After all, the resources on the earth are limited, so if human society wants to develop, then it needs new sources of resources, and with the development of space technology, plans to go to space mining have been put on the agenda of various countries.

And space mining is also divided into landing planet mining and direct mining of asteroids, here, the difficulty of mining asteroids will be much lower, and the value is very high, and the commonly used basic unit of measurement is "trillion meters of yuan", so they are planning this.

There are both national space agencies and commercial organizations, but they are still in the planning stage, because the technical conditions cannot be done.

At the moment, the most advanced in their plan is to launch a probe satellite, and then to detect an asteroid, which is far from the actual mining.

So people often see this kind of news on the Internet.

"Yesterday, an asteroid worth five trillion meters passed by the Earth!"

"Recently, scientists have discovered a near-Earth asteroid, estimated to be worth about 12 trillion meters!"

"The total value of the mineral resources on asteroid 24 is estimated to be as high as 95.8 trillion meters, and the value of this asteroid is close to the global GDP in 2020!"

"According to the estimates of the United States Space Agency, the total value of iron resources on the Psyche in the asteroid belt is as high as 00 billion billion meters, and if it is collected and transported back to Earth, the global commodity price system will collapse!"

Seeing such news, it is impossible not to be moved.

In the past, the technology was not enough, but the research plan was quite thorough, in order to wait for the future when the technology is enough, it can be used with a little change.

That's what Victor meant.

The Arc Group didn't know what was going on, so it directly skipped the asteroid mining stage and directly opened a resource mine on the moon.

And looking at the Mars plan they advertised to the outside world, there are even plans to open the mine to Mars in the later stage.

It may also be because their deep-sea mines are very mature in technology and the resources they produce are very cheap, so they don't need to mine asteroids for the time being.

But no matter what, the Arc Group did not take this step, which just gave them the opportunity to the United States.

And the United States is going to take advantage of the fact that the Arc Group has not yet reacted, and quickly win the first place!

“…… We have carefully studied the technologies that have been put together from the initial island recently, and there are many technologies that can be synthesized and then designed and manufactured to create an intelligent thruster. ”

"Of course, the specific design is not yet available, but our engineers have analyzed it, and it is achievable, and there is not much design work in the early stage."

Victor showed some model pictures and rough task plans on the big screen, which were improvised by his colleagues, although it was not a precise plan and design, but it could make the people present understand what he was talking about more three-dimensionally.

You must know that the people present are not only people in the aerospace field, but also many laymen.

The important thing is that these laymen are the ones who decide whether the final plan can be carried out or not, and if they don't see it clearly and understand, then the plan that he and the other engineers have made...... Hehe.

"This smart thruster has a lot of thrust and flexible adjustment, and the thrust output is accurate, but it is very demanding on materials and cannot be used on long journeys."

"However, if a certain number of thrusters are attached to the near-Earth asteroid, it is enough to exert a certain amount of thrust on them to make the near-Earth asteroid change its orbit, and several times in a short period of time, so that the asteroid can stay in the Earth's orbit."

"When an asteroid stays in the Earth's orbit, or even directly next to the new International Space Station, then we have the final say on how to mine it."

"The general plan is like this, do you have any opinions?"

"Some specific data and plans have been sent to the tablet in front of you, so you can check them out in detail."

Hearing this, everyone opened the tablet in front of them and carefully checked the plan that Victor said, and for a while there was a noisy discussion in the conference room.

I have to say that Victor's plan is really good, and it is also the strength they have at this stage to make a plan that surpasses the aerospace miracle of the Arc Group.

Of course, this is because of the loopholes, but the first is the first, and the world only looks at the result, not the process.

Therefore, the plan was quickly agreed at the meeting, and the congressional gentlemen in charge of paying for it also said that money was not a problem.

The stronger the country, the stronger they are, and this is not the time to be stingy.

It's just that in the selection of targets, the astronauts present have a conflict, because there are too many near-Earth asteroids in the sky.

In the end, the congressional gentlemen who were responsible for paying the money made a final decision and reiterated once again that money is not a problem.

"Now I feel like I'm back to the Cold War, or this is a new round of Cold War, so if we want to win like the last Cold War, then we have to be willing to spend money, and the plan must be shocking enough!"

So the target we chose was 479 Tutadis, the largest near-Earth asteroid ever discovered, so it was shocking. ”

"And your task is to complete this plan and keep it firmly in orbit on Earth."

The people in the space department were shocked by the brains of the congressional gang, and they directly focused on the largest near-Earth asteroid.

It's a big challenge and it's very difficult to get it done, but they're going to fight back when they're pressed all the time.

As the most powerful country in the world, it has reached the top from the last Cold War, so this Cold War will not be lost.

In the end, the director of NASA, Valker, said, "Then we will proceed with this plan, but we want to get the greatest support." ”

"Of course, there is no problem with this, we can solve all the problems of funding, equipment, personnel, as long as we need it," said the congressional person, "We have only one request, and that is to complete this plan in the shortest possible time!" ”

"No problem, as long as everything is in place, we can start immediately, and the technology is ready-made, there is no new technology that needs to be overcome, as long as a final technology integration is completed, it is definitely not a problem in terms of time." Victor assured.

"That's good, that's what we want," said the congressional guy, "it must be quick, before the Arc Group reacts." ”

In fact, the reason why the time set is so urgent is because the scientific and technological strength of the Arc Group is too powerful, they analyzed the existing technology of Arc Aerospace and found that if the Arc Group wants to do this, it can be faster than them.

So they have to be fast, and at the same time, they have to keep it as secret as possible, and they can't let the Arc Group know about it, otherwise they will hang if they want to take this first place.

Anyway, they passed the plan as quickly as possible, and the state apparatus was up and running.

A large number of people, funds, and equipment began to act around this plan, and they were not all concentrated in the United States Space Agency, but were assigned to the relevant departments and companies.

And the participants are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement, and no information can be revealed.

It just so happens that the outside world news focuses on the Arc Light Group's Mars plan, which also gives them room to fish.