At about six o'clock in the afternoon, the sky is still bright at this time, and the existence of the Earth's rings has extended the time to night. It takes at least one to two hours to wait until dark.

Xu Qingyun brought "Lichuan" to this open-air base platform, but this is not his real person, but his special living body. He is on the bed with his wife and children.

Shortly after getting off the car at the scene, Chu Siyuan's quantum clone found him immediately, "Boss, really don't try flying? Isn't it a bit too exciting? Although we do have enough funds!"

Xu Qingyun sent him here and drove away. Li Chuan calmly heard this and said, "This is a scientific research ship, a laboratory ship, and the test flight is always in progress!"

While speaking, Li Chuan couldn't help but look at the "Wentian" in front of him undoubtedly set a new record for humans to manufacture flight vehicles. The spacecraft was so large that it was a warship, exceeding the level of 3,000 tons of water displacement.

Thanks to Zhongjing alloy material, the "Wentian" spacecraft can become more sci-fi. The biggest advantage is that it can shuttle the planet's surface and orbit as a whole, and there is no need to load it in space again like the first generation of spacecraft. The things mounted on the outside of the spacecraft are ugly, and it won't be too ugly, but it will lose the ability to land atmospheric planets.

The biggest change in the appearance of "Ask the Sky" is the addition of four super-large independent engines, which are located in the middle and rear half of the main body of the spacecraft (ps: refer to the human spacecraft in Prometheus).

But they are not "jump engines". The jump engine is inside the spacecraft, but is actually an independent jump room. There is no engine nozzle or the like. Because the jump field is not a conventional displacement state, it is a continuous movement in space. Instead, it teleports just like the player controlling the hero unit to "flash". In the extreme space jump range, selecting a coordinate point is like the player moving the mouse to move at any moment within the distance of the "flash" skill.

These four independent engines are nuclear power propulsion without working fluids. The nuclear power here uses nuclear fusion to generate energy. The idea is the same, which is to use high-temperature plasma. But to be honest, this is actually a kind of working fluid, but given that it is a low-quality fuel propulsion, it can be considered as a working fluid without working fluid.

The real key is the Zhongjing material, which allows the miniaturized fusion core to be realized, so that this spacecraft can be found.

The four independent working fluid-free nuclear-powered engines of the "Wentian" spacecraft are simply to directly guide the radiation energy generated by nuclear fusion to the rear of the spacecraft and use the recoil to advance the spacecraft.

If the solar sail spacecraft is flying with the help of the sun's radiation, then the nuclear power propulsion without working fluid is to build a "artificial sun" and carry it to the spacecraft.

This "artificial sun" is actually a fusion core combustion chamber constructed of Zhongjing material. By firing an electron beam to the nuclear fuel ball of the combustion chamber, high-temperature plasma is generated, and these plasmas are the source of thrust.

When the combustion chamber is operating, 220 to 2200 nuclear fuel balls are fired into the combustion chamber every second. When the first nuclear fuel ball is injected, dozens of electron beam generators distributed in the cavity of the combustion chamber emit electron beams, bombarding the nuclear fuel balls, and nuclear fuel such as deuterium and helium will generate 220 to 2200 nuclear fusion reactions per second, instantly generating huge energy, pushing the aircraft to fly forward at high speed.

Thanks to Zhongjing material, the fusion core is miniaturized, and a "artificial sun" can be placed into the spacecraft without worrying that the high temperature generated in the combustion chamber will melt the spacecraft like a candle. But at the same time, it also brings another new technical difficulty to Lichuan, which is to prevent a large amount of energy from being absorbed by Zhongjing material itself and then released in a new way of gravitational waves.

You should know that according to the current experiment, even if it is a Zhong crystal as big as a fingernail, it can absorb any external energy. Zhong crystal material is like a black hole and cannot be satisfied at all.

Overcoming this problem almost accounts for 70% of the time and energy of Lichuan to develop the core of miniaturized fusion.

Theoretically, the four working fluid-free nuclear-powered propulsion systems of the "Wentian" spacecraft can accelerate to 11% of the speed of light when propelled with full power, but the spacecraft can carry insufficient fuel, and it is completely unnecessary to sail across long distances after a more powerful transition engine.

"Boss..." At this time, Chu Si beside him looked at the sky from afar, and Li Chuan couldn't help but look along his gaze.

