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Chapter 736: The Space Elevator Starts Construction

The two people appeared inside the space station, which had been put into normal use. It was filled with air and the air pressure was a standard atmospheric pressure.

It's just that it's zero gravity here now. He Li couldn't adapt to it for a moment, and hit the wall of the space station with a bang, falling all over.

"Hahaha, it seems that someone is not proficient enough in controlling the steel suit." Zhao Ming teased.

"Ah, damn it, you didn't remind me on purpose, right?"

"Hey, so what, come and bite me."

Zhao Ming put on his own steel suit, "Okay, it's time to get down to business. Follow me."

The two came to the isolation cabin leading to the outside of the space station. Zhao Ming pressed the switch to close the inner isolation door, and then opened the outer isolation door.

All the air in the isolation cabin suddenly disappeared, and the two of them floated out with the airflow.

"Remember, you have to go here to enter and exit the space station in the future. There are many more entrances and exits like this. You can ask Dahuang for a map later."

"Okay." He Li agreed casually, her attention completely attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of her.

"My God, the earth looks so beautiful from space. Oh wow... it's so beautiful."

Zhao Ming started the steel suit thruster and flew forward a little, "Okay, if you want to see it, get to work quickly. After the space elevator is repaired, if you want to see it, you can come and see it every day."

"Oh." He Li agreed, reluctantly looking away, and followed Zhao Ming to fly to the center.

"Dahuang, prepare for remote control operation."

After arriving near the base, Zhao Ming did not take out the elevator module, but first released a lot of iron lumps.

He Li took a closer look and found that these iron lumps turned out to be some kind of machine.

The indicator lights on them quickly lit up, and it seemed that Dahuang remotely started and started to control them.

"These are our space elevator repairmen. They are equipped with rocket engines and a total of eight robotic arms, four large and four small. They are operated remotely by Dahuang."

While Zhao Ming was explaining, the machine repairmen spread out and formed a square with a side of more than 20 meters around the base.

When their robotic arms are unfolded, they look a bit like crabs on Earth and a bit like spiders.

"Attention Dahuang, I'm about to release the first module."

After Zhao Ming said hello, he took out the first space elevator module from the system space.

The elevator module appears directly in the middle of the square surrounded by machine repairmen.

This thing looks like a hollow scaffolding. Its cross-section is in the shape of a field, and each "mouth" is an independent elevator passage.

Each elevator passage is surrounded by dense coils, which can independently control the direction and size of the current.

By adjusting the current, the direction and strength of the magnetic field inside the channel will also change accordingly, and the elevator car can accelerate or decelerate, which is very convenient.

Without Zhao Ming's instructions, the surrounding spider robots gathered in the middle. They stretched out their mechanical arms to grab the elevator module, and worked together to install the elevator module onto the base, and then fixed it.

Modules are fixed with specially designed buckles. There is a huge buckle every 5 meters, making the robot very fast to operate.

In less than ten seconds, the first module was fixed.

"Dahuang, turn on the power and test it." Zhao Ming said as he started the thruster and flew downwards.

"OK."

A burst of light flashed on the elevator module, and then Dahuang reported: "Master, everything is normal."

The middle part of the elevator module is the controller, and there is also a container that stores energy crystals as emergency energy, which can ensure that the elevator will not lose power in extreme circumstances.

Under normal circumstances, the power for elevators comes from the space station, and the power supply to the space station is mainly delivered from solar power satellites around the earth.

When the space station is not blocked by the earth, the power-generating satellite reflects sunlight directly onto the photovoltaic panels on the surface of the space station.

When the space station moves to the back of the earth, the power-generating satellite reflects sunlight onto its own photovoltaic panels to generate electricity. The generated electricity is stored in the energy crystal, and then regularly transported away by the remote-controlled spacecraft.

In Zhao Ming's plan, in the future, this kind of solar power generation satellite will circle the earth twice in a high orbit. The two satellite rings are cross-distributed to ensure that the power generation capacity throughout the year will not be affected by the position of the earth and can stably provide massive amounts of electricity.

electricity.

"Do you understand?" Zhao Ming turned to He Li who was following and asked.

"I understand, isn't it very simple? Just take out the elevator module."

"Yes, the main thing is to try to get the position right so that the robot doesn't need to waste time aligning them. But this is in a synchronous orbit, and it won't work after it gets close to the earth. The module will fall down as soon as it is taken out."

"what should I do then?"

"It doesn't matter, our maintenance robots all have the ability to fly, and their power is very strong.

As long as you don't throw it too far intentionally, they can catch the elevator module."

After saying that, Zhao Ming released another batch of maintenance robots, then pointed at them and said to He Li: "Here, this batch is for you to practice with."

"Okay, let me give it a try."

Next, the two of them alternately arranged the elevator modules, and their cooperation with Dahuang became more and more tacit.

The elevator modules placed by two people at a time gradually increased from 1 at the beginning to 2, 5, and 10.

Fortunately, Zhao Ming had considered this situation in advance and prepared a lot of maintenance robots, otherwise it would really have become a shortcoming.

Before you know it, the elevator has been spread for dozens of kilometers.

The elevator modules that have been assembled in the system space are used up.

He Li looked up and smiled.

"Wow, boss, this look is interesting. A long tail hanging down from a big head. What does this remind you of?"

Zhao Ming rolled his eyes, "Okay, let's get here first today. We will practice in the middle after a batch of modules are assembled in the space station next time."

"Uh, boss, can't you just let the robot lay the track directly? It must be assembled inside the space station and then wait for us to transport it?"

"Of course it is possible. In fact, Rhubarb is already doing this."

Zhao Ming pointed upward and saw a freight car running downwards on the paved track. There were several cars of the same model farther above it.

“After our elevator tracks are laid, they can be used to transport parts immediately. This can be regarded as testing while building.

After a while, the maintenance robot will continue to assemble these small parts onto the existing track. The speed is not as fast as before, but it is better than not stopping working day and night, and the workload will be considerable over time.

In addition, we have a good thing."

Zhao Ming calmed down and took out a huge "basket" from the system space.

There is a large square hole in the middle of this thing, which can be placed on the existing elevator track to form a ring-shaped "cargo basket" at the end of the track.

"What is this?" He Li asked.

"This is a container for small parts. It has special wheels in the middle that can move down along with the track." Zhao Ming said while taking out some tracks, coils and other things from the system space and placing them in the basket.
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