Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 471 Crossing the Kuiper Belt
"Führer, the distance has reached 100 kilometers." Zhang Tianlin said hastily.

"Start the test." Huang Haojie ordered.

"Okay." Zhang Tianlin turned around and instructed the others, "Send a communication connection to Quantum Communicator No. 1."

"The connection is successful, and reply No. 1 has been received." The researcher replied excitedly.

"continue."

The test went very smoothly. Zhong operated the Xingtian Mecha across the Luzon region, entered the Western Pacific region, then entered the South Pacific waters, and then went straight to Antarctica.

I traveled 1.6 kilometers all the way. Fortunately, it was a nuclear fusion reactor. Otherwise, ordinary fuel would not be able to support this kind of long-distance flight. After all, the round trip is 3.2 kilometers.

It took nearly six days for Xingtian Jijia to complete the 1.6-kilometer flight.

Huang Haojie has returned to Keelung City and handed over the rest of the testing work to the Quantum Chip Research Institute.

The test results are also in line with expectations. At least Zhang Tianlin and others tested a distance of 1.6 kilometers, and there is no problem.

And the advantage of quantum communication is that it can ignore the influence of the external environment, whether it is underground, in the sea, or in space, it is the same for quantum communication.

"Führer, this is our test result." Zhang Tianlin reported to Huang Haojie through holographic communication.

Huang Haojie flipped through the documents, and he continued to order: "Except for keeping two in your research institute, the remaining three will be sent to outer space, and let them test the limit communication distance of the quantum communicator."

"Okay." Zhang Tianlin accepted the task.

If quantum communicators can achieve long-distance lossless communication, then this technology will be a huge change for the alliance.

The human innovation alliance's interstellar colonization and development are facing three major problems. The first is the speed of the spacecraft. Now it has been initially solved. The sub-light speed spacecraft is more than enough for the inner solar system.

The second is the communication problem. The upper limit of electromagnetic waves is the speed of light. Light speed communication can be handled so-so inside the planet, but once it enters the internal communication of the star system, the problem of communication delay is very serious. Twelve ten minutes.

This problem may not have much impact now, but if it goes on for a long time, it may cause a gap between the colony and the home planet, and it is very easy to breed separatism.

Quantum communication is one of the ways to solve this problem.

And the third problem is the problem of the human body. At present, human beings cannot survive in outer space for a long time. This problem is also a big problem that restricts human beings from exploring outer space.The technology for this problem is human augmentation technology.

For quantum communication, the alliance attaches great importance to it, and soon arranged for the spacecraft to send three quantum communicators and three researchers into outer space through the Kaohsiung mass projector.

Kaohsiung Aerospace Center.

Zhang Tianlin was in the space center with one of the quantum communicators.

"Chief Zeng Ji, are you alright?" Zhang Tianlin asked anxiously.

"Wait a minute, the Dongfanghong base in the lunar area has not responded yet." Zeng Baojiang looked at the holographic display and replied.

"Report, the Dongfanghong base in the lunar area is ready for testing."

Zeng Baojiang nodded to Zhang Tianlin: "Director Zhang, it's time to test."

Zhang Tianlin quickly ordered the staff of the research institute to use the quantum communicator to communicate with the quantum communicator at Dongfanghong base in the lunar area.

After a while, the staff input into the quantum communicator [Moon Moon, this is Blue Star, please reply. ]
[Blue Star Blue Star, this is the moon, it has been received. ]
After communicating with each other three times in a row, the staff said excitedly: "Suo Zhang, the experiment was very successful, the communication was very smooth, no delay was found, and the error definitely did not exceed 0.001 second."

Zhang Tianlin clapped his hands. He was so excited. The average distance between the moon and the blue star is about 38.5 kilometers. The one-way communication delay is about 1.28 seconds, and the one-way communication is about three seconds. This is the communication delay on the front of the moon. , There is no relay satellite on the back of the moon, that is called "every day should not work", and the earth is not working.

"Try a few more times."

"Ok."

