Space is quiet, and except for the space close to the planet and the planet itself, the rest of the place is black and there is no other color at all.

A space station cabin stopped there quietly.

To be precise, it is not a space station cabin, because it itself is a fully functional space station, which is different from those space station cabins with single functions. It can be said that it is "one cabin to make a station".

This is the Star Inn that Pilot Company has just launched!

The Starry Sky Inn is 25 meters long and has a diameter of 7 meters. However, it is not a complete 7-meter diameter cylinder, but the central cabin has a length of 18 meters and a diameter of 7 meters, and it is not on both sides.

On one side is a transition compartment connecting the central cabin section, which is round-shaped and the outer diameter will shrink to 5 meters.

In the plan, it is used to connect to the core module of the Tiangong Space Station.

On the other side, there is an energy adjustment cabin with a diameter of 4 meters and a length of 4 meters. Its cabin is equipped with a circle of fuel barrels, making its "actual diameter" 6 meters.

In the plan, it is used to connect small rotational simulation gravity compartment.

These things together are the first phase of the "Tianting Space Station" project, and are also the combined project of the national team's "Tiangong Space Station" and the Navigator's company's "Starry Inn".

It is a combination of scientific research space stations and commercial space stations.

The Star Inn has now opened two huge golden solar windsurfings on the side, making the space station wide to 70 meters.

When the antenna is turned on, the large antenna is directly aimed at the ground, and the small antenna is aimed at the communication satellite, maintaining contact with the ground control center at all times.

When all the systems are turned on, countless signals are transmitted to the ground through the antenna, and there is also the track shuttle that slowly approaches it and photographs it.

Still two!

Dart One and Dart Two are on both sides of the Star Inn. They are photographed at the same time, and the space station and another orbital shuttle can be seen in their shots.

However, the main shots now are provided by Dart 2. Because its shooting location is "peripheral", it can capture the space station, Dart 1, and the blue earth behind them.

The audience was watching these beautiful scenes, but the ground command center of Sweet Potato Island was busy.

"For 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 sun sails unfold normally!"

"The folding parking opening is normal..."

When one by one, "normal" gathered on the computer in front of Tang Chao, Tang Chao knew that the time was up and immediately issued a docking order.

This time, we can no longer play double-sleeping and double-flying on the ground, but docking one and the other.

The audience can understand this.

"Sure enough, Pilot is still Earth, not alien."

Because everyone is floating in space, and because the "friction" and "gravity" are very small, a little collision will cause a lot of trouble.

Not to mention that the total weight of Star Inn is only 80 tons, and the weight of the track shuttle that consumes fuel and the driver and cargo it carries is more than 20 tons.

The weight comparison is no longer large. Once it hits, the scene will definitely be very spectacular.

Although they are slowly approaching, what if?

After all, the space pilots driving them are not super intelligent robots, and there is no super intelligent in the space station. They should not be able to control multiple targets, so that their time and location are not bad at all.

In such a "light" but extremely complex environment, you must be careful when contacting two points, let alone multiple points of contact.

The audience watching the live broadcast also knew that the key point was coming. Dart One in the video was slowly approaching the space station, and its target was the folding parking port that had been unfolded before.

This folding parking entrance has a part of the inflatable space station technology. At first, it was folded and "sticked" on the space station bulkhead like a sun sail. It slowly unfolded before, forming a confined space with a length of 3 meters and a diameter of 1.2 meters.

Before, they had seen the expansion screen. The expansion time was 3 minutes. The support frame was like a spring, but the support frame was not a rotating strip, but ten standard rings.

After the expansion is made, the inside is also filled with air. If you dock in this way, both sides can be flattened at the same time after docking the aircraft, and the air pressure balance can be achieved quickly.

This kind of docking scene always makes everyone nervous, except for Du Kangsheng in the main driver's seat of Dart One.

There is also Tang Chao sitting in the command position No. 0.

Du Kangsheng is the company's chief space pilot. Needless to mention his docking technology, not to mention that he has also driven an orbital shuttle to connect with the Tiangong Space Station more than once.

And the most important thing is that automatic docking is now popular in the world, and it is rare to require manual docking. Of course, as a professional aerospace pilot, manual docking is also practiced, and his grades are very good.

But now that technology has developed, "machine exercises" are the basic exercises.

In this kind of detail control, human manipulation accuracy is not as good as that of machines.

Therefore, manual control is only for emergency purposes.

Tang Chao was not nervous. His confidence came from Kanxing. The technologies used by the Navigator Company are all the ones that Kanxing has been trained for many times.

In fact, the central control computer in Starry Sky Inn is also very powerful. Although it cannot guide dozens or hundreds of aircraft to accurately dock as in science fiction movies, it does not need to face so many. The design of Starry Sky Inn limits its manipulation number.

The space station has only two pairs of docking ports.

So it only needs to be responsible for the docking of two aircraft.

But this is the orbit of the earth, not the world of Kanxing. You must be careful when playing for the first time. When you become proficient in the future, you can dock at the same time.

Even one runs away while the other runs docks.

After various micro-operations, half of the changes in the quality of the space station will not cause the space station to move.

As the Kanxing civilization, which has a foothold in "space", they have always been able to do this.

So no matter how excited and nervous the others were, Dart 1 successfully connected with the docking entrance. Five minutes later, Dart 2 also connected on the other side.

When the docking door was opened and the astronauts entered the space station, the movements on both sides were synchronized again.

Then there is the shocking scene.

big!

So big!

There was such a "praise" before Starry Sky Inn went to the sky. At first, it had some publicity when it was on the ground, including photos of the size comparison of some people standing inside. However, as a 7-meter-diameter spacecraft, its biggest opponent on the ground is the fuel tank of the super heavy rocket, which is a 10-diameter tank.

In comparison from this aspect alone, 7 meters is not an advantage, and as a space station and fuel tank, it only has a little advantage.

But now, when astronauts enter the lobby of the Star Inn and float up without doing space division, they can best see the space with a diameter of 7 meters outside and a diameter of 6 meters inside, they truly understand how big a space station with a diameter of 7 meters is.

Although it is not the first 7-meter-diameter space station in humans, there were similar ones in Meriken decades ago, and even people today can find videos from that time.

But the videos people can see are all "ancient picture quality". Well, at least from the history of camera development, it must be in ancient times, and the picture quality is very unclear.

Now the live broadcast quality of Pioneer Company can reach 4K, and viewers can fully experience the shock of the space.
Chapter completed!