Chapter 1355 Enviably Powerful

Professor Reston swears that even though he has been influenced by Hollywood science fiction blockbusters, he never imagined that one day he would see such a shocking scene in reality.

I saw eight slender robotic arms stretching out from the edge of the Moon Palace space station, just like the feet of a spider, waving flexibly among the three sets of spacecraft components.

As if threading a needle, more and more spacecraft components were connected together, gradually outlining the outline of the colony ship Xu Fu.

"This is impossible……"

The expression on his face was like going crazy. Standing next to Professor Reston, Professor Phil Goethe kept opening and closing his lips, muttering and repeating the same words.

"Assembling extravehicular spacecraft with a robotic arm on the space station...how is this possible!"

The expression on Professor Reston's face was equally shocked.

Assemble the spacecraft on the space station!

And it's still operated with a robotic arm!

It sounded like a dream.

This is not as simple as spacecraft docking. It is no exaggeration to say that it is even an order of magnitude more technically difficult than simple spacecraft docking.

Without a separate power system, these spacecraft components floating in outer space are not much safer than space junk.

Think about how difficult it is to clean up those high-speed space junk, and how impractical it is to use robotic arms on the space station to assemble these scattered sky components.

A slight carelessness, failure to control the speed and orbital height, may cause the space station to collide with those floating spacecraft components, and eventually lead to a disastrous space accident!

"Could it be holographic projection technology?" Professor Phil Goethe couldn't help but said, "I heard that they have a holographic projection technology that can make the real one...it was displayed in the Bird's Nest Stadium."

"That sounds far more outlandish than assembling a spacecraft in space."

Hearing Professor Phil Goethe's speech as if he was talking in a dream, a wry smile appeared on Professor Reston's face.

He had heard of the holographic projection performance at the Bird's Nest, and he even watched the video on YouTube. Many people evaluate it as the film media technology of the new era, and the pictures presented in front of people are almost so lifelike as to be fake.

However, he is clear that this thing needs something like water vapor as an imaging medium, where does this thing come from in space.

In fact, apart from the mechanical arm protruding from the Moon Palace, there was another thing that confused him even more.

That is, is there really no problem with such a random assembly method?

You must know that manned spacecraft have very high requirements for the airtightness of the cabin. Especially in the state of accelerated advancement, every additional interface will increase the risk by one point.

And now...

These Hua people were like dismantling the entire "Xu Fu" into large parts, and even the cabin was dismantled in half. Can such a casual assembly method really guarantee the safety of the astronauts in the cabin?

Professor Reston is quite skeptical about this.

However, this doubt did not stay in his heart for long.

Soon all the confusion in his heart was dispelled by that shocking scene.

He wasn't the only one who saw it.

Everyone in the command room saw it.

The front end of one of the mechanical arms on the Moon Palace suddenly flashed a series of weak but unignorable white lights. The white light was like a dagger, sweeping across the junction of the spacecraft shell.

At the same time, a crazy idea emerged from Professor Reston's mind.

welding!

They actually installed a "welding torch" on the robotic arm!

Although space additive construction is nothing new, in the 1980s, Soviet astronauts carried out the first human extravehicular welding test outside the Salyut 7 space station. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the United States also carried out similar research. However, this is the first time he has heard of the case of applying this technology to the assembly of large spacecraft!

And what happened on the Moon Palace at this moment completely subverted his understanding of the aerospace industry.

How does this look like assembling a spacecraft...

It's like reassembling a space shuttle on the space station!

Gradually realizing the seriousness of the problem, Professor Reston immediately looked at the assistant standing beside him. Regardless of the stunned expression on the assistant's face, he ordered in a serious tone.

"Send footage to Pentagon Space Command immediately!"

Suddenly recovering from the surprise, the assistant nodded quickly, and then trotted towards the command room.

Turning his eyes back to the picture on the big screen, Professor Reston clenched his fists tightly, and a layer of haze gradually shrouded his brows.

The space construction technology mastered by Hua Guo may have exceeded their estimates.

If they can really assemble spaceships of more than 100 tons in outer space...

In theory, make a bigger one.

It won't be too difficult either.

...

In fact, compared to other cutting-edge technologies applied to this "simple" space port, plasma welding is just one of the most inconspicuous ones.

But in contrast, other technologies are not so easy to be directly observed.

Even the scientific researchers from all over the world working on the Moon Palace know nothing about these things, let alone optical satellites that are more than 300,000 kilometers away.

And these technical reserves are also the confidence that Huaguo will not make any cover up in the fire plan.

What if I was seen?

Even if some things are placed in front of you, it is not an easy task to copy them out.

Regardless of the turbulence in the hearts of Professor Reston and Professor Phil Goethe, the foreign scientific researchers who are far away on the Moon Palace at this moment are almost all surprised by what happened outside the porthole. To speechless.

Staring fixedly at the colonial ship Xu Fu that was gradually taking shape, Professor Pearson from the Department of Physics of Harvard University had indescribable shock written all over his face.

He is a professor of particle physics who came here through the IMCRC.

Since the completion of the Lunar Hadron Collider, he has served on the Lunar Scientific Research Station and the Moon Palace.

Even though he has been familiar with all kinds of novel aerospace technologies since this period of time, at this moment he still cannot control the shock from the bottom of his heart.

Finally unable to bear it any longer, he asked.

"Those robotic arms...are they being operated by someone?"

"How is it possible? Who still has the ability to operate eight hands at the same time," Professor Yan Xinjue, who was standing next to him and also served at the lunar scientific research station, said with a bragging tone, "no accident If so, this thing should be controlled by artificial intelligence. Didn’t the Moon Palace replace the chipset of the central computer some time ago? Maybe it was an upgraded set of technology at that time...Of course, I’m just guessing, what exactly is it? I'm not very clear about the situation."

Without concealing the envy in his expression, Professor Pearson looked away from the porthole and looked at Professor Yan Xinjue, "Your aerospace technology is really impressive...I really envy you."

Hearing this honest compliment, Yan Xinjue smiled a little embarrassedly.

Although he is not an expert in the aerospace field.

But to be honest, this feeling of being looked at with envious eyes by scholars from other countries still makes him quite happy...