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"Führer, the distance has reached 100 kilometers." Zhang Tianlin said hastily.

"Start the test." Huang Haojie ordered.

"Okay." Zhang Tianlin turned around and told the others: "Send a communication connection to Quantum Communicator No. 1."

"The connection was successful, reply No. 1 was received." the researcher replied excitedly.

"continue."

The test went very smoothly. Zhong operated the Xingtian mecha through the Luzon area, entered the Western Pacific area, then entered the South Pacific waters, and then headed straight to Antarctica.

I traveled 16,000 kilometers all the way. Fortunately, it was a nuclear fusion reactor, otherwise ordinary fuel would not be able to support such a long-distance flight. After all, the round trip was 32,000 kilometers.

It took Xingtian Mecha nearly six days to complete the 16,000-kilometer flight.

Huang Haojie has returned to Keelung City and handed over the remaining testing work to the Quantum Chip Research Institute.

The test results are also in line with expectations. At least Zhang Tianlin and others tested a distance of 16,000 kilometers, and there was no problem.

Moreover, the advantage of quantum communication is that it can ignore the influence of the external environment. Whether it is underground, in the sea, or in space, it is the same for quantum communication.

"Head of State, this is our test result." Zhang Tianlin reported to Huang Haojie through holographic communication.

Huang Junjie flipped through the documents and continued to give instructions: "In addition to leaving two in your research institute, the remaining three will be sent to outer space to let them test the ultimate communication distance of the quantum communicator."

"Okay." Zhang Tianlin accepted the task.

If quantum communicators can achieve lossless communication over long distances, then this technology will be a huge change for the alliance.

The Human Innovation Alliance faces three major problems in its interstellar colonization development. The first is the speed of the spacecraft. Now it has been partially solved. The sub-light speed spacecraft is more than enough for activities within the solar system.

The second is the problem of communication. The upper limit of electromagnetic waves is the speed of light. Light-speed communication can be handled within a planet but once it enters the internal communication of a star system, the communication delay problem becomes very serious. It takes a long time to go back and forth from Mars to Blue Star. Ten or twenty minutes.

This issue may not have a big impact now, but if it goes on for a long time, it may cause estrangement between the colony and the home planet, and it is very easy to breed separatism.

Quantum communication is one of the ways to solve this problem.

The third problem is the problem of human body. At present, human beings are not able to survive in outer space for a long time. This problem is also a major problem that restricts human beings from exploring outer space. The technology that this question addresses is human body enhancement technology.

The Alliance attaches great importance to quantum communication, and soon arranged for a spacecraft to send three quantum communicators and three researchers into outer space through the Kaohsiung Mass Projector.

Kaohsiung Space Center.

Zhang Tianlin was inside the space center with one of the quantum communicators.

"Chief Zeng, are you okay?" Zhang Tianlin asked anxiously.

"Wait a minute, there is no reply from Dongfanghong Base in the Lunar Area." Zeng Baojiang looked at the holographic display and replied.

"Report, the Dongfanghong base in the lunar area is ready for testing."

Zeng Baojiang nodded to Zhang Tianlin: "Director Zhang, it's time to test."

Zhang Tianlin quickly ordered the staff of the institute to start using the quantum communicator to communicate with the quantum communicator at the Dongfanghong base in the lunar area.

After a while, the staff input into the quantum communicator [Moon Moon, this is Blue Star, please come back after receiving it. ]

[Blue Star Blue Star, this is the moon, received. ]

After communicating with each other three times in a row, the staff said excitedly: "Institute Zhang, the experiment was very successful, the communication was very smooth, no delay was found, and the error definitely did not exceed 0.001 seconds."

Zhang Tianlin clapped his hands. He was so excited. The average distance between the moon and the Blue Star is about 385,000 kilometers. The one-way communication delay is about 1.28 seconds, and the one-way communication is almost three seconds. This is still the communication delay on the front side of the moon. , when there is no relay satellite on the back side of the moon, it means that the sky is not responding, and the earth is not working.

