Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Chapter 800: A Magpie Bridge to the Moon

Since the unnamed armed attack on the biosphere a, part of the experimental data has been destroyed, the entire spark programme has stalled.

Although no research institute had thus terminated its cooperation with the Spark Programme, for security reasons, a number of experts from foreign research institutes were already considering withdrawing from the relevant research.

Currently, project researchers have been transferred to the Institute of Space Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and restoration of the biosphere a has begun. The local forces have increased the level of security in the immediate vicinity, but even then the losses that have already occurred are irreparable.

Nearly half a year of hard work was torched, watching the spark plan stalemate, Professor Hu Yang, the head of the project, has suffered a lot over this period of time, and the whole person has lost more than one lap.

Though no one blames him for it, sometimes people feel the most sad about it.

Therefore, after receiving Professor Lu's telephone call and hearing him have important information about the spark plan to tell himself, he immediately set out from Shangjing to Jinling.

After a roundabout, he finally saw the ark calling at the director's office of the Jinling Institute of Higher Studies.

“That's what I'm going to give you," he took a mobile hard disk out of the drawer, walked to the canoe sitting on the couch in front of the coffee table, reached over and turned it to Professor Hu sitting across the street, solemnly said, "I hope you can make the best use of the data. ”

Looking at the moving hard drive in front of him, Hu Yang slightly hesitated, some doubts asked: "… is this? ”

“Information from Mars. ”

The office was quiet for a moment and a half.

He swallowed a spit and Professor Hu burst out of his mouth with difficulty.

“Is this thing... legal? ”

Hearing this interesting statement, the Ark laughed and said.

“It depends on how you use it. It's definitely not working. It's probably not working on the table or with foreign experts, but anything else you can think of is probably legal. ”

After hesitating for a while, Huyang eventually reached out to get the moving hard drive, but after a slight pull, he found that the ark had not let go.

Lifting his head, Professor Hu Yang threw his gaze at the ark for questioning.

Looking at Professor Hu, the Ark said in a serious tone: “Think about it, take this information, maybe you'll be on the CIA list in the future. ”

Hu Yang slightly stunned and smiled. “Come on, isn't that right now? ”

When the Chinese nation similarly demonstrated its ambition to colonize space, the spark plan was already doomed. And as the head of the entire spark program, he was probably targeted from the beginning.

Go ahead, he brought the file.

This time the ark did not shake and let go.

After a glance at the moving hard drive in his hand, Professor Hu Yang paused and suddenly said, "When the spark project is complete, our footprints will trample the entire solar system. ”

After hearing this, the Ark smiled and replied: "Don't say it's the solar system, it's probably farther away, and it's not talking. ”

It's just, I don't know, how many years from now.

……

Immediately after returning to Beijing with the data provided by the landing craft, Hu Yang contacted several key researchers previously in the Spark Project and established an independent research team to begin research on these valuable experimental data.

Meanwhile, the Summer Light, thousands of kilometres away, has successfully entered its orbit back to Earth from Mars. By that point, the entire rescue operation had largely gone unmistakable, and discussions on the matter on the Internet had slowly subsided.

When the astronauts return to Earth, CCTV will do another interview, but these are the things to come...

Not to mention the distant things that have happened on Earth just a month and a half since the Xia Guang departed for Mars.

While NASA was pushing ahead with Ares and Deep Space Gate, there was no leisure time on China's side. Neither astral technology nor the Moon Orbital Construction Commission have stopped exploring the resources of the Moon.

With the completion of the first phase of the Lunar Palace project and the official emplacement of the six astronauts, the tentacles of human civilization finally reached this desolate soil in their true sense.

The high-altitude space station, like the port of Cape Verde, guides people from the old world to the new world. Perhaps 10, maybe 20 years, people who look up to the stars will witness the prosperity of this place in countless rounds of sunsets...

Of course, that's not the most exciting thing.

After countless days and months of design and practice, the “Earth Moon Transfer Orbital Transport System” proposed by Lu Designer finally moved from the drawing to reality.

The first spacecraft of the "Earth Moon Transfer Orbit Transport System” was named "Magpie Bridge” after consulting with netizens.

The whole design idea of the Magpie Bridge is similar to that of the Xiangrui. It is the single propulsion behind the engine, and the speed difference of each engine is used to achieve the control of the propulsion direction. The only difference is that the electrical propulsion system was reduced from five propellers to four new models of propellers, and the model was changed from a long-shaped, fluid-dynamically compatible, rectangular body, and the wing design was removed.

If it used to be like an aircraft, it is now more like a ship, going straight to and from the Earth's moon system.

With the “groundwater” of the Magpie Bridge and its introduction into near-Earth orbit by the Long March IX heavy rocket, the Moon Orbit Construction Commission has once again increased its capacity to carry the Earth Moon Transfer Orbit by a new order of magnitude.

Subsequent shipments from near-Earth orbit to the Moon orbit will be accomplished by this electrically propelled spacecraft, designed specifically for outer space navigation. And the Magpie Bridge, equipped with the cargo compartment, has reached a horrific figure of 500-750 tons per transport capacity for the ground moon transfer orbit, while ensuring transport efficiency!

At present, the Moon Orbit Construction Committee is considering the rental of a nodal module from the International Space Station for the installation of a cargo module for "transit material”.

If that cooperation could be negotiated, the International Space Station would become a material transfer station from near-Earth orbit to Earth moon transfer orbit.

If anything needs to be sent from Earth to the Moon from now on, just send it here by a small rocket or other spacecraft and then take it away at once by the Magpie Bridge.

In this way, even spacefaring enterprises that do not possess large-scale rocket launch technology will be able to participate in the construction of the Moon orbit!

The high-thrust propulsion system will no longer be the threshold for moving to Earth's moon orbit, but the most difficult part of the journey to the moon will be borne by the star tech "giant ship”.

Perhaps not even the ship itself realized that the prototype of an interplanetary transport company was being built.

Nor would anyone have thought that the dream that Musk had when it founded Space-X was slowly becoming a reality on the other side of the Pacific Ocean in another form…