Space is silent, 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 module rested silently.

To be precise, it is not a space station module, because it is a fully functional space station in itself, which is different from those space station cabins with a single function, which can be said to be "a cabin into a station".

This is the Star Inn that Navigator has just launched!

The Star Inn is 25 meters long and 7 meters in diameter, but 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, not on both sides.

On one side of it is a transition chamber connected to the central module, which is in the shape of a round platform, and the outer diameter will be reduced to 5 meters.

In the plan, it will be used to connect the core module of the Tiangong space station.

On the other side, there is an energy adjustment chamber with a diameter of 4 meters and a length of 4 meters, and a circle of fuel barrels hangs outside it, making its "actual diameter" 6 meters.

In the plan, it was intended to be used to connect a small rotating simulated gravity capsule.

Together, these things are the first phase of the "Tianting Space Station", and it is also the combined project of the national team "Tiangong Space Station" and the navigator company's "Star Inn".

It is a combination of a scientific space station and a commercial space station.

Now the Star Inn has opened two huge golden solar panels, bringing the width of the space station to 70 meters.

The antenna is turned on, the large antenna is directly aimed at the ground, and the small antenna is aimed at the communication satellite, so as to maintain contact with the ground control center at all times.

All the systems are turned on, countless signals are transmitted to the ground through the antennas, and there are orbital shuttles that slowly approach it next to it and photograph it.

Or two!

Dart-1 and Dart-2 are on opposite sides of the Star Inn, shooting at the same time, with both the space station and another orbital shuttle visible in their lenses.

However, the main shots are provided by Dart 2 now, because it is shot on the "periphery", so it can capture the space station, Dart 1, and the blue Earth behind them.

The audience looked at these beautiful pictures, but the ground command center of Sweet Potato Island was busy.

"The last self-test, the air pressure in the cabin is normal, and the air content ratio is normal!"

"Communication is normal!"

"The system is normal!"

"The capsule is normal!"

"The sun sails are deploying normally!"

"Folding berth unfolds normal ......"

When the "normal" items converged on the computer in front of Tang Chao, Tang Chao knew that the time was up, and immediately issued the docking order.

This docking docking can no longer play double boarding and double flying on the ground, but docking one and then docking the other.

For this, the audience is also understandable.

"Sure enough, the Navigator Corporation is still an Earth Corporation, not an alien corporation."

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 the Star Inn is only 80 tons, and the weight of the rail shuttle, which is basically consumed by fuel, plus the driver and cargo carried, weighs more than 20 tons.

This weight contrast is not much, and once it hits, it will be absolutely spectacular.

Although they are slowly approaching, what if?

After all, the space pilots who flew them were not super-intelligent robots, and there was no super-intelligence in the space station, so they should not be able to control multiple targets and make them dock exactly in time and position.

In this kind of "light" but extremely complex environment, the contact between two points must be careful, let alone more contact.

And the audience watching the live broadcast also knows that the point is coming, the Dart 1 in the video is slowly approaching the space station, and its target is the folding mooring that was unfolded before.

Part of the technology of the inflatable space station is part of this folding mooring, which was initially folded and "pasted" to the bulkhead of the space station like a solar sail, and then slowly unfolded to form a confined space with a length of 3 meters and a diameter of 1.2 meters.

Earlier, they had seen the unfolding screen, which took 3 minutes to unfold, and the support frame was like a spring, except that instead of a rotating bar, the support frame was ten standard rings.

After unfolding, the inside is also inflated, and in this way, both sides can be flattened at the same time after docking with the aircraft, and the air pressure balance can be quickly achieved.

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

and Tang Chao, who sat in the command position No. 0.

Du Kangsheng is the company's chief space pilot, and his docking skills are needless to say, not to mention that he has also piloted the orbital shuttle to dock with the Tiangong space station more than once.

And the main thing is that now the international trend is automatic docking, and there are very few times when manual is needed, of course, as a professional aerospace pilot, manual docking is also to practice, and his results are very good.

It's just that now that science and technology have developed, "machine operation" is the basic operation.

In this kind of detail control, the precision of human manipulation is not comparable to that of machines.

Therefore, manual control is only for emergency use.

Tang Chao is not nervous, his self-confidence comes from Kanxing, and the technology used by the Navigator Company now is all tempered by Kanxing.

In fact, the central control computer in the Star Inn is also very powerful, although it can't guide dozens or hundreds of aircraft to dock accurately at any time like in science fiction movies, but it doesn't need to face so much, and the design of the Star Inn limits the number of controls it can control.

The space station has only two docking ports for spacecraft.

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

But in the end, this is the orbit of the earth, not the world of Kanxing, you always have to be careful when you play it for the first time, and you can dock at the same time when you are proficient in the future.

Even if one is detached and the other docks at the same time, it is no problem.

After various micro-manipulations, half of the changes in the mass of the space station will not make the space station move.

As a Kanxing civilization based on "spaceflight", they have always been able to do so in this regard.

So no matter how excited and nervous the others were, Dart One docked with the dock very smoothly, and five minutes later, Dart Two docked 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.

And then there was the shocking scene.

Big!

It's huge!

There was such a "compliment" before the Star Inn went to the sky, and there was some publicity when it was on the ground at the beginning, among which there were people standing inside the size comparison photos, but as a 7-meter diameter spacecraft, its biggest opponent on the ground was the fuel tank of the super-heavy rocket, which was a 10-diameter tank.

In this aspect alone, 7 meters is not an advantage, and as a space station, there is only one advantage over fuel tanks.

But now, when the astronauts enter the hall of the Star Inn, and float up in this space that does not divide the space, and can best see the size of the outer diameter of 7 meters and the diameter of 6 meters, they really understand how big the 7-meter diameter space station is.

Although it was not the first 7-meter-diameter space station of mankind, Merrican had a similar one decades ago, and even people today can still find videos from that time.

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

Now the live broadcast quality of the Navigator company can reach 4K, and the audience can fully feel the shock of the space.