Rebirth 2009: Synthetic God

In order to further support private aerospace, after Zhou Rui's press conference, the space agency mobilized a team of up to 50 experts to assist in the completion of "Jingtian 1".

This is a win-win situation. Taiyang Tiangong has gained a large number of technical experts, the progress and reliability have increased again, and the space agency's expert team can also accumulate experience in the "recyclable rocket" project.

Even many of the technical indicators of "Jingtian-1" are similar to those of the "Long March-5" that has not yet been installed, and can be practiced on demand in advance.

This strong team of fifty people directly overflowed the number of personnel in the No. 2 Factory Building. Zhou Rui decisively transferred some of them back and put them into the No. 1 Factory Building where the "mortise and tenon platform" is located.

Compared with "Jingtian No. 1", "Mortise and Tenon" is a brand new technology, especially the "Nantianmen" plan requires it to carry more functions, and the workload has increased a lot.

Zhou Rui himself mainly focuses on this.

On October 10, Wanhu Base was in full swing.

In Factory No. 1, all areas are in order.

"Liquid Floatation Test Seventh"

"Simulation starts"

Several analog devices are suspended in an ultra-thick glass jar.

The shrunken "mortise and tenon" simulation piece with a plastic shell opened a hole on the front in the water, and four robotic arms protruded out to capture a flat piece of material.

If this scene was filmed in a movie, it would probably be like some evil alien technology

On the other side, there are also "suspension method" tests composed of smart devices and more invisible entity software simulations.

As the world's first device with true orbital operation capabilities, many additional test items have to be added as the work goal has become more complicated from "simply capturing satellites".

It is difficult to obtain a perfect gravity-free environment on the surface of the earth. Whether it is liquid flotation, air flotation, drop tower, or suspension, it can only be said to be a partial simulation, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Based on the actual situation, Zhou Rui selected several more suitable types.

Those that require larger space are carried out directly in the factory, while others are carried out in the "Load Research Center".

"Suspension Test Eighth"

"Simulation starts"

Compared with the simulation of the "liquid float" next door, here is a real thing, more than three tons of original mortise and tenon parts, suspended by dozens of steel cables, including the protruding mechanical arm, which looks like a wire puppet.

The tension exerted by these steel cables is dynamically adjusted to offset gravity as much as possible without interfering with the power of the device itself. Of course, this is only an ideal state.

Opposite it is a 2*2 thin plate with connectors at the four corners and small cylinders on top.

This is the second most important thing of the "Nantianmen Orbital Mechanical Platform".

It can be understood as the floor tiles of Nantianmen, referred to as "tiles"

Zhou Rui vaguely remembered that in his previous life and when he was just reborn and couldn't fight, he liked to pick bricks on the ground. He would pick them without making a sound and hold them in his hand to control them.

I never thought that one day I would send bricks into space

The surface is the same as the mortise and tenon joint. The "brick" is covered with perovskite solar panels, so it is completely black. Only the inner interlayer has a little light metal and other functional structures.

At the same time, although the "mortise and tenon" has the ability to capture itself, the chemical fuel stored inside it is very valuable. For the sake of energy efficiency, the four corners of the "brick", a cylinder not much larger than the thermos cup, are four small thrusts. Hall thruster.

Each provides only 08 N of thrust.

The so-called "Hall thruster" is widely used in various science fiction works and is generally called "Hall thruster". It sounds very high-end, but in fact it is a technology that has been around for many years.

It had been produced in 1953, and in 1972, the Soviet weather satellites were already equipped with practical Hall thrusters.

The structure and principle of this thing are actually very simple. Ordinary high school students can reproduce the corresponding physical phenomena at home. Basically, the "working fluid" (of many types) is ionized through an electric field. After the ionization, the ions move at high speed under the Hall effect. squirt.

Some high school physics experiments include Hall effect experiments. You can blow a candle or stir the smoke to visualize the thrust.

However, some things are difficult to miniaturize, and some things are difficult to large-scale. The most advanced Hall thruster at present is only "the power of 1 ox", and it is a laboratory product.

