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Chapter 665: Pioneer & Tianwen

“hah…… I am back！ ”

Bill Nelson stood at the exit of the side hatch of the Chapter Nine, clasped his hands tightly, looked excitedly at the gray and white moon table close at hand, and then jumped from a height of 1.3 meters.

For a young man, it would be fine to be prepared for this height, and on the moon it is only a little higher step, but Bill is 76 years old, and this action is completely beyond the expectations of others.

Luckily, however, he made a perfect gesture in the air, and at the same time, the waist of the spacesuit spewed gas downward, allowing the old man to land unusually smoothly.

"Mr. Bill, you must obey the command of the commander and do not make such a dangerous move!"

Matthew, who came down before him, was the most emotional, the old man was the real power representative of Ami, and he was 76 years old, just a year younger than the previous record holder John Glenn.

This is the mass-produced "Pioneer II." active power exoskeleton spacesuit, and the first batch of five customized exoskeleton spacesuits in addition to the six team members came over.

"Jon, Zhou Heng, remember to bring the flaw detector when you come down, we don't seem to have taken it down!"

"Don't be like this Matthew, believe in technology!"

Bill shook his arms nonchalantly, showing off the attached exoskeleton protruding from the outside.

Before the nuclear bomb detonated, the Tianmu-4 mission had three take-off and landing expeditions, each of which was a combination of 5 team members + 2 resident astronauts, expanding to a team of 7 people.

"Our country is about to carry out its first fire detection mission."

That is, this old man is very good mentally and physically, and even has several excellent training results.

……

"Starship successfully entered orbit for the first time."

Originally, it was four sets for four long-term astronauts, but considering Bill, a high-risk person, Xinyuan added another set for him to use.

When everyone came down and counted the equipment, Deng Lei tested several lunar rovers driven by explorers from the Yushu base, and after confirming that they were in good condition, he waved his hand and immediately entered a tense working state.

At 14 o'clock this afternoon, the Tianwen-1 Mars exploration mission will be launched in Qiongzhou, and the Xinyuan base will be responsible for the control of the launch process.

However, Lin Ju was never very enthusiastic, and when he asked the reason, the answer was:

Good news: the Starship spacecraft is in orbit.

Zhong Cheng: "What about the bigger one?" It is still very difficult for these two things to achieve the capacity of Starship, although our recyclable rockets are also very mature, but this can really reduce a lot of costs, especially in low earth orbit construction. ”

Not to mention that the orbital altitude is too low and the limitations are not small, in short, compared with the last launch, there is an improvement, but it still stays at the threshold of 90% to 95%.

They will be placed by the four permanent astronauts after their placement has been surveyed, and are expected to be completed on May 6, a week later.

The command center in the capital is only connected, and a small number of people are reserved to watch.

But the biggest problem is still in the second level, judging from the camera on the exterior of the starship, at least 10% of the thermal insulation tiles on one side of the insulation layer have fallen off, which does not meet the needs of re-entry at all.

In the live broadcast of the launch of the SS-5, the starship did complete a historic moment, successfully entered the orbit of the second stage into orbit at an altitude of 150 kilometers, and there were no accidents such as explosions on the way, and the first stage booster tried to fall into the sea in a controlled manner, but the attitude at the end of the deceleration exploded out of control.

But fortunately, Bill didn't have anything to do with his life, and with the help of the exoskeleton spacesuit, he adapted to the gravity of the moon faster, which made the other 4 people who were still wearing "Pioneer I." very envious.

And for an elderly person like Bill, you can also turn on the active safety mode, and force him into a protective state if necessary, just like helping him to land softly.

"Tianwen No. 1, let's go!"

"It's good that the second stage is fully multiplexed, but the XN90 can be used as a whole without separation, and so can a nuclear-powered aerospace aircraft."

Zhong Cheng basically thought like this, and even couldn't help but reveal to Lin Ju that the Aviation Development Commission was very optimistic about this kind of plan, and suggested that a similar project should be carried out.

Two days have passed since the launch of Starship, but the media is at loggerheads over how to define the mission.

On April 29, the command center of the capital.

"Pioneer II." has just been finalized, it is expensive and not available in small quantities, and it requires professional training to maximize performance, so it is not possible to make a set of hands.

But if you let people in the industry evaluate, the best summary should be to say that Starship is one step closer to success, the prospect is relatively bright, and the overall full reuse of the first and second levels has a future.

Deng Lei and Liu Ming have already familiarized themselves with the space station in advance, but the others are shocked, the medical conditions on the moon are not very good.

“……”

The "test device" is naturally a verification plan designed by the two teams of Hehuai for the super hydrogen bomb, and all four test planes weigh less than one ton and are installed in the "Dawn II" spacecraft that has already been launched.

Except for Obi-ho and Tsuji-kuni, who only recognized the measuring instruments at a glance, the other three looked a lot of things and were a little complicated, trying to get a hint from each other.

Dawn-2 is the cargo version of Dawn-1, but with the added ability to dock and propel other large cargo modules, and will fly directly to the moon after being launched into low-Earth orbit by the Long March 7.

"Roger!"

Deng Lei shouted over the radio to the two people who were still on the spacecraft, this time the five team members who came were composed of Ami and Huaguo, not only to see it last time, but also to set up a test device.

In addition, it spins along a non-axis line after entering orbit and runs out of fuel for maneuver adjustment.

Lin Ju: "Chemical rockets are sunset technology, not worth the investment, in the future, not too long, within ten years, a revolutionary technology will completely end it, and can easily transport millions of tons of materials into space." ”

"The fifth Starship launch failed, and the attitude was out of control and could not be adjusted."

Each set of "Pioneer II" is actually a semi-finished robot, and the control system is no different from a robot, so as to perfectly cooperate with the user.

However, each landing stay was only within three days, and it was too far away from the Yushu base, so they could not experience the good accommodation conditions of the established base for the time being, and could only stay on the Jiuzhang spacecraft for a few days.

While others were still a little nervous about this Mars launch mission, Lin Ju was communicating with Zhong Chengcheng's fifth launch of the starship.

Each of the five test parties involved in the blasting was required to be placed around the test site, some of which could be directly identified as measuring instruments, while others whose purpose was unknown, and the entire cargo placement and launch process were jointly supervised.

"A large number of thermal insulation tiles have fallen off, and experts say that Starship thermal insulation tiles do not have the ability to re-enter the atmosphere."

The bad news: the insulation tile is detached over a large area and spins slowly and uncontrollably.

"What technology?"

"Space elevators, as well as electromagnetic orbital mass projectors, are technologies that are worth developing."

(End of chapter)