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The rebirth or rebirth of artificial satellites is actually not that simple.

Because of the participation of Navigator Aerospace Corporation, people can intuitively see the process of scientific research engineers building satellites, which seems to be very simple, just install some things prepared in advance in place.

In fact, this is only seen and shown in front of the camera. After the camera, the engineers have a lot of things to do. Even the engineers in front of the camera are not enough. There are still a lot of people, facilities and resources around. This man-made satellite is running.

However, for the first time human beings upgrade and transform artificial satellites in outer space, it does not seem difficult, and it also gives more people confidence.

Facing the universe, the confidence in the future of mankind!

There are even thinking about whether humans can manufacture satellites directly in space in the future?

It is of course difficult to manufacture from scratch directly in space. After all, the only manufacturing equipment in space is the manufacturing center of the Tianting Space Station. Its overall size is only more than 30 meters multiplied by a dozen meters. This size may not be there yet. A large production facility on the ground.

There are also some manufacturing equipment in the lunar base, but the size is smaller than the manufacturing center, and a manufacturing center can be worth several months of the ball cabin.

By the way, there are also a few small 3D printers in the International Space Station and Tiangong, which are even smaller.

In fact, what people think is that the parts production stage is still carried out on the ground. After all, there is a perfect production system on the ground. It would be foolish to abandon it. When people say that satellites are manufactured in space, the parts are manufactured on the ground and then shipped to Space, and finally assembled in the maintenance cabin.

If the entire satellite is transported from the ground to space, there are too many things to consider, and most of them are not necessary for artificial satellites to operate in space, but in order to transport the entire satellite from the ground to space, those things are necessary. of.

If it is just a part, the structural strength of a single part must be much greater than that of an artificial satellite. As long as it is packaged, it can be sent to space violently.

For satellite assembly in space, those auxiliary structures related to "violent transportation" are definitely not needed. Therefore, the same platform can be equipped with more equipment to increase the proportion of practical functions of the satellite to the highest.

But this has to be redesigned, and it may not come out for a while.

However, the test is carried out directly in space, and the test items are still scrapped and semi-scrapped satellite platforms. The cost does not seem to be large, and it can be done!

It is a good future!

Soon, after Navigator and Tianxia’s first space upgrade assembly satellite was shipped out of the maintenance module and it was operating normally, everyone felt very happy, and human aerospace technology took another big step forward.

The news said how dangerous the earth is and how bad the environment is, but for ordinary humans, how bad the earth's environment is, compared to other planets in the solar system, it is simply heaven, as if the development of space technology is not important.

But human beings are also a race that likes to watch the excitement, so when space technology continues to move forward, they are also very excited.

They also want to see what is in the mysterious space.

For example, in the Trisolaran galaxy next door, are there any Trisolaris?

Because the neighbouring star system is the closest to the solar system, mankind has the most reveries.

After all, even the nearest star system, people have analyzed, with human aerospace technology level, it will take at least several hundred years to fly.

Hundreds of years……

At that time, I really couldn't imagine the state of the human world.

At least from now on, the recycling of resources in earth orbit has begun.

However, due to communication problems, the navigator is still cooperating with Tianxia to salvage Tianxia’s satellites, revive them, and upgrade them.

They worked very fast, and they repaired four satellites in half a month.

This includes the first satellite that was redesigned and upgraded from scratch, and it took ten days.

The reason why we can build four satellites in half a month is because some satellites don't need to spend as much time as it is, and some satellites just need to be refueled once.

The current fuel problem can already be taken over by the lunar base. After all, at the beginning, it only provided fuel for the satellites and the "worker bee" spacecraft. The daily consumption is not high, and the lunar base supply is no problem.

Regardless of the fact that these fuels need to be transported from the moon by a lunar spacecraft, its transportation cost is much smaller than that of the "close at hand" Earth.

In the final analysis, this is still a problem of gravity and atmosphere.

