Homo sapiens.

Chapter 475
The first year of Xinghe, October 10th.

A spacecraft orbiting the Moon, Tinder 107.

Quickly use the moon's gravitational slingshot to fly towards the orbit of Mars.

The Tinder 2864 spacecraft, weighing 107 tons, is flying in deep space about 7 kilometers from the moon and 48 kilometers from the earth.

At this time, the flying speed of Huozhi 107 was 8.5 kilometers per second.

Just now.

Tinder 107 suddenly adjusted its flight attitude, the nozzle of the methane liquid oxygen engine became the flight head, and the head became the flight tail, and the spacecraft temporarily relied on the previous inertia to fly.

After the head changed to the tail, the new tail began to deform. To be precise, the fairing was opened.

The fairing unfolds as if blooming, forming a cover with a diameter of 20 meters. There is also a special nozzle with a diameter of 9.8 meters in the center of the cover.

After readjusting the direction.

A fist-sized sphere suddenly spewed out from the center of the tail nozzle of Tinder 107.

In the next second, there was a dazzling glare from the ball.

In this dark deep sky, it seems that a small sun has appeared.

But under the glare of the little sun, the speed of the fire seed 107 suddenly increased a lot.

next second.

Another little sun flashed behind Tinder 107.

After about a few seconds.

NASA's ground command center.

The satellite responsible for monitoring the direction of the moon suddenly detected a burst of gamma rays and photons, and then on average every 60 seconds or so, there will be gamma rays and strong light signals.

Even without satellite monitoring, many observatories that are observing the moon at this time can see a series of light spots appearing near the moon through astronomical telescopes.

Then Bill, who was still sleeping, was hurriedly woken up by his subordinates.

Sleepy-eyed Bill came to the office with an espresso.

"What happened again?" He took a sip of his espresso to refresh himself.

Deputy Director Davis said with a tangled face: "Homo sapiens just carried out a nuclear explosion and nuclear explosion propulsion."

"Nuclear explosion test? You should notify the Pentagon instead of waking me up." Bill rubbed his temples speechlessly, then took another sip of espresso.

"The problem is that the location of this nuclear explosion experiment is in orbit near the moon."

"Isn't it the moon...?? Wait a minute, where did you say?" Bill's eyes widened.

Davis bit the bullet and replied, "Moon orbit."

"Wang Defa?! You said Homo sapiens conducted a nuclear test on the moon?" Bill jumped up from his seat.

"To be more precise, it is conducting a nuclear explosion propulsion test. A Homo sapiens Tinder-type spacecraft is accelerating towards Mars under the propulsion of a nuclear explosion." Davis quickly explained.

"Give me the details!" Bill was in a bad mood.

Davis took the document from the assistant and handed it to Bill.

Bill quickly looked through it.

A total of 50 miniature nuclear explosions were detected before and after. Calculated from the 60-second interval between the explosions, it means that the speed of the Pinder spacecraft has been increased to about 50 kilometers per second.

Calculated at a speed of 50 kilometers per second, the spacecraft can fly 432 million kilometers a day.

At this time, Mars is about 1.1 million kilometers away from the earth, and the distance between the two planets is approaching at a rate of 50 kilometers per day.

In other words, it only takes about 26 Earth days for the Tinder to reach the orbit of Mars.

Of course, Bill knew that 26 days was impossible.

The reason is that the speed of the Spark is too fast, exceeding the upper limit of the capture of Mars' gravity, so the Spark must be used for a period of time to slow down.

But even so, this speed is already very astonishing.

NASA has launched three Falcon launch vehicles in a row in the past few days, and they all succeeded, which made many people feel a little carried away.

Now Homo sapiens directly uses hard power to tell the world that your uncle is still your uncle.

Still playing Little Rocket?

Grandpa has gone to Mars in a nuclear-powered spaceship.

Bill took a deep breath: "Notify the Pentagon and the Board of Directors!"

"I have already notified." Davis scratched his head.

Bill glanced at the other party meaningfully, and then changed the topic: "Then inform other partners that I want to hold a video conference with the ground network."

"OK." Davis, a little guilty, hurried to make a call.

Although he was a little annoyed that Davis passed him, he knew very well that the board of directors would not change easily now, at least when the space competition was still in the early stage of burning money, his position was simply a chore.

What he cares more about at this time is actually the use of nuclear explosion propulsion by Homo sapiens.

Homo sapiens put too much pressure on him. Compared with the opponent, NASA is not an opponent of the same level at all.

There are huge gaps in technology, resources, talents, and organizations.

This made Bill feel a sense of frustration involuntarily.

Although he hopes to force the Council to pay attention to NASA through the pressure of Homo sapiens, it is clear that the pressure of Homo sapiens on NASA has almost exploded, which makes him do not know how to respond and catch up.

Soon, Davis, who returned again, interrupted his thinking.

"Director, the security conference room is ready."

"Let's go then!"

The two arrived in the security conference room, and several assistants had already opened the video conferencing software.

Conde, the president of the Earth Federation Association, Matthew Duke, the new head of the Europa Space Agency, and the head of the Lucia Space Department, etc., appeared in the video screen one after another.

The four people who participated in the video conference obviously already knew about the orbit of the moon.

Kong De looked solemn: "Homo sapiens is really scary! It even made a nuclear-powered spaceship."

"Now we have to follow up. Although there is no way to build a Daedalus spacecraft, we must have a nuclear-powered spacecraft." Bill clenched his fists.

Kong De hesitated: "Bill, is it too dangerous to go directly to nuclear power?"

"Then what can you do? If you don't want to catch up, we can't catch up with the development speed of Sapiens. Even if there is a risk, I will promote the nuclear-powered launch vehicle project." Bill is very tough.

The person in charge of Lucia also nodded: "Nuclear-powered launch vehicles are indeed one of the few effective means for us to counter Homo sapiens. There must be risks, but this is not the reason for us to reject nuclear-powered launch vehicles."

Obviously, in the face of this huge pressure and gap, they finally plan to adjust their flexible bottom line.

After some intense discussions, although the Earth Federation agreed to the proposal to develop a nuclear-powered launch vehicle, it required that it could not be used in the atmosphere, and that instead of using a nuclear explosion scheme, it would use a nuclear thermal-nuclear power scheme.

However, this plan is actually more difficult than the nuclear explosion plan.

The reason why it is difficult is to dissipate heat.

The nuclear explosion propulsion scheme does not need to consider the heat dissipation problem.

However, the nuclear heat-nuclear power scheme must consider heat dissipation. Otherwise, the nuclear battery or nuclear reactor will inevitably melt due to the inability to dissipate heat, causing equipment failure, and even the entire spacecraft will be scrapped directly.

Homo sapiens showed them the way, but they were self-righteous.

Without Homo sapiens' gold-based electrothermal materials, if you want to play with nuclear thermal-nuclear power propulsion, the difficulty is not ordinary, but very large.

Of course, the nuclear explosion propulsion scheme also has a threshold. For example, nuclear protection materials must be able to withstand close-range miniature nuclear explosions, which requires very high requirements for materials.

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