Eight Hundred and Sixtieth Chapters Race Against Time (2)

However, it is one thing to have confidence, and another to work hard. After all, giant ants cannot threaten the survival of human beings for the time being, but Io is the sword of Damocles hanging high above human heads!

Aliens are a threat to all mankind, not the Chinese family. Naturally, resisting the threat of aliens cannot rely solely on China, but requires the joint efforts of all mankind. The Mars project is currently the only one that may successfully intercept Jupiter. plan, what if the Americans are willing to join?

Although the Americans have not expressed their position, since Beidu passed the plan, Beiyuezhou stopped all the work that could be stopped, and everyone focused on the Mars plan.

However, the Mars project has just been released, and the corresponding design plan still needs time, and construction cannot be carried out without drawings. Therefore, the industrial team of Beiyuezhou spares no effort to prepare materials. As long as the drawings are in place, construction can start immediately. The purpose is to let employees raise their spirits.

At the same time, the design department was in full swing, working overtime according to the requirements of the plan to rush to design the drawings, but the design is not a one-off thing, the design institute needs enough time to sort out the design drawings, so as not to leave unnecessary hidden dangers in the design.

However, it takes too long to design from scratch, and the design 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 refit the existing mature ship type!

The design drawings of several active space warships come 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, the President of the United States signed the cooperation plan for the Mars program after fully considering the opinions of various parties.

When signing, he had only two staff members and one secretary by his side, but the wartime situation gave the president great power, and the relevant departments immediately communicated with the Chinese side on the implementation of the Mars plan.

In the next few days, the various member states of the base group signed and passed the Mars plan one after another. On June 7, the last member of the base group signed the cooperation plan. Since then, the Mars plan has entered the stage of international cooperation, and this day has also been Later generations set it as the Mars Project Anniversary Day.

On June 10, 2027, the first engineering ship of the Mars Project started construction at the Beiyuezhou orbital factory.

This is an engineering ship used for preliminary preparations, and it is planned to be used for the exploration and preliminary construction of Phobos and Deimos. In order to save time, this battleship is not newly built, but directly refitted on a half-completed 026-class battleship!

Nearly a thousand engineers from Beiyuezhou Base and International Base participated in the modification work. They were divided into three groups and worked 24 hours a day, trying to complete the modification in the shortest possible time.

The industrial system on the ground produces the equipment needed for modification piece by piece and sends them to the track factory.

It is not enough just to have a spaceship, but there must also be people who operate the spaceship!

The military has no shortage of combatants, but satellite exploration requires sufficient professional knowledge, and the vast majority of military personnel do not have the basic qualifications.

However, due to historical reasons, the military has always retained some special units, including professional exploration units, and Beijing will select the most suitable people as quickly as possible.

However, most of these people work on the ground, and almost no one has ever been in space. If you want to send them out, you must undergo a period of aerospace training!

This is fatal, even if the training course is reduced to the minimum, it will take a year and a half, and the training cannot be completed before the spacecraft departs!

This is a worry for Beidu. In desperation, Beidu simply sent all the people to Beiyue Continent, transferred to the fleet if they performed well, and sent two more people to assist when performing tasks.

If it cannot adapt to the space environment, it 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 choose talents in astronomy. We can only find suitable personnel from the heavens.

The military has also opened space majors in military academies over the years, but the first batch of students have not yet graduated, and besides, the focus of these students is not on astral research.

After the news spread, the entire Heaven Realm exploded. From graduate students in their early twenties to professors in their seventies and eighties, everyone signed up enthusiastically. They couldn't wait to sign up on the first day and set off with the boat the next day!

Engaging in astronomy is very monotonous, and one must endure loneliness, but those who engage in astronomy have a romantic heart!

An old professor said it well: "I have been engaged in astronomy all my life, but I have never even been out of the earth. I finally waited for such an opportunity to see Mars with my own eyes. I will die in peace!"

There are still many astronomy people who hold this attitude. Since the development of Beiyue Continent in Beidu, the astronomy community has always hoped to take advantage of this shareholder wind to skyrocket. However, the development of Beiyue Continent is to fight against aliens, and military must be used at any time. As the first priority, the wish of the heaven has not been realized.

Now that there is such an opportunity, how can everyone not be enthusiastic?

However, there is also a problem of insufficient training time in the astronomy community. There are a few suitable candidates among the astronauts before the development of Beiyuezhou, but these people are all professionals in short supply in the military. They are currently holding senior positions in the fleet. There is a lot of work in hand, and it is a loss for the military to send any one of them out.

In desperation, the military could only select those with the best physique from among the qualified people and send them to Beiyue Continent, and continue to make themselves taller among the dwarfs.

Those who were selected were all elated, and those who were not selected were all downcast. A group of old professors and experts stared at each other, and they almost came to Zhongnanhai together—before the aliens came, astronomy was an unpopular profession. They have received due attention, and this group of old people said that they went to Zhongnanhai is definitely not a joke, they went straight to Brother Yi, and Brother Yi had to comfort him.

Amidst the chaos, preparations were finally on the right track.

On June 18, 2027, the design of the first super nuclear power engine was finalized, and the keel was laid at the Beiyuezhou Track Factory.

In order to shorten the design time, this engine adopts mature large-scale nuclear power engine technology, and hundreds of single engines are arranged in a propeller 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 it will lose a little acceleration—don’t think that you only need to pile up a large number of engines. When it comes to the design of fuel tanks, the number, size and location of fuel tanks need to be designed reasonably, not simply stacking engines.