Chapter 444: The Sword Hanging High in the Sky (Part 2)
In terms of difficulty, launching satellites and manned spaceflight are completely two different concepts. Being able to send dead satellites to the sky does not mean that people can be sent safely. Even if the most basic survival systems are not considered, manned spaceflight also has an additional safe landing procedure.
If Earth technology is used completely, every manned space flight will cost countless manpower and material resources, spending a few small targets to buy a ticket, and it will also make countless people worried, fearing that this trip will be a road of no return.
There is no safe accident rate among the vehicles developed by humans that are higher than that of rockets.
But this time, a completely different manned spacecraft technology was adopted at the Anglia Storm Base. If the experiment was successful, you could even run and enter the era of interstellar tourism. The fare for space shuttle can be fully acceptable to ordinary people, and there is almost no risk.
The first phase is no different from normal satellite launches, but the unmanned spacecraft that depicts the portal.
Once the unmanned spacecraft arrives safely at the pre-determined orbit, the second phase can be carried out.
The second stage is no different from the movement of Anglia using the portal, except that the destination is replaced by a spacecraft in the orbit of the earth.
If the experiment can be successful, the people at the base can enter and exit the spacecraft as easily as using a portal. Entering the universe will not be a life-threatening thing.
"Supreme Master, are you ready? Time is up."
The Supreme Master, who was sitting on a chair in a space suit, closed his eyes and relaxed, opened his eyes, breathed a long sigh, and said firmly: "I'm ready, let's go."
The Supreme Master stood up and followed the staff to a secret room with a medium-sized portal, where two people were already waiting inside.
"Is the satellite...self-test still going smoothly?"
The Supreme Mage asked carefully. This time, in order to portray a medium-sized portal in the narrow space of the spacecraft, both the mages of Stormwind City and the engineers from the earth spent a lot of brain power. Although the experiment results on the ground were quite good, no one could tell what would happen after they really came to heaven.
Compared with small portals, medium portals require more resources and more complex portals, but in addition to being slightly more stable, slightly longer transmission distance, and slightly larger portals, there is no essential difference. The cost-effectiveness is much worse than that of small portals, so it is not widely used in Anglia.
But this time, in order to do everything possible to improve the success rate and ensure personnel safety, the base deliberately built a medium-sized portal to connect the ground and the spacecraft.
"Don't worry, everything has passed the self-test, and the rest is our life." Another astronaut standing beside him smiled and patted his chest, "I will go there later. I will notify you after confirming that everything is safe. Supreme Master, you don't have to worry too much."
The Supreme Mage nodded expressionlessly, without any gratitude, but instead felt it was natural - things like Anglia are common, and every battle will be staged. Now it is nothing more than turning those cannon fodder infantry into elite astronauts, and they are also ordinary people who are not worthy of attention for him, the legendary star mage.
When the ants cross the river, they will drown the outer ants. In Anglia, human rights, equality, such as food and clothing, no worries about life, they can never be considered after they have enough food and clothing.
The astronaut looked at the time and said, "The time has come, then, Supreme Master, please open the door."
The Supreme Master nodded and cast the spell to open the portal.
"Then, I'll go one step first."
There was a live broadcast video inside the spacecraft in the room. When everyone saw the astronaut successfully appear in the portal, they breathed a sigh of relief.
But this is just the beginning. In the next step, he must check the spacecraft in detail and confirm that it is foolproof before the second person can enter.
After waiting for a long time and silently, the astronauts in the spacecraft finally made an OK gesture, and there was another tsunami of cheers in the control center.
After the orbital correction plan opened by the spacecraft to cope with the sudden increase in mass began to operate, the second astronaut pushed a heavy metal box into the portal and then teleported it into the spacecraft with the metal box.
Finally, it is the Supreme Master.
After all the three of them were in place, they worked together to push the metal box floating in the air into the corresponding groove of the spacecraft bulkhead, and then started the expansion procedure.
The metal box that was connected was quickly pushed out of the cabin by the robot arm and gradually expanded into a semi-finished bulkhead.
That's right, according to the plan, the spacecraft will become the core of the space station, and other components will be taken up in the form of metal boxes, and then automatically assembled by robots in space.
Because subsequent components other than the spacecraft do not need to be transported by rockets, the design difficulty has been greatly reduced. If the internal space of the spacecraft was not too narrow and could not be placed in one step, the base researchers even planned to enter the third stage directly - directly transporting one room to the universe in a modular form.
Now the Supreme Mage and the others are assembling the assembly center of the third stage. The entire space station is only this assembly center. Once the assembly center is assembled, most of the remaining work can be completed on the ground. In space, you only need to receive the construction modules on the ground and then dock at the designated location.
The researchers are very optimistic about the construction speed of this technology, believing that space stations of the size of the International Space Station can be completed within one day with the assembly center.
The installation of components is done by two Chinese astronauts. The Supreme Mage’s mission is to operate and maintain the portal. Although this is a very mature technology, it is the first time it is used in the universe. It is always more at ease to have a legendary strong man in charge, and the installation of the later magic circle also requires his help.
The Supreme Mage, who had no work to deal with, floated in the air, holding the handle beside the window to fix himself, and his eyes never left the big ball outside the window.
Chapter completed!