937 Low Gauge Terminal
After more than an hour, the train finally stopped.
Luo Qihu stood up suspiciously with his arms propped up, stepped on the vine pile and jumped twice, not feeling the lightness of weightlessness at all, it was almost the same as the gravity on the ground.
After pondering for a while, he understood the reason, and couldn't help laughing: "It's too bad." "If you don't get in a synchronous orbit, you don't lose weight, it's proper.
Ye Han also stood up: "Let's go, stop talking nonsense." ”
The doors open...... Because of the change in orientation, the door is open left and right when you get into the car, but now it is open up and down, and there is a layer of airtight doors that open left and right outside the door, and the two doors open at the same time, and there is an expanding square in the middle.
When the group stepped out of the carriage, they immediately found several guys wearing power armor standing on the platform outside the door.
Seeing Ye Han come out, the captain led by him hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Hello chief, I'm Tang Bei." ”
They are the staff of the low-orbit dock, and the distance between the two sides is only more than 200 kilometers, but one is in the sky and the other is on the ground, and they have only been in contact in communications.
Ye Han returned the salute, and stretched out his right hand after the salute: "Hello." ”
Tang Bei was flattered, and hurriedly shook hands with Ye Han with both hands: "The spaceship is ready, ready to set off at any time." ”
Ye Han was very pleased: "Okay, please take us over." ”
"This way, please!" Tang Bei led the way, Ye Han followed behind with a group of subordinates, and everyone looked left and right curiously.
The low-gauge pier is much larger than expected, and after the train is a small fan-shaped square, at the end of the square there are metal bulkheads for enclosed spaces, and there are also floor-to-ceiling large portholes, through which you can see the vast starry sky outside.
And there are two kinds of portholes, one is a layer of aerospace glass, and the other is a reflector on the outside, so you can see the cable under the low-orbit pier and Europa.
Looking back, everyone was amazed again.
Luo Qi suddenly grinned and said, "Brothers, do you think this car looks like a chrysanthemum that stabbed the dock?" ”
The warriors were stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
The shape of the low-gauge dock is similar to that of the ground station, which is the shape of an oversized diving bell, and the center of the dock is hollow, divided into more than a dozen layers from top to bottom, except for the center of the top two floors tightly locked with cables, each layer corresponds to a carriage.
In other words, the platform of the sky train is not an in-line type like on the ground, but an upright type from top to bottom.
The procedure for the Sky Train to dock is as follows: when the train is about to arrive at the low-gauge terminal, the call signal is issued in advance, and the terminal closes all the airlocks in the docking area and opens the main airlock in the center of the bottom.
The train enters the dock from below, and after it is completely drilled into the dock, it is then stuck with a locking device, and then the main airlock under the dock can be opened to unload the cargo after the air pressure is balanced.
This form is indeed a bit like **, and it comes with a closure, but the northern capital will never care what the train is like when it enters the rails, they only care about the low-gauge wharf is not practical.
Ouyang Ping smiled and gave Luo Qi a punch: "Are you suffocating?" ”
Luo Qi laughed, not ashamed but proud.
Ye Han in front of him also laughed for a while, and shook his head helplessly.
Tang Bei said with a smile: "We also have people here who say so, and they also say that the ** wharf, the broken chrysanthemum train or something, I estimate that it won't be long before this paragraph can spread all over the fleet." ”
Ye Han smiled and asked, "How does this place feel?" ”
"Very good!" Tang Bei said, "There is gravity, it is no different from the ground, get used to it." ”
While speaking, everyone walked to the side of the square, and went down a few flights of stairs through the airtight door, and a small airport appeared in front of everyone, and more than a dozen transport boats stopped on the dock, neatly arranged in an arc.
Tang Bei pointed to the No. 1 boat and said: "Chief, our No. 1 is a passenger boat here, and the conditions are limited, so you can take care of it." ”
Ye Han waved his hand: "What to do, this is not bad, if there is no it, just the cargo boat should be sitting." ”
Tang Bei pressed a switch, the door of the boat opened automatically, and he made another gesture of please: "Chief, the pilot has not yet come, do you want to get on the boat first or wait a little longer?" ”
"Let's get on the boat first." After Ye Han finished speaking, he turned around and greeted, "What are you poking for?" Get on board! ”
The soldiers immediately got in, and Ye Han was the last to board the boat, and he didn't forget to wave to Tang Bei before entering the door.
There is not much space in the boat, there are about 20 seats in total, and there is an open cockpit in front of the boat, and the helm station and portholes in front of the boat are vividly visible.
Everyone looked into their brains curiously, and found that there was a metal airlock outside the porthole, and they all deflated, and they all stayed in their places honestly.
As soon as Ye Han was sent to the boat, Tang Bei immediately called the pilot on the radio, and after a while, a pilot hurriedly came.
Tang Bei whispered to Feng Ju before letting the crew get on the boat, the pilot glanced at the boat, and after finding Ye Han, he hurriedly walked over, saluted and asked: "Chief, shall we leave now?" ”
Ye Han frowned slightly: "Is there any problem?" ”
"The report did not ...... That is, it is necessary to pump air to open the airlock, which is a bit troublesome......" the pilot said resignedly.
Ye Han understood, nodded and said, "Then wait for a while." ”
The pilot let out a sigh of relief and hurried to the cab to prepare for the flight.
Although the pilot said that he was clueless, Ye Han understood the meaning of his words.
The small fan-shaped square and the airports on both sides are supporting facilities, and the materials unloaded from the train can be directly sent to the airport for loading and transporting.
The low-orbit terminal is located outside the atmosphere, and any resources inside the terminal must be used sparingly, and air is an important resource, so every time the dock is opened, the air must be drained before the airlock is opened.
If Ye Han wanted to leave now, it would definitely be no problem to open the airlock, but in this way, the air would have to be drained in advance, and other transport boats would not be able to load vines, which would affect the transportation progress of the entire dock.
Anyway, if you leave early, you will follow the transport ship, and it will make no difference if you go first for a while and later for a while, and it is not a big deal to wait a while.
As expected, a few minutes later, a group of soldiers arrived at the airport in electric transport trucks piled high with vines, and sent them to the transport boats one by one, filling one and loading the next, and the transport trucks came and went.
Each transport vehicle is the size of a small truck, and it is easy to load three or five tons, Ye Han calculated, about seven to eight cars can fill a transport boat, and according to the capacity of the carriage, one carriage can probably fill four transport boats.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help grinning, anxious about the capacity of the transport boat.
However, he is also aware of the situation of the low-orbit terminal, the dead weight, load and volume of the transport boat have been strictly calculated, if it is larger, the risk of entering and leaving the port will also be magnified, and the gain outweighs the loss.