Galaxy Technology Empire

June 4th.

Three days have passed since the moon landing.

During this period, another Qinglong-class spacecraft at the Lunar Space Station had a guard change with the Qinglong-class spacecraft at the Dongfanghong Base.

Chang An, Zhu Gang, Song Quansheng, and Fang Haibo were still on duty at 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 about 5,000 square meters of ground as a temporary landing site for the spacecraft.

As for how to level these floors, Dongfanghong Base uses an atom crusher to directly ionize ground particles, and then allows these plasmas to cool and solidify naturally, turning the ground into a glassy state.

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

These 30 centimeter-thick lava layers gave Dongfanghong Base a temporary landing site. As for a runway, there was no need at all.

The moon's gravity is only about one-sixth that of the blue star, and there is no dense atmosphere. The blue star uses 35 kilograms of fuel to fly the same distance. The moon only needs to use 1 kilogram of fuel to reach the same distance. In other words, it propels the same distance. The fuel consumed by a heavy aircraft on the moon is only about 1/35 of that of Blue Star.

In this case, a launch site is enough, and a runway for run-up is not necessary. What's more, neither the Qinglong class nor the Xuanwu class is a space shuttle, so it is useless to have a runway.

"Team Chang, when will our nuclear power plant come?" Fang Haibo asked, putting down the combined crawler vehicle.

Chang An looked at the holographic file: "Come over on June 6 the day after tomorrow. A Union-class spacecraft will come over."

The Union-class is the same spacecraft as the new Chang'e 1 and Conqueror 1. It is a spaceship combined in a 9+1 manner. 9 means 9 standard cabins (a regular hexagonal cylinder of 140 cubic meters), and 1 means 1 Xuanwu class or Qinglong class, these cabins are combined to form a Union-class spacecraft.

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

It uses one main engine, six auxiliary engines, and is equipped with a nuclear fusion battery (annual power generation capacity of 314 million kilowatt hours).

"That's good, otherwise the base's power shortage will force us to carry out more operations." Fang Haibo started the crawler vehicle, and the crawler vehicle started smoothly.

Zhu Gang walked over and discovered that Fang Haibo had already repaired the tracked vehicle.

"What exactly is broken?" Zhu Gang asked, patting the steering wheel of the tracked vehicle.

While recording some data and situations, Fang Haibo replied: "One of the gears was stuck by a stone. It may be that the moon's gravity is too weak. Just when the crawler was driving, a large amount of moon dust and moon rocks were stirred up. These things can easily invade the inside of the equipment. Look. I want Blue Star to strengthen the sealing and dustproofing."

"That's it." Zhu Gang suddenly realized.

"Gangzi, don't drive too far, otherwise 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 be in a hurry." Chang An also advised.

"Okay! I'll collect samples nearby." Zhu Gang also knew the priorities. After saying hello to the two of them, he drove the tracked vehicle to the south.

The crawler vehicle made ruts on the virgin land of the moon. Zhu Gang drove the crawler vehicle about 3 kilometers away from the Dongfanghong base and began to slow down.

From time to time, he operates mineral testing equipment and conducts rough inspections in all directions.

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

He quickly checked the direction, then started the lunar navigation system, and drove the tracked vehicle towards the abnormal area.

"Is this the area?" Looking at the surface, which was similar to other locations on the moon, Zhu Gang started the detection instrument again, and it turned out to be here.

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

[Number: 000579, June 4, 2020, direction...] He entered the detailed information into the holographic bracelet for easy reference at the time.

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

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

Through the rough detection equipment in the Dongfanghong base, a rich rare earth mine (reserves of about 1.3 to 1.9 million tons) was discovered in a radius of only about 10 kilometers of the base. The sand on the surface of the moon also contains a large amount of iron oxide and titanium minerals. , bauxite, and also contains a lot of helium 3 and uranium.

The specific details still require comprehensive testing by Blue Star's Mineral Research Institute, but there is no doubt that the moon is rich in minerals.

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

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

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On June 6, at around 14:33 pm Beijing time, a Union-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 supply the Lunar Space Station and Dongfanghong Base.

The head cabin of the Zhangzhou, a Xuanwu-class ship, 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 supplies that were urgently needed by the Dongfanghong Base.

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

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

"receive."

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

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

A large condensed matter shield generator, a nuclear fusion battery (annual power generation of 3.14 million kilowatt-hours), a standard cabin, a large number 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 quickly pushed the nuclear fusion battery towards a cabin.

They have been worried these days. As the natural satellite of Blue Star, the moon has always been under the threat of meteorite impacts. Just look at those dense craters to know how terrifying it is.

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

The condensed matter shield and the nuclear fusion battery can make the Dongfanghong base impregnable. Unless it encounters an asteroid impact with a diameter of more than 100 meters, 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 Council is broken, it is impossible to get close to Blue Star and the moon.