's Starlink system, not for satellite communications, but for anti-missile, positioning, monitoring and combating spacecraft of other forces, and also to occupy precious low-Earth orbit.

There are currently more than 2000 Starlink satellites in orbit, and 4 are planned to be deployed in the future, with their orbits at an altitude of 540-560 kilometers.

Such a large-scale satellite will quickly fill the entire Earth's low-Earth orbit.

At that time, the U.S. military will definitely "satellite out of control" every now and then.

Even if it does not get out of control, it will make it difficult for other forces to operate satellites in low-earth orbit, and it is even difficult to safely launch spacecraft through low-earth orbit.

Homo sapiens' space business department has also made a corresponding response plan.

On the one hand, it is also frantically launching satellites to seize orbital resources in low-Earth orbit.

On the other hand, it is to do a good job in the protection design of the spacecraft, and set up an emergency system for rapid maneuvering orbit changes, relying on hard power to counter the threat of the Starlink system.

The spacecraft launched this time has protective armor and an emergency orbit change system.

After avoiding the Starlink satellite, after about 4 minutes and 17 seconds, the spacecraft finally entered the predetermined orbit.

Meng Haiyang breathed a sigh of relief: "There is no danger."

He turned his head and ordered: "David, report our situation to the ground command center."

"Received." David quickly sent a situation report email to the ground command center according to the procedures of the space work regulations.

Meanwhile, Meng Haiyang, Maung Chuangxin, Zhang Gongyu, and Sa Yuegong began to adjust their flying posture and speed, preparing to merge with the previous New Luzon spacecraft.

the other side.

Luzon Space City continues to launch launch vehicles, launching half of the 16 launch vehicles in stock at a frequency of once every half an hour.

In other words, today Luzon Aerospace City will launch 10 launch vehicles, and the remaining 8 will be used as emergency backup.

10 spacecraft will meet in the Van Allen radiation belt at an altitude of 1600 kilometers, and then form the Homo sapiens space station.

The entire Homo sapiens space station will have a mass of about 1100 tons, including 240 tons of spare fuel, and a recently developed space thorium-based molten salt nuclear reactor.

The reactor uses the newly developed lead-tungsten-gold alloy, directly uses temperature difference power generation as the power generation method, plus storage batteries, power transformation and distribution devices, and emergency systems, are all integrated on a spacecraft, and its power generation is 5 megabytes. watt.

Therefore, the Homo sapiens space station does not need to be equipped with solar panels, and the combined shape is obviously different from the international space station.

In addition, in order to combat the high-energy particles and cosmic radiation in the Van Allen radiation belt, the Homo sapiens space station has adopted an artificial magnetic field protection system, which uses the surging electric energy of the nuclear reactor to resist high-energy particles and cosmic radiation.

The entire space station currently includes a nuclear power cabin, two power cabins, a node cabin, two living cabins, and four experimental cabins.

With a total mass of 1100 tons and an internal volume of 2432 cubic meters, it can accommodate 10 astronauts stationed for a long time at the same time.

Of course, this is not the complete body of the space station.

It only took one day for the Homo sapiens space division to build a large space station in the earth's middle orbit.

This speed has stunned the forces that are paying attention to the Homo sapiens space industry.

Chapter 4 and Five: Here Comes the Wolf

North America.

America.

Washington, D.C., NASA Headquarters.

Director Bill looked at the report document in his hand solemnly.

The other NASA executives present also had serious expressions.

"In other words, within five hours, the Homo sapiens space department launches 10 heavy launch vehicles and deploys a space station in the Van Allen radiation belt?"

Crohn, the head of the Space Intelligence Office, nodded: "According to the current monitoring data, this is obviously beyond doubt."

Although NASA has been advocating the cosmic threat theory of other forces, since Lao Maozi left the stage, many of NASA's remarks are actually crying wolf.

Now the wolf really came.

Bill's face was full of bitterness: "10 heavy-duty launch vehicles at one time, which is more than the heavy-duty launch vehicles we launch in a year."

Deputy Director Dawa suggested: "Director, we need more funds, otherwise America will lose space."

Kron continued to add: "According to the observed shape of the Homo sapiens space station, we found that the other party did not use solar panels."

"No solar panels are used? Then how do they supply power?" Marshall, the head of the technical department, was very surprised.

