People on Earth have already noticed that Windsor the Great mentions space exploration, and sure enough, it wasn't long before Downing announced a new generation of geostationary orbit satellites, this time increasing the launch altitude of satellites from 300 kilometers to more than 1,000 kilometers. Only with geostationary satellites can the GPS be more accurate, otherwise the accuracy of the current ground radio tower will have to be constantly corrected.

People have roughly guessed how the Windsor Satellite Empire launched satellites above 300 kilometers, and simply openly admitted the existence of laser thrusters and solid-state rockets, and this time to increase the altitude is not only to increase the energy of the rocket, but to use a new technology, so to say.

Advances in tower-building technology in the Windsor Tech Empire have made it possible to build an upright particle accelerator. Downing claimed that vertical particle accelerators would be able to power satellites above the atmosphere by using superenergetic particles accelerated to nearly the speed of light to eject them onto the satellite's magnetic field.

According to the calculations of the special theory of relativity, the mass of particles increases as they approach the speed of light, and the thrust formed by small particles is amazing, and they can break through the limits of the atmosphere and continuously spray on the magnetic field of satellites. On ascent, protons or larger positively charged particles are used to hit the positively charged surface of the satellite's rare earth Hellbeck permanent magnet field until the velocity becomes zero.

When the satellite falls, it will use negatively charged particles such as electrons, and it will not hit the satellite too closely, because a large number of negative charges will appear, which will produce a pulling force to pull the satellite back to the ground, and then use positive particles to slow it down after entering the atmosphere.

It doesn't take too much force for the satellite to fall back, so it's also doable. Perhaps the biggest engineering difficulty of this huge project is how to control the direction and force of the vertical accelerator. The direction can be fine-tuned by magnetic force, but if the arc is too large, the physical components that make up the accelerator itself need to be adjusted.

So, in fact, this is not a pure linear accelerator, but an arc accelerator, and the acceleration components suspended from the tower will radiate one at certain intervals, forming a beautiful scenery in the sky. And in order to suspend the 7 "strings" of this design, 7 1 will be built. A 5 km super tower.

The building is known as the "lyre", while the seven towers are known as the Seven Sisters. The Seven Sisters are all water, electricity and heating resource centers, and when there is a surplus of energy, they can also supply electricity to residents and factories through the guò grid. This is an unprecedented project costing 100 million euros, and it seems that Boss Tang has made such a large investment for the first time.

The lyre project was placed in Seattle, the center of the aerospace industry in the Windsor Empire, and will begin to "play the piano" after sending satellites to the edge of the atmosphere. You can't play the piano indiscriminately, and the rhythm in it is really like a beautiful piece of music.

Although the research and development of this project cost a huge amount of money, but after the successful development of the launch of the satellite is low, even the original 30 kilometers to 300 kilometers of the distance can also be boosted by accelerators, reducing the cost to half of the original, or increasing the maximum load several times.

From now on, the Windsor satellite empire will be able to launch satellites weighing up to a tonne, whether in a low-Earth orbit of 300 kilometers or a geostationary orbit of 1,000 kilometers.

There is an ionosphere more than 80 kilometers above the atmosphere, and when charged particles pass through it, it will produce a gorgeous light, and humans will be able to see the meteor shower in reverse. Auroras occur because the ionosphere, which is blown into the atmosphere by the solar wind, is discharged.

The speed of the solar wind is only 400 kilometers per second, and the charged particles that are accelerated to close to the speed of light will pass through the ionosphere at extremely fast speeds, with little energy loss.

In order to consider the future of manned space technology, the reliability requirements of the rocket are very high, so Tangning took the self-healing materials into account in the design. In the process of liftoff, the rocket will suffer from huge physical conditions, so every liftoff and landing will damage its structure.

These tiny scars are not visible to the human eye at all, and the automatic ejection of self-healing materials from the microcapsules will heal the scars that these eyes cannot see, and the consumption of itself can be detected by special sensors, and when a large number of microcapsules are found to be released, it is necessary to consider rebuilding the rocket.

In the past, because liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen thrusters had relatively high requirements for containers, in order to save trouble, Tangning vigorously developed solid-state rockets. However, liquid rockets are more efficient than solid-state rockets, and with reliable self-healing materials, the technical team can start to consider switching to liquid rockets.

When the liquid rocket is fully mature, it will be possible to start the astronaut program, which will be able to send 8 by then. The massive 5-ton capsule lifts off into geostationary orbit. Its diameter is 5 meters, its height is 3. 3 meters to improve the comfortable living space for 4 to 6 astronauts.

Weightlessness can cause countless problems, such as washing and writing, and in order to solve all these problems in one go, Downing's capsule has a "gravity simulation" function.

