Super Copy of Great Power Technology

After leaving the aerospace plane production site, the two came to the satellite and spacecraft production workshop, where a group of engineers were assembling the second lunar probe. At the end of last year, the orbiter of the first unmanned lunar exploration spacecraft, while flying around the moon and drawing a detailed 3D map of the moon, discovered a gravitational anomaly area below the Aitken Basin at the South Pole of the Moon. Because it was too far away from the landing site of the first lunar exploration spacecraft, the lunar rover could not run over at all and could not conduct detailed field detection. In order to find out how this gravitational anomaly area was formed, Ruida Aerospace immediately launched the development plan for the second lunar exploration spacecraft. Now two months have passed, and the second lunar exploration spacecraft has been produced more than half, and it is only a few days away from completion.

When they walked into the workshop, what appeared in front of them was not a traditional lunar probe in the shape of a stacking game, but a slightly smaller space plane. Dozens of engineers were working around the plane, installing some electronic equipment and sensors. A workshop director came up to greet the two, and took them inside the workshop, pointing to the huge machine in front of them, and said:

"Mr. Qiao, Mr. Cao, this is the main body of the lunar exploration spacecraft we designed. Its overall framework draws on some of the designs of the Xuannv space shuttle, including the Ark reactor and anti-gravity engine. The outer shell and most of the sensors have been redesigned, with emphasis on strengthening the adaptation to the harsh environment of the moon and protection against lunar dust. It can enter space by taking a star rocket or a space shuttle, or it can take off from the ground and enter space autonomously. However, using the latter take-off mode will lose a lot of energy reserves, reducing its service life on the moon..."

Since the first lunar probe of Ruida Aerospace successfully landed on the moon and successfully collected several tons of helium-3 gas, manned lunar landing has been included in the development plan of Ruida Aerospace. When formulating the manned lunar landing plan, there were differences among the researchers. Some people advocated imitating the Apollo spacecraft of the United States, enlarging it to a certain extent, accommodating more astronauts, and carrying more equipment and supplies to land on the moon. In fact, the structural design of the four-in-one lunar probe No. 1 working on the moon was partially based on the Apollo spacecraft of that year. In this regard, predecessors have already given successful examples, and Ruida Aerospace has also accumulated certain technologies. Based on this, it is less difficult to develop a manned lunar spacecraft with a higher success rate.

Another group of people advocated using the Xuannv spaceplane as a blueprint, making some adaptive adjustments, and using it as a manned lunar spacecraft. The Xuannv spaceplane has been finalized and mass-produced for several times, and has performed hundreds of space missions without any failure. This fully proves that the Xuannv spaceplane is safe and reliable. Based on this, it is also logical to develop a manned lunar spacecraft. In fact, with the powerful performance and energy reserves of the Xuannv spaceplane, it can take off from the surface of the earth, enter space, and then fly all the way to the moon without any problems. The trouble is that the anti-gravity engine is designed according to the gravity of the earth. The gravity on the moon is much smaller than that on the earth. If the spaceplane wants to land and take off smoothly on the surface of the moon, a lot of software and hardware adjustments and adaptations are required. In addition, there is lunar dust everywhere on the moon. If the spaceplane is not specially modified to increase the protection against lunar dust, the lunar dust will drill into the moving parts and sensors, which may cause irreparable damage and have a fatal impact on navigation safety.

The moon's surface is covered in regolith, a layer of powdery dust and broken rock. Earth's soil is a mixture of minerals, organic matter, air, and water. It's a living, breathing layer of dirt where plants and animals thrive. The moon's soil, on the other hand, is made up mostly of silicate minerals, which are like a sticky powder made from broken glass. The moon's lack of an atmosphere makes it vulnerable to the solar wind. Unlike the breeze we feel at home, there's no air on the moon, and the solar wind is a stream of charged particles from the upper layers of the sun. When these ions hit the moon, they charge the soil with static electricity. Just as clothes or hair cling to Earth, lunar soil will cling to a spacesuit, a lunar rover, or a spacecraft that lands on the moon. The moon is frequently hit by meteorites, and since there's no atmosphere to soften the blows, the impacts are more intense than on Earth. Billions of years of meteorite activity have stirred up huge amounts of jagged lunar dust. Moon dust particles are as small as the finest grains of sand, with an average diameter of just 0.07 millimeters. But due to the lack of erosion like on Earth, lunar dust particles will retain their roughness for a long time, so lunar dust is extremely abrasive.

