Chapter 799 Don’t look back on that road

After all, the resources on the earth are limited, so if human society wants to develop, it needs new sources of resources. With the development of aerospace technology, plans for space mining have been put on the agenda of various countries.

And space mining is also divided into planet landing mining and direct mining of asteroids. Here, the difficulty of mining asteroids will be much lower, and the value is very high. The commonly used basic measurement unit is "trillion meters", so they are all in Planning this.

There are some from national space agencies and commercial organizations, but they are still in the planning stage because the technical conditions are not yet feasible.

Currently, the forefront of their plans is to launch a detection satellite and then detect a certain asteroid, which is still far from actual mining.

So people often see news like this on the Internet.

"Yesterday, asteroid XX worth five trillion meters passed by the earth!"

"Recently, scientists have discovered another near-Earth asteroid with an estimated value of approximately 12 trillion meters!"

"The total value of the mineral resources on asteroid 241 is estimated to be as high as 95.8 trillion yuan. The value of this asteroid is close to the global GDP in 2020!"

"According to estimates by the United States Space Agency, the total price of iron resources on Ling Shen in the asteroid belt is as high as 100 billion meters. If it is collected and transported back to Earth, the global commodity price system will collapse!"

It's impossible not to be moved when watching news like this.

In the past, the technology was not enough, but the research plan was quite thorough, so that when the technology is sufficient in the future, it can be used with slight modifications.

That's what Victor said.

For some reason, Arclight Group skipped the asteroid mining stage and opened a resource mine on the moon.

And judging from their publicity of the Mars plan, they even have plans to open a mine to Mars in the future.

It may also be because their deep-sea mining technology is very mature and the resources they produce are very cheap, so there is no need to mine asteroids for the time being.

But no matter what, the Arc Light Group did not take this step, which just gave them the opportunity in the United States.

The American side wants to take the first place quickly while the Arc Light Group has not yet reacted!

"...We have carefully studied the technologies recently collected from the initial island. There are many technologies that can be integrated and then designed and manufactured into an intelligent thruster."

"Of course, the specific design is not yet available, but our engineers have analyzed it and found that it is achievable, and the preliminary design work is not too much."

As he spoke, Victor showed some model pictures and rough mission plans on the big screen, which were all improvised by his colleagues. Although they were not precise plans and designs, they could allow those present to understand more clearly what he was doing. say something.

You must know that the people present are not only people in the aerospace field, but many laymen are also here.

The important thing is that these laymen are the ones who decide whether the final plan can be implemented. If they are not allowed to see it clearly, then the plan he and other engineers made... haha.

"This smart thruster has high thrust, flexible adjustment, and high thrust output accuracy, but it is very harsh on materials and cannot be used on long-distance travel."

"However, if a certain number of thrusters are attached to the near-Earth asteroids and exert a certain thrust on them, the near-Earth asteroids can change their orbits several times in a short period of time, which is enough for the asteroids to stay in the Earth's orbit. ”

"When the asteroid stays in Earth's orbit, or even stops directly next to the new International Space Station, we have the final say on how to mine it."

"This is the rough plan. Do you have any opinions?"

"We have sent some specific data and plans to the tablet in front of you. You can check them in detail."

After hearing this, everyone opened the tablets in front of them and carefully checked the plan mentioned by Victor. For a while, noisy discussions resounded in the conference room.

I have to say that Victor's plan is indeed very good, and with the strength they have at this stage, they can make a plan that surpasses the Arclight Group's aerospace miracle.

Of course, this is because loopholes were exploited, but number one is number one. This world only looks at the results, not the process.

Therefore, the plan was quickly agreed to at the meeting, and the Congressmen responsible for paying for it also said that money was not an issue.

The stronger the United States is, the stronger they will be. This is not a time to be stingy.

Only when it came to selecting targets, people in the aerospace industry present had conflicts because there were too many near-Earth asteroids in the sky.

In the end, it was the Congressmen who were responsible for spending the money who made the final decision and reiterated once again that money is not an issue.

"What I feel now is that I have returned to the Cold War, or this is a new round of Cold War. So if we want to win like the last Cold War, then we must be willing to spend money, and the plan must be shocking enough!"

"So the target we selected is '4179 Tutatis', the largest near-Earth asteroid discovered so far. This is shocking enough."

"And your mission is to complete this plan and stop it firmly in the orbit of the earth."

People in the aerospace department were shocked by the imagination of the people in Congress, and they were directly eyeing the largest near-Earth asteroid.

This is a huge challenge and it is very difficult to complete it, but they have been beaten and they have to fight back.

As the most powerful country in the world, having climbed to the top from the last Cold War, it feels that it will not lose this Cold War.

Finally, NASA Administrator Valker said, "Then we will proceed according to this plan, but we hope to receive the greatest support."

"Of course there is no problem with this. Funds, equipment, personnel, whatever is needed, we can solve it all," said the people in Congress. "We have only one requirement, and that is to complete this plan in the shortest possible time!"

"No problem, as long as everything is in place, we can start right away, and the technologies are all ready-made. There are no new technologies that need to be overcome. We only need to complete the final technical integration, and there will definitely be no problem in terms of time." Victor assured road.

"That's good, this is the result we want," the people in Congress said, "It must be quick, before the Arc Light Group reacts."

In fact, the reason why the stipulated time is so urgent is because the Arc Light Group's technological strength is so powerful. They analyzed the existing technology of Arc Light Aerospace and found that if the Arc Light Group wanted to do this, it could do it faster than them.

So they have to be fast, and at the same time, they have to keep it as secret as possible. They can't let the Arc Light Group know about this, otherwise they will be in trouble if they want to win the first place.

Anyway, no matter what, they passed the plan as quickly as possible, and the state machinery started running quickly.

A large number of personnel, funds, and equipment began to act around this plan, and they were not all concentrated at the NASA, but were assigned to relevant departments and companies.

And participants are required to sign a confidentiality agreement, and no information can be disclosed.

It just so happens that the focus of the outside world's news right now is Arclight Group's Mars plan, which also gives them room to fish.