Presidential palace.

John watched the CBS YouTube live stream with a blank face, which was relaxing the picture of the Storm detaching from the Tiangong space station.

Due to the nature of the mission of Tianmu-2, the commercial atmosphere of this flight is extremely strong, in addition to the domestic advertisers who have been determined early, five days before the take-off, an advertising tender was also opened for overseas.

Not only the physical ads in the task, but also the ads inserted during the irregular live broadcast are counted, and the price is extremely expensive.

As for allowing astronauts to carry goods in person, they must go through strict review, after all, although there are purely commercial astronauts in the mission, improper operation will still affect the status of this profession in people's minds.

What's amazing is that CBS spent $400 million to buy the broadcast rights of the Greater America region of the Tianmu 2 mission at one time, which also greatly increased the number of foreign viewers of the Tianmu 2 mission.

After all, although there were two moon landings a month ago, the moon has not yet become a commonplace for people to travel to and from the next place, and the audience is still enthusiastic.

And Skycanopy-2 is also more interesting than the Dawn and Artemis missions, and the seven astronauts on it are happy to interact with the audience through the Internet, not just watching them float around.

“…… Viewers from all over the world, the Storm is still accelerating, so let's do a little experiment. ”

Liu Ming fixed the tablet with a movable stand in front of him, and saw him pick up a water cup with a conspicuous Cestbon logo and release it from the air, and the latter immediately floated backwards, and then was caught in time.

"The Storm is now accelerating at a whopping 0.24 meters per second, so this limited-edition co-branded water bottle ...... Oh, some netizens from Grande asked if they could buy it overseas? Of course, you can follow the XAP and C 'Estbon official accounts on tiktok, and click on the small yellow car below the latest video to buy it and it will be delivered to your door...

Ahem, why am I not affected by acceleration? It's because the Storm has undergone a special improvement, look at my sole, it's a polymer fabric that creates enough adsorption when it comes into contact with the floor, why not magnetism? That's because ......"

The lander carried by the Tianmu-2 mission has a mass of 30 tons due to some improvements, which is a full 20% heavier than the version used in the Dawning Project, plus two satellites and some experimental equipment, with a total weight of more than 115 tons, so it will take about 23 hours to arrive.

There will be live footage throughout the flight, which is why CBS is willing to pay a sky-high price, and the interactive live broadcast of the astronauts taking turns makes them feel that it is worth it.

Even John couldn't help but watch for more than an hour before being interrupted by Sullivan who was reporting to work.

The latter looked at the president, who was obviously obsessed with watching videos, and sighed faintly:

"Sir, I think you must know one thing, there was a plane crash just now."

"Air crash? Where is it? It was our planes, how many casualties were caused? ”

Air crashes are not small accidents, especially those that deserve Sullivan's personal report.

Sullivan: "It's not a civil service, it's a transport plane, and on it is the investigation team you sent to the overseas base in Bagram to investigate.

While they were flying there from the Lemonier base, they crashed in the Al Abor Sea, and the Lemonnier base was investigating. ”

John staggered to his feet, found the map to view the location, and then became furious:

"Was this an accident or not? Every place in their path is protected by our Air Force, how could it suddenly crash! ”

He looked at Sullivan, but the latter just gave him an undeniable look and continued:

"One more thing, two days ago, a major general of the Army Logistics Department told the Hexagon that he was going to turn himself in, and you said at the time that it was a trick to lock him up, and he committed suicide in the confinement room half an hour before the plane crashed."

This news made John's pupils shrink, of course he knew what was going on when he turned himself in, it was nothing more than seeing that he wanted to burn the fire and push a scapegoat, and wanted to take all the responsibility down, but if he fooled the past like this, how could he compress overseas funds?

But that major general died, and committed suicide in a confinement cell under 24-hour close care, with countless elite agents in charge, and less than half a minute into the cell!

That damn place wasn't even allowed to bring a belt in, and then died quietly in this situation!

Cold sweat spread all over his body along with goosebumps on John's body, and he didn't understand that this was the group behind the scenes telling him: Don't check, there are too many people involved, it's almost over.

Looking at Sullivan's meaningful eyes again, John was stunned for a while before slowly sitting down and wiping the fine cold sweat from his forehead.

The little old man was already a little speechless with fright, and Sullivan leaned over intimately and asked:

"Do you need me to oversee the accident investigation?"

"Go...... Go, we must find out the reason, the logistics investigation is just, let's pause it first, now is really not the time. ”

……

Upper Beijing.

Two Y-20s landed at the airport, and then trucks carried 10 short and widened containers from their holds.

Driving the road in front of the truck were several off-road vehicles, each with a different sign.

There are XAP, XUGONG, ZOOMLION, CASA and HUAWEI, all of which indicate the special nature of the team.

The convoy drove directly to a makeshift camp in the suburbs, where it dismantled the containers one by one.

Some of them can be clearly recognized: wheeled excavators, trucks, unmanned vehicles, and some square equipment, but there are also quite a few wheels underneath, and it can be seen from the tow hook that there should be no power to be towed, and all the equipment folding size is about 5 meters * 3 meters * 3 meters in the range of a cuboid is very standard.

This is a complete set of ground verification machines for the "Lunar Automatic Unmanned Energy Production System", including wheeled unmanned excavators, unmanned ore transfer vehicles, crushing and purification machines, electrolysis hydrogen and oxygen production equipment, methane synthesis equipment, mobile cryogenic fuel compression storage stations, trailers, nuclear power supply vehicles, etc.

All of the demonstrators are architecturally designed to be identical to the lunar environment, with minor changes to ground testing, but still fully simulate the entire process of collecting ice on the moon to storing fuel.

The new facility includes a methane synthesis facility, which can synthesize methane from hydrogen from dry ice or carbon dioxide in the air, which can be used in the south pole of the moon and the Martian environment, respectively.

However, there is no dry ice around the Qom crater, which can only be used as a technical reserve for now.

This set of systems is divided into machinery manufacturing, equipment manufacturing, automation design and other subsystems to unite a number of domestic manufacturers, to minimize the cost, just completed trial production.

Since it has been decided to use the XH40 as a lander, the size requirements of the device have been relaxed a bit, and it is set to be launched to the moon at the end of the year, and now there is still a small half a year for experiments.

The vast world of Northeast China and artificial adjustment can still simulate an environment similar to that of the lunar surface, which can fully test the stability of this system.

The only thing that is more frightening is the nuclear power vehicle, which is not an isotope power supply but a serious miniature reactor, which uses high-concentration uranium rods in order to reduce the mass, and a special anti-chemical warfare unit keeps an eye on it day and night.

In order to fully simulate the real situation, after the container is opened, the manual intervention will no longer be used, and the AI will control the equipment and engineering vehicles to slowly drive down into the "work place" of the circle.

Zoomlion's R&D team kept an eye on the excavator it participated in manufacturing, flexibly used a shovel to assist itself in touching the ground, and then slowly walked to the crushing and purifier, put on the tow hook and began to tow.

(End of chapter)