Tang Yue finally failed to restore contact again, he gritted his teeth and insisted on standing outside the door to adjust the antenna, the old cat refused to go back no matter how much he shouted, and finally the old cat had to come out in person and drag him back.

Tang Yue still wanted to struggle twice, he felt that this signal could be rescued.

But the old cat directly pulled out the cable, and it said that if it goes on like this, what needs to be rescued is not the signal, but his Tang Yue.

The old cat sat in front of the workbench, surrounded by computer screens up and down, left and right.

The screen in front of it rotated a three-dimensional model of the United Space Station, and the old cat was attentive and solemn.

Its gaze swept over every detail of the space station, the beard on its face trembled slightly, its eyes flickering, and it didn't know what it was thinking.

From 2020 to 2052, mankind spent decades and invested hundreds of billions of dollars to drive into orbit one module after another, and finally put the space station together in Mars' low-Earth orbit like building blocks.

Because the distance of Mars is too far, the construction of the joint space station is much more difficult than that of the ISS, and the spacecraft to Mars only has a launch window every 26 months, so the construction cycle of the joint space station is outrageously long, even if every window is not wasted, the earthlings will smash the pot and sell iron to launch cargo spacecraft, and it will take a full 14 years to put the seven main modules of the space station into the orbit of Mars.

But the final result is great and brilliant, since the Apollo program, human civilization has taken a big step forward, the joint space station is the largest and most complex permanent resident spacecraft that mankind has established in deep space, it is the farthest away from the earth a piece of human territory, is the most brilliant pearl in the crown of human civilization.

The United Space Station has a total of seven main modules, of which the Crystal core module and the Hub node module are the first to be launched, the Crystal module is a long cylinder, and the Hub module is a short cylinder, the latter has four compartment connections on the outer wall to connect the various modules.

As is customary, this part was developed by the US imperialists.

US imperialism: I sold an aircraft carrier to build it! Now the USN has no aircraft carriers to use! Congress! Hit the money!

The two modules are connected end-to-end and docked in Mars' low-Earth orbit to form a simple little space station, much like Skylab and Salyut in the past.

This is the prototype of the Joint Space Station.

Next up is the Dawn module, which docks at the other end of the core module and has a docking port that allows the station to grow a bit.

The Dawn module is the smallest and cheapest module on the space station.

Conventionally, this kind of thing is generally made of hair.

Maozi: Technology! We provide the technology! Again, we provide the technology!

The third batch to take off was the Discovery and Hope experimental modules, which docked on either side of the hub module, and each of them also had a docking port.

The fourth batch was launched by the Harmony service module, which docked to the last port of the hub module, turning the United Space Station into a cross. The Silence multipurpose module docks at the end of the Harmony module, which is a dedicated dock for the Orion spacecraft, with two interfaces, where the Orion I and Orion II spacecraft are usually moored.

The complete Joint Space Station is now almost complete, and in addition to the astronauts' moving module, it also includes a gigantic truss more than 150 meters long, eight massive solar panel arrays, and an expensive set of super robotic arms.

Conventionally, the arm is made in Canada.

In terms of size and complexity, the Mars Joint Space Station is not as expensive as the ISS on Earth, but it costs more than a dozen times as much.

The old cat rubbed his chin and scrutinized the structure of the space station.

The Joint Space Station has a total of five docks, one of which is already occupied by the Orion II spacecraft, and there are four remaining available, all of which are facing different directions, and any one of them can provide docking and berthing for the Eagle spacecraft.

"Where will the Eagle dock then?" Tang Yue asked.

"Normally, the Eagle spacecraft's counterpart is this." The old cat pointed at the Dawn Module with his paws, "The docking port of the Dawn module, the Dawn Cabin is directly connected to the core module, so this docking port is the closest to the core module, but now there is no way to predict, God knows which direction the lander will come from." ”

"I remember...... The space station can provide remote guidance and correction for the lander. ”

"Yes, yes, I never said no." The old cat nodded, "But this is purely manual, and the steps are very complicated, so Miss Mai Dong can't ...... at all It should be said that except for Lao Wang and a few of them, there are actually few people in the world. ”

"In previous missions to Mars, there have also been cases of launching unmanned landers to dock with unmanned space stations." Tang Yue asked, "How was it solved at that time?" ”

In the early missions to Mars, there were many technical verification parts, and for safety reasons, the spacecraft and space station at that time were unmanned.

"How?" The old cat said, "I solved it, I provided remote guidance and control on the space station, anyway, the robot is not a human, the missing arm and leg is not a work injury, and there is no need to pay a pension if you die, have you heard of a sentence?" It's called 'Behind every successful unmanned docking, there is an obscure robot'. ”

Tang Yue covered his face and sighed.

The time is a quarter past 10 a.m. and the wind speed is 42 meters per second.

One man and one cat sat in Kunlun Station anxiously waiting for the wind speed to drop, Tang Yue sat on the chair, the old cat sat beside him, they looked at the dark storm outside the porthole, no one knew how long the sandstorm would last.

The only sound of the wind whistling in Kunlun Station, the numbers and images on the computer screen gliding silently, and the lights overhead flickered occasionally.

At this moment, Tang Yue inexplicably remembered SpongeBob SquarePants.

SpongeBob SquarePants is clearly a brightly lit and joyful children's animation, but he imagines SpongeBob sitting alone at the bottom of the sea, looking up at the dark waters above his head, but he feels bleak and terrifying.

If you think about this animation, SpongeBob is immortal, and friends like Squidward will eventually leave, and in the end, SpongeBob will be left alone in the deep bottom of the sea, living in that big pineapple, wandering back and forth alone, and a person who will always hold its jellyfish, laughing hehehehe, and gradually becoming crazy.

Tang Yue was a little surprised, he realized that he was thinking too crookedly...... A crazy SpongeBob SquarePants?

It's crazy.

If he is SpongeBob SquarePants, then who is Mai Dong?

The squirrel Sandy in a space suit with a helmet?