The topic of lunar planting cannot be considered new, it is unique to Blue Star.
Even American just took some soil brought back from the moon and tried to plant it.
Not to mention other countries, I haven’t been there yet.
For the time being, it is China’s unique demand.
The Chinese astronauts will bring not only the original seeds of Blue Star, but also the most viable genetically modified seeds carefully cultivated by Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan could only sense that this seed had the strongest vitality, a seed that was mutated from rice.
You must know that Jiang Yan had been engaged in sea rice research before becoming a mage.
After becoming a mage, he took the cultivation and practical value of sea rice one step further.
This time, it is specifically aimed at China building a base on the moon, giving up all requirements on yield, taste, insect resistance, etc., and focusing on improving the survivability of seeds in harsh environments.
"If we can successfully grow rice on the moon this time, then we might be able to eat the rice grown on the moon next time we go to the moon." Chen Dong looked longingly.
“Actually, going up to plant this time is just our secondary purpose.
The most important purpose of this moon landing is to set up a small base.
Although the prepared building materials are as convenient as building blocks, on the moon you have to wear a heavy space suit and adapt to the completely different gravity from the blue star.
We also need to consider the effects of solar wind and temperature differences. I have a hunch that our base construction will not be as easy as imagined. "
Ye Neng is the oldest astronaut in this moon landing program. The three of them spend much more time together than with their own families.
Ye Neng usually has the image of a stable elder brother in the team. He considers problems comprehensively and has pessimistic expectations at all times, but handles problems optimistically and proactively.
He is also the leader of their team of three.
"Most of the current construction materials have been moved by us during the previous moon landings.
We have fully tested it whether on the moon or in the simulated environment of Blue Star.
Brother Ye, don't be too pessimistic. We will definitely complete it successfully this time. "
Except for the first of China's previous three moon landing plans, the latter two brought some special building materials according to the established plan.
and remain stationary near their chosen base location.
Amerikan originally planned to land directly on Mars and build a base on Mars.
However, because China's progress far exceeded expectations, landing on Mars was not as easy as they expected.
Therefore, Amerikan chose to fine-tune its plan, and they also planned to build a small base on the moon first.
Since there is no transfer station like a lunar space station, the cost of Amerikan is tens of billions of dollars more.
Of course, there are also reasons why NASA's various costs, including but not limited to labor costs, are inherently higher than CNNS.
The reason why Amerikan would rather change its plan and build a base on the moon is not because of the economic value brought by the moon landing itself.
There are abundant mineral resources on the moon, including lithium ore, phosphate rock, rare earths, etc., which have been popular in recent years.
But Blue Star’s current technology is still some way off from low-cost mining on the moon.
The round-trip transportation cost alone is at least ten times more than buying the ore directly from Blue Star, even if the price of lithium ore continues to soar.
This is the same reason as when Russia was the first to launch a manned rocket, and then Amerikan forced a landing on the moon even though the test was incomplete and the safety risk was extremely high.
American needs to create a global image of leading technology, and this image cannot be questioned.
Among their three pillars, energy is almost unsustainable, and technology can no longer be shaken.
China's biological storage technology has already had a great impact.
Including brain-computer connection VR, these products have had a very negative impact on Amerikan on a global scale.
Let's put it this way, the countries led by America originally hoped to reconstruct the image of the Chinese people in the global public opinion arena.
But when China's unique technologies and unique products are circulated around the world, foreign people can easily question this kind of public opinion construction.
If the Chinese people are as bad as what the BBC, CNN and other media say, why can they create the world's leading technology?
The aerospace field is more intuitive, especially the fact that space indirectly reflects the country's scientific and technological strength. This is the internal correlation of public opinion created by Amerikan itself.
What America cannot accept is that China has repeatedly broken through the public opinion trap they constructed in terms of national image.
China and America are vying for space on the moon, making some countries wary.
Especially Ah San, who repeatedly stated that the moon is the common property of mankind and is not the territory of a few countries.
