After doing a final overall check, Hawke gave the order for ignition and launch.
A yellowish flame shot out from the tail of the rocket, and under the counter-thrust of the flame, the huge rocket began to rise slowly, faster and faster. A few seconds later, the rocket flew a few dozen metres into the air, tilted its body slightly and flew into the sky in the direction of Titan's rotation.
The advantage of this was that it could draw on a little of Titan's rotation, making it easier to reach orbital velocity and saving a lot of fuel.
The Wind God One helicopter rose to a height of 10,000 metres, where it silently watched the giant rocket as it flew higher and higher. During this launch event, Wind God One temporarily acted as a communications relay station.
A minute later, the rocket reached Titan's orbit around it, successfully separating from its engines before the module opened and the twelve satellites, linked in a fixed string, flew out.
This is the other side of Titan. They had been temporarily removed from Hawk's monitoring range because of the lack of adequate communications relay stations. These things, in other words, had disappeared from Hawke's gaze.
The next movements were no longer under Hawke's command, but relied on their own programmed operations.
Hawke waited silently on the ground. If all went well, in thirty minutes he would receive the signal transmitted back from the first satellite. This time, at most, would not exceed forty minutes. If, after forty minutes, Hawke had not received the signal back from the satellite, it would be proof that the launch had failed.
Hawke had confidence in the programmed segment he had reserved on the satellite, but he could not avoid some apprehension in his heart. As he watched the shrinking countdown, Hawke's heart was filled with anticipation.
A hundred kilometres from Titan in orbit, two strings of what looked like candy canes floated silently. They had gained a speed of 2.4 kilometres per second, a speed that exceeded Titan's first cosmic speed, so they weren't going to fall off.
Behind them were the remains of the rocket that had slowly fallen to the ground. The rocket had done its job and was about to fall to the ground, then disappear as it rubbed against the atmosphere.
The silence lasted only ten seconds. After ten seconds, the two strings of candy canes suddenly made a little noise, and then the thing that held them together suddenly snapped, and the two strings of candy canes became twelve separate individuals.
But their orbits, speeds and other parameters remained unchanged, so they maintained their previous appearance, flying forward in silent formation.
After another ten seconds or so, a faint pale blue flame suddenly emerged from the tails of these twelve things at the same time. Propelled by this pale blue flame, they moved away from each other in an orderly fashion, and when the distance between them was large enough, the pale blue flame suddenly grew larger, propelling them to fly away from each other quickly, like a flock of toads startled by lightning.
They were guided by their own reserved programs, each finding its own orbit.
On the ground, Hawke watched the time in disbelief. Half an hour had passed, but he still hadn't received any return signal.
"No hurry, no hurry, we still have ten minutes before the deadline." Hawke comforted himself with this. Then, just after this thought flashed, a series of radio waves came into Hawke's receiver.
"Report to base, Warlord One is working normally!"
"War God" was the code name Hawke had given to the satellites, War God One to War God Twelve.
"Excellent!" Upon receiving this return message, Hawk was overjoyed and immediately took over the control, ordering War God One to immediately contact the remaining eleven satellites.
"Reporting to the base, War God Seven is working normally!"
"Reporting to the base, War God IV is working normally!"
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"Report to base, War God No. 12 is working normally!"
Twelve satellites, all working normally!
Hawk let out a huge sigh of relief.
Since then, these satellites would be connected in the air to form a large net covering the entire planet. As long as the receiving and transmitting equipment was installed, Hawke could already contact anywhere above Titan's surface, unlike before when he could only narrow his control to a five-hundred kilometre radius.
"All right, Wind God One! Let's go!"
With the satellite network as a relay point for information, Hawke immediately dispatched the Wind God One helicopter and continued to probe along the same area as the previous probe.
Although Hawke had already made a rough three-dimensional map of Titan before landing on it, and had also made a rough detection of the mineral distribution, the accuracy of the detection at high altitude was not as good as the ground detection. In order to obtain more detailed information on the distribution of Titan's minerals, Hawke built Wind God One.
