Interstellar mining is such a high-tech industry with both technical content and dangerous elements, and it is not only expensive to do seriously, but also very hard for all practitioners.

Even as the safest data analyst, it is not easy to come up with a satisfactory data analysis report in the face of a huge database of meteorite information.

However, during the whole observation process, Sima Mulong saw more than just the danger and hard work of the entire meteorite mining process.

Sima Mulong also observed several scenes of bumper harvests.

The resources in the meteorite star sea are really too rich, it is not like the earth, all kinds of shallow mineral deposits have almost been exhausted, and the remaining precious mineral deposits are buried deep in the underground of the planet, even in the core of the planet, which is difficult to excavate, difficult to mine, difficult to utilize, and every ton of ore with industrial utilization value needs a lot of cost.

In the vast interstellar environment here, meteorites are constantly colliding. Condensation, just like a natural resource smelting plant, so that the existence of every meteorite that can survive has a huge development and utilization value, a considerable part of the meteorite has a strong strength, the metal composition content is quite high, as a pure metal is of inferior quality, but as an ore raw ore, it is simply a high-grade ore that can be encountered and cannot be found, compared to Australian iron ore and the like, the grade does not know where it is high.

What's even more coveted is that the meteorites here are often tens of millions of tons of mass, compared to piecemeal mining, I don't know how many times more enjoyable, although the capture process is dangerous, but once successfully captured. And if it is successfully towed to the lunar orbit, each meteorite will create an incomparably huge value, which can effectively promote the growth of the earth's civilization, at least the growth of the lunar base, and all the staff in the entire operation will receive huge benefits from the ore income.

Arguably. To a large extent, if you look for it, it is full of abundant resources, and a meteorite is often more valuable than a large mine on Earth.

Moreover, unlike the large stars such as the Earth, many valuable high-density materials are deposited in the core of the planet, and there is no light in the vast meteorite belt here. In addition to those ordinary and common minerals, there are also some high-quality meteorite stars that are relatively rare in number, but they are by no means rare.

Like titanium alloy meteorites, gold meteorites, platinum meteorites, silver meteorites, radioactive material meteorites, jade meteorites, gem meteorites, diamond meteorites, all kinds of conventional pricing units should be measured in grams or carats, and the unit price should be calculated by hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan of high-grade raw materials, which are also rare in this meteorite star sea.

Arguably. Similar to this grade of precious mining stars, the interstellar mining team of the earth civilization has been stationed in this meteorite belt since then. The number of successful explorations has been no less than thousands, and this is still a meteorite data archive formed under a certain specification, when hundreds of thousands of kilograms of small meteorites are ignored.

The kind of meteorite that often counts thousands of tons or tens of thousands of tons, and contains an incomparably rich composition of precious metals. The meteorite exploration team can find something in almost every day's interstellar exploration, even if it excludes those meteorite stars that are either too large or too small, and are suitable for today's earth mining teams to capture. The number of them is also quite large.

For the mining team, it is obvious that this kind of ultra-high-grade, unimaginably valuable meteorite is the best object in their minds, and if possible, they are even willing to capture this grade meteorite every day, until the earth civilization no longer needs this kind of thing.

Unfortunately, it's a beautiful fantasy.

Although there are quite a lot of various super rare meteorites in this meteorite belt, and they can be found in exploration activities every day, it is a pity that most of these meteorites are difficult to capture.

Some meteorites are too far away for meteorite mining teams to reach, and they fly away in a slight flick of the exploration radar. Some meteorites are not suitable for catching meteorites due to their flight speed, direction and angle, and the danger is too great. Others are difficult to deal with in size, with a radius of hundreds of kilometers or something, which makes the meteorite transport ship sigh with excitement, and if they want to blow it up with a nuclear bomb and then mine it, they can't find a suitable place to start.

This kind of large-sized star, because of its own excessive mass, under the constraints of gravitational effect, even if it is blown into several petals by a large nuclear device, it will attract each other under the action of gravity and automatically collapse into one, and the meteorite carrier of the earth's civilization cannot help them at all.

In short, under the constraints of various circumstances, usually among the hundreds of ultra-high-value meteorite stars, only one occasionally has a certain degree of capture.

After all, today's earth civilization, the ability to produce these meteorite carriers, its performance is relatively very limited, the ability to catch meteorites is still quite limited, a considerable part of meteorites, are not able to capture, it is for this reason that it is necessary to choose among many meteorites, choose the appropriate size, composition, speed, trajectory of meteorites as the capture object.

However, despite this, since the earth civilization has set up interstellar mining points here, it has also captured as many as more than ten precious ore stars with ultra-high value from the meteorite belt here, which has produced unimaginable economic benefits, and has greatly promoted the development and construction progress of the moon base, the Mars base, and even the entire earth civilization.

This statement is by no means an exaggeration, in fact, the development route of the earth's civilization has been extremely distinct, and the development of various cutting-edge projects has a clear roadmap.

This is the problem of basic raw material reserves, is the development of the hard bottleneck, Rao can not be bypassed, under normal circumstances, can only be slowly accumulated little by little, slowly solved, simply not fast. After all, the mine still has to be dug little by little, and the material has to be smelted little by little.

