Vol 2 Chapter 1699: Order "Jupiter Probe"

Under normal circumstances, such space exploration missions are generally contracted by the national team.

It's just that in recent years, our country's aerospace field has developed rapidly, and it is currently in a stage of rapid development, and various projects have been launched one after another. In particular, the successive launches of several key projects have also tilted the human and material resources of the entire space system. Other less urgent scientific research and exploration projects naturally have to make concessions.

However, deep space exploration has a window period. Missing this optimal window period will waste a lot of time. So this research institute can't wait, so I want to find another way. It just so happened that the strong rise of Haoyu Aerospace gave them hope. Especially Wu Hao and the others have successfully launched their own large-thrust retractable launch vehicles, unmanned experimental spacecraft, inflatable and inflatable space experimental capsules, and the recent hot "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol on the moon. Rover.

This allowed these aerospace research institutes to see hope and immediately began to contact them.

Of course, Wu Hao and others are also very interested in such a project. On the one hand, this can be regarded as a door-to-door business, and there is no reason for them not to make a profit. On the other hand, what they value more is the accumulation of experience and technology. They can fully rely on this project to accumulate experience and related technologies, and accumulate valuable experience for them in future deep space exploration and deep space exploration.

Since both parties have the willingness to cooperate, the subsequent contacts and consultations have become much smoother. But the other party also put forward his own request. That is, they first required the Jupiter probe to be reliable enough to deal with the harsh space environment, especially the unknown deep space environment.

Secondly, the working life should be long, and the life of the detector should be extended as much as possible, so that it can fly farther and detect more things. Otherwise, when the probe finally flew near Jupiter, it suddenly failed. This is tantamount to wasting many years of time, and it is undoubtedly a huge loss for researchers in scientific research projects.

It should be understood that such a probe would take about five to six hundred days to fly over Jupiter at the fastest. However, in order to allow the probe to obtain more detection data, other flight orbits are usually used.

For example, the Galileo spacecraft, which was launched on October 18, 1989, did not fly directly to Jupiter, but with the help of gravity, it flew over the earth twice, once over Venus, and accelerated its flight. It finally flew on December 1995. Arrived in Jupiter on the 8th. The total is 2242 days.

In addition, there is the "Juno" probe, which was launched on August 6, 2011, and entered the Jupiter system on July 4, 2016, with a total flight time of 1,795 days.

Obviously, what this research institute wants is not just a simple mission to fly by Jupiter. They hope that this probe can go farther and detect more unknowns.

In this way, there are higher requirements for this Jupiter probe, and for Wu Hao and others, this undoubtedly increases the technical difficulty.

Moreover, the funds that the other party can provide are limited, and the other party belongs to the scientific research department, and the source of research funding is entirely dependent on the funds allocated by the higher-level department. This kind of task that they set up on their own is no longer in the overall system development catalog, so they can get very little funding, so naturally they can provide Wu Hao with little funds.

Want to spend less, but also want to do more. In this regard, Wu Hao and the others are of course reluctant. However, after repeated consultations, the two sides finally reached a basic agreement in this regard.

For Wu Hao and others, this project is mainly about training soldiers and accumulating experience. As for making money, they are all secondary. Of course, it's not that you don't make money anymore, but it's definitely not that much in comparison. So after comprehensive consideration, Wu Hao decided to take this business.

Another time, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol rover has successfully completed its first long-distance maneuvering mission of 110 kilometers. It took a total of nine hours and 45 minutes, which is about half later than the estimated time. About an hour. However, it is also expected, because they have analyzed through the high-definition satellite map, there are still many difficult road sections in this one hundred and ten kilometers.

Moreover, this is the first long-distance maneuver of the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol rover, and it is very good that it can complete it on time and well.

Because the distance is relatively difficult to walk, the energy consumed by the 110 kilometers, that is, the battery power, is also beyond Wu Hao's expectations. It consumes about 35%, which is also out of the ordinary. What they expected gave them a more in-depth and intuitive understanding of the difficulty of traveling on the moon.

After the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol rover arrived, it did not directly enter the one- to two-hundred-meter-large crater ~www.readwn.com~ but first made a detour around the edge of the crater. The environment inside the crater has a preliminary understanding.

After scanning the terrain environment in the crater and establishing a 3D digital data topographic map, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol rover planned several travel routes and selected an optimal route from them.

This time, the telemetry personnel on the ground did not directly let the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol rover descend into the crater by itself. It is to organize relevant experts to analyze and study the route of travel to ensure that there is nothing wrong.

For example, safety is the first priority. In such a complex environment, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol rover is likely to be trapped. In this way, if there is no external force, the "Wangshu" intelligent moon The lunar patrol rover is difficult to get out of trouble. Therefore, for the insurance period, it must be re-inspected manually to ensure that there is nothing wrong.

After confirming that the route chosen by the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol rover was not problematic, the ground telemetry personnel issued instructions and the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol rover began to march towards the crater. stand up.

And this time, Wu Hao and the others also chose to broadcast live. The surveillance camera on the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol vehicle can transmit real-time picture conditions around the vehicle.

These real-time images will be broadcast live immediately after simple processing. And this also allowed the outsiders to watch the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol rover on the moon for the first time in a live broadcast.

The Zhijian "Wangshu" intelligent lunar patrol rover slowly drove up the small "crater" slightly raised on the edge of this small crater, looked for a pass, and then drove slowly down from here.