In order to avoid destructive mining of the moon by certain countries, development around the moon must be discussed together by all countries in Blue Star.
For Hua Guo and American, Asan's proposal was not even a formal discussion, at best it was their own grumbling.
Chinese netizens even ridiculed the news:
"If you want to interfere with our construction of the moon base, my third brother should first have the ability to land on the moon."
"Ah San is a typical person who has a higher ambition than the sky and a lower destiny than paper. He hasn't even understood manned aviation yet, so he thinks that he might land on the moon in the future?"
The trio who landed on the moon, who had been training at a specialized aerospace base, had no idea about the outside discussion.
Even if they knew about Asan's proposal, they would just laugh it off.
Ye Neng is pleased with Chen Dong's optimism.
As a veteran who has undertaken many Chinese space missions, he knows the importance of having optimists in the team:
“I believe we will successfully complete this lunar base construction mission, or must complete it.
It’s just that I don’t think it will necessarily go as smoothly as we expected.
Success after experiencing certain setbacks is also success.
But in order to reduce the twists and turns experienced in the middle, we need as many plans as possible.
It is necessary to think over and over again the problems that may arise.
Didn't an accident happen when we first went to the lunar space station? "
China's lunar space station is located at the lunar translation point, which is the "halo orbit" of the l2 point mentioned before.
Halo orbits were first defined in NASA's plans in the 1980s.
At that time, NASA wanted to set up a lunar remote data relay satellite in halo orbit. Later, the plan was changed to a lunar space station.
Later, this position was occupied by Chinese people.
Satellites in halo orbits maintain line-of-sight contact with the Earth and the far side of the moon at all times.
As seen from the lunar surface, the subtending angle of the entire ring's orbit is only 6.2 degrees.
"You're saying that after we docked, we found that the satellite had drifted and could no longer remain in the halo orbit?"
To keep the satellite in the halo orbit, energy needs to be consumed to maintain the position.
At that time, when their launch satellite was docked with the lunar space station, this balance was affected.
The low-thrust direction of the lunar space station was affected.
In other words, after entering the space station, if they continue to follow the established orbit, they will leave the halo orbit.
"Yes, it was because we were above the moon and did not land on the moon. We could also get technical support from Blue Star." Ye Neng nodded.
At that time, Chinese scientists from Blue Star proposed a long-term station optimization method in the lunar halo orbit in response to the deorbiting crisis of the lunar space station.
This method uses discretizing each half-turn into segments and using a set of pseudo-pulses for each segment.
The characteristic velocities of pseudopulses and matrix inequalities are used to transform the problem into a large-scale linear programming expression.
The constraints at the terminals can be expressed as linear matrix equations using numerical partial derivatives of the reference orbit.
An iterative shooting algorithm based on full ephemeris model and differential correction is also used. Preliminary simulation and comparison results of a one-year long-term stagnation strategy are presented.
The algorithm used to maintain a new low thrust for a long time is estimated by the above method.
And recalculated the operations they needed to perform and the thrust-to-weight ratio required for the space station.
At that time, everyone at the Blue Star Launch Base was panicking.
Leaving the halo orbit, according to the calculated trajectory, they will be forced to land on the moon.
After landing on the moon, even if there was no physical damage, the oxygen and supplies were not enough to support them while they waited for Blue Star rescue.
Not to mention, if the lunar space station were to be re-launched, Amerikan might get there first and occupy the l2 point.
The occupation of point l2 is also unacceptable to China.
You must know that this means that they have to build a base on the moon, not to mention starting over, and investing more money.
China's budget in the aerospace field is less than half of Amerikan's, and every penny is precious.
In order to solve this problem at that time, Hua State sent a mage with a background in mathematics to participate in solving the problem, and spent a magic coin to rent the BioCloud Brain.
This is also the first time that Blue Star Bio uses the brain function of Bio Cloud.
Zheng Li, who was notified of the news at the time, was surprised that someone was finally using the function I had set up after so long.
