Chapter 83 China’s Compound Eye Project
“Elon, what do you think of Wright’s asteroid mining project?” Mark, a spaceX R&D expert asked.
“I don’t know, he didn’t reveal any valuable information, and the direction he wants to cooperate with spaceX is also very general.
I don’t know exactly what he wants to do, SpaceX helps He launched the satellite.
Honestly, the Chinese company can also do this for him. ”
Musk continued: "But fortunately we have invested in Guangjia Technology, which is the company that produces human hibernation technology.
Is it possible for us to get their technology in the future?
Me We have agreed with Wright that we will purchase their equipment in the future. Mark, you are going to arrange for someone to reverse engineer it."
Mark said: "They will sell the equipment to us because they think we can't. Crack.”
Musk said: “Yes, but you still have to try. If you can’t crack it, then talk to them about acquiring the technology.
Their human hibernation technology is really amazing. I visited the Shenhai tertiary hospital, and those people entered hibernation quickly after entering.
Then their body temperature really dropped to a level that could be clearly felt. "
"Academician Mao, the people from Guangjia Aerospace are here. They want to join China's compound eye project.
Guangjia Aerospace is willing to invest 2 billion RMB. They want to be deeply involved. Chen Yuanguang hopes to have an interview with you. ”
Mao Ke, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the Electronic Radar Institute of Yanjing University of Science and Technology.
They have recently been responsible for the preliminary demonstration work of China's compound eye project. The estimated investment amount is 1 billion, which is a considerable investment for China's aerospace industry.
Guangjia Technology plans to invest 2 billion at one time. If you have enough money, you can make people have the patience to listen to you.
Money and voice are interchangeable. Of course, the exchange efficiency is higher abroad, but there will be losses at home.
As an academician, it is not easy for Mao Ke to apply for a large project worth 1 billion. It still requires careful preliminary demonstration.
“Oh, how did he know about this project.” He was moved.
Mao Ke is over eighty years old. He is only the general person in charge of this project. He is mainly responsible for the direction control. The implementation of the project depends on his student Xiang Ping.
It was Xiang Ping who contacted Guangjia Aerospace.
Xiang Ping said: "There may be some news. Chen Yuanguang took 2 billion US dollars from state-owned capital at once this time. They shared some internal information. For big projects like Huaguo Compound Eye, as long as they really If you want to mine asteroids, you can definitely find out.”
Xiang Ping is about fifty years old and is also a professor at the Electronic Radar Institute of Yanjing University of Science and Technology. When he was in his prime, his beer belly was particularly attractive. Note:
“Guangjia Technology hopes to make use of our resources. With the investment of Guangjia Technology, the implementation of this project will be smoother.
It’s just that we don’t need so much investment. It is now estimated to be 1 billion yuan. If we let Guangjia Technology invest 1 billion, we can make it more complicated.
Previously, it was originally planned to build four 16-meter aperture radars and set up a small radar field first.
We can skip the testing phase and start building detection facilities in deep space directly.
Directly build 400 radars to form a square array to achieve active detection of deep space.
The advantage is that we can get it right at once. The problem is that Guangjia Technology may put forward some stringent requirements.
For example, I want to take the initiative in this project.
I would say that the country is still too hasty. For those who have not proven themselves in the aerospace field, it will readily provide support of US$2 billion, while projects in the aerospace field require rigorous preliminary verification. "
When Xiang Ping mentioned the latter point, he felt quite aggrieved.
Mao Ke waved his hand: "Stop talking, let him talk. If he really He has the ability, so why not give him the initiative? ”
“Isn’t 2 billion a bit too much? Besides, the Compound Eye of China already has the Heavenly Eye of China. Why should we invest in this project?” "Lin Jia also didn't understand Chen Yuanguang's purpose.
In the end, at Chen Yuanguang's insistence, Guangjia Aerospace was jointly invested by many state-owned funds. The three largest companies were Shenhai and Pengcheng. Hefei chose to give up when seeing that Guangjia Aerospace was unwilling to move there, accounting for only a small part. invest.
Private capital is not interested in this project and cannot see any return at all.
“The Huaguo Sky Eye is different from the Huaguo Compound Eye. The Huaguo Sky Eye is a radio telescope and can only receive signals. It is mainly used for the detection of large stars in deep space and the capture of some pulse signals.
Asteroids do not emit electromagnetic waves, and they lack means to detect asteroids.
The Compound Eye Project is a complete distributed radar system that actively emits electromagnetic waves to capture asteroids. Planets, of course, are only one of the purposes of the Compound Eye Project
We need such a system to help us detect asteroids that can be mined. "Chen Yuanguang said.
Chen Yuanguang's thinking is very clear. He can follow the path that mankind will take to open the space commercial era in the future and just go through it again in modern society.
