Super technology leader

【The car is starting, the car is starting, hurry up and get in!】

【Exciting, this is a lunar rover, let me in!】

【I didn't get in, hey, I haven't gotten in yet.GIF】

【Damn, why can your barrage send GIFs!】

【Huh, this driver looks familiar, isn't this Captain Tang?】

【How outdated is your information? His actual identity is the Chief Technology Officer of Navigator Company!】

【Holy crap, no way, he's not even 25 yet, right? Such a young Chief Technology Officer?】

【Haha, there's even more shocking news, he initially studied art, and aerospace technology is just a hobby!】

【Huh, why does this setting sound so familiar?】

【No way, aerospace technology is just a hobby?? A hobby that led to becoming the Chief Technology Officer of an aerospace company?】

【No choice, having talent allows you to do whatever you want, he's the real deal.】

【That's right, Navigator's two rockets and all lunar equipment were developed under his leadership.】

【Is he a super genius like Korolev and Von Braun?】

【Now that you mention it, Captain Tang is only in his twenties, it's really possible!】

【Let's talk about the future later, let's see how Captain Tang's driving skills are first, don't let it crash.】

Tang Chuan was ready. He and another lunar remote-controlled vehicle driver checked all the systems and then prepared to set off.

The live broadcast screen for this driving session was split, with one screen each for "Vehicle 7" and "Vehicle 8," and small screens in the corner showing the two drivers.

However, although it was a normal split screen, Tang Chuan's reputation was greater, so he had more viewers.

After preparing, the other driver waited for his command. Tang Chuan pressed a few buttons on the console and said, "First time, 10 meters."

"Understood, 10 meters."

The Vehicle 7 driver repeated his command, pressing a few buttons on the keyboard as well.

They manually set a limit, so that when the lunar rover traveled 10 meters, it would automatically stop.

The two of them drove the lunar rovers together, and the corresponding live broadcast screens began to move forward.

The lunar rover crossed countless miniature lunar craters and tiny lunar rocks, covering 10 meters in 8 seconds.

Then, the first manual operation test ended.

The command center began an emergency analysis of the data.

But most of the viewers watching the live broadcast...

【???】

【What happened?】

【Watched a whole lot of nothing...】

In their opinion, wasn't it just traveling 10 meters?

Was it necessary to be so grand?

And 8 seconds to travel 10 meters, is that something to be proud of?

That's too slow, right?

It's not surprising that these viewers were confused and had question marks all over their faces.

In fact, the maximum speed of Lunar Vehicles 7 and 8 can reach 10 kilometers per hour, and the average operating speed is 5 kilometers per hour.

This speed is naturally nothing on Earth, not even as fast as his flashy red two-wheeled electric scooter.

But on the moon, this is the speed of an experienced driver. Once they get going, ordinary lunar rovers can't even see their taillights.

Take a running lunar rover as an example, such as...

Uh, currently, out of the 12 mobile lunar rovers on the moon, 10 are from Navigator. It's obviously not appropriate to use their own lunar rover as an example.

Then the remaining two, let's forget about the Sakura Country's one, to avoid causing international disputes.

That leaves only the "Yutu-2" little rabbit.

From Tianxia, one of our own, and also well-known.

The "Yutu-2's" moving speed is 200 meters per hour, which is equivalent to about... 5.6 centimeters per second.

Comparable to the speed of cherry blossoms falling.

But, what is the little rabbit for?

Its full name should be "Lunar Surface Rover." As a rover, the biggest advantage is—it can move!

Don't underestimate this feature, which means that compared to landers that land at fixed points, it can research a much wider range and content.

It is equipped with panoramic cameras, lunar radar, infrared imaging spectrometers, and neutral atom detectors, and can carry out a series of scientific research tasks in different regions.

Therefore, its most important mission—scientific research!

This means that most of its energy needs to be used on scientific research instruments, and the movement function is only an auxiliary to these instruments.

What about other similar lunar rovers and Mars rovers?

For the public, the most popular vehicles before were the American "Spirit," "Opportunity," and the larger "Curiosity" Mars rovers.

Not the White Bear's "Lunokhod 1" and "Lunokhod 2" lunar rovers, even though they were "nuclear-powered."

No way, the Americans are very good at publicity, and they are still alive.

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Spirit and Opportunity are both in the 185 kg range, about the same mass as Yutu-2's 140 kg.

However, the speed of the two Mars rovers is also calculated in centimeters per second. Their "racing" limit speed is only 5 centimeters per second, and the average moving speed is even only 1 centimeter per second.

The self-protection system of this type of unmanned probe vehicle is very rigorous. They basically stop for 20 seconds every 10 seconds of driving.

They need to check the terrain ahead and use their weak "intelligence" to calculate and avoid risks and prevent rollovers.

So, in fact, the effect of the two Mars rovers driving is: spending 10 seconds to move forward about the length of a human hand, then stopping for 20 seconds to see if there are any pits in the road ahead, and then continuing to work hard to move forward or change course.

Even the later "nuclear-powered" Curiosity Mars rover, which is larger, reaching 900 kg, has the same level of speed.

In fact, if used for scientific research, fast speed is not good. Compared to "superficial observation," "detailed observation" is more important.

Therefore, scientific research rovers are all at the centimeter-per-second speed level.

They not only have to move slowly to facilitate their observation, but sometimes they also have to stop and observe a certain place for a long time.

Yutu-2 is like this. Don't look at its speed can reach 200 meters per hour, but that is the speed of "racing" in a straight line without obstacles.

In fact, it has been running on the moon for more than two years, but it has not even traveled 1000 meters.

So, can lunar rovers be fast?

Of course.

There are definitely fast lunar rovers, such as the "convertible" lunar rover driven by astronauts during the Apollo moon landing.

The fastest of these was the lunar rover of the Apollo 17 mission, which reached a speed of 17 kilometers per hour, which is 4.7 meters per second.

Creating the fastest driving speed record for humans on other planets.

However, it is only a one-time transportation tool, because its energy source is silver-zinc potassium hydroxide, which is a non-rechargeable battery, and is discarded after use.

To do scientific research, astronauts still need to personally get out of the car with equipment.

The advantage of unmanned probes is that astronauts do not need to be present in person, and the disadvantage is naturally that the speed is too slow.

In addition to "following the trend" to obtain scientific data and photos, there is very limited what can be done.

If scientists find something of potential research value in a slightly distant place through photos, and need it to go and study it, it will take a considerable amount of time to walk.

This time, Vehicle 7 and Vehicle 8 are to solve this situation.

People can control them on Earth, with a maximum speed of 10 kilometers per hour, but the general operating speed will be limited to 5 kilometers per hour, which is approximately 1.39 meters per second.

The viewing angle of the lunar rover is good, and it can see far.

Seeing the danger from a distance, in addition to the prompts given by the computer, the driver can see it with the naked eye, and the human brain can calculate it, and can control them to stop in time. Even if there is a signal delay, it will only move forward two or three meters.

The speed of the remote control car is not "too fast," just make a good prediction.

In this way, even if the remote-controlled lunar rover does not run 5 kilometers per hour, at least 3 kilometers must be there.

If scientists find strange places nearby through unmanned lunar rovers or satellites and want to go and study them, they can let ground drivers remotely control such lunar rovers to investigate.

The half-ton car body can take into account both speed and scientific research, and the scientific research equipment installed on it is the same as the other six in the same batch.

You need to know that the mass of those manned lunar rovers is only 431 kg, and they have to carry people and equipment, so they can only be used as transportation tools.

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