Hawke estimated that it would only take about three months for Wind God One to inspect the entire Titan, and then Hawke would select some valuable deposits and use Wind God One to transport some robots there to carry out field surveys. If there is value in mining, suitable mining and smelting equipment will be delivered.
After the satellite launch was over, Hawke started working on a new generation of computers.
There are many research directions for the next generation of computers on Earth, broadly speaking, there are photonic computers, quantum computers, neuron computers and so on. Hawke's main focus is on photonic computers. This is because photonic computers are the most practical and likely to be implemented.
Photonic computers have the advantages of low energy consumption and high computing speed. Hawke estimated that with the same volume and the same energy consumption, the photonic computer would be at least a few hundred times faster than his current ordinary computer.
At that time, the limitation of computing power would completely disappear, and even if Hawke built a few more bases, the computing power would be completely sufficient.
The original plan was to install a photonic computer on top of his ship. The original plan was to install a photonic computer on his ship, but because some technical barriers had not been overcome, Hawke had no choice but to use the current computer. However, Hawke's research on photonic computer technology could be considered the most profound on Earth.
Now, with the support of superb computing power and excellent innovative thinking, Hawke was able to break the technical barrier in just three months. The photonic computer has successfully moved from the laboratory to the application stage.
"With my current level of distributed computing technology, eh, the best solution is to use 300,000 photonic cpu's to assemble it. Any more than that, the level of distributed computing is not enough, instead it will cause a decrease in computing power."
Hawk made an estimate and immediately started the mass manufacturing of the photonic computer after getting a conclusion.
This time, the assembly location was in the middle of the base. Here, Hawke used the most advanced materials, and even had the "One" captured from Jupiter to help improve the performance of the materials, before he was assured that the machine room was built.
It could not be helped that Hawke would be living here for nearly a hundred years, so he could not help but be cautious. With this in mind, the room is so strong that even a nuclear bomb exploding at close range would have no effect on the interior of the room. The price paid is that the radiation intensity of "One" has been reduced by a full 20 percentage points.
Thousands of robots were busy in the machine room, placing photonic hard disks into the cabinets in order, and in the liquid hydrogen cooling pool, where robots were busy placing photonic CPUs in the slots soaked in liquid hydrogen.
The machine room, several hundred square metres in size, was divided into several small areas, with data storage areas, computing areas, linking areas, cache areas and so on. There are countless black-skinned optical fibres connecting every single component.
When the photonic computer was finished being built, Hawke couldn't wait to get here through the data lines. Then, with a slight turn of his head, immediately, its ultra-fast speed delighted Hawke.
In the past, it took Hawke three hours to calculate the electron operation and its effect on the final result of a controlled fusion reaction at five per cent of the total computing power, but now, it was calculated in just an instant, and even the calculation of a thousand trillion decimal places of pi took only a fraction of a second, which was a hundred times faster than before. According to Hawke's estimation, the speed of this photonic computer is definitely a thousand times faster than the original central computer!
Hawke was so happy that he immediately started the data transfer. The data generated in the years after leaving Earth had been stored on the original hard drives. If the hard drives were lost, it would mean that Hawke had forgotten all this knowledge and information. This was something Hawke would never allow.
It took almost three months for the huge amount of data, measured in pb, to be transferred to Hawke's new home.
All the original data interfaces were transferred to Hawke's new home, and the huge amounts of data still rolled in, but it was a ridiculous stream trying to break the dam in the face of Hawke's incredible computing power.
Hawke was at ease with the data in the sky, on the ground, and even underground, relaxed and comfortable.
During this time, Hawke had discovered a total of three hundred and sixty-five deposits of various kinds, ninety-six of which had mining value, basically covering all the elements currently needed. It was only titanium and zirconium, two extremely important metals for cosmic voyages, that no veins had been found, much to Hawke's regret.
"Relying on the companion mine method to obtain titanium and zirconium is too low a yield. Perhaps it's time to consider launching a ship to mine Earth's asteroid belt. But that would be after developing controlled fusion successfully."
"So, controlled fusion research begins!"