Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies.

director's office.

Lu Zhou, sitting at his desk, is also reviewing the documents on the table with meticulous attention.

Since becoming the chief designer of the Lunar Track Construction Committee, his work has been busy.

The entire Chinese nation’s funding for the lunar construction project has to go through this pen in his hand.

In short, the elders who are chairmen are responsible for checking the total amount of funds. According to the scientific, economic and cultural values ​​of the lunar orbital project, they decide how much money can be obtained for the entire lunar orbital construction plan.

As for the chief designer, Lu Zhou is responsible for deciding which of these funds to spend, or in other words, which R&D projects are used.

If the entire outer space exploration program is likened to a small boat sailing on the sea, then he is in the position of the helmsman. If there is a problem with him, the whole ship has to go along with the problem.

Therefore, even if you are not interested in these trivial things, he can only sit here with patience, and tirelessly read every document from the beginning to the end, from which to identify those reliable projects or programs, and sign yourself on it. name.

Just as Lu Zhou was immersed in a report on the technical feasibility study of lunar mining engineering equipment, a knock at the door was heard.

Stopped the pen in his hand, Lu Zhou looked at the door, and cleared his throat and said.

"Please come in."

The door opened and the young female assistant in a professional attire, holding a stack of thick documents, came in from the outside.

"Professor, here is the document sent from Huanong University and the Aviation Bureau. I am sending you the Foreign Development and Liaison Office."

Lu Zhou said, he said.

"I know, you are on the table first."

“Okay,” the female assistant nodded. She went to the desk and took the file out of the folder. She placed it in the corner of the desk and asked softly, “Will there be anywhere else I can help you?”

"It's good to help me with a cup of coffee."

"Okay, Professor."

The young female assistant nodded, turned and walked to the side of the water dispenser, helped Lu Zhou rushed over a cup of instant Mocha, and then left the office with a light hand.

While drinking coffee, Lu Zhou simply flipped through two documents sent from the external liaison office.

In general, the two documents are good news, especially the documents sent by the space agency, and highly praised the outstanding contribution of the Jinling Institute of Advanced Research in the lunar orbit construction.

The successful completion of the core module of the Moon Palace not only established a first-hand advantage for the development of the Chinese resources, but also won a great reputation for the Chinese nation in the international arena.

At the same time, in this document, the concept map of the first phase of the space station sent by the Hangke Group and the completion schedule of the remaining components are also included.

Based on this information, Lu Zhou will discuss the launch schedule of the next node, energy, experimental, work, and other space station components through the meeting of the Lunar Track Construction Committee.

On the other side, not only did the good news come from the Moon Palace, but the good news came from the Gurbantunggut Desert.

As early as a month ago, when Lu Zhou was still studying how to send the Moon Palace to the monthly track, the "Fire Plan" completed the construction of the first phase of the project, and under the leadership of Professor Hu Yang, the biosphere was launched. The operation of a.

So far, the biosphere a has been successfully operated for one month. During this month, the volunteers enclosed in the artificial biosphere have successfully achieved the desired goals, and realized life through limited water input and a small amount of waste. The circulation of materials.

“Closed Loop Life Support Technology” is one of the most important pre-engineers of the colonial moon and even Mars, and an important part of the entire lunar orbital construction plan.

Currently in this field, the United States, which once dominated the "Biosphere 2" experiment, has gone relatively far, and the Ares Life Maintenance Unit, which has been launched to Mars, is an application of this technology.

If the Chinese nation intends to build a colony on the moon or even more distant planets, it is essential to unlock the branch of this technology tree.

Seeing Professor Hu’s report at the end, Lu Zhou’s face showed a gratifying expression.

If all goes well, if it is fast, maybe next year, China will be able to send its colonists to the lunar surface.

Just then, the knock on the door sounded again.

In the direction of the documents in hand, Lu Zhou looked in the direction of the door.

"Please come in."

Pushing open the door of the office, Hou Guang, the director of the Aerospace Science and Technology Research Institute, walked in seriously and stepped in. He hadn't waited for Lu Zhou to ask what happened, and he opened the door to see the mountain.

"A good news, a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Seeing the serious expression on the waiting face, Lu Zhou squatted slightly and then said with a smile.

"When did you learn to sell the customs?" Suddenly, he said casually, "That... start with good news."

Houguang: "The good news is that we planted the plant on the moon and have successfully harvested the first batch of potatoes!"

Upon hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou’s face gradually appeared a touch of surprise.

"Is it already harvested? Is it so fast?"

Although he has not planted the land and has not done research in this area, it is also heard that the potato usually takes three months from sowing to maturity.

It’s only two months since the planting unit was successfully launched and harvested. It has to be said that this speed is a bit more amazing.

I noticed the surprise of Lu Zhou, Hou Guang smiled and explained: "Alright, we used the improved potato species, plus the constant temperature system of the planting unit to keep it at the optimum growth temperature, two The time of the month is not too exaggerated."

The cost of potatoes grown through space planting units is undoubtedly more than a few times more expensive than on Earth.

Even so, at a cost of more than tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram of launch costs, the cost of growing food on the moon is much cheaper than growing on the planet.

And even if you let go of the economic cost, you can realize the self-sufficiency of living materials on the moon. This kind of psychological satisfaction is also simply impossible to exchange for money...

"This is indeed good news." After a pause, Lu Zhou smiled and continued to ask: "So bad news?"

"The bad news is that we received the news this morning..." Hesitated for a moment, Houguang took a deep breath and said, "The bfr rocket launched by spae-x last month has landed at Mars at 13 o'clock in Beijing today. surface."

Already landing? !

The expression gradually became serious. On the office chair, I sat on the right side of the boat and immediately continued to ask: "How is the landing situation?"

Houguang’s expression looked at him with a dignified look and said.

"It is said that... they have succeeded."