Chapter 252 Aerospace Carrier, Human One

When the population increases in the future, the scientific research population will also increase. A scientific research population of hundreds of millions, even billions, or billions, coupled with Han Yang's participation, will provide efficient organizational capabilities, and internal friction will be reduced to The lowest, the communication cost is reduced to the lowest, and the overall efficiency is improved to the highest. Even Han Yang can't imagine how huge the development potential of such a civilization will be, and how rapid the technological progress will be.

At that time, the powerful scientific research power of human civilization will be fed back to itself, giving it greater computing power and a fleet with stronger combat effectiveness, allowing it to expand its horizons into a wider space...

Human civilization and its own glorious future have been presented to Han Yang.

However, at this stage, we still need to be down-to-earth.

Han Yang thought about the future and once again devoted his computing power to almost endless scientific research and industrial construction.

With the joint efforts of the Eta people, human scientists, and Han Yang, the first space carrier owned by human civilization was finally built.

Compared with the large mother ships that existed in the fleet in the past, the space carrier has a higher-level positioning.

It is specially developed for interstellar ultra-long-distance voyages of large quantities of cargo.

It is a truly interstellar spacecraft.

At this moment, the Humanity No. 1 Space Carrier appeared in front of Han Yang, with a length of 16 kilometers, and both the widest and highest points were 3 kilometers.

It consists of a cylindrical core cabin with a diameter of about 800 meters, and a total of 500 smaller cylinders extending from the core cabin, with a diameter of about 40 meters and a length of about 1.1 kilometers.

Overall, it looks like a mace.

The unladen total mass of this mace is as high as 260 million tons. When fully loaded with cargo, consumables and supplies, the total mass will climb to about 500 million tons.

The fuel loaded on it can support it to accelerate and decelerate at 40% of the speed of light a total of four times, and support inertial navigation consumption for more than 100 years.

That is to say, starting from the solar system, accelerating to 40% of the speed of light, arriving at another star system, such as the nearest star system, then decelerating from 40% of the speed of light to zero, then accelerating back to the solar system, and then decelerating to zero. If such a voyage is taken as one time, it can be executed completely once.

Of course, usually it will be replenished after arriving at a destination. Excess fuel and supplies are used as redundancy.

As an indispensable vehicle for large-scale interstellar navigation, and an indispensable important equipment for interstellar warfare and large-scale interstellar trade, transportation, and development, Han Yang has invested a lot of energy in the research and development of the space carrier. and hard work.

At this moment, in Neptune Port, the Humanity Space Carrier No. 1 is fully loaded.

Its core cabin is already filled with various supplies and materials that require special environment storage. There are many smaller cylinders, or iron rods, extending out from its body, and warehouses have been fixed one after another on them.

Its total mass has reached the design upper limit of 500 million tons.

"Then... let's go to the Nanmen II Galaxy to truly verify the interstellar super-heavy spacecraft technology I have mastered at the moment..."

With the blessing of Han Yang and millions of humans and ETA scientists, 500 high-power ion thrusters at the rear of the Humanity 1 space carrier and more than 10,000 auxiliary engines equipped on the hull simultaneously ejected A bright light appeared, pushing it forward slowly.

Under full power propulsion, its acceleration will reach 1 meter per square second.

Under this acceleration, it will take 3.8 years to accelerate to a maximum speed of 40% of the speed of light, then inertially sail for 6.7 years, and then take another 3.8 years to decelerate to a low speed of more than ten kilometers per second, and then dock in the South On the orbit of a planet in the Gate 2 galaxy, the interstellar voyage was finally completed.

It took a total of 14.3 years.

After that, the numerous mechanical equipment and materials loaded on it will be transported to that planet, and material exploration and related research will be carried out on that planet, as well as tasks such as mineral collection, fuel and material replenishment.

After staying there for about 5 months, it will start accelerating again and return to the solar system, taking another 14.3 years to return.

Coming and going, including the time spent in between, it took a total of about 29 years.

In the vast space, the figure of the huge Humanity Space Carrier No. 1 gradually faded away, and finally disappeared completely. The first interstellar voyage in the history of human civilization has begun.

According to Han Yang's previous theoretical calculations, a triple star system consisting of a red dwarf and two yellow dwarfs, like the Nanmen Galaxy, should contain some special and highly valuable minerals. substance.

Mining it back will help the development of human civilization.

But this is not actually the main reason why Han Yang embarked on this interstellar voyage.

The main reason is that Han Yang needs to actually conduct an interstellar voyage to test and verify the technology in his hands.

After all, after truly entering the interstellar era, if you want to enter the universe on a large scale, this kind of heavy-duty long-range transportation technology is indispensable.

