Chapter 83 China Compound Eye Project
"Elon, what do you think of Wright's asteroid mining project?" asked Mark, a SpaceX R&D expert.

"I don't know, he didn't reveal anything valuable, and the direction he wanted to go in with SpaceX was pretty mundane.

I'm not sure what he's going to do, but SpaceX is helping him launch satellites.

To be honest, Chinese companies can also help him with this.”

Musk continued: "But fortunately, we invested in Guangjia Technology, which is the company that developed human hibernation technology.

Is it possible for us to get their technology in the future?

I have agreed with Wright that we will purchase their equipment later. Mark, you should arrange for someone to do the reverse cracking. "

"They would sell us the equipment knowing that we couldn't crack it," Mark said.

Musk said: “Yes, but we still have to try, and if we can’t crack it, we can talk to them about acquiring the technology.

Their human hibernation technology is really amazing. I visited it at the Shenhai Grade A Hospital, and saw that the people went into hibernation very quickly after they went in.

And then their body temperature actually dropped to a level that was noticeable.”

"Academician Mao, people from Guangjia Aerospace have come to us, and they want to join China's Compound Eye Project.

Guangjia Aerospace is willing to invest 20 billion RMB, and they want to be deeply involved. Chen Yuanguang hopes to meet with you in person."

Mao Ke, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the Electronic Radar Institute of Yenching University of Technology.

They are currently in charge of the preliminary demonstration work for China's Compound Eye Project. The estimated investment amount is 10 billion, which is a considerable investment for China's aerospace industry.

Guangjia Technology plans to invest 20 billion yuan at one time. The money is enough to make people listen to you patiently.

Money and voice are interchangeable. Of course, the exchange is more efficient abroad, while there will be losses domestically.

As an academician, it is not easy for Mao Ke to apply for a billion-dollar project, and careful preliminary demonstration is still required.

"Oh, how did he know about this project?" He was tempted.

Mao Ke is already over 80 years old. He is only the general manager of this project, and is mainly responsible for controlling the direction. The implementation of the project still depends on his student Xiang Ping.

It was Xiang Ping who was contacted by Guangjia Aerospace.

Xiang Ping said, "Maybe there is some news. Chen Yuanguang got 20 billion US dollars from state-owned capital at one time this time. They shared some information internally. For a big project like Huaguo Compound Eye, if they really want to do asteroid mining, they will definitely be able to find out."

Xiang Ping is about 50 years old and is also a professor at the Electronic Radar Institute of Yenching University of Technology. He is in his prime, and his beer belly is particularly eye-catching:
“Guangjia Technology hopes to utilize our resources. With Guangjia Technology’s investment, the implementation of this project will be smoother.

It’s just that we don’t need so much investment. The current estimate is 10 billion yuan. If we let Guangjia Technology invest 10 billion yuan, we can make it more complicated.

The original plan was to build four radars with an aperture of 4 meters and set up a small radar field first.

We can skip the testing phase and start building deep space detection facilities directly.

Directly build 400 radars to form a square array to realize active detection of deep space.

The advantage is that we can get it done in one go, but the problem is that Light Armor Technology may have some demanding requirements.

For example, taking the initiative in this project.

I think the country is too hasty. It just gave $20 billion to people who have not proven themselves in the aerospace field, while aerospace projects require rigorous preliminary demonstrations. "

When Xiang Ping mentioned the latter point, he felt quite indignant.

Mao Ke waved his hand and said, "Stop talking. Let him talk. If he is really capable, why not give him the initiative?"

"Isn't 20 billion a bit too much? Besides, China already has the China Sky Eye, so why should we invest in this project?" Lin Jia also didn't understand Chen Yuanguang's purpose.

Finally, with Chen Yuanguang's insistence, Guangjia Aerospace was jointly invested in by many state-owned funds, among which the three largest ones were Shenhai and Pengcheng. Hefei chose to give up when it saw that Guangjia Aerospace was unwilling to move there, and only accounted for a small part of the investment.

Private capital is not interested in this project and sees no return at all.

"The China Sky Eye is different from the China Compound Eye. The China Sky Eye is a radio telescope that can only receive signals. It is more used to detect large celestial bodies in deep space and capture some pulse signals.

Asteroids do not emit electromagnetic waves, so there is no means to detect asteroids.

The Compound Eye Project is a complete distributed radar system that actively emits electromagnetic waves to capture asteroids. Of course, asteroids 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," said Chen Yuanguang.

