Chapter 865 Can We Farm in Space?

Chang Haonan naturally has to actively participate in the ruthless work of the ocean surveillance system.

However, he did not immediately give an agreeable answer.

After all, Haiyang-1 is definitely still a civilian satellite belonging to the State Oceanic Administration.

Therefore, the data obtained by other equipment on the satellite also needs to be processed together.

However, in this case, the calculation pressure will be considerable.

You know, he used a supercomputer to process that picture before, and it took him one night and one morning.

Although the single imaging area of ​​the ocean monitoring satellite will not be as high as the terrifying millions of square kilometers like Ziyu-201, it will still be a huge burden for the satellite-based computer with poor performance.

After organizing his language, Chang Haonan raised his concerns to Luan Wenjie:

"Director Luan, as you saw when we were at the Tanzhou Measurement and Control Station last time, the calculations of the data extraction and dimensionality reduction process are quite complex, and there is also a considerable black box part of it."

"As far as I know, the performance of the computer on the satellite may be worse than that of ordinary commercial machines due to energy consumption and radiation protection issues?"

Luan Wenjie also decisively recognized Chang Haonan's statement:

"Indeed, the performance of space-borne computers cannot be improved in a short period of time, at least it cannot be compared with supercomputers on the ground."

However, immediately afterwards, he changed the topic again:

"So our Ocean-1 A satellite is still focused on technical verification. As long as part of it can be processed on the satellite side to ensure that the timeliness is improved compared to the resource series satellites, we do not deliberately pursue specific indicator data."

With these words, Chang Haonan felt relieved.

After all, he didn't cross many boundaries in his previous life. His understanding of the aerospace field was basically limited to the public part and a small amount of information obtained through communication with peers. He could not figure out the specific development level of a certain technology like he did in his old profession.

However, the general trend of improving satellite computing capabilities and reducing the pressure on ground stations as much as possible is definitely correct.

Otherwise, no matter how fast the data processing speed of the ground station is, it will have to go through one or even multiple data transmission processes between it and the terminals that really need to use remote sensing information, such as ocean strike formations or scientific expedition units.

It is difficult to achieve real-time or quasi-real-time reconnaissance.

"That's no problem."

Chang Haonan nodded:

"However, I will probably spend most of my time in Shengjing in the next two or three months, and I won't be able to participate in your project until December at the end of this year at the earliest."

"Is the Taihang project about to be finalized?"

Ding Gaoheng, who was behind the desk, suddenly stepped in and asked.

After the establishment of the General Armament Department and the group restructuring of the five major military industry corporations, the administrative approval authority for the design finalization process was gradually transferred from the Science and Technology Commission to the former.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that with the development of the national economy, especially the significant driving role it has brought to the machinery industry after the establishment of the Equipment Industry Department, the country is considering gradually removing the militarized color of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.

For example, Zhang Hongbiao, the newly transferred deputy director, and Luan Wenjie, who is rumored to be promoted to deputy director soon, both have no military status.

"Yes, it is expected that the national appraisal will begin at the end of September and the design will be finalized before the end of the year."

Chang Haonan replied.

Although the entire research and development process of the Turbofan 10 went smoothly, the national appraisal process for design finalization is quite detailed and standardized, and it will not reduce any projects just because you have a smooth journey ahead.

Even if you pass all the subjects at once, it will take about two months.

And it was good luck that it happened just as winter was about to begin. Otherwise, it would not be unusual for the appraisal to take more than half a year or even more than a year in order to wait for extremely cold temperature conditions.

"It doesn't matter."

After the conversation between Ding Gaoheng and Chang Haonan came to an end, Luan Wenjie waved his hand:

"Ocean monitoring...well, the equipment requirements of marine scientific satellites and land remote sensing satellites are different, so we are still doing the final research on the hardware level. The integration with the software program will not start until the end of the year. You can still use your own Arrangement is the main thing.”

"Besides, your core algorithm should be ready-made, and it should only need to be optimized..."

…

After the topic of Ocean One ended, Luan Wenjie stood up and prepared to say goodbye to Ding Gaoheng:

"Director Na Ding, my affairs are over. You and Comrade Haonan..."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute..."