Lin Jia feels that he is more tired than going to school. , it was even more tiring than catching up on DDL at Columbia. There were too many things to study and there were too many things that she didn’t understand.
She just understood some basic common sense and industry rules in the biomedicine and medical device industries. Chen Yuanguang. A new battlefield has opened up, aerospace.
This field is completely blank for her who came from a liberal arts background. She has learned biology in junior high school, and she still has a rough understanding of aerospace. On manned spaceflight.
“Yuan Guang, I understand every word you said, and together I can roughly understand what you want to express, but I still don’t understand the meaning of what we are doing.< br>
When I talked with Musk before, weren’t we going to use spaceX’s re-launchable rocket to discover asteroids? ”
Chen Yuanguang was very patient, “The main purpose of re-launching rockets is to In the earth's low-Earth orbit, we will slowly find some suitable locations that can be used as transfer points.
We launch satellites of our own design to these points.
Even if it detects the position of an asteroid, it is meaningless because the position of the asteroid is constantly changing.
We need a facility that can continuously help us capture the position of asteroids and predict the trajectory of asteroids.
At the same time, it is necessary to determine whether the asteroid that may be excavated is stone or metal, and whether it is easy to excavate if it is metal.
The distributed radar system of Huaguo Compound Eye cooperates with our satellites in space to form a complete asteroid value observation system.
This is our purpose.
The radar system designed by Academician Mao has excellent low-light sensitivity and colorless resolution. It can still obtain the texture and brightness information of objects in dark light environments, which is of great help to our ability to judge asteroids.
Since there is already a compound eye project in China, all we need to do is catch up with this train instead of rebuilding a new system ourselves. "
"Hello, Academician Mao, we are very interested in the Chinese compound eye and hope to contribute to this project. "Chen Yuanguang said.
Mao Ke is old but has a calm mind. After knowing Chen Yuanguang's identity, he will naturally not pretend to be an elder, let alone the other party is a potential investor. He is also very polite: "Yuan Guang. Light, come and sit.
If you want to do asteroid mining, this is a very good direction. I see that many foreign commercial aerospace companies are trying it.
This is a direction with unlimited prospects, and the Huaguo Compound Eye system can provide you with certain help.
The Huaguo compound eye project is still in the early stage of demonstration, and we have a good basis for cooperation.
But I want to know what your appeal is. There is no free pie in the sky, and there is no free money.
Yuan Guang, this is the preliminary feasibility study report of the Hua Guo Compound Eye Project. Please read it first and then we can talk. ”
Chen Yuanguang looked at the thin old man in front of him, with only his clear eyes still telling him that he refused to accept old age. He took the report:
"China's Compound Eye Project"
The room fell into silence, with only the sound of Chen Yuanguang turning the pages of books. It was not easy to read through the hundreds of pages of feasibility study reports, but he didn't need to read too much. He looked for some key points. Just click and take a look.
"Academician Mao, I think it is too complicated. You want to do too many things in this project, but it is easy to fail to achieve results.
The compound eye of China has too many functions, and the detection range is too The transmission and decoding process requires a lot of computing resources and relies on researchers' mining.
And there is a high possibility that truly valuable information will be missed. >
I think we need to narrow the detection range, further improve the detection accuracy, and focus on asteroids in the near-Earth and near-lunar range.
Only in this way can its value be fully utilized.
Whether it is observing terrestrial planets or sensing the situation of the earth and the moon, such a long distance is not required. "
Mao Ke looked at Chen Yuanguang: "What would you do if you were given control of this project? "
Chen Yuanguang said: "Control the radar detection range and focus on key indicators.
Introduce artificial intelligence models to mine data value. "
Chen Yuanguang continued: "Academician Mao, I know you will think that I am doing this for my own business goals.
I am completely interested in this project, otherwise there is no need for me to invest my own money.
I can just buy the data. I will sign an agreement with the Huaguo Compound Eye Project for real-time data synchronization.
Guangjia Aerospace only needs data. After we get the data, we will do the data analysis ourselves.
It is equivalent to me only doing the latter step, which is data mining to find valuable asteroids that can be mined.
No matter how wide the scope of Huaguo’s compound eye detection is and how complicated the information is, I believe we can filter out valuable information.
It is precisely because I want this project to give full play to its scientific research value and economic benefits that I have the idea to personally participate. ”
What Chen Yuanguang hopes more is to upgrade the radar of China’s Compound Eye Project through this project. Although the radar designed by Academician Mao is very good, from Chen Yuanguang’s perspective, there is still room for optimization.
Mao did not speak, and the whole room fell into silence.
This chapter is still 3k, there is still 2k left, I will finish it tomorrow. I can’t write today, I have been outside at night
(End of this chapter)