Chapter 462 New Ideas
Khaleej Space City.
The aerospace carrier slowly anchored on a large flat Gobi desert on the east side.
This huge monster, parked on the ground, looks taller than the buildings in Khalije Aerospace City.
After a while, the security convoy of the Aerospace City Base rushed out from the east gate of the base, raising a large cloud of dust, and more than 30 armored vehicles came from three directions.
It was obvious that the base commander attached great importance to Li Qingye's safety and dispatched almost a quarter of the base's security force.
Although the security forces around Li Qingye are very powerful, the aerospace fleet in the sky has turned on the magnetic field radar at maximum power, not missing any movement within a radius of hundreds of kilometers.
In fact, the location of Harije Space City is already the hinterland, and the surrounding areas are all locations of the wholly-owned branches of the Sapiens Company.
Especially in places like the Khalije Space City, there are basically no outsiders around, and they are all new human employees of the Homo Sapiens Company.
More than twenty minutes later.
When Li Qingye saw the security convoy arrive, he took the elevator down from the aerospace mothership.
Outside the car window, the scenery that came into view was nothing but the Gobi Desert and sand, with hardly any trace of green.
Although this place belongs to the Kharji Oasis area, to be precise, it is actually a desert highland.
This is also to make full use of land resources. The core area of the Harije Oasis is a low-lying area with an altitude of less than 200 meters, while the location of the Aerospace City is about 320 to 340 meters above sea level.
Low-lying areas are prioritized as marine agricultural development zones, while cities, industrial bases, security bases, etc. are distributed in the Gobi Desert and desert highlands on the edge.
Soon the security convoy escorted Li Qingye into the aerospace city.
The entire Harije Aerospace Area is very large and is mainly divided into four areas: living area, industrial area, transportation system, and launch site.
The launch site is the farthest from the base and is connected by a special super track and road. The two sites are 27 kilometers apart.
The reason for going so far is mainly for safety reasons.
After all, submetallic hydrogen is, to put it bluntly, a super explosive, and the technical approach of the Khalije Space City is to use submetallic hydrogen as a propellant for the space shuttle. One flight requires several thousand tons of submetallic hydrogen, which is roughly equivalent to hundreds of thousands of tons of TNT.
Such a huge amount of submetallic hydrogen, if an accident happens, it can instantly spread to an area of 10 kilometers.
Therefore, submetallic hydrogen is produced and used on-site and will not be transported over long distances or stored for a long time. The production workshop for submetallic hydrogen is also located on the side of the launch site, not in the industrial area.
The managers of the Khalije Space City dare not take this horrific explosive lightly. After all, this matter concerns their own lives.
Li Qingye arrived at the living area of the base and visited the ordinary employees working there.
Then he met with the base commander Du Hai and chief engineer Mikoyan.
Mikoyan explained awkwardly: "Mr. Chairman! I'm very sorry! The launch was originally planned for June this year, but due to some technical reasons, it has to be postponed to the end of the year."
"It doesn't matter. Things won't always go smoothly." Li Qingye looked at Du Hai again: "You came here from the Luzon branch to work. Are you used to it?"
Du Hai nodded: "It's okay, you'll get used to it."
"Tell me what problems you encountered?"
Dr. Mikoyan quickly explained: " It's mainly a matter of regulating the explosion time."
Then he turned on the holographic projection and projected the design model of the super space shuttle - LA.
Li Qingye quickly saw the problem mentioned by Dr. Mikoyan.
The problem lies with the space shuttle's engine. The solid rocket engine design causes a violent explosion immediately after the engine ignites submetallic hydrogen, thereby accelerating the space shuttle.
However, there lies the problem. Dr. Mikoyan's design is to use special spacer materials to separate the explosion time of submetallic hydrogen, thereby achieving uniform distribution of the explosion thrust.
The idea is very good, but the interlayer material is difficult to get.
The strength is too low and cannot provide a temporary barrier effect.
The intensity is too high, and the metallic hydrogen explosion may be delayed, resulting in the two explosions being unable to be continuous, or even directly tearing open the engine explosion chamber in the next explosion.
Even though Dr. Mikoyan and a group of researchers found a relatively reasonable barrier layer strength range through repeated tests, there were still problems with sudden premature explosions or delayed explosions in a series of actual tests.
"…The reason why this problem occurs is mainly because the violent explosion will produce some unpredictable disturbances, which will cause the delay time of the barrier layer to be sometimes short and sometimes long." Dr. Mikoyan was a little helpless.
Li Qingye also looked at the simulated progress in the holographic projection and fell into deep thought.
Suddenly, an idea flashed through his mind. Li Qingye, who possesses a super brain, is not only very good at biology and medicine, but is also at the top level in other subjects. It's just that he doesn't show it often.
"You should try electric cooling."
"Huh?" Dr. Mikoyan was confused.
Li Qingye reminded: "Gold-based materials can be cooled quickly. Combined with nuclear batteries, an ultra-low temperature environment of minus 180 degrees Celsius can be quickly created, and the system is very simple and compact."
"Gold-based electric heating material?" Dr. Mikoyan certainly knew about this material. After all, part of his space shuttle design required the use of this material.
It's just that he has some difficulty understanding the problems of cooling electrothermal materials and solving the delay .
"Give up the solid rocket engine design and use a detonation engine! Then make the submetallic hydrogen into small balls, and use a design similar to a magazine to spray the small balls one by one into the explosion chamber of the detonation engine."
Detonation engine?
Small ball?
clip?
Gold-based electric heating material cooling?
Dr. Mikoyan reassembled the system in his mind and found that this system could indeed effectively regulate the problem of submetallic hydrogen explosion control.
The reason why they designed the space shuttle engine as a solid rocket engine is that submetallic hydrogen is difficult to preserve.
Although the super space shuttle is huge in size, it is difficult to integrate a compact and efficient ultra-low temperature system.
After all, this is to refrigerate thousands of tons of submetallic hydrogen and maintain ultra-low temperatures for several hours, and the space shuttle cannot accommodate a bloated refrigeration system.
The emergence of gold-based electrothermal materials solved this problem, allowing the interior of the space shuttle to be equipped with an ultra-low temperature containment system.
Feeling that this plan has a great chance of success, Dr. Mikoyan also became excited: "Mr. Chairman, please allow me to simulate this plan."
"Don't be too reserved. You can simulate this plan."
"Then I'll excuse myself." Dr. Mikoyan hurriedly took his assistant to do a simulation experiment.
Du Hai quickly apologized: "Sorry! Mr. Chairman, Dr. Mikoyan is a bit straightforward."
Li Qingye waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, let's go to other industrial areas."
"Yes." Du Hai secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Dr. Mikoyan had already returned to his office. He immediately called together a dozen engine design engineers and related researchers from the Space City to begin preparing for the simulation experiment.
