Chapter 25: mining

Chapter 25 Mining Xiao Yu began preparations for construction in full swing.
First of all, for the large number of raw ore that may come after the earth mining trip, Xiao Yu spent two months beside a methane lake that was determined to be free of black insects, and built a brand new titanium zirconium processing and smelting base.
Then, Xiao Yu built thousands of small nuclear fusion engines with certain intelligence, all loaded into the Hope, and after all preparations were made, the Hope took off smoothly and rushed to the original earth orbit, the construction of the Shuguang began. .
Various bases, collection and smelting and other equipment have been constructed, and now it is not necessary to expand the scale again. It is only necessary to maintain the current production rate. Therefore, Xiao Yu has divided a fixed part of the calculation rate to maintain the operation of all bases In addition, all the remaining energy at this stage is put on the construction of the Dawn.
In the main base, hundreds of planes take off and land every day, sending endless resources to here. Immediately after the plane landed, a robot would sort the raw materials they brought into different processing workshops, and after purification or re-tempering, they were made into individual parts, and then robots transported them to The final assembly workshop is assembled into large components and then transported to a large workshop for assembly.
Countless robots are like hard-working workers, and the huge Dawn is like an ant nest. With the help of these hard-working ants, the dawn dawned gradually.
At this time, Hope has gone through a long two-month journey and reached its original Earth orbit.
After years of development, a ring asteroid belt of the sun has formed in the original earth orbit, with a total circumference of more than one billion kilometers, a width of about 10,000 kilometers, and a thickness of only about 10 kilometers. Xiao Yu knew that this was formed under the influence of the gravity of the sun. The earth now is the "ring" of the sun, just like the rings of Saturn and Jupiter. In the future, these things can no longer be called Earth, but they should be called "sun rings".
After observing the operation of the earth through Hope, Xiao Yu secretly sighed.
知道 He knew that under the gravitational disturbance of outer planets, such as Jupiter, Mars, and Venus in the inner world, new planets could no longer be formed here. The earth has become a past tense.
十三 It is 1.3 billion kilometers away from Xiao Yu. There was a delay of about eighty minutes in communication between Titan and here. So Xiao Yu gave most of the operation authority of the Hope to the pre-programmed program, and he just monitored the situation of the Hope at any time.
The endless stream of data was transmitted to the high-power communication satellite placed in advance on the Sun-Jupiter's Glalange point. This satellite transmitted the signal to the satellite placed on the Sun-Saturn's Lagrange point and transmitted the signal Passed to the Saturn ring satellite, they then transmitted the signal to the ring moon Titan, so after the twists and turns, the signal can be transmitted to Xiao Yu's mind. Xiao Yu has to follow this process if he wants to send instructions, but the order is reversed.
Through these data, Xiao Yu can know the movement of Hope.
Hope has been surveying under this "ring" in the original earth orbit. It is equipped with extremely sensitive titanium zirconium detection instruments. As long as a meteorite rich in titanium and zirconium is found, and its size is within acceptable limits, Hope will act on it.
嗯 "Hmm? Hope has found a meteorite that meets the requirements?" Xiao Yu was glad, waiting for the next signal to be transmitted immediately.
This meteorite has a shape close to a cube, about 10 meters in length, width, and height, and a volume of about 1,000 cubic meters. It is mainly composed of 30% of rocks and 69% of ilmenite. Some impurities have a mass of about 5,000 tons, which is heavier than the entire Hope.
According to estimates, Xiao Yu could smelt nearly a thousand tons of titanium out of this meteorite.
"It's worth starting." Xiao Yu thought to himself, "According to the preset procedure, the next step, Hope should drag it under the sun ring to get a quiet processing environment."
When Xiao Yu received this signal, the signal had been running in space for more than an hour, that is to say, it had happened more than an hour ago.
Faintly, Xiao Yu was a little nervous.
Practice is the best way to check the accuracy of the program. Although Xiao Yu had tested the program hundreds of thousands of times before the launch of Hope, the test is only a test, and whether the program runs correctly depends on how it performs in practice.
The endless signals continued to come. Xiao Yu saw that Hope first approached the meteorite carefully until the distance was shortened to thirty meters, and then launched a mechanical claw. After it was firmly fixed, the engine It started, dragging the meteorite far away from the ring of the sun.
