It will take less than two years for the Hope 2 spacecraft to fly from Elysium to beyond the orbit of Pluto. After arriving at the predetermined location, the spacecraft will "smuggle" these cargo boxes into the orbit of Pluto by throwing boxes, so that they can be received by Fuxing Transportation's spacecraft.
Han Yang was already very skilled at this trick.
The vastness of interstellar space is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
If the sun is reduced to the size of a basketball, then the earth is equivalent to a grain of gravel with a diameter of more than 2 millimeters 25 meters away, Pluto is equivalent to a grain of dust with a diameter of 0.4 millimeters 1,000 meters away, and jade is equivalent to a grain of dust 1000 meters away. The star is approximately equivalent to a grain of dust with a diameter of 0.3 mm that is more than 40 kilometers away.
Imagine that there is only a basketball and a few grains of dust in the vast space. The distance between them is often hundreds of meters and kilometers, and there is nothing else. In such a vast space, there are occasionally a few grains bigger than dust. How can you detect something that is countless times smaller passing through it?
Even the Eta people cannot tightly monitor the entire solar system. That's not realistic.
So Han Yang was not worried about his cargo box being discovered by the Eta people. How bad does it have to be?
Besides, Han Yang is not afraid even if he is discovered. Because there are no signs in these boxes, and after the orbit is disrupted, the Eta people cannot use orbital pushback to point the target to Ephesus.
Everything is foolproof.
After controlling the Hope 2 spacecraft to take off, Han Yang did not continue to allocate much energy to it.
His main focus is still on the construction of the Jade God Base.
Time slipped away bit by bit. On this day, Han Yang's hidden monitor on the surface of Jade God sent him a piece of data.
These data made Han Yang feel a little more solemn.
Data shows that the temperature on the surface of Jade God has increased by about 0.06 degrees Celsius compared to before its arrival. Also, in the near-Earth space of Jade Star, the particle density increased by about 0.7%.
A temperature difference of 0.06 degrees Celsius and a 0.7% increase in particle density are not enough to cause any macroscopic changes in properties. But this was still enough to make Han Yang wary.
Because this is very much due to the changes brought about by the existence of the Jade God Base.
The changes are so small now that they are not noticeable, but what if this situation continues to worsen and eventually causes larger changes that are detected by the Eta telescopes?
"No, this trend must be curbed."
Han Yang secretly made up his mind.
After some careful calculations, Han Yang quickly found a solution.
"The first is heat dissipation. We can no longer allow the waste heat from the Jade God Base to naturally escape to the outside space. Active waste heat treatment must be carried out.
The second is exhaust gas. Even after treatment, the exhaust gas can no longer be discharged at will, and it cannot cause changes in the density and structure of particles in the near-Earth space of Jade Star. "
Under Han Yang's control, some robots and engineering forces were immediately separated and invested in a project that Han Yang called "the most stringent environmental protection measures in history."
Han Yang once again started large-scale tunnel excavation activities around the Jade God Base and underground.
Using a specially developed small excavation equipment, Han Yang dug out countless small passages with a diameter of only one decimeter and laid pipes in them.
These pipelines go deep into the underground or cliff walls of Jade God, and the longest ones extend dozens of kilometers away. In the pipes, Han Yang poured special refrigerant into the pipes, allowing it to flow in the pipes.
In this way, the heat from the Jade Star Base is continuously transported to the underground rock formations of the Jade Star, effectively reducing the temperature of the Jade Star Base, and at the same time reducing the amount of heat that escapes from the Jade Star Base to the surface of the Jade Star. The temperature of the space.
The rock formations that make up Ephemera have a large specific heat capacity. According to Han Yang's estimation, ten years of operation of a Jade Star base of this size would not be enough to raise the temperature of the Jade Star rock formations within the heat dissipation range by 0.1 degrees Celsius.
Even if they heat up, it will take a long time for the temperature to spread to the surface. By the time this process is completed, he might have already left the Jade Star, so there is no need to worry at all.
As for the waste gas generated by the Jade God Base, Han Yang no longer discharges it. Instead, through this cooling measure, it is directly frozen into a solid and then discarded together with other waste in the mine or deeper in the canyon, so as to avoid In order to change the "atmosphere" structure of Jade God.
Everything is done with the highest purpose of "never causing any changes to the surface environment of Jade God".
After solving the environmental protection-related issues, Han Yang recovered the corresponding computing power and once again invested in aerospace technology research and development.
At the R&D center, a thing with a mass of about 500 kilograms and a shape like an irregular box was quietly placed in a huge factory building.
Seven or eight robotic arms are busy on it, performing various extremely delicate operations.
After the last process was completed, a transport robot came over, carefully picked it up, placed it on its trailer, and then dragged it towards the launch site.
The launch site is located in another corner of the canyon. That's also covered by a lid, but the top can be opened and closed. At this moment, a small landing spacecraft came out of the camouflage shed, hoisted the strange-looking thing through the opening, and flew into space about 100 kilometers away from the surface of the Jade God.
Here, the landing spacecraft gives this thing a speed of more than 600 meters per second. So it stayed in the orbit of Jade Star and never fell down again.
After completing all this, Han Yang solemnly issued an order.
"The 1102nd ion propulsion experiment begins."
Under the power of the energy battery, the new generation ion thruster that Han Yang had made by himself after painstaking research and development began to work and ejected a faint red light.
The red light is extremely weak, and even with the pure space as the background, one needs to be very careful to see it.
After the ion thruster started working, various precision equipment in the box also began to closely monitor its operating status and effects.
One day and one night later, the corresponding monitoring data was transmitted back to Han Yang's brain. At this moment, Han Yang's spirit suddenly lifted.
Han Yang saw that after a day and a night of pushing, the orbit of the test equipment had been pushed up by about two millimeters.
Where does the motivation come from?
Obviously it can only be the ion thruster!
After several years of hard research and development, seven major changes, and thirteen redesigns, Han Yang observed macro-level thrust for the first time on the ion thruster he made!
This can almost be regarded as a breakthrough from zero to one.
(End of chapter)
