Annihilation of the solar system

It has been half a year since Lu Yuanzhou came to the secret training base. The base is not large, with only a two-kilometer-long runway. Even heavy transport aircraft cannot take off and land. There are 29 gold medalists who came to the base with him.

Helmet owner.

In the first month of training, they used the only advanced trainer aircraft in the base to conduct air combat drills, and half of them were eliminated and returned to the original unit.

The subsequent training and screening made him even more confused. In addition to the high-intensity physical training at the astronaut level, the air crew training mission completely turned into simulator flight training.

Moreover, the content of simulated flight training is completely different from the training in their aviation school. Their simulator is more similar to a hybrid product of vertical take-off and landing multi-copter and fixed-wing flight performance.

When he pushed the throttle to increase engine power, the aircraft on the simulator would still move forward.

However, when he reduces the throttle, the aircraft on the simulator will not decelerate but will continue to fly forward at a constant speed unless he uses the brakes. And when he pulls up the elevator or operates the ailerons, the attitude change curve of the aircraft is also fixed.

Wing aircraft are not exactly the same, but more similar to multi-rotor aircraft.

He also asked the instructor at the base, but the instructor's answer was that all they have to do now is to train seriously and accept the assessment, and don't ask anything else. And all signs indicate that they are being trained to become spacecraft pilots.

The difficulty of simulator flight is getting more and more difficult as time goes by. Their training subjects include subjects that have never been done before such as crossing narrow channels at high speeds several times the speed of sound, emergency stopping at fixed points at high speeds, ballistic strike avoidance, etc. At this stage,

Many more golden helmets were eliminated.

Recently, the difficulty of the simulator has not increased much, but the intensity of physical training has increased again. They are now undergoing physical training at an intensity of 15g overload without fainting. In addition to training, they are also trained

He received training in mechanical maintenance, which is the job of mechanics in the Air Force.

The morning sun had just broken, and Lu Yuanzhou and his five remaining comrades had gathered downstairs in the dormitory and were ready to go. The three-story dormitory was originally filled with 30 Golden Helmet fighter pilots from all over the country, and now only 6 of them are left.

people.

The instructor appeared in front of them at 7 o'clock. After roll call, they did not run to the physical training ground as usual, but were ordered to board two military jeeps. The vehicle drove straight out of the base. This was their first time in half a year.

Once leaving the main gate of the base.

Lu Yuanzhou looked at the beautiful green mountains outside the window and probably knew that they were in a place far away from the city. More than ten minutes later, the car stopped at the door of a huge steel structure warehouse. From the outside, it seemed that it had just been built, and the steel structure exterior walls were flashing.

The metallic luster shows no signs of oxidation.

The doors in the warehouse were opened, and two cars filed in. The six golden helmets were stunned by the scene in the warehouse. In front of them was a spaceship that was three stories high and three football fields long. The main body of the spacecraft was in the middle.

The cylindrical main hull has two barrels with a slightly smaller diameter and a length of only 2/3 of the main hull, arranged longitudinally on both sides.

Further outside is a straight cylinder structure, which is slightly shorter than the parallel cylinders.

All cylinders are aligned with the tail of the spacecraft as the reference line, so from the front it looks like the swept wings of the aircraft are gradually retreating.

There are some steel frames welded to the back of the spacecraft, whose purpose is unknown. There is a protrusion in the middle of the abdomen that accounts for 1/2 of the length of the spacecraft, making it look like a pregnant fish.

The head of her main hull looks like an enlarged space shuttle head, and the three barrel-shaped cabins arranged on each side of the hull, as well as the welded brackets on the top, make it look like it is full of space.

Movie props with modern punk temperament.

"stand at attention!"

A sonorous command came out of the instructor's mouth, and the six golden helmeted men withdrew their eyes and looked straight ahead like a conditioned reflex, with their bodies standing straight in a standard military posture.

Behind the instructor, a female officer with the rank of colonel came forward from a row of officers with a stack of manuals. She distributed the materials one by one to each golden helmet and said:

"The big guy in front of you is a full-scale model of the Firefly spacecraft. What is sent to you is the flight manual and operating instructions. Our purpose of building her here is to familiarize you with its internal structure and

How to operate.

Everything in the model is exactly the same as the "Firefly" spacecraft that will be built in low-Earth orbit. Here you can complete all training content except the microgravity environment. One day, one of you will become a real

Captain of the Firefly."

"Report!"

