"By the way, Lin Ju, does Xinyuan Company have a plan for the development of the monthly table?"

"Hmm...... What are you referring to? ”

Academician She thought for a moment and pointed to his feet:

"Resources, I think the basic configuration of Xinyuan-3 is three-level, it must be born for the moon and Mars landing, such a large capacity, in addition to sending more people up, must also find a way to bring things back from the moon, right?"

Lin Ju: "Resource development?" I do have a little idea, after all, it may be a bit difficult to make money from moon tourism, but I haven't found a worthy target yet. ”

When it comes to lunar mining, we have to mention the industrious Explorer 1.

The giant spider has walked a total of 17 kilometers on the surface of the moon, probed an area of nearly 10 square kilometers, and found no valuable mineral deposits.

At least at its drilling depth, there is no bonanza at all, and the surface team of the Explorer project is going crazy.

The only thing of value is helium-three, but this thing can't be used now!

So now the team is planning to continue to launch explorers, and it is best to use Xinyuan-2 to launch three landers weighing 5.8 tons, carrying two explorer robots respectively, and exploring them in three locations, preferably in November.

However, this plan has been postponed again, because Cheng Nankai is actively promoting 280W large nuclear batteries, and some of the nuclear base has already entered practical production, which is expected to be produced within November, and the follow-up mission of the explorer is planned to be carried out in December.

The new explorer will be equipped with four 280W nuclear batteries, which can continuously output 1,120W of power without solar panels, enough to maintain activity in energy-saving mode, and can also reduce weight by 40kg.

But the mass of the new explorer will increase to 450 kilograms, the weight of the robot structure will be reduced to 115 kilograms, the scientific research load that can be carried will be increased to 135 kilograms, and the equipment of Explorer 1 will only be 50 kilograms.

Such a new explorer can work non-stop on the lunar surface, unlike Explorer 1...... It has already dusted the Jade Rabbit 2 four times.

Explorer 1 is almost becoming a full-time nanny, because it cleans Yutu 2, which increases the latter's effective working time by 20%.

The Fifth Academy is simply envious of the explorer's flexible robotic hands, but unfortunately the difficulty is not manufacturing but AI control, and they can't achieve such flexible control.

The explorer team plans to launch the third and fourth batches of up to 30 explorer 2 robots after the second batch of explorers have not found the mineral deposits for two months, and they will not believe that they will not find a large mine in the Aitken Basin.

When Lin Ju told the explorer's follow-up plan, Academician She was silent.

"How much are you going to spend on this?"

Lin Ju thought for a while: "Well, Explorer 2 is more expensive than Explorer 1, but we plan to mass-produce 12 of them, and the cost of almost one is more than 10 million, plus the lander, the price with two explorers is almost 40,000?" ”

Million? If you don't say it, I thought it was 400 million!

Academician She wanted to complain, but when he thought about it, mass production can indeed reduce costs, and the Space Agency has also tried, and the Sixth Academy has established an industrial assembly line through mass production of YF130, and the cost has dropped by 72%, which has become an internal learning model.

In the face of large-scale plans, industrial mass production is indeed much cheaper.

Lin Ju hasn't said anything about the launch cost of Xinyuan 2, this has to be kept secret, and the cost of sending 6 big spiders at a time is only 200 million, which is very cheap and cheap.

Academician She was originally going to say something else, but now he asked instead:

"This explorer, why don't you sell two of them? We don't want equipment, as long as the basic frame, the equipment is safe by itself, by the way, do you really have 280w, 50kg RTG? That's a lot ahead of the Curiosity. ”

"Hey, Professor Cheng is still very powerful, he has been hiding his strength abroad for fear that he will not be able to come back, and now he can finally fully display it.

However, if it is sold outside...... 40 million one? Buy two and I'll send the lander, 80 million, do you think it's okay? Launches are counted separately. So you will pay 200 million, and the Explorer 2 mission in December will be launched with four ours and two of us? ”

Lin Ju's offer this time is really not high, the launch cost of Xinyuan 2 and the remaining explorer robots and landers add up to only 200 million, and the space agency buys two together, which is equivalent to prostituting 4 explorers for nothing, isn't it beautiful?

Academician She was a little speechless about Lin Ju's behavior of raising the price in a blink of an eye, but he rarely did not make a counteroffer, but just nodded.

The launch of 200 million packs of two explorers with nuclear batteries is too profitable, of course, this is also because of the launch with Xinyuan, and you can pick up a bargain, so don't care so much, private companies have to eat.

"By the way, how's your Endeavor progressing?"

Since the prototype of the H2 pneumatic test was delivered to the Ulanha Mountains in July, people in the steppes have often seen it.

H2 is much better than H1, although there is an artifact SC09, but it still requires astronauts to practice manual control, and now they are constantly flying and gliding, testing various extreme conditions, in order to provide data to the simulator.

The first H2M "Pioneer" will make its maiden flight on November 20, and the first batch of 7 pilots is being actively trained, which is a real big guy, and it is much more cautious to operate than the H1.

The imminent launch of H2 also means that the construction of the Qiande space station will usher in a peak operation period, and the truss structure is about to be born again, and the space agency is paying close attention.

Lin Ju: "This year, the main thing is to launch the three axial modules for docking, and next year to launch and install the centrifugal part, which requires the use of H2M, you know." ”

Academician She: "It would be great if H2M could make its first flight next year, we are building a 'Sky Survey' space telescope, which is as big as H2M, I think we can expand the lens size of the Sky Survey to 4.2 meters and launch it with H2M." ”

Lin Ju: "Of course, Hubble's situation will not happen to the surveyor. ”

The Hubble telescope was launched with a low-overload space shuttle because it was very precise, and it had a lot of problems in space for several years, all of which were repaired by the Discovery mission, so that the observation magic built by the $10 billion continued to work.

Of course, the Sky Survey is also, with the help of H2M, there is no need to consider too much overload problems when the rocket is launched.

"Hmm...... I wonder if the Endeavor space station has any plans for foreign cooperation? ”

"You mean?"

Academician She nodded: "I think your engineers also know that Advance has the potential to be used as a starship, and with it, it will be too convenient for manned exploration of Mars." ”

Not only is there potential, because the truss structure and the overall rotation can make the strength of the Advance high, and the acceleration of a little propulsion is simply easy.

"If the Endeavor space station can be open to cooperation, the space agency can contribute a sum of money, this amount."

Academician She raised two fingers.

(End of chapter)