However, this did not affect the Moon Palace Base's pace of developing territory on the moon.

Because not only them, but also China and the United States are also desperately expanding their territories.

The United States has long had the ability to land on the moon, but as Yang Qing learned when he landed, the surface of the moon is filled with all kinds of radiation. There is almost no stone and no radiation.

This brings great risks to base construction using local materials. After all, even with current technology, it is difficult to simply separate large amounts of radioactive isotopes.

As for the Earth-moon transfer orbit from Blue Star to the moon, even the largest launch vehicle in the United States currently has a carrying capacity of no more than 20 tons, and is limited by the shape of the rocket, which is mostly cylindrical.

The cylindrical shape has obvious advantages in the sky without gravity, but on the moon, this form wastes a lot of space.

In the past, when the United States was wealthy enough or paid enough attention to it, this kind of waste was nothing. But now, when the U.S. manufacturing industry is declining, this kind of waste has become very deadly.

So until now, it only occupies two positions, one on the front and the other on the back of the moon, both near the equator.

Although the existence of water ice has been found at the poles of the moon, which are dark all year round and cannot see sunlight, which can be used to supplement the base's scarce water resources, the lack of sunlight almost all year round is the biggest obstacle to energy collection. Especially for forces that do not have small-scale controllable nuclear fusion.

Even for the Moon Palace base, solar panels are an important supplement of energy.

Therefore, occupying the equatorial belt around the moon, the place where solar energy can be obtained to the maximum extent, has become a battleground for all countries on the Blue Star.

After all, the solar panels they use are already the most advanced models, but their efficiency will not exceed 27% even in a vacuum.

If the quality is not good, then you can only make up the quantity.

Therefore, the larger the space it occupies, the more battery panels can be placed, and more power can be obtained.

On the contrary, battery storage is not much of a hassle.

Alien bases and space navigation are by far the most popular and cutting-edge technologies on Blue Star.

Of course it’s also the one that spends the most money.

With sufficient financial support, those power storage devices that could only sit in laboratories due to their high cost are finally put to use.

Because of Yang Qing's aura, he did not develop the electric energy storage on Blue Star.

China and the United States are different.

For the lunar base, the United States came up with graphene supercapacitors, which can basically store it for 12 hours. The power loss is about 10%, but the floor space is reduced by 50% compared with ordinary lithium batteries.

This is the best choice for the American space station where space is somewhat cramped.

China has the innate advantages of the Lunar Palace Base and Luna 2. Therefore, in addition to establishing a base near the Lunar Palace Base to enjoy the material supply of the Lunar Palace, it also occupies four bases outside. One of them has become an international common stock. Those countries that are relatively close to China can conduct some scientific research here.

As for the base in China, their technology is slightly inferior and they are unwilling to use Yang Qing's solution directly, so they use the latest lithium battery technology.

However, Hua's base was transported up using Yang Qing's Luna 2. It covers a quite large area, so you don't need to worry about this slight difference in size. The only thing you need to worry about is that lithium batteries are easy to catch fire. Frequent self-checks are required, which is not a problem for China, which has advanced servers and rudimentary artificial intelligence in the base. The lack of oxygen storage environment also makes them lose the opportunity to burn.

In addition, the relatively poor Big Bear originally had some strong ambitions, but in the end it could not withstand the worsening domestic economy. It could only be reduced to crowding in the Chinese space station with other countries. With their long-standing image as a space power, Far from it.

The Moon Palace Base is more unruly. Under the control of Xiao Ai, large and small bases have been spread all over the moon's surface, including the most ruthless North and South Pole of the moon.

This also includes five defense systems dominated by super electromagnetic guns and large lasers as auxiliary weapons.

For the electromagnetic guns that have been improved over the years, the mass of the projectiles has jumped from one kilogram to one hundred kilograms, while the speed they can increase has increased from one thousandth of the speed of light to one hundredth of the speed of light.

The price in exchange is that the acceleration trajectory of the electromagnetic gun has increased from thirty kilometers to one hundred kilometers long, and even the shells must be made of spiritually processed materials to withstand it.

Although such an electromagnetic gun has a narrow attack angle, it is powerful enough to destroy an asteroid with a diameter of one or two kilometers in one blow.

After all, there are five such electromagnetic guns in total, which completely cover most of the airspace between Blue Star and the Moon, which can be regarded as fulfilling the Moon Palace Base's obligation to defend Blue Star.

It's just that the other bases are very different from the Moon Palace Base.

This starts with Xiao Ai's continuous mining. After digging to a depth of fifty meters in those veins, she discovered that the ore below had the same radiation profile as the ore on Blue Star.

In other words, the strata beyond fifty meters have been freed from the influence of most cosmic rays.

Moreover, in the past three years, under Xiao Ai's monitoring, no moonquakes greater than magnitude 4 have occurred on the moon, but moonquakes of magnitude 3 or so have often occurred.

After all, the moon is a cooling planet, and there is no tide formed by liquid on it, which can change the tension on the entire planet's surface. If the lunar crust plates do not collide or move, there is naturally no basis for the existence of large moonquakes.

This provides impetus for the development of underground bases on the moon.

Compared with buildings built on the lunar surface, hiding inside the moon can not only effectively avoid the damage caused by solar wind, but also save too much building materials.

However, Yang Qing did not choose to dig into existing mountain caves or cracks, but directly occupied several small craters.

Craters are probably the most indispensable thing on the moon.

The moon, which has accompanied Blue Star for billions of years, has finally blocked too much damage with its fat body. The largest of them is the Aiken Basin crater, which covers an area of ​​more than 2,000 square kilometers and is as deep as 12,000 meters. .

But it was so big that it was difficult to put a lid on it.

But if one day, if there is a chance, a super lunar city can be built inside it.

Yang Qing chose those craters with a diameter of about a few hundred meters and a depth of several hundred meters. They were easy to build. The only trouble was that before using them, they needed to dig out the bottom and walls of the pit. tens of meters.

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