If you want to use the Hall thruster as a "propeller" to leave the atmosphere, it may be further away than controllable nuclear fusion, and it is by no means a reasonable technical route.

But if you just need to adjust the attitude in the zero-gravity state of the orbit, the Hall thruster is very suitable.

Large specific impulse, durable, miniaturized, electric drive.

On the "brick", Zhou Rui uses four "08 Niu" small propellers, which are not much larger than a thermos cup.

On earth, this power would be difficult to measure, but in a gravity-free orbit, it is enough to adjust posture and even move over short distances, making "Nantianmen" more flexible and editable.

The test data was fed back to the computer truthfully, and Zhou Rui quickly screened the key information from the huge and complicated content.

His two abilities of "peeping off the cocoon" and "reducing complexity into simplicity" make him handy in this type of work.

If an ordinary engineer were to just sort and analyze the data, it might take several days or even longer, but Zhou Rui could do it with just a few glances.

So all the test data will be aggregated to him, and the screen will flash like a convulsive slide every day.

People in the base are now spreading rumors that in addition to "Metaphysics Knock", Mr. Zhou has also mastered "Quantum Reading".

In less than a minute, Zhou Rui made a judgment and said to Wang Tao on the side: "The gravity-free simulation is still not perfect enough. The data fluctuates greatly."

Air, temperature, and material properties will all affect various simulations. Taking the "suspension method" as an example, it can only perform relatively perfect simulations on the horizontal plane. Once tangential or steering forces occur, there will be deviations.

Wang Tao: "We can't do magnetic levitation."

"I started to make nonsense. A strong magnetic field can directly destroy the Hall thruster, and it is so troublesome. Judging from the situation of 'Capture 0' last time, it is not a big problem."

The reliability should be up to standard, but is it foolproof? There is no such thing in science.

Just as he was about to continue the discussion, Zhou Rui felt his collar being gently pulled.

Turning around to look, he saw the "small shower head" on his shoulder pulling him lightly.

Little Shower: "Highest Authority, Seed, Today"

Zhou Rui was stunned for a moment before he reacted.

A few days ago, the broken ground was being conditioned for the last time. Zhou Rui said that it would be ready for sowing in the sun for another three days.

I am not active in working, but I am worried about the seeds.

Unfortunately, Zhou Rui made a call and said to Xiaohuasha a few minutes later: "The logistics is delayed, and the seeds will not arrive until tomorrow."

The small showerhead "wilted" and there was no movement.

Wang Tao is already familiar with the interactive internal networking device on his boss's shoulder. It is not unusual among enlightened intelligence, but he doesn't know yet that this is a true "intelligent life".

Zhou Rui saw its bored look and suddenly said: "Try to control the 'mortise and tenon' and 'brick'. You must have seen the test content many times, right?"

The little showerhead said softly: "Okay~"

An order with the highest authority cannot be refused.

The next moment, the mortise and tenon hanging in front of him seemed to have been snatched away suddenly. The mechanical arm began to reach out and captured the 'Brick' in a more flexible way than before, and connected it to himself. Hall thrusters also cooperate simultaneously.

The whole process only takes a few seconds.

Zhou Rui and Wang Tao watched together. Wang Tao touched his chin: "I feel something is different but I can't tell."

Zhou Rui directly retrieved a large amount of sensor data.

After a moment, he said with a smile:

"The difference is that it's smoother?"

The hardware coordination ability of mechanical intelligence is extremely strong, and it can complete any task no matter how complex it is, but in the final analysis it is "program logic".

That is: receiving - feedback.

But the small shower head is an "intelligent machine life". In the content that is already familiar, it can be dynamically adjusted as smoothly as a human being, with coherence and predictability, and situational awareness is smoother.

Although I didn’t expect the small showerhead to be of practical use so early.

But it would be nice to add an extra layer of insurance.

Zhou Rui said to the little showerhead: "Well done, I will reward you with more advanced fertilizer later!"

The small shower head was obviously "excited" and the mechanical arm was raised!