"Try more times."

"OK."

Zhang Tianlin turned around and looked at Zeng Baojiang, who quickly replied: "The Mars Space Station is ready. The Sun Chaser spacecraft will be waiting for about half an hour!"

The test with the Mars synchronous orbit space station soon went very smoothly, with almost instant communication. The slight delay between the quantum communicators was actually caused by the staff.

The next step is to conduct a quantum communication test with the Sun Chaser spacecraft. At this time, the Sun Chaser spacecraft is flying towards the outer region of the solar system. It has just crossed the orbit of Jupiter and reached an area about 640 million kilometers away from the Blue Star.

"Yuri, is the communication normal?" Fang Haibo asked.

"It's very good. Compared with the slow delayed communication before, this quantum communication is real instant communication." Yuri couldn't put it down for the quantum communicator. He had only experienced the experience of being able to communicate once every tens of minutes. , only to realize how deceptive electromagnetic wave communication in the interstellar era is.

"That's good, let's move on."

"Hi!" Masashi Kishimoto nodded.

They had already escaped from the anti-load cabin at this time, because the spacecraft had reached cruising speed and there would be no overload problem without acceleration, so they could escape from the anti-load cabin.

The Sun Chaser headed toward the orbit of Saturn. The orbit of Saturn is about 1.35 billion kilometers away from the Blue Star. This means that the Sun Chaser spacecraft is still about 710 million kilometers away from the orbit of Saturn. The Sun Chaser spacecraft at cruising speed needs to It takes about 4 hours and 45 minutes to cross the orbit of Saturn.

As for the electromagnetic wave communication system, the speed has become extremely impressive. Now it takes about 36 minutes to send one-way radio waves back to Blue Star, and the round trip is about 72 minutes. After the Sun Chaser crosses the orbit of Saturn, the one-way radio wave communication time will be It becomes 75 minutes, and the round trip is 150 minutes.

Four hours and 45 minutes later, the Sun Chaser spacecraft crossed the orbit of Saturn and arrived 1.35 billion kilometers away from the blue star.

"Yuri, how's the quantum communication going?"

"Captain, everything is normal, there is no failure or delay."

"Keep going, we're heading towards the orbit of Uranus."

The Sun Chaser spacecraft is flying forward. This time their target is the Uranus orbit 2.59 billion kilometers away from the Blue Star. If quantum communication is still possible, it will continue to the Neptune orbit (about 4.37 billion kilometers away from the Blue Star). .

20 hours later, the Sun Chaser crossed the orbit of Neptune, and quantum communication can still achieve instant communication.

At the inner edge of the Kuiper Belt where the Sun Chaser flew, some ice material was collected from an asteroid and the nuclear fuel was replenished through electrolysis of water.

Then it once again flew towards the outer space, until the distance from the blue star exceeded 136 astronomical units (about 20.4 billion kilometers), and the quantum communicator never showed obvious signal weakness.

Fang Tianbo, who was afraid of getting lost in interstellar space, immediately returned to the inner solar system.

However, their voyage not only tested the powerful performance of quantum communication, but also collected a large number of samples and monitoring data in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, creating a new history for mankind.

You must know that Voyager 1 has only flown 17.7 billion kilometers, while the Sun Chaser spacecraft has flown to 20.4 billion kilometers. If it were not for the fear of Star Trek, the Sun Chaser could fly even further.

Zhang Tianlin, Zeng Baojiang and others at the Kaohsiung Space Center have been stunned by this distance, not only the communication distance, but also the spacecraft flight distance.

The two of them, who had not had a good rest for several days, were looking at each other with bloodshot eyes.

"It seems that our communication system is going to undergo a major overhaul." Zeng Baojiang said happily. The emergence of quantum communication has greatly strengthened the communication of the Human Innovation Alliance in various areas of the solar system.

"I feel that the potential of quantum communication is still very large, and we can continue to dig deeper." Zhang Tianlin is also very happy.

Soon the alliance learned about the successful quantum communication test.