Chapter 946 (1/2)

At the end of the week-long visit, international friends invited by star ring trade began to return home.

The long, strip-shaped car runs from the edge of the star ring to the center track and begins to fall down the narrow elevator track. At almost the same time, at the other end of the main axis of the star ring, the dark blue arc flickered for a short time, and a black spot was thrown into the vast universe

”Hoo.”

With a breath, the driver moved his stiff fingers, moved his right hand on the joystick, gently moved his thumb and turned off the breathing aid.

Although he was injected with drugs to strengthen his physical fitness and carried out compression training, he could still squeeze out the last trace of air in his chest if there was no breathing aid and decompression cabin, an acceleration of nearly 12g and an acceleration time of more than one minute.

After moving his stiff neck, Liu Qingpeng opened the dial on the holographic helmet.

Half a year ago, he emigrated to the new country through the immigration policy of space volunteers. Originally, he only planned to work as an electrician for two or three years, but he did not expect to become an employee of star ring trade because of his talent in some aspects, and eventually became the pilot of electric ray P-1.

The plan was half a month ahead of schedule, but it had no effect on him. Although it was his first flight mission, his performance was quite calm. After all, in virtual reality, he did not know how many hours he had flown. Now, with your eyes closed, you can drive this space plane to the asteroid bernu.

There is no reference in the sky, and even if he is away from the earth at a speed of 2 km / s, he can not tell with his naked eyes that there is any change in the sky ahead.

Pointing to the operation panel, Liu Qingpeng opened the voice control system.

”Open the task beacon.”

The side lights of the helmet flickered slightly, and in front of him appeared an asteroid made of three-dimensional lines, with an overline marked ”Bennu” drawn above the asteroid.

Then, a pale yellow path floats in the field of view, drawing a slightly curved arc from the 1 cockpit of the electric ray P-1 to the position of the asteroid.

”The route is set.”

”Plasma engine output power 40%.”

”Forward!”

In the deep and dark starry sky, the tail of the torpedo P-1 swings out a layer of faint blue light particles and turns into an arrow leaving the string.

……

In the ground command center, a figure of a man and a woman stood in front of a large screen, watching the real-time images transmitted back more than 400000 kilometers away.

Outside the atmosphere, speed and distance are always monotonous characters. If you put the number of four hundred thousand kilometers back on earth, it would be enough to circle the equator ten times. However, for the ray X-1 series, which cruises at a high speed of 20 km / s, the flight time is less than half of the civil aviation flight from Shangjing to California.

After hearing that the first mining spaceship arrived, Jiang Chen came to the space launch center.

Out of curiosity, Xia Shiyu also followed.

In the picture, P-1, which has finished decelerating, turns off its engine and slowly approaches the asteroid intertwined by graphene cables.

The torpedo with its mining module unfolded is like a water spider, with pale blue light blades popping up at the ends of the first two robotic arms. It's not a laser knife, it's an ion jet at tens of thousands of degrees. Such a high temperature can even poke a hole in the steel with just a touch, so it's natural to use it to cut minerals.

Two laser knives crisscross and cut two holes on the ore body without any suspense. Two other robotic arms, like two pincers, snapped to the asteroid's shell. The two forearm tools changed from laser knife to two alloy hammer like props, which were smashed up along the incision.

Xia Shiyu was surprised to see that the ore block was separated from the ore body by the electric ray P-1 three times and five parts two times.

It was strange to see a look of surprise on her face.