Until now, all probes for the four giant planets have been launched in the last century.

The reason for the lack of follow-up is largely due to timeliness, and as the situation changes, people are increasingly reluctant to invest in these decades-long detection programs.

Moreover, people who have experienced the information explosion have a deep understanding of technological development: instead of spending 30 years to send a detector that is extremely backward in the future, it is better to wait 25 years and then send a 100 times more powerful detector in 5 years.

Especially after missing the four-star alignment window that only happens once in nearly 200 years, waiting for new space technology has become an inevitable choice.

The emergence of the A100 is the kind of revolutionary aerospace technology that the IAU needs.

With very little fuel to keep a nuclear thruster running for days, and a reactor to last for decades, it means plenty of power redundancy and an unimaginable amount of power for deep space probes, which is important beyond the asteroid belt.

It would take hours for Voyager 1 to transmit 1 MB of data, and there is a good chance of losing data, but with a nuclear reactor, it is completely capable of performing miracles, and increasing the transmit power by 100 times is easy.

It can also support a sharp increase in the mass of the probe, which used to take a rocket of several hundred tons to send a probe of less than 1 ton, but now it can send a probe weighing dozens of tons to Earth orbit and then fly over on its own.

This, combined with the tremendous advances in technology that now exist, represents an exponential increase in detection capabilities.

Another great advantage of such a probe is its long lifespan, it will not have to crash on the target planet due to limited mobility, and it can fly everywhere with the help of a steady stream of power.

There is no doubt about the temptation of the astronomical community, so the support of the academic community after the 15th and 16th committees went well, mainly because of the difficulties of national borders.

It is only now that they may have persuaded those who have other objections that they have the confidence to find Xinyuan to seek cooperation.

Lin Ju is not too skeptical that they can come up with much money, as long as they can break through some resistance, it should not be a problem to raise billions of dollars around the world.

The last 17-nation joint deep space exploration project was the Cassini Saturn probe, the largest and heaviest deep space project ever built, with a mass of 5.7 tons and a sub-probe, which was planned over a period of 11 years and cost more than $3.4 billion.

That's $3.4 billion before 1998!

Even if the world is generally degraded now, another $3.4 billion will certainly be achievable.

Assuming that 2 billion US dollars are spent on scientific instruments, and the remaining 1.4 billion US dollars are handed over to the base, that is, 9.4 billion yuan, which is enough to develop several sub-models on the basis of A100, and undertake three or four platform manufacturing tasks by the way.

Lin Ju didn't plan to make money on this, so he didn't hesitate to do a good deed, if IAU really promoted the project, it would definitely share the results, which was enough.

And if the IAU initiates fundraising, there will definitely be some in China, and maybe you can make a lot of money.

Thinking about this, he had already made a decision, and instructed Xiao Okada:

"Let the Tsingshan base calculate how much it will cost to develop a few small thrust models on the basis of the A100, and then exchange the unit for dollars and give them a quote.

Tell them that we only need this cost price, if there are too many projects and there is no spare energy to fund them, after the project is established, I will personally donate 20 million US dollars, which is regarded as support for astronomy.

This matter is very interesting, think of a way to operate it, and report it at any time if you have trouble. ”

"No problem, according to our old saying, it is called the West...... Borrow chickens to lay eggs! ”

"Hey, Lao Xiao, you have made a lot of progress!"

"It's all the wisdom of the ancestors, awards, awards."

……

"I'm here again, little garbage station!"

Victor Glover pushed open the hatch of the opposite interface and shouted loudly with open arms to the empty "Portal" space station.

Obviously, this is what he calls a "little garbage station".

In fact, the Artemis 2 mission was evacuated in a hurry, and all kinds of parcels and equipment in the already small space station were not packed and organized, and the gravity-free environment was floating around, and the title of the garbage station was really appropriate.

It is now 23:14 on the evening of the 23rd, Beijing time, and Artemis III successfully docked on the "portal" in only one and a half hours.

According to NACA, Dawn-1 arrived about six hours ahead of schedule and is still in the process of sorting out the Black Rabbit space station.

Compared to that big guy, the "Portal" is pitifully small, both the "Origin" lander and the OSS fuel refueling module are heavier than it, and it has been opened by Victor as a space station.

"Let Victor, Jeremy and I go to check the lander first, and I will hand it over to him to pack up later, and you can move the landing materials out of the spaceship."

Deputy Commander Wiseman gave orders unconsciously, as if he were the commander.

But Victor is not rebellious, and although this classic old white man is boring, the experience of being a soldier has taught him that Wiseman is a trustworthy companion.

"Okay, okay, I know you want to save time."

"Actually, I think we can win."

While calling up the data of the lander, Jeremy did not forget to express his opinion on the radio:

"Their battleship will definitely take much longer to prepare than ours, and the destroyer has its own advantages."

"Battleship" is the nickname they gave to the Nine Chapter because of the latter's sheer size and "Big Boat", abbreviated as BB, just like Battleship (the term for the Navy referred to BB).

In front of it, the "Origin" is as petite as a destroyer (DD), and the way in which a naval ship refers to a spaceship has become popular within NACA.

"But battleships and destroyers don't mean the same, don't they?"

Wiseman rarely complained, it was also the moon landing, and the technical gap between the two teams this time was much larger than five months ago, which made it a little difficult for him to accept.

"You're all right, Jeremy, you have six packs of chicken curry in your supply, and I'd like to exchange three packs with you."

……

At the same time, the Rabbit space station.

Deng Lei, who slept comfortably, pushed open the sliding door of the bedroom and found that Li Wei had gotten up and was lying on the porthole to watch the moon, and the other two were still making up for sleep.

Of course, they were also preparing for the landing mission, but they didn't need to do the inspection of the Nine Chapters.

This time, Dawn-1 brought three brothers to the old fourteen of the lunar table, and they are placing supplies and carrying out inspection tasks under the supervision of the ground, so that the four astronauts can rest at ease and conserve their physical strength to the maximum.

Deng Lei floated to the flight platform of the space station to retrieve the status of the portal space station detected by Laurel-3, and found that Artemis 3 had also successfully docked.

Chapter 9 decided to carry out the landing mission at 9 o'clock on the 24th, that is, more than 9 hours later, and if Artemis III had moved faster, it should have landed first.

However, he didn't care about the priority, the winner had already been decided.

(End of chapter)