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Chapter 282 The Difference Between Commercial and Scientific Space Stations

It was quiet in space, and a section of the space station cabin was quietly parked there.

Behind it is a huge blue planet, dotted with white clouds, green fields... and yellow sand.

With the great development of space travel by Practical Technology Aerospace Corporation, more and more people can see these scenes in orbit.

Looking at the earth from this angle, many tourists have new ideas.

Play is fun, but some responsibilities have to be taken up.

Although the more colors there are on the earth, the more beautiful it is, but the large tracts of yellow sand engulf the living soil of human beings.

Space is beautiful, but before humans have the ability to transform other planets, or directly find a new planet that is completely suitable for humans, the earth is the only home for humans.

Of course, today's protagonist is not the earth, but the cabin of the space station.

After all, nature is too strong for human beings. What human beings think to protect the earth is actually to protect human beings themselves.

Just like global warming, humans say it's hot, but in the billions of years of the earth's history, there have been times when it was hotter than it is now.

Even if magma is everywhere, the earth is still the same, but human beings will definitely suffer.

With the current technology of human beings, it is true that the earth cannot be dealt with, but it is still possible to launch some space capsules into space to leave a way out.

To be precise, the space capsule in the camera is not a simple space station cabin, but the "Future Amusement Park" space station just launched a day ago.

Of course, you can call it a core cabin, because it will be connected to other cabins for expansion later.

It's just that its huge cabin is already bigger than some complete space stations, and it can transfer orbits independently. It has a complete life support system and energy supply system.

This cabin looks like an enlarged sky and core cabin, and it is also divided into a large column section and a small column section, but there is no node cabin that provides multiple interfaces.

Its length is 25 meters, the diameter of the widest part of the large column can reach 18 meters, and the diameter of the small column is also 12 meters.

Now the golden solar panel on the small column has been unfolded, with a wingspan of 70 meters, and the sunlight shining on it can be said to be golden.

Its "front" and "rear" have a docking port, but it is not for docking with the spacecraft, but for docking with other subsequent cabins.

It can be seen from the closed hatch that the two docking ports are very large, which is different from the "small hatches" of other space stations.

And its docking interface with the spacecraft is also on the small column section, which forms a "cross" structure with the unfolded solar wings, and no one interferes with the other.

The docking port of the spaceship can be contracted and expanded, like the closed corridor bridge used in the airport.

Two spacecraft docking ports can dock two aerospace planes. Based on the current carrying capacity of aerospace planes, the core module of this "future amusement park" space station can accommodate 16 people at the same time.

During the first phase of Starry Space Station, only 3 people can stay for a long time, and only 6 people can stay for a short time when the shift is over. The core cabin and the experimental cabin each have 3 sleeping cabins with portholes.

On the other hand, the International Space Station can accommodate 7 people for a long time, and it can exceed 10 people when the shift is over. There was even a special situation that caused 13 people to reside at the same time.

It's just that the International Space Station has only 7 beds, and the extra 6 people can only "play the floor".

In the later period, another bed was added, but it was not enough for the number of up to 10 people during the shift period.

The space station is not like a house on the ground. It is full of experimental equipment, which is turned on 24 hours a day, making noise in real time.

Moreover, the space station is airtight. Not only the air vibration transmits noise, but also the vibration of the metal structure makes noise, which leads to a lot of noise in the space station. If there is no special sleeping cabin, the sleeping quality of astronauts will be very poor.

Astronauts' sleep quality is poor, and a series of things will deteriorate in the later stage.

The reason why the core cabin of the "Future Amusement Park" space station can accommodate 16 people at the same time is because the number of dockable spacecraft limits the number of people it can accommodate, because of its huge size.

Large volume creates large space. Its pressurized space exceeds 4000 cubic meters, which is more than four times the pressurized space of the International Space Station.

As far as space is concerned, this is no longer "one cabin makes one station", but "one cabin makes four stations"!
If compared to the first phase of the space station project where the other party replaced it with stars, there will be more!

