The fission and fusion of atoms will bring about mass loss, and this mass loss contains huge energy. Einstein's mass-energy conversion equation indicates that this is almost endless energy!

The disaster of World War II was also an era of rapid development for technology. The atomic bomb was developed rapidly during World War II. Later, nuclear reactors were invented, so that humans could use nuclear energy peacefully to serve human production and life.

At the same time, nuclear energy is also targeted by space agencies. If nuclear energy can be used in space, it will greatly increase the source of energy!

The first one to be used was of course nuclear batteries! Many of the Soviet reconnaissance satellites used nuclear batteries, which provided much higher power than solar panels. At the same time, nuclear batteries have strong durability. The Voyager probe launched by the United States has been working for a long time since leaving the solar system and is still working because of its powerful performance.

However, how to use nuclear power on rockets is a very worthy issue. After all, nuclear explosions are simple and nuclear batteries are also simple. However, how to directly use nuclear power to promote the rocket?

In this regard, the Americans have a lot of ideas and have come up with a simple solution. They use small-equivalent atomic bombs to explode one after another at the tail of the rocket. The propulsion disc installed behind the rocket can absorb the shock waves generated by the explosion and gain power! This is the Orion solution.

It can be imagined that the process of this thing taking off is like a jellyfish in the ocean, jumping around. Every time an atomic bomb is thrown away, the rocket will jump upward for a distance. The process is enough to make people frightened!

During the takeoff stage, a small atomic bomb with a TNT equivalent of 100 tons per second was detonated. When the rocket reached a certain speed and altitude, the detonation rate dropped to one every 10 seconds. Since it was already far away from the ground, the nuclear bomb with a 20,000 tons equivalent was detonated at this time.

At that time, Americans had already used conventional bombs to test, which was feasible, but this thing was finally still in the womb. After all, it was too crazy to directly detonate the nuclear bomb!

So, in the end, they all turned to a nuclear-powered rocket engine similar to a liquid rocket. The United States designed NERVA nuclear-powered rocket engine, whose fuel is mainly uranium 235 or pomrox 239. It uses nuclear splitting fuel to generate heat and heat the working fluid in the combustion chamber to make it eject. Generally, hydrogen with the lowest molecular weight is used as the working fluid to obtain the reaction force to achieve the highest jet speed.

Why can't ordinary chemical rockets be used? Because these ordinary rockets can only work for a few hundred seconds, but consume tons of fuel! If they fly to Mars with chemical rockets, the rocket will ignite for a few hundred seconds and push the spacecraft to accelerate, the remaining long range will be the process of continuously flying by inertia, which is quite long!

In this regard, the original Saturn 5 is a typical example. Its first stage is equipped with 2,075 tons of liquid oxygen kerosene propellant. Once the engine is ignited, it can "drink" all of these "drinks" in 2 minutes and 34 seconds. However, it is only enough to send a 47 tons of payload to the moon. A large part of the take-off thrust of 3,500 tons is used to "torn" the rocket itself and more than 2,000 tons of fuel. The propulsion efficiency of this rocket is inefficient.

The advantage of using a nuclear reactor to heat the working fluid is that it does not require a very large oxidant, but only needs to carry liquid hydrogen with a relatively small mass. Compared with a chemical rocket, the total speed can reach a very high speed. Moreover, it lasts for a long time.

By 1972, the power of the NERVA-2 engine designed by the United States reached 5,000MW and had a continuous thrust of 90 tons. Although the thrust was not large, in outer space, as long as there was thrust, the spacecraft could be continuously accelerated!

The design of the United States was only stopped on the sketch, and at most it simply carried out prototype experiments. However, the Soviet Union carried out practical development, which is the RD-0410 nuclear rocket engine!

Like the nuclear-powered rockets in the United States, the principle of this engine is to use the fission heat energy generated by the reactor to heat the working medium, that is, the propellant, to a very high temperature, and then spray the high-temperature and high-pressure working medium from the nozzle at a high speed, thus generating huge driving force.

The Soviet Union, which has always been at the forefront of space technology, has never given up on the development of this rocket engine! Until now, this engine has finally developed and has been installed on the rocket!

At the same time, this engine has been further modified, which is manifested as not only providing thrust, but also providing electricity! After all, when a spacecraft is flying, it also requires a certain amount of power supply! Especially after entering deep space, it is getting farther and farther away from the sun, and the efficiency of solar panels will become lower and lower.

Andre is not the general secretary of the Soviet Union, but as the successor, he has now fully presided over the various tasks of the Soviet Union! Before Putin arrived, Andre was reading this document. Now, after the exchange with Putin, Andre said: "I have been spending the Kremlin in the past few months. Now, it's time to go out for a walk. We want to go to the launch site to see our rocket launch this time."

Andre has not gone out in the past few months, and of course he has other concerns. How serious is the secret Freemasonry infiltration into the Soviets? Although Andre is not afraid of revenge by any force, Andre knows that now, his personal safety is related to the future of the entire Soviet, so he must be careful. If he goes out casually and is shot by someone, that would be stupid.

Now, a few months are enough to clean up the conspirators. At this time, Andrei should also show up to the public. Andrei really wants to go and see it! Moreover, after becoming the successor of the General Secretary, Andrei has been exposed to more secrets, which are not only related to the Soviets, but also to the entire human race.

"Marson Andre, Varisi is a very competent guard captain. He can protect your consideration. At the same time, our KGB department will do its best to ensure your travel safety." Putin said.

Varisi was Andre's guard captain before Putin became Andre's follower, and also came from the Far East Military Region. Varisi's loyalty was completely reliable.

"Well, the special plane needs to be inspected," Andre said: "At the same time, make a backup plan."

The last time Andre came back, the supersonic business passenger plane was tampered with. After that, after Putin took over as the chairman of the KGB, he immediately launched an investigation and found two or three people serving the Freemason. Boris alone did not have that much energy at all, so he reached over Andre. At the same time, a traitor was also removed from the Soviet aircraft carrier, which revealed Andre's whereabouts.
Chapter completed!