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Chapter 799 Don't Look Back On That Road

The resources on the earth are limited after all, so if human society wants to develop, it needs new sources of resources. With the development of aerospace technology, plans to mine in space have been put on the agenda of various countries.

And space mining is also divided into landing planet mining and direct mining of asteroids. Here, the difficulty of mining asteroids will be much lower, and the value is very high. The commonly used basic unit of measurement is "trillion meters", so they are all in planning this.

There are national space agencies and commercial organizations, but they are still in the planning stage because the technical conditions are not yet met.

At present, the most advanced plan in their plan is to launch a detection satellite, and then to detect a certain asteroid, which is still far away from the real mining.

So people often see such news on the Internet.

"Yesterday, the XX asteroid worth [-] trillion yuan passed the earth!"

"Recently, scientists have discovered another near-Earth asteroid with an estimated value of about 12 trillion yuan!"

"The total value of the mineral resources on asteroid 241 is estimated to be as high as 95.8 trillion yuan. The value of this asteroid is close to the global gross product in 2020!"

"According to the US space agency's estimate, the total price of iron resources on the Lingshen planet in the asteroid belt is as high as 1000 billion billion meters. If it is collected and transported back to Earth, the global commodity price system will collapse!"

Seeing such news, it is impossible not to be moved.

The technology was not enough in the past, but the research plan was quite thorough, so that it can be used after a little modification in the future when the technology is enough.

That's what Victor meant.

The Arclight Group didn't know what was going on, so they skipped the asteroid mining stage and directly opened resource mines on the moon.

And looking at the Mars plan they advertised to the outside world, they even plan to open the mine to Mars in the later stage.

It may also be because their deep-sea mine technology is very mature and the resources they produce are very cheap, so there is no need to mine asteroids for the time being.

But no matter what, the Arc Light Group did not take this step, which just gave them a chance for the United States.

And the United States wants to quickly win this No.1 before the Arc Light Group can react!
"...We have carefully studied the technologies gathered from the initial island recently. There are many technologies that can be synthesized and then designed and manufactured into an intelligent thruster."

"Of course, there is no specific design yet, but our engineers have analyzed it, and it is achievable, and the preliminary design work is not too much."

Speaking of which, Victor showed some model pictures and rough mission plans on the big screen, all of which were rushed out by his colleagues. Although it was not a precise plan and design, it could make the people present understand more three-dimensionally that he was say something.

You must know that the people present are not only people in the aerospace field, many laymen are also here.

The important thing is that these laymen are the ones who decide whether the final plan can be implemented. If they are not allowed to see clearly, then the plan he and other engineers made... Ha ha.

"This smart thruster has a large thrust, is flexible to adjust, and has high thrust output accuracy, but it is very demanding on materials and cannot be used in long-distance travel."

"However, if a certain number of propellers are attached to the near-Earth asteroid, and a certain amount of thrust is applied to them, the near-Earth asteroid can change its orbit. Several orbit changes in a short period of time are enough to keep the asteroid in the Earth's orbit. gone."

"When the asteroid stays in Earth orbit, or even directly next to the new International Space Station, we have the final say on how to mine it."

"The general plan is such a plan. Do you have any opinions?"

"We have sent some specific data and plans to the tablet in front of you. You can check them in detail."

Everyone heard the words and turned on the tablet in front of them, and carefully checked the plan Victor said, and for a while there were noisy discussions in the conference room.

I have to say that Victor's plan is really good, and it is also the strength they have at this stage. They can make a plan that surpasses the Arclight Group's aerospace miracle.

Of course, this is because of loopholes, but the first is the first. This world only looks at the result, not the process.

Therefore, the plan was quickly approved at the meeting, and the congressmen responsible for paying the money also said that money is not a problem.

The stronger the United States, the stronger they are, and this is not a time to be stingy.

Only in the selection of targets, people in the aerospace industry present had conflicts, because there are too many near-Earth asteroids in the sky.

In the end, the old men in Congress who were in charge of paying the money made the final decision and reiterated that money is not a problem.

"Now I feel that we are back to the Cold War period, or this is a new round of Cold War, so if we want to win like the last Cold War, then we must be willing to spend money, and the plan must be shocking enough!"

"So the target we selected is "4179 Tutatis", the largest near-Earth asteroid discovered so far, which is shocking enough."

"And your task is to complete this plan and park it firmly in Earth's orbit."

The people in the aerospace department were all shocked by the brains of the people in Congress, and they directly focused on the largest near-Earth asteroid.

This is a huge challenge, and it is very difficult to complete it, but they have been pressed and beaten, and they also have to fight back.

As the most powerful country in the world, if it reached the top in the last Cold War, then this Cold War will feel right and it will not lose.

In the end, Walker, director of the US space agency, said, "Then we will proceed according to this plan, but we hope to get the greatest support."

"Of course there is no problem with this. Funds, equipment, personnel, as long as we need it, we can solve it all," said the person in Congress. "We only have one requirement, and that is to complete this plan in the shortest possible time!"

"No problem, as long as everything is in place, we can start right away, and the technology is ready-made, there is no new technology to overcome, as long as the final technology integration is completed, time will definitely not be a problem." Victor assured road.

"That's good, that's what we want," said the people in Congress, "it must be fast, before the Arclight Group reacts."

In fact, the reason why the stipulated time is so urgent is because Arclight Group’s scientific and technological strength is too strong. They analyzed the existing technology of Arclight Aerospace and found that Arclight Group can do it faster than them.

So they had to be quick, and at the same time try to keep it as secret as possible, and not let the Arc Light Group know about it, or else they would hang up if they wanted to take the first place.

Anyway, no matter what, they passed the plan as quickly as possible, and the state machinery quickly started to operate.

A large number of personnel, funds, and equipment began to operate around this plan, and they were not all concentrated in the US space agency, but were allocated to related departments and companies.

And all participants need to sign a non-disclosure agreement, and no information can be disclosed.

Just now, the focus of the outside news is the Arclight Group's Mars plan, which also gives them room to fish.

(End of this chapter)