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Tang Chao became popular again because his remotely controlled lunar rover overturned.

Hey, the main thing is that they managed to recover it, and it can still drive normally.

The gravity on the moon is low, and the speed of the remote-control vehicle is not fast, and it is sturdy enough, so the impact is small.

After all, the Kanxing material black technology is not just for show.

Bumps and scrapes are minor issues; to see disintegration and damage, you'd need a direct explosion.

Although that was just a game feature, after becoming the real world, this feature really continued into the actual materials, achieving 100% black technology materials.

Of course, Tang Chao's rollover was just an accident. Through this live broadcast, people should see other things.

For example, the successful maiden flight of a new super-heavy rocket, the Long March 9.

There is now a cabin on the moon to ensure human survival and experimentation.

It's called Moon Palace II, from Interstellar Pathfinder Company.

Also, there are eight more lunar rovers on the moon, and two of them can be remotely controlled by humans for rapid maneuvering.

The combination of speed and slowness allows humans to have more diverse means of exploring the moon, and the exploration speed is also faster.

This is the information that the general public knows. They are all very happy after learning this because it means that humans can have a greater understanding of the moon.

Where there are ordinary people, there are extraordinary people.

For researchers in related fields, this is good news, because Pathfinder Company cooperates with Tianxia Aerospace to release some of the data detected, and after consideration, some of the core content will also be released.

This is naturally good news for scientists and researchers in related fields. After all, not everyone has the conditions to launch probes to the moon, so these public materials are the object of research for most people.

Moreover, there is simply too much data to collect. Analyzing it all by oneself would take forever.

So, some unimportant things must be made public so that related researchers around the world can analyze, interpret, and study them.

But for politicians in other countries, whether this news is good or bad is something they only know themselves.

Of course, regardless of whether it is good or bad for them, since others have succeeded and achieved something, various officials still have to send congratulations.

This is a matter of etiquette.

It would be one thing if a country started a hot war with Tianxia, but now that it is "peacetime," congratulations must be given.

The American news spokesperson gave a passionate congratulatory speech in front, while the Idiot King was roaring madly at Kuna behind.

In the beginning, Kuna told him about the Mars sample return plan, and he was quite happy.

The moon is just there. Anyway, they had already landed people on it decades ago. Even if Tianxia achieves a manned moon landing next year, it will still be behind them.

They had already won that first place decades ago.

Even after knowing that Tianxia's payload was a lunar surface experimental cabin, which was larger than any previous lunar landing equipment, he only felt a little bit sorry, because he still felt that the Mars sample return plan was more impressive.

Although Tianxia putting an experimental cabin on the moon is quite impressive, it still hasn't achieved manned flight. As long as there are no people on board, the experimental cabin is just a larger lunar landing module.

There is nothing surprising about it.

They launched several smaller lunar landing modules decades ago.

Their upgraded lunar landing module can even return.

Were they proud?

Did they shout about it all over the world?

Uh... well, there were some.

But so what? They haven't fallen behind so far, they are still leading.

But after Moon Palace II landed and suddenly released eight lunar rovers, and even two that could "sprint," he felt something was wrong.

The science advisor told him that there are now 12 mobile lunar rovers on the moon, 11 of which are from Tianxia and 1 from Sakura Country.

Although Sakura Country's rover was launched using an American rocket, the lunar rover is indeed from Sakura Country.

And for America, they only have three scrapped convertible lunar rovers, which are still from decades ago.

Eleven active lunar rovers, including two that can race, are all from Tianxia.

How high-spirited he was when he announced that America would return to the moon during his term, as if the moon was America's back garden, and as long as he gave an order, American astronauts could build a city on the moon.

But since last year, things have gradually deviated from his original vision, and Tianxia has caught up.

Now, it's even more heartbreaking.

The moon is basically full of Tianxia's rovers. How could this be allowed?

The thought of the moon being full of Tianxia's rover tracks in the future made his heart twitch.

So he caught Kuna and gave him a scolding!

What Mars sample return plan? That's something that will happen in two or three years!

Now, apart from making crazy CG promotional videos, just like doing advertising for commercial companies, there is nothing substantial.

Originally, they had been making promotional videos all the time, and the whole world would celebrate every time a promotional video was released.

But the basis of the celebration was that American aerospace technology was unique!