Chang Haonan quickly stopped the other party:

"Director Luan has finished talking to me, but I haven't talked to Director Luan yet."

As soon as he entered the door, he was brought into the other party's topic, but as a result, he had not yet finished the business he came over.

How could Luan Wenjie be allowed to run away like this?

Luan Wenjie, who had already picked up his briefcase, sat back down again.

"It seems that you two are quite destined..."

Ding Gaoheng half-jokingly looked at the two people on the sofa and said:

"You come to my place on the same day, and you still have to find the other person to do things?"

"It's a coincidence indeed."

Luan Wenjie looked at Chang Haonan:

"I don't know if Mr. Chang came to me because he wanted to..."

"That's right, I have a project here, and I hope to use space breeding to obtain some beneficial crop traits. It happens that the Shenzhou 2 mission will be launched early next year, so... can you arrange a place in the mission payload?"

The latter is also straight to the point.

They are all working on serious projects, so there is nothing to be embarrassed about.

"Space breeding..."

Not only Luan Wenjie, but also Ding Gaoheng's face showed a bit of surprise:

"Isn't this research in the field of agriculture... Xiao Chang, are you still studying this secretly?"

"It's definitely not me. I don't understand agriculture...not to mention grains. Anyway, it's not much different."

Chang Haonan made a small joke, and then continued to explain:

"Actually, this matter is also related to the Ziyu-2 remote sensing satellite that Director Luan just mentioned."

Hearing this, Luan Wenjie and Ding Gaoheng instantly became interested.

"Didn't I specially process several photos taken by the Ziyu-201 star in the central and western regions of my country? From them, I discovered about 80 abnormal information data that had not been observed before, and then based on the recent geological As a result of the exploration, we found that desert terrain that meets certain characteristics has the potential to be improved into soil..."

"..."

Chang Haonan spent a few minutes briefly introducing his plan to turn sand into soil.

Of course, the specific technical part has been removed.

After all, he couldn't take out a small blackboard to teach the other two people here.

"In short, according to the suggestion of Professor He Guangyou, who has extensive experience in desertification control in the past, after completing the soil transformation, it is best to plant some plants such as tall fescue and cosmos to stabilize the soil matrix, and then use soybeans, alfalfa, Ryegrass nourishes the soil.”

"Researcher Zhuang Bingchangzhuang, who happens to be participating in our project, is an expert in soybean breeding. He wanted this opportunity."

"Zhuang Bingchang..."

Seeing that Ding Gaoheng had no intention of making the first decision, Luan Wenjie raised his head slightly and made a reminiscence gesture:

"I seem to have an impression of this name. He seemed to have submitted an application during the Shenzhou-1 mission. However, at that time we considered that soybean seeds were relatively large in size and weight, so under the same conditions, the priority was lower. It should be that I couldn’t choose..."

Then he looked at Chang Haonan:

"However, since this is the situation that Mr. Chang said, it meets the conditions that may promote key projects. It will definitely be okay to increase the priority."

"Of course, in principle, this matter still needs to be communicated with the chief engineer team responsible for specific tasks, but I will just coordinate. You can just ask Researcher Zhuang to submit another supplementary explanation document to us..."

It was even smoother than Chang Haonan imagined before.

It wasn't until the two of them finished communicating about this matter that Ding Gaoheng, who had been silent just now, suddenly spoke:

"Xiao Chang, as the subject of your sand-to-earth technology, I mean the subject before the transformation, doesn't it have to be sand?"

This somewhat awkward question made Chang Haonan think about it briefly:

"I haven't calculated the others yet, but in theory, as long as some basic conditions are met, such as certain binding and shear resistance, and the climate conditions and water and fertilizer conditions are not too bad, there will be corresponding improvements."

"Well……"

Ding Gaoheng lowered his head to think and did not continue to speak.

"Director Ding, what do you mean..."

After a short period of silence, Chang Haonan asked tentatively.

"Oh, just some unconventional ideas."

Ding Gaoheng then raised his head again:

"I was wondering if, after a few decades or hundreds of years, we land on an extraterrestrial planet, would it be possible to use your technology to farm on extraterrestrial planets..."