Homo sapiens.

Recently, the FBI has used the Internet to require all cross-border personnel in different places to provide the QR code of the itinerary to the local FBI management station to confirm the scope of their activities and the purpose of the itinerary.

In order to reduce the possibility of exposure, Columbus simply did not enter human settlements, but chose to lurk in the wild.

The advantage of this kind of wild lurking scheme is that it is almost impossible to be discovered.

The bad thing is that you can only eat grass and bugs. If you are lucky, you can encounter an area with rich wildlife resources, which is better.

Like Columbus's location at this time, there are not many plants around except for some drought-tolerant pines and cacti.

He can only collect leaves, pine cones, and cacti as food. Fortunately, he has a digestive aid capsule, so he will not suffer from malnutrition if he eats grass.

Inside the cave.

As soon as Columbus came back, he saw his partner Anna who was sorting out the surrounding insect monitoring data.

"Is there anything wrong?" Anna asked.

Columbus sat on a rock: "No problem."

"That's good. By the way, the headquarters informed us that in two weeks, there will be a shift replacement."

"OK, I also want to rest for a while." Columbus said while passing a box of nematodes to Anna: "This is the parasite of 24 researchers at the base in Death Valley Town."

Anna took the small box and continued to be busy with the work at hand.

The working equipment of the two is a set of biological exoskeleton armor, which is specially designed for investigators and has various auxiliary functions.

For example, magnetic field detection, pheromone control insects, data processing computers, genetically recombined egg storage containers, micro-parts synthesis capsules and the like.

The daily entertainment of the other two also depends on this set of exoskeleton armor.

Of course, such an important exoskeleton armor will certainly not be without an emergency system.

In order to avoid an emergency, this set of exoskeleton armor is also equipped with several self-destruction systems to ensure that things will not fall into the hands of the enemy.

In order to obtain the most accurate information, this dangerous life is the reality that investigators have to face.

Chapter 488 Arrival

The first year of Xinghe, October 11th.

After nearly two months of sailing.

Tinder 107 has finally reached the synchronous orbit of Mars.

The reason why it took nearly two months is mainly because of the need to brake and slow down halfway, and gradually adjust the flight direction to avoid passing by Mars.

After reaching the Mars synchronous orbit, the Tinder 107 spacecraft still has a mass of about 1537 tons, of which the working fluid is 337 tons, and the remaining 1200 tons is the mass of the spacecraft itself.

In the space department of the earth, in order to manage extraterrestrial spacecraft, a "Solar System Exploration Office" has been specially set up 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.

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

The office 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 on-duty personnel.

Their office is not only the Fire 107 fire detection spacecraft, but also has 16 geosynchronous orbit relay satellites, which are specially used to communicate with those long-distance spacecraft.

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

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

"Ok."

It is in a Mars-synchronous orbit about 9275 million kilometers away from Earth.

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

This is the problem of interstellar communication.

The starting distance of tens of millions of kilometers takes hundreds of seconds even at the speed of light.

After receiving the order from Earth, Tinder 107 began to act.

This time, the Tinder 107 spacecraft carried 30 specially-made satellites, each of which weighed about 10 tons, and were powered by nuclear batteries instead of solar panels.

30颗卫星分别是6颗通信中继卫星、6颗地质遥感卫星、4颗气象卫星、4颗重力探测卫星、4颗磁场探测卫星、2颗激光测距卫星、4颗宇宙射线和高能粒子监测卫星。

Soon the Pinder spacecraft launched these satellites one by one.

Since these satellites use a nuclear battery solution, their electric injection propulsion power is very strong, and they do not need to use chemical fuel as auxiliary power.

The supercomputing system carried by the Tinder spacecraft fine-tuned the position of the satellite according to the preset program.

The command center of the earth is too far away, and this method can only reduce the remote control problems caused by the distance.

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

Even though the company was rich and powerful, Meng Haiyang didn't care about it. After all, these satellites were the painstaking efforts of all the employees of the company.

He has been staring at various feedback data, and he was slightly relieved until the last satellite was deployed.

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

"Director Meng, you have been on the space station. I heard that the space station can already create artificial gravity, so it is possible to have permanent staff 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 eager young man asked, "Director, when are we going to land on the surface of Mars?"

Meng Haiyang laughed and scolded: "What's the rush? I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Now we have 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 a lot of databases from NASA, including a lot of data about Mars.

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

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

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

"Director, this is the plan I just made, please take a look."

As soon as Meng Haiyang flipped through the pages, he immediately called him a good guy in his heart.

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

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 cosmic capacity, and it will not affect our development and investment in other space projects."

Meng Haiyang was still confused: "However, it would be too radical to land manned on Mars next year. The nuclear explosion propulsion scheme is risky, especially the manned spaceship."