Moreover, it is a commercial space station, or a space hotel. Its main function is to let people go sightseeing, but it does not have all kinds of buzzing test equipment, and the special sound insulation decoration minimizes the internal noise. .

It is also different from scientific research space stations in one place, and that is the space utilization rate.

The space station can be described as an inch of land and an inch of gold... Oh, no, an inch of space is an inch of gold. The scientific research space station can't wait to install experimental equipment in every inch of space, and strive to squeeze the use of space to the extreme.

However, the research-type space station is to accommodate astronauts. As human beings, the too small space is quite unfriendly to them, so researchers have to balance the experimental equipment and living space.

The space hotel is different. There is no experimental equipment at all, and it must be to make tourists feel comfortable.

First of all, the space must be large.

In terms of size, there is currently no space capsule segment that is larger than the core module of the "Future Amusement Park" space station. In the middle of it is a huge space that runs through it, with a length of about 18 meters and a diameter of 11 meters.

The reason why the length is not directly adjusted to 25 meters is because there are airlocks on the large docking ports on both sides, which are used to prevent problems at the docking point, and the control center of the core cabin is integrated in the small column section, which also occupies some space. .

With a diameter of 11 meters, the large column section will definitely not touch the side, but the small column section will touch the side, so there are several large portholes in the small column section.

This large space is the playground of the "future amusement park", where visitors can fully enjoy the fun of "flying".

What space volleyball, space basketball, space table tennis, space gymnastics and space swimming, etc., as long as the word "space" is included, any sport can play new tricks.

But if you want to talk about new tricks, there must be practical technology's own smart glasses.

It allows gamers to play all kinds of games in the park, jumping, running, crawling, rolling pedicures are all right, but they can't play flying games.

Now in space, it's completely different.

Put on the space jet mobile device and take a game gun. The AR enhancement program of the smart glasses directly covers the space station scene to show the "space battlefield", and tourists can start the space gun battle.

And you can sleep directly when you are tired from playing. The rooms here are quite large.

Compared with the sleeping bags and "sleeping cabins" in conventional space stations, the standard guest rooms here have a floor height of 2.5 meters and an area of ​​about 6 square meters. There are also separate toilets, wardrobes, Internet TVs and portholes.

The deluxe room is larger, not less than 10 square meters.

In addition to private guest rooms, there are public areas, including a gym, restaurant, and a viewing room with huge viewing portholes.

Because there is no scientific research equipment at all, and the technology of practical technology is really good, so it just completed the self-inspection and trial operation after entering the space orbit for a day, and welcomed the first batch of visitors after no problem.

And the picture before it is from the Wooden Kite aerospace plane of Practical Science and Technology Aerospace Corporation.

There are a total of two visitors, and they are commercial astronauts with practical technology. Although the self-inspection of the equipment is fine, the company still has to send someone to check it before welcoming space tourists.

This is not only to check the equipment, but also to check how its reception capacity is. It needs a real person to simulate the check-in and play experience of space tourists.

The Wooden Kite slowly approached the "amusement park". While it was photographing the space station, the space station was also photographing it.

The audience watched the wonderful mutual shots, but the ground command center was busy.

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

"Communication is normal!"

"The system is normal!"

"The cabin is normal!"

"The solar sail is unfolding normally!"

"The folding berth is unfolding normally..."

When the "normal" item by item converged to Li Future, he knew that this time it was completely stable.

The reason why he paid so much attention to these two missions was because he also wanted to go to space.

Before, it seemed meaningless to just go around, but now that the "amusement park" is in orbit, it's time for him to inspect it.

And there is also a cabin specially prepared for him in the "future amusement park", that is, the space library.

The library is not big, but it is filled with high-quality paper books, and there is a large porthole through which you can see the blue earth.

Reading paper books in such a place must be very artistic.

He even wants to go to the moon if possible.

But before that, he had to build a library in the spaceship and the moon base. He had been "checking in" for 3 years in a row. At the beginning of the year, his brain development level reached 23%, so he couldn't stop.

