As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 265 The Fourth Moon Landing

The topic of lunar planting is not new at all, it is unique to the blue planet.

Even America only took some soil brought back from the moon and tried to plant crops.

Not to mention other countries, they haven't even made it there yet.

For the time being, this is a demand unique to China.

The Chinese astronauts will bring not only the seeds that already exist on Blue Planet, but also the genetically modified seeds with the strongest vitality that Jiang Yan has carefully cultivated.

Jiang Yan could only sense that this seed had the strongest vitality and was a seed mutated from rice.

You should know that before becoming a mage, Jiang Yan had been engaged in research on sea rice.

After becoming a wizard, he took the cultivation and practical value of sea rice a big step forward.

This time, it is specifically aimed at China's plan to build a base on the moon. It has abandoned all requirements for yield, taste, insect resistance, etc., and focused on improving the survival of seeds in harsh environments.

"If we can successfully grow rice on the moon this time, then next time we go to the moon, maybe we can even eat rice grown on the moon." Chen Dong showed a look of longing.

“In fact, planting this time is only our secondary purpose.

The most important purpose of this moon landing is to build a small base.

Although the prepared building materials are as convenient as building blocks, on the moon one has to wear heavy space suits and adapt to the gravity that is completely different from that of the blue planet.

We also need to consider the impact of solar wind and temperature differences. I have a feeling that building our base will not be as easy as we thought."

Ye Neng is the oldest astronaut in this moon landing program. The three of them will spend much more time working together than they do with their own families.

Ye Neng usually presents himself as a steady and big brother in the team. He considers issues comprehensively and always has a pessimistic expectation, but handles problems optimistically and proactively.

He is also the leader of their three-person team.

"Most of the building materials have been carried up there during the previous moon landings.

We have conducted sufficient testing both on the moon and in simulated environments on the blue planet.

Brother Ye, don't be too pessimistic. We will definitely complete it successfully this time."

In China's first three moon landing missions, except for the first one, the next two missions carried some special construction materials up according to the established plan.

and fixed near their chosen base location.

America 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, America chose to fine-tune its plan, and they also planned to build a small base on the moon first.

Since there is no transit station like the lunar space station, America's costs will be tens of billions of dollars more.

Of course, there is also the reason that NASA’s various costs, including but not limited to labor costs, are inherently higher than CNSA’s.

The reason why America 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 rich mineral resources on the moon, including lithium, phosphate, rare earths, etc. which have been very popular in recent years.

However, Blue Planet’s current technology is still some distance away from low-cost mining on the moon.

The round-trip transportation cost alone is at least ten times more than buying ore directly from Blue Star, even though the price of lithium ore continues to soar.

This is the same reason why Russia took the lead in launching a manned rocket, and then America forced to land on the moon even though the tests were incomplete and the safety risks were extremely high.

American needs to create a global image of technological leadership that cannot be questioned.

Among their three pillars, energy is almost untenable, and the pillar of technology cannot be shaken anymore.

China’s previous biological storage technology has had a huge impact.

Including brain-computer connection VR, these products have had an unfavorable impact on America worldwide.

Let me put it this way, originally, countries led by America hoped to reconstruct the image of the Chinese in the global public opinion field.

However, when China's unique technology and products are circulated around the world, it is easy for people abroad to question this kind of public opinion.

If the Chinese are as bad as the BBC, CNN and other media say, why are they able to create world-leading technology?

The aerospace field is more intuitive, especially the point that space indirectly reflects a country's scientific and technological strength, which is the inherent relevance of public opinion created by America itself.

What Americans cannot accept is that China has repeatedly broken through the public opinion trap they have created in terms of its national image.

China and America are racing to stake out territory on the moon, causing some countries to be wary.

Especially Asan, who has repeatedly stated that the moon is the common property of mankind, not the territory of a few countries.

In order to avoid destructive exploitation of the moon by certain countries, the development of the moon must be discussed jointly by all countries on the blue planet.

For China and America, Ah San's proposal was not even a formal discussion; at most it was just their own complaints.

Chinese netizens even ridiculed the news:
"If you want to interfere with our construction of a lunar base, you better first acquire the ability to land on the moon yourself."

"Asan is a typical person who has high aspirations but a weak will. He hasn't even figured out manned aviation yet, but he's thinking that he might go to the moon in the future?"

The three moon landing team members who had been receiving training at a special aerospace base were unaware of the outside world's discussions.

Even if they knew about the Indians' proposal, they would just laugh it off.

Ye Neng was 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 the construction of the lunar base, or we must complete it.

But I don’t think it will go as smoothly as we expected.

Success after certain twists and turns is also success.

But in order to reduce the twists and turns in the process, we need as many plans as possible.

You need to think over and over again about possible problems.

Didn’t we also have an accident when we first went to the lunar space station?”

China's lunar space station is located at the lunar libration point, which is the "halo orbit" of the L2 point mentioned earlier.

The halo orbit was first defined in NASA's plans in the 1980s.

At that time, NASA wanted to set up a lunar far-side data relay satellite in the halo orbit, but later the plan was changed to a lunar space station.

Later, this position was occupied by the Chinese.

Satellites orbiting in the halo orbit always maintain line of sight with the Earth and the far side of the Moon.

Seen from the lunar surface, the subtending angle of the entire ring orbit is only 6.2 degrees.

"You mean, after we docked, we found that the satellite had deviated and could no longer remain in the halo orbit?"

To keep the satellite in the halo orbit, it needs to consume energy to maintain its station.

However, when their launch satellite docked with the lunar space station, this balance was affected.

