Super industrial overlord

Chapter 474 Asteroid Belt
"Fire!" Following Wang Wei's lifetime order, the main gun of the Ziweixing No. 1 scientific research expedition ship sprayed out the fire of the liquid medicine again after more than two months.

"Boom!..." Counting 10 shells in a row, they flew towards the distant starry sky along with the boiled flames of Ziweixing 1 spacecraft.

At the same time, with the firing of the main gun of the spacecraft, the speed of the fast-moving Ziweixing 1 spacecraft was also slowed down at a speed visible to the naked eye amidst the dazzling fire.

The shells ejected from the main gun, under the action of the new type of gunpowder and the speed of the spaceship itself, the shells are gone, flying towards the target at a speed of nearly [-] kilometers.

After the cannonballs were launched, the speed of the spaceship they were on had slowed down to about 17 kilometers per second. For the vast and boundless solar system, this speed was like crawling like a snail. Without an order, the spacecraft immediately accelerated, but continued to fly forward at this speed.

At the same time, he also ordered the fire control and radar soldiers of the spacecraft to continue to pay attention to the movement of the meteorite.

Although it is said that with the current technology of human beings, it is not a big problem to hit a large meteorite in space that is far away from 50 kilometers away, but Wang Wei and the others are still not sure whether this large meteorite is in their place. was shattered in the attack.

At the same time, even if they smashed the meteorite, they must always be alert to the threat of meteorite fragments to them.

However, at this moment, the scientific researcher who was in charge of calculating the data before said to everyone with some embarrassment: "Captain Wang! When we calculated the data just now, there were some mistakes, that is, light propagates in the universe. , It also takes time. The meteorite was 50 kilometers away from us, and the meteorite we detected was actually two seconds ago. That is to say, the shell we just fired is very Might not be able to hit that meteorite."

"..." After he finished speaking, everyone in the spaceship turned their heads to look at him, and everyone was speechless for a while.

"Don't worry if you don't agree with me. Because of the backseat of the spacecraft's main gun just now, the speed of our spacecraft has dropped from 50 kilometers per second to about 17 kilometers per second. Meteorites collided, and before we reached the previous position, the meteorites had already passed by." The person who calculated your data said again.

"Okay! You win, you're the boss..." Suddenly, people in the spaceship complained.

"..."

"Okay, everyone, stop arguing! Turn on the engine of the airport and continue to accelerate to 50 kilometers per second. At the same time, everyone, you have already understood the situation just now.

According to this situation, we can boldly guess that the asteroid belt in the solar system is actually much more dangerous than we guessed. After all, we are still so far away from the asteroid belt, but even if it is such a long distance, our We can still encounter large asteroids on our voyage, which means that there are far more meteorites in the asteroid belt than we thought. "

Since there is still a distance of nearly 1.3 astronomical units between the asteroid belt and Mars, that is to say, a distance of nearly 2 million kilometers, even if the Ziweixing 1 spacecraft they are riding on at the fastest speed, every It will take nearly 100 days to reach the speed of more than 20 kilometers per second. If the acceleration and deceleration time is added, it will take them at least nearly a month to reach the outer edge of the asteroid belt.

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"Captain! We are about to reach the edge of the asteroid belt. Do we need to slow down?" After nearly a month of flight, the Ziweixing 1 Space Exploration Spaceship was finally safe and about to reach the asteroid belt However, because the width of the asteroid belt is very large, some are nearly 1.5 astronomical units in width, so in fact, the density of asteroids in the outer periphery of the asteroid belt is not high, and it can even be said to be very rare.

But at this time, Wang Wei and his spacecraft are still quite fast. Although they have already decelerated once, their speed has reached nearly 70 kilometers per second at this time. At such a high speed, flying in the asteroid belt, Even the outer reaches of the asteroid belt are quite dangerous.

Because at this speed, as long as there is a meteorite with a diameter of more than 50 centimeters, it is enough to destroy their entire spaceship, and in the entire asteroid belt, there are countless meteorites with a diameter of more than 50 centimeters. Speed, if you rush directly into the asteroid belt, it is too dangerous.

"Immediately reduce the speed to about 20 kilometers per second." Regarding this situation, Wang Wei, as the captain, was of course very clear, so he ordered immediately.

Following Wang Wei's order, the spacecraft began to slow down.

The asteroid belt is located in the solar system, the asteroid-intensive area between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the distance from the solar system and the core sun is about 2.17~3.64 astronomical units, and the overall width is about 1.5 astronomical units. According to previous detections of human civilization, the entire asteroid has as many as 50 asteroids in the densely populated area inside, of which there are more than 12 asteroids that have been numbered.

Of course, although in the interior of the asteroid belt, the number of asteroids in the dense area alone is as high as 50 grams or more, compared to the vast space of the entire asteroid belt, the density is actually not high.

In the past nearly half a century, human civilization has actually launched several space vehicles to pass here safely without any accidents.

As the speed of the spacecraft was finally reduced to a safe range, Wang Wei and the others also began to launch a large number of micro-satellites to the asteroid there. These satellites have different functions, including resource detection satellites, magnetic field detection satellites, and infrared detection satellites. Water resources exploration satellite and so on.

These large numbers of satellites will explore the route of the asteroid belt for Wang Wei and his spacecraft before they enter the asteroid belt, and explore the resources on the asteroids inside the asteroid belt, so as to mine the asteroid belt for human beings in the future. Various sources provide data.

"Captain, according to the data, we seem to have entered the outer edge of the asteroid belt, but according to the detection instruments of the spacecraft, within a radius of nearly a million kilometers centered on our spacecraft, no asteroids with a diameter of more than 10 There are asteroids more than [-] meters above the ground, is it because the data we provided before is wrong, and we have not reached the asteroid belt yet.” When the spacecraft entered the outer periphery of the asteroid belt, a staff member in the spacecraft asked Wang Wei with some doubts .

(End of this chapter)