Start a Base

In general, humans are lucky, this kind of asteroid is difficult to find at a long distance.

If Li Guang's team hadn't accidentally detected it, humans wouldn't even have a chance to defend themselves.

The speed of the spacecraft equipped with high-energy ionization engines continued to increase.

In the universe, theoretically, as long as the energy is sufficient and the acceleration continues, it will reach the highest speed of conventional navigation, the speed of light.

But that requires an incomparably huge amount of energy as a support, even infinite.

You know, the energy required to accelerate two particles to the speed of light in a short period of time is massive, not to mention a spaceship that is trillions of billions of times heavier than that?

At least in the foreseeable future of mankind, it is impossible to master such technology.

The high-energy batteries equipped on the spacecraft are disassembled from aerospace fighters, and each spacecraft is equipped with energy batteries from at least four aerospace fighters.

But to accelerate a huge spacecraft, the energy still has to be counted on the fingers.

Soon, the fleet spacecraft ejected a light blue ion beam and left the military port of the space city.

The fleet first needs to accelerate around Saturn to reach the second cosmic speed, which is the escape velocity of Saturn, and use the gravitational slingshot effect of the last circle to fly away from Saturn and blast away into the vast universe.

"The first circle around Saturn, the speed is 8 kilometers per second."

after an hour......

"The second circle around Saturn, the speed is 11.2 kilometers per second, reaching the escape velocity, the power is fully turned on, and entering the gravitational slingshot acceleration stage!"

"Speed ​​11.8 kilometers per second..."

"Speed ​​12.6 kilometers per second..."

"Speed ​​12.9 kilometers per second..."

Arrive at the gravitational slingshot acceleration terminal, goodbye, planet!

Somewhere in the orbit of Saturn, the fleet drew a beautiful arc and plunged into space.

"good luck!"

This is the same kind of blessing sent to the Starfleet of the Doom Yang Empire by all the insiders in the world.

The fleet that left the orbit of Saturn is still accelerating.

In the universe, the aircraft cannot continue to accelerate with the same energy output.

Because relativity doesn't allow it.

The faster an object flies, the higher its mass, and the greater the energy required to accelerate an object with higher mass.

This is the famous light speed barrier.

Therefore, the goal of the interstellar fleet of the Doom Yang Empire is to accelerate to slightly exceed the speed of the third universe, use the angle between the orbits, and finally keep relatively stationary with the asteroid to complete the landing.

The energy carried by the spacecraft is only enough to accelerate itself to the third cosmic speed, and there is no extra energy to decelerate.

So if you miss the asteroid, you will wander among the stars forever.

Only by successfully landing on the asteroid, assembling a nuclear fusion reactor, and replenishing the energy while pushing the asteroid, will they have a chance to return to the Doom Yang Empire alive.

This is a road without turning back, if you don't succeed, you will succeed!

"The speed is 15.1 kilometers per second, and the distance from Saturn is 130,000 kilometers."

The command center of the space city always pays attention to the situation of the fleet, and then feeds back to Li Yunpeng and other high-level empire officials.

And Li Yunpeng did not share the current situation with other countries, because it was not necessary, and he had to be on guard against the Nanmen aliens, in case they were the instigators of this incident, if the news leaked, it would be equivalent to being an enemy.

"The speed is 16.7 kilometers per second! It has reached the third cosmic speed! It is 290,000 kilometers away from Saturn!"

Feedback from the fleet has been encouraging, and this is the highest speed ever achieved by a human vehicle.

If it keeps flying towards the outside of the solar system, it will eventually leave the familiar solar system, and perhaps arrive at a new galaxy after hundreds of millions of years.

"Keep speed, start the orbit change program!"

"yes!"

At this time, the position of the fleet is already equivalent to the distance between the moon and Saturn, but the direction is different and there is no encounter.

Next, the fleet has to adjust its direction while maintaining its speed, orbit in a huge arc, and finally complete the turn, maintain a similar heading with an included angle with the asteroid, and complete the landing.

The whole process will last 10 days.

During this period of time, all interstellar workers only need to complete their respective tasks exactly, and then wait quietly.

Time flies, ten days later.

"The fleet is 14.42 million kilometers away from Saturn, with a speed of 17 kilometers per second. The turn has been completed, and the asteroid has not been detected by the radar yet!"

The message received by the Doom Yang Empire was sent by Starfleet more than ten minutes ago.

With a distance of tens of millions of kilometers, the communication delay has exceeded 10 minutes.

Maybe in people's daily life, 10 minutes is a very short time.

But from the perspective of interstellar navigation, especially orbital docking, even a one-millisecond error can cause catastrophe.

Therefore, the Imperial Command Center at this time can no longer help much, and the fleet can only adapt to the situation according to the situation.

Li Wu kept walking back and forth in the hall, "It stands to reason that the current fleet's position is already within 200,000 kilometers of the asteroid. How come the radar hasn't found it yet?"

Li Guang comforted: "Be safe and don't be impatient, 200,000 kilometers is still too far away, wait a little longer, the orbit calculation is correct, and we will definitely find it!"

Although the science is very rigorous, everyone present is extremely nervous.

Not afraid of 10,000, just in case, what happened more than 10 million kilometers away is simply out of their control.

Li Yunpeng has never said a word, he knows that nothing can change the ending now.

Now the fleet of the Doom Yang Empire will encounter the asteroid in 3.3 hours, life and death will be at the moment of encounter.

It was already noon, but no one had touched the cold breakfast on the table in the hall.

During the whole morning, no one left their positions.

No rice, no mouthful, no water, no mouthful.

Even, no one even went to the toilet.

Just to be able to hear the news of the asteroid discovered by the fleet radar as soon as possible.

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