Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Jinling Higher Institute.

Dean's Office.

The ark in front of the desk is similarly scrupulously reading the documents on the desk.

Since becoming the chief designer of the Moon Orbit Construction Commission, his work has become busy.

The entire Chinese state has to go through this pen in his hand to fund the Moon construction project.

In short, the elders who chair the Committee are responsible for determining the total amount of funds available for the entire lunar orbit construction plan based on the scientific, economic and cultural value of the lunar orbit project.

As for the Ark, which is the chief designer, it is responsible for deciding which of these funds is spent separately or, in other words, on which R&D projects.

If the entire outer space exploration programme were to be compared to a small ship sailing on the sea, he would be at the helmsman. If something goes wrong here, the whole boat has to go with it.

Therefore, even if he is not interested in these trivial things, he can only sit here with patience, tirelessly reading every document from scratch to the end, from which he can identify reliable projects or programmes and sign his own name.

Just as the Ark was caught in contemplation with a report on the technical feasibility of the lunar mining engineering equipment, the door rang.

He stopped the pen in his hand, and the ark looked at the door and cleared his voice and said.

“Come in. ”

The door opened and the young lady assistant, dressed in a professional suit, walked in from the outside with a thick pile of documents.

“Professor, here are the documents from the University of Hua Nong and from the Aeronautics Administration. I sent them to you from the Office of External Development and Liaison. ”

The ark nodded down and said.

“I see. You can put it on the table first. ”

“Okay," the assistant nodded, walking to the desk and taking the files out of the folder, at the corner of the desk, asking softly, "Is there anything else I can do to help you? ”

“Just pour me a cup of coffee. ”

“Okay, Professor. ”

The young assistant nodded, turned around to the water dispenser, flushed an instant mocha for the boat, and left the office lightly.

While drinking coffee, the Ark simply flipped through two documents sent from the External Liaison Office.

In general, both documents are good news, especially from NASA, and highly commend the outstanding contribution of the Jinling Institute of Higher Studies in the construction of the Moon's orbit.

The successful entry into orbit of the core module of the Moon Palace not only established a pioneering advantage for the development of Chinese resources for the Moon, but also earned China a great reputation internationally.

At the same time, the paper also contained a conceptual diagram of the first phase of the work of the station, sent by the Aeronautics and Technology Group, as well as a schedule for the completion of the remaining components.

On the basis of that information, the Ark will decide, through discussions at the meetings of the Moon Orbit Construction Committee, on a timetable for the launch of the next node compartment, energy compartment, experimental compartment, work compartment and other space station components.

On the other side, not just the Moon Palace, but also the Gulbantungut desert.

As early as a month ago, the Ark was studying how to get the Lunar Palace onto the Moon Track, the Spark Project completed the construction of a phase of the project and, under the leadership of Professor Huyang, started the operation of Biosphere A.

To date, the biospherea has been operating successfully for a month, during which volunteers enclosed in the artificial biosphere have succeeded in achieving their intended goal of initially achieving the circulation of living goods through limited water input and small amounts of waste discharge.

“Closed-loop life support technology" is one of the most important front-loading technologies for colonizing the Moon and even Mars and is an important part of the entire Moon orbit construction plan.

Currently, the United States, which had led the Biosphere II experiment in that area, was relatively far away, and the Ares life-support unit, which had been launched to Mars, was an application of the technology.

Unlocking branches of this technology tree is essential if the Chinese State intends to build colonies on the Moon and beyond.

At the end of the day, Professor Hu's report revealed a heartening expression on the face of the Ark.

If all goes well, perhaps next year the Chinese nation will be able to send its own colonists to the surface of the Moon.

Just then, the knocking sounded again.

Looking in the direction of the document in hand, the ark looks in the direction of the door.

“Come in. ”

Pushing the door of the office, the director of the Institute of Aerospace Science and Technology walked in seriously and quickly. He opened the door to meet the mountain lane without waiting for the ark to ask what had happened.

“One good news, one bad news, which one do you want to hear first? ”

When he saw the serious expression on his waiting face, the ark stunned slightly and said with a smile.

“Since when have you learned to sell?” After a while, he said casually, "Well... let's start with the good news. ”

Weather: “The good news is that our planting unit on the Moon has successfully harvested the first potatoes! ”

When I heard that, the face of the ark gradually appeared as a surprise.

“Already harvested? So soon? ”

Although he had not planted or carried out any research in that area, he had at least heard that potatoes generally took three months from sowing to maturation.

It is now less than two months since the successful start of the planting unit to harvest, and I have to say that this speed has been somewhat alarming.

When we noticed the surprise of the ark, we laughed and explained: "It's okay, we used improved potato seeds, and the thermostatic system of the planting unit kept it at its optimal growth temperature, and two months is not an exaggeration. ”

Potatoes grown through space planting units are undoubtedly several times more expensive than on Earth.

But even so, at a time when launch costs exceed tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram, growing food on the moon is much cheaper than growing it on Earth.

Moreover, even without discussing the economic costs, we can achieve self-sufficiency of living goods on the moon. This psychological satisfaction cannot be exchanged simply with money...

“That's really good news," the boat laughed and continued, “What about the bad news? ”

“The bad news is that we received news this morning…” A moment of hesitation, Weishuang took a deep breath and said, "The BFR rocket launched by Space-X last month has landed on the surface of Mars today at 13: 00 a.m. CST. ”

Already landed?!

Gradually, he sat on a canoe in his office chair and immediately continued to ask, “How was the landing? ”

Weihuang looked at him and said.

“… they are said to have succeeded. ”