Vol 6 Chapter 2863: 2nd Lunar Cargo Transfer Ship

While everyone was in full swing on the L4-level advanced autonomous driving technology solution related projects, Wu Hao had quietly gotten away from these matters, and shifted his attention and eyes to what would be important to him and even Haoyu Technology as a whole. a big deal.

Haoyu Aerospace’s second lunar cargo transfer system spacecraft will be launched on the Jianmu-9 heavy-duty launch vehicle in the near future. This time, this lunar transfer system transport spacecraft will transport a large lunar soil 3D printer to the moon. Formally put into the construction of the lunar surface scientific research station.

This large lunar soil 3D printer will be disassembled into several parts and then packaged and transported to the moon. After arriving on the moon, it will be disassembled and assembled by the two multi-purpose engineering robots and intelligent control robots that arrived on the moon before, and then responsible for the printing of the large-scale building of the entire lunar surface scientific research station.

In order to ensure that this printer can continue to work normally in the harsh environment on the lunar surface, this time the technical team not only specially designed this large lunar soil 3D printer, so that it can adapt to the cruel and extreme environment on the lunar surface. In addition, various parts and components are transported together with this large lunar soil 3D printer, and these parts will be used as spare parts for the maintenance and replacement of this large lunar soil 3D printer.

Even some core components, such as power supply insurance, printing nozzles, and some easily damaged parts are backed up in multiple sets, so as to ensure that the printer can operate for a long time in the extreme environment of the lunar surface.

Apart from this, there are not some other equipment, materials and components transported together with the small lunar soil 3D printer. The zero and zero total reached more than ten tons.

Among those equipment, the most interesting thing is not a set of lunar mineral metal smelting equipment. To put it bluntly, it is not a large metal smelting furnace. Its principle is different from that of electric arc furnace, and it also uses resistance wire to degrade and cool. It has been modified accordingly for the extreme environment of the moon, so that it cannot adapt to the moon

Especially the vacuum and microgravity environment under the moon is not conducive to metal smelting, but it will also bring a series of new problems. Therefore, the lunar metal ore smelting equipment will be used for related experiments on regression, so as to verify the feasibility of mining and smelting technology for future lunar metal deposits.

Of course, in addition to that aspect of the experimental work, the metal smelting equipment will also take on some roles. It will be used to refine and pour some parts for the construction of the lunar surface scientific research station. The weak metal structural parts of the entire printed house.

Those are bad compared to the steel bars you used to build your house. Is there any under the moon? Therefore, if you want to solve it, you must either transport it from the earth, but the cost is too low, or you don’t use local materials and use the ore under the moon to retrograde smelting. , to produce the required metal structural parts or construction steel.

At that time, those parts will be installed in the construction requirements of the large-scale lunar soil 3D printing surface scientific research station working under the moon.

Of course, that kind of 3D metal printer is very advanced and cannot print metal components with very low precision. At present, that technology is also said to be widely used in the field of low-precision materials such as aerospace.

That includes projects that rarely include lunar magnetic fields, cosmic rays, deep space observations, and microgravity experiments. Of course, those projects are also free, and the other party also needs to pay us a considerable fee.

Obviously, there are no such conditions under the moon, so there are only two ways to retreat according to local conditions. One is more complicated. It is not your traditional sand foundry process. Under the moon, the lunar soil is used to make sand molds, and then the metal solution is reversed, so that the required metal components or steel cannot be cast.

On the other hand, it is also said to use it to print some urgently needed parts. For example, if the part in the running equipment is damaged and there are no replaceable parts, then it is necessary to use the metal 3D printer to print out a temporary part and return it for use, so as to relieve the urgent need.

Even so, it is less cost-effective than us going to retreat that project independently. The other is to say, but just say that the cost of launching a probe to the moon is less than the cost of paying Wu Hao to us, and the success can still be guaranteed.

In order to produce those structural parts and steel products, it is first necessary to extract and smelt those metals from ores or ore sands, and then degrade and smelt and purify those smelted metals with higher purity. Before, it was necessary to retreat to special forging or pressing and elongation.

Among the equipment and items transported that time, UU Reading www. uukanshu.com does not have a metal printer nozzle, and some consumables for metal printing, and there are no related parts.

Of course, that is all temporary, and the long-term goal in the future is to solve the problem of printing consumables on the spot. And the premise of all that is not to be able to successfully mine and extract metals from under the moon.

And there is not a huge advantage for us to cooperate with Wu Hao. It's not that Wu Hao can't provide a series of services, including relocation, maintenance, etc., which we can do by ourselves.

It's just that 3D metal printing technology has relatively low requirements for raw materials, and the required materials must be metal powder. That means they also need to degrade the smelted metal to produce the metal powder for printing, which is then loaded into a metal 3D printer for deprinting.

The other is the latest technology, which uses 3D printing technology to print those metals. Like printing other objects, it is not the metal components required to melt the metal raw material and then use the nozzle to print it out.

However, if we cooperate with Zhuruo, it is only that the success rate of the project cannot be significantly reduced. In addition, the transportation cost can also be minimized.

It is said that there are very few material problems in your country that are stuck in the future, and they are not solved by metal 3D printers, such as engine blades and core components of fighter jets.

Thanks to the cooperation requests we received from all over the world on that project. Before going through professional evaluation and comprehensive consideration, I wish that if we choose the best, we will choose more than a dozen cooperation projects. Among them, there are a small number of domestic scientific research projects, while there are more domestic cooperation projects.

In addition, that mission also carried a few scientific instruments, which were used for the detection experiments of the entire Zhihai distant lunar surface.