Zhou Yu agreed to the scientist's request, and he began to recall the other scientists and engineers scattered on Ceres.

The Endeavour spacecraft begins preparations to return home.

The Endeavour spacecraft's nuclear power reactor operates at high speed, providing massive power to the gravitational engine.

The gravitational engines began to adjust their direction, analyzing the gravitational force and space conditions around the Endeavour spacecraft.

The gravitational engine quickly locked onto the most obvious gravitational pull of the sun, and the entire spacecraft seemed to be pulled by the sun's gravitational pull, and quickly approached the Earth's orbit.

The Endeavour spacecraft maneuvered flexibly through the asteroid belt to take advantage of the sun's gravity and other planetary gravitational pulls to reduce the pressure on the miniature fusion reactors.

The trajectory of the Endeavour spacecraft takes on a large arc and heads in the direction of Earth.

The trajectory of the Endeavour spacecraft is not the shortest trajectory from a spatial point of view, but it has made a long detour.

The trajectory of the Endeavour spacecraft is combined with the gravitational map, and it can be easily found that the Endeavour spacecraft has made full use of the surrounding gravity.

The Endeavour spacecraft achieves the best balance between energy saving and running time.

After several days of sailing, the Endeavour spacecraft has almost passed through the asteroid belt and entered the orbit of Mars.

It is also on this side of Mars that the asteroids are mostly made up of metal asteroids.

Some metal asteroids are simply walking veins.

When the spaceship arrives, its resource detection radar is turned on to the maximum.

Without delaying the formation of a spaceship, mining some resource-rich asteroids, no one will refuse.

The resource detection radar on the Endeavour spacecraft is constantly collecting data on the asteroids they detect.

When the engineers saw the data fed back by the resource detection radar, they were not impressed at all.

The vast majority of asteroids detected by resource detection radars are the most common asteroids.

Most of them are composed of metals, carbonaceous, and silicate mixtures.

Even if there are metallic and non-metallic veins on these asteroids, this requires early detection of the veins and cost mining.

The resources on these asteroids are for the mining companies, and they will definitely not let go of these resources.

The Endeavour spacecraft is just passing through the asteroid belt and will certainly not mine these very troublesome asteroids.

The Endeavour spacecraft traverses a trajectory through space, detecting thousands of asteroids every minute it travels.

They sailed for a long time without finding an asteroid worthy of being captured by the Endeavour spacecraft.

Zhou Yuzheng felt that he was unlucky, there were no resource-rich asteroids nearby.

He was surprised to hear an engineer report: "An asteroid with a diameter of 25 kilometers has been discovered, and 92% of the elements on this asteroid are gold."

It is a veritable golden planet that deserves to be captured. ”

Zhou Yu immediately gave an order: "Start capturing this golden asteroid immediately."

Zhou Yu was very excited, the gold asteroid with a diameter of 25 kilometers contains more gold reserves than the proven gold reserves on the earth now.

Gold is a precious metal, and even now that gold is mined in places like the moon, its price has not dropped much.

The most critical is the space fluctuation detector, a high-end device of Xinghuo Technology, which has a very high demand for gold.

The space wave detector can play a strong role in both the macro and micro fields.

The core component of the radar system of the Endeavour spacecraft is the space fluctuation detector.

This is also the reason why the resource detection radar of the Endeavour spacecraft can detect the resources on the asteroid.

The space fluctuation detector has many advantages, but its only disadvantage is that it is too expensive to manufacture.

Not to mention the ultra-high technology required to manufacture the space fluctuation detector, but the hundreds of tons of gold raw materials it needs, that is, the quality of an astronomical class.

The most important thing is that the value of gold is extremely high, and money can't buy much gold.

What's more, gold reserves are really scarce, even if the gold on the earth is bought out, several space fluctuation detectors can be created.

These equipment, which consume extremely high raw materials, can only be satisfied by the development of cosmic resources.

The engineers in charge of resource extraction on the Endeavour spacecraft immediately started to act after hearing Zhou Yu's orders.

The radar system on board the spacecraft began to analyze the situation of the golden asteroid, mainly analyzing the crust of the golden asteroid, including the density and hardness of the crustal material.

After the engineers analyzed the basic data of the golden asteroid, they began to calculate the data and prepare for the completion of the asteroid capture program.

The launch port of the spacecraft opened, and soon 32 cylinders with a length of 18 meters and a diameter of 2 meters flew out.

The cylinders quickly flew up to the golden asteroid and were arranged in a pre-calculated position.

The front end of the cylinder is made up of multiple drill bits that are driven by electric motors to drill deep into the crust of the golden asteroid at once.

The drill bit binds the cylinder tightly to the asteroid through a steel cable.

Once the cylinder is firmly attached to the asteroid, the devices are taken over by the lunar base to give them a unified command.

This cylinder is a miniature nuclear fusion thruster that spews orange-red flames that propel the golden asteroid to change its orbit.

The entire process of capturing the golden asteroid by the Endeavour spacecraft took only 53 seconds, including the time for data calculation.

The Endeavour spacecraft began preparations dozens of kilometers away from the golden asteroid, and when he was not near the golden asteroid, he just released the nuclear fusion reactor thrusters.

The Endeavour spacecraft sped by, but the golden asteroid slowly headed in the direction of Earth with the power provided by the fusion thrusters, and its destination was a metal smelter on the outer reaches of the moon.

Zhou Yu saw that the Endeavour spacecraft had successfully captured the asteroid, and a smile appeared on his face.

This is the asteroid capture program he designed, and the first experiment was a great success.

Xinghuo Technology scientists have proposed many asteroid capture schemes, but they are only suitable for use in specific environments because of their obvious shortcomings.

For example, using a robotic arm to catch an asteroid into a spaceship.

This would have to keep the spacecraft relatively stationary with the asteroid, and the asteroid to be captured would have to be very small.

The capture of asteroids by towing them with rope nets requires the spacecraft to be kept to a very low speed.

Otherwise, pulling the asteroid at high speed can easily cause a traffic accident and directly crash the spaceship.

Through the radar system on the Endeavour spacecraft, Zhou Yu watched the lunar base command the nuclear fusion thrusters, pushing the golden asteroid to drive slowly in the universe.

He said in a joking tone: "Asteroid, asteroid." You've grown up and have to learn to go to the metal smelter on your own. ”