With sufficient fuel, the engineering spacecraft can go out and wave every day. They, um, are them, because within a few days, the other maintenance compartment was lifted into the sky, so the two engineering spacecraft were assembled.

In addition to transporting complete satellites, they also pile up space junk in orbit for salvage and then transport them back.

Most of the basis for the operation of the two maintenance modules is the manufacturing center. After all, they cannot always be transported from the ground to the sky. Since we want to explore the possibility of human survival in space, the manufacturing center must be self-sufficient.

Space junk cannot be transported back and forth at will, because all the junk is owned by the owner, and every spacecraft launch on the earth is recorded, so you can't find it randomly.

At present, there is no problem with Tianxia. The agreement is signed, and the completely scrapped space equipment is directly recycled, and the useless items are disassembled and thrown directly into the electric furnace. It is just right to test the microgravity melting project.

Some space junk won’t work, because it’s complete and its authority is very clear. It belongs to which country belongs to which country, but it’s hard to say if something is broken.

For example, a piece of solar energy and solar panel fragments without any identification mark on it, so they can pull it back for recycling.

Even if it is a marked wreck, it is not a big problem. After getting it back, it is thrown into the furnace, and what comes out is the material.

As long as there is no beacon on it, it will not let the original authority possessing country know that it overlaps with the location of the Tianting Space Station manufacturing center.

Anyway, their current strategy is not to make complete abandoned satellites, and other wrecks without beacons can be salvaged and thrown into the furnace.

Because the worker bee spacecraft goes back and forth enough, more and more astronauts enter the manufacturing center and maintenance bays. Sometimes they will take photos or videos of industrial areas, and then send them to the Internet after being processed by the leader space company. , People also have a more comprehensive understanding of manufacturing and repair centers.

Pioneer Aerospace is moving very quickly, and the industrial area is nearly 80% complete.

Of course, the main thing is that the Yishanha rocket and the design plan are reliable. Although the industrial area looks large, its transportation times are quite small. The individual modules are large, so only a few launches of the Yishan rocket are enough.

Now it has a manufacturing center and two maintenance compartments. Later, eight huge heat sinks were added to the manufacturing center to dissipate heat.

It is still 100% less than eight huge fuel storage tanks.

But don't worry about that. After all, there are not so many spaceships in space, and there are not so many long-distance space missions, and there is no need for a lot of fuel supply.

The fuel supply of small equipment can be used directly in the maintenance cabin, and it can also store a lot of fuel, enough for the maintenance and refilling of two small engineering spacecraft and satellites.

From a certain point of view, the combination of the manufacturing center, maintenance compartment, and radiator is actually not too big. The length and width are only 50 meters by 40 meters, but the entire array of solar cells deployed on the manufacturing center is really large.

It has an unfolded length of 120 meters and a width of about 40 meters. Therefore, at certain angles on the ground, the effect of a telephoto lens camera is similar to the size of the International Space Station, at most the "spots" of the industrial zone appear. It's just a little more slender.

In the end, it still did not dock with the current Tiangong space station, even if its large axis pairing interface seems to be able to dock with the large axis pairing interface of the rotating simulated gravity cabin.

It chose to run independently, which also proved some people's previous guesses.

It will be built independently, and the final docking will take place after the commercial area is completed.

In fact...Navigator does not want to do this, it also wants to make it smoothly.

The docking from the very beginning, and then gradually from less to more, the construction is completed in increments.

Rather than constructing independent modules first, as it is now, and finally docking to form the Tianting space station.

The problem here is that the Tianting Space Station is a giant male project, a giant project that can breed many companies.

Navigator has many peers in China, many private aerospace companies, but they are not so much peers, it is better to say Navigator is the thigh, and they are the pendant on this thigh.

The development level and technological level of the two sides are really no longer on the same line. They are too far behind the leader.

