Rebirth: Fight For Life

   Chapter 729 The courier on the moon

   After nearly 10 hours of flight, Yinglong began to decelerate and prepare to enter the lunar orbit.

  The two of them who took turns taking a rest were both refreshed at this time.

   Let’s be honest, if an operation is wrong, or the track data is calculated incorrectly, it’s a lot of fun.

  Flying over the moon and coming back again is unimaginable.

   At this time, the two talents deeply felt that their professional level was low. What if this happens?

   The two of them only know how to operate accurately according to the flight manual. As far as the roles of the commander and pilot of the spaceship are concerned, except for courage, discipline, and execution, the basic skills of the two are quite different. ,

   Fortunately, this task between the earth and the moon is indeed a very high safety factor for the ability that Gu Song has mastered.

  Yinglong adjusted its attitude after decelerating for a certain distance and successfully entered the orbit around the moon.

   Looking at the moon below, Zhao Ya said, "The two of us... should be the first two Chinese people to come here."

   Zhao Hongtao smiled: "If Li Wei and Yang Haisheng knew about it, I don't know how it would feel."

   "Head, you said come to pick up the courier, how do you get it?"

   Zhao Hongtao looked at the current orbital data, and then said: "The load bay is ready to open, and the countdown is 163 seconds."

   Zhao Ya stopped gossiping, and made preparations before opening the load compartment according to what she had learned in the training.

  In the space environment, if you want to ensure that there will be no problems, before opening the load compartment, you must ensure that the pressure and temperature inside, etc., will not deviate from the space environment.

   More than two minutes passed quickly, and the load compartment was opened. Now, there's more than one thing in the load bay.

  Under the automatic guidance of the mission flight data, the robotic arm sent a spacecraft in the payload bay out of the payload bay.

  The materials used in this robotic arm are specially made. In the weightless environment of space, it can quickly and flexibly move various loads weighing up to 50 tons.

  The current spacecraft is not that heavy.

  The robotic arm stretched out a full 20 meters from the load compartment, placing the spacecraft only 20 meters below the Yinglong.

  After a slight vibration, the robotic arm released the spacecraft, and it flew there relatively still at the speed of Yinglong.

   Zhao Hongtao entered a series of commands, Yinglong's electromagnetic vector nozzle began to work gently, adjusted Yinglong's attitude, and slowly pushed away from the spacecraft.

   It seems that after the distance between Yinglong and it reaches a certain limit, the spacecraft also began to work.

  Thanks to the fact that it is still in the visual range of Yinglong, there are signs of the work of the thrusters on it.

   Zhao Ya asked, "Let it pick up the courier?"

   Zhao Hongtao nodded.

   Zhao Ya couldn't help but ask: "Here on the moon...why have our... er... 'express'?"

   "The boss said that the satellites we launched to the moon in the past have yielded results."

   "...Didn't they all fail?"

   Zhao Hongtao glanced at Zhao Ya, only then did Zhao Ya understand.

   It seems that, like a secret mission, it cannot be disclosed to outsiders. It turned out that at that time, the satellite launched by Flint Aerospace to the moon did not fail.

   Zhao Ya looked at the spacecraft that was going to pick up the "courier"... Forget it, call it a courier, it seemed that it was slowing down and quickly fell out of sight.

   She took her eyes back and looked at the small bright spot on the meter screen.

   "Then what do we need to do next?"

"Wait."

   Zhao Ya looked out again, more than 100 kilometers below, is the surface of the moon.

   But now I can neither see the courier, nor the other exploration satellites, nor what is on the surface of the moon.

  Yinglong is flying alone here, circling the moon, round and round.

  Compared to Earth...Space is really lonely.

  …

   After the "courier" left the Yinglong, the equipment on it started to activate.

   At the same time, Gu Song, who is located in the underground laboratory of Xiangshan Bieyuan, also received the synchronized status information.

   "Courier", strictly speaking, is really like a drone for delivery.

   But the technical content is completely different.

   Now, the "courier" first slows down and starts to adjust his orbit.

   It did come to pick up.

  What you take is important.

   Flint Space City has been built to that scale, with solar panels on an area unprecedented in size. But that little power generation is actually difficult to support the energy demand for construction inside the Flint Space City.

