Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 434 Lunar Codex ([-])

6 month 4 day.

3 days have passed since the moon landing.

During the period, another Qinglong-class spacecraft on the Lunar Space Station and the Qinglong-class spacecraft at Dongfanghong Base underwent a guard change.

Chang An, Zhu Gang, Song Quansheng, and Fang Haibo are still on duty at the Dongfanghong base.

At this time, the Dongfanghong base has begun to take shape, with four standard cabins (140 cubic meters). In addition, Chang An and others have leveled the ground of about 5000 square meters as a temporary landing site for the spacecraft.

As for how to level the ground, the Dongfanghong base uses an atom smasher, which directly ionizes the ground particles, and then lets the plasma cool and solidify naturally, and it will turn into a glassy ground.

The atom smasher can be called an artifact of burning glass. Although it is insignificant compared to the burning glass of mushroom eggs, this thing is not only fast and controllable, but also has no nuclear radiation pollution.

These lava layers with a thickness of 30 centimeters gave Dongfanghong base a temporary landing site. As for runways and the like, there was no need at all.

The gravitational force of the moon is only about one-sixth of that of the blue star, plus there is no dense atmosphere. The distance traveled by 35 kilograms of fuel on the blue star can reach the same distance on the moon by using only 1 kilogram of fuel, that is to say, the same distance can be driven. For a heavy aircraft, the fuel consumed on the moon only needs about 1/35 of that of the blue star.

In this case, a direct launch site is enough, and the runway for the run-up is dispensable, not to mention that the Qinglong class or the Xuanwu class are not space shuttles, and it is useless to have a runway.

"Team Chang, when will our nuclear power plant come?" Fang Haibo asked as he put down the combined tracked vehicle.

Chang An looked at the holographic file: "Come over on June 6 the day after tomorrow, and a joint-class spaceship will come."

The joint class is the same spacecraft as the new Chang'e No. 9 and Conqueror No. 1. It is a spaceship combined in a 9+9 way. 140 means 1 standard cabins (a regular hexagonal cylinder of 1 cubic meters), and [-] means a basalt. Class or Qinglong class, these compartments combine to form a Union-class spaceship.

The joint-class spacecraft has a length of 30 meters, a middle width of 12-15 meters, a total volume of 1540 cubic meters, a dry weight of 195 tons, and a capacity of 355 tons of materials (if the head cabin is Qinglong class, it can carry 20 astronauts. , with a payload of 315 tons).

It uses one main engine, six auxiliary engines, and is equipped with a nuclear fusion battery (annual power generation capacity of 3.14 million kWh).

"That's good, otherwise the lack of power in the base will allow us to carry out more operations." Fang Haibo started the tracked vehicle, and the tracked vehicle started smoothly.

When Zhu just came over, he realized that Fang Haibo had already repaired the tracked vehicle.

"What's broken?" Zhu Gang patted the steering wheel of the tracked vehicle and asked.

Fang Haibo recorded some data and conditions, and replied: "A gear is stuck by a rock, it may be that the moon's gravity is too weak. The crawler vehicle just drove a lot of moon dust and moon rocks. These things are easy to invade the inside of the device. Look Let Blue Star strengthen the seal against dust."

"So it is." Zhu Gang suddenly realized.

"Gangzi, don't drive too far, or you will be in trouble if it breaks down." Fang Haibo said.

"Hai Bo is right, Gangzi, don't drive too far, we have plenty of time, don't worry about it for a while." Chang An also persuaded.

"Okay! I'll collect samples nearby." Zhu Gang also knew the priorities, and after greeting the two, he drove the tracked vehicle to the south.

The tracked vehicle rolled out ruts on the virgin land of the moon. Zhu Gang drove the tracked vehicle about 3 kilometers away from Dongfanghong Base, and then began to slow down.

From time to time, he operated the mineral detection equipment to conduct rough detection in all directions.

Suddenly the detection instrument popped up some information [Azimuth 14.733/167.423, abnormal magnetic field detected].

He quickly checked the direction, then activated the lunar navigation system, and then drove the crawler towards the abnormal area.

"Is it this area?" Seeing that the surface was similar to other places on the moon, Zhu Gang activated the detection equipment again, and it really was here.

He quickly got off the tracked vehicle, took a box and a small shovel, dug some surface soil, and put it into a small box with a number.

[No.: 000579, 2020.6.4, location...] He entered the detailed information into the holographic bracelet for easy reference at that time.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Gang took out a special laser drilling equipment and began to drill underground.

He has been repeating this kind of work these days, and the number 000579 represents that he has collected 579 samples.

Through the rough detection equipment in the Dongfanghong base, a rare earth-rich mine (about 10 million to 130 million tons of reserves) was found in a radius of only about 190 kilometers of the base, and the sand on the lunar surface also contains a large amount of iron oxide and titanium minerals. , bauxite, and helium-3 and uranium content are also quite a lot.

The specific details need to be fully tested by Blue Star's mineral research institute, but there is no doubt that the moon is rich in minerals.

In addition, in some of the samples collected underground, the existence of solid water was indeed found, which is somewhat similar to the permafrost.

Zhu Gang and his team tested 17 water-containing samples, the water content of which was between 17% and 23%, with an average of about 19.4%.

……

On June 6, at around 6:14 p.m. Beijing time, a joint-class spacecraft slowly approached the lunar space station, and then docked with the lunar space station.

This time, the joint-class "Zhangzhou" was fully loaded with 355 tons of supplies to replenish the lunar space station and Dongfanghong base.

The head cabin of the Zhangzhou, which is a Xuanwu class, quickly separated from the Zhangzhou and headed for the Dongfanghong base near the south pole of the moon. This time, it carried a large amount of urgently needed materials for the Dongfanghong base.

"Chang team, a Xuanwu-class transport spacecraft will arrive in 10 minutes." Song Quanshenghui reported.

"You guide them to our location." Chang An ordered through the internal communication system.

"receive."

Ten minutes later, a spaceship painted in dark blue landed on the landing site on the north side of Dongfanghong Base. It was the Xuanwu-class spacecraft that had transported supplies. Not far from it was a Qinglong-class spacecraft.

Except for Zhu Gang who went to collect samples, the other three quickly unloaded the 60 tons of cargo from the Xuanwu-class spacecraft.

A large condensed matter shield generator, a nuclear fusion battery (with an annual power generation capacity of 314 million kWh), a standard cabin, a large amount of equipment and a batch of living supplies.

"Great, with the condensed matter shield and nuclear fusion battery, we don't have to worry about being hit by meteorites." Fang Haibo hurriedly pushed the nuclear fusion battery towards a cabin.

They have been worried these days. As the natural satellite of the blue star, the moon has been under the threat of meteorite impacts. Looking at the densely packed craters, they know the horror.

The Dongfanghong base is better on the front side of the moon. If it is on the back side of the moon, the craters there are densely packed.

The condensed matter shield combined with the nuclear fusion battery can make the Dongfanghong base impenetrable, unless it is hit by an asteroid with a diameter of more than 100 meters, otherwise the Dongfanghong base will not be fatally threatened.

As for asteroids with a diameter of more than 100 meters, unless the asteroid monitoring system of the Space Development Committee is broken, it is impossible to approach the blue star and the moon.

(End of this chapter)