258: Chapter 258 Three Major Projects Sprint at breakneck speed, unlocking one door per week!

Su Che stayed in the development zone office for less than ten minutes before heading downstairs.

He went to the Dyson Cloud project team first.

Eric Weir stood in the center of the laboratory, with a holographic model of a sun floating in front of him, surrounded by three orbital belts of different colors.

Academician Qian Zhenhua and Zhao Mingyuan sat on either side, with dense waveform data jumping on the screens in front of them.

"Chief, the preparations for the first phase of the stellar global survey are ready."

Eric Weir pulled up the production line footage, "The first batch of twelve multi-band detection satellites came off the Zhulong Production Line three days ago. They are undergoing final pre-launch checks and will all be deployed within the next two days."

Su Che walked behind Academician Qian Zhenhua and glanced at the communication architecture diagram on his screen.

"Is the communication backhaul link for the survey satellites set up?"

Academician Qian Zhenhua swiped his finger on the touchpad, and a communication network topology map covering the entire inner Solar System popped up.

"The main ground backbone link is connected, and the latency is controlled at the millisecond level. Once the satellites are in orbit, the global networking will be complete, and data can be transmitted back to the data center in real-time."

"Zhao Mingyuan, has the energy regulation unit for the deep space main AI been connected?"

Zhao Mingyuan sprang up from his chair, and the goji berries in his pocket almost spilled out.

"The ports are all adapted! Once the satellite data comes in, the main AI can connect directly and automatically analyze stellar wind intensity and gravitational field distribution. The efficiency is several orders of magnitude faster than manual work."

Su Che walked around the laboratory and patted Eric Weir on the shoulder.

"Speed up the progress on the first phase of orbital calibration and resource reserve scanning."

Eric Weir nodded, "The fastest construction period is three months. We will strive to complete it within three months."

Su Che didn't reply and turned to leave.

The third-generation Nantianmen Fleet project team was in the building next door.

Soren Kesh, along with Academician Sun Qiwen and Wen Bo, were gathered in front of a prototype of an antimatter magnetic confinement storage tank.

The prototype was only the size of a refrigerator, with a silver-gray alloy shell and dense superconducting coils wrapped around the surface.

Academician Sun Qiwen squatted on the ground, scanning the bottom of the prototype with an infrared thermal imager.

"The cooling circuit is initially running, and the temperature difference is currently within the design threshold. We will need to calibrate it further during the long-term test."

Soren Kesh pulled up the magnetic field distribution map of the superconducting magnetic confinement coil nearby.

"The operating temperature of the coil is stable at minus 269 degrees. We just completed the first short-term vacuum test and are gradually extending the operating duration."

Wen Bo walked over from the materials laboratory, holding a piece of high-temperature superconducting sample the size of a fingernail.

"The first batch of superconducting samples has just been made. We are preparing to measure the critical temperature to see if it meets the design requirements."

Academician Zhang Weide sat at a workstation in the corner, with the structural stress simulation diagram of the antimatter storage tank displayed on the holographic screen in front of him.

He rotated the simulation model at an angle and used a stylus to draw a circle at the junction of the tank wall.

"Preliminary simulations show that the stress at this node is a bit concentrated. I am thinking of adding stiffeners to keep the deformation within the safe range."

Su Che stood at the door for a while, didn't disturb them, and turned to go to the Lunar Base Dry Dock project team.

Talia Knox was having a video conference with Zhou Dehai and Academician Chen Shian.

On the holographic screen, real-time footage of the wasteland on the south side of the crater on the far side of the moon was being transmitted back.

Six main buildings stood on the gray-white lunar surface, and a swarm of autonomous construction robots was leveling the foundation on the southern wasteland.

Zhou Dehai made a gesture to the camera, "The robot swarm has all entered the site and is leveling the surface of the southern wasteland, while simultaneously test-firing lunar soil bricks to calibrate parameters."

Academician Chen Shian continued to report, "The prefabricated life support pipelines for the living quarters are all ready. Once the foundation is formed, we will move in to lay them. The first batch of rotation personnel is expected to go up next month."

Talia Knox pulled up the design drawings of the Dry Dock on the holographic screen.

"Once the building material tests meet the standards and full-scale construction begins, the main framework should take about two months to take shape."

Su Che reviewed the initial progress of the three project teams in his mind and returned to his office.

For the next month, he spent almost every day running back and forth between the three project teams.

...

In the first week, the twelve launched detection satellites were stably operating in orbit, continuously transmitting streams of raw observation data.

The laboratory screens constantly refreshed with scattered observation data such as the sun's instantaneous luminosity and real-time stellar wind intensity.

Relying on the materials transmitted back from the first batch, the team initially built the basic framework of the stellar observation model.

Academician Qian Zhenhua completed the single-satellite docking test for the Quantum Communication link of the survey satellites and was debugging the twelve-satellite networking channels section by section, paving the way for stable full-network transmission later.

Zhao Mingyuan completed the port matching between the main AI and the satellite system, and the AI began to preliminarily sort the massive observation data.

Academician Li Zhengyang collaborated with Eric Weir on modeling and initially built the prototype of the laser energy transmission model, with various orbital parameters still being continuously calculated and fine-tuned.

In the second week, the antimatter project team ran into trouble.

When Soren Kesh was testing the antimatter magnetic confinement vacuum storage technology, he found that the magnetic field of the superconducting coil would exhibit weak resonance phenomena at specific frequencies.

