Eight Hundred and Sixty-Three: Race Against Time (2)
However, whether or not you have confidence is one thing, and whether or not you work hard is another. After all, the giant ants cannot threaten the survival of mankind for the time being, but Jupiter is the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of mankind!
Aliens threaten all mankind, not China alone. Naturally, resisting the threat of aliens cannot rely solely on China, but requires the joint efforts of all mankind-the Mars plan is currently the only plan that may successfully intercept Jupiter. What if the Americans are willing to join?
Although the Americans have not expressed their opinions, since Beidu passed the plan, Beiyuezhou has stopped all work that can be stopped, and everyone's energy has been put on the Mars plan.
However, the Mars plan has just been released, and the corresponding design plan still needs time. Without drawings, construction cannot be carried out. Therefore, Beiyuezhou's industrial team is fully preparing materials. As long as the drawings are in place, construction can start immediately. The military industry department even took a rare holiday, the only purpose is to let the employees have enough energy.
At the same time, the design department is busy and works overtime to design the drawings as required by the plan. However, design is not a one-time thing. The design institute needs enough time to sort out the design drawings to avoid leaving design risks that should not exist.
But it takes too long to design from scratch, and the time limit given by the military is too short. It is impossible to complete the design in a conventional way. The only way is to modify the existing mature ship type!
The design drawings of several active space warships are all from the design institute. The designers are very familiar with several types of warships, but it is not so easy to change the design drawings into the structure required by the military.
On June 4, 2027, after fully referring to opinions from all parties, the US President signed the cooperation plan for the Mars plan.
When signing, there were only two staff members and a secretary around him, but the wartime state gave the president great power, and the relevant departments immediately communicated with China on the implementation of the Mars plan.
In the next few days, the member states of the base group signed and passed the Mars plan one after another. On June 7, the last member state of the base group signed the cooperation plan. Since then, the Mars plan has entered the stage of international cooperation, and this day has been designated as the anniversary of the Mars plan by later generations.
On June 10, 2027, the first engineering ship of the Mars plan started construction at the Beiyuezhou orbital factory.
This is an engineering ship used for preliminary preparations, planned for the exploration and preliminary construction of Phobos and Deimos. In order to save time, this warship was not newly built, but directly modified on a 026-class warship that was mostly completed!
Nearly a thousand engineers from the Beiyuezhou Base and the International Base participated in the modification work. They were divided into three groups and worked 24 hours a day to complete the modification in the shortest time.
The industrial system on the ground produced the equipment needed for the modification piece by piece and sent it to the orbital factory.
It is not enough to have a spacecraft, but there must be someone to operate the spacecraft!
The military is not short of combatants, but exploration satellites require sufficient professional knowledge, and most military personnel do not have the basic conditions.
However, due to historical reasons, the military has always retained some special forces, including professional exploration forces, and Beidu selected the most suitable people at the fastest speed.
However, most of these people work on the ground, and basically no one has been to space. If you want to send them out, you must undergo a period of aerospace training!
This is a life-threatening situation. Even if the training courses are reduced to the minimum, it will take a year or so, and the training cannot be completed before the spacecraft departs!
This worried Beidu so much that Beidu had no choice but to send everyone to Beiyuezhou. Those with good performance were transferred to the fleet, and at most two more people were sent to assist when performing missions.
If they cannot adapt to the space environment, they can only be sent back to Earth.
Talents in geology are relatively simple, at least they can be solved within the military, but it is not so easy to find suitable people in astronomy, and they can only find suitable people from the astronomy community.
The military has also opened space majors in military academies in recent years, but the first batch of students has not graduated yet.
Besides, the focus of these students is not stellar research.
After the news spread, the entire astronomy community exploded, from graduate students in their early twenties to old professors in their seventies and eighties, everyone signed up enthusiastically, wishing to sign up on the first day and set off on the ship the next day!
Doing astronomy is very monotonous, and you even have to be able to endure loneliness, but astronomers have a romantic heart!
An old professor said it well: "I have been doing astronomy all my life, but I have never even left the Earth. I finally waited for such an opportunity to see Mars with my own eyes. I will die with my eyes closed!"
There are many astronomers who hold this attitude. Since Beidu developed Beiyuezhou, the astronomical community has always hoped to take advantage of this favorable wind to rise straight up. However, the development of Beiyuezhou is to fight against aliens. Military must be the first priority at all times. The wish of the astronomical community has never been realized.
Now that there is such an opportunity, how can everyone not be enthusiastic?
However, the astronomical community also has the problem of insufficient training time. There are several suitable candidates among the astronauts before the development of Beiyuezhou, but these people are professional talents in short supply in the military. They are currently serving in senior positions in the fleet. Everyone has a job in hand. Sending any of them out is a loss for the military.
In desperation, the military can only select the best physique from the qualified people and send them to Beiyuezhou, continuing to raise the tallest among the short ones.
The selected ones were all jubilant, while the unsuccessful ones were all dejected. A group of old professors and experts were so angry that they almost went to Zhongnanhai collectively. Before the aliens came, astronomy was an unpopular profession. After the aliens appeared, astronomy received due attention. These old people said that they were definitely not joking when they said they would go to Zhongnanhai. They went straight to the boss, and the boss had to appease him.
Amid the chaos, the preparations were finally on track.
On June 18, 2027, the design of the first super nuclear-powered engine was finalized, and the keel was laid at the Beiyuezhou Orbital Factory.
In order to shorten the design time, this engine uses mature large-scale nuclear-powered engine technology, arranging hundreds of single engines into a thruster array. When all engines work at the same time, it is not a problem to push a mass of 100,000 tons.
Even if some of the engines are damaged, at most they will lose a little acceleration - don't think that you just need to pile up a large number of engines. The more engines are arranged, the higher the requirements for the energy supply pipeline, fuel release system and control system. It also involves the design of the fuel tank. The number, size and location of the fuel tanks need to be reasonably designed. It is definitely not a simple stacking of engines.
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