Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies.

Office of the Director of the Institute of Aerospace Science and Technology.

After seeing the plan brought by Lu Zhou, the waiting light of the office just finished slightly, and asked subconsciously.

"... mining on the moon?"

Lu Zhou nodded his head and said it in a concise manner.

"Yes."

Seeing Lu Zhou is not like a joke expression, Hou Guang picked up the glasses from the table and put them on, opened the title page of the plan, and carefully looked at the abstract part.

After about two or three minutes, he flipped a few pages to the back of the plan, then placed it on the table and pushed the glasses to look at Lu Zhou, cautiously said.

"I have read the plan, roughly... Are you hoping to design a device that can be deployed on the lunar surface to automatically mine shallow deposits?"

Lu Zhou: "Yes."

That's right...

This time I changed my word.

I heard that there was no ups and downs, just like to say what the same tone of eating today, waiting for the light to smile.

"But this month, the palace has just completed the first phase of the project, and now I am getting this lunar mining... Is it a bit too big?"

Lu Zhou shook his head and said: "It's not too big, and the Moon Palace plan itself is a project that serves the development of lunar resources. There is no conflict between the two. Now the first bridge is officially in service, I think it is already Time to move our steps from the moon's orbit to the moon below."

The 1920s was the starting point for the "moon era."

Mining on the moon, if it was said a few years ago, it may sound difficult to achieve, but today, in 2021, it is not a difficult thing to achieve.

Both Nasa’s Deep Space Program and the license issued to moon-express, the ESA’s lunar mining program and the contract with the rocket manufacturer arianegroup, have set a timetable for the exploitation of lunar resources in 2020. Within the interval of -2030.

The mx series of detectors launched by moon-express before 2020 have been able to collect and bring back 20 kilograms of moonstone specimens from the moon. According to the new mining equipment research and development plan announced in response to the “Sky Gate” plan, efforts will be made to solve the problem of mining shallow deposits in low gravity environments.

Of course, the opponents' actions are actually secondary. The most important thing is that Lu Zhou does not want to wait any longer.

The key to completing the second phase of the special event task chain, “Land and Moon Control”, is to build a semi-permanent scientific research station on the moon.

If you just open the main line, with the technical strength of the current Star Technology, the difficulty of completing it will not be great.

However, just by the main line, the reward of the task is quite poor.

According to the branch tasks given in the list, aside those that are obviously unrealistic, and some of which are barely promising, Lu Zhou will certainly not let go.

One of them is to mine and smelt 100 tons of titanium alloy on the surface of the moon and 50 tons of rare earth ore from the lunar soil.

Now that the first phase of the Moon Palace has just been completed, the second phase of the project is about to begin, and a large amount of structural materials are needed, and the moon has abundant titanium ore reserves.

If the production task of some of the structural materials can be put on the moon, and the "self-production and sales" in the lunar system can be realized within a limited cost, it is sure to reduce part of the cost.

At the same time, this is the only opportunity that Lu Zhou can now grasp and expand the scale of production on the moon.

Wait until the end of the second phase of the Moon Palace project, the remaining three phases of the project are just some of the modification of the original molding space station.

At that time, even if he produced so many titanium alloys according to the requirements of the system task, he could only pay for it by himself...

Of course, although mining on the moon has a theoretical basis, the challenges are also great.

Whether it is a low-temperature, low-gravity working environment on the moon or a high staffing cost on the moon, it is a huge test for the automation technology of equipment that will be deployed on the lunar surface to complete production tasks.

Hou Guang scratched his head and thought for a while.

For the idea that Lu Zhou suddenly threw it out, he couldn’t think of any constructive opinions for a while, even if he wanted to persuade him and didn’t know where to sue, so he said, “...because you If I think so, then the plan will be put here first. I am looking for a few people to do this research... but I am blunt, industrial production is probably not the area we are good at, this thing still has to ask this aspect. Expert opinion."

Lu Zhou nodded and said: "I have already considered what you said. The topic was discussed at the weekly meeting of the Lunar Track Construction Committee. The relevant technical arguments are already being done."

Speaking of it, pause for a moment, he continued.

"I will contact you at the sinking machine, as well as the two major groups of aviation and aviation. This project is not just for us. The top institutions in the field of domestic automation and space equipment will be involved. I can give you a bottom. After the project started, there are at least three academicians and above in the research team. The leader of the research team is my name, but the specific work still has to worry about you staring more. If you don’t have enough people, you and I said, I will find another way."

As soon as he heard Lu Zhou say so, Hou Guang quickly said.

"Enough is enough, definitely enough! No more digestible."

There are a large number of research dogs, such as Changjiang Scholars, Jie Qing, Associate Professors, Research Fellows, Postdoctoral Fellows, and PhDs. There is an academician in a research group. As long as it is not particularly unpopular or does not use the research direction of so many people, it basically means that a group army in the field of scientific research is assembled.

Not to mention three academicians...

At that time, I was afraid that it was the coordination of the relationship within the project team. He organized so many scientific research labors and he was busy.

Thinking of this, Hou Guang’s heart is not full of emotions.

In the domestic academic circles, it is possible for the academicians to let go of their own projects and rush to work for themselves, and to boast such an enhanced version of the "Group Army" in the field, I am afraid that Professor Lu will be alone...

......

At the same time, the same proposal appeared on the desk of an office in the elders' home.

Seriously, the plan was finally seen. The elders took off their eyes and looked up at the head of the Science and Technology Bureau, who was standing at the desk, and asked.

“Is this written by Professor Lu?”

Director Li nodded and said seriously.

"Yes."

"Have a discussion in the meeting?"

"It has already been discussed."

"What are the opinions of other experts?"

"Yuan Academician of Hangke Group thinks that you can try it. Academician Yang Zhongquan, chief engineer of Shenji, thinks that although it is difficult, whether it can or not, it will be of great help to our country's automation industry technology." Simply stated the passage of the next meeting and basically restored the meaning of the two main speakers.

After listening to Secretary Li’s words, the old man nodded.

"It is an honor for a scholar like Professor Lu to be a country."

Appreciatively sighed with a sigh of relief, he reached for the pen from the table, signed his name on the document, and then stamped a bright red stamp.

"Approved!"