193: Chapter 193 Desert Supply Network, Abnormal Signals in the Void!

There is a heterogeneous structure inside the asteroid.

Half is a carbonaceous substrate, and the other half is embedded with an iron-nickel metal core.

The center of mass shift leads to instability in the Anti-gravity field anchoring, causing lateral displacement at the robotic arm's attachment point.

Su Che marked this set of operating conditions.

"Academician Zhang Weide."

Academician Zhang Weide was in the back row, using the Pangu Quantum Computer to run a finite element analysis of the load torque at the base of the robotic arm, and looked up upon hearing the call.

"For the center of mass shift condition of the heterogeneous asteroid, add an adaptive compensation to the anchoring scheme." Su Che sent over the 87th set of data.

Academician Zhang Weide looked at it for half a minute.

"Add two sets of torque sensors at the base for real-time feedback; if the shift exceeds the threshold, automatically adjust the anchoring pose."

"Fine, add it in."

On the east side of the hall, Academician Qian Zhenhua's workstation was covered in spectral data.

He dismantled the deep space scanning module of the Quantum Radar and rewrote the core filter for target screening.

"The near-infrared absorption peaks of water-ice celestial bodies are at 1.5 and 2.0 micrometers."

Academician Qian Zhenhua didn't turn his head, muttering to the screen, "But the deep space background radiation will suppress the signal-to-noise ratio, so we need to add a layer of hydrogen isotope feature enhancement."

The holographic projection of Zhou Dehai connected from Kaitian Base.

He had just come off the Zhulong Production Line, and his anti-static suit was covered in a layer of metal powder.

"The joint drive motors for the asteroid mining robotic arm can be made by Zhulong." Zhou Dehai brushed the powder off his sleeve, "But the carbide blades of the drilling head need to withstand the iron-nickel ore; ask Wen Bo about the blade material."

Wen Bo was not in the laboratory.

Lin Waner poked her head in from the side door.

"Academician Wen Bo went to the cafeteria, saying he was too hungry to write the formula."

Zhao Mingyuan looked up from a pile of code.

"Wen Bo's stomach is like his enamel cup; it has limited capacity and a very high refill frequency."

No one picked up on his joke.

Lin Waner placed a bag of washed grapes on the corner of Su Che's desk and conveniently took away the empty mineral water bottle.

...

Alien civilization voyage timer, day 125.

3:00 PM.

Academician Sun Qiwen handed the first version of the thermodynamic model for the in-situ fusion fuel synthesis module to the master control console.

"I used a miniature cyclotron for deuterium-tritium purification, referencing the fuel pretreatment process of ground-based nuclear fusion experimental reactors."

He flipped the printout to the third page and tapped a key parameter with his finger, "The entire synthesis process is compressed to four hours, from ice block to standard fuel rod."

"Four hours." Su Che scanned the thermal efficiency curve.

"That's fast enough."

Academician Sun Qiwen leaned against the desk, "The time the luan bird spends docked next to an asteroid for mining far exceeds four hours, so fuel synthesis will not become a bottleneck."

Su Che entered the synthesis module parameters into the main framework and ran an adaptation test for the fuel interface with the high-order fusion reactor.

Compatibility passed completely.

He closed the printout and switched to the monitoring wall.

The lunar image in the bottom left corner had changed a lot.

The operational efficiency of the fifty autonomous construction robots was twenty percent higher than expected.

The main structure of the fifth building had been topped out.

The output power of the fusion energy station was stable, and the internal lighting systems of the four completed buildings were all lit up. Looking from the side view of the Near-Earth Orbit Base, a small patch of warm yellow light appeared in the shadow of the crater.

Liu Huaqiang walked to the monitoring wall, took off his glasses, and wiped them on the hem of his shirt.

"The progress on the Moon is much faster than originally planned."

"The collaborative algorithms of the robot swarm are self-iterating during actual construction." Su Che looked at the warm yellow light, "The efficiency will get higher and higher."

In the Dry Dock view on the right, the progress of laying the hull of the luan bird had increased by another section.

The prefabricated sectors of the quantum-state stealth shield and the ultimate stealth film were installed on the ship simultaneously under the alternating work of the robotic arms, with silver-gray and light-blue light shadows overlapping.

Su Che withdrew his gaze, pulled over the keyboard, and continued to write the control logic for hydrogen isotope extraction from icy celestial bodies.

...

Alien civilization voyage timer, day 126.

9:00 AM.

Wen Bo walked into the B2 level carrying a sealed bag containing six silver-white blades the size of a fingernail.

