Chapter 1699: Accepting the order for 'Jupiter Probe'
Normally, this kind of space exploration mission is generally contracted by the national team.
However, in recent years, our country's aerospace field has developed rapidly and is currently in a stage of rapid development. Various projects have been launched one after another. In particular, the launch of several major key projects has also tilted the human and material resources in the entire aerospace system towards it.
Other less urgent scientific research and detection projects will naturally have to make concessions.
However, there is a window period for deep space exploration. Missing this optimal window period will waste a lot of time. Therefore, this scientific research institute cannot wait, so it wants to find another way. Just in time, the strong rise of Haoyu Aerospace
They saw hope. Especially Wu Hao and the others successfully launched their own high-thrust retractable launch vehicle, unmanned experimental spacecraft, expandable and inflatable space experimental capsule, and the recently popular "Wangshu"
Intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle.
This gave these aerospace research institutes hope, and they immediately began to contact them.
Of course, Wu Hao and the others are also very interested in such a project. On the one hand, this is a business that comes to their doorstep, so how can they not make money? On the other hand, what they value more is the accumulation of experience and technology.
In terms of aspects. They can completely rely on this project to accumulate experience and related technologies, and accumulate valuable experience for their future deep space exploration and going into deep space.
Since both parties are willing to cooperate, the subsequent contact negotiations have become much smoother. However, the other party has also put forward its own requirements. That is, they first require that the performance of this Jupiter probe must be reliable enough to cope with harsh conditions.
space environment, especially the unknown deep space environment.
Secondly, the working life must be long. The life of the detector must be extended as much as possible so that it can fly farther and detect more things. Otherwise, when the detector finally flies near Jupiter, it will suddenly
If it malfunctions, it means that several years of time have been wasted, which will undoubtedly cause huge losses to researchers on scientific research projects.
You know, if such a probe wants to fly by Jupiter, it will take about five to six hundred days at the fastest. However, in order to allow the probe to obtain more detection data, other flight trajectories are usually used.
For example, the Galileo spacecraft was launched on October 18, 1989. It did not fly directly to Jupiter. Instead, with the help of gravity, it flew past the Earth twice and once past Venus. It accelerated its flight and finally landed in December 1995.
Arrive at Jupiter on January 8th. A total of 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.
What this scientific research institute obviously wants is not just a simple detection mission to fly by Jupiter. They hope that this detector can go further and detect more unknowns.
As a result, 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. The other party belongs to the scientific research department, and the source of research funds depends entirely on the allocation of superior departments. Such tasks that they set up on their own are no longer included in the overall system development catalog, so the funding they can obtain is very limited.
There are not many, so naturally the funds that can be provided to Wu Hao and others are not much.
They wanted to spend less and do more. Of course, Wu Hao and the others were somewhat reluctant to this. However, after repeated negotiations, 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, it is secondary. Of course, it is not that there is no money, but in comparison, the money is definitely not that much.
.So after comprehensive consideration, Wu Hao decided to take over this business.
Another time, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle has successfully completed its first long-distance maneuvering mission of 110 kilometers, taking a total of nine hours and 45 minutes, about half a time later than the pre-estimated time.
It takes about an hour. However, it is within the expected range, because they have analyzed the high-definition satellite map and found that there are still many difficult sections in the 110-kilometer journey.
Moreover, this is the first long-distance maneuver of the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle. It is very good that it can be completed on time and well.
Because the distance is relatively difficult to cover, the energy consumption, that is, battery power, of the 110 kilometers this time was beyond Wu Hao's expectations. It consumed about 35%, which was also unexpected.
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 surface inspection and exploration vehicle arrived, it did not directly enter the one- to two-hundred-meter-large crater. Instead, it first conducted an inspection around the edge of the crater to learn about the environment inside the crater.
Got a preliminary understanding.
After scanning the terrain environment inside the crater and establishing a 3D digital data terrain map, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol rover planned several routes and selected an optimal route.
This time, the telemetry personnel on the ground did not directly let the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol rover descend into the crater on its own. Instead, they organized relevant experts to analyze and study the route to ensure nothing went wrong.
For example, safety comes first. In such a complex environment, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle is likely to be trapped. In this way, if there is no external force, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol vehicle will
It is difficult for the lunar patrol rover to get out of trouble. Therefore, for the insurance period, it still needs to be manually re-inspected to ensure that everything is foolproof.
After confirming that there was no problem with the route chosen by the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle, ground telemetry personnel immediately issued instructions, and the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle began to move towards the crater.
stand up.
This time, Wu Hao and the others also chose to broadcast live to the outside world. Through the surveillance camera on the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface inspection vehicle, the scene around the vehicle can be transmitted in real time.
These real-time images will be simply processed and then broadcast live to the outside world. This also allows the outside world to see the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle in progress for the first time.
I saw that the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol rover slowly drove up the slightly raised "crater" on the edge of this small crater, found a pass, and then slowly drove down from here.