However, with the ore mining base of this meteorite star sea, as long as a super precious meteorite star is successfully captured, many problems will often be solved.

For example, the construction of starships, the information and technical details of this kind of thing. The scientific and technological workers of the earth's civilization have already eaten a lot, although many tall spacecraft design plans cannot be taken, but some low-end products, meteorite carriers or something, but they have long been out of the question, and a lot of finished products have been produced, limiting their production capacity, in addition to the capacity constraints of the production line, to a large extent. It is also due to the lack of raw materials.

You must know that this kind of high-end aerospace engineering manufacturing project, because of the extreme characteristics of the outer space environment, so a large number of internal parts of the performance requirements of anti-high-energy rays, sealing, safety, reliability, etc. are quite high, which requires the use of a large number of gold, platinum and other metal materials with chemical and physical stability. It is also necessary to use a large number of high-end metals such as silver and titanium as alloy raw materials.

Although the earth's civilization has a lot of reserves of various precious metals, it has a big business. There are places to be used everywhere, and a large number of raw materials are also consumed in various ground construction projects, and dozens of air and space fighters produced before are said to escort the aerospace industry organized by the earthlings and work for the stable order of the earth's civilization. It took a lot of effort, but the consumption of various precious raw materials was also quite a lot.

For rare raw materials such as gold and platinum, the annual output of the earth is only a few thousand tons or even dozens of tons. With the development of science and technology, there are more places where it can be used, and where it can be consumed.

And this kind of resource embarrassment often only needs to be captured and transported back from the meteorite star belt to a meteorite star, which can be greatly alleviated, and even can completely make up for the resource consumption in some aspects.

For example, gold is a precious metal, its nature is super stable, and there are extremely pure gold dust nuggets in nature, can you imagine that a guy catches a piece of super large gold meteorite with a side length of 100 meters, is that a concept? A million cubic meters of gold reserves, even if the content of pure gold is only half, that can be as much as 10 million tons, enough for the earth to mine for 10,000 years.

With 10 million tons of gold in hand, it can be said that the gold consumption of the entire earth has been settled, and all aspects of the gold resources are waiting to be fed and the situation of waiting for the rice to be put into the pot will be satisfied immediately, so the speed of development can be slow?

It is precisely because of repeated heavyweight harvests like this that the interstellar mining project can be so favored by the entire civilization, obtain such a large amount of resources, and all kinds of spaceships, the number of holdings has reached dozens of them, although each piece is not particularly large, but its various consumption is already an absolutely huge number.

However, with all the benefits of the mining project, after tasting the sweetness, the entire earth civilization no longer pays attention to the various costs formed in the maintenance process of this project, and it is to spend a lot of money to do big things, although the consumption is quite large, but the harvest is even greater.

Just imagine, if you are trapped on the earth, even if you are rich and powerful, even if you dig three feet into the ground and turn the whole earth upside down, where to find a full 10 million tons of gold reserves, it is simply an unrealistic thing, I am afraid that it will never be realized, and on the side of the meteorite star sea, it is just a few years of ore mining, and similar huge gains have happened one after another, which shows that this is indeed a wise decision.

Sima Mulong's consciousness descended and inspected the operation of the entire meteorite mining base, although a heavyweight event similar to the discovery of a 10-million-ton golden meteorite did not occur, but he also watched the meteorite mining team, under the planning of the data analysis planners, successfully captured a small meteorite.

This is a mixed component metal ore with reserves of as much as one billion tons, and its main components are iron, copper, tin, nickel, and a small part of metal silver.

Of course, the value of this meteorite is much lower than that of a golden meteorite, but the upside is that the planet is much better catchable, requires less momentum to adjust, and is much less dangerous in the capture process.

The flight attitude and flight speed of this mixed metal star are relatively ideal, neither fast nor slow, and they are all within the range of kinetic energy trimming of the meteorite transport spacecraft, so the data analysts, after waiting for a month, finally waited for it to enter a suitable orbital position, and then, the meteorite mining team took a complete set of orbit correction and capture plans, and pounced on it excitedly.

That posture is no different from the hooligan pounced on the flower girl, just as impatient.

It should be said that in the process of capturing this meteorite, it is relatively smooth, after all, in terms of the size and size of this meteorite, its safety factor is obviously greater, and the meteorite carrier is under the cover of such a large shield, without hesitation of the interference of a large number of small meteorites that hit it head-on, and can safely intervene and regulate its flight trajectory, and during the long preparation work before capturing the meteorite, the entire work team has cleaned some large meteorites that may pass around the path it is going to pass through, and used the collision of small meteorites to adjust the orbits of those large ones in microseconds but effectively, causing it to deviate from the correct course of the target meteorite.

With such a well-thought-out work schedule, it's no surprise that such a big guy was easily captured.

Unlike the original capture of the golden meteorite, because of the coveting of its abundant gold resources, the whole team took a huge risk in the process of capturing it, ultra-fast running speed, irregular star shape, large deviation of the flight trajectory, and a fleeting capture window, the entire meteorite mining base used three interstellar mining teams, carried out a lot of division of labor and cooperation, and braved the danger of the destruction of the spacecraft, before finally successfully capturing it。 (To be continued.) )