Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 342 Simulated Spaceship
For spaceship simulation training.

After discussions by the Space Development Committee, they gave up their plan to train all-round astronauts. After all, human beings have limited energy. If they want to train all-round astronauts, it will not only take too long, but also the cost performance is too low.

In the near future, Dongtang will open the era of great space exploration and large-scale space operations. If all-round astronauts are trained, it will not only cause too long training time, but also greatly reduce the number of astronauts.

After many discussions and meetings, they finally decided to subdivide the astronaut majors again, setting up pilots, maintenance personnel, outer space operators, communicators, doctors, logisticians, technicians and other subdivisions.

Ma Wu chose the profession of transport spaceship pilot, and Liao Qingsong chose outer space operator.

These professional astronauts are necessary for a spacecraft. After all, the Space Development Committee intends to carry out outer space colonization activities for a long time, and these regular astronauts are essential.

After classifying again.

Ma Wu participated in the training of the pilot of the spacecraft while carrying out the anti-G training of the survival warehouse.

And Liao Qingsong is also training in anti-G, and training in outer space operations.

A 11 training area.

This is a one-to-one model of a Qinglong-class manned spacecraft. In fact, except that it cannot fly, all the configurations in this model are exactly the same as the real Qinglong-class.

Of course Ma Wu knew some basic data of the Qinglong-class manned projection spacecraft.

It is a regular hexagonal cylinder with a side length of 3 meters, a height of 12 meters, and a volume of 280 cubic meters. The weight of the spacecraft hull and equipment is 21 tons, and the total fuel and oxidizer is 18 tons.

There are a total of 8 astronaut life support cabins, with a total of 40 tons, and can carry about 21 tons of supplies.

However, he was very puzzled about this matter. After all, the Jianmu Project is now half-dead and unfinished. Why is the spacecraft they train still a Qinglong-class manned spacecraft? He is puzzled by this matter.

Is it possible that the Qinglong-class manned spacecraft will be transformed into a carrier rocket and transported to outer space?
Suddenly a hand was patted on his shoulder, Ma Wu was taken aback, turned his head, it turned out that it was Jiang Shui, another old friend who also chose to be a driver.

"What do you think?"

"No, I'm just surprised why the Qinglong class was used as the simulated training object." Ma Wu said while familiarizing himself with the Qinglong class's instruction manual.

"So that's the problem, and I'm full of doubts." Jiang Shui is also getting familiar with the Qinglong class.

"Forget it, the Space Development Committee may have its own considerations, let's get acquainted first!"

Jiang Shui nodded and said, "Maybe they plan to transform the Qinglong class into a launch vehicle model."

"Who knows." Ma Wu spread his hands.

However, a few of them are quite interested in the Qinglong-class manned spacecraft.

Ma Wu looked at the Qinglong-class interior that looked like a future spaceship. It would be a pity if the mass projector was successful.

The simulated cockpit of the Qinglong class is in the third section of the cabin (it is the third floor when it is upright), and the driver's life support cabin is in the second section of the cabin.

The first section of the cabin is fuel and the main engine, while the fourth section and part of the third section of the cabin are material warehouses.

The driver's cab is not too big, it can accommodate four people to move around in it, but according to the staffing settings of the Qinglong class, there are only three people in the driver's cab, the driver, co-pilot, communicator, and others are not allowed to enter the driver's cab at will .

As future spaceship pilots, Ma Wu and Jiang Shui are familiar with those buttons and operating systems.

"What is this red button?" Jiang Shui asked while flipping through the manual.

Ma Wu looked at it and replied: "It's the emergency ejection button, which can activate the life support chamber and eject the spaceship."

"What's the use of this thing? Can the life support chamber be used directly in outer space?" Jiang Shui asked speechlessly.

"Yes, the life-support chamber itself is a combination of two escape chambers. The life-support device inside can keep the human body alive in outer space for about 60 hours." Ma Wu explained, pointing to the manual.

"Even if this is the case, I don't think this thing has much effect. Unless there is human body cryonics technology, which can freeze people in a life-support chamber for several years, otherwise in the vast and boundless space, the possibility of being rescued and the possibility of being rescued will be projected. Welfare lottery is about the same." Jiang Shui was not optimistic about the design of the escape cabin.

"At least in the vicinity of low-Earth orbit, this thing is quite useful, it's better than nothing." Ma Wu said with a smile.

They compared the instructions while talking, and the cab of the Qinglong class adopted a lot of new designs, such as touch screens, holographic projections, and so on.

These designs reduce a lot of buttons and greatly reduce the driver's driving difficulty. During the acceleration and deceleration phases, artificial intelligence is operating the spacecraft, while the driver is assisting in the life support cabin.

However, just in case, a lot of mechanical buttons are kept to prevent the electronic system from malfunctioning. Although the electronic system of the spacecraft is designed with triple redundancy, it does not mean that it is foolproof.

After all, the spacecraft has been flying in outer space for a long time. As the saying goes, there is no one who does not wet his shoes when he often walks by the river. Electronic equipment is destroyed by cosmic rays over time, and there will be more or less problems.

Although the cosmic ray protection measures of the Qinglong-class spacecraft are very comprehensive, there is no absolute in everything. If you are too superstitious about yourself, it is easy to capsize in the gutter.

After Ma Wu and others were initially familiar with the cockpit, they put on the space suits in the cabin and began to simulate training.

In-cabin spacesuits are different from extravehicular spacesuits. Of course, Yinhe Technology’s material science is very strong. Although it is an in-cabin spacesuit, its quality is still leveraged, comparable to NASA’s extravehicular spacesuits.

The performance and protection are strong, but the volume and weight are not too heavy and bloated, just like wearing a thin down jacket from the Lingnan area.

In addition, the design of the space suit in the cabin is very convenient. After the astronauts come out of the life support cabin, they can put it on directly.

If you want to go out of the spacecraft to work in outer space, you don't need to change the spacesuit, you can just put on the spacesuit outside the cabin.

Therefore, in order to simulate training, Ma Wu and the others had to wear spacesuits in the cabin to move around in the cockpit. Fortunately, the constant temperature system in the cockpit was not a counterfeit.

After all, the weather in Zhangzhou in October is still very hot, and it will slowly cool down in November. Their spacesuits in the cabin have a very good heat preservation ability, and without air conditioning, they can be too hot to death.

In the cockpit, Ma Wu operated the spacecraft to simulate flight.

[Student Ma Wu, you made eleven mistakes in the operation just now, the first one: at 14:42:12 seconds, you repeatedly pressed the left auxiliary engine start button twice...]
The artificial intelligence separated by Zhong gave Ma Wu a list of his mistakes in the operation process.

Looking at the data in front of him, Ma Wu was also very embarrassed, and quickly looked through his mistakes carefully, trying not to repeat the mistakes just now next time.

If you cannot get more than 10 consecutive full marks in the simulated driving training of the spacecraft, you are not eligible to obtain a spacecraft pilot license.

And the driver's license is the first step to become a spaceship pilot. After all, everyone wants to be the first batch of people to go to outer space. At this time, the success rate in the simulation training is the key data.

In the case of also having a driver's license, astronauts with a high success rate must be the first people to go to outer space.

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