Chapter 488 Pull

Suez area.

Harij Oasis District, Harij Aerospace City.

On 6 tracks with an interval of 10 meters, a huge monster is moving slowly.

Dr. Mikoyan looked at the behemoth in front of him and felt a sense of joy in his heart. This was the super space shuttle he had worked so hard to develop - La.

The full load reaches 32,000 tons, the payload is 15,000 tons, the body weight is 9,600 tons, and the special fuel is 7,400 tons.

This is one of the most violent spacecraft ever created.

Dr. Mikoyan picked up the intercom: "Sit, the space shuttle is about to arrive at the refueling station."

"Copy that, Doctor."

The Ra-space shuttle has a very strange appearance, somewhat similar to Lucia's Buran space shuttle. Its body itself is an airplane, and the payload is on its back.

From the outside, it looks like two space shuttles stacked one on top of the other. The spacecraft above is slightly smaller than the Space Shuttle Ra.

7 minutes later.

The space shuttle entered the refueling station, which is also the processing plant responsible for producing and processing submetallic hydrogen particles, but the processing plant is hidden deep underground.

Liquid oxygen has been injected into the space shuttle's liquid oxygen storage tank.

The injection of submetallic hydrogen particles is not as simple as liquid oxygen.

In order to ensure safety, the temperature must be maintained at minus 180 degrees Celsius throughout the process to ensure the stability of the submetallic hydrogen particles.

The super refrigeration system inside the space shuttle has received the surging power from the nuclear battery and is operating at full capacity.

In order to prevent the submetallic hydrogen particles from sticking together at low temperatures, the surfaces of these submetallic hydrogen particles are coated with a film to ensure that the surface is smooth and non-adhesive.

The container for storing submetallic hydrogen is also specially designed. The entire container is composed of many pipes. Electromagnetic acceleration guide rails and magnetic attraction devices are embedded in these pipes. Submetallic hydrogen is filled in these pipes.

The reason for this design is very simple.

Because submetallic hydrogen is a superconductor, it can be easily ejected through electromagnetic acceleration. If other ejection methods are used, the efficiency, reliability, and adjustability are not as good as electromagnetic ejection.

After an hour and a half of filling, all the submetallic hydrogen particles were finally stuffed into the storage tube.

Dr. Mikoyan immediately picked up the intercom: "Each department will conduct a final inspection immediately."

"receive."

In fact, this kind of inspection is very fast, because the interior of the space shuttle Lahao is densely covered with a large number of biological sensors. Once an abnormality occurs, it will basically not be missed.

In less than ten minutes, the inspection was completed.

"Report, everything in the cryogenic containment system is normal."

Dr. Mikoyan took a deep breath. He knew that it must be launched as soon as possible. Even because of the existence of the ultra-low temperature containment system, submetallic hydrogen could not be stored for more than 300 hours, so it must be done quickly.

He immediately ordered: "Launch immediately."

"Received, start the launch process."

"Warning! Personnel within 1 kilometer of the space shuttle are asked to enter the exclusive bunker immediately."

"The runway is confirmed ready for takeoff."

"It will be sunny with no widespread clouds."

"The launch permission has been obtained from the Space Division..."

Not a moment.

The shuttle enters the runway.

This is an inclined runway with a slightly upward angle, and the runway direction is east-south, in order to take advantage of the angular speed of the earth.

In addition, there are 6 guide rails on the runway. These guide rails are all maglev super-heavy guide rails and electromagnetic catapults. The purpose is to prevent the space shuttle from contacting the ground and reduce the friction caused by contact with the ground.

"The shuttle reaches the electromagnetic acceleration zone."

"Magnetic levitation system starts..."

"The electromagnetic acceleration push plate is connected to the space shuttle..."

The space shuttle Lahao floated slightly up to less than one centimeter, and the six specially designed electromagnetic acceleration thrusters behind it were already stuck on the landing gear of the space shuttle.

"The electromagnetic acceleration system starts..."

The base's huge nuclear power was quickly injected into the electromagnetic acceleration thruster.

Driven by six ultra-large electromagnetic accelerators and being in a state of magnetic levitation, the Space Shuttle Ra soon started speeding on the runway.

This 12-kilometer-long electromagnetic acceleration rail will increase the take-off speed of the space shuttle to about 1.5 kilometers per second, which is about four times the speed of sound.

On the wings of the space shuttle, a large number of micro-fins also began to adjust continuously to make full use of air lift.

Although it is not as abnormal as the Phoenix passenger aircraft and Jinpeng transport aircraft, this can at least increase the lift by about 11% to 13%.

The 12 kilometers of guide rail is neither long nor short.

For the space shuttle, which is getting faster and faster, it soon reaches the end.

The space shuttle soared into the sky from a 33-degree slope.

At the moment of exiting the ramp, the shuttle's autopilot system ejected the first burst of submetallic hydrogen particles.

The explosion chamber has been heated to hundreds of degrees Celsius.

When submetallic hydrogen and liquid oxygen are sprayed in, a chain reaction is triggered instantly.

boom!

In an instant, energy equivalent to 260 tons of TNT was released.

However, this explosion is not the end, but the beginning.

Boom boom boom...

A steady stream of submetallic hydrogen particles and liquid oxygen are sprayed into the four detonation engines.

The terrifying explosion shock wave made the space shuttle faster and faster. Coupled with the adjustment of the lift direction of the wings, the space shuttle began to surge towards the Kármán line at an angle of 48 degrees.

It took about 57 seconds for the space shuttle La to break through the Karman line.

This behemoth, weighing more than 20,000 tons, broke out of the Karman Line under the watchful eyes of the whole world.

The space shuttle La did not separate from the space shuttle Lieyang on its back at this time, but continued to carry the space shuttle Lieyang.

It was not until they arrived at the Homo sapiens space station in an orbit of 1,500 kilometers that they separated from the space shuttle Lieyang, and then the space shuttle La turned around and returned to Earth.

This is the scary thing about the super shuttle.

To be precise, it is submetallic hydrogen.

Without submetallic hydrogen as fuel, such a huge payload cannot be pushed into outer space, let alone have enough energy to return to Earth on its own.

At this time, there is still about 27.3% of the fuel remaining in the Ra. This amount of fuel is enough for it to slow down and brake on its own when re-entering the atmosphere.

However, for this launch mission, the Space Division also arranged an additional space mission for the space shuttle Ra.

That is to go to the No. 3 Space Garbage Station in low-Earth orbit and bring a batch of scrapped satellites and previously collected space garbage back to Earth.

These scrapped satellites include those of the Homo sapiens company itself, as well as those of Lucia, America, Europa Consortium and other forces.

For example, some of the hundreds of scrapped communication satellites of the Space Exploration Company were gathered into an area by space recycling satellites and then compressed into squares.

Now the space shuttle Ra will bring these things back to Earth.

Although it is a scrapped satellite, it contains many rare metals and radioactive materials and must be properly disposed of.

Soon the space shuttle Ra arrived at Space Junk Station No. 3.

With the help of the large space junk recovery satellite, dozens of tons of space junk were stuffed into the built-in transport cabin, fixed and counterweighted.

Then the space shuttle Ra started its engine again from a position of 420 kilometers in low-Earth orbit.

However, this time when starting the engine, it is just a slight acceleration. It does not need to be too fast. After all, this is re-entering the atmosphere, and the earth's gravity and gravity will help accelerate.

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