  The outside world thinks that the interior of the Flint Space City is now as simple and assembled as the International Space Station.

   However, in the future, Flint Space City is a thing that will speed up the de-orbiting of the earth and go to the frontier of the solar system. Such a thing, although it is the so-called interplanetary simple spacecraft mentioned in the "Basic Encyclopedia of Astronautics", but the structural strength is necessary.

   Therefore, after the outside pie is spread out, the construction and renovation of the inside has to start.

   In the core module that has been completed in Flint Space City, there are naturally key micro-fusion generators.

   There are power plants, but no fusion fuel.

   Fuel on the Moon.

   The "courier" is the miniature factory on the back of the moon to get the fuel accumulated over a long period of time.

   Of course, it would be too wasteful to just take fuel.

   The "courier" of course has its own cargo hold.

   The capacity of this cargo hold is still very large.

  Yinglong has a payload of more than 70 tons, and the moon's gravity is small, and it does not have a dense atmosphere like the earth to form resistance, so it is much easier to take off from the lunar surface.

   So this time, the "courier" actually delivered a lot of things.

   One of them is a very special relay satellite.

   Just as it was about to reach the perilous point, the cargo compartment of the "courier" opened, and a satellite robotic arm sent out a cube.

   Then, the "courier" quickly adjusted his posture and staggered from the cube.

   And the cube expands as it accelerates, and then quickly disappears from view.

   It determines the final shape of the track after several adjustments.

   That is the L2 point of the Earth-Moon Lagrange. In order to implement the Flint Project, after the Flint Space City, Space Mining, Yinglong, and Moon Back Factory are all completed, it is necessary to further ensure the stability of deep space communication.

   Queqiao relay communication satellite is in place ahead of schedule!

  …

   After the "courier" adjusted the track, he went straight to the back of the moon.

  To retrieve the fuel sent to Flint Space City, the total mass is not much.

   For a spacecraft at the level of Flint Space City, how much fuel can it consume with the support of the most advanced form of fusion generator?

   It is enough to slap a big box of Helium 3 with you.

   Therefore, after taking the "express", it does not need to add extra tons of mass to take off, but to unload the more than ten tons of goods that it has brought, and the light truck simply starts again.

  It is serious to arrive at the surface of the back of the moon safely.

   After a long time, the micro-factory on the back of the moon has not changed much.

  It's just that with the hard work of the micro excavators, the places where their wheels are pressed are getting bigger and farther.

   As a result, a large piece of flat land was cleared, like a landing pad.

  No, it is the landing pad.

At the four corners of the   , there is clearly a small artificial object, which stops there and outlines a square.

   "The Courier" landed firmly in the center of the square.

The    cargo hold opened, and the open side fell to the ground, forming a slope.

   Make sure that it has landed and stopped, and there is a small car-like thing in the cargo hold, with a cube placed on it.

The    small car transported it to the side of the micro factory.

   The current micro-factory, which has received supplies from the giant satellite and nine heart-shaped satellites, has expanded a bit.

The main performance of    is that there are two more robotic arms.

   Now, the two robotic arms grab the cube sent by the car and put it in a position next to it. Then, the top of the cube opened first, and the robotic arm grabbed a small box from it and put it on a track in the microfactory.

The    box entered the inside of the microfactory, and was sent out after a while.

The big robotic arm twisted a small box and placed it on the platform of the small car. The scene was a bit funny, like a giant, carefully holding a small Wangzai steamed bun and placed it in his bowl like a big iron pan. inside.

   A total of less than two kilograms of helium-3.

  The car started to go back, and when it entered the cargo compartment through the uphill, the small box did not slide down from the platform of the car.

  The cargo door is closed again. At this point, the goods have also been delivered and the courier has also received.

  The courier kept going, and the propeller began to spew out flames, blowing away a lot of moon dust and taking off into the air.

   Strangely, the moondust did not scatter beyond this landing pad.

   It turned out that the four man-made objects that outlined a square actually cut off a three-dimensional space.

   The "courier" started looking for his own flight, Yinglong.

   Thank you flyme100 for the tip!

   (end of this chapter)