If you don't use it, I will doubt whether this function is just a decoration.
Hua Guo discovered that the functions of the biological cloud brain are suitable for top geniuses to use when solving world-class problems.
Ye Neng continued: "You must know that there are high-energy particles and solar wind on the moon."
"Communications with Blue Star will definitely be affected."
Unlike growing vegetables on the moon, there are many related studies on communication between Blue Star and the moon, because it is a communication problem.
And the lunar exploration rover will have the need to solve communication problems.
The data from the lunar exploration rover needs to be transmitted back to Blue Star.
As early as the 1940s, before the founding of China, Blue Star scientists were already studying how to achieve daily communication between the moon and Blue Star.
There are complete solutions for daily communication between the moon and blue stars in the meeting minutes of ire, which was the name of ieee before it was renamed.
Of course, this solution only involves principles, not that they actually solve the problem.
"Actually, the most important thing is that there will be serious delays or even failure to contact Blue Star."
“If we encounter any accident on the moon, we can only rely on ourselves for the first time.
So it’s always good to be prepared. "
Chen Dong nodded and said, "Would it be better if we built an LTE base station on the moon base for the second time?"
In China's lunar base construction plan, the first time you go up is mainly to complete the main living area and then plant vegetables.
The second time you go up, you need to set up supplementary environments such as LTE base stations and research environments.
Ye Neng said with a smile: "Everything is done beforehand or failed. We need to make more preparations."
China's plan to land on the moon and build a lunar base is in mid-March, which is the day when the dragon raises its head.
In fact, with the growth of economy and national power in recent years, Chinese people have begun to pay less and less attention to symbolic events at the national level.
The aerospace industry in recent years, except for the moon landing, which caused a sensation and was discussed by everyone at the time, seemed to be very dull at other times.
Only aerospace enthusiasts will continue to pay attention. The vast majority of people just click in after seeing it on hot searches and then exit.
To be honest, the aerospace field is too far away from the general public, and there is nothing much that can be done except to get a 666.
An accident occurred during the docking of the lunar space station, which was later reported by the Chinese state media. No one could understand the ins and outs of the accident.
Most drivers can tell the truth clearly when a car accident occurs, but few people have ever driven a manned spacecraft or space station.
Not to mention that the lunar space station cannot be found in history.
The moon-orbiting space station ranked highest on the Weibo hot search list, and it was because it took away the spot chosen by Amerikan.
This is the same as building your house in a location carefully chosen by your neighbor, especially if you don't like this neighbor.
This time China’s moon landing attracted public attention.
Because this time a base needs to be built on the moon, and the official media will broadcast the entire process live.
The official media also authorized the live broadcast to Bilibili, WeChat video account and Douyin.
The momentum was huge.
The Blue Star and Moon communications mentioned above by Ye Neng and Chen Dong were affected due to unexpected circumstances.
Most of these accidents will not happen. After the communication between the moon and the blue star is transferred through the lunar space station, the delay under normal circumstances is only between three and five seconds.
"Space tourism has been realized, and I feel that traveling to the moon is not far away."
"Maybe in my lifetime, I will definitely see it in my lifetime."
"I already regretted not choosing to go to a military academy after the college entrance examination and then become an astronaut.
Building your own base on the moon is too romantic. "
"I heard that not only will a base be built on the moon this time, but vegetables will also be grown. Does anyone know the specific types of vegetables?"
"The official spokesperson of the aerospace department mentioned before that rice will be grown, but rice is just one of them. He means that many varieties will be grown."
"Can I sell the seeds brought back from the moon? I really want to grow one.
If anyone can get it, you can contact me, the reward will definitely be generous."
"There won't be half a million walking upstairs, right? Even if a normal person wants to get the seeds, they know it's impossible. They are joking at most.
The remuneration was mentioned above, and I felt a little strange.
Do you want to say something to the northern netizens? "
Netizens on forums dedicated to aerospace discussions were particularly enthusiastic about this moon landing.
