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Chapter 48 Artemis Plan

Time flies, and two months have passed in a flash.

During this period, Du Xingyu's research progress on the moon landing spacecraft has reached 71%, and it should be completely completed in another month.

At this time, the China Space Administration finally announced its updated space plan.

In the plan, in addition to some meteorological and communication satellites, the most obvious one is the moon landing plan that has been advanced to this year!

Relevant departments also issued a new message. In the future, an additional budget of 20 billion will be used for aerospace technology research and development each year, and this will increase year by year.

In the previous ten years, China's national aerospace research expenditure was less than 50 billion.

In comparison, the annual budget of the American Space Agency is about 20 billion U.S. dollars, and the budgets of the European Space Agency, the French Space Agency, and the Russian Space Agency are all higher than those of China.

As soon as this news was released, it immediately attracted widespread attention from the society.

People's Newspaper: "The Ministry of Aerospace announced the latest aerospace plan. The moon landing plan will be moved ten years ahead of schedule! The proposed plan: the annual investment budget for aerospace scientific research will increase by more than 20 billion in the future!"

Frost Morning: "Support!"

Black Egg: "Land on the moon ten years ahead of schedule, 666!"

Little G: "Looks like the moon landing is coming soon!"

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With policy support, the moon landing plan went much smoother.

"Let's start the last few parts of research and development. Now it should be... lunar rover research and development." Du Xingyu began to smash energy points into the technology simulator.

"Start lunar rover simulation..."

The lunar rover will be the main means of transportation for lunar astronauts on the moon, including light machinery, mechanisms, remote control and other parts.

Because the temperature difference between day and night is large on the lunar surface, the materials used to make the lunar rover must also be specially designed. Fortunately, the space agency has cooperation with hundreds of universities and thousands of companies in China. As long as there is a need for material tasks, it can be arranged.

Due to the gravity of the moon and the complex surface environment, the performance of the lunar rover is more powerful than that of Earth's military off-road vehicles, and the lunar rover must be suitable for carrying in the lunar module!

It is worth mentioning that in 2013, the Chang'e-3 launched by the China Space Administration had already sent an unmanned "Yutu" lunar rover to the lunar surface.

The last launch of Chang'e 5 also has a small unmanned lunar rover, which is responsible for collecting and transporting soil and rock samples on the lunar surface.

What Du Xingyu developed this time is a manned lunar rover driven by astronauts, which is relatively complicated.

He directly imported the lunar rover data already available to the space agency. On the technology simulator, the research progress of the lunar rover soared to 75%.

"Considering the possibility of entering complex terrain such as craters, the battery engine power is not enough, so an ejection system must be added..." Du Xingyu slowly improved the functions of the lunar rover, "The main body adopts a folding design to save space during space transportation. .”

"The main vehicle can seat six people, so a folding cargo box needs to be designed to haul materials."

"The payload must be miniaturized, so the installation and power issues of detection instruments, excavation samplers also need to be improved..."

With the investment of millions of energy points, Du Xingyu pushed the development progress of the lunar rover to 90%.

"There are still some system control parts that have been designed... However, it is best to add two folding lunar motorcycles, so that if an accident occurs, astronauts can quickly rescue or handle crises."

Du Xingyu continued to add the functions of the lunar rover, and one day later, he completely completed the lunar rover simulation.

"The main body design of the lunar spacecraft is basically completed, the main body design of the lunar landing module is also completed, and the lunar landing vehicle accessories are also designed. All that remains is manufacturing." Du Xingyu knows that manufacturing is often more difficult than designing.

At that time, he will inevitably use technological simulators to simulate, transform and design materials and manufacturing designs.

The lunar landing engineering team began to frantically push forward the manufacturing speed of the lunar spacecraft... At the same time, space agencies and scientific research institutions in other countries were not idle either.

It is still the American Space Agency. After the World Astronautical Congress was held, they announced three things at once.

The first is to jointly build a new generation of space stations with other countries; the second is the United States' plan to return to the moon, which they call "Project Artemis."

Artemis is the moon goddess in Greek mythology. The United States uses this to distinguish the previous "Apollo moon landing program."

NASA announced to the world that the United States will return to the moon in the shortest possible time! They have the technology and the strength!

Fifty years ago, the United States landed on the moon and successfully landed on the moon six times!

Today, the United States' aerospace technology is more developed, and landing on the moon will be easier! This plan is already being implemented. Blue Origin, founded by Amazon founder Bezos, as well as Space Exploration Technology and American Power Systems, founded by Musk, will cooperate with the American Space Agency.

The third thing is that the American Space Agency officially announced its plan to land on Mars and began to recruit partner companies. The related orders exceeded billions of dollars. Top international aerospace companies including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and others have also joined the competition.

NASA's move is huge, and it attracted global attention once it was announced!

There was even more celebration on the Internet in the United States, and American people were proud of the country's powerful aerospace capabilities.

Even the boss of White Palace proudly announced at the press conference: "We have been to the moon several times. Maybe we should go back to our hometown to have a look and tell others that there is already an owner here."

The speech of the American boss naturally caused huge controversy. Scientists and space agencies from other countries criticized it, saying that the moon belongs to all mankind and does not belong to any one country.

Of course, they also know very well that this thing can also be talked about verbally. Whoever has the ability to land on the moon will own the resources of the moon!

Just like in the previous Age of Discovery, the time has come to grab territory on the moon. Anyone who steps late will be abandoned by the space age!

Russia, Star City near Moscow, where the Federal Space Agency is located.

"It is imperative to land on the moon!" Lomonosov shouted in the conference room. "The moon is not the property of the Americans, nor is it the property of the Chinese. There should be a share of our Russian space territory there! "

"We have to get ahead of the United States and China Space Administration!" Everyone in the conference room was full of fighting spirit.

"We also have the technology to land on the moon!" one person said. "If Korolev hadn't died of illness, we would have landed on the moon in the last century!"

When the United States and the Soviet Union were competing in space, the former Soviet Union also invested a lot of money and scientific research efforts in landing on the moon.

Korolev, the chief designer of the moon landing program, was a Soviet aerospace hero. Under his plan, the moon landing rocket and spacecraft were only one step away.

But just before the moon landing was carried out, Korolev died of illness, and the Soviet Union failed to land on the moon, which became a heartache for Russian astronauts.

In any case, they retained the technology of the time, and after so many years of research and development, they were equally confident in landing on the moon.

(End of chapter)