If you have that technology and others don't, then even if only a promotional video comes out, outsiders will take it seriously.

Now it's not possible. Just releasing promotional videos can't fool people anymore. You have to come up with something real.

Promotional videos can only be used as embellishments.

After being scolded badly, Werner fled in panic and quickly gathered his licking dog squad for a meeting.

If they don't come up with a practical plan, they can forget about having a good time this time.

And they can't stick to something a few years later; it must be achieved within the year, the shorter the time, the better.

While they were in a panic, the atmosphere on Tang Chao's side was also heavy.

After the entire launch and landing mission was completed, Tang Chao and others returned to the company.

After nearly a year of construction, Pathfinder Company finally has a rough appearance.

The priority projects alone have been changed several times, and finally they have been determined and become what they are now.

The tower, waiting hall, and runway that were originally planned are now nowhere to be seen, replaced by the aerospace monitoring center and command center.

This was decided when they decided to launch the first "Chu Hang" rocket.

After all, they are a private company and must have their own telemetry and control center.

Even the launch center located on Red Potato Island has been put on the agenda and is now in the surveying and design stage.

The telemetry and control center has not yet been fully decorated, but the remote control center next to it has been decorated.

Hearing this word, you know what this place is. This is where old drivers race remote control cars on the moon.

At least for now.

There are several consoles inside, but only two are in use.

The previous manipulation test was conducted at the Binhai Aerospace Center, because it had to cooperate with the early telemetry and control network, so two consoles were transported there.

This shows the importance of having its own telemetry and control center, and also shows the simplicity of the console. It can be moved as soon as it is moved, because it mainly relies on the overall telemetry and control network.

In the end, it still shows that it is necessary to have its own telemetry and control center.

Now that the initial test is completed, it will not be so troublesome in the future. Just remotely drive in the company's remote control center.

Several satellite launch vouchers have been used. There are several of their satellites in the sky, and by renting some of the country's existing detection network channels, they can receive lunar data.

These launched satellites once again confirmed to Zhao Li and others that Pathfinder has a hidden manufacturing center, which is the Tang Dynasty organization behind it.

There are more than a dozen people in the remote control center. Two people are sitting at the console, and the rest are sitting behind, staring at the large screen connected to the console.

Including Tang Chao, he is sitting in the first row.

After all, he is not a professional remote-controlled lunar rover driver. He just wanted to try it out, but he overturned, so now of course a professional remote-controlled driver is needed.

And the real scene in the two screens now is a dividing line between gray and black.

This is actually because two remote-controlled lunar rovers are parked in front of the permanently shadowed area. If they drive two meters further, they will enter the permanently shadowed area on the moon, a place where they will never be exposed to the sun.

The reason for stopping here is because the equipment carried on the lunar rover detected some different signals.

A very bright color appeared on the detector, which is different from the "gray" representing rocky lunar soil and the "red, orange, yellow, and green" representing various metals, but... blue.

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That is the representative color of water.

There is water in the shadowed area!

Or rather, there is ice!

This is the difference between satellite reconnaissance and lunar rover field reconnaissance. The difference in the detection distance of the two for specific locations is 100 kilometers.

The results of satellite detection should be added with a "possible", and now Vehicle 7 and Vehicle 8 are "confirming".

Confirm that water exists in the shadowed area.

And it must be shallow water ice or water ice exposed on the surface.

Because the remote-controlled lunar Chen cannot detect too deep underground information.

"Let's start," Tang Chao said, "Go find the blue source of life."

"Understood."

Upon hearing this, the two remote-control drivers turned on the headlights on the lunar rover. Vehicle 7 went first, and Vehicle 8 was five meters behind. The two vehicles drove slowly into the permanently shadowed area of ​​the Bolide crater, one in front and one behind.

"Temperature drop..."

"93℃."

"12℃."

"-49℃."

"-117℃."

"-206℃."

"Forward distance is 15.37 meters, the lunar rover pauses to advance, and performs a self-check."

"Understood."

In just a dozen meters, the temperature dropped sharply by more than 300 degrees, from more than 100 degrees above zero to more than 200 degrees below zero.

This kind of sudden temperature change is a huge test for the lunar rover.

They are located in the lunar south pole, which is not a place where sunlight shines vertically, and the temperature is already relatively low.

In addition, they entered a permanently shadowed area, with no distinction between day and night, and no sunlight at all, so the temperature is even lower.

