Chapter 586 Drone Technology on the Moon

Because the loss of contact with the Lunar Rover 3 has not been announced to the public, the other mission this time has not been made public either.

After all, a lunar rover has lost contact for such a long time, and the reason has not yet been found. Once this matter is announced, it may cause panic among some people.

After the lunar module separated from the main spacecraft, it landed on the far side of the moon.

Under the guidance of the intelligent landing system, the lunar module successfully landed at the target landing point on the back of the moon.

The lunar rover drove out of the lunar module and arrived on the lunar surface.

From the appearance of this lunar rover, you can see the "005" number on it.

This is another lunar rover that has landed on the moon to perform a mission, following the four Golden Rabbit-1 lunar rovers that were last put on the moon.

This time, the landing site of the lunar rover was only ten kilometers away from the location where contact with Moon No. 3 was lost.

After the Lunar Rover No. 5 landed, it did not rush to the direction where the No. 3 Lunar Rover lost contact, but seemed to be looking for something.

After several hours of searching, the Lunar Rover 5 finally found its target and began to dig downward.

Like the previous four Jintu-1 lunar rovers, the No. 5 lunar rover still has all their capabilities, but there are some improvements.

The Lunar Rover 5 can not only detect various soils and minerals, but also has the ability to extract some resources.

One of the abilities is the extraction of water resources.

This is not because the Lunar Rover 5 itself is dependent on water, but to maintain the operation of new black technology products.

This black technology product is the lunar drone that Xu You secretly participated in the development.

As we all know, the reason why airplanes can fly in the sky is because they use the pressure difference of the air to create upward lift.

There is no air on the surface of the moon, so it is not suitable for aircraft to drive above the lunar surface.

But this time, Xu You and others changed their minds and allowed aircraft to fly over the moon.

The core of this technology is the use of "water", an ordinary yet magical substance.

When water is electrolyzed, it can generate hydrogen and oxygen. By injecting these gases, the drone can generate the reaction force required for flight.

Therefore, as long as sustainable water resources can be found, lunar drones can fly over the moon for a long time and perform exploration missions.

The four lunar drones carried on the Lunar Rover 5 have already reserved enough power and water resources. These resources can support each drone's flight for about thirty minutes.

The lunar rover is like a supply station for drones. When the drone's energy and water resources are insufficient, it can return to the lunar rover to replenish energy.

After the No. 5 Lunar Rover stored the solid water resources it discovered in the storage box of its body, it began to move in the direction where the No. 3 Lunar Rover lost contact.

After storing a large amount of water resources, the weight of the Lunar Rover 5 has increased a lot, which also limits its forward speed to a great extent.

Fortunately, the Lunar Rover No. 5 is not too far away from its destination. Even if it slows down a little, it will arrive near its destination very quickly.

About one kilometer away from the destination, the Lunar Rover No. 5 stopped.

Because the next area is a more dangerous area.

After all, the cost of successfully landing a lunar rover on the lunar surface is hundreds of millions of dollars.

If you know that there is danger ahead, you will never take risks casually.

And this is also the reason why four lunar drones were specially brought on this mission.

Compared with the Jintu-1 lunar rover, the lunar drone is much smaller and much cheaper to build.

UAVs are faster than small lunar rovers and will not be disturbed by the terrain environment, making them the most suitable performers for this kind of mission.

Even if the drone is lost due to some accidents, it is not an unbearable consequence.

Following an order from the commander-in-chief, one of the lunar drones took off from the Lunar Rover 5 and began its first mission flight.

In fact, even if you do not electrolyze water, you can still achieve the purpose of levitating the drone just through the vaporization of water.

However, after electrolysis into hydrogen and oxygen, the total volume of the gas will be increased by half, which is more conducive to extending the battery life of the drone.

The water that drones can store is relatively limited. Before the power is exhausted, water resources will be exhausted before the power is exhausted. Therefore, electrolyzing water is a better choice.

Xu You also adjusted his perspective to the drone and carefully observed the various information it conveyed.

"If everything goes well, we will soon be able to find out the reason why the Lunar Rover 3 lost contact."

Thinking of this, Xu You couldn't help but feel a little excited, and his heartbeat began to speed up.

Lin Shi and Lu Zhiyao were in a similar mood to Xu You, and were carefully observing the drone's first perspective.

Eight hundred meters, five hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters...

Finally, the drone was very close to the location where the No. 3 lunar rover lost contact, and began to slow down continuously.

Because the initial positioning of the missing location of Lunar Rover 3 was not very accurate, and we did not know what was special about the area, the drone was cautious and only dared to fly slowly in the sky.

Just then.

The drone seemed to have suddenly suffered a heavy blow, and the entire screen suddenly turned black.

"This is……"

Xu You, Lu Zhiyao, and Lin Shi all looked surprised at this time, not knowing what was going on.

In the control room of the Aerospace Institute, there were also voices of surprise and regret.

What happened to this drone was almost exactly the same as the moonrise on the 3rd.

When no dangerous situation was detected, contact with the control room was suddenly lost.

Fortunately, with the previous incident of Lunar Rover No. 3, this incident is not so unacceptable.

At least, everyone is mentally prepared.

After all, what was lost was only a small drone. With our current capabilities, we can transport dozens of them at a time.

"Teacher, what happened just now?"

"I'm not very sure either. Let's take a look again."

What happened just now was so sudden that even Xu You didn't realize the key to the matter.

However, Xu You vaguely felt that the information collected by the drone this time was much more than the information collected by the Lunar Rover 3 last time.

As he said that, Xu You looked back at the video image just transmitted by the drone and began to analyze it frame by frame.
Chapter completed!