Start a Base

Generally speaking, human beings are lucky. Such asteroids are difficult to find at long distances.

Had it not been accidentally monitored by Li Guang's team, humans would not even have the opportunity to defend.

The speed of the spacecraft equipped with high-energy ionization engines continues to increase.

In the universe, in theory, as long as the energy is sufficient and the acceleration continues, it will reach the highest speed of conventional navigation, the speed of light.

But that requires a huge amount of energy as support, even infinity.

You know, to accelerate the two particles to the speed of light in a short period of time, the energy required is massive, let alone a spacecraft that is trillions of times heavier?

At least in the foreseeable future of mankind, it is impossible to master such technology.

The high-energy batteries that the spacecraft are equipped with are disassembled from the aerospace fighters. Each spacecraft is equipped with at least four aerospace fighter energy batteries.

But to accelerate the huge spacecraft, the energy still has to be calculated with fingers.

Soon, the fleet spacecraft ejected light blue beams of electric ions and left the military port of Space City.

The fleet first needs to accelerate around Saturn star to reach the second cosmic speed, which is the escape speed of Saturn star, and use the gravitational slingshot effect of the last circle to fly away from Saturn star and blast towards the vast universe.

"The first circle around Saturn is 8 kilometers per second."

after an hour......

"The second circle around Saturn, the speed is 11.2 kilometers per second, the escape speed is reached, the power is fully turned on, and the gravitational slingshot acceleration phase is entered!"

"The speed is 11.8 kilometers per second..."

"The speed is 12.6 kilometers per second..."

"The speed is 12.9 kilometers per second..."

Arrived at the acceleration terminal of the gravitational slingshot, goodbye, planet!

Somewhere in the orbit of Saturn, the fleet drew a beautiful arc and plunged into space.

"good luck!"

This is the same blessing sent by all insiders in the world to the Star Fleet of the End Sun Empire.

The fleet leaving the orbit of Saturn is still accelerating.

In the universe, aircraft cannot use the same energy output to continuously accelerate.

Because the theory of relativity does not allow it.

The faster the flying object, the higher the mass, and the higher the mass of the object to accelerate, the greater the energy required.

This is the famous barrier to the speed of light.

Therefore, the goal of the Interstellar Fleet of the Last Sun Empire is only to accelerate to slightly exceed the speed of the third universe, use the orbital angle, and finally stay relatively still with the asteroid and complete the landing.

The energy carried by the spacecraft is only enough to accelerate itself to the third cosmic speed, and there is no excess energy to decelerate.

So if you miss the asteroid, you will be wandering between the stars forever.

Only by successfully landing on the asteroid, assembling the nuclear fusion reactor, and replenishing energy while pushing the asteroid, can there be a chance to return to the end sun empire alive.

This is a road without turning back. If you fail to succeed, you will become benevolent!

"The speed is 15.1 kilometers per second, and it is 130,000 kilometers away from Saturn."

The Space City Command Center always pays attention to the situation of the fleet, and then feeds it back to Li Yunpeng and other top empires.

And Li Yunpeng did not share the current situation with other countries, because it is not necessary, but also to guard against the South Gate two aliens, in case they are the initiators of this incident, if the news is leaked, it is equivalent to the enemy.

"Speed ​​16.7 kilometers per second! Reach the third cosmic speed! 290,000 kilometers away from Saturn star!"

The feedback from the fleet is very encouraging. This is the highest speed human aircraft has reached so far.

If you keep flying towards the outside of the solar system, you will eventually leave the familiar solar system, and perhaps reach a new galaxy in hundreds of millions of years.

"Keep the speed, start the track change program!"

"Yes!"

The position of the fleet at this time was already equivalent to the distance between the Moon and Saturn, but the direction was different and there was no encounter.

Next, the fleet needs to adjust its direction while maintaining its speed, and finally complete the steering in a huge arc orbit, maintain a similar heading with an angle with the asteroid, and complete the landing.

The whole process will last for 10 days.

During this period of time, all interstellar workers only need to complete their work without any problems, and then wait quietly.

Time is fleeting, ten days later.

"The fleet is 14.42 million kilometers away from Saturn and its speed is 17 kilometers per second. The steering has been completed, and the radar has not yet found asteroids!"

The news that the Last Sun Empire received was sent by the Star Fleet more than ten minutes ago.

With a distance of tens of millions of kilometers, the communication delay has exceeded 10 minutes.

Perhaps in people's daily life, 10 minutes is a very short time.

But at the angle of interstellar navigation, especially the orbital docking, an error of even one millisecond can cause a catastrophe.

Therefore, the imperial command center at this time can no longer help too much, and the fleet can only respond according to the situation.

Li Wu has been walking around in the hall, "It stands to reason that the position of the fleet is now within 200,000 kilometers of the asteroid, how come the radar hasn't found it yet?"

Li Guang comforted: "Be safe, don't worry, 200,000 kilometers is still too far, wait, the orbit calculation is correct, you will definitely find out!"

Although science is very rigorous, everyone here is extremely nervous.

Not afraid of ten thousand, just in case, what happened more than ten million kilometers away is not in their grasp at all.

Li Yunpeng never said a word, he knew that nothing would change the outcome now.

Now the Doyang Empire fleet will meet the asteroid in 3.3 hours, and life and death will happen at the moment of the encounter.

It was already noon, but no one had moved the cool breakfast on the table in the hall.

No one left his place in the morning.

No meal, no water, no drink.

Even the toilet has not been visited.

Just to be able to hear the news that the fleet's radar has found asteroids for the first time.