On March 1, 2022, not long after the Spring Festival, Luo Xiaoyao, Zhan Fei, Tang Boyuan, and Dong Zhifei, together with the other ten asteroid mining teams, came to the "Sky City" located in space early and prepared to embark on a long expedition.

Luo Xiaoyao and Zhan Fei are now one of the best astronauts of Fuyun Group and the most experienced astronauts. They basically travel back and forth between space for a long time, have very strong physical and psychological qualities, and are the captains and deputy captains of this operation.

Tang Boyuan and Dong Zhifei are top students who graduated from the Astronomy Department and are also the main decision makers of mining asteroids this time. They are not allowed to navigate the universe without astronomers. Especially for the technical job of mining asteroids, astronomers or scientists must calculate the mass of the asteroids, make up the components of the asteroids, etc., while maximizing the benefits of their own trip.

In addition to pilots and scientists, there are also responsible for driving small spacecraft, repairing spacecraft, responsible for communication, and life, etc. There are a total of ten people. Each of them has their own best field and also have some understanding of other fields. They can be considered versatile.

In this space, the second generation of "Hercules", commonly known as Dumbo, had already been built. At this time, its huge belly was slowly opening up, and the robotic arm was replenishing supplies, once the supplies and energy were replenishing it, it was time to set off.

"Your mission this time does not mean that you must bring back asteroids. Your mission is more like conducting a scientific experiment. The most important thing is safety first. Don't do anything dangerous. If you encounter a particularly urgent situation, you can give up the mission and return directly."

In the "City of Sky", Li Fu was seeing them off at this time. In fact, Li Fu didn't care much about how big and valuable asteroids they could bring back. What Li Fu cared about was that he wanted to use this incident to promote the power of China to march towards asteroids. Only by obtaining more resources in space can he build larger spacecraft, or even space warships, etc.

The huge resources contained in countless asteroids in the asteroid belt are definitely the best development and the easiest to obtain. Once the mining of asteroids becomes popular, China can obtain endless resources from space, and the space age will truly arrive.

"yes!"

Luo Xiaoyao and others responded respectfully, and at the same time they were slightly excited. They would become the first person to mine asteroids in human history and were destined to be famous in history. Although Fuyun Group is relatively low-key, the news is still known to the outside world. Now major media around the world are rushing to report this time.

"Brother Fu, the materials and energy have been fully replenished, and it's almost time to set off."

Chen Bin, chief engineer of Dumbo, floated over, looked at the time and said that the Dumbo outside had slowly closed its huge belly at this time, and had completed the replenishment of supplies and energy.

"Set off."

Li Fu gave a gentle order, watching Luo Xiaoyao, Zhan Fei and ten others floated into the distance.

Soon, ten people came into Dumboy, sat on their chairs, and fixed them.

"Connect Dumbo!"

Luo Xiaoyao was lying on the chair and connected to Dumbo's control system through the virtual machine in his hand.

"The system is connected successfully and starts to recognize biological brain waves."

"The brain waves are accurate. Welcome to Captain Luo Xiaoyao, Deputy Captain Zhan Fei, Tang Boyuan, and Dong Zhifei crew members..."

A series of information flashed through Luo Xiaoyao and others' minds. Biosensing technology is one of the ace technologies of Fuyun Group, and is naturally applied to spacecraft. All the aerospace planes, spacecrafts, etc. of Fuyun Group use virtual sensing control technology. If the corresponding biological brain waves are not input for binding and identification, you will not even think of flying the aerospace planes produced by Fuyun Group, etc.

“The communication signal is normal!”

“100% energy!”

“100% compressed air”

“…”

"It's perfect, and can be started at any time."

In Luo Xiaoyao's mind, various data about the spacecraft kept flashing. This was the spacecraft's self-test program that was being launched and checked the various states of the spacecraft.

"Control Center, Command Center, here is Dumbo, here is Dumbo. Dumbo requests takeoff, Dumbo requests takeoff, Dumbo requests takeoff, Dumbo requests takeoff."

"Take off and have a good time!"

After obtaining the takeoff permission, Dumbo's mechanical arm, which was fixed around him, slowly released, Dumbo slowly left the space port, and soon, its two high-power plasma engines began to eject a long and dazzling tail.

It is similar to the space plane flying to the moon. Dumbo first flew around the earth for dozens of times, and its speed became faster and faster. After reaching its ideal speed, it directly left the earth's orbit and flew straight to the outer edge of the solar system, heading towards asteroids hundreds of millions of kilometers away.

