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Chapter 349 Modification of the lunar rover

It is very difficult for a lunar rover to reach the moon, and it is even more difficult to run on the moon.

If you are not careful, the lunar rover will land hard on the moon with the lander, and then fall into pieces.

Here I will manually tag the Moon Ship 2 of Peacock Kingdom.

Even if the landing is successful, the lunar rover may fail during use.

Just like Tianxia's original "Yutu" lunar rover, as Tianxia's first lunar rover, its design quality reaches 140 kilograms, and it is a small and exquisite guy in the spacecraft, so many people also call it "Little Rabbit".

At the beginning, it worked very normally and completed many experimental tasks. However, before entering the second moon night dormant, due to the complex lunar environment, the institutional control of the lunar rover occurred abnormalities.

After that, its scientific research equipment can be successfully awakened and works normally, but it cannot drive the wheels forward.

The Yutu number was unable to move after more than a month of running. Speaking of this failure, scientists recalled that there may be two aspects in the design that were not done properly.

First, Tianxia aerospace department has an understanding of the lunar environment, but it does not have a proper understanding, and some designs are not reasonable.

Second, in order to compress the weight, the preparation of possible fault treatment measures is not in place.

Most people believe that since the lunar rover is light and miniaturized, it is designed to be highly integrated, and the corresponding parts are not backed up. The driving mechanism control circuit of all wheels is on a board. It is possible that the power supply of a driving circuit is short-circuited, which causes the Yutu to lose its movement ability.

According to simulation tests and speculations on the ground, due to the light and miniaturization, the wire is very thin. Perhaps when it passes a large stone while it is walking, the surface of a wire is cut by the stone, and the wire is short-circuited with the support body of the lunar rover, which is the greatest possibility.

Since the Jade Rabbit is on the moon, it is difficult to actually verify and cannot be repaired, it can only be learned. This point is fully considered when designing similar equipment in the subsequent design, and effective measures are taken.

So the later Yutu 2 lunar rover was found.

The second rabbit has been working since its launch and landing, but has not been broken until now. It is a real model worker.

It was said that the lunar rover was broken on the moon and there was no way to repair it. It was when no one landed on the moon. When humans landed on the moon, they actually repaired the car on the moon.

At that time, when Meriken landed on the moon, he sent a manned lunar rover to the moon to use it to transport astronauts.

This "Apollo" lunar rover is about 210 kilograms in mass and has a simple structure. The whole vehicle is similar to the chassis of a normal vehicle and can be folded. After being unfolded, it is 3 meters long, has a wheelbase of 2.3 meters, a height of 1.1 meters, and has 4 wheels.

Each wheel is driven by an engine and powered by a battery. The tires can still maintain elasticity at low temperatures of -100°C.

The power supply uses a silver zinc potassium hydroxide disposable battery with a travel speed of 10 to 12 kilometers per hour and can carry about 490 kilograms of payload.

Therefore, this kind of lunar rover is a one-time and cannot be charged. The farthest record is that it has been 35.89 kilometers. If it is not allowed to drive, the speed will not be limited to 12 kilometers per hour. Some people have driven a speed of 17 kilometers per hour.

There are 2 side-by-side foldable seats on the front, each with adjustable pedals and seat belts. The front mast is equipped with a large mesh disc antenna. The astronaut controls the rover with a T-shaped manual controller located between the two seats.

There is a control and display module at the front of the handle to display the current speed, direction, power supply and temperature.

The Apollo 17 lunar rover, oh, is the one that raced to the speed of 17 kilometers per hour. Its front wheel fender was knocked off by the astronauts. Due to low gravity, the fenders were missing. The wheels could bring up two meters of dust at one turn, which greatly affected the driver's sight.

Astronauts also do not have professional tools and extra fenders, so they cannot repair the vehicle. They can only use tape to stick the damaged fenders to their original position. However, when repairing the moon surface, the car is covered with moon dust. These moon dust will destroy the stickiness of the tape and fall off after sticking for a while.

Later, the scientists on the ground asked the astronauts to find a few pieces of paper in the manned cabin and then used tape to form the shape of a fender in the manned cabin.

There was very little moon dust in the manned cabin, so the tape was sticky very strong. Then they used clips to fix the astronomical telescope to fix the paper fender to the original fender.

Don't say it, it's really useful.

It’s like this if you repair a fender a little. It’s more difficult to modify the lunar rover on the moon, but in fact it’s not difficult, at least for aerospace mechanical engineers with complete equipment.

The parts are ready-made and redesigned and manufactured by the scientists of the Navigator based on actual conditions. Tong Anfu just needs to use special tools to install those parts.

Not only can he do it himself, but under his on-site command, the other three astronauts can also complete the installation.

The Pilot's modification of the lunar rover is also very simple. Although the Pilot's lunar rover is larger than the previous Meriken's lunar rover, it is not as long as the length and width, so I don't have any seats for two people and directly determine it as one person's "station".

You don’t let the seats sit because the newly modified driver’s seat is at the back. In order to increase the field of vision, the astronauts will not let them sit down. Instead, a standing bracket is added. There is a hook behind the bracket, which can be hung with other vehicles or simple car bugs.

The astronaut stood behind, and the joystick was installed at hand to connect to the core control system of the lunar rover.

When installing a battery pack, you must remove the amateur battery pack that was installed roughly in the robotic arm, and then replace it with a specially made new battery pack, which can allow the lunar rover to go further.

"Let's start, Mr. Tang has taught us all the steps in the illusion space. You should still remember. If you don't understand anything or have a gap with your memory, you can ask me."

Aerospace mechanical engineer Tong Anfu said with a tool.

"Okay, Ah Fu, then start." Cheng Dong said.

Because there are examples of the Mireken moon landing astronaut repairing a lunar rover, the pilots have prepared them a portable lunar dust removal device, which has an electromagnetic field and can be blown off. It can easily remove the lunar dust stuck to key equipment and then perform accurate installation.

The installation went smoothly, so smooth that they still had time to chat.

Of course, it is not just a nonsense chat. What they are talking about is related to what they are doing now.

"I have the feeling that Mr. Tang, the leader, can do everything. I don't know if it's my illusion, but I really feel that he can do everything. I just tell us the precautions for the survival of the moon. It seems that he has been living on the moon for a long time."

"I think so too. If you want to talk about his technological strength, it is a great thing for everyone to know, but he also knows very well about the moon. It is not just a scholar-type understanding, but a practical understanding. It feels so amazing."

"Well, maybe this is a genius. Mr. Tang will definitely leave his name in history in the future, just like the super celebrities we have learned in history books."

Just like that, they modified two cars in less than an hour.

Yes, two cars are enough for the time being. After all, there are only four of them in total. It is impossible for four of them to leave the base together and enter the permanent shadow area.

There were two cars, and Lin Yang and geologist Peng Zizhen first brought the ice back. Cheng Dong and Afu continued to modify the two cars, and then loaded sandbags.

If it is normal to find ice, their sandcastle will not be slow. If there is danger there, the four people will not be in danger. They can also go to rescue.

After assigning the task, the two modified cars were hung with simple truck buckets, one was equipped with tools and the other was placed in a sealed storage box, and then they set off one after another.

Heading towards the permanent dark area.

At the same time, the Meriken Space Agency has been observing the situation at the Moon Palace base through moon satellites.

There was no way, Tianxia first established a base on the moon, and they were in a hurry if they didn't understand the situation inside!
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