Chapter 133: Actually, it's the No. 2 Moon Palace
The current moon landing is actually equivalent to the operation of clearing the wasteland.
It's just that the moon is too wild for humans, and not only is it difficult to get there, but there is no way to survive there alone.
But the moon is very important, and its positioning is equivalent to a transit station for human beings to go to the starry sky.
Even the "station" underestimates the moon, which is at least a giant logistics base with industrial production capacity.
As long as human beings can establish a gathering place on it, then it means that human beings have the qualifications to go to the starry sky.
Its low gravity, lack of atmosphere, abundant minerals and abundant water resources allow humans to build facilities in space more cheaply, as it can be easily put into orbit than on Earth.
But these conveniences are the advantages of the later stage, and its early survival and construction conditions are quite ~ high!
So far, people have said that they have used it to go to the stars, and they can't even develop it, or even survive on it for a long time.
If you want to develop, you have to have someone to live there, but humans have been there a few times, and each time they stay for a short time and leave in a hurry.
When humans go to the moon, it is equivalent to paddling a canoe across the ocean to a deserted island, and when they arrive, they find that it is not suitable for human life, not only do they have no food, drink, or use, but they also have no houses that can shelter from the wind and rain.
I can't live on it for a few days, I have no equipment, no materials, and I can't build a house with my bare hands, so I can only come back helplessly.
If there's a house on a desert island, it's a completely different feeling.
Having a place to live and sheltering from the wind and rain makes people feel at ease.
Unfortunately, human beings can only take canoes across the ocean to go to a desert island, and it is impossible for a canoe to carry a house there.
It's the same on the moon, human beings have been planning for a long time, and have always wanted to build a forward base on it, so that scientists can live in it with peace of mind, and then study everything on the moon with more peace of mind, paving the way for future development.
In the past, people could only watch and promote CG and related film and television works, but now ......
It's about to come true!
All of this comes from a space conference of the Tianxia Space Agency.
A CG promotional video was played at the press conference to confirm the launch mission and launch time of the first Long March 9.
After that, the promotional video was officially transmitted to their respective official websites for everyone to watch and reprint.
[Tianxia and the Navigator cooperate, the Long March 9 will send the first human lunar test module to the moon!!] 】
As soon as this news came out, the relevant fields were directly fried, and then spread to other fields, and soon the whole world knew about it.
Of course, this is not to say that more than seven billion people on earth know about it, but it means that this news has spread to every corner of the world.
Ordinary people may not understand the significance of this matter, but they only know that it is very good, otherwise this news would not have spread throughout the world, and those involved people would have directly opened their eyes.
They don't care about the Long March 9 or anything anymore, after all, the big pig's trotters are a virtue with the Tianxia Army.
It's been well enough before, even if the load data has grown.
Many people counted the capacity of the Long March 9 last year, and the settlement result was that its carrying capacity still has considerable room for upgrade, and now this capacity growth is expected.
They were concerned about the lunar test module that suddenly appeared.
Its official name is the "Yuegong-2" lunar surface laboratory, which is analogous to the previous Tiangong-1 space laboratory, and its role is to test a series of survival support technologies and make technical verification for the future creation of a real "lunar survival zone".
But everyone knows that as long as this thing can land on the moon smoothly, it will be the first lunar base of mankind!
Because from its name and data, you can see the ambition of Tianxia and the Navigator company.
Obviously it is the first one, why is it called "Moon Palace No. 2"?
That's because there is a "Yuegong-1" on the earth, which is located in the Beijing Aerospace University in Tianxia, which is a ground-based comprehensive experimental device for life support artificial closed ecosystems in a space base.
It is a large-scale ground-based experimental system established for the integrated verification of the unit technology of biological regeneration life support system, the study of system basic theory and method, system design theory and method, and system control technology.
In other words, this is for experiments, at least on the ground.
With ground testing, if you want to go to the moon to test and collect data, why not make a little smaller?
Easy and cost-effective.
But the Navigator company doesn't, it's a big guy as soon as it comes up.