They have their own core technologies. As long as they are given a little more time, they will grow into a private aerospace company with their own unique technologies, which can enter the international market to fight for inspection.

However, the navigator appeared.

Its technology is simply a dimensionality reduction blow against those private aerospace companies, that is, because Tang Chao is the boss of Navigator, and he is a Tianxia person, he understands that facing the future situation, it is difficult to be alone.

So he also agreed to support other aerospace companies, and he also pulled out the national team to do the "dissipation" of technology together.

It’s just that you can’t just sell technology blindly. “Teaching people to fish is not as good as teaching people how to fish.” Only when these private aerospace companies digest the technology that it has escaped and summarize their own new technology, the whole process can be considered complete. Only those private aerospace companies are growing.

This is the case now. Those companies have received orders for the Tianting Space Station. While digesting and absorbing foreign technologies, they continue to seek breakthroughs so that they can have their own new technologies and jointly contribute to the development of human spaceflight. "Effect, instead of the big guy alone coming back with a pile of firewood, after lighting the bonfire, they will send barrage next to it.

"Wow, good!"

"666666!"

"Big guys are awesome!"

"Kneel!"

There is only one person working, and only one person can do the work. It is very unhealthy for the whole society. It is very dangerous to tie all the future to one person.

Tang Chao also understood this truth. Although he had golden fingers and thought he was the protagonist for a while, he became sober and felt that the future of the world is indeed a bit unreliable on him.

Just like a country, there is a rich man, even the world’s richest man, but everyone in the country except him is very poor. Is this a developed country?

Obviously not.

This must be a deformed society.

Tang Chao didn't think highly of himself. He didn't want such a world. The main reason was that he was poor except himself, who would he play with?

Can billionaires have a common language with the poor who have difficulty eating enough every day?

Such a world must be boring, unless the richest man is a pervert.

But Tang Chao is obviously not abnormal.

Therefore, human civilization must be fully developed. Even if it cannot be truly comprehensive due to various reasons, it is still possible to be relatively comprehensive, and it is really not suitable for unique development.

Maybe someday the only flower will be cut, leaving only the lawn full of yard.

When the flowers are gone, no one cares about the yard anymore. The lawn slowly turns into weeds, and finally piles up and no one cares about it. The yard must be run down.

Just waiting for someone is really unpleasant.

The Navigator's industrial zone is almost finished. After the eight fuel tanks are finished, they can be shipped in four times. By then, the progress of the entire industrial zone can reach 100%.

As long as the moon base is given some strength, the fuel supply station in the earth's orbit can be opened.

On the other side of the business district, there is no sign of launch.

By the way, it's not without it, there are still those two large rotating gravity simulation toroids.

They are real ring cabins, one circle is a simulated gravity cabin, and the small and medium-sized ones are incomparable to the two.

Similarly, large rotating gravity simulation cabins are also more difficult to manufacture and assemble.

Therefore, their manufacturing company is the leader of aerospace.

Both the large simulated gravity cabin and the large fuel tank are the work of the navigator, after which they will be launched and assembled in space according to the plan. This is the later work of the navigator.

In addition, the Tianting Space Station has to wait for other companies, so of course the navigator will not be idle.

"The lunar base must hurry up, new fuel production equipment must be launched, and the aircraft dedicated to transporting fuel must also speed up the process."

Tang Chao sat in the main seat of the conference room and talked freely, talking about their mission goals.

"The Yishan rocket is already a mature technology. It shouldn’t be difficult to change its carrier into a fuel carrier that flies to the moon and regional orbits. It will enter the earth’s atmosphere. I need it to be as focused as the spacecraft to the moon. A transportation project between the moon and the earth’s orbit."

"Currently, orders from other private aerospace companies are being produced as planned, but for us, their speed is too slow, so in addition to the projects I mentioned before, we have to open new projects."

"Our next stop," Tang Chao said a little on the screen, and a red planet was simultaneously displayed on the big screen.

"Mars!"