Chen Yuanguang has a very clear idea. He just needs to follow the path that humans will take to usher in the era of space commerce in the future and repeat it in modern society.

Lin Jia felt that he was more tired than when he was in school and even more tired than when he was meeting the deadline at Columbia University. There were too many things to learn and too many things he didn’t understand.

Just as she understood some basic knowledge and industry rules of the biomedicine and medical device industries, Chen Yuanguang opened up a new battlefield, aerospace.

This field was completely new to her, who was born in the humanities field. She learned biology in middle school and had a general idea of ​​it. Her understanding of aerospace was still limited to manned space flight.

"Yuan Guang, I understand every word you said, and I can roughly understand what you want to express when you put them together, but I still don't understand the significance of what we are doing.

When I talked to Musk before, didn’t we want to discover asteroids through SpaceX’s reusable rocket launches? "

Chen Yuanguang is very patient. "The purpose of reusable rocket launches is to slowly find some suitable positions in the Earth's low-Earth orbit, which can be used as transfer points.

We launch satellites of our own design to these locations.

Even if it detects the position of an asteroid, it would be meaningless because the position of an asteroid is always changing.

We need a facility that can continuously help us capture the positions of asteroids and predict their movements.

At the same time, it is necessary to determine whether the asteroid that may be mined is stone or metal, and whether it is easy to mine if it is metal.

The distributed radar system of China's Compound Eye is combined with our satellites in space to form a complete asteroid observation system.

This is our purpose.

The radar system designed by Academician Mao has excellent low-light sensitivity and color resolution capabilities. It can still obtain 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 Chinese compound eye plan, what we need to do is to catch up with this train, rather than building a new system ourselves."

"Hello, Academician Mao, we are very interested in the Chinese compound eye and hope to contribute to this project," said Chen Yuanguang.

Mao Ke is old but his mind is not confused. After knowing Chen Yuanguang's identity, he naturally won't act like an elder, not to mention that the other party is a potential investor. He is also very polite: "Yuanguang, come and sit down.

You want to do asteroid mining, which 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 China Compound Eye Project is still in the early stages of demonstration, and we have a good basis for cooperation.

But I want to know what your appeal is. There is no free lunch in the world, and there is no free money.

Yuanguang, this is the preliminary feasibility study report of the Huaguo Compound Eye Project. Take a look at it first and then we can talk."

Chen Yuanguang looked at the thin old man in front of him. Only his clear eyes still told that he refused to accept old age. He took the report:
"China Compound Eye Project"

The room fell into silence, with only the sound of Chen Yuanguang flipping through the pages. It was not easy to finish reading a feasibility study report of several hundred pages, but he did not need to read too much, just some key points.

“Academician Mao, I think it’s too complicated. Your project wants to do too many things, and it’s likely to fail to achieve the desired results.

The Chinese compound eye has too many functions and a wide detection range, which requires a lot of computing resources in the transmission and decoding process. To obtain truly useful information, it depends on the researchers' mining.

And there is a great 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 near the Earth and near the Moon.

Only in this way can its value be fully realized.

Whether it is observing terrestrial planets or sensing the situation on the Earth and the Moon, we don’t need such a long distance.”

Mao Kewang looked at Chen Yuanguang and asked, "If you were in charge of this project, what would you do?"

Chen Yuanguang said: "Control the radar detection range and focus on key indicators.

Introduce artificial intelligence models to mine the value of data.”

Chen Yuanguang continued, "Academician Mao, I know you will think that I am doing this for my own business goals.

I am absolutely interested in this project, otherwise there would be no need for me to invest my own money.

I can just buy the data, and I will sign an agreement with the China Compound Eye Project for real-time data synchronization.

Guangjia Aerospace only needs data, and after we get the data, we will do the data analysis ourselves.

It is equivalent to that I only do the latter step, which is data mining, to find valuable asteroids that can be mined.

No matter how wide the detection range of China's compound eyes is and how complex the information is, I believe we can filter out valuable information.

It is precisely because I hope to fully realize the scientific research value and economic benefits of this project that I want to participate in it personally."

What Chen Yuanguang hopes more is that through this project, the radar of China's Compound Eye Project can be upgraded. The radar designed by Academician Mao is certainly very good, but from Chen Yuanguang's point of view, there is still room for improvement.

Mao Ke didn't say anything and the whole room fell silent.

　This chapter is still 3k, and I still need 2k. I will make up for it tomorrow. I can't write anymore today. I was out all night.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)