The "Yuegong-2" weighs 50 tons, has a diameter of 6.5 meters, and can reach a height of 8 meters after the upper Tianyang energy plate and the lower landing gear are deployed.
Its landing engines are not underneath, but use four "cub" engines, mounted in four directions of the outer bulkhead.
Despite its small size, 4 fully open units can provide 13 tons of vacuum thrust for soft landings.
Netizens who have played the Kanxing game know that this is another engine mentioned in the Kanxing game.
They nodded with satisfaction: "This is very navigatory." ”
This engine layout makes the hatch of Yuegong-2 only one meter high from the lunar surface, and it is only necessary to step on a few steps.
The most important thing is its internal layout, which has two levels of utility cabins!
It is divided into an airlock cabin, maintenance area, cultivation area, exercise area, work area, dining and entertainment area, sleeping area, etc., as well as an independent bathroom to ensure that there is no smell.
It can make the four astronauts live comfortably without feeling crowded in space.
This preparation is simply luxurious!
You're telling me it's just a lab module?
Do you believe it?
I don't believe it anyway.
We're going to call it the first lunar base of mankind.
In the past, aerospace experts have calculated that if you want to explore and study something on the moon, such as finding water resources and mineral resources, studying the impact of the lunar environment on human beings, etc., you must stay on the moon for at least one year.
The design life of this so-called experimental module is 5 years.
Everyone knows that aerospace equipment, just like the International Space Station, its design life is 10~15 years, how long has it been used now, and how long is it going to be used?
You taste.
There is also the analogy of Yuegong-2 to Tiangong-1, the design life of that space laboratory is 2 years, and the actual orbit is more than 4 years.
It is conceivable that this lunar base will last at least 10 years.
In the past 10 years, they are sure that Tianxia and the Navigator will launch other components, and finally form a larger lunar base, a real "Moon Palace".
Just like the "Heavenly Palace" that will appear soon.
Nothing else, cow batch!
It's just that this flight mission makes them very worried, why did the first flight test of the Long March 9 carry out such an important mission?
The Moon Palace-2 alone is not counted, as if to prove that it is here for experiments, it does not carry any supplies, in addition to the various equipment crammed, it also carries 8 unmanned lunar rovers.
8 lunar rovers, it's a!
Moreover, each lunar rover weighs 500 kilograms, and the eight of them take up 4 tons of weight, and they are fixed to the outer bulkhead of Yuegong-2 one by one.
"Hasn't Tianxia always taken a steady route? Why are you so reckless this time? ”
"That's right, are you stimulated by Merrican's recent actions, in order to grab the name?"
"No, Merrican has only put a bunch of animated simulations recently, except for watching the lively cheers, those who know a little bit know that they basically haven't done anything practical, and Tianxia will make such a reckless plan for this?"
"This is a short time for you, public opinion is also a way of competition, although the analog animations that Merrican put are only to watch the lively cheers, but there are many people who watch the excitement, so many people watch the excitement, there are 10,000 people who believe it, and all three of them can become tigers, let alone 10,000 people."
"That is, if you let the marketing account hype it up again, directly multiply it by 10,000 times, and 100 million people will believe it, and Xia will vomit blood that day."
"I don't think Tianxia will be so reckless, maybe they are confident in their rockets, the first flight of the SLS rocket on the Merrican side will hit the Orion spacecraft directly around the moon, are they also reckless?"
"Hey, after watching the video, let's go watch the live broadcast, maybe we can ask this question."
Compared with a few minutes of video, the time of the press conference is very long, so they watched the live broadcast of the press conference after watching the video, and the live broadcast had a comment area and a link to answer barrage questions, and a reporter asked questions on the spot, and the question was quickly answered.
The spokesperson of the press conference smiled three times.
"It's just a normal first flight test mission."
"Not for any particular agency."
"The so-called space race is even more illusory."
Foreign netizens may not understand, but domestic netizens will understand it as soon as they hear it.
"It's coming, it's serious, it's stable!" (Recommended reading: Reading Files 2013)