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It is quiet in space, and except for the space near the planet and the planet itself, everything else is black, with no other colors at all.

A section of the space station cabin quietly stopped there.

To be precise, it is not a space station cabin, because it is a full-featured space station, which is different from those space station cabins with a single function. It can be said to be "a station in one cabin."

This is the starry sky inn just launched by Navigator!

The Starry Sky Inn has a total length of 25 meters and a diameter of 7 meters, but it is not a complete 7-meter-diameter cylinder, but the center section is 18 meters in length and 7 meters in diameter.

On one side of it is a transitional cabin connected to the central section, which is in the shape of a truncated cone, and the outer diameter will shrink to 5 meters.

In the plan, it is used to connect the core module of the Tiangong space station.

On the other side, there is an energy adjustment cabin with a diameter of 4 meters and a length of 4 meters. A circle of fuel barrels hung outside the cabin, making its "actual diameter" 6 meters.

In the plan, it is used to connect a small rotating simulated gravity cabin.

Together, these things are the first phase of the "Tian Ting Space Station", and it is also a combined project of the national team "Tiangong Space Station" and the "Starry Sky Inn" of the Navigator Company.

It is a combination of scientific research space station and commercial space station.

The Starry Sky Inn has opened two huge golden solar panels, making the space station 70 meters wide.

When the antenna is turned on, the large antenna is directly pointed at the ground, and the small antenna is pointed at the communication satellite, keeping in touch with the ground control center at all times.

All the systems are turned on, countless signals are transmitted to the ground through the antenna, and the orbital shuttle slowly approaching it next to it and shooting it.

Still two!

Darts No. 1 and Darts No. 2 are on both sides of the Star Inn. They are shooting at the same time. In their shots, you can see the space station and another orbital shuttle.

But now the main lens is provided by Dart-2, because its shooting position is "outer", so it can photograph the space station, Dart-1, and the blue earth behind them.

The audience watched these beautiful pictures, but the ground command center of Sweet Potato Island was busy.

"In the last self-inspection, the air pressure in the cabin was normal and the air content ratio was normal!"

"Communication is normal!"

"The system is normal!"

"The cabin is normal!"

"The solar sail is unfolding normally!"

"The foldable berth unfolds normally..."

When the item by item "normally" gathered on the computer in front of Tang Chao, Tang Chao knew that the time was up and immediately issued a docking order.

This time the docking and docking can no longer play the double-stay double-flying on the ground, but after one is docked and the other is docked.

The audience can also understand this.

"Sure enough, Navigator is still an Earth company, not an alien company."

Because everyone is floating in space, and because "friction" and "gravity" are very small, a little collision will cause a lot of trouble.

Not to mention that the total weight of the Starry Sky Inn is only 80 tons, and the weight of the rail shuttle, which basically consumes fuel, plus the driver and cargo carried, weighs more than 20 tons.

This kind of weight contrast is no longer big, once it hits, the scene will definitely be very spectacular.

Although they are slowly approaching, but what if?

After all, the space pilots driving them are not super-intelligent robots, and there is no super-intelligence in the space station. They should not be able to control multiple targets, so that they can be connected to the same time and location.

In such a "light and fluttering" place with extremely complicated environments, you must be careful when you make contact between two points, let alone make more contact.

The audience watching the live broadcast also knows that the point is coming. The Dart No. 1 in the video is slowly approaching the space station, and its goal is the previously unfolded folding dock.

This folding dock has a part of the technology of an inflatable space station. It was initially folded and "pasted" to the bulkhead of the space station like a solar sail, before slowly unfolding, forming a confined space 3 meters long and 1.2 meters in diameter.

They had seen the unfolding picture before. The unfolding time was 3 minutes. The support frame was like a spring, except that the support frame was not a rotating strip, but ten standard rings.

After unfolding, the inside is also inflated. In this way, after the aircraft is docked, both sides can be flattened at the same time, and the pressure balance can be quickly reached.

This kind of docking scene always makes everyone nervous, except for Du Kangsheng in the main driving position of Darts 1.

There is also Tang Chao who is sitting in command position 0.

Du Kangsheng is the company's chief aerospace pilot, and his docking technology is of course needless to say, let alone driving an orbital shuttle to dock with the Tiangong space station more than once.

And the most important thing is that automatic docking is popular internationally, and manual docking is rarely needed. Of course, as a professional aerospace pilot, manual docking is also practiced, and his results are very good.

It's just that now that science and technology have developed, "machine operation" is the basic operation.

In this detailed control, the accuracy of human manipulation is not comparable to that of machines.

So manual control is only for emergency use.

Tang Chao is not nervous, his confidence comes from Kan Xing, and the technology currently used by the leader company has been tempered by Kan Xing.

In fact, the central control computer in the Starry Sky Inn is also very powerful. Although it cannot guide dozens of hundreds of aircraft to dock accurately at any time like in a science fiction movie, it does not need to face so many. The design of the Starry Sky Inn limits it. The number of manipulations.

The space station has only two docks for the spacecraft.

So it only needs to be responsible for the docking of two aircraft.

But here is the earth's orbit, not the world of Kanxing, you have to be careful the first time you play, and you can stop at the same time when you become proficient in the future.

It is okay to even dock one while the other is disengaged.

After various micro-manipulations, half of the space station's mass changes will not make the space station move.

As the Kanxing civilization based on "space", they have always been able to do this.

So no matter how excited and nervous the others were, Darts No. 1 successfully docked with the docking port, and after five minutes, Darts No. 2 was also docked on the other side.

When the docking door was opened and the astronauts entered the space station, the movements of the two sides were synchronized again.

Then came the shocking scene.

Big!

really big!

Starry Sky Inn had such a "praise" before it went to the sky. At the beginning, there was some publicity when it was on the ground. Among them, there were photos of people standing inside. However, as a 7-meter-diameter spacecraft, it was the largest on the ground. The opponent is the fuel tank of the super heavy rocket, which is a 10-diameter tank.

From this comparison alone, 7 meters is not dominant, and as a space station compared to fuel tanks, it has only one advantage.

But now, when the astronauts enter the lobby of the Starry Sky Hotel and do not divide the space, they can look directly at the space with an outer diameter of 7 meters and an inner diameter of 6 meters. They really understand how big a space station with a diameter of 7 meters is. .

Although it is not the first 7-meter-diameter space station of mankind, Meriken had a similar one decades ago, and even now people can still find the video of that time.

But the videos that people can see are all "ancient picture quality". Well, at least from the history of the development of the camera, it must be in the ancient period, and the picture quality is very unclear.

And now the quality of the live broadcast of Navigator can reach 4K, and the audience can fully feel the shock of the space.