There is only one way to simulate gravity: centrifugal force. In order to balance, Downing designed each small centrifugal chamber to be in pairs, and the astronauts centrifuged together with their own supplies of equal weight, both of which rotated around the main module. When all 4 astronauts are in the gravity module, 8 of the modules will rotate around the main module in a balanced manner. Similarly, if there are 6 astronauts on board, there will be 12 capsules flying around.

The connecting rod used between the cabin and the main cabin is rigid and divided into three sections, each of which is the same length as the main cabin, i.e. 5 meters. So the length of the connecting rod is about 15 meters. In order for these spacefarers to be able to communicate with each other smoothly, these connecting rods are all designed to be a "windbird network" in space.

There is an electromagnetic cable in the center of the hollow connecting rod, which can carry small parcels between the small cabin and the main cabin, send food to the small cabin, and send metabolites back to the main cabin material circulation station. As long as the astronauts want to send a duì, everyone gathers in the main cabin, and they usually take their places and do their own things.

Each capsule has a cosmic high-energy ray sensor, once the ray intensity is found, it can be withdrawn to the main module, because the main module is surrounded by a strong magnetic field, so it can protect the space station from cosmic rays like the earth's magnetic field, which is also a major benefit of the permanent magnet engine system.

Due to the presence of a strong magnetic field, electromagnetic signals will be interfered with, so most of the capsule equipment will be "photonified", transmitting signals through optical fibers, and even transmitting energy through optical fibers. Work and daily necessities are also dominated by non-metallic products, unless they are irreplaceable.

Considering that the space station is too small, in order to expand the capacity, Downing also designed a docking scheme for the space station. In the future, it will be possible to merge the space station with the "Zero". Therefore, the main cabin should have multiple interfaces, which can form double, three, and quadruple flights with latecomers...... Wait a minute.

Each main cabin can be combined with up to six, while other latecomers can continue to be added to the main body until the ...... Many, many, hundreds, no problem, this is a large human space base, which can live thousands of astronauts.

So Downing chose to send Zero to a geostationary orbit instead of the easier 300-kilometer orbit, because that would make the space base more stable. As soon as this plan came out, human beings were shocked to realize that they were so close to the space age, and Boss Tang planned all the bases.

When the hundreds of capsules are interconnected, they will form a system with "spiral arms" similar to the Milky Way, and the small capsules are like planets rotating around the stars on the spiral arms.

Tang Dashen has the ability to complete incredible projects, and let the people living in space live like people, just like he first put humans in the North Pole to work and live, and now the scientists and engineers there are living with a very high quality.

He also said that once the space base is built, even if the Earth suffers the kind of global catastrophe that occurred 65 million years ago, humanity will still be able to survive, because the space base will survive for at least a few decades until the power of the asteroid is diluted.

At that time, the "lyre" on the ground will be gone, so the capsule will not be able to land softly, and can only force its way into the atmosphere, relying on the surface of the glass fiber and phenolic resin composite materials to form a thermal shield to avoid ultra-high temperature combustion, and then landing by parachute, for the sake of insurance, all space capsules have this landing capability.

Within a decade, humanity will be able to avert any catastrophe equivalent to that that that that once occurred in the Earth's biosphere, which sounds very gratifying to humanity.

In a certain way, the space base is the greatest charity that Downing has done to all mankind, and since then mankind has become an unbeatable little powerhouse. So, what is the space base for? Now it is very clear that in order for mankind to be able to tenaciously survive, all scientific activities on the space station in the future will be based on this.

In the future, the Four Treasures of Space will become the Eight Treasures of Space and the N Treasures of Space, until human beings can "make" a biological product. With the completion of the space base, a "seed bank" will be built on the space base, similar to the seed bank of Kew Gardens, but of course the quantity and variety are much smaller, and can only ensure the survival of some common human crops.

Not to mention that the memory on the space station must be the first to obtain the genetic sequence information of each species detected by scientists on the ground.

In order to solve the problem of supplying the space base after being isolated, the space base should carry out the "primitive man plan". Primitive man relied heavily on animals for survival, wearing animal skins, eating animal meat, sewing needles made of fish bones, and houses of course with thatch, at most wood.

Factories capable of producing cotton directly from fertilizer and sunlight would have been of little use to the human economy, but were useful to primitive man schemes. One of the important goals of the Primitive Man Project was to make cotton balls directly out of the cotton mills, and cotton without buds.

After being able to produce unbudding cotton balls, Tang Ning imagined a palm-sized mini spinning machine, which could spin cotton balls directly into cotton rings, and use high-precision three-dimensional knitting technology to directly create "seamless" clothes. Even better, there are now electromagnetic LEGO bricks, which can be assembled into reusable models, and the future of 3D knitting technology combined with electromagnetic bricks will have a powerful machine capable of producing pure cotton fabrics.

A desktop cotton factory can produce a little cutie one day, and a small coat in three days, which is really cost-effective