Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 226 Rhapsody
In addition, he also made subversive changes to the shape of the airship.

The shape of the modified airship is similar to that of a life buoy.

The inner diameter he entered is 210 meters, and the entire airship platform is exactly the same as a large life buoy.

For balance and translation, there are three control compartments of the airship, presenting an arrangement of equilateral triangles.

"Zhong, use a supercomputer to calculate, if you want to increase the payload to about [-] tons, roughly how big an airbag will be needed."

[need……]
Huang Haojie rubbed his chin, looking at the preliminary design plan that was almost completed.

Keke!

"Come in!"

"Hello, boss!" The three high-altitude airship researchers greeted quickly.

"You're welcome, please help me take a look at this design plan."

The three of them thought about the airship in the shape of a life buoy, discussing or calculating parameters from time to time.

"Boss, what is your airship going to be used for?"

"Fixed at the top of the stratosphere or the bottom of the mesosphere in an area, then it needs to bear at least 50 tons." Huang Haojie explained.

"In this case, it is best to increase the volume of the airbag by about 30%, otherwise the load-bearing may not meet your requirements."

Huang Haojie modified the parameters to increase the airbag volume of the ring airship by 30%.

Another researcher reminded: "If this ring-shaped airship wants to stay at the bottom of the middle layer, the issue of structural strength must be considered. After all, there is strong convective weather in the middle layer, and it can be increased for this position..."

The reason for the strong vertical movement in the middle layer is that the air temperature in the middle layer drops rapidly with the increase of altitude, the upper part of the atmosphere is cold and the lower part is warm, resulting in convective movement of the air.

In addition, the ozone layer we often mention is in the middle of the stratosphere. As for why the ozone content in the middle layer is not high, it is because the formation of ozone in the atmosphere is mainly formed by the combination of oxygen molecules and oxygen atoms under the action of solar radiation. .

In the upper layer of the atmosphere, the intensity of solar radiation is very strong, which makes oxygen molecules dissociate too much, so the chances of oxygen molecules and oxygen atoms meeting to form O3 are very small. There is not much ozone in the upper atmosphere.

Huang Haojie and three researchers were discussing and perfecting the design of the circular airship.

three days later.

The blueprint and simulated shape of a ring-shaped airship quietly floated in the middle of the office.

Huang Haojie stood up and stretched, and beat his shoulders a few more times, making his shoulders sore.

"Thank you for your hard work, everyone. The preliminary design has been completed. Your next task is to make one and test it to see if any modifications are needed."

"It's not hard, the boss is polite."

"It's all part of the job."

"We will arrange to make a prototype airship as soon as possible."

Huang Haojie nodded with them: "Then leave it to you."

……

After completing the research and design of the circular airship, he returned to his secret research institute.

"Chong, call up the experiment log of the Electromagnetic Catapult Research Institute."

[Okay, master! ]
Electromagnetic Catapult Research Institute.

Academician Ma, who worked with Huang Haojie on the development of electromagnetic catapults, is also here.

However, due to the special electromagnetic ejection of Yinhe Technology, which is a typical large-scale experiment and has certain risks, this laboratory is not set up in Shanmei, but is set up near Caiyu Island off the coast of Shanmei.

Huang Haojie flipped through the experiment log of the Electromagnetic Catapult Research Institute.

The reason why he cares about this is because the research project of the Institute of Electromagnetic Catapult is a large-scale mass projector, which is an advanced version of the electromagnetic catapult.

The mass projector, in simple terms, is a large electromagnetic gun, which shoots rockets or space capsules into space.

Anyone who has seen Gundam SEED knows this thing. The cost of carrying this technology is greatly reduced, but it also has its own huge disadvantages.

Electromagnetic projectors that scientists envision would typically be built under high mountains, such as the Himalayas or Mount Kilimanjaro.

I heard that the Ministry of Railways of my rabbit once conceived a plan to hollow out the Himalayas to place a super electromagnetic ejection track. Since the total funding requirement is as high as 40000 trillion Chinese yuan, you understand the result.

The reason why the mass projector is placed under the mountain is mainly due to two benefits
First, the electromagnetic acceleration orbit should be super long, and the final velocity should preferably be vertically upward, or have an additional component force along the direction of the earth's rotation.

Mountains are of course the best carrier. After all, it is very technically difficult to build a track that is several kilometers vertical.

Second, the top of the mountain is usually already located at a high altitude where the air is thin, which can greatly reduce friction.

Mass projectors usually consist of giant electromagnetic rails (and possibly coils), vacuum tubes, and power systems.

And no matter which one of these three has huge engineering difficulty, the electromagnetic rail or coil is preferably composed of a superconductor, and its huge superconductor demand and corresponding low temperature requirement.

Unless they have Galaxy Technology's room temperature superconductor technology, just solving the problem of ultra-low temperature superconductivity can drive people crazy.

Secondly, the engineering difficulty of several kilometers of vacuum super pipelines also exists, so ordinary scientists imagine relying on the structural support of high mountains.

However, this problem is also not a problem for Yinhe Technology, because Huang Haojie does not plan to build a vacuum pipeline by the mountain, but uses a ring-shaped airship to connect a high-strength elastic and strong magnetic repelling film cable to form a 60-kilometer-long vertical vacuum pipeline.

And there are many advantages to doing so, you can quickly create a vacuum state, and return to the original state when not in use, and you don't need to worry about maintaining the vacuum state.

The last difficulty of the mass projector is the power supply problem, which is the core problem.

Since the mass projector needs to release a huge amount of electric energy in an instant, it is impossible to build a power station with the same power for the mass projector. We can only rely on a large capacitor to store electric energy. The electric energy release speed, electric energy capacity, and safety of this capacitor are all Huge problem.

Similarly, the Raytheon modified battery of Yinhe Technology can achieve the effect of a super capacitor.

In this way, for Galaxy Technology, the three major problems of the mass projector are not a problem

According to Huang Haojie's preliminary design, the exit of the mass catapult will be at an altitude of 60 kilometers, and although the air in the middle layer is thin, the huge frictional heat still needs to be considered.

However, this problem is a temporary problem, because the second stage of Huang Haojie's plan can completely solve this problem.

The second stage is at 100 kilometers in low-Earth orbit, which is the boundary line of aerospace, the Karman line. Galaxy Technology plans to build a low-Earth orbit space station here, and then use high-strength elastic and strong magnetic repulsion film cables and ring-shaped interlayers. The airship is connected.

Near the Karman line, the air is already as thin as outer space, and has little effect on aircraft or space capsules.

Of course, the mass projector also has a violent acceleration-probably exceeding 10g, which makes it very likely that it will not be able to carry people.

In addition, the electromagnetic effects it may generate may cause the destruction of delicate electronic equipment inside it.

In addition, the fixed diameter of the electromagnetic track can hardly be changed, which means that small payloads may be able to use the rack, but payloads exceeding the diameter will not be launched.

However, its low price still makes the mass catapult the best solution for delivering raw materials and other loads.

(End of this chapter)