At the same time, Han Yang also broke the normal development routine.

Under normal circumstances, to verify interstellar voyage technology, one would first launch a few detectors, then send a few small spacecraft that do not need to be recovered, then a cargo ship, step by step, and finally a space carrier.

Han Yang, however, went all the way in one step, skipping all the previous steps and going straight to the last step.

There was no way. In the early stage, all of Han Yang's energy was involved in the cause of liberating the solar system, and there was really no spare computing power to develop interstellar navigation-related technologies.

However, the relevant technical theoretical reserves have been completed.

Just like the high-efficiency ion thrusters used by warships, they can be used on aerospace carriers with a modification.

This only involves some application-level research at most, not basic theory, and the difficulty is not high.

In other words, Han Yang had the technical ability to develop large-scale interstellar navigation very early, but he never did it.

Now that the conditions are in place, time is too tight, and there are too many risks and crises full of uncertainty outside, he really can't take it step by step, so he can only do it in one step like this, directly verifying the final level of technology.

Time passed slowly. Soon, the speed of the Human No. 1 aerospace carrier increased to about 31,500 kilometers per second, and a total distance of about 500 billion kilometers was sailed.

Before this, the farthest voyage Han Yang had ever made was only about 270 billion kilometers.

However, the scene at 500 billion kilometers is actually similar to that at 270 billion kilometers, which is the same emptiness, vastness, coldness and nothingness.

Within the territory of the solar system, the farther away from the sun, the thinner the material density.

From the inside to the outside, the entire solar system consists of four rocky planets, the asteroid belt, four gaseous planets, then the Kuiper belt, and the ecliptic scattered disk.

But even the ecliptic scattered disk is only a few hundred billion kilometers away from the sun at most.

From outside the ecliptic scattered disk to the true boundary of the solar system, the distance of up to trillions of kilometers belongs to one area, the Oort Cloud.

The Oort Cloud is similar to the Kuiper Belt, both of which are composed of a large number of frozen small celestial bodies. But the Oort Cloud is more sparse and has a wider territory.

Its farthest point extends to about one light year from the sun, which is about 9.2 trillion kilometers.

That is the real boundary of the solar system. Because the movement of celestial bodies beyond this place is no longer controlled by the sun and no longer revolves around the sun.

In the vast void, the Human Spacecraft No. 1 has been accelerating.

3.8 years after departure, the main engine and auxiliary engine of the Human Spacecraft No. 1 were shut down, no longer accelerating, and truly entered the inertial navigation state.

Its speed has reached 40% of the speed of light, which is about 120,000 kilometers per second.

From this moment on, unless it is disturbed by the gravity of other celestial bodies in the universe, or encounters an impact with an interstellar dust cloud that causes the route to deviate and needs to adjust the orbit, these engines will not start again.

At this time, the Human Spacecraft No. 1 is about 7.18 trillion kilometers away from the sun, still less than one light year.

About three months later, the Human Spacecraft No. 1 passed through the outer layer of the Oort Cloud and left the solar system for the first time in the history of civilization.

The brightness of the sun seen from here has been reduced to only -2.8, which is about the same as the brightness of Jupiter seen from Earth.

It is still a bright star, even quite bright, but it is just an ordinary one among the thousands of stars in the vast universe.

But such an ordinary star is the master of almost all the stars in the Oort Cloud.

If there are lives on the stars here, then unless technology has developed to a certain level, otherwise, they should never have thought that the planet they live on is actually orbiting such an ordinary star in the vast universe.

At this moment, even Han Yang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"At this stage, I have just left the solar system, just like humans have just left home, but it is so far away.

And the small solar system, compared to the Milky Way, no, just compared to the Orion Arm, what is it?

The small Milky Way, compared to the vast universe, what is it?

This universe is really too vast... How many secrets and wonders are hidden in such a vast universe?

But... one day, I will lead human civilization to the peak of civilization and have the ability to overlook the vastness and wonders of the entire universe."

Han Yang secretly made up his mind.

Now more than four years have passed since the departure of the Human No. 1 Aerospace Carrier. During this process, Han Yang kept an eye on its status through various monitoring and control equipment installed on Human No. 1.

Based on these data, Han Yang designed a second aerospace carrier, Human No. 2, with more advanced technology, more reasonable structure and higher efficiency after some transformation and optimization, and launched it again.

After that, it was Human 3, 4, 5…

Human 1 had not yet reached the Nanmen II system, but six more aerospace motherships had already set off, which meant that Han Yang had seven different samples to verify the interstellar ultra-long-range ultra-heavy spacecraft-related technologies.