Is NASA going too fast? "Seize the opportunity" again, and just said earlier that the "moon time" will be formulated, which will come again to build the "moon railway"! This wave after wave of "bombardment" on the world is really too strong.
I have to say that this "space power" plan is really ahead of its time, but then again, the return to the moon has not yet been completed, are these plans really "ahead"?
At least there has to be a way to the moon so that these plans can be carried out, right? Although I don't know if the U.S. plan can catch up with the changes, these advanced plans are indeed a bit incredible, what is the U.S. going to do? Let's take a closer look.
To build a lunar railway, it is necessary to complete the return to the moon program
That's right, since the Apollo program of the United States, there has been no manned moon landing program, and in more than 50 years of shutdown, American technology seems to have disappeared.
At the beginning of 2024, the United States has carried out two launches of probes, although NASA is also involved, but the results are not ideal.
On the first launch of the probe, there were problems on the way to the moon, and due to a fuel leak from the probe, the solar panel failed, so much so that the United States announced the end ahead of schedule.
The second time was relatively smooth, and there were no problems on the way. However, in the process of landing on the moon, there was another problem, the instrument positioning failed, and it could only rely on the payload of NASA to dominate, and finally successfully landed on the surface of the moon.
Later, through testing, it was found that part of the payload was unusable, and due to the arrival of the lunar night, it was directly frozen to death.
Therefore, there is no good "perfect ending" for the US lunar exploration probe in 2024, so that many people feel that it is very difficult for the United States to return to the moon, and even question the issue of the US Apollo program.
Of course, during the implementation of the Chang'e-6 mission, there was also a lot of "boiling", saying that the United States had falsified the moon landing, and here I can only say that there is no problem in questioning, but at least judging from the situation given by the scientific community, no one has said that there is a problem with the American Apollo program.
It's just that the United States is indeed facing many problems in the new round of manned lunar missions, and the difficulties it is facing are really too many. For example, after the first test of the American "Orion" spacecraft, there were problems such as thermal insulation materials and design failures, and the overall report was released, but it has not been solved, and the problems such as spacesuits and starships have not been solved.
Therefore, even many people feel that the extension plan released by the United States in 2024 will be difficult to implement stably.
In 2024, NASA administrators announced that the Artemis 2 manned mission around the moon would be postponed from the end of 2024 to no earlier than September 2025, and the manned mission Artemis 3 would be postponed from late 2025 to September 2026.
Therefore, whether it will continue to be extended depends on whether the United States can quickly solve these problems, and if it is too slow, it is indeed possible to continue to postpone.
However, this will make the United States want to build a railway on the moon again, and it can only be said that it still needs to complete the return to the moon program, after all, there is no way to go to the moon, and there is no way for the person to go up to build, whether it depends on robots, this is even more difficult.
What is the United States going to do when it builds a railroad on the moon?
The United States is building a railway, a maglev railway on the moon, in fact, the idea is very obvious, it may be to seize the name of "first",
And the most important point is to exploit the resources of the moon, indeed, the moon is very rich in resources, the 17 most common elements on the earth, abound on the moon. And the helium-3 that everyone is looking forward to the most, a resource that can change the earth's energy pattern, is also countless on the moon, which is completely incomparable on the earth.
Because human beings have been studying the use of helium-3, helium fusion using deuterium and helium-3 can be used as an energy source for nuclear power plants, this fusion does not produce neutrons, is safe and pollution-free, and is easy to control nuclear fusion, so once it has the ability to carry out comprehensive, large-scale utilization, it is completely a great wealth of mankind.
However, there is not much on Earth, and it is reported that the amount of helium-3 in lunar soil is estimated at 715,000 tons, and for every ton of helium-3 extracted from lunar soil, 6,300 tons of hydrogen, 70 tons of nitrogen and 1,600 tons of carbon can be obtained.
Judging from the analysis, due to the large reserves of helium-3 on the moon, it is undoubtedly a relief in the snow for the earth, which is relatively short of energy in the future, and many space powers have taken the acquisition of helium-3 as one of the important goals of developing the moon.
The United States also announced a plan to mine helium-3 on the moon in 2024, and the mainland has also announced a lot of methods for extracting helium-3 on the moon.
Therefore, the United States' proposal to build a railway on the moon has undoubtedly increased its exploration in this regard. According to the report, NASA refers to it as a flexible suspension orbit, a rail system that could support the day-to-day operations of a sustainable lunar base in the early '30s of the 21st century.
The project is in the concept phase and will continue to develop key technologies and address budget issues over the next two years. Once completed, the system will provide reliable, autonomous and efficient payload transportation on the Moon.
At the same time, unlike traditional roads, railways or cable cars, the FLOAT track is laid directly on the lunar surface, avoiding large-scale on-site construction, a single FLOAT robot is able to transport payloads of different shapes / sizes (more than 30 kg/m²) at a sufficient speed (greater than 0.5 m/s), while a large-scale FLOAT system will be able to move up to 100,000 kg of lunar soil / payload per day for several kilometers (regolith / payload multiple). kilometers）。
So, it still looks pretty good.
But we still have to go back to the first issue, to build a lunar railway, we still need to complete the return to the moon program, if the return to the moon program can not be stably advanced, then this project is what many people call a "PPT" problem.
The project in the United States is dragging on too much
It is true that there are many space programs in the United States, but each of them seems to have "delays", in addition to the delays encountered by the program to return to the moon.
The United States also has a large-scale delay in the return of Mars samples, and the key issue is the problem of technology and money, including the U.S. proposed lunar railway plan, which also shows that "we will continue to develop key technologies and solve budget problems in the next two years." ”
Therefore, if you are not careful, the project may be delayed again and will not be known according to the plan, but this time the plan really does not give a time node similar to other projects.
Well, there is not much of a problem with this project being considered "far away", and it is clear that the first lunar railway system in the United States will be regarded as a plan.
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