Aldebaran
Capella, this is the Star System humanity has now arrived in, belonging to the constellation Auriga. As usual, the human fleet did not stop here for long. After resupplying and building some more Hibernation Pod as a supplement, the fleet continued its journey into Starry Road.
The voyage continues. After Capella completes all the supplies, energy, and spacecraft repairs and upgrades, humanity plans to embark on a long voyage, with the target being Aldebaran, 35.99 light-years away.
Having gained experience from previous short-distance voyages, humanity has a very good understanding of hibernation travel and the performance of spacecraft. The journey of 35.99 light-years will take about 240 years. Because the distance is much greater than previous voyages, most of humanity will have to go into hibernation this time.
During the 360 years of travel, the human population has increased from over one million to four million one hundred and fifty thousand, and fourteen of the fifteen Residential Spaceship are now full.
Sociologists predict that after this voyage, the human population will increase to around 4.4 million, enough to fill the fifteen Residential Spaceship. Therefore, the New Government plans to make a long-term stay after arriving at Aldebaran to build more Residential Spaceship and expand its warship fleet.
Humans have already detected the general situation of Aldebaran. It is Binary Star System consisting of an Orange Giant Star and a Red Dwarf Star. The Orange Giant Star has a Giant Gas Planet, and such Gaseous Planet usually have Rocky Satellite.
Moreover, there is also a Red Dwarf Star. Although no planets have been detected by various observations so far, planets usually exist on Red Dwarf Star, since it is a stable Binary Star System.
As usual, we set sail and hibernate.
The Great Hibernation is like pressing the pause button on human aging. Coupled with the existence of Life Elixir, during a journey of more than two hundred years, most humans only grow for fifty or sixty years. Medical gene technology also makes it so that humans almost never die from disease, which is one of the reasons for the steady population growth.
During this voyage, Yue Yuan only woke up once. When he woke up for the second time, the human fleet was already close to Aldebaran.
According to the normal long-term hibernation awakening process, it takes one to two months to adapt after waking up. However, after physical strengthening, the overall physical quality of humans has been greatly improved, and the corresponding hibernation awakening adaptation time has been shortened from two months to less than one day.
Like Yue Yuan, he felt completely recovered after only two hours of adjustment.
Before the human fleet arrived at Aldebaran, advance Scout Spaceship had already explored the entire Binary Star System. Just as scientists had speculated, the Orange Giant Star in the Binary Star System possessed Rocky Satellite, and more than one.
However, Red Dwarf Star in Binary Star System do not have planets.
No major problem. As long as there are Rocky Planet, they represent an inexhaustible source of energy and resources for humanity. Moreover, to avoid encountering Star System without Rocky Planet, during these centuries of travel, humanity has also developed a device specifically for extracting gas resources from Gaseous Planet.
Of course, instead of simply laying a pipe down to extract the hydrogen, they created a Hydrogen Collector and installed it on an unmanned resource gathering spacecraft, which then ventured into the outer reaches of the Giant Gas Planet.
Thanks to its specialized technology, this thing can open like an umbrella while it's working, and after collecting the materials, it can be folded up onto the spaceship and then fly back into space.
However, now that we have Rocky Planet, humans naturally don't need to go through all that trouble to collect Hydrogen Element.
After assessing the fleet's posture and completing its deceleration, Yue Yuan arrived at the bridge as usual, where all the staff had already returned to their posts.
"Have all the Probe Spaceship been launched?" Stepping onto the bridge of the Lyra, Yue Yuan casually asked, looking at the busy staff.
"Commander Yue, all the Probe Spaceship have been dispatched, centered on Aldebaran!"
"Yes! We must pay close attention to the movements from all sides. The universe is different from the ground; there are many more aspects to consider." Yue Yuan walked to the large screen, and with the staff's reply, the current location and direction of the Probe Spaceship were all marked on the star map on the large screen.
Yue Yuan glanced at the information and found that there were about a hundred Probe Spaceship, the farthest of which was 0.3 light-years away from humanity.
"Cross the Asteroid Belt and head towards the target planet's orbit!" After watching for a while, Yue Yuan instructed the helmsman.
The Asteroid Belt located in the outermost orbit of the Giant Gas Planet, but it is not entirely distributed along their ecliptic plane. In images, it looks a bit like a bunch of satellites orbiting the Earth. About half of the asteroids are located along the equatorial plane of the other giant planets, while the other half are distributed somewhat haphazardly.
Astronomers speculate that the formation may have been caused by two Rocky Planet on the outer edge of the planet being Gravity disturbed at some point, eventually colliding with each other.
The specific details of the formation process will require long-term observation of the Asteroid Belt to obtain the answers.
It's not too early, because humans have discovered that these asteroid fragments are not small particles like Saturn's rings, but vary in size, ranging from one or two kilometers to seventy or eighty kilometers.
The Asteroid Belt inner orbit, and there are two Rocky Planet, one large and one small. The larger one is about the size of Mars, while the smaller one is smaller than the Moon.
At this moment, the human fleet has entered the Gravity pull of the Giant Gas Planet. The fleet's destination is the Rocky Satellite moon, about the size of Mars, which is closest to the Giant Gas Planet.
Although Aldebaran is Binary Star System, its Orange Giant Star is much more massive than its Red Dwarf Star. The Orange Giant Star's diameter is 43.7 times that of the Sun, while the Red Dwarf Star's size is only 0.36 times that of the Sun. Therefore, this Binary Star System is somewhat different from the Binary Star System that people normally understand.
They are not two stars orbiting each other, but rather the Orange Giant Star is in the center, and the Red Dwarf Star orbits the Orange Giant Star like a planet at a distance of 609 Astronomical Unit.
Of course, Orange Giant Star are not completely still; like Red Dwarf Star, they revolve around a common, empty center of mass.
At this moment, the human fleet's warships and spaceships have already crossed the Red Dwarf Star's orbit and are slowly passing through the Asteroid Belt, heading towards the target planet's orbit.
Because of this Star System structure, for convenience, the Orange Giant Star is called Aldebaran A, the Red Dwarf Star is named Aldebaran B, the gas giant is called Aldebaran A-1, and its two Rocky Satellite are called Aldebaran A-1-1 and Aldebaran A-1-2, respectively.
These two Rocky Satellite are now called Aldebaran-Kongming Star and Aldebaran-Zhongda Star, respectively.
The planet where the human fleet docked was Aldebaran A-1-1, also known as Aldebaran-Kongming Star.
While it was called a fleet docking, not all ships actually headed to Aldebaran A-1-1 orbit. Due to military deployment and vigilance considerations, the ten Mountain-Class Warships were mostly stationed in Aldebaran A-1-2 orbit, while the Space Carrier docked directly on a larger asteroid in the Asteroid Belt.
Therefore, only Residential Spaceship and various non-military spacecraft can travel to Aldebaran A-1-1 orbit.
The asteroid also contains abundant solid water resources and other Heavy Metal materials. The warships can replenish their water resources here, and other materials can be transported directly via Factory Spaceship as usual.
It's not a big problem.