The low thrust direction of the lunar space station has been affected. That is to say, after entering the space station, if they continue to operate according to the established orbit, they will leave the halo orbit.

"Yes, at that time it was because we were above the moon and did not land on the moon, so we were still able to get technical support from Blue Planet." Ye Neng nodded.

At that time, Chinese scientists on Blue Planet proposed a method to optimize long-term stationing in the lunar halo orbit in response to the deorbit crisis of the lunar space station.

This method uses discretization of each half-turn into segments and uses a set of pseudo pulses for each segment.

The characteristic velocity of the pseudo-pulse and matrix inequalities are used to transform the problem into a large-scale linear programming expression.

The terminal constraints can be expressed as linear matrix equations using numerical partial derivatives of the reference trajectory.

An iterative shooting algorithm based on a full ephemeris model and differential correction is used, and preliminary simulation and comparison results of a one-year long-term stationing strategy are given.

The algorithm for maintaining a new low thrust for a long time was estimated by the above method.

And they 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 very panicked.

After leaving the halo orbit, they will be forced to land on the moon according to the calculated trajectory.

After landing on the moon, even if there was no physical injury, the oxygen and supplies would not be enough to sustain them while waiting for rescue from the blue planet.

Not to mention, if we were to re-launch the lunar space station, America might get there first and occupy the L2 point.

The occupation of the L2 point is also unacceptable to China.

You have to know that this means that they will have to start all over again to build a base on the moon, and they will also have to invest more money.

China's aerospace budget is less than half of America's, so every penny is precious.

In order to solve this problem, China sent a magician with a mathematics background to participate in the solution of the problem, and spent a magic coin to rent the biological cloud brain.

This is also the first time that Blue Star Bio has used the BioCloud Brain function.

Zheng Li, who was notified of the news at that time, was surprised that someone finally used the function I set up after such a long time.

If you don't use it anymore, I will start to doubt whether this function is just for decoration.

China has discovered the functions of the biological cloud brain, which is suitable for top talents to use when tackling world-class problems.

Ye Neng continued: "You know, 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 is a lot of research on communications between the Blue Planet and the Moon because it is a communications problem.

And the lunar rover will need to solve communication problems.

The data from the lunar rover needs to be transmitted back to the blue planet.

As early as the 1940s, before the founding of China, scientists from Blue Planet were already studying how to achieve daily communications between the Moon and Blue Planet.

The meeting minutes of IRE contain complete solutions for daily communications between the moon and the blue planet. IRE was the name of IEEE before it was renamed.

Of course, this solution only involves the principle, not that they have really solved the problem.

"In fact, the most important thing is that the communication with Blue Star will be severely delayed or even impossible."

“If we encounter any accidents on the moon, we can only rely on ourselves at first.

So it’s always a good idea to be prepared.”

Chen Dong nodded and said, "Will it be better if we build an LTE base station at the lunar base the second time?"

In China's lunar base construction plan, the first time going up there is mainly to complete the construction of the main living area and then plant vegetables.

The second time we go up, we need to build up supplementary environments such as LTE base stations and research environments.

Ye Neng smiled and said, "Planning is the key to success. We need to make more preparations."

China's plan to land on the moon and build a lunar base is scheduled for mid-March, the day when the dragon raises its head.

In fact, with the growth of economy and national strength in recent years, Chinese people have begun to pay less and less attention to symbolic events at the national level.

Like the space exploration in recent years, except for the sensation caused by the moon landing, when everyone was discussing it, other times seemed very dull.

Only space enthusiasts will continue to pay attention to it, and most people will just see it on the hot search, click in to take a look, and then exit.

To be honest, the aerospace field is too far away from the general public, and there is not much you can do except getting a 666.

An accident occurred during the docking of the lunar space station, which was later reported by China's official media. No one could quite understand the cause and consequences of the accident.

Most drivers can explain the circumstances of a car accident, but few have ever driven a manned spacecraft or a space station.

Not to mention that the lunar space station cannot be found even if you try to find it in history.

The highest ranking of the lunar space station on Weibo's hot search list was because it snatched the position chosen by America.

This is the same as building your house in a location carefully chosen by your neighbor, especially one you don't like.

China's moon landing this time attracted public attention.

Because this time it is necessary to build a base on the moon, and the official media will broadcast the entire process live.

The official media also authorized live broadcasts to Bilibili, WeChat Video Account and Douyin.

The momentum was huge.

The impact on communications between Blue Star and the Moon mentioned by Ye Neng and Chen Dong above was an unexpected event.

This kind of accident will not happen in most cases. After the communication between the moon and the blue planet passes through the lunar space station, the delay under normal circumstances is about three to five seconds.

"Space tourism has already been achieved, and I feel that moon travel is not far away."

"I'll definitely see it in my lifetime."

"I already regret that I didn't choose to go to military school after the college entrance examination and then become an astronaut.

It would be so romantic to build our own base on the moon.”

"I heard that this time we are not only going to build a base on the moon, but also grow vegetables. Does anyone know what vegetables we will grow?"

"The official spokesperson of the aerospace department mentioned before that rice will be planted, but rice is only one of the varieties. From what he said, many varieties will be planted."

“Can you sell me the seeds I brought back from the moon? I really want to grow some.

If anyone can get it, please contact me, the reward will be generous.

"Is there a walking 500,000 upstairs? Even if a normal person wants to get the seeds, they know it's impossible. It's just a joke at best.

The person above mentioned the remuneration, which I find a bit strange.

Do you want to say something to northern netizens? "

In a forum dedicated to discussing space flight, netizens were discussing the moon landing very enthusiastically.

(End of this chapter)