There are two lunar spacecraft plans, one is safe and the other is radical. One has a history and is based on experience, while the other is based on existing equipment and has a high success rate. The supporters of the two plans each insisted on their own opinions and argued endlessly. In the end, they submitted their own design plans to Qiao Ruida and asked him to make a decision. Qiao Ruida took the two R&D plans, studied them carefully, weighed the pros and cons, and finally chose the aerospace plane plan. The lunar exploration spacecraft in the workshop, which is similar to the aerospace plane, is the youth version of the lunar spacecraft developed according to the aerospace plane plan. It is not equipped with life support facilities and cannot carry astronauts. The space saved is installed with a large number of detection instruments and equipment. This unmanned lunar exploration spacecraft has two tasks. One is to verify whether the anti-gravity engine is available on the moon and to actually test the safety of the aerospace plane taking off and landing on the lunar surface. The second task is to conduct in-depth exploration of the gravitational anomaly area below the Aitken Basin in the south pole of the moon to find the source of the huge gravity.

Qiao Ruida walked around the big guy in front of him twice, looked at some assembly details, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "You did a good job. With the current assembly accuracy of this lunar exploration spacecraft, it is not a problem to block the invasion of lunar dust. Director Zhang, when will this spacecraft be completed and when can it be launched?"

"Give me another week, and I can complete all the assembly and testing of the spacecraft. After a week, I guarantee that it can be launched at any time, fly to the moon, and start the second lunar exploration journey. But our workshop is only responsible for the research and development and production of lunar spacecraft. The research and development of lunar rovers and earth drilling probes is not under our jurisdiction. I don't know how their research and development progress is, and whether they can catch up with the time node."

"Very good. I am waiting for your good news. As for the lunar rover and the earth drilling probe, the progress is good. The lunar rover has even been produced and is undergoing lunar surface testing. It will not be a problem to modify and improve it within a week."

The development of the new lunar rover is not difficult, but the size and load are slightly larger than the lunar rover carried by the No. 1 lunar probe. The research and development work is still handed over to the original development team. The earth drilling probe is the core equipment for this lunar landing to detect the gravitational anomaly area. It needs to drill into the lunar soil, drill through the lunar rock, and go deep underground on the moon to find the source of the huge gravity. This equipment is extremely difficult to develop. It is basically impossible to complete the development and production work within one or two months. With no choice, Qiao Ruida had to cheat again and found a science fiction movie "The Center of the Earth" from the end of the last century. He consumed points to open the copy permission of the science fiction world and copied the earth drilling exploration ship in it.

I didn't find anything wrong when watching the movie, but after seeing the real drilling exploration ship, Qiao Ruida regretted it a little. Because although this thing has powerful performance and can drill deep into the earth, it is only powerful in the mechanical system. Its control system is very primitive and backward, with a low degree of automation, and cannot be remotely controlled. It must be operated by a human driver to work properly. In addition, the various electronic equipment installed in the drilling exploration ship is also very backward. Some important instruments are still pointer-type, with a clear cyberpunk style, and are completely incompatible with the various advanced electronic instruments and remote control systems on the lunar spacecraft. It's a pity that the points have been spent, and they can't return the goods without reason within seven days. Moreover, it's not easy to find another powerful enough drilling equipment. It can only be modernized and remotely controlled on the basis of this drilling exploration ship. Qiao Ruida used the analysis function to fully understand the mechanical structure, operation method and working principle of the drilling exploration ship, and shared the drawings and software and hardware data with Jarvis. One person and one artificial intelligence, the two big perverts cooperated with each other to design a new set of high-tech instrument sensors and an intelligent control system for this drilling exploration ship. Then the original drilling exploration ship and the modification design drawings were handed over to the Dimension Puppet for modification and renovation. Now the modification work has been completed. In order to verify the performance of the new drilling exploration ship, Jarvis controlled a Mark Armor, carried the drilling exploration ship, flew to a desert area with few people, and conducted a drilling test. The result was very ideal. The drilling ability of the modified drilling exploration ship is even several levels stronger than that shown in the movie. To put it in a more vivid way, drilling is like diving, and cutting rock layers is like cutting tofu.