Although emotionally speaking, he certainly hopes that the employees of Homo sapiens can become the first human beings to land on Mars.

But he had to think about the lives of the astronauts.

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

In this regard, Meng Haiyang frowned. Of course he knew the actions of Space Exploration Corporation and NASA, but he didn't want to be led by the nose by Musk.

"Foley, you think too highly of SpaceX 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 directly interrupted the other party: "Foli! 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 be restrained, and it should be free to work hard.

In fact, his idea, not to mention that Meng Haiyang would not agree to it, even if it was reported to the space department, it is estimated that it would not be approved.

After all, there is no long-term test, and there is no plan to return to Earth quickly. If something goes wrong, those astronauts who traveled to Mars will be in bad luck.

As for Musk's grand ambitions, Sapiens actually doesn't care.

The productivity of the Sapiens company will increase day by day, and the technological development will be even more rapid.

And America can't even fully integrate its interior, let alone the space exploration company that is parasitic in America.

The resources and technologies of both parties do not exist in the same order of 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, and the next window period will take 600 days.

The landing spacecraft must first launch unmanned spacecraft and simulated landing spacecraft, which requires at least 3 to 5 spacecraft to go to Mars, and then prepare for manned landing on Mars.

After this set of procedures is arranged, it is estimated that the real manned landing on Mars will take around 2040 at the earliest.

If you only test an unmanned spacecraft once or twice, and then directly launch a manned landing spacecraft, it is not to develop Mars, but to die on Mars.

Chapter 489

Suez area.

Harij Oasis District, Harij Space City.

On 10 tracks with a width of 6 meters, a giant is moving slowly.

Dr. Mikoyan looked at the behemoth in front of him, and felt a sense of joy in his heart. This is the super space shuttle he worked so hard to develop—La.

The full load reaches 3.2 tons, the payload is 1.5 tons, the body weight is 9600 tons, and the special fuel is 7400 tons.

This is one of the wildest spacecraft ever.

Dr. Mikoyan picked up the walkie-talkie: "Sit, the space shuttle is about to arrive at the refueling station."

"Got it, doctor."

La - The space shuttle has a very strange shape, somewhat similar to Lucia's Blizzard space shuttle, its body itself is an aircraft, and the payload is on its back.

From the outside, it looks like two space shuttles stacked on top of each other, and the upper spacecraft is slightly smaller than the space shuttle La.

7 minute later.

The space shuttle entered the feeding station, which is also the processing plant responsible for the production and processing of submetallic hydrogen particles, but the processing plant is hidden deep underground.

Liquid oxygen has been injected into the space shuttle's liquid oxygen storage tanks.

The injection of submetallic hydrogen particles is not as simple as liquid oxygen.

In order to ensure safety, the temperature must be maintained at minus 180 degrees Celsius throughout the process to ensure the stability of submetallic hydrogen particles.

The super cooling system inside the space shuttle has obtained the surging power of the nuclear battery and is running at full capacity.

In order to prevent submetallic hydrogen particles from sticking together at low temperature, the surface of these submetallic hydrogen particles is coated with a film to ensure a smooth and non-sticking surface.

The container for storing submetallic hydrogen is also specially designed. The interior of the entire container is composed of many pipelines. Electromagnetic acceleration guide rails and magnetic attraction devices are embedded in these pipelines. Submetallic hydrogen is filled in these pipelines.

The reason for this design is very simple.

Because submetallic hydrogen is a superconductor, it is easy to accelerate electromagnetically and let it be ejected. If other ejection methods are used, the efficiency, reliability, and adjustability are not as good as electromagnetic ejection.

After one and a half hours of filling, all the submetallic hydrogen particles were finally stuffed into the storage tube.

Dr. Mikoyan immediately picked up the walkie-talkie: "All departments will conduct a final inspection immediately."

"receive."

In fact, this kind of inspection is very fast, because the interior of the space shuttle La is densely covered with a large number of biological sensors. Once an abnormality occurs, it will basically not be missed.

In less than 10 minutes, the inspection was complete.

"Report, everything in the cryogenic containment system is normal."

Dr. Mikoyan took a deep breath. He knew that it must be launched as soon as possible. Even because of the existence of the ultra-low temperature containment system, submetallic hydrogen cannot be preserved for more than 300 hours, so it must be resolved quickly.

He immediately ordered: "Launch immediately."

"Received, start the launch procedure."

"Warning! Personnel within 1 kilometer of the space shuttle, please enter the exclusive bunker immediately."

"The runway is confirmed to be ready for takeoff."

"Clear weather with no major cloud cover."

"A launch permit has been obtained from the Space Division..."

Soon.