This first test ignition did not last long and no actual flight took place. Just over ten minutes after it left the ground more than ten meters away, it landed under the control of Li Qingsong and the engine was shut down. Afterwards, the clones guarding nearby rushed forward, used a variety of tools to cut it into pieces, and began to check one by one what changes had taken place in the various components that made it up during the process. Among them, the engine system and injection system are particularly important. So Li Qingsong saw that after only a dozen minutes of jetting, due to the high temperature and high pressure, some unexpected changes had occurred in the engine components and injector components. "This won't work. We still need to continue to adjust and optimize." A simple "optimization and adjustment" becomes an extremely complex and comprehensive project involving multiple disciplines in reality. On Earth, this kind of thing would be impossible to accomplish without tens of thousands of people working on it for a year or two. But on Luoshen Star, the situation is different. At this moment, the total population under Li Qingsong's command has reached million, and the number of consciousness connections has increased to 600,000. Correspondingly, the number of clones working in the scientific research base, completely off-duty, and wholeheartedly responsible for improving technology has also increased to 300,000.
In a civilization, half of the population is engaged in scientific research. What does this mean? Compared with human civilization, although the population has increased to tens of billions, if all scientific research population are counted - even the number of science and engineering students currently studying in college, the total scientific research population of the entire civilization is only about 600 million, accounting for only 6%. But just this 6% of the scientific research population has pushed the development of human civilization to an extremely high level, and even has the ability to launch a spacecraft to carry Li Qingsong to Luoshen, a planet on the edge of the solar system, for scientific research. At this moment, Li Qingsong's scientific research strength is more than just 50%. These 300,000 scientific research clones all have knowledge reserves in all disciplines, and there is no communication cost between them. They work 24 hours a day, all year round, without any internal friction, and all their energy is invested in scientific research. All in all, a rough estimate shows that one of his scientific clones is equivalent to 20 human scientists. This is equivalent to 6 million high-quality scientific researchers conducting scientific research! At this moment, about 50,000 scientific research clones, equivalent to approximately 1 million human scientists, are engaged in the optimization and adjustment of the aircraft. So, just three days later, a new optimization plan was ready, and five days later, a new aircraft prototype was built. This time, it flew to a height of several hundred meters, traveled several kilometers, and lasted for half an hour. Then came further optimization and adjustments, which were repeated over and over again. Finally, half a year later, a finalized mass-production model aircraft was finally built. "ignition!" At a command, the liquid methane and liquid oxygen stored in the fuel tank of the aircraft, which still maintained its hemispherical shape, were released into the combustion chamber under the control of the automatic chip. Electric ignition equipment ignited them and they immediately began to burn violently, expanding rapidly in volume, and causing the temperature and pressure to rise sharply. Through specially designed jet pipes, these high-temperature and high-pressure gases are guided to the bottom of the aircraft and ejected from below. Then the aircraft slowly took off. After liftoff, the gas jet from below weakened and began to jet from behind, and the spacecraft began to move, flying faster and higher. Because Roselle has no atmosphere, it is impossible to use air buoyancy to maintain altitude, so the spacecraft must always keep jetting when descending, otherwise it will fall. The process of jetting downwards to maintain the altitude of the spacecraft and jetting backwards to control the speed of the spacecraft is completely adjusted automatically by the chip, and the clone only needs to input the corresponding instructions.
At the same time, flying on Luoshen has another advantage, that is, there is no air resistance. Once it accelerates to a sufficient speed, it only needs to maintain the altitude, and it can continue to fly under the action of inertia. This saves a lot of fuel. The first finalized spacecraft manufactured by Li Qingsong flew around the star Luoshen at a speed of up to 2,000 kilometers per hour in several hours. Then, after a sharp deceleration, it hovered over the test site again. Facing the nozzle below, it sprayed violently, pushing it to the ground steadily at a relatively slow speed. After another comprehensive inspection and confirmation that everything was as expected, Li Qingsong immediately gave the order. Mass production! Over the years, Li Qingsong has always been troubled by the slow circulation of goods. Bulk cargo does not require speed, such as ore, which can be transported slowly along the railway line. But some small, special goods, such as a base urgently needs certain parts, a chip factory has produced more advanced chips to be rolled out on a large scale, a base urgently needs more clones to supplement, and so on, these goods and personnel have to be transported slowly by train, which is unbearable. Now, the spacecraft named "Feitian Type 1" by Li Qingsong has been finalized and put into mass production, which can make up for the shortcomings in this part and further enhance the comprehensive productivity of the entire base cluster. "It's a pity that at this stage, the Feitian-1 spacecraft can only operate near the surface of Luoshen Star and cannot enter space. It can't be considered a real spacecraft." Li Qingsong felt a little regretful: "But it doesn't matter. Anyway, here on Luoshen, airplanes and spacecraft are the same thing. During mass production and subsequent large-scale use, the shortcomings of Feitian-1 will continue to be exposed, and I can optimize them accordingly. Once it is optimized to a certain degree and its performance is improved to a certain level, its maximum speed will naturally exceed 830 meters per second, exceeding the first cosmic speed of Luoshen and entering orbit. " At present, the maximum speed of Feitian-1 is 2,000 kilometers per hour, about 550 kilometers per second, which is still a long way from the speed of 830 kilometers per second. Of course, even if it reaches this speed, it can only orbit around Luoshen. To escape its gravitational field and enter space, the speed must reach about kilometers per second, or 4,320 kilometers per second. With the finalization of the Feitian-1, the spacecraft industrial base, which had been built in advance but never put into production, finally received definite specifications and production standards. Tens of thousands of clones were immediately put into the production line. After a series of debugging and adjustments, the production line finally began to operate at full capacity. Not long after, a large number of Type 1 Feitian spacecraft began to appear in the sky of Luoshen, dragging long tails of flames and roaring in the sky.