Recently, he just wanted to try to "sign in and study" in space. What would happen?
Constantly listening to the reports, the viewers who watched the live broadcast also knew that the important point was coming. The wooden kite in the video was slowly approaching the space station, and its goal was the folded berth that was unfolded before.

At first, the folding berth was folded and shrunk on the bulkhead of the small column section like a solar sail, before it was slowly unfolded to form a closed space with a length of 4 meters and a diameter of 1.2 meters supported by a steel frame.

Its docking port is the star standard, that is, the inner diameter is 80 cm, which is enough for an astronaut wearing a space suit to pass through.

It didn't feel small before, but with the expansion of the later stage of construction, whether it is the transportation of personnel or goods, it seems a little powerless, so Practical Science and Technology is working with the Stars Space Agency to study new interface standards.

The new interface will be larger and stronger.

The docking scene is always very tense, because there is no "friction" and "gravity" in space, everything is "light", and any movement has to be done carefully.

This was the case when the Starry Space Station was built. The core module was only about 20 tons, the manned spacecraft was about 8 tons fully loaded, and the cargo spacecraft was about 13 tons fully loaded. This is more than half the mass of the core module.

If you hit it accidentally, it would be terrible.

Fortunately, automatic docking is popular in the world at present. In terms of the detailed control of space docking, human manipulation accuracy is not as good as that of computer-controlled machines. The current manual control is only for emergency use.

Moreover, robotic arms are installed on the current space stations. Some large-scale equipment only approach each other without docking. They use the robotic arms to grab each other and then slowly dock.

Although there is no robotic arm installed on the space station of the future amusement park, the wooden kite still weighs [-] tons after consuming a lot of fuel when flying up, but it doesn't matter, even if it hits it, it will not be able to shake the amusement park, because the weight of the amusement park exceeds Two hundred tons!
Its size is not for nothing, even if there is a huge empty room inside, the quality of the metal structure is still online.

So no matter how excited and nervous the others were, the wooden kite successfully completed the docking.

Once the docking doors were opened and the astronauts entered the amusement park, the audience was shocked.

Big!
really big!

Although I knew it was very big when I watched the promotional video and live broadcast, but when humans really entered it, especially after the audience looked around with the perspective of the astronaut's head-mounted camera, they really realized how big this "hall" is.

"Wow, it is indeed the largest space station with a single cabin. It is really big here, especially this hall. The hall alone is bigger than ordinary space station cabins, right?"

"This hall is 18 meters long and 11 meters in diameter. You can figure out how big it is by yourself."

"One seven gets seven, two seven 48, three eight Women's Day... Hey, I'm dizzy!"

"It's about 1710 cubic meters, which is equivalent to the pressurized space of 1.8 international space stations."

"Now the International Space Station is a comparative unit."

"It's too shocking. The visual gap is very obvious. Whether it's the International Space Station or the Starry Space Station, although most of their cabins have an outer diameter of more than 4 meters, the interior cabins still feel cramped and crowded."

"There is no way, there are too many scientific research equipment to be installed, the outside is so big, it can only be compressed inside, or how to say that it is so difficult to select astronauts, working and living in such a small space every day, the psychological pressure is too great big."

"It's so awesome. The pressurized cabins equivalent to 1.8 international space stations are so empty. I don't know if it should be called a luxury or a waste?"

"I don't know, I just know that the International Space Station is going to cry."

"Why don't you say that a commercial space station is not the same thing as a scientific research space station? The space utilization rate is exaggerated. If it were a scientific research space station, this hall would definitely be full of experimental equipment."

"Well, as far as my senses are concerned, if I were to go to space to play, I would definitely choose this kind of commercial space station, which is comfortable to live in. Those seniors who have traveled to the International Space Station privately before don't know their current psychology. What was the event like?"

"What else can I do? It's nothing more than admiration for the rapid development of technology!"

"We've caught up, let's go into operation as soon as possible, I... my dad's wallet can't wait!"

(End of this chapter)