Crohn said a guess: "We suspect that a nuclear battery or a nuclear reactor was used."

"Are you kidding?" Marshall is engaged in aerospace technology, and it's not that he has never studied nuclear batteries and nuclear reactors.

In a sub-vacuum environment, the accumulation of waste heat from nuclear batteries and nuclear reactors is too serious, requiring special heat sinks (that is, similar to the golden grid panels of solar panels).

He looked at the high-resolution satellite photos, and there was no obvious heat dissipation grille on them, and he looked at the infrared images, and found no obvious heat dissipation area.

Marshall said very positively: "It cannot be a nuclear reactor. I guess Homo sapiens should have combined solar panels on the outer shell of the cabin."

Others discussed for a while and agreed with Marshall's point of view.

Obviously, there are many things that don't need to be explained by Homo sapiens, and others will help to make up for them.

Bill didn't care too much about the power supply system used by Homo sapiens' space station. He is now having a headache on how to persuade the council to ask for more funding.

Otherwise, with the little funding in front of them, the Artemis project in their plan to return to the moon is all based on a patchwork of launch vehicles.

Facing Homo sapiens' terrifying investment in the aerospace field, Bill was very envious.

He quickly ordered: "You all cheer me up, pay attention to the threat of Homo sapiens, and America will never allow it to lose its leading position in the space field."

"OK."

"We must pay attention."

Everyone is a genius, they kept shouting wolf before, just to get more funds.

With the existence of Homo sapiens now, there is no need to exaggerate the opponent's aerospace strength. As long as you directly write the real content in front of you, you will feel a sense of oppression.

Don't look at the dignified faces of Bill and others, but they are actually very happy in their hearts.

Without such a dire threat, those gentlemen would certainly not support the aerospace industry vigorously.

Therefore, a group of NASA executives hurriedly signed a letter, starting from the fact that Homo sapiens can launch 10 heavy launch vehicles at a time, and derived various Homo sapiens threat theories.

Bill even shouted: If America does not pay attention to the aerospace field, it will definitely lose space in the future and become a second-rate country.

However, this kind of Homo sapiens threat theory is very popular in North America.

As for the other great powers, although they were shocked by the space power of Homo sapiens, they were more than capable.

After all, Homo sapiens company is different from the general forces, its internal operating system is very suitable for such large projects.

This is something that many forces cannot learn.

……

And at this time on the Internet.

Homo Sapien's Entertainment Division also took action, and various articles and videos about space development quickly flooded the entire Internet.

Even in North America, where a firewall has been set up, there is no way to 100% block the interpenetration of the Internet. After all, many people know how to use "ladders".

With the help of the Aztec and British networks, many American netizens can browse the websites of Homo sapiens.

On Europa, you can directly browse various websites of Homo sapiens.

On a forum website in Europa, a large number of European and American aerospace enthusiasts gathered here to discuss various new developments in aerospace or aerospace technology.

Suddenly a blogger posted a video about the Homo sapiens space station, and compared the three space stations currently in operation.

[real or fake?Build such a huge space station in one day? ]——Looking up at the stars

[Homo sapiens is amazing, this is simply the light of humanity. ] - Prometheus

[@Prometheus, what is an evil company to brag about? ]——Sea without pineapples

[@没有pineapple的海, on evil, I didn’t see you say America, double-standard dog! ] - Prometheus

[I heard that Homo sapiens also built a space base in the Suez area, maybe you can see the launch with your own eyes in the future, praise Homo sapiens! ]--Pharaoh

[Homo sapiens come on! ] - Helena

[According to this speed, maybe within my lifetime, we can see humans colonizing alien planets. ] - bearded uncle

[Mankind can conquer the universe only by working together. ]—Hamburg Iron Man

A group of netizens kept discussing at the bottom of the video, and even caused mutual abuse.

Obviously not everyone likes Homo sapiens, especially Europeans and Americans who have always been full of arrogance and prejudice. There are quite a few people who are hostile to Homo sapiens.

On the contrary, in Africa and South America, there are not a few people who have a good impression of Homo sapiens, which has a lot to do with their employees who want to become Homo sapiens.

In addition to discussing Homo sapiens' aerospace industry, this incident also sparked heated discussions among many people about the country's aerospace industry.