Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 231 Ecstatic NASA
At the same time as the Electromagnetic Catapult Institute is conducting mass catapult tests.

Aerospace agencies around the world have discovered this thing.

Dongtang Space Administration, as the local aerospace management department, although they have been notified in advance, they know that Yinhe Technology is going to test the mass projector today.

But they are not optimistic about Galaxy Technology's mass projector.

The reason is very simple. The mass catapult is different from the space rocket. The speed of the space rocket is slow first and then fast. Ascending, the speed will continue to accelerate, so as to break through the Karman line and reach the designated orbit.

However, the mass projector has a very large initial velocity, and it just meets the dense atmosphere at the bottom, which consumes a huge amount of kinetic energy, and the speed will become slower and slower.

In this way, it is necessary to build a vacuum pipeline to reduce atmospheric resistance. The problem is that this kind of vertical vacuum pipeline over several kilometers is simply a big hole.

Regardless of how long the vacuum pipeline of the Strait Cross-sea Bridge built by Yinhe Technology is, the difficulty of lying flat on the ground and perpendicular to the ground is definitely a geometric increase, and the two are not of the same order of magnitude at all.

They have trillions of Chinese dollars, so they might as well build high-thrust launch vehicles or space shuttles.

Although several space agency leaders know that Galaxy Technology has room temperature superconductors, room temperature superconductors are not omnipotent, and other problems with the mass projector are still full of difficulties.

However, they were still surprised by the test results of Yinhe Technology today. The monitoring satellite showed that the projected object reached an altitude of about 94 kilometers.

"What do you think?" Wang Guanghai, the chief designer of the aerospace system, looked at the monitoring results and asked Li Zhongting, the chief engineer beside him.

Li Zhongting looked at the monitoring results: "Judging from the satellite monitoring results, the volume of the projectile is quite large, estimated to be around 270 to 300 cubic meters, such a large volume, the weight will not be so small, no matter what About twenty or thirty tons."

"I didn't expect that the old horse is still young!" Wang Guanghai said with a smile.

"It's not that the old horse is powerful, but that Yinhe Technology is powerful. Don't forget their room temperature superconductors and strong magnetic repulsion materials. These two materials can greatly improve the explosive power of the mass projector." Li Zhongting is clear about the key points.

"I don't know how they plan to solve the problem of vacuum pipelines. They don't really want to invest trillions to dig the Himalayas, do they?" Wang Guanghai joked.

Li Zhongting shook his head: "The possibility of digging the Himalayas is unlikely. The first Galaxy Technology does not have the money. The second Huang Haojie's thinking is beyond my understanding."

"If they make the object smaller, maybe they can project it above the Karman line, and then start the rocket engine to reach the designated orbit." Wang Guanghai thought for a while and said.

"There is no vacuum pipe. Once the initial velocity is too fast, the projected items may disintegrate in the air."

"Let's just wait and see!"

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the other side.

Rice Home Space Agency NASA.

"Report, an unknown object launched by Dongtang was detected."

"Azimuth east longitude... the current altitude is 67000 meters, and it is rising rapidly. The speed is 1973 meters per second, and the speed is falling."

Maxwell, the administrator of NASA, heard the report from his subordinates and rushed to the space monitoring room.

"What's the situation?"

"The unknown object has returned to the ground. This is the picture taken by the monitoring satellite, as well as the monitoring data." Dr. Archimedes clicked on the computer screen.

"Tell me the specific situation." Maxwell asked looking at the picture on the computer.

Dr. Tyrant touched his chin and replied: "This thing is not like a launch vehicle or a space shuttle, but like another thing."

"Those tungsten rod projectors in Dongtang!" Dr. Archimedes added.

"Are you saying that this thing was projected by a mass projector?" Maxwell asked hastily.

Dr. Archimedes clicked on the analysis chart of the flying object's speed, altitude, and orientation: "Mr. Mike, just look at these data and you will know."

The speed is inversely proportional to the height. As the height increases, the speed decreases, and the azimuth is almost perpendicular to the ground. Seeing these data analysis, Maxwell immediately knew that Dr. Archimedes was right.

"This thing was definitely launched by a mass projector. They should be testing it." Dr. Tyrant suddenly thought of something while talking:

"By the way, this position seems to have some records in the past few months!"

The person in charge of the database at the side hastily called up the latitude and longitude data of Caiyu Island.

After a search, it turned out that eleven monitoring data were found.

"Before I thought these were tungsten rod projection tests, but now it seems that they should be testing mass projectors." Dr. Tyrant said, pointing at the data.

Dr. Archimedes raised his glasses and carefully looked at the monitoring data in the computer.

"Indeed! The height of their projection is getting higher and higher, and the mass is getting bigger and bigger. This time the height has reached 94 kilometers. If a rocket engine is installed on it, they can break through the Karman line at any time and enter space."

"According to the satellite monitoring data, this projectile is a regular hexagonal cylinder with a side length of about 3 meters, a height of about 12 meters, and a volume of about 280 cubic meters, so its mass will definitely not be small. Where are you going?" Dr. Tyrant also expressed his own analysis.

"So, if they reduce the size of the projected objects, they can definitely hit space." Maxwell's face looked ugly.

"No, it's not that simple. Its muzzle velocity is too fast, and it consumes too much kinetic energy in the bottom atmosphere, unless they build a vacuum pipeline of about ten kilometers..." Dr. Archimedes shook his head and said.

Maxwell interrupted Dr. Archimedes and continued: "No, this is definitely a threat. Our great rice family cannot fall behind. What do you think, gentlemen?"

Dr. Tyrant and Dr. Archimedes smiled at each other. They had obviously reacted, and Dr. Archimedes quickly changed his words:

"It's not wrong. We can't fall behind Dongtang. We have to explain the situation to the parliament. If we don't increase the appropriation, we will fall behind."

"For the sake of honor, for lard, and for Mi Li's family, we will never allow ourselves to fall behind." Dr. Tyrant also said loudly.

The other people also became excited, as if they saw countless small money rushing towards them. This kind of pleasure has never been enjoyed by NASA since the old bear fell down, and the situation has become more and more embarrassing. Years are decreasing.

Even the launch business of space rockets was packaged to Elon Musk. NASA, which was all-powerful and able to land on the moon, was forced to be so hard.

Flying birds do their best to hide their bows, and cunning rabbits are cooked to death. The ancients never deceived me.

It is rare to have a target now, and there must be some big bragging, asking the masters of the parliament to give money. As for whether they can get the money, it depends on how well their stories are told.

Although they are going to talk about Dongtang's mass projector in a hype, it seems that if the Mi Li family doesn't keep up, it will be surpassed.

To a certain extent, in their report to the parliament, the situation is almost the same. Although NASA's original intention was to fool the money, Galaxy Technology really did it.

(End of this chapter)