cosmic hegemony

Chapter 167, Space Farmland

In the outer space of the earth, in the void not too far from the city of the sky, a huge "Hercules" aerospace plane slowly opened its hatch. Its huge belly was filled with various The materials brought up from the ground are all used to build space farmland.

At this time, Gu Feng, the person in charge of space agriculture of Fuyun Group, was wearing a thick space suit to watch the construction of space farmland in the "Hercules" space plane.

Since the last time Li Fu inspected Sky City, he knew that space agriculture has great promise, and he was determined to let Chinese people eat the rice passed down from their ancestors again on the table. He fully supported Gu Feng's development of space agriculture, and appointed Gu Feng as the company's space agriculture leader. principal.

Gu Feng, who has always been busy with his work, is naturally not idle. He quickly found the scientific team in the space field of the company and designed a feasible space farmland plan.

It is definitely not a simple matter to build a farmland in space. If it is just like the agricultural area in the city of the sky, it is not difficult to build an experimental farmland. The key now is to Design and build a professional space farm.

Professional high-tech space farmland must first meet certain conditions. The first is that planting, cultivation, and harvesting must be simple, and fully mechanized operations must be possible to save manpower as much as possible; secondly, safety must also be fully considered. The scale of space farmland is definitely not small, and it is easy to be hit by space junk; in addition, to facilitate the transportation of materials, the development of agriculture must be inseparable from water, and the harvested crops also need to be transported back to Earth.

There are many factors to consider, but it is not difficult for the team of scientists of Fuyun Group. After all, they already have experience in building sky cities, and with the "Hercules" aerospace plane transporting materials, many things can actually be carried out on the ground. After the design is assembled, it can be directly transported into space with the "Hercules" aerospace plane, and the operation is relatively simple.

At this time, the hatch of the "Hercules" aerospace plane has been opened, and the mechanical arm is slowly stretched out to slowly carry out the contents in the stomach. The space is only affected by microgravity, so even if the mass is very small Large objects, in fact, do not need too much force to move.

The "Hercules" aerospace plane is more than 50 meters long, more than 30 meters wide, and tens of meters high. Its belly is very huge and it can carry a lot of materials.

I saw the mechanical arm slowly carrying out a huge space capsule-like thing. This huge space capsule-like thing was 10 meters long and 5 meters in diameter.

Similar space capsules were carried out one after another, and two space capsules were combined together without any difference. Soon, in space, a long stick appeared in the field of vision.

Soon after, several aerospace planes approached slowly, the hatch opened wide, and the mechanical arm carried out the same space capsule again, and continued to assemble, and slowly a huge Chinese character appeared in the space.

This "Tian" character is composed of four small "kou" characters, each of which is a very standard 100 meters, and is composed of 10 huge space capsules. One "kou" is 40 space capsules, one The character "Tian" is composed of 60 space capsules, forming a huge frame.

Each of these space capsules is designed and assembled on the ground. The space capsules are strictly designed. There is an engine in the middle of each space capsule. Of course, it is definitely not a plasma engine, but an ordinary jet engine. It is used to push the space farmland to move and change orbit, and it can also be used to rotate the space farmland, adjust the lighting angle and so on.

At the same time, the interiors of these huge space cities are hollow, and there are various instruments, equipment, hatches, mechanical arms, etc. inside, and there are also aisles that can walk together. The staff of space farms can directly pass through these The aisle resists any place, and cultivates, fertilizes, harvests and so on the space crops.

In space, after the combination of a "Tian" character, the aerospace plane has not been idle. From the ground, the aerospace plane is still transporting space capsules one by one, and slowly another "Tian" character is connected to the past. , and constantly expand the space farmland.

At the same time, in the area where the frame construction has been completed, an astronaut controls the robotic arm to carry out the next step of work. These astronauts manipulate the robotic arm to assemble long things similar to cultivation tanks into the word "mouth". Here, there is such a long breeding tank every 1 meter.

All the breeding tanks have been strictly designed, and they are not bad after being assembled on the space capsule. There are already interfaces on the space capsule.

