Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

After the further improvement of the electric propulsion system, the carrying capacity of a single electric propulsion engine was calculated in units of densities for the first time.

The carrying capacity of a single electric propulsion engine reaches 0.8 miles.

At the same time, the size of a single electric propulsion engine has been reduced again.

On Diyue-2, Qiusuo Research Institute installed a total of more than 300 improved electric propulsion engines.

When three hundred electric propulsion engines, supported by the helium 3 reactor as the energy source, start at full power at the same time, the plasma jets ejected from behind look very sci-fi.

As for the entire Earth-Moon communication line, it is not just the Earth-Moon that has been upgraded and built.

In the step of breaking through the atmosphere from the ground, and the step of docking with the lunar surface from near-lunar orbit.

An improved electric propulsion system was also used.

Two models of spacecraft, Yuanhang 8A and Yuanhang 8B, were born between 1954 and 1955.

It no longer starts with Yuanhang No. 7, which means that there is a generation difference between the newly built spaceship and the previous one.

And indeed it is,

Yuanhang 8A, which uses newer materials, has nearly a hundred electric propulsion engines densely installed underneath.

The carrying capacity of synchronous orbit has reached 80 meters for the first time.

At this moment, the frequency of spacecrafts being launched from Changlu launch site every day continues,

This means a huge increase in capacity.

The Yuanhang 8B is the lunar version of the same model of spacecraft.

Mainly to undertake the mission of traveling from the lunar surface to the near-lunar space platform. In theory, due to the smaller gravity of the lunar surface,

Yuanhang 8b has a higher carrying capacity from the lunar surface to lunar orbit.

After the transportation capacity between the earth and the moon was greatly upgraded,

With the use of the two Earth-Moon spacecraft and the smaller Earth-Moon shuttle spacecraft,

The transportation capacity between the earth and the moon has actually exceeded the daily transportation capacity demand for materials and personnel between the earth and the moon.

So, immediately following,

It is the lunar base, as well as lunar development, and the rapid expansion and rapid advancement of various lunar plans.

In just one year from 1954 to 1955,

Starting from the Changlu launch site and many other launch sites,

Through the near-Earth space platform and the near-lunar space platform,

The Qiushi Research Institute was sent to the moon, with a total weight of more than 200,000 crypts including materials, equipment, and personnel.

The multiple Yuanhang 8A spacecraft combined make more than ten trips between the ground and the near-Earth space platform every day.

And with the new Yuanhang 8A spacecraft put into use, the frequency of daily launches is still increasing.

And on the moon,

The area occupied by the lunar base is expanding.

The number of cabins here has increased by one-third in one year.

The increase in space area exceeds this number.

Compared with before, the number of personnel increased sharply from more than 2,000 to nearly 4,000.

This increased part, a small number of researchers,

Most of them are responsible for operating machinery and mining resources on the lunar surface.

Construction and operation of lunar intelligent chemical plants,

As well as technical personnel for the implementation of the Suigu plan.

And during this year,

Quest Research Institute, also go to the lunar surface base,

A lot of special machinery for lunar mineral mining was put in place.

As well as an intelligent chemical factory that can complete further processing of lunar minerals and other resources with the assistance of lunar technicians.

In addition, a lot of basic computing units have been invested in the Suigu Project.

The side next to the lunar base continues to expand to the side.

but,

Even so, Qiusuo Research Institute is still not satisfied with it.

Two hundred thousand square meters of material deployment may seem exaggerated, but in reality,

Not as heavy as most of the hills seen on Earth.

It is even the amount of cargo transported by some of the largest cargo ships on earth at one time.

In order to achieve the goals of the Qiushi Institute, this transportation weight figure must be increased by more than one order of magnitude.

certainly,

For most people in this era, this is already an exaggerated number.

Behind the exaggerated growth in transportation capacity between the earth and the moon and development of the lunar surface,

It is a huge cost investment.

…

In 1954, someone made statistics and estimated that,

Qiusu Research Institute’s development and construction of the moon, other planets and outer space,

Either directly or indirectly, it occupies at least 5% of China's productivity every year.

At least five percent of productivity is invested outside the earth.

In this era, the size of China has expanded over several rounds and decades.

Greater than all other parties combined.

This accounts for 5% of China's productivity, which is an extremely exaggerated cost.

Even because in this life, controllable nuclear fusion was born earlier,

Nowadays, science and technology in various fields are more developed due to the birth of Qiusuo Research Institute.

The total productivity at this time is much higher than the same period in the previous life.

And this is statistics from the outside world.

According to Qiusuo Research Institute’s own and above statistics,

In 1954, the productivity invested in outer space may actually have exceeded 6%, but was within 7%.

This six percent productivity,

Some of them are resources directly invested by the Research Institute to obtain profits from controllable nuclear fusion, room temperature superconductivity, etc.

Some of it is the reinvestment of some profits obtained from outer space development.

The development of outer space in recent years has not been completely without benefits. Just like the mining of helium 3, it can also be sold to the country.

Another part is the cost directly borne by the state to the Qiusuo Institute.

The support from above for the development direction of the Qiusuo Institute is naturally not empty words, but a considerable amount of capital investment.

Finally, there is also a considerable part,

which is the existence of the Qiusuo Institute, which indirectly leverages resources in the entire production system.

At this moment, it is not an exaggeration to say that the research direction of the Qiusuo Institute is the scientific research direction of the entire China.

And the outside world,

for so much productivity, following the direction of the Qiusuo Institute into outer space,

basically has the attitude of "indulgence".

A foreign leader, in an interview,

said with a somewhat complicated smile,

"China, or the Qiusuo Institute's investment in outer space productivity, is enough for them to bring a destructive war to the whole world..."

"But they obviously think that investing these productivity in space is more interesting."

And in China, the vast majority of people's reactions to this sentence are basically happy.

Almost no one thinks there is anything wrong with the Qiusuo Institute spending so many resources on interstellar exploration.

This is mainly based on,

trust and expectation for the Qiusuo Research Institute itself,

expectation for the stars and the sea, a wider world.

At this moment, the highly developed productivity, let alone throwing this 5% of productivity into outer space,

even throwing it into the water, will not have much impact on the lives of most people.

In this case, there are even quite a few people who think that the productivity invested in outer space by the whole society is still too little.

When their own lives are not affected, people are generally very interested in the future.

…

In addition to the Earth-Moon round-trip route,

the helium-3 reactor and the upgraded electric propulsion system are actually more suitable for use on the other three planets with longer journeys and semi-permanent bases.

In 55 years,

after the upgrade of the Earth-Moon transport route was basically completed,

the Qiusuo Research Institute built three large spacecraft based on helium-3 reactors and installed with improved electric propulsion systems,

namely Qiming, Zhurong, and Gonggong.

After the newly built large spacecraft was put into use,

the journey to Mercury was basically shortened to less than 20 days.

The foundation for further development of the other three planets has also been laid.