Zhang Tianlin turned around and looked at Zeng Baojiang, Zeng Baojiang quickly replied: "The Mars space station is ready, the Sun-Zi spacecraft is waiting for about half an hour!"

Soon the test with the Mars synchronous orbit space station was also very smooth, almost instant communication, the slight delay between the quantum communicators was actually caused by the staff.

The next step is to conduct a quantum communication test with the Sun Chaser spacecraft. At this time, the Sun Chaser spacecraft is flying to the outer region of the solar system. It has just crossed the orbit of Jupiter and reached an area about 6.4 million kilometers away from the blue star.

"Yuri, is the communication normal?" Fang Haibo asked.

"Very good. Compared with the slow and delayed communication before, this quantum communication is the real instant communication." Yuri couldn't put it down for quantum communicators, and he only experienced the experience of communicating once every few 10 minutes. , Only then did I know how cheating electromagnetic wave communication is in the interstellar era.

"That's good, let's move on."

"Hi!" Masashi Kishimoto nodded.

They have already left the anti-g load cabin at this time, because the spacecraft has reached the cruising speed, there will be no overload problem without acceleration, so they can leave the anti-g load cabin.

The Sun Chaser is heading towards Saturn's orbit without any hesitation. Saturn's orbit is about 13.5 billion kilometers away from Blue Star, which means that the Sun Chaser spacecraft is still about 7.1 million kilometers away from Saturn's orbit. At cruising speed, the Sun Chaser spacecraft needs It takes about 4 hours and 45 minutes to cross Saturn's orbit.

As for the electromagnetic wave communication system, the speed has become extremely impressive. Now it takes about 36 minutes to send radio waves back to Blue Star in one direction, and it takes about 72 minutes to go back and forth. After the Sun-Sun crosses Saturn’s orbit, the one-way radio wave communication time will be 75 minutes. It becomes 150 minutes, and the round trip is [-] minutes.

After 4 hours and 45 minutes, the Sun Chaser spacecraft crossed the orbit of Saturn and came to a distance of 13.5 billion kilometers from the blue star.

"Yuri, how is quantum communication going?"

"Captain, everything is normal, there is no failure or delay."

"Go ahead, we're headed toward the orbit of Uranus."

The Sun Chaser spacecraft is flying forward. This time their target is the Uranus orbit 25.9 billion kilometers away from the Blue Star. If quantum communication is still possible, they will continue to the Neptune orbit (about 43.7 billion kilometers away from the Blue Star) .

20 hours later, Sun-Sun crossed the orbit of Neptune, and quantum communication can still realize instant communication.

On the inner edge of the Kuiper belt that Sun Chaser flew, some ice material was collected from an asteroid, and the nuclear fuel was replenished by electrolyzing water.

Then it flew to the outer space again, until it was more than 136 astronomical units (about 204 billion kilometers) away from the blue star, and the quantum communicator showed obvious signal weakening.

Fang Tianbo, who was afraid of being lost in the interstellar space, immediately returned to the inner layer of the solar system.

However, their voyage this time not only tested the powerful performance of quantum communication, but also collected a large number of samples and monitoring data in the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud, creating a new history for mankind.

You must know that Voyager 177 has only flown 204 billion kilometers now, while the Sun Chaser spacecraft has flown to [-] billion kilometers. If it is not for the fear of Star Trek, Sun Chaser can fly even further.

Zhang Tianlin, Zeng Baojiang and others at the Kaohsiung Aerospace Center have been stunned by this distance, not only the communication distance, but also the flight distance of the spacecraft.

The two, who hadn't had a good rest for several days, looked at each other with bloodshot eyes.

"It seems that our communication system is going to undergo a major change." Zeng Baojiang said happily. The emergence of quantum communication has greatly strengthened the communication of the Human Innovation Alliance in various territories of the solar system.

"I feel that the potential of quantum communication is still very large, and we can continue to dig deeper." Zhang Tianlin is also very happy.

The news of the successful quantum communication test was soon known within the Alliance.

(End of this chapter)