"The speed is 23 kilometers per second, coordinates X2323, Y9988, Z23678, and 40,000 kilometers away from the earth!"

"The communication is normal, the life maintenance system is normal, and the energy remaining is 99.8%.

"Continue to accelerate!"

In Luo Xiaoyao's mind, all the data about the spacecraft was displayed. The only command he needed to issue now was to accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate again.

This journey is too far. Even at a speed of 23 kilometers per second, the nearest straight line distance will take more than two months to reach the asteroid belt. If the distance is a little further and more than 200 million kilometers, it will take 4 months to arrive.

So Tang Boyuan and Dong Zhifei, who are responsible for positioning and navigation, are very busy at this time. They need to calculate the appropriate position of the spacecraft to arrive at the asteroid belt, and at what speed to fly to reduce time and energy consumption as much as possible, etc.

This not only takes into account the position, speed, direction, mass, etc. of the spacecraft, but also the position and speed of the earth. You must know that the earth is moving around the sun at a speed of dozens of kilometers per second at every moment. The most important thing is that these data are constantly changing, so the working pressure in this area is still very great.

At this time, the spacecraft had just set off not long ago. It did not take much to adjust the angle and direction, and the energy consumed was very small. Therefore, at this time, Tang Boyuan and Dong Zhifei controlled the supercomputer on the spacecraft to continuously calculate the spacecraft's route, energy consumption, the location of the asteroid belt, the orbit of the earth, the position of the position, etc.

"Adjust the direction by 2.21 degrees, start the left wing auxiliary engine."

Taking advantage of the fact that adjusting the direction and position is more energy-saving, Tang Boyuan and others did not hesitate and kept in contact with the command center. The supercomputer constantly simulated various possibilities. At the same time, the spacecraft also constantly modified the direction, etc.

The direction of the spacecraft is the same as the direction of the earth's revolution. The purpose is naturally to save distance when returning and fly to the front of the orbit of the earth in advance. If you fly in the opposite direction, you will really have to wait until next year to return.

"The speed is 50.12 km per second, the direction is adjusted, the engine is turned off, and the inertial flight begins!"

A few days later, with the continuous acceleration of two powerful plasma engines, the spacecraft's speed has reached a speed of 50 kilometers per second. This speed is the final speed obtained by Tang Boyuan, Dong Zhifei and many scientists here at the Earth Control Center. No matter how fast the speed is, the energy consumed by acceleration will increase in geometric multiples. At that time, deceleration will waste too much energy, so it is very unnecessary to continue to accelerate.

If the speed is too slow, it will take a long time to arrive at the small belt. At that time, you may miss the closest distance to the earth. It will be very troublesome to return to the earth, and it may even have to wait another year before you can.

The engine was turned off and the direction was finally determined. There was nothing left to do. The ten people on Dumbo can easily exercise, contact their families on Earth through virtual machines, etc., reading, learning, playing games, etc., which is the easiest time.

Of course, this ease is only relative. The spacecraft is flying in the void. If it looks like it is not changing at all, just like it is floating quietly in the void. Only by constantly positioning the massive planets in the solar system through the radar, laser rangefinder, etc. on the spacecraft can we know that the spacecraft is constantly flying towards the outer periphery of the solar system.

This long trip is very boring and boring. In addition, for the sake of their health, astronauts need to exercise unremittingly for at least 4 hours a day.

Exercising in space is not as simple as the ground. They need to step on a specially designed bicycle, which is very difficult and requires pulling, etc. They need to exercise every important bone on the body to prevent the calcium from being lost. Otherwise, once they return to the earth, they will suffer a lifelong paralysis.

In addition, the scenery in the starry sky seems to be always unchanged, and it can only turn back and open towards the direction of the earth. The earth becomes smaller and smaller until it cannot be seen with the naked eye, and can only be observed through a telescope.

The time it takes to buffer the connection with the earth is getting longer and longer, from the first delay of 1 second to the delay of 2 seconds, the spacecraft is getting farther and farther away from the balloon.

Fortunately, the application of the virtual machine and the implementation of Li Fu have already made Chen Bin's newly added plant planting area smooth along the way, and nothing happened.

One month later, the spacecraft flew through the Mars orbit, and was very close to the asteroid belt, and it was about to resist the destination soon!

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