A comrade beside Lu Yuanzhou said loudly. The female officer looked at the pilot and said:

"explain!"

The pilot said:

“What are the goals and missions of the ‘Firefly’ in the future?”

The female officer turned around and looked at a higher-ranking officer behind her. The officer said:

"Your current task is to familiarize yourself with the structure and operation methods of this spacecraft. As for the rest, I can't tell you now. Only one of you will know the mission she will perform, and that is the person who wins the selection. Do you understand?

?”

"Understood! Understood!" The six men standing straight replied in unison.

After speaking, the six golden helmets followed the female officer through the gangway to the top of the spacecraft, where the docking port of the real spacecraft was also located. They descended into the hull of the spacecraft through the ladder, and the pilots followed the female officer while looking at the guide in their hands.

While listening to the female officer’s explanation.

The main body of the spacecraft is divided into three layers. The location where they enter the spacecraft is the front end of the uppermost layer - the cockpit. The layout of the cockpit is somewhat similar to that of large passenger aircraft on Earth. The seats of the main and co-pilots are side by side in the front, with glass portholes and surrounding

Their instrument panels are much larger than those of ordinary aircraft.

The instrument panel directly in front is composed of several connected LCD screens, which now display various graphical data instruments. All operating data of the entire spacecraft can be viewed on these displays. The pilot and co-pilot

The left and right hands and the top of the head are dotted with various switches and buttons.

The main porthole has been simulated by an LED display screen to look like a starry sky. It looks like it should be simulating a star port parked in the earth's orbit. Behind the main and co-pilot seats are six positions facing away from each other. They are:

Radar officer, communications officer, mechanic, navigator, weapons officer and drone pilot.

But this is not the only profession for the six of them. The six officers selected by the real spacecraft are all astronauts who have received comprehensive training, and they can all replace each other's work. Behind the partition wall is a small restaurant.

The portholes and top windows here are both transparent. In addition to dining, it can also be used as a conference room and lounge.

Further back is the living area with eight independent bedrooms. Behind the living area is the bulk cargo hold, which is also the last sub-bin on the upper floor.

The ladder leading to the middle level is between the restaurant and the cockpit. Under the middle level cockpit are rows of host servers. This is the brain of the entire spacecraft - the data terminal. All instructions from the cockpit pass through here.

The processing is dispatched to various subsystems of the spacecraft.

Behind is a section of equipment cabins more than ten meters long. Each compartment contains the air conditioning and air purification system of the entire spacecraft, cabin constant temperature system, water circulation system, power distribution system, fire alarm and depressurization control system, etc. to maintain the life of the spacecraft.

Regarding the environmental system, there is a very long cargo hold from the rear to the stern of the ship. It is packed to the brim, leaving only one passage that can only accommodate one person.

Further down, the front cabin is the spacesuit changing cabin for extravehicular activities, which stores 8 sets of spacesuits for astronauts for extravehicular activities. Behind this cabin is an airlock.

Behind the airlock is the UAV cabin, where four unmanned spacecraft in a waverider layout are stored on the brackets. They can be launched into space by opening the side doors, and are unified by the UAV pilot in the cockpit.

Remote control collaboration.

Further back is the bulging cabin on the belly of the spacecraft. This is actually a shuttle that can accommodate 4 astronauts carrying mission loads to and from the satellite surface. It can also accommodate 8 astronauts and double as a rescue capsule.

Behind it, just like the rear section of the middle layer, is a stuffed cargo compartment.

After looking at all the cabins in the main hull, the female officer took everyone to the back of the equipment cabin on the middle level. There is a short compartment between here and the material storage compartment at the back. There are two places on both sides of this compartment.

There are two circular hatches respectively, which are the passages leading to the cylindrical structures connected longitudinally on both sides of the main hull.

Inside these four cylindrical cabin sections, which are 2/3 the length of the main hull, are loaded with the power core of the spacecraft. Four H3-type micro-nuclear fusion reactors and matching high-impulse and high-thrust ion engines. Here

It provides strong power for the spacecraft and the electric power of the entire ship.

The two sets of shorter cylindrical cabins on the outside are storage tanks that store liquid oxygen and a small amount of liquid hydrogen. Liquid oxygen mainly provides breathing oxygen for astronauts, while a small amount of liquid hydrogen is mainly used to protect the entire ship.

Several attitude adjustment engines are prepared for the spacecraft.

After following the female officer through all the cabins, everyone was able to understand the complex structure of this huge spacecraft. They also somewhat guessed their own mission.