"The nuclear material was finally shipped back on time..." Chu Siyuan murmured at the distant sky, only to see a sky-carrying spacecraft entering the atmosphere from space and flew back. Liu Jin had been struggling on the moon for so long, and finally transported the first batch of helium three nuclear material collected on the lunar surface.

At this time, the open-air base platform was busy, and the automation engineering machine was sending a set of mechanical equipment suitable for space exploration into the spacecraft, including mining equipment, experimental analysis equipment, engineering vehicles, daily necessities, etc.

The new generation of "Wentian" is so big that it can load all equipment into the machine warehouse and can also load more equipment and supplies without having to load it outside the spacecraft.

"Let's go..." Li Chuan took the lead in heading towards the spaceship. Chu Siyuan also withdrew his gaze and followed him. The two entered the spaceship and then came to the bridge command room. Li Chuan stood at the bridge porthole and looked below. The height he was now at was nearly 18.7 meters lower than the ground, which shows how big the spaceship was.

About two hours passed, the open-air base platform was brightly illuminated by numerous lights, and a transport vehicle drove from afar in the dark night.

"Boss, I'm Liu Jin, I'm back!"

"How much nuclear material is brought back?"

"4325 kg, exceeding the task."

"I heard that your life on the moon is very comfortable, drinking beer, lying on the sofa, watching the World Cup..."

"It's that guy Cock. If the Chinese national football team plays into the World Cup, I'll see!"

"Come on the bridge."

Liu Jin brought the collected helium three nuclear materials back to Earth, and the spacecraft had fuel and was about to take off.

At 20:26, all the crew arrived. In addition to the original team, there were several new members. The total number of participants in this exploration mission reached 33.

As time goes by, by 20:40, the engineering robots on the base platform have finished their work, and other staff members have also ended.

At 20:46, the fusion core of the second-generation "Wentian" spacecraft was operated for the first time. At the frequency of 270 nuclear fusion reactions per second, huge energy was generated instantly. The four independent engines pushed the huge spacecraft slowly to take off, which was extremely bright in the dark.

Even if it is dozens of kilometers away, people who are far away from Huasheng Group headquarters can feel the ruthless tremor on the surface.

“The boost system is stable.”

“5 g.”

“17% power propulsion.”

“Height 27 km.”

In the spacecraft control room, data monitors continuously report real-time data of flight status feedback. As the "Wentian" spacecraft took off, the nozzles of four independent engines gradually changed from perpendicular to horizontal toward the surface, continuing to push the spacecraft toward space.

“Accurately enter the track!”

533 seconds later, the "Wentian" successfully entered the pre-determined earth orbit at 467 kilometers high. On the empty bridge, Li Chuan removed the seat belt from his seat and walked to the cube-shaped central console. The spacecraft was already in a weightless state when he entered space. Being able to walk on the bridge was just because the soles he wore could produce magnetic attraction with the floor alloy.

"Switch off the working fluid-free engine, all energy-concentrated jump chambers, accelerate the No. 2 to No. 6 transmission device, everyone listens to my command and prepares for the leap transmission!" Li Chuan stared at the data on the console, and all the operators performed their duties.

At the same time, the four independent working fluid-free nuclear power engines of the spacecraft were all turned off. The "Wentian" relied on inertia to move forward in orbit, and the fusion core combustion chamber operated at a peak of 2,200 nuclear fusions per second. The energy generated was transmitted to the transition chamber. The transition engine was constantly accumulating energy, and the continuously improved energy level was also fed back to the bridge.

It is worth mentioning that spacecraft jumps cannot be carried out on Earth, and there may be theoretical possibilities in the future, but the current first-generation jump technology cannot do this because the technology is too difficult. Jumps will be affected by mass and gravity factors and must stay away from the planet.

The reason for entering outer space is that when gravity changes, the space transition will become unstable, which can be barely overcome. The biggest problem is that when the quantity field transition is progressing, it will be affected by the mass of matter within the unit space. Simply put, if it is performed on the earth, it will be regarded as the same material transition, which is equivalent to a transition with the mass of an earth, which is obviously impossible.

At this moment, Li Chuan was staring at the elevated energy level value on the console, the transition energy level or energy consumption, depending on the current actual quality, space state and transition space coordinate relative distance, these will be strictly calculated.

“3…2…1 starts!”
Chapter completed!