Today, money very rarely be invested into such research programs which do not have a business component.
The commercial part of project offered by me is based both on the fact that amount of an optical information that is obtained during operation of "Remote-controlled complex for Lunar exploration" is redundant to solve of current tasks and on the modern Internet technologies that allow for everyone to take part in the project, by mutual agreement with the initiators.
What is "the redundant information"?
/Above or below, a group of the three robots that work as united complex is named a triad/
Each robot of triad has, as minimum, two video-cameras which are necessary to ensure the movement and performance of work both as in a "manual", and in the semi-automatic mode.
It is a panoramic camera that is motionless installed on the body and the high-resolution camera that is installed on the manipulator.
Even when system is working in the economy mode, these cameras will perform from 5 to 10 panoramic images per minute or from 12 to 24 per second small images of high-resolution.
This is a huge amount of information in which you can find the most unexpected things.
It may be so unexpected that they would be found more important than the approved plan of the study.
How all of this can be implemented at the level of the modern Internet technology!?
It's very simple.
Well, for example, in the first stage, intercommunication can be organized as multi-level access to obtained information.
Information obtained through the orbital repeaters not only is going in the control center to deal with routine tasks, but also directly transmitted through the one "free" and several "paid" channels of Internet for users.
Of course, on this level of business, it is transmitted without any censorship.
The user can either obtained image free of charge off the panoramic camera, or can receive a picture with high-resolution, following the payments that will be depending on the level of resolution of images.
Then the fun begins.
Let be done an assumption that an internet user takes notice by means of examination of a continuous flow of information something interesting that dropped out of sight of the staff team.
Further, there are several possible scenarios.
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User reports about find to the business center of the program and if it turns out to be interesting gets the prize and its Name be entered in the "Golden Album" of project.
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User became interested in the information and he wants to work further with her. At his request, at extra cost, the business center offers him frames having higher resolution or receives for him an additional info. Simultaneously, this information is being reserved as - "only for the applicant".
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If the user has decided that this information is of great value, and he wants to start within the program "composite lunar robot" your own business, he can buy a working time of the one triad and try to carry out own business project with the help of professionals of the command center.
As an example of such a chain of events -
You have noticed during analyzing of the "free application" a strange luster aside from the main route.
When you have done the payment for receiving of a higher resolution, you localize this glitter and decided that this luster cannot be ordinary for a landscape of Moon.
Furthermore, your friend geologist said that this glitter come from a very specific geological formation.
After analyzing the situation, you will have done the pay application about the possible discovery and you ordered and bought images of the highest possible resolution of that section of an area which is interested to you.
When you received the professional judgment on the basis of the purchased information, you by means of usage own money or within the consortium have bought the hours of work of the triad and conducted detailed study of the area that is interested to you.
What's next?!
Well, that's as lucky...
In any case, the digging that has your name will be mapped on the moon map, with documented priority.
In that case, if there is a conflict of interests of several users, it can be held a public auction or tender.
Using the features of Internet technology, in one form or another, hundreds thousands of Internet users may be involved simultaneous in this project.
In the presence of a good advertising and of competitions with prizes, the online component is able to recoup whole of the project during of the year of its activity without disadvantage to the scientific part of the program.