Test Voyage

July 15, 2027.

Inside No. 106 Space Shipyard in Mendeleev City on the far side of the Moon, the final outfitting work had been completed on three Gonggong-class spacecraft.

Looking down from above the far side of the Moon, one could see three ring-shaped structures, with a "building" at the center of each ring.

In reality, these were the three Gonggong-class spacecraft. The shipyard used a partially open-air construction setup, with a large portion extending deep underground.

After all, the Gonggong-class design consisted of a central main axis with a rotating ring module attached, resembling a medicinal grinding wheel.

Once completed, a fully loaded Gonggong-class spacecraft weighed 87,623 tons. It was equipped with fifteen fusion power generator units, each producing 50,000 megawatts, for a total output of 750,000 megawatts.

For propulsion, it used a new type of plasma engine.

It also had emergency backup N-fuel rocket engines, mainly to ensure rapid braking and acceleration.

After all, the weakness of plasma engines was their extremely slow initial acceleration. They needed to accelerate continuously before the spacecraft could reach its intended speed.

As a result, plasma engines were relatively weak when it came to rapid changes in speed.

If there was a need for sudden acceleration or deceleration, plasma engines would be unable to handle it.

Under such circumstances, N-fuel rocket engines, which could provide power rapidly, became extremely important.

As for the Gonggong-class spacecraft's internal facilities, one was the artificial-gravity living area in its rotating ring module. The rotating ring had not yet been fully deployed, mainly because it was still inside the shipyard and could not be conveniently unfolded.

Once the Gonggong-class lifted off, the rotating ring module could be deployed, transforming into a rotating wheel with a radius of 7.6 kilometers.

The interior of the rotating ring module was