Chapter 681 Sea of Clouds (2)
Yang Lichun was engaged in armaments for the lunar war zone, while Lin Guangzong and others quickly mobilized the Yutu-class spacecraft that had been left in Guanghan Palace City to develop the sea of clouds.
The temporarily formed development team drove the Yutu-class No. 003, loaded with a large amount of infrastructure raw materials, to the northeastern area of the sea of clouds on the front of the moon.
The Yutu-class hydrogen-oxygen engine spits out light blue flames and accelerates slightly to push the spacecraft weighing about 1,540 tons to an altitude of 20 kilometers.
Then the spacecraft adjusted its direction and headed southeast. The sea of clouds was southeast of Guanghan Palace City.
Team leader Yao Guo first looked at the dark night sky. At this time, the front side of the moon was in the moonlight period. Looking at the surface from a high altitude, it was also dark.
The satellite navigation system and the radar that comes with the spacecraft are running all the time. At this altitude, there is actually not much gravity at the altitude they are flying. In addition, there is no dense atmosphere, so the spacecraft flies very smoothly.
Team member Wang Dabin used to be a transport aircraft pilot in the Air Force, and he is now responsible for driving the spacecraft.
The speed of the Yutu class is very fast, about 2.6 kilometers per second, which is about 7.5 times the speed of sound.
Since the moon's escape velocity is only 2.38 kilometers per second, this speed can actually fly to a higher orbit, and even use a gravitational slingshot to fly back to the Blue Star.
However, the flight distance required to travel to the northeastern region of the Sea of Clouds is about 3,500 kilometers, and the span between the two regions is a bit large.
At the current flight speed, it's actually nothing. It takes about 1,346 seconds to fly 3,500 kilometers. Adding time for deceleration and landing, you can reach your destination in about 30 minutes.
Time passed by minute by minute.
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A simple base with three cabins is located in the northeastern area of Unkai and adjacent to the northwest area of Unkai. After successfully landing yesterday, the difficult work began.
This is the Alpine Moon Base in Xizhou. It is currently under remote control without any human beings. Obviously, the Xizhou Alliance does not have enough confidence and is not as crazy as Noah to dare to send astronauts here to guard it casually.
In fact, this is the safest way to do it. Doing it hard like Noah would do may be counterproductive.
However, the remote control of the Alpine base has also been bumpy, because Xizhou Space Agency currently only has two communication relay satellites in lunar orbit, which cannot achieve all-weather communication.
The internal operations of the Alpine base now rely to a large extent on the base's computer program to automatically perform some set tasks.
The Xizhou Space Agency is busy in the northwest area of the lunar sea of clouds, and it is not idle in the Blue Star itself. It has obtained NASA's nearly 60 years of technology accumulation, and they are organizing manpower and material resources to absorb these technologies.
It is estimated that within two or three years, Xizhou Space Agency's aerospace technology will further improve and even catch up with NASA.
As for the Federal Space Agency, the Xizhou Space Agency is not extravagant enough, and they are fairly self-aware.
However, after obtaining NASA's technology, the Western Continent Alliance's previous embarrassment has been alleviated somewhat, and it is no longer as embarrassing as before.
Of course, the Federation was secretly relieved about this situation.
Before there is absolute crushing strength, it is best to give these opponents a hope, lest these guys jump over the wall in a hurry.
When the Xizhou Space Agency was working hard to farm.
NASA also rebuilt the outpost after more than half a year of adjustments, but because there were still two astronaut corpses in the previous outpost 1 base.
The second batch of astronauts who came up were very resistant to the six old cabins of Outpost 1.
We had no choice but to re-build an Outpost 2 base on the west plain about 8.4 kilometers away from the Outpost 1 base.
After more than half a year of hard work, coupled with the joint efforts of the military-industrial faction and the financial faction, most of the industries of the new technology faction were swallowed up, making NASA's integration in the aerospace industry much better, a blessing in disguise.
In the past six months, NASA has launched a total of 11 spacecraft to the moon and established a 15-cabin Outpost 2 base.
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Half an hour later.
On the front side of the moon, in the northeastern area of the sea of clouds, in a plain near the equator, a spacecraft slowly landed here.
The engine stalled, and Yao Guoxian, Wang Dabin, and Li Zhen began to perform the task according to the procedures.
There are 350 tons of materials stored in the cargo hold of the spacecraft. These materials can build 35 simple space capsules.
Because it is a simple space capsule, it is empty inside. In addition to the basic airtight system, it is equipped with a monitoring system, micro radar, nuclear battery, and computer system.
Three people wearing hydraulic mechas opened the cargo bay door behind the spacecraft, and the door turned into a sloping bridge that could be used to quickly load and unload supplies.
Wang Dabin pulled the base of a space capsule, found a piece of flat land, and began to assemble it. The components of these space capsules all adopt a modular design.
Assembling it is like building blocks.
In less than two hours, they installed one of the simple space capsules. Li Zhen tested the various performances of the space capsule and found no problems.
It took the three of them about seven hours to finally assemble the three space capsules. Standing in one of the capsules, Yao Guo first opened the floor, which was a hidden compartment.
He took out a suitcase from behind and took out a silver-gray bottle similar to a large thermos. On the top of the bottle were some wires with sockets, which were connected to designated locations in the hidden compartment.
This is a self-explosion device with 3.6 kilograms of N20 high explosive inside, equivalent to 60 kilograms of TNT.
Regarding these unmanned simple strongholds, the Lunar Zone is not too casual. If people occupy them, it is a risk after all.
After installing the self-destruction device, this stronghold codenamed: [Cloud Sea-001] was officially included in the jurisdiction of the Lunar Zone.
This means that with this stronghold as the center, the area within a radius of 50 kilometers is within the legal control of the federation.
It's like a boundary marker from the old days.
From now on, this has been the territory of the Federation since ancient times.
After working for more than seven hours, they ate a compressed nutritional ointment, and the three of them began to rest here for a day.
In the cockpit of the spaceship.
After getting out of the hydraulic mecha, Yao Guo wiped his face with a wet cloth. Li Zhen on the side was rummaging in the food storage box and asked:
"Brother Yao, Brother Wang, what do you want to eat?"
Putting the wet cloth into a special dehydrator, Yao Guoxian replied without thinking: "Let's go for beef rice bowl!"
"I want spicy chicken chop rice." Wang Dabin said while checking the spacecraft's multi-computer system.
"OK."
Li Zhen took out the dishes he wanted to eat and threw them into the oven. Li Zhen took another apple with the core removed and took a bite of the apple. The sweet and sour taste was his favorite.
Yao Guoxian, who was writing a work diary, recorded today's work situation on his tablet computer.
Life in space is not as high-end as imagined. They are used to working on the moon, so they are not too nervous.
At least for the Federation, marching to the moon is just a small step in opening up the universe.
There are nearly 243 astronauts like Yao Guoxian's team on the moon, and this number will increase in the future.
A simple and nutritious dinner, everyone watched TV silently while eating.
When eating in outer space, they will not speak unless necessary, because this can prevent food from entering the respiratory tract.
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