Now the drilling exploration ship has been loaded at a domestic foreign port and transported to Ruida Space City. It will arrive soon and catch up with the launch of the second lunar exploration spacecraft a week later. There is no problem at all. As for the origin of this drilling exploration ship, it is said that Qiao Ruida spent a lot of money to find a foreign team to customize it. As for whether others believe it or not, it is not important, at least Qiao Ruida does not care.

After touring several key workshops, a whole morning passed. At noon, Qiao Ruida and Cao Yifei came to the staff canteen. They did not use their privileges, but lined up to get food like ordinary employees and ate in the canteen on the first floor. During this period, several employees came over and greeted the two CEOs. Qiao Ruida also responded with a smile. While eating, he chatted with the employees around him, which was a different experience.

In the afternoon, Qiao Ruida and Cao Yifei came to the Space Telescope Operation and Maintenance Center and learned about the current flight status and orbital prediction of the "Little Flying Stick" asteroid from several staff members and astronomers. They also discussed the possibility of launching a probe to conduct close-range license plate detection of the Little Flying Stick.

"Mr. Qiao, the little flying stick is flying too fast, far exceeding the third cosmic speed. According to the current flight orbit and flight speed, it will reach perihelion in about two years, and then use the gravity of the sun to perform secondary acceleration and fly away from the solar system at a faster speed. During this period, the detection window left for us humans is very small, probably only two or three months, and the flight speed of the probe must be fast and accurate enough to achieve the purpose of close-range detection." An old professor who participated in the research at the Space Telescope Operation and Maintenance Center analyzed.

An expert in the aerospace field thought for a while and said, "With the domestic technical level and equipment support in the field of deep space exploration, it is basically impossible to develop a deep space probe that meets the needs within two or three months, launch it into space in time, intercept the small flying stick halfway, and conduct close-range detection."

Qiao Ruida nodded and said, "Leave the development and production of the exploration spacecraft to us. Experts and professors, please help us calculate the best flight trajectory so that we can fly to the vicinity of the small flying stick as quickly as possible, get in close contact with it, and photograph it. Then we can follow the map and conduct Ruida Aerospace's and mankind's first exploration of a celestial body outside the solar system."

"This is easy. It's just a matter of deriving a few simple formulas. Now we have computer assistance. Just input a few parameters and get the results immediately. But I'm worried that the flying stick will maneuver and change its trajectory during its perihelion. By then, all the derivations and calculations will be in vain." The old professor said at the beginning with some concern.

"Don't worry, professor. The small flying stick can change its trajectory and maneuver. So can the deep space probes produced by our Ruida Aerospace. Giving the probe a period of acceleration, it is not impossible to reach the third cosmic speed, or even surpass the flying speed of the small flying stick." Qiao Ruida patted his chest and assured that with the anti-gravity engine and plasma propulsion engine technology currently mastered by Ruida Aerospace, it would not be difficult to push a small probe to the third cosmic speed.

After leaving the Space Telescope Operation and Maintenance Center, Qiao Ruida and Cao Yifei separated. Cao Yifei returned to his office to handle the daily affairs of the Space City. Qiao Ruida drove to the headquarters of Ruida New Energy Company not far from the Space City. The controlled nuclear fusion experimental reactor designed and developed by Qiao Ruida is under construction, and the infrastructure part is nearing completion. Various extremely advanced instruments and equipment have been brought in and installed and debugged by professionals from China National Nuclear Corporation. Qiao Ruida came here this time to see the current construction progress. (End of this chapter)