Chapter 800 The "Magpie Bridge" To the Moon

Ever since Biosphere A was attacked by unknown armed forces, some experimental data was destroyed, and the entire Tinder Project has come to a standstill.

Although no research institute has terminated its cooperation with the Tinder Project because of this, many experts from foreign research institutes have already considered withdrawing related research due to security reasons.

At present, the project researchers have been transferred to the Institute of Space Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the restoration of Biosphere-a has also begun. The local forces have increased the security level in the vicinity, but even so, the losses that have occurred are irreparable after all.

Nearly half a year of hard work was wasted. Seeing that the Tinder project had come to an impasse, Professor Hu Yang, the project leader, had been suffering mentally during this period, and he had lost more than a circle of weight.

Although no one blames him for this, sometimes the saddest thing for people is their own level.

Therefore, after receiving a call from Professor Lu and hearing that he had important information about the Fire Project to explain to himself, he immediately set off from Shangjing to Jinling.

After going all the way, he finally met Lu Zhou who made the call in the office of the dean of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

"This is what I want to give you," Lu Zhou took out a mobile hard drive from the drawer, walked to the sofa in front of the coffee table and sat down, stretched out his hand and handed it to Professor Hu who was sitting opposite, and said solemnly , "I hope you can make good use of the data in it."

Looking at the mobile hard disk handed in front of him, Hu Yang hesitated for a moment, and asked with some doubts: "...is this?"

"Information from Mars."

The office was silent for half a minute.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Professor Hu struggled to utter a word.

"Is this thing... legal?"

Hearing this interesting speech, Lu Zhou smiled and said.

"It depends on how you use it. It is definitely not acceptable to publish journals, and it is probably not acceptable to discuss with foreign experts on the table, but other uses you can think of are probably legal."

After hesitating for a while, Hu Yang finally reached out to get the mobile hard drive, but after pulling it lightly, he found that Lu Zhou did not let go.

Lifting his head, Professor Hu Yang cast a questioning look at Lu Zhou.

Looking at Professor Hu, Lu Zhou said in a serious tone: "Think carefully, with this information, maybe you will be on the CIA list in the future."

Hu Yang was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Come on, it might not be the case now, is it?"

When Huaguo also showed its ambition to colonize space, it was already doomed that the Tinder project would be targeted. As the person in charge of the entire fire project, he was probably targeted from the very beginning.

After all, he took the document over.

This time Lu Zhou didn't hold on to it, and simply let go.

Taking a look at the mobile hard disk in his hand, Professor Hu Yang paused, and suddenly said: "When the Fire Seed Project is completed, our footprints will cover the entire solar system."

After hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou replied with a smile: "Let's not talk about the solar system, maybe even more distant places are not a problem."

It's just that I don't know how many years it will be.

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After returning to Beijing with the data provided by Lu Zhou, Hu Yang immediately contacted several key researchers in the Fire Project, set up an independent research team, and began to study these valuable experimental data.

At the same time, the Xiaguang, thousands of kilometers away, also successfully entered the orbit from Mars back to Earth. At this point, the entire rescue operation basically has no suspense, and the discussion on this matter on the Internet has gradually cooled down.

After the astronauts return to Earth, CCTV will do another interview program, but these are all things in the future...

Leaving aside distant events, during the one and a half months since the Xiaguang rover set off for Mars, many things have happened on Earth.

While NASA is intensively promoting the Ares Project and the Deep Space Gate Project, Huaguo is not idle. Whether it is Xingkong Technology or the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee, the pace of developing lunar resources has not stopped.

With the completion of the first phase of the Moon Palace and the official arrival of the six astronauts, the tentacles of human civilization finally extended to this barren soil in a real sense.

The space station suspended in orbit is like the port of the Cape of Good Hope, guiding people from the old world to the new world. Maybe ten years, maybe twenty years, people who look up at this starry sky will witness the prosperity here in countless rounds of sunrise and sunset...

Of course, that's not the most exciting thing.

After countless days and months of design and practice, the "Earth-Moon Transfer Rail Transportation System" proposed by Chief Designer Lu has finally come to reality from the blueprint.

After soliciting opinions from netizens, the first spacecraft of the "Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit Transportation System" was named "Magpie Bridge".

The design idea of ​​the entire Queqiao is similar to that of the Xiangrui. It is a single propulsion with the rear of the engine, and the control of the propulsion direction is realized by using the speed difference of each engine. The only difference is that the electric propulsion system has been reduced from five propellers to four new types of propellers, and the model has also been changed from a long shuttle that conforms to hydrodynamics to a cuboid, and the wing design has been deleted.

If it used to be like an airplane, now it is more like a ship, the kind that goes straight back and forth in the earth-moon system.

With the "launching" of the Queqiao and its launch into low-Earth orbit by the Long March 9 heavy-duty rocket, the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee's carrying capacity for the Earth-Moon transfer orbit has once again risen to a new level.

In the future, the transportation of materials from low-earth orbit to lunar orbit will be completed by this electric propulsion spacecraft specially designed for outer space navigation. As for the Queqiao equipped with a cargo cabin, under the premise of ensuring transportation efficiency, the single carrying capacity of the Earth-Moon transfer orbit has reached a terrifying figure of 500-750 tons!

Currently, the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee is considering leasing a node module from the International Space Station to install a cargo module "for transit materials".

If this cooperation can be negotiated, the International Space Station will become a transfer station for materials from low-Earth orbit to Earth-Moon transfer orbit.

From now on, if something needs to be sent from the earth to the moon, it only needs to be sent here by a small rocket or other spacecraft, and finally transported away by the "Magpie Bridge".

In this way, even aerospace companies that do not have large-scale rocket launch technology will be able to participate in the construction of lunar orbits!

The high-thrust propulsion system will no longer be the threshold for the earth-moon transfer orbit, and the most difficult part of the voyage to the moon will be undertaken by the "giant ship" of Xingkong Technology.

Perhaps even Lu Zhou himself didn't realize that the prototype of an interplanetary transportation company was being built.

Probably no one would have thought that the dream that Musk had when he founded Space-X was slowly becoming a reality in another form on the other side of the Pacific Ocean...