Once the resonance was amplified, the magnetic confinement field would fluctuate, potentially leading to antimatter leakage.

Academician Sun Qiwen spent the night troubleshooting the cooling circuit and ruled out the influence of temperature fluctuations.

Wen Bo put the microstructure of the superconducting material under an electron microscope for three days but couldn't find the cause.

Finally, Academician Zhang Weide approached it from the perspective of structural mechanics and found that a certain welding node on the shell of the storage tank produced tiny mechanical resonance under the high-frequency magnetic field, which in turn interfered with the coil.

Academician Zhang Weide redesigned the welding process and shifted the resonance frequency of that node outside the operating frequency band of the coil.

Problem solved.

Soren Kesh patted Academician Zhang Weide on the back and said something in Kairos. The translation chip conveyed the meaning as "Beautiful."

In the third week, the Lunar Dry Dock project team also hit a snag.

When the autonomous construction robots were pouring the foundation for the Dry Dock, they encountered an area where the lunar soil layer was unusually hard.

When the lunar soil brick forming machine heated and activated the lunar soil in this area, it found that the silicate content was low, and the bricks produced did not meet the strength standards.

Zhou Dehai reported this problem in the video conference.

"We need to bring in lunar soil from other areas to mix, or transport polymer binders from Earth for reinforcement."

Talia Knox thought for a moment and pulled up the lunar geological exploration data.

"No need to transport from Earth. There is a piece of basaltic lunar soil on the east side of the crater with a silicate content of over fifty percent. Just bring the lunar soil from that area and mix it."

Zhou Dehai adjusted the robot's operation route that day. Three days later, the strength of the lunar soil bricks returned to normal.

Academician Chen Shian also completed the first full-load test of the life support system.

Life support pipelines, atmospheric circulation, and temperature and humidity control all met the standards.

In the fourth week, the testing work for the three major projects continued.

On the terminal screens of the Dyson Cloud project team, dense orbital mapping data was constantly refreshing, and staff continuously compared observation parameters to improve the orbital calculation model.

In the antimatter laboratory, everyone repeatedly debugged the prototype parameters and simulated structural improvement plans over and over again.

In the remote monitoring footage of the lunar infrastructure, robots continued to work on the lunar surface, performing site preparation and building material test-firing work.

Su Che stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of his office, watching the engineering vehicles and crowds coming and going in the development zone outside.

One month, three projects, all moving.

The communicator rang, it was Kayla's channel.

"Chief, in one month, you have only unlocked four doors, basically one door per week. You can come back for the acceptance check."

"Okay, I'll be there in a moment."

Su Che picked up his coat and left the office.

...

The shuttle took off from Su Family Village airport and landed at the docking passage on the side of the Genesis twenty minutes later.

Su Che walked through the corridor and went to the thirty-third door first.

Allen Reed stood in the cabin behind the door, with a huge holographic energy flow chart in front of him.

The chart marked the input ports and conversion paths of four types of energy: fusion energy, solar energy, stellar radiation energy, and gravitational energy, in different colors.

"Chief, this multi-mode energy conversion system has completed all parameter calibrations."

Allen Reed pulled up a set of comparison data, "Previously, the energy utilization efficiency of the entire ship was about sixty-seven percent, and now it has increased to over eighty-nine percent."

Su Che watched the four colored light bands on the energy flow chart converge into the core module in the center.

"Can it switch automatically when a single energy source is interrupted?"

Allen Reed performed a simulation test on the control panel.

He directly closed the input port for fusion energy, and the red light band representing fusion energy on the hologram instantly extinguished.

Zero point two seconds later, the yellow light band of solar energy flared up, filling the gap.

Throughout the process, the lights in the cabin didn't even flicker.

"The switching time is zero point two seconds. No system on the entire ship will perceive an interruption."

Su Che nodded and walked toward the thirty-fourth door.

A gravitational wave monitoring map covering a range of one hundred light-years was spread out on the holographic screen.

On the map, every gravitational wave source was marked with a flashing light spot, accompanied by parameters such as the type of wave source, distance, and intensity.

"This gravitational wave early warning detection system captures real-time gravitational disturbances within one hundred light-years, combined with the stellar spectral evolution database for long-term deduction."

Friedman, the team leader of the three groups, pointed to a light spot on the screen with his finger.

"For example, this one, a pair of neutron stars fifty-two light-years away are continuously spiraling closer. Based on the orbital decay data calculation, they will merge and explode in three million years."

Su Che leaned in to look at the data next to the light spot.

"For long-distance cosmic catastrophes, how long a cycle of prediction can the system provide?"

"Long-term stellar evolution deduction can reach hundreds of thousands of years, while gravitational waves themselves can only capture instantaneous bursts."

Friedman pointed to another light spot.

"A distant red supergiant was observed in this star field. The evolution model calculates that its core collapse catastrophe will occur in about eighty thousand years. It just happened to drift into our hundred-light-year monitoring boundary."

"What about short-range sudden emergencies?"

"Once an instantaneous gravitational storm occurs, the warning window is only a few hours to a few days. The system will immediately generate avoidance routes."

Friedman demonstrated it on the console.

He simulated a gravitational wave burst event at a distance of ten light-years, and the system did so the moment it detected the signal.

It automatically generated three optimal avoidance routes, each clearly marking the expected safe distance and travel time.

After understanding, Su Che walked towards the thirty-fifth door.