Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 468 Journey to Mars ([-])

The first year of the Milky Way, December 12th, blue star time.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Fang Tianbo and Masashi Kishimoto, who were woken up by the alarm clock, started their day's work.

This time, in addition to the mass of 510 tons being used to transport artificial satellites, the remaining 1490 tons of carrying capacity, of which 1030 tons are parts and components of 21 standard cabins.

剩下的460吨质量，分别是50吨生活物资、一艘48吨的火星登陆飞船、一个26吨的火星地面标准舱、一批41吨的探测器、剩下295吨都是各种各样的设备和维修零部件。

The second mission of the first team of the Space Expeditionary Force is to build a Mars synchronous orbit space station. This kind of modular space station construction technology is very mature.

Fang Tianbo and Masashi Kishimoto are familiar with operating the space operation robot, splicing together the parts of a standard cabin, and No. 9527 is also helping to build the space station.

They are very fast, and can build a standard cabin in an average of one hour. By around 18:12 in the evening, the Mars synchronous orbit space station composed of nine standard cabins has begun to take shape.

At 19:24, Fang Tianbo held a brief meeting.

Fang Tianbo looked around the crowd and said, "Now the Mars Synchronous Orbit Space Station has been initially completed. From tomorrow onwards, we will redistribute our work. Yuri and Committee Member Lin will continue to take turns guarding the cockpit of the Sun Chaser, developing and monitoring orbits around Mars and Blue Star. communication work."

"No problem." Yuri replied.

Linley also nodded in agreement.

"Zhengshi, you and the 9528 robot continue to build a Mars synchronous orbit space station." Fang Tianbo continued to order.

"Hi!" Masashi Kishimoto nodded back.

"I will start the specific exploration work on Phobos and Deimos from tomorrow."

Exploring Mars is their third mission. Exploring Mars is not only about exploring Mars itself, but its two natural satellites are also within the scope of exploration.

12 month 20 day.

The Phobos exploration work presided over by Fang Tianbo has officially kicked off, and two geological satellites have already orbited the big potato Phobos.

There are two kinds of "photography" instruments (called sensors) on the geological satellite, one is a reflective beam guide TV camera, similar to a TV camera; the other is a multispectral scanner, which can separate the electromagnetic waves reflected from the ground by wavelength record it.

The two geological satellites arranged on Phobos will obtain the electromagnetic wave information of various bands radiated or reflected by ground objects, and then send these information to the spacecraft Sun.

Since the reflection of each object is different under different spectral frequency bands, after the spacecraft receives the satellite signal, the supercomputer of the Sun-to-Sun spacecraft will process and interpret the information according to the spectrum characteristics of various substances that it has mastered. Obtain detailed information on the characteristics, distribution and status of various resources.

Phobos is an irregular satellite with a very small size. The size of Phobos is only about 26.6 kilometers × 22.2 kilometers × 18.6 kilometers. It is shaped like a potato. The average distance from the center of Mars is 9378 kilometers. About 6000 kilometers or so.

In addition, there is a huge meteorite impact crater on Phobos, like a big potato with a bite, this meteorite impact crater is called Stickney impact crater.

Fang Tianbo looked at the data fed back by the spectrometer of the geological satellite, and he started talking to himself:

"The Phobos feedback spectrum contains moderately strong absorption at ultraviolet wavelengths below 0.4-0.5 microns, while longer wavelengths are featureless but slightly reddened. A signature known as water absorption, which indicates the presence of water on Phobos. A clear C-type asteroid."

The so-called C-type asteroids, generally the spectra of this type of asteroids are very similar to carbonaceous chondrites (CI and CM types), except that they do not contain hydrogen, helium and volatiles, their chemical composition is similar to that of the sun and the original Much like the solar nebula, there are also hydrated (water-containing) minerals.

Fang Tianbo observed the spectral feedback of the Stickney impact crater, and said to himself with some surprise: "Hey! There is a metal reaction in the center of the impact crater. It seems that the meteorite that hit Phobos was an S-type (stone-iron composition) Asteroids or M-type (iron-nickel composition) asteroids, but the specific situation needs to be landed and explored."

After completing the remote sensing detection of geological satellites, he launched a small sampling spacecraft to Phobos. The spacecraft used ion engines to easily land on the surface of Phobos. Because Phobos is too small, its gravity is almost negligible .

The sampling spacecraft selected 6 positions on Phobos, and each position used 10 samples. These drilled samples were quickly sent to an assay cabin of the Mars synchronous orbit space station. This cabin is isolated from the space station. .

The sampling chamber is isolated from the space station or spacecraft. This is also a deadly regulation of safety regulations. After all, no one knows that these asteroids do not contain deadly viruses or bacteria that are difficult for humans to be immune to. Therefore, all materials collected from alien planets must be Carry out isolation treatment.

It is strictly forbidden for human staff or scientists in sci-fi movies to have direct close contact with unknown alien matter in the Human Innovation Alliance. After all, this kind of behavior may bring unpredictable risks.

Soon the laboratory began to conduct comprehensive and detailed analysis of these samples.

"All samples generally contain crystal water, and the content is quite high. The highest one is 31.6%, the lowest one is 4.3%, and the average water content is about 18.71%."

"In the central area of ​​the Stickney impact crater, the content of silicon dioxide is 14% to 16%, calcium carbonate is 34% to 35%, there are about 3% crystal water, 27% to 28% iron oxide, and about 3% Nickel, and the remaining 10% are other inorganic salt impurities. It seems that the asteroid that hit Phobos to form the Stickney crater was an S-type stony-iron asteroid."

"No biological reaction was detected, which is good news." Fang Tianbo said to himself while flipping through the laboratory report.

In the following week, Fang Haibo completed the preliminary detection of Phobos and Deimos, and launched a landing spacecraft to the equatorial region of Mars, establishing a Mars advance base.

Masashi Kishimoto and 9527 also completed the construction of the Mars synchronous orbit space station.

The first year of the Milky Way, December 12th, blue star time.

"Yuri sent a message to Blue Star that the Sun Chaser spacecraft will leave for Blue Star at 10:20 this morning." Fang Haibo ordered.

"Received." Yuri quickly operated the communication system to send a message to Blue Star, and it took about 17 minutes for Blue Star's reply to come through.

"Captain, the new Chang'an space station has agreed for us to return to Blue Star."

"Okay, take your place and enter the anti-g cabin."

The four of them entered the life-support and anti-g load cabin, and as soon as the time came, the Sun Chaser spacecraft left the Mars synchronous orbit space station and headed for a distant starry sky.

At this time, the distance between Mars and the blue star has become a little larger, reaching about 1.43 million kilometers, which is more than 1 million kilometers farther than before.

However, for the sub-light speed spacecraft, it was only more than 200 seconds longer. After the Sun Reacher, which was wearing the condensed matter shield, went through the acceleration stage, its speed increased to a cruising speed of 13.8% of the speed of light.

Around 4816 seconds, the Sun Chaser spacecraft entered the deceleration phase, which also marked that it was about to enter the Blue Star area.

(End of this chapter)