Chapter 556: Chapter 557 Space Construction Engineering
The Hope departed from Sori, with Commander-in-Chief Mellon as the first captain of the Nozono. The spacecraft approached the asteroid belt near the Sori orbit at a speed of 13km/s with the push of a large hydrogen-oxyfueling chemical engine. According to the planned sailing time, they will arrive at the destination in a time of a rotating ship. Earth, that is, the asteroid belt.
This time is neither long nor short. After a boring space voyage, while the construction project for the construction of the underground city was in full swing in Sori, the Hope led by Mellon arrived at the asteroid belt.
"Report! The airtight state of the fourth and fifth cabin was broken! One person was injured and one died!"
"Close the airtight immediately! Let a few crew members repair the damaged area from the outside!"
"This is too dangerous, or..."
"It's not safe anywhere now! Obey the order!" Melan roared.
As soon as it came closer, the asteroid belt gave a meeting gift to the Hope and its crew. The fist-sized meteorite easily crashed into the Hope cabin. Unfortunately, there were two crew members in the cabin, one of whom's head was directly smashed by the meteorite, and the bean curd-like brains floated in a weightless environment. .
Although Hope began to slow down after sailing a distance from the asteroid belt, and when it reached the periphery of the asteroid belt, the speed dropped to 1km/s due to the engine deceleration, but the speed is still very large, coupled with the speed carried by the small meteorite itself, which leads to a relatively fast With a high value, the metal shell of Hope is not much different from paper paste for small meteorites.
It's better to say that Hope only paid such a price, which is really 'lucky'.
After cleaning up the remains of a crew member's body, the Hope continued to go deep into the asteroid belt, and its speed also further decreased to 500m/s.
The crew of the Hope leaned over the hanging window and looked at the environment outside the spacecraft. With the deep stars as the background, the Hope was like an ant walking in a forest made of rocks.
"Well, everyone, get ready to board the shuttle boat to go out of the cabin. You will see those scenes outside and want to vomit in the future."
Mellen pulled the thoughts of the crew back from the vast universe again, and under his order, the crew began to act one after another.
Small airships separated from Hope, and they caught small meteorites within dozens of kilometers centered on the Hope.
Of course, this 'small' is not the kind of fist-sized meteorite encountered by Hope before. It is a meteorite with a diameter of several meters to dozens of meters. In terms of image description, it is an object the size of a cow to dozens of cows.
These meteorites will be dragged or dragged back to Hope by small airships, dozens of meters will be divided into multiple pieces by chainsaws, and one or two meters will be sent directly to the interior of Hope.
At this time, it was the turn of the industrial machine tools carried inside the Hope to take out the metal in the meteorite for industrial processing, and a large number of industrial parts were produced and manufactured.
This is the purpose of the Hope being built. It is an engineering ship for engineering construction in space. After these engineering parts are produced, they will basically flow in three directions. They will be used to strengthen the Hope itself and increase its protection, or to combine industrial machine tools that are not yet equipped on the Hope. Or it is used to build other spacecraft.
Outer space is a natural forging furnace. Vacuum has excellent heat insulation, leaving only a cooling method of thermal radiation. If you want to melt an alloy, you only need a large condenser to focus the star light on the pile of smelted metals. The heat continues to accumulate. In a gravity-free vacuum environment, the solid metal will gradually evolve. Become a liquid metal ball.
Then, stick a horn-shaped straw with a horn-shaped opening on the surface of the liquid alloy ball and suck the liquid alloy ball into the mold by hydraulic method.
Using the waste heat of the mold, the crew's domestic sewage turned into water vapor and was recycled.
The alloy in the mold will also quickly cool down and become an industrial component for the development and construction of the Carter Space Fleet.The new spacecraft was built two months later, because there is no need to consider the gravity of the planet, and the design of the construction is basically based on its own use.
This new spacecraft is a transport ship. Its purpose is very simple, that is, to return to Sori and transport more people from there. Whether it is industrial development or fleet formation, it requires a lot of people to participate. The 50 people on the Hope are just the beginning.
The interior space of the transport ship is designed as large as possible, because it needs to carry a lot of people. In Mellon's fleet formation plan, the only thing Sori has to do is to provide this resource. Other resources are completely produced by Melan himself, including water, air, soil and so on.
After the transport ship left, some farmland space stations began to be built. These space stations appeared wheel-shaped, and after the wheel-shaped space station rotated, centrifugal force could be used as gravity.
The outside of the ring space station is solar panels. is used to generate electricity for the space station, but this is not for crops. Carter people do not have such high-tech solar panels, and the conversion rate is not high. Just maintain the operation of the ring space station itself. Very reluctant.
In the inner ring of the space station, there is also a circle of mirrors, which can reflect the light of the stars to the farmland in the space station. If someone stands in the farmland in the space station, you can see such a dazzling long beaming thing above their heads, extending from the 'ground' to connect the long strips. .
In addition to these agricultural space stations, more engineering ships have been built. After the transport ship transports the population from Soli, they can immediately take over the engineering ship and then go to other places in the asteroid belt for the same industrial construction as Mellon.
Two, four, four..., simple mathematical calculations, so that the number of space ships of Carter civilization will show a geometric increase, enough to prepare a fleet with enough combat effectiveness in decades.
After the transport spacecraft sailed to Sori for a year, it carried thousands of people to the asteroid belt at one time. These people were not as good as the 50 people on the Hope on the transport ship. They lay flat like container cargo in a space that just accommodated them. There was basically no such behavior as excretion and eating. How to change the action, many Carters regretted it after boarding the ship.
However, the transport ship was already on the voyage, and it was too late for them to regret. Under the suffering of such a small space, many Carters in the later space fleet liked to make their own activity space large, and compared with space, they yearned for the vast environment on the surface of the planet.
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