Chapter 1683 [Breaking news, the situation accelerates again]
It is now the 12th day after the launch, and the "Sky Survey Telescope" still needs to continue flying for more than two weeks to reach the Lagrange point L2.
During this process, the ground control center will not be idle. Professional technicians also need to fine-tune the lenses above, with an accuracy of less than nanometers, which is about one-seventy thousandth of the width of a human hair.
Through this fine-tuning, the images of several lenses can be brought together, and after computer processing, a complete galaxy image can be seen.
The adjustment process is still completed by motor control. Because of the high precision, the process will not be too fast, and the time is not fixed. It may be completed in a few days, or it may not be adjusted in one or two months.
On the 28th day, in October, the engine of the "Sky Survey Telescope" ignited for the third time, sending the telescope into the orbit of the L2 Lagrange point.
At this moment, the people in the ground control center cheered and applauded, hugged each other, and were all excited.
The chief engineer of the project was completely relaxed at this moment. During these 12 days, every participant in the entire project team was extremely nervous and stressed, because there were too many people paying attention to this time, far exceeding their expectations, all because of the major discovery on Mars.
But the person with the most pressure is the chief engineer of the project.
After all, this is a gold-eating monster project that took so many years and cost more than 70 billion yuan, and it condensed the efforts of thousands of scientists in many fields. If it failed, he dared not think of such a picture.
Fortunately, it succeeded!
At this moment, the chief engineer of the project said to several people next to him: "Prepare for a press conference, I will not participate, you go through the process."
After the arrangement, the project manager left the control center to rest.
In the next three to four months, the ground personnel will control the telescope to cool and calibrate until it reaches a good working state, and then it can be put into use.
The "Survey Telescope" mainly looks at infrared light, while the "Hubble Telescope" mainly looks at visible light.
The advantages and disadvantages of the two are obvious. Infrared light is less affected by nebula dust and can directly see the stars behind the nebula, while visible light can only see large areas of interstellar dust.
Although the "Hubble Telescope" also has some infrared capabilities and can take some infrared photos, it requires the celestial body to be relatively bright.
The "Survey Telescope" is different. Its orbit is far away, at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, and the heat dissipation is also very strong. It is equipped with a very sensitive and optimized infrared telescope, which can see the most distant and dimmest third-generation stars in the depths of the universe.
The sun belongs to the first-generation star, and the oldest star observed by humans now belongs to the second-generation star. So far, humans have not discovered the existence of the third-generation star. This is also one of the tasks of the survey telescope, to find the third-generation star.
The greatest ability of the "Survey Telescope" is to see the oldest galaxies. It is not a telescope that can see the farthest. There are telescopes of all bands, such as gamma rays, x-rays, ultraviolet rays, visible light, etc. The light of different bands has different effects.
There are also telescopes that can see farther, such as the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is a heat signal left about 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
The work that the "Sky Survey Telescope" has to do is a little later, about 13.6 billion years ago, the first batch of galaxies that were just born in the universe. After the Big Bang, until the first photon escaped, the universe began to light up, and then there was the evolution of galaxies, and this batch of galaxies is the legendary third star population.
The light produced by the first batch of galaxies in the universe spanned 13.6 billion years and was finally captured by the "Sky Survey Telescope". This moment is now also expected by many astronomers.
Searching for the third star population is just one of the tasks of the "Sky Survey Telescope".
In fact, it has not been put into use yet. The "schedule" of this telescope has been full several years ago, and it is directly scheduled for five years later, and it is still being scheduled.
Another key task is to observe planets outside the solar system. Although thousands of exoplanets have been discovered and confirmed, the way they were discovered is almost all indirect means, such as transit method, radial velocity method, microlensing method, pulsar timing method, astrometry, etc.
In addition, there is a direct imaging method. The biggest feature of this method is self-evident. There is no need for any complicated calculations. You only need to use a powerful telescope to directly take pictures of distant planets.
But this method is demanding, because the light of the planet will be obscured by the light of the parent star, so direct hardcore observation, ordinary astronomical telescopes are basically out of the question.
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At this moment, Fang Hong was watching a press conference, and it was the "Survey Telescope" project team that officially announced that the telescope successfully flew to the L2 Lagrange point.
"Finally it worked."
Fang Hong was quite satisfied. After all, it cost a lot of money to get the telescope up there. If the astronomical figure of more than 70 billion yuan was wasted, Fang Hong couldn't say that he didn't frown, and it would still be a bit painful.
If it fails, it can be basically determined that it will be impossible to restart the project in the next ten years.
Fang Hong couldn't say that it failed, and then spend hundreds of millions to build a second one. After all, this project is basically pure money. Unlike the Mars exploration project, the discovery of extraterrestrial life has great practical significance in the short term, and it can quickly realize strategic value from it, and the value of realization lies in the output of discourse power and values.
If the Mars exploration project fails, Fang Hong will not hesitate to continue to invest money to continue.
But if this telescope project fails, it is very likely that Fang Hong will not approve money again. How much pressure the team, especially the person in charge, is under can also be seen from this.
At this time, Tian Jiayi walked towards him: "Breaking news from the Middle East."
Fang Hong took the report and read it, and his eyes flashed. Just now, the squid was blown up, and the minibus was directly hit by a round of big rockets.
As expected, some major events have been accelerated and brought forward, and the timing has also been brought forward.
Fang Hong put away the information and said, "Notify my employees in the Middle East of the Galaxy Enterprise to pay attention to safety."
It is hard to say whether Amei can hold on until 2025 this time. If nothing unexpected happens, Squid will definitely jump into a super tiankeng this time. Once this wave of big rockets is blasted, Squid will not be able to bear it.
As for what will happen later, Fang Hong knows that Squid will be completely exposed after so many years of disguise, and even the little mustache will be washed away.
It has to be said that Squid is simply a group of eunuchs. Eunuchs cannot survive independently and can only rely on parasites. Without a master, it is nothing and will soon become a dog without a home.
Wandering for more than 2,000 years, it will be the same in the future. The ceiling of Squid is Zhao Gao, but Zhao Gao killed Hu Hai, and he himself died soon.
The Squid Ang Group is almost such a combination structure. As long as Angsha is finished, Squid will definitely be finished. No matter how powerful the eunuch is, he will be finished immediately once the emperor is gone.
For more than 2,000 years, the squid has never really managed a country, and managing a country requires generations of accumulation. The squid still wants to be the emperor. The only national entity since ancient times is the current one, and the squid has played it into such a mess that all the neighbors are enemies, not a single friend.
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