Chapter 946 It's Like Making a Movie

At the end of the one-week visit, the international friends invited by Xinghuan Trading began to return home.

The long carriage runs from the edge of the star ring to the central track, and begins to fall down the long and narrow elevator track. And almost at the same time, at the other end of the main axis of the star ring, a faint blue arc flickered for a moment, and a black spot was thrown into the vast and boundless universe...

"call."

Heaving a sigh of relief, the pilot moved his stiff fingers, and his right hand holding the joystick slightly moved his thumb to turn off the breathing assistance.

The feeling of electromagnetic acceleration is terrible. Although I have been injected with medicines to strengthen my physical fitness and have undergone anti-stress training, if there is no breathing aid and decompression cockpit, the acceleration close to 12G and the acceleration time of more than one minute can still pass the time. The last breath of air was squeezed out of his chest cavity.

Stretching his stiff neck, Liu Qingpeng opened the dial on the holographic helmet.

Six months ago, he immigrated to Xinguo through Xinguo's aerospace volunteer immigration policy. Originally, he only planned to stay for two or three years and then change his job as an electrician. Became the pilot of the Stingray P-1.

The plan was half a month in advance, but it had no effect on him. Although it was his first flight mission, his performance was quite calm. After all, he had already spent countless hours flying in virtual reality. Now even with your eyes closed, you can drive this aerospace plane to the Bennu asteroid.

There is no reference object for navigating in the starry sky. Even if he is away from the earth at a speed of 7.2 kilometers per second, he cannot distinguish any change in the starry sky ahead with his naked eyes.

Pointing to the operation panel, Liu Qingpeng turned on the voice control system.

"Turn on the mission beacon."

The signal light on the side of the helmet flickered slightly, and an asteroid made of three-dimensional lines appeared in the field of vision directly in front of him, and a line was drawn above the asteroid, marking the word "Bennu".

Immediately afterwards, a pale yellow path appeared in the field of view, drawing a slightly curved arc, pointing from the cockpit 1 of Stingray P-1 to the position of the asteroid.

"The route is set."

"The plasma engine output power is 40%."

"go ahead!"

In the deep and dark starry sky, the tail of Stingray P-1 swayed layers of faint blue light particles,

It turned into an arrow that left the string and galloped away.

...

In the ground command center, a man and a woman stood in front of a large screen, watching the real-time video sent back from more than 400,000 kilometers away.

Outside the atmosphere, speed and distance are always just monotonous characters. If the figure of several hundred thousand kilometers were put back on the earth, this would be enough length to circle the equator ten times. However, for the Stingray X-1 series spacecraft cruising at a high speed of 20 kilometers per second, the flight time is less than half of the civil aviation flight from Shanghai to California.

After hearing that the first mining spacecraft had arrived, Jiang Chen came to the space launch center.

Out of curiosity, Xia Shiyu also followed.

In the picture, the Stingray P-1, which had already decelerated, turned off its engine, and slowly approached the asteroid intertwined by graphene cables relying on inertia.

The electric ray that unfolded the mining module was like a water spider, with blue light blades popping out from the ends of the first two mechanical arms. That is not a laser knife, but an ion jet with a temperature of tens of thousands of degrees. Such a high temperature can even poke a hole in the steel with just a light touch, and it is no problem to use it to cut minerals.

The two laser knives interlaced, and cut two holes in the ore body without any suspense. The other two mechanical arms, like two pincers, snapped onto the outer shell of the asteroid. The two forearm tools changed from laser knives to two alloy hammer-like props, and smashed along the cut.

Seeing that the electric ray P-1 separated the ore block and separated the ore body, Xia Shiyu couldn't help opening her mouth in surprise.

It was strange to see the surprised expression on her face.

"It's like making a movie." Xia Shiyu praised.

"And it's a blockbuster sci-fi movie." Jiang Chen teased.

He has already seen the three-dimensional simulation work graphics of Stingray P-1, and of course he will not be as surprised by such a sci-fi mining method as Xia Shiyu when he saw it for the first time.

At this time, Xia Shiyu suddenly remembered something, looked at Jiang Chen and asked in doubt.

"Why don't we ship it into geosynchronous orbit and mine?"

Hearing her question, Jiang Chen smiled, showing off his knowledge of spaceflight.

"Although this asteroid with a diameter of 500 meters does not seem to be as large as our star ring city, its net weight is much heavier than ours. If it is too close to the earth, gravity will directly drag it over. Of course, it is true It’s not impossible to move it to a synchronous orbit, as long as a spiral arm is added behind it as a counterweight like the Star Ring City, it can be suspended in the sky.”

"But considering the cost, it's not necessary at all."

"The pulse engine used by our Stingray is powered by nuclear fusion batteries, and the fuel cost is not high. Except for the acceleration and deceleration phase, the aircraft with a set route is only doing inertial cruise for a long distance."

"We just need to send the electric ray to the asteroid, cut the ore from it, and pull it back through the cargo spacecraft."

At this time, the Stingray P-1 is like a mosquito eating a piece of fat, constantly stripping the ore from the ore body and collecting it into the unfolded folding container. Waiting next to it is the cargo spaceship independently developed by Xinghuan Trading. It uses the RM-400 plasma propulsion engine. Although the acceleration performance is inferior to the pulse engine of the electric ray, it is superior in thrust and is more suitable for large and medium-sized cargo spaceships.

After all, the cargo spaceship does not need to do any highly maneuverable actions, it just needs to be able to transport things in a straight line.

Xia Shiyu glanced at Jiang Chen, with a smile on her lips.

Unlike Aisha, if you want to ask her when Jiang Chen's appearance fascinates her the most, her answer will undoubtedly be a confident appearance.

The relationship between the two is now much closer than it was at the beginning.

As promised last year, Jiang Chen selectively told Xia Shiyu about the end times.

In fact, even if he didn't say it, Xia Shiyu had already guessed something, but he didn't say it.

But when she heard Jiang Chen say it himself, she was quite surprised.

Just as Jiang Chen expected, the answer she imagined in her mind was completely different from his actual situation. She originally thought that what Jiang Chen traveled to was a human country in the Milky Way that had entered the interstellar era, and the reason why Jiang Chen spared no effort to develop aerospace technology was to help the earth fight against that interstellar civilization...

And because of certain restrictions, I had to go back and stay for a while at a certain time.

It has to be said that women's brains are really big enough to make a Hollywood blockbuster.

After a while, the minerals collected by Stingray P-1 have filled a cargo box. The two mechanical arms clamped the hook of the cargo box, and the electric ray carried the cargo box and flew to the side of the cargo spaceship, and then slowly placed the cargo box in the cargo warehouse on its abdomen, and at the same time, the mechanical arm lifted the cargo box from the cargo spaceship. A memory alloy plate was taken out.

After the electricity was turned on, the memory alloy plate unfolded into a cargo box similar to the previous one.

The next step is to repeat the homework, and there is no more ornamental.

Xia Shiyu still had things to deal with, so Jiang Chen took her out of the launch center first, and boarded the yacht at the port. Just as he was about to go out to sea and return to Koro Island, a call from the presidential palace suddenly rang on his watch.

As soon as the phone was connected, Zhang Yaping spoke directly.

"We're in trouble." (To be continued.) Enable new URL