"Tungsten carbide substrate with nitriding treatment, plus a layer of diamond-like coating."

He tossed the sealed bag onto Academician Zhang Weide's desk, "It can chew through iron-nickel ore at will, and work continuously for two thousand hours without changing blades."

Academician Zhang Weide took out a blade and turned it over against the light.

"Weight?"

"Twelve grams per blade, six blades per set inserted into the cutter head of the drilling head."

"I will recalculate the torque data." Academician Zhang Weide put the blade back into the bag.

Su Che completed the simulation revision of the in-situ asteroid mining technology at the master control console.

The adaptive center-of-mass compensation logic added by Academician Zhang Weide was effective, and all 120 operating conditions passed.

Zhao Mingyuan completed the front-end framework for the deep space material recycling and regeneration logic.

Four empty instant noodle bowls were piled next to his keyboard, with a piece of noodle dried on the rim of the bottom bowl.

"Wastewater purification, waste gas conversion, solid waste metal purification—the three lines are combined."

Zhao Mingyuan stretched his neck back, "The main god ai unifies the scheduling of material circulation, and the closed-loop rate is preliminarily estimated to be over 93%."

"The target is 97%." Su Che did not look up.

"I know, I'll polish the back-end optimization for another two days."

Academician Qian Zhenhua walked over from the east side, "The resource survey algorithm is finalized."

He transferred an encrypted package to Su Che's terminal, "The target screening filter of the Quantum Radar has added three layers of feature enhancement, and the recognition accuracy in dense areas of the asteroid belt is 99.6%."

"What about the 0.4% that was missed?"

"Fragments with a diameter of less than two meters; the radar cross-section is too small." Academician Qian Zhenhua flipped his pen cap, "But that kind of debris has no mining value anyway."

Su Che received the data package and integrated it into the main framework.

All four R&D lines were moving forward. Mining, surveying, synthesis, and recycling.

Three days of the ten-day cycle had passed, and nearly 30% of the progress had been laid out.

5:00 PM.

Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's encrypted communication connected.

"Chief Engineer Su, the Moon base reported a set of data. The collaborative algorithms of the robot swarm have self-iterated three times. According to the current construction speed, it can be completed in five days."

Su Che called up the panoramic monitoring of the Moon base.

The robot swarm was divided into three assembly lines working simultaneously. The building material forming machines continuously spat out high-strength lunar soil bricks, and the gripping frequency of the robotic arms was nearly twice as fast as in the initial stage.

The first permanent base of the Dragon Kingdom on the Moon was almost finished.

"Received." Su Che hung up the communication.

He turned back to the main screen.

The core code repository of the deep space in-situ resource supply system waited quietly behind the cursor.

Six more days.

Lin Waner walked in from the side door, carrying a bowl of hot noodle soup.

She placed the noodles on the left side of the keyboard, with the chopsticks laid across the rim of the bowl.

The steam from the noodle soup drifted up, carrying a hint of green onion and vinegar.

Su Che picked up the chopsticks, picked up a mouthful of noodles, and stuffed it into his mouth.

His left hand typed out the second-layer control loop for the hydrogen isotope extraction module of icy celestial bodies on the keyboard.

Noodle soup and code were poured into his stomach together.

The people on the B2 level were all working silently at their respective stations.

There was only the sound of airflow from the air conditioning vents, the tapping of keyboards, and the occasional clicking sound of Academician Zhang Weide pressing calculator buttons.

Su Che swallowed the last bite of noodles and pushed the empty bowl to the corner of the desk.

He stared at the screen and suddenly switched out the star map data of the main god ai.

The three-dimensional distribution model of the asteroid belt unfolded on the screen, with hundreds of thousands of rocks floating between Mars and Jupiter.

Seven of them were marked as highlights by the survey algorithm.

The proportion of water ice exceeded 60%, and the hydrogen isotope abundance was far higher than the average.

Su Che drew a circle on an A4 sheet of paper with a pen.

"Seven natural gas stations."

The luan bird only needs to dock at each one to eat its way from Earth to Jupiter and then eat its way back from Jupiter.

The supply network in the desert of the Solar System was spreading out bit by bit on his screen.

But as he stared at those seven bright spots, the main god ai silently marked a line of small text on the edge of the star map.

It was a set of abnormal signals accidentally captured by the survey algorithm while scanning the asteroid belt.

The signal source was not in the asteroid belt.

It was outside the asteroid belt, in an empty area 23 million kilometers from Mars' orbit.

A place where there should be nothing.

Su Che put down the chopsticks.

He clicked on that line of small text.