Chapter 276: Investigation
After the train enters space, the speed begins to increase, after all, because there is no air resistance in space, the efficiency of the power system on the train can be maximized.
It didn't take long for the train's power system to end, because it was very close to the space city at this time, so the train needed to slow down, after all, if it continued to accelerate, the train would turn directly to the space city, which would be like an egg hitting a stone.
Although they had already learned about the Space City through various media before this, and knew that the Space City was the largest space building in space, with nearly a million people working on it, and the volume was extremely large, but when they really saw this space city, Song Jiancheng and most of the people on the train were very shocked.
After all, from a distance, the space city is not very large, and even when I see the space city on the earth, I don't mean that it is 1/10 the size of the moon, but when I see the space city up close, it is not the case, and now this space city has nine rings outside except for the central military area.
In the middle of the nine rings, there are countless transparent passages that connect the nine lies tightly, and in space, he can also see various vehicles speeding through these passages, in addition to taking off and landing various aerospace vehicles from time to time in the central area of Space City.
However, all the people on the train know that most of these aircraft are owned by the Ming military, after all, the security of the space city needs to be maintained by the Ming military, although it is said that now that mankind is in a period of peace, no one will attack the space city.
But even so, the soldiers of the Suzaku Army who usually guard the space city will patrol around the space city as usual, after all, in addition to war, there are still many factors that can pose a threat to the space city, especially those meteorites that are very fast and bulky, after all, the space city in space has no atmospheric protection, and it is very easy to be hit by meteorites.
A small piece of meteorite is not a threat to Space City, after all, the volume of Space City is placed there, and the armor of Space City is also very heavy.
But if it's a large meteorite, then the armor of the space city itself won't do much.
Once hit, it will cause very serious damage to the space city, and even make the space city out of balance, after all, in the past ten years, the space city has been hit by large meteorites several times, but fortunately, these few times have not caused any fatal damage to the space city, but not every time there is such luck in space.
Therefore, in addition to the monitoring procedures of the space city itself to closely monitor the space of 1,000 kilometers near the space city, the Suzaku Army guards on the space city will also carry out regular patrols 1,000 kilometers away from the space city to reduce the danger of the space city being hit by meteorites.
Although the space city is so huge, it is actually very small and fragile for the universe.
As the Skytrain gets closer and closer to Space City, the people on the train feel smaller and more shocked, after all, not everyone can see such a scene.
After a few minutes, the Skyline train they were riding on finally approached the platform of Space City.
The train platform of the space city is located in the outermost ninth ring of the space city is the closest to the empty area, in fact, the outer area of the ninth ring of the entire space city is a variety of train stops, after all, the space city as a transfer station from the earth to the moon, there are not only the sky trains from the earth to the space city, but also the interstellar train from the space city to the moon, of course, in this area in addition to various trains, there are also various spaceships are also docked here, However, there is a big difference between the stopping places of spaceships and various trains.
The various train stops are located in the ring of the ninth ring, which has a complete life support system, artificial gravity system, and other facilities that can be found in the train station on the ground.
But the spaceship docks in a different place, the spacecraft is docked outside the ninth ring, that is to say, it is parked directly in the universe, and there is no docking station inside the space city, and the people who enter and exit the spaceship also enter the space city through small spacecraft, these small spacecraft are like levitating cars on the earth, but compared to the hovering cars, these spacecraft are much smaller, only about three meters in length, and the width and height are about 1.5 meters, and the maximum load is four people.
However, although most of the spaceships are docked outside the space city, there are still some spaceships docked in the space city, but the spaceships docked in the space city are not very large, the general length will not exceed 30 meters, and the maximum will not exceed 50 meters, after all, although the space city is huge, if the spaceship is too large, it will still be affected to a certain extent, after all, the weight of the largest human spaceship has reached hundreds of thousands of tons.
However, although these spaceships are large and small, these spaceships still do not have the ability to travel far, and can only sail in the Earth-Moon system, and still cannot enter deep space.
Although those large spaceships have nuclear power plants on them as the energy source of spacecraft, and have a certain long-distance ability, in fact, if you really want to use these spaceships for long-distance voyages, it is still quite dangerous, after all, space is not as good as others.
However, these large spaceships are generally cargo spaceships, and their main purpose is to transport various materials from Space City to the Moon, and then load various minerals on the Moon and return to Space City, and then smelt them in the smelting plant near Space City.
When the train stopped, Song Jiancheng and his family finally set foot in the space city, and their first feeling after stepping into the space city was the change in gravity, after all, the gravitational force on the train was only 1/5 of the earth.
However, because the space city was designed with rotational gravity in mind, and after more than ten years of efforts, human beings installed gravitational generators in various parts of the space city, so now the gravity of the entire space city is comparable to that of the earth, so Song Jiancheng's first feeling after they set foot in space is the change of gravity.
Song Jiancheng and his family took a deep breath after stepping on the space city, and then walked out of the station and walked towards the space city, after all, the purpose of his visit to space this time is to travel with his family, and the main purpose is to investigate the development of space agriculture.
After the investigation here, he will go to the moon with his family to inspect the farms on the moon, and then consider whether it is worth the investment, after all, although he is a famous landowner in the world, but he is also a businessman, so what businessmen value is profit, if space agriculture and moon farms have no future development prospects, they will never invest, even if the official propaganda is good.