July 18.

Three silicon steel synthetic cabins successfully arrived at the Guanghan Palace base.

The transport spacecraft unloaded three silicon steel synthetic compartments weighing 28 tons. The transport spacecraft was parked not in the port area, but about 1.8 kilometers east of the scientific research area.

In fact, the infrastructure in the port area is currently incomplete and needs to be improved one after another.

However, improving infrastructure requires a lot of construction materials. If calculated based on the Golden Winged Roc + 11-long lunar payload, it can only transport up to 94 tons of materials at a time.

For example, this time, three silicon steel synthetic chambers were transported, with a total load of 84 tons, and 8.2 tons of related maintenance parts were stuffed into the three space capsules.

Next, there are three aluminum alloy synthesis chambers, two material processing chambers, one rare earth refining chamber, etc. These capsules will be pieced together into the industrial zone of Guanghan Palace base, realizing the self-sufficiency of most local infrastructure materials on the moon.

If local production of infrastructure materials is not achieved, even a lunar payload of more than 13 or 900 tons assembled in low-Earth orbit will be a drop in the bucket.

For example, in the planning and construction of the port area, the preliminary plan is to build three spacecraft berths, requiring that foam silicon steel berths berths be laid on the ground of each berth, and then special nano-iron powder and nano-calcium powder are filled in the fine pores of foam silicon steel.

Then, a pure oxygen injection machine is used to react with nano-iron powder and nano-calcium powder to produce iron tetraoxide and calcium oxide, and foam silicon steel is used as a skeleton to form a spacecraft berth.

The area of ​​each berth is a square with a side length of 1 kilometer, with an area of ​​1 square kilometer. The floor thickness of the berth is required to reach 0.5 meters. 500,000 cubic meters of foam silicon steel are required to be invested, with a weight of about 600,000 tons.

This is just a berth, plus tram tracks and other supporting facilities. In the preliminary plan for the entire port area, 3 million cubic meters of foam silicon steel will be consumed, with a weight of about 3.6 million tons.

Obviously, this is an amazing number. If you add the living areas, scientific research areas, industrial areas, etc. that will be expanded in the future, you will need at least tens of millions of tons of foam silicon steel, as well as the similarly large number of iron tetraoxide, calcium oxide, silicon oxide, aluminum alloy, etc.

Without the local industrial support of the moon, it is impossible to build a real moon-faced city.

Just when the Guanghan Palace base was busy installing silicon steel synthesis cabins.

South of Storm Ocean.

In the moon sea about 276 kilometers south of Kepler's Crater, the Noah's lunar base is here.

A week ago, Helson Hawke and Wade Clark, who successfully landed on the moon, were busy with anxiety.

Noah's base on the moon is called "Exit 1". It currently weighs 75.4 tons and has six space capsules, three of which are living capsules, and the remaining three are scientific research capsules.

NASA has successively arranged 6 related satellites on the 150-1250-kilometer pipeline of the moon to assist outposts1.

Seeing the window gradually fading out, Wade stopped his work, wore a simple cabin spacesuit, and returned to the living area. He wiped his face and the sticky area with a hot water cloth.

Hawke, who came back from another scientific research cabin, showed a tired smile: "Man, how is the situation today?"

"It's still the same. The efficiency of many chemical synthesis is lower than that of Blue Star, and it even causes no reaction at all, or other compounds to be reflected." Wade spread his hands helplessly.

Obviously, NASA's scientific research department still chooses to follow the traditional chemistry route in the synthesis of space materials.

Although there are many materials scientists in the international scientific community who are studying electric synthesis, they have not formed a complete set of theories, and most of them are trying to synthesis of one or two compounds.

This kind of messy sand naturally caused the electric field synthesis technology to be unpopular with NASA. Faced with the urgent space race and severe internal economic problems, NASA did not dare to try it casually. After all, the situation in the open current situation of electric field synthesis is still at a loss.

The Noah Society, which pursues the acceleration of the construction of the lunar colony, will not allow a large amount of funds to be invested in electric field synthesis. They can only improve traditional chemical synthesis bit by bit to adapt to the lunar environment.

Through two communication relay satellites, the two contacted their families on the ground in the living compartment and sent several daily text messages.

As for online access, it is OK, but you can only log in to the designated website. The communication delay between the two sides is very high, and it takes more than ten seconds to go back and forth.

Bored Wade and Hawke, after dinner, turned on a few entertainment equipment, an LCD TV, and looked at some old movie discs.

Suddenly a thought emerged in Wade's mind. He turned his head and asked, "Hawke, our two backup communication signal receivers can be tuned, right?"

"Of course, after all, outer space has strong electromagnetic interference, and you must beware of some human interference. You must be able to adjust the frequency. Why do you suddenly ask this?" Hawke asked back in confusion.

Wade whispered a few words in his ear. Hawke fell into deep thought after listening and thought for a while: "You can try it, but do you know the other party's decoding program?"

"You can check it online."

When the two of them acted, they soon found many obvious satellite signals, and then found the decoding program of Chinese satellite TV station through the Internet. This program had several backups in the communication system of Qianshao 1.

Wade tried it and found that one of the channels was a public satellite TV channel.

Connect the signal to the TV, then start the decoding program, and the screen suddenly appears in the TV.

[Dear viewers in front of the TV, good morning, welcome to the Changong TV station...]

"It's true!" Hawke was very surprised.

Wade smiled and replied, "Man, they have more than 20 satellites on the moon, and it is very normal to have satellite TV channels."

Suddenly Hawke asked an embarrassing question: "But, Wade, do you understand Chinese?"

"Uh..." Wade froze, looking at the TV show without an English character, he was suddenly a little depressed.

Fortunately, there is no way out. Because of concerns about disputes between the lunar colony and the lunar base in Greater China, in order to ensure timely communication, NASA has equipped three Chinese-English mutual translation systems in the base.

Wade took out a set of translators from the backup warehouse and inserted them into the TV. Suddenly, the sound of the TV program was translated into English subtitles and English sounds.

It’s just that the translator’s machine translates English, and there are some minor problems, and there are often translations of bad words.

However, the two of them were content at this time. At least they could guess and add to the picture, so the general content could still be understood.

Changong TV is a special TV station set up in Changong Space Station. It is currently composed of 52 space capsules. One of the space capsules is the dedicated cabin of Changong TV.

Changong TV has a host on the space station (astronauts temporarily act as temporary). Currently, a total of 13 astronauts are stationed in the entire Changong Space Station, and there are basic personnel configurations.

In addition, Changong TV also has three lunar orbit signal satellites, a Lagrangian point signal satellite, and a Blue Star synchronous orbit signal satellite.

These satellites can enable the broadcast of satellite TV channels to the moon, synchronous orbit, low-Earth orbit, and the ground of Blue Star.
Chapter completed!