In the 10s or so, the space agency had roughly planned the future development of the moon.

The first is the early unmanned exploration, that is, the "Chang'e" series, from Chang'e-1 to 8 missions are to carry out scientific research and exploration and sampling of the moon, and around 2025, the 9th and 10th missions will be carried out, and the construction of the pre-construction facilities of the lunar research station will begin.

According to the original plan, the space agency will organize a manned landing on the moon at this time, which just forms a connection with the Chang'e program that has ended.

Now that "Chang'e" and "Dawn" are being carried out in parallel, the follow-up "Chang'e" series will compress the detection project to cooperate with the construction of scientific research stations.

Both radicals and conservatives agree on this.

The main disagreement lies in whether to plan the moon landing in advance, which has been debated for more than half a month from above to below, but now that the rockets are ready to be launched, they must be completely decided.

Radicals believe that although the Dawning program has not been launched as many times as the Apollo program, it has made great technological progress and the landers have already made an actual landing, so it is completely unnecessary to carry out an operation around the moon;

Conservatives are mainly seeking stability, believing that it has already constituted an advantage for Aramco, and it is too risky for Chang 10 to land on the moon on its first manned flight, and at most it will reproduce Dawn 2 and bring back some lunar soil.

There was a heated exchange on both sides, until Lin Ju walked into the room, and the people who supported the moon landing were in high spirits; Followed by Academician She, the conservatives also found the backbone.

Although theoretically, it is the big guy in the conference room who has the highest decision, but Academician She is the chief engineer of the Dawning Project designated above, and he still has to convince the latter.

After Lin Ju took his seat, he didn't express his opinion directly, but took a sip of water before asking:

"Whether the Aurora 3 spacecraft lands on the moon or not, it is certainly the best, and I wonder what their specific tasks are if they want to land on the moon?"

An expert from the Fifth Academy replied to him: "The landing module has already placed two lunar rovers and four kinds of scientific research equipment, and if you land on the moon, in addition to the symbolic process, you will bring these devices up, and then return with some samples, and the lander will stay there to provide power and navigation for future scientific research stations." ”

Obviously, the first moon landing is to "grab the first", go and return quickly, so as not to increase the risk.

Lin Ju nodded: "Everyone, first of all, I want to say that Xinyuan will officially start the construction of the lunar rare metal smelting base next month, and realize the line of bulk transportation of finished metals from the moon back to the earth in the next two years;

The first two modules of the circumlunar space station have been built and are expected to be launched in early July. ”

As he spoke, he passed the prepared documents to everyone's hands, and they were carefully explained.

The "Wutu" lunar orbit space station consists of a functional module that provides electricity and stores fuel and a habitation module, both of which are large modules with a diameter of 6 meters, and the latter also has a docking interface, which can expand three large modules and dock two Dawning spacecraft.

Weighing 18 tons and 52 tons respectively, the No. 2 rocket and the No. 3 rocket have been prepared at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and will soon be able to hit them.

Lin Ju clearly expressed his attitude in this way: if Shuguang-3 does not land on the moon, these two modules will have to waste half a year's life.

The "Black Rabbit" is also a plan of the Aviation Development Commission to establish a project for Xinyuan Contracting, and the Space Agency pays half of the cost for joint operation, which can be regarded as its own thing.

However, for the people present, the greater impact is the sentence to start the lunar mining work, from the moon landing to batch mining, this span is too big!

The center of the topic shifted from Dawn 3 to Xinyuan's lunar development plan, Academician She looked at the situation at the scene and looked at the big guy.

Vice Chairman Lin's skills are good at knowing that he has indirectly "forced the palace", and it seems that the effect is very good.

Think about the subtle hints from the superiors when they talked about the moon landing...... Forget it, now everyone thinks that the moon landing is bound to be won, and if it drags on, it will be scolded.

……

"Really?"

After the meeting was adjourned, several members of the Development Committee stayed for a small meeting.

Although Lin Ju revealed in the capital half a month ago that he wanted to develop the moon and talk to a number of private aerospace companies, the big guy didn't expect it to be so fast.

"You know our ability to act, from sending the equipment over to bringing things back, the specific plan is basically already in the eyebrow.

From the landing on the moon we are only short of the means to fall to the ground, but we are already preparing. ”

"Reusable?"

"It is reusable, and has the ability to carry at least 15 tons of loads up and down, and there are three versions of cargo, fuel delivery and manning."

MTV can only be regarded as a small thing for Xinyuan, and the big guy thinks that the development can be completed in a few months at most, and even enter service before the end of the year.

Coupled with the nuclear-powered space shuttle and the lunar orbit space station, the gold content of this system can be much stronger than the traditional rocket construction, especially the space shuttle's atmospheric return and downlink transportation capability, which is precisely what the traditional means lack.

So, how to do it in the smelting stage?

Because of the characteristics of rare earths that are different from those of precious metals, smelting not only requires high-temperature electric furnaces, but also requires a considerable number of supporting chemical raw materials and other facilities, even if the annual output is 100 tons of extremely low output, the volume and quality of the equipment required are very troublesome.

Are you going to find another way to develop a new process, or will you make a miracle and send it with a giant rocket?

For this problem, Lin Ju has long been prepared, and he drew out a feasibility report on the research of an extremely weakened laser smelting satellite.

The 170-ton monster supplied by the system is too terrifying to support a converter with a daily output of 800 to 1,000 tons of crude steel, which is far from being used.

In order to reduce the development pressure and cost of the base, the power of the smelting satellite light source that is really ready to be put into use is 1MW, and the overall mass is about 30 tons.

The combination is two 30t steelmaking furnaces, and the maximum annual output can reach 10,000 tons.

Global demand for rare metals is limited, and transport capacity is limited, with a maximum of a few hundred tonnes a year not exceeding a thousand tonnes, with the remaining capacity intended for the production of construction steel.

The output of 10,000 tons of steel is worthless on earth, and even an earth blast furnace is much stronger than this.

But even if only 1,000 tons of steel are smelted a year on the moon, it is too rich for base construction.

Academician She took a look at the planned production date: around 2019.

"Good guys, Hagong's 3D printing lunar soil construction technology can be stopped, 10,000 tons of steel, and the lunar building can be directly made of steel as a shell."

Big guy: "Not to mention the annual output of 10,000 tons, even if it is 100 tons, it is enough, you can come to repair the base, build the railway, and the construction of the moon city can be eyebrow-raising."

But do you know how steel is made in space? Especially this laser smelting satellite, 1MW light source, high-power reactor,

Not to mention these problems, two years or five years are enough. ”

Lin Ju unhurriedly took out the tablet and called up a paper.

"On the Feasibility of Using Gaseous Plasma as a Mirror to Improve Laser Directivity and Focusing Accuracy (Ye Changsi)"

"We're really not very good at laser technology, but we've made a little bit of a breakthrough in other technologies."

(End of chapter)