Slowly, one by one, the huge "口" character was divided into squares with a side length of 1 meter. A "口" character is just 100 meters long and covers an area of ​​1 square meters. Now it is divided into 1 small squares with a side length of 1 meter.

After installing the breeding tank, the astronauts began to prepare to build the cover. The principle is still the same. First, build a curved skeleton, and then assemble pieces of tempered glass with slight curvature, slowly one like a hemisphere. The glass cover is assembled. After the tempered glass covers on both sides are assembled, a closed space is considered complete.

Wearing a spacesuit, Gu Feng came to a farmland that had already been assembled. He walked through the space capsule, opened a hatch at the location of the space capsule, and floated in slowly, as if he was in a round sky. In general, whether it is the top of the head or the bottom of the feet, it is a huge bowl turned upside down, but one side is transparent and the other side is dark, forming a closed world.

"Well, the design of the two sides also takes into account that plants cannot carry out photosynthesis 24 hours a day, and need to rest just like animals. When the time comes, turn the direction of these cultivation tanks, and they can be rotated. photosynthetic growth."

Gu Feng looked at the completed area and nodded with satisfaction. The light in space is very sufficient. As long as there is need, there is no problem with 24-hour light, but plants are a combination of light reaction and dark reaction. The light reaction is to synthesize carbon dioxide into starch through photosynthesis, which can only be carried out under the condition of light. The dark reaction is respiration, which decomposes starch to obtain energy for the growth and development of plants, and it is carried out 24 hours a day.

In layman's terms, plants, like animals, cannot carry out photosynthesis 24 hours a day, and also need to rest. Therefore, although there is sufficient light in space, plants should also be allowed to rest.

Gu Feng returned to the space capsule. Each space capsule is equipped with a control room, which can control the entire farmland through the computer. At this time, it has just been assembled, so it is natural to carry out inspection and testing.

"start testing!"

The staff around him manipulated the computer to start automatic detection and testing. Gu Feng looked at the farmland through the window of the space capsule, feeling a little uneasy in his heart. Whether this design can be put into use is related to his next step. plan.

"Flip the breeding tank!"

Accompanied by the sound of the machine, the cultivation tank was slowly turning without any problem. The cultivation tank has two sides, both sides can cultivate crops, one side receives light, and the other side rests.

"Test the tightness and start releasing compressed air."

The next step is to test the airtightness of the farmland. Plants cannot live without air, so the farmland must be sealed, and the air inside must not leak at all.

"No air leaks were found, the test was perfect."

At this time, the farmland is full of air, and the standard is naturally based on the earth. In other words, in fact, people can breathe freely in this farmland now, and the staff can freely enter and exit it without wearing space suits. .

"Test the nutrient solution delivery equipment for the cultivation tank."

The sound of the machine sounded again, and water began to flow in the cultivation tank in the farmland. The water was sent through the pressure of the space capsule. Water is the root of plant growth, and various plants can be added to the water. nutrients.

Tests are being carried out one after another, and everything is perfect. Fuyun Group's technological level is getting stronger and stronger, and it has experience in building sky cities. It is naturally easy to build a space farmland.

"Gu Gong, all the tests are perfect and can be accepted."

"Well, start the planting experiment."

Gu Feng nodded in satisfaction. The design of space farmland is based on the same principle as other space construction designs in space. All units are independently designed and operated. Each piece of space farmland has its own independent system, life support system, Control systems, energy systems, etc.

Therefore, although the space farmland is still under construction and expansion at this time, it does not have the slightest impact on this completed space farmland, and it can be put into production immediately.

"Yes."

The staff next to them got the order and started to operate the computer. Everything in the space farmland is controlled automatically and mechanized, and only needs to be manipulated and calculated.

I saw a series of mechanical arms stretching out from the space capsule. These mechanical arms began to sow seeds in these cultivation tanks. The calculations were very precise. In this way, there are almost no mistakes.

The efficiency of the machinery is very fast, and the seeds are quickly and evenly spread. This time, because it is an experiment, all the vegetables with a very short growth cycle - Chinese cabbage are planted.

(End of this chapter)