Military Technology

Normally, this kind of space exploration mission is generally contracted by the national team.

However, in recent years, our country's aerospace field has developed rapidly and is currently in a stage of rapid development, with various projects being launched one after another. In particular, the successive launch of several major key projects has also tilted the human and material resources of the entire aerospace system towards it, and other less urgent scientific research and detection projects will naturally have to give in to it.

However, there is a window period for deep space exploration. Missing this optimal window period will waste a lot of time. Therefore, this scientific research institute cannot wait any longer, so it wants to find another way. Fortunately, the strong rise of Haoyu Aerospace gave them hope. In particular, Wu Hao and the others have successively successfully launched their own high-thrust retractable launch vehicle, unmanned experimental spacecraft, inflatable inflatable space experimental capsule, and the recently popular "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol. Rover.

This gave these aerospace research institutes hope, and they immediately began to contact them.

Of course, Wu Hao and the others are also very interested in such a project. On the one hand, this is a business that comes to your doorstep, so how can they not make a profit? On the other hand, what they value more is the accumulation of experience and technology. They can completely rely on this project to accumulate experience and related technologies, and accumulate valuable experience for their future deep space exploration and exploration into deep space.

Since both parties are willing to cooperate, the subsequent contacts and negotiations will become much smoother. However, the other party also put forward his own requirements. That is, they first require that the performance of this Jupiter probe be reliable enough to cope with the harsh space environment, especially the unknown deep space environment.

Secondly, the working life must be long. The life of the detector must be extended as much as possible so that it can fly farther and detect more things. Otherwise, when the probe finally flies near Jupiter, it suddenly malfunctions. This is equivalent to wasting several years and will undoubtedly cause huge losses to researchers on scientific research projects.

You know, if such a detector wants to fly by Jupiter, it will take about five to six hundred days at the fastest. However, in order to allow the detector to obtain more detection data, other flight trajectories are usually used.

For example, the Galileo spacecraft was launched on October 18, 1989. It did not fly directly to Jupiter. Instead, with the help of gravity, it flew past the Earth twice and once past Venus. It accelerated its flight and finally landed on December 1, 1995. Arrive at Jupiter on January 8th. The total is 2242 days.

In addition, there is the "Juno" probe, which was launched on August 6, 2011, and entered the Jupiter system on July 4, 2016, with a total flight time of 1,795 days.

What this scientific research institute obviously wants is not just a simple detection mission to fly by Jupiter. They hope that this detector can go further and detect more unknowns.

As a result, there are higher requirements for this Jupiter probe, and for Wu Hao and the others, this undoubtedly increases the technical difficulty.

Moreover, the funds that the other party can provide are limited. The other party belongs to the scientific research department, and the source of research funds depends entirely on allocations from higher-level departments. This kind of task that they set up on their own is no longer in the overall system development catalog, so they can get very little funding, so naturally there is not much money available to Wu Hao and the others.

I want to spend less and do more. Of course, Wu Hao and the others were somewhat reluctant about this. However, after repeated consultations, the two sides finally reached a basic agreement in this regard.

For Wu Hao and others, this project is mainly about training troops and accumulating experience. As for making money, that's secondary. Of course, it’s not that I’m not making money anymore, but I’m definitely not making that much in comparison. Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Wu Hao decided to take over this business.

Another time, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle has successfully completed its first 110-kilometer long-distance maneuvering mission, which took a total of nine hours and 45 minutes, about half a time later than the pre-estimated time. About hours. However, it was within expectations, because they had analyzed it through high-definition satellite maps and found that there were still many difficult sections in the 110 kilometers.

Moreover, this is the first long-distance maneuver of the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle. It is very good that it can be completed on time and well.

Because the distance is relatively difficult to cover, the energy consumption, that is, battery power, of the 110 kilometers this time was beyond Wu Hao's expectations. It consumed about 35%, which was also unexpected. What they expected gave them a more in-depth and intuitive understanding of the difficulty of traveling on the moon.

After the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface inspection rover arrived, it did not directly enter the one- to two-hundred-meter-large crater. Instead, it first conducted an inspection around the edge of the crater. , and gained a preliminary understanding of the environment inside the crater.

After scanning the terrain environment inside the crater and establishing a 3D digital data terrain map, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol rover planned several routes and selected an optimal route.

This time, the telemetry personnel on the ground did not directly let the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol rover descend into the crater on its own. Instead, relevant experts are organized to analyze and study the route to ensure nothing goes wrong.

For example, safety comes first. In such a complex environment, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface inspection vehicle is likely to be trapped. In this case, if there is no external force, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol vehicle will It is difficult for the lunar surface patrol rover to escape. Therefore, for the insurance period, it is definitely necessary to manually re-inspect it to ensure that everything is foolproof.

After confirming that there was no problem with the route chosen by the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle, ground telemetry personnel immediately issued instructions, and the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle began to move towards the crater. stand up.

This time, Wu Hao and the others also chose to broadcast live. Through the surveillance camera on the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle, the scene around the vehicle can be transmitted in real time.

These real-time images will be broadcast live to the outside world after simple processing. This also allowed the outside world to see the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle in progress for the first time in a live broadcast.

Zhijian "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol rover slowly drove up the slightly raised "crater" on the edge of this small crater, found a pass, and then slowly drove down from here.