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Space was silent, and apart from the vicinity of planets and the planets themselves, everything else was black, devoid of any other color.

A space station module was quietly parked there.

To be precise, it wasn't just a space station module, because it was a fully functional space station in itself, unlike those single-function space station modules. It could be described as a "station in a module."

This was the Starry Sky Inn, just launched by Pathfinder Company!

The Starry Sky Inn was 25 meters long and 7 meters in diameter. However, it wasn't a complete 7-meter diameter cylinder. The central module was 18 meters long with a 7-meter diameter, but the two ends were not.

One end was a transition module connecting to the central module, shaped like a truncated cone, with the outer diameter shrinking to 5 meters.

In the plan, it was to be connected to the Tiangong space station's core module.

The other end was a 4-meter diameter, 4-meter long energy adjustment module. Its exterior was hung with a ring of fuel tanks, making its "actual diameter" 6 meters.

In the plan, it was to be connected to a small rotating simulated gravity module.

These components together constituted the first phase of the "Heavenly Court Space Station," which was also a joint project between the national team's "Tiangong Space Station" and Pathfinder Company's "Starry Sky Inn."

It was a combination of a scientific research space station and a commercial space station.

The Starry Sky Inn had already deployed its two huge golden solar panels, bringing the space station's width to 70 meters.

The antenna was turned on, with the large antenna directly pointing at the ground and the small antenna pointing at the communication satellite, maintaining constant contact with the ground control center.

All systems were powered on, and countless signals were transmitted to the ground through the antenna, as well as to the orbital shuttles slowly approaching it and filming it.

Two of them!

Dart 1 and Dart 2 were on either side of the Starry Sky Inn. They were filming simultaneously, and in their lenses, they could see the space station, the other orbital shuttle, and the blue Earth behind them.

However, the main footage was currently provided by Dart 2, because its filming position was on the "outside," so it could capture the space station, Dart 1, and the blue Earth behind them.

As the audience watched these stunning images, the Sweet Potato Island ground control center was busy.

"Final self-check, internal air pressure normal, air content ratio normal!"

"Communication normal!"

"System normal!"

"Module normal!"

"Solar panel deployment normal!"

"Folding docking port deployment normal..."

As each item of "normal" converged on Tang Chao's computer, Tang Chao knew the time had come and immediately issued the docking command.

This docking could no longer be like the dual homing on the ground, but rather one docking first, followed by the other.

The audience could understand this.

"As expected, Pathfinder Company is still an Earth company, not an alien company."

Because in space, everyone floats, and because "friction" and "gravity" are very small, even a slight collision can cause a lot of trouble.

Not to mention that the total weight of the Starry Sky Inn was only 80 tons, while the orbital shuttle, having used up most of its fuel, plus the weight of the pilot and cargo, weighed over 20 tons.

This weight ratio was not small. Once they collided, the scene would be spectacular.

Although they were approaching slowly, what if?

After all, the astronauts piloting them were not super-intelligent robots, and there was no super intelligence in the space station. They shouldn't be able to control multiple targets and dock them with perfect timing and positioning.

In this "light" but extremely complex environment, even contact between two points must be careful, let alone multiple points of contact.

The audience watching the live broadcast also knew that the key moment had arrived. Dart 1 in the video was slowly approaching the space station, its target being the previously deployed folding docking port.

This folding docking port had some inflatable space station technology. At the beginning, it was folded and "attached" to the space station's hull like a solar panel. It slowly unfolded earlier, forming a 3-meter long, 1.2-meter diameter closed space.

They had seen the unfolding process before, which took 3 minutes. The support frame was like a spring, except that the support frame was not a single rotating strip, but ten standard circular rings.

After unfolding, it was also filled with air. This way, after the spacecraft docked, both sides could simultaneously equalize the pressure, quickly achieving air pressure balance.

This kind of docking scene is always nerve-wracking for everyone, except for Du Kangcheng, who was in the pilot seat of Dart 1.

And Tang Chao, who was in the No. 0 command position.

Du Kangcheng was the company's chief astronaut, and his docking skills were naturally beyond doubt, not to mention that he had piloted the orbital shuttle to dock with the Tiangong space station more than once.

And the most important thing is that automatic docking is now popular internationally, and manual operation is rarely needed. Of course, as a professional astronaut, manual docking must also be practiced, and his performance is very good.

It's just that technology has developed, and "machine operation" is the basic operation.

In this kind of detail control, the precision of human operation cannot compare with that of machines.

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So manual control is only for emergencies.

Tang Chao was not nervous. His confidence came from Kanxing. The technology used by Pathfinder Company now has been tempered and refined by Kanxing.

In fact, the central control computer in the Starry Sky Inn is also very powerful. Although it cannot guide dozens or hundreds of aircraft to dock accurately at any time like in science fiction movies, it does not need to face so many. The design of the Starry Sky Inn limits the number of operations.

The space station only has two docking ports for spacecraft.

So it only needs to be responsible for the docking of two aircraft.

But after all, this is Earth orbit, not the world of Kanxing. The first time you play, you must be careful. When you are proficient in the future, you can dock at the same time.

Even if one is detached, the other can dock without any problems.

Changes in half the mass of the space station will not move the space station at all after various micro-operations.

As a Kanxing civilization based on "aerospace," they have always been able to do this in this regard.

So no matter how excited and nervous others were, Dart 1 successfully completed the docking with the docking port, and five minutes later, Dart 2 also docked on the other side.

When the astronauts opened the docking door and entered the space station, the actions on both sides were synchronized again.

Then came a shocking scene.

Big!

Really big!

The Starry Sky Inn had such "praise" before it went to the sky. At the beginning, it had some publicity on the ground, including photos of people standing inside for size comparison, but as a 7-meter diameter spacecraft, its biggest opponent on the ground was the fuel tank of a super-heavy rocket, which was a 10-diameter tank.

From this comparison alone, 7 meters is not an advantage. As a space station, it only has a slight advantage compared to a fuel tank.

But now, when the astronauts entered the hall of the Starry Sky Inn and floated in this space without space division, which can directly see the size of the 7-meter outer diameter and 6-meter inner diameter, they truly understood how big a 7-meter diameter space station is.

Although it is not the first 7-meter diameter space station for humans, the American country had similar ones decades ago, and even now people can find the videos at that time.

But the videos people can see are all "ancient quality," well, at least from the history of camera development, it must be ancient times, and the picture quality is very unclear.

And now the live broadcast quality of Pathfinder Company can reach 4K, and the audience can fully feel the shock of the space.

Chapter 2 will be at 12 o'clock