Chapter 585: Drone Technology on the Moon
Because the loss of contact with the No. 3 lunar rover has not been announced to the public, the other mission this time has not been made public either.
After all, a lunar rover has been out of contact for such a long time and the cause has not been found yet. Once this matter is announced, it may cause panic among some people.
After the lunar module separated from the main spacecraft, it landed towards the back of the moon.
Under the guidance of the intelligent landing system, the lunar module successfully landed at the target landing point on the back of the moon.
The lunar rover drove out of the lunar module and landed on the surface of the moon.
Looking at the exterior of this lunar rover, you can see the number "005" on it.
This is another lunar rover that will be sent to the moon to carry out a mission, following the four Golden Rabbit-1 lunar rovers that were deployed to the moon last time.
This time, the landing site of the lunar rover is only ten kilometers away from the location where the lunar rover lost contact.
After landing, the No. 5 lunar rover did not rush to the direction where the No. 3 lunar rover lost contact, but seemed to be looking for something.
After several hours of searching, the No. 5 lunar rover finally found its target and began to dig downwards.
Like the four previous Golden Rabbit-1 lunar rovers, the No. 5 lunar rover still has all their capabilities, but with some improvements.
The Lunar Rover No. 5 can not only detect various soils and minerals, but also has the ability to extract some resources.
One of these capabilities is the extraction of water resources.
This is not because the No. 5 lunar rover itself is dependent on water, but to maintain the operation of the new black technology product.
This black technology product is the lunar drone that Xu You secretly participated in developing.
As we all know, the reason why airplanes can fly in the sky is that they use the pressure difference of the air to create upward lift.
There is no air on the surface of the moon, so it is not suitable for aircraft to fly over the lunar surface.
But this time, Xu You and others changed their thinking and allowed airplanes to fly over the moon.
The core of this technology is the use of "water", a common yet magical substance.
When water is electrolyzed, it can generate hydrogen and oxygen. By spraying these gases, the drone can generate the reaction force required for flying.
Therefore, as long as sustainable water resources can be found, the lunar drone can fly over the moon for a long time and perform exploration missions.
The four lunar drones carried on the No. 5 lunar rover have now stored enough electricity and water resources, which can enable each drone to fly for about 30 minutes.
The lunar rover is like a supply station for the drone. When the drone runs out of energy and water , it can return to the lunar rover to replenish energy.
After storing the discovered solid water resources in the storage tank on its body, Lunar Rover No. 5
After storing a large amount of water resources, the weight of the No. 5 lunar rover increased a lot, which also greatly limited its forward speed.
Fortunately, the No. 5 lunar rover is not far from its destination. Even if it slows down a bit, it will soon reach the vicinity of its destination.
About one kilometer away from its destination, the No. 5 lunar rover stopped.
Because the next area is a relatively dangerous area.
After all, the cost of successfully landing a lunar rover on the lunar surface is hundreds of millions of Chinese yuan.
If you know there is danger ahead, you will never take risks.
This is also the reason why four lunar drones were specially brought on this mission.
Compared with the Golden Rabbit-1 lunar rover, the lunar drone is much smaller in size and cheaper in cost.
Drones are faster than small lunar rovers and are not affected by the terrain, making them the most suitable executors for this mission.
Even if the drone is lost due to some accident, it is not an unbearable consequence.
Following a command from the commander-in-chief, one of the lunar drones took off from the No. 5 lunar rover and began its first mission flight.
In fact, even without electrolyzing water, the purpose of making the drone float can .
Just after electrolysis into hydrogen and oxygen, the total volume of the gas will increase by half, which is more conducive to extending the flight endurance of the drone.
The amount of water that a drone can store is limited, and the water resources will be exhausted before the electricity is exhausted. Therefore, using electrolysis of water is a better option.
Xu You also adjusted his view to the drone, carefully observing the information it transmitted.
"If everything goes well, we will soon be able to find out why the Lunar Rover No. 3 lost contact."
Thinking of this, Xu You couldn't help but feel excited, and his heartbeat began to speed up.
Lin Shi and Lu Zhiyao had similar feelings to Xu You, and were carefully observing the first-person perspective of the drone.
Eight hundred meters, five hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters...
Finally, the drone was very close to the location where the No. 3 lunar rover lost contact and began to slow down continuously.
Because the location of the lost contact with the No. 3 lunar rover was not very accurate, and it was not known what was special about the area, the drone was also very cautious and only dared to fly slowly in the sky.
Just at this moment.
The drone seemed to have suddenly suffered a heavy blow, and the entire screen suddenly went black.
"This is……"
Xu You, Lu Zhiyao, and Lin Shi all looked surprised at this moment, not knowing what had happened.
In the control room of the Academy of Space Technology , voices of surprise and regret were heard simultaneously.
The experience of this drone is almost identical to that of the Moon landing on the third drone.
When no dangerous conditions were detected, it suddenly lost contact with the control room.
Fortunately, with what happened to the Lunar Rover No. 3 before, this incident was not so unacceptable.
At least, everyone is mentally prepared.
After all, what was lost was only a small drone. With our current capabilities, we can transport dozens of them at a time.
"Teacher, what happened just now?"
"I'm not sure . Let's review it again."
What happened just now happened too suddenly, even Xu You didn't realize the key point of the matter.
However, Xu You vaguely felt that the information collected by the drone this time was much more than that collected by the No. 3 lunar rover last time.
As he spoke, Xu You replayed the video footage that had just been transmitted by the drone and began to analyze it frame by frame.
