Chapter 2863 The second lunar cargo transfer spacecraft
While everyone is working on the project related to the L4 high-end autonomous driving technology solution in full swing, Wu Hao has quietly gotten away from these things and shifted his attention and eyes to what will be the future for him and even the entire Haoyu Technology.
A big thing.
Haoyu Aerospace's second lunar cargo transfer system spacecraft will be launched aboard the Jianmu-9 heavy-duty launch vehicle in the near future. This time, the lunar cargo transfer system transport spacecraft will transport a large lunar soil 3D printer to the moon.
Officially invested in the construction of the lunar surface scientific research station.
This large-scale 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 handed over to the two multi-purpose engineering robots and intelligent control robots that have previously arrived on the moon.
to carry out disassembly and assembly, and then be responsible for the printing work of the entire large-scale building of the lunar scientific research station.
In order to ensure that this printer can continue to work normally in the cruel environment of the lunar surface, this time the technical team not only specially designed this large-scale lunar soil 3D printer so that it can adapt to the cruel and extreme environment of the lunar surface.
In addition, various parts are transported with this large-scale lunar 3D printer. These parts will be used as spare parts for the maintenance and replacement of this large-scale lunar 3D printer.
Even some core components, such as power fuses, printing nozzles, and some easily damaged parts, have multiple sets of backups to ensure that the printer can operate for a long time in the extreme environment of the moon.
In addition, some other equipment, materials and components were transported together with this large-scale lunar soil 3D printer. The total amount reached more than ten tons.
The most eye-catching of these equipment is a set of lunar mineral metal smelting equipment. To put it bluntly, this is a small metal smelting furnace. Its principle is similar to that of an electric arc furnace, and it also uses resistance wires for heating. But for
Corresponding improvements have been made to the extreme environment of the moon so that it can be adapted to production on the moon.
Especially the vacuum and microgravity environment on the moon, to be honest, is conducive to metal smelting, but it will also bring a series of new problems. Therefore, this lunar metal ore smelting equipment will be used for this purpose.
Relevant experiments are conducted to verify the feasibility of future mining and smelting technologies for lunar metal mineral deposits.
Of course, in addition to experimental work in this area, this metal smelting equipment will also play some roles. It will be used to refine and pour some components for the construction of the lunar surface scientific research station. In order to strengthen the overall
A metal structural member that prints the strength of the house.
These are like the steel bars we use to build houses. There are no steel bars on the moon. So the solution is to either transport them from the earth, but this cost is too high, or to use local materials and use the ores on the moon for smelting and production.
Come out with the required metal structural parts or construction steel.
If you want to produce these structural parts and steel, you first need to extract and smelt these metals from ore or ore, and then smelt the lower-purity metals for repeated smelting and purification. After that, you need to
Specially forged or pressed and drawn.
Obviously there are no such conditions on the moon, so we can only proceed in two ways according to local conditions. One is relatively simple, which is our traditional sand casting process. We use lunar soil to make sand molds on the moon, and then pour the metal solution into it.
In this way, the required metal components or steel can be cast.
The other is the latest technology, which uses 3D printing technology to print these metals. Just like printing other objects, the metal raw materials are smelted and then the required metal components are printed out using a nozzle.
However, 3D metal printing technology has relatively high requirements for raw materials, and the required materials must be metal powder. This means that they also need to process the smelted metal to produce these metal powders for printing, and then load them into
Metal 3D printer for printing.
Of course, this kind of 3D metal printer is very advanced and can print metal components with very high precision. This technology has also been widely used in high-precision materials fields such as aerospace and aerospace.
It is said that many material problems that were previously stuck in our country were solved by relying on this metal 3D printer, such as engine blades and core components of fighter jets.
Among the equipment and items transported this time, there was a metal printer nozzle, some consumables for metal printing, and related parts.
At that time, these parts will be installed on the small lunar soil 3D printer currently working on the moon and used for printing precision metal parts. This can be used for the construction needs of the lunar surface scientific research station on the one hand.
On the other hand, it can also be used to print some urgently needed parts. For example, if a part of the running equipment is damaged and there are no replaceable parts, then you can use this metal 3D printer to print out a temporary part.
Use it to solve urgent needs.
Of course, this is all temporary, and the long-term goal in the future is to solve this problem with printing consumables on the spot. The premise of all this is that the metal can be successfully mined and refined from the moon.
In addition, this mission also carried many scientific instruments for detection experiments on the lunar surface near Zhihai.
Thanks to their smooth progress on this project and the great achievements they have made, they have naturally attracted requests for cooperation from all over the world. After professional evaluation and comprehensive consideration, Wu Hao and the others chose the best one.
There are more than a dozen cooperation projects. Most of them are domestic scientific research projects, while there are relatively few foreign cooperation projects.
This includes many projects including the lunar magnetic field, cosmic rays, deep space observations, and microgravity experiments. Of course, these projects are not free, and the other party also needs to pay them a considerable fee.
Despite this, it is much more cost-effective than them carrying out this project independently. Not to mention other things, but the cost of launching a probe to the moon is much lower than the cost of paying Wu Hao and the others, and there is no guarantee.
success.
But if you cooperate with Wu Hao and others, not only can the success rate of the project be significantly improved, but in addition, transportation costs can also be greatly reduced.
And there is another huge advantage in cooperating with Wu Hao and others, that is, Wu Hao and others can provide a series of follow-up services, including relocation, maintenance, etc., which they cannot do on their own.