Everything is the same as Xiao Yu expected.
Seeing that his preset program has withstood the test of practice, Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief and continued to pay attention to the next move of the Hope.
Hope slowly brought the meteorite closer, and the three-dimensional scanner scanned it. After measuring the information such as the center of gravity and density, it found the best place to install the engine.
Yes, this is the role that thousands of small nuclear fusion engines Xiao Yu made before will play.
Xiao Yu ’s plan is to install an engine on a meteorite that meets the conditions, and let it fly to Titan on the basis of the power provided by the nuclear fusion engine. After all, Hope has limited transportation capacity due to tonnage restrictions. If you rely on Hope only for round-trip transportation, I am afraid that Xiao Yu will not be able to obtain enough materials in a hundred years.
Plutonium small fusion engines can provide extremely limited power, and relatively, they can only provide meteorites with limited acceleration. This means that a meteor will probably take a year to reach Titan, which is also due to the speed increase caused by the gravitational acceleration of Saturn, Jupiter and other stars that can be encountered during the flight.
But even then, this method is much more cost-effective than letting Hope travel by one round. After all, it takes four months to travel back and forth at the speed of Hope, and even if dragging is used, a trip can only transport up to 100,000 tons of meteorites, no more. Such efficiency is really low.
After bringing the meteorite close enough, Hope opened the hatch. Several robots installed a small nuclear fusion engine on the meteorite, and after fixing it, they returned to the Hope. Start searching for the next moment worthy meteor.
This meteorite, about thirty minutes after Hope left, a small fusion engine installed on the side facing the sun suddenly ejected a light blue flame, pushing the meteorite to accelerate forward.
During a year-long flight, high-power communication satellites scattered in space will be used for navigation tasks to ensure that it can reach Titan safely and accurately.
I saw that everything was going well, Xiao Yu was relieved and was full of confidence in this mining plan.
Twenty-three days later, Hope found another eligible meteorite. The mass of this meteorite is much larger than that of the previous one. Its volume is about 30,000 cubic meters, and its mass has reached an amazing 100,000 tons. But its ilmenite content has also reached a staggering 80%.
According to calculations, among this meteorite, Xiao Yu can obtain up to 30,000 tons of titanium ore.
萧 In Xiao Yu's setting, Hope did not have the decision-making power to decide whether to collect such a large meteorite. After sending information to Xiao Yu, he started tracking the meteorite, waiting for Xiao Yu's reply.
Xiao Xiaoyu thought about it, but decided to collect it. After all, more than 30,000 tons of titanium ore is not a small number. Only the transportation plan needs to be modified.
Xiao Xiaoyu quickly made an improved transportation plan and issued the Hope together.
After receiving the signal from Hope, UU reading www.uukanshu.com according to the program guidelines, first dragged it off the ecliptic plane, and then installed fifteen nuclear fusion engines on it, before leaving here and continuing to explore the next Meteorite.
It took me half a year to hopefully collected nearly 300 meteorites, with different sizes and different masses. The largest reached 300,000 tons, and the smallest also weighed 2,000 tons. Xiao Yu has made an estimate. This is nearly 300 meteorites, which can provide himself with about 3 million tons of titanium ore and about 1 million tons of zirconium ore, which is enough to support the completion of the first phase of the Star Fleet construction. .
After completing all of this, he installed the three hundred meteorites one by one with fusion engines and sent them on the road. Xiao Yu issued an order to return to Hope.
The speed of Hope is several times faster than the meteors, but even so, it is expected that it will take two months to return to Titan, and then wait for about four months, the first meteor will Will reach Saturn's orbit. At that time, we also need the Hope to cope with it. After all, in a year, there are too many variables, and it is difficult to ensure that the meteorites can accurately hit their targets.
Moreover, when entering the atmosphere, Xiao Yu did not want to lose quality because of friction with the atmosphere. That would be too much. However, Xiao Yu has made a complete response plan to ensure that these meteorites reach the processing plant prepared for them safely with minimal loss.
Twenty months later, the construction of the Shuguang has come to an end, and all post-processing is currently underway. Soon, the Shuguang can also leave Titan and soar freely in space.
Everything is advancing according to Xiao Yu's plan.
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