The ground command center asked them to stop for a self-check. After the self-check was okay, they continued on their way, and the final temperature dropped to about -215℃.

This is a very terrifying ultra-low temperature.

Under this ultra-low temperature, it is very difficult to keep the lunar rover from being frozen. Looking at the rapidly decreasing power, Tang Chao frowned.

"Miscalculated. The temperature is too low, several tens of degrees lower than the average lunar night temperature. The effect of the small isotope 'warm baby' is also compressed. I knew I would have directly used an isotope thermal generator. Kanxing has ready-made ones."

He muttered in a low voice, but no one else could hear him, because everyone else was staring intently at the data.

According to the current situation, the lunar rover has to return after walking 500 meters. If it goes a little further, the two lunar rovers may not be able to get out of the shadowed area when they return.

Of course, they can go 200 meters further, and when they go back, they will be 300 meters short of being able to get out of the shadowed area, but they can let other vehicles come to support and drag them out.

If all eight of these vehicles are brought over for relay rescue, they can advance up to 1,000 meters in the shadowed area, which is basically the limit.

Beyond this distance, all eight vehicles are in danger and may all be planted in the permanently shadowed area.

"1000 meters..."

Tang Chao pondered.

The shadowed area of ​​the Bolide crater, even if only the relatively flat part is calculated, has a depth of 7,000 meters. If it is only 1,000 meters, the detection depth is too shallow, and it may not be able to reach water ice.

What he is thinking about now is the water ice exposed on the ground, because the underground water ice is very troublesome to mine, even if they are only one meter deep underground.

He patted Zhang Liyan next to him and said, "Old Zhang, the 500 kg lunar rover is still too small, we must build a big guy."

"That's right, boss," Zhang Liyan agreed very much, "I just calculated that even if these lunar rovers cooperate with each other, we can only explore the edge of the shadowed area, and we can't go deep at all. We must build some big guys."

Speaking of this, the two did not plan to stay here. Tang Chao told the person in charge here that these two vehicles would be used as dedicated water-finding vehicles, and do their best, but don't be reckless.

The remaining six vehicles form a combination of fast and slow, and try to expand the scope of exploration and scientific research as much as possible. The entire Bolide crater has a diameter of more than 60 kilometers, which is enough for them to wander around.

There are also their own Kan Yue II and two mini lunar rovers next to them, which can be found and let the entire crater be covered with the tracks of Pathfinder Company's lunar rovers.

As a commercial company, doing scientific research is definitely secondary. Finding minerals and ice is the main thing.

With minerals, there are building materials, and with building materials, there are more equipment.

With ice, there is water, and with water, there is rocket fuel and food.

Perfect!

After instructing these, they left, there are more and heavier tasks behind, and there are many things waiting for them.

Walking out of the remote control center, Tang Chao looked at the moon in the sky, then looked at the company with the first phase of the project basically completed, and then thought about the large pile of plans, scratched his head and said to Zhang Qin, "Tell Chen Jing that I will attend the company meeting tomorrow."

"I want to hear about the progress of the company's various projects, and let the supervisors of each group go. Then the company will continue to recruit people. In addition to various technical personnel, our own astronauts and space engineers will also be recruited."

Hearing Tang Chao say this, Zhang Liyan became interested and said with a smile, "Hey, are you finally going to recruit astronauts? Can I sign up? I want to go to the moon to build a spaceship."

"You?"

Hearing this, Tang Chao glanced at him, then patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Alright, after we've built the Far Voyage rocket, the orbital shuttle, the second phase space station, and then established a sufficiently complete lunar production base, I'll let you go to the moon to build a spacecraft."

Zhang Liyan counted on his fingers, listening to Tang Chao finish speaking. After counting for a long while, he finally sighed, "I'd better stay on Earth honestly. We can build spacecraft on Earth too, it's just a bit smaller."

"Hey, Old Zhang, don't be discouraged. You'll definitely have the opportunity to build spacecraft on the moon, believe me."

"Really?" Old Zhang was first happy, then sighed again, "Don't tell me it'll be 50 years from now?"

"50 years? Do you think we're working on nuclear fusion?"

Tang Chao put his arms behind his back and looked at the moon: "Believe me, within ten years, your dream can be realized."

Two chapters combined into one.