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Chapter 257 F-1704
36000 kilometers from the equator.

geosynchronous orbit.

A pure white spaceship stands still in a pitch-black sky.

Looking down, there is a sky-blue planet dotted with large white clouds-the Earth, and behind it is a dark deep space.

Quiet, dead silence.

There is no life. Compared with the earth, this place is a forbidden area for life.

The cockpit of the Tianshu.

Fifteen astronauts are busy with their work.

The captain of the Tianshu transport spaceship is a young R-type clone, but it can be seen from his behavior that the captain of the Tianshu is much more stable than young people of the same age.

"Report to the master control center, this is Tianshu!"

"Tianshu, please tell me!"

About a second passed.

On the holographic projection screen in front of him, a young figure appeared in front of the captain of Tianshu.

"The first phase of the mission of the Tianshu is completed, the performance indicators of the hull are normal, and the current remaining energy is 93.74%. Repeat, the first phase of the mission of the Tianshu is completed, the performance indicators of the hull are normal, and the current remaining energy is 93.74%. Request Execute the second phase of the mission!"

The captain of the Tianshu calmly reported on the holographic projection of the landing continent.

Their crew came to the geosynchronous orbit. In addition to testing the performance of the Tianshu, they also had an important task, which was to use a small part of the building materials it carried for the construction of the space port.

of course.

Building a complete space port is a huge project, and it is definitely not something that can be done with one or two trips.

However, as long as the performance indicators tested by Tianshu meet expectations, Civilization Science City will definitely manufacture this space transport ship on a large scale.

Although the [-]-ton spacecraft is quite laborious to manufacture with the industrial strength of the Civilized Science City, the intelligent unmanned factory cluster in the second district is fully fired.

It is not a big problem to manufacture more than a dozen ships a year.

In this way, the speed of building the spaceport is faster.

It is expected that before the end of next year, the space port dedicated to parking space transport spacecraft will be completed.

There was another pause.

The command from the ground master control center came over: "Tianshu, allow the execution of the second phase of the mission, repeat, allow the execution of the second phase of the mission, and wish you all the best, we are waiting for you on Earth!"

Hear this.

The excited look on the captain's face of the Tianshu disappeared instantly, and he immediately replied: "Tianshu received it, promise to complete the task, and wait for our good news!"

After speaking, he cut off the communication.

You must know that in outer space, communication resources are a very luxurious resource, especially the communication means of holographic projection, which consumes an astonishing amount of communication resources.

Fortunately, Tianshu is not too far away from the earth. If it is on Mars at this moment, it is estimated that it will not use the extravagant method of holographic projection communication, but choose simple communication.

If the speed of the spacecraft is the first limiting factor in the exploration of space, then the communication technology is the second limiting factor.

Tianshu uses a nuclear fusion engine as its power source and a unique electric propulsion system.

Theoretically, in a gravity-free environment, its speed can be accelerated up to one ten-thousandth of the speed of light, which is nearly twice the speed of the third universe.

From this point of view, Tianshu can escape the gravitational pull of stars and thus leave the solar system.

But in practice it is impossible to operate.

At least it is impossible to carry people out of the solar system, the reason is very simple, human beings do not have such a long lifespan.

It is also impossible for the Tianshu to carry supplies that will be consumed by humans for tens of thousands of years.

If Tianshu is used as an unmanned spacecraft to fly out of the solar system, just like Voyager, it is possible to leave the solar system in the next few thousand or tens of thousands of years.

But Lu Chen obviously wouldn't do that.

If there are extraterrestrial beings in the universe, wouldn't his behavior be telling others that there are living planets here in the solar system, so hurry up and ravage me.

It's okay if the civilization level of the alien life is not high, but if the civilization level is higher than that of the earth, wouldn't he become the sinner of all mankind?

Because you can't judge whether the alien civilization is benevolent or malicious.

As far as Lu Chen himself is concerned, he believes that a civilization can develop, and its civilization definitely has a brutal nature.

Take humans for example.

Human beings can reach the position of the overlord of the earth, how many species did they walk out of?
It doesn't matter if the level of alien civilization is backward, if the level of civilization is higher than that of the earth, and it just needs the living environment of the earth.

Lu Chen believes that human beings are likely to be exterminated by aliens just like the aborigines in the great voyage period.

Except for this problem.

There is still a problem for the Tianshu to leave the solar system, and that is the inconvenience of communication.

The communication speed of electromagnetic waves within the earth is indeed fast enough, but under the scale of the universe, it is too slow.

Don't talk about leaving the Tianyang system.

Only the communication between the earth and Mars at this distance will be delayed by more than ten minutes.

But unable to communicate with the command center in real time, the spacecraft drifted in a dark space, like a flat boat in the sea, which was a huge test for both the psychology of the crew of the spacecraft and the actual exploration of space.

In this case, exploring space is completely betting on the lives of the crew.

It is less reliable than the adventurers in the great voyage period.

At least at that time, the ships used by navigators to explore the sea were much more advanced than the spaceships used to explore space today.

Get orders from ground control center.

The captain of the Tianshu and his crew immediately became full of motivation.

There are only two main missions for them to go to outer space this time.

The first is to check the various performances of the Tianshu, and the second is to put down the space-making materials and octopus-shaped construction robots in geosynchronous orbit.

At this point, their mission was successfully completed.

As for the second-stage mission he mentioned in his report, it should actually be regarded as the next Hangxin mission of the Tianshu.

That is to explore the f-1704 asteroid.

According to the monitoring of the space telescope controlled by Ling, this f-1704 asteroid is a mineral planet less than 400 million kilometers away from the earth.

And its orbit is constantly approaching the earth, and finally when it reaches 341.5 million kilometers, it will gradually drift away from the earth.

According to preliminary observations, there are a lot of metal minerals on this asteroid.

It can fully meet the consumption of most of the mineral materials for the construction of space cities.

According to the preliminary plan of Linghe Academy of Civilization and Science.

The innermost ring structure of the space city needs to consume about 10 billion tons of metal materials and other materials.

Although compared with the 420-ton size of the International Space Station, 10 billion tons seems to be many times larger.

But from the perspective of city size and population, this scale is at most comparable to that of village-level units, and it can accommodate a population of 1.

(End of this chapter)