I'll Give It Some More Thought

In a conference room in Shangjing.

Many people sat in the conference room: officials from the Ministry of Science and Technology, military officers with epaulets on their shoulders, academicians from the Academy of Engineering, and experts in the aerospace field.

Everyone had a one-inch-thick packet of meeting materials placed on the table before them.

At the very top of the materials was a paper with an eye-catching title.

<On the Application Prospects and Technical Feasibility of Controlled Fusion Miniaturization Technology in the Aerospace Field>

The paper provided a certain degree of professional discussion on the application of miniaturized controlled fusion reactors in aerospace, as well as the related Hall Thrusters, and used rigorous calculations to demonstrate the possibility of realizing the technology.

However, demonstrating the feasibility of a technology that had yet to be realized was inherently somewhat subjective.

Not to mention such a cutting-edge concept...

"This is absolute nonsense!"

Slamming the paper in his hand onto the table, Academician Wu shook his head and criticized it without reservation. "In terms of specific impulse alone, electric propulsion is indeed far superior to chemical thrusters, but its thrust is an insurmountable weakness!"

"Forget everything else. Take the VX-200SS ion engine that our Fourth Academy of Aerospace completed trial operations on last year. It can reach 200 kilowatts of power, yet its total thrust is only around 5 newtons! Even if I generously assume it can be multiplied a hundredfold, a thousandfold, can that little thrust push a spacecraft into low Earth orbit? It would struggle to send up even an egg!"

"I'd say whoever wrote this paper hasn't fully woken up yet!"

"If this thing can send satellites from the ground into space, then damn qigong can launch satellites too!"

When Elder Wu said that, the atmosphere in the conference room