Mars.

Mars City Conference Room.

A gray-haired academician and professor sat upright around the conference table.

A huge holographic image unfolded directly in front of the conference table.

On it, there are several large Chinese characters.

Space Mining Technology

Lu Yongchang sat in the first place, his eyes slowly swept across everyone in front of him, and a little emotion flashed in his eyes.

Unlike previous projects, this space mining project involves more disciplines, so there are many new faces in the conference room.

"Professor Lv?"

A sound with a somewhat strange pronunciation sounded.

Lu Yongchang turned his head and looked in the direction where the sound came.

An old man with gray hair and typical Western characteristics sat on a chair and looked at him quietly.

That was Professor Leonard from the former United States.

If he remembers correctly, Professor Leonard should be specializing in space mining projects.

"Professor Leonard?" Lu Yongchang smiled friendly and asked softly, "Do you have anything to say?"

Professor Leonard nodded with a serious expression, picked up the microphone beside him, and coughed gently.

The originally noisy conference room became quiet.

Everyone's eyes turned to Professor Leonard.

"Professor Lu, according to my previous research, there are many difficulties in space mining projects." Leonard said word by word in not very standard Mandarin.

After saying that, he looked at Lu Yongchang with some anxiety.

This is his first time working with Professor Lu.

Leonard was a little worried that he would annoy the chief scientist of the People's Federation.

Lu Yongchang chuckled and nodded, saying, "You continue."

Seeing Lu Yongchang's reaction, the expression on Leonard's face suddenly became much relaxed.

"Professor, although we have experience in lunar mining, there is a huge difference between the two." Professor Leonard said with a serious expression.

"The three largest asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter's orbits have a diameter of more than 400 kilometers."

"In comparison, the moon's diameter reaches 3476 kilometers."

"Everyone, this is the largest asteroid, and a large part of the remaining asteroids are within a diameter of less than 100 kilometers."

"There are even many asteroids that are only a few hundred meters or several meters in diameter."

"And this has caused a serious problem."

"Its gravity is extremely weak, and our mining ships must have reliable enough fixing means to mine on it." Leonard shrugged, "Otherwise, our drill bits will fly the mining ship when drilling."

Lu Yongchang frowned slightly. After pondering for a while, he turned his head and looked at Academician Kong Xingbang, who was responsible for the development of lunar mining equipment.

"Old Kong, this should not be difficult for us now, right?"

Kong Xingbang, with white hair, frowned and thought for a while, nodded: "Professor, this technology is not difficult to solve."

"Okay." Leonard spread his hands and said again: "That's the most important question."

"Professor Lu, what method do you want to use to mine on an asteroid?"

"Drill bit mining? Or explosives mining?"

"If you use a drill, the mining efficiency is extremely low and explosives are difficult to control. The micrometeoroids in space are not a joke."

Hearing this, Lu Yongchang frowned.

That's right.

This is also a problem that has troubled Lu Yongchang for a long time.

There is a huge gap between every asteroid.

For the largest asteroids in the three asteroid belts of Zhishen, Huishen and Vesta, the mining difficulty is not very high.

Even now, Xuannv II and mining robots can be directly sent to carry out mining missions on these three asteroids with a diameter of more than 400 kilometers.

But for smaller asteroids, it is undoubtedly a huge problem to carry out efficient and large-scale mining.

Mining by traditional drilling methods, these asteroids are too small to even Xuannv II cannot stay on its surface.

As for blasting with explosives... it is even more terrible.

The impact of the explosives is enough to allow those tiny rock debris to reach extremely high speeds.

By then, let alone mining, it is estimated that mining ships will find it difficult for mining ships to operate in the asteroid belt filled with a large number of "hidden weapons".

Thinking of this, Lu Yongchang's brows frowned deeply.

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500,000 asteroids are scattered in an area of ​​2.17-3.64 astronomical units from the Sun.

It seems a lot, but in fact, the entire asteroid belt is very empty.

However, once the above two methods are used to mine, countless micrometeoroids will inevitably be formed.

For a high-speed starship, a large number of micrometeors are like a sharp blade that kills people!

This is undoubtedly extremely bad news.

"Can't you drag these asteroids into Mars orbit to mine?" Fang Xu's voice rang aside, "If you are lucky, these rock debris may form a 'Ring of Mars'."

Lu Yongchang's eyes lit up slightly, but then he shook his head.

"I'm afraid it's difficult to do it." Lu Yongchang sighed slightly, "The resources consumed to drag those asteroids are completely disproportionate to the benefits."

“It’s so wasteful.”

For a moment, there were sighs in the conference room.

“…Professor Lu, I have a proposal.”

A somewhat familiar voice came from the corner of the conference room.

Lu Yongchang quickly looked up at the corner of the conference room.

The moment he saw the speaker, Lu Yongchang couldn't help but be stunned.

Tao Yuda?

Lu Yongchang's eyes moved slightly, and the plan of the spherical starship designed by him appeared in his mind.

Perhaps, at this time, an unusual mining method is needed!

Thinking of this, he nodded quickly and looked at Tao Yuda with anticipation: "You said!"

The professors instantly turned their heads and looked at the corner of the conference room.

Obviously, Tao Yuda couldn't stand the scrutiny eyes of the big guys.

He opened his mouth, and a hint of embarrassment flashed in his eyes.

"Professor, why not forget it, I think this plan is a bit..."

"Yuda!" Cao Liangcai interrupted his words softly, "Be bold, speak it out! Believe in yourself!"

Hearing the voice of his mentor, Tao Yuda swallowed slightly, and the expression in his eyes became a little firmer.

"Professor, since we have medical nanorobot technology, why not develop a nanorobot for mining?" Tao Yuda said nervously, "I also thought of the scenes of some science fiction movies in the past, so I had this idea."
Chapter completed!