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The Pathfinder has never disappointed anyone, not in the past, not now, and certainly not in the future.

A week later, the massive manufacturing center ascended into space.

The manufacturing center is not just an empty repair bay; it is equipped with a lot of heavy equipment to complete processes such as disassembly, crushing, refining, and manufacturing, turning space junk into raw materials, and then turning the raw materials into usable parts.

So it is not only huge in size, but also huge in mass, its single mass reaching an unprecedented 260 tons!

This weight is close to the maximum low Earth orbit carrying capacity of the Yishan rocket, which also proves how big and heavy the manufacturing center is.

15 meters in diameter and 35 meters in length, it is more than two circles larger than the repair bay.

Moreover, because the cargo hold of the Yishan rocket is only 40 meters long, including some top shrinking parts, one side of the manufacturing center also has a shrinking structure, making its main body a combination of a truncated cone and a cylinder.

Conveniently, the truncated cone's narrower side is used to dock with the commercial area, and it has two retractable docking ports on it. Because they are on the side of the truncated cone, they are inclined, and when unfolded, they will not be on the same plane as the repair bay, which is conducive to spacecraft docking.

If the equipment brought back by the Worker Bee-1 is too large and the two cannot coexist in the repair bay, the Worker Bee-1 will dock at these two berths, and they can also dock manned spacecraft.

Don't forget that, under normal circumstances, the coaxial doors of the scientific research area, commercial area, and industrial area are closed, and the engineers and technicians of the industrial area will enter from these two ports.

What if the audience wants to see it?

Then let's have a live broadcast.

Even Tang Chao only saw it on the Kan planet, where a bunch of little green men in big mechs were surrounding the equipment. He had never seen humans in space, wearing indoor spacesuits in pressurized compartments, repairing satellites.

This time, he has to take a good look.

But unlike those viewers who can only watch the live broadcast, he is going to be there in person.

Not only is he going, but people from the Tianxia official side are also coming.

After all, this satellite is Tianxia's communication satellite. This model of communication satellite uses a mature satellite platform. A mature satellite platform will naturally not be abandoned after a few years, but will be used for more than ten or even decades, during which there will definitely be upgrades and improvements.

This is easy to handle. It's all a basic platform, and then additional equipment is installed. So the so-called upgrade plan is to transfer the installation plan of advanced satellite equipment of the same platform to this satellite.

Even the equipment is ready-made, directly transported from the National Space Administration to Red Potato Island, and then loaded into the manufacturing center, and transported up together on the Yishan rocket.

The national team will send four professional satellite engineers, the Pathfinder will send four professional engineers, plus two astronauts, these two are considered helpers.

A total of ten people will take the orbital shuttle into the manufacturing center and plan to upgrade and maintain this satellite within a week.

This can be considered a challenge. The national team originally set a month, but Pathfinder Aerospace analyzed and said that a week would be enough.

This...

The four national team engineers are also considered veterans, the youngest is close to fifty years old. They also know that technology and society are constantly developing, but is this development too fast?

Then they have to go and see it even more.

The national team attaches great importance to the first maintenance and upgrade mission, so they sent these four.

The Pathfinder is not so particular. They boldly sent newcomers, including engineers who build satellites for the company, and space engineers who have just been trained and have not built satellites, but will perform space missions in the future.

And Tang Chao, this time he is still the main driver, and the co-pilot is an engineer-major trainee commander. This time, he is allowed to come up for "training" because there will be many places to use him in the future.

By the way, because of the addition of the Phantom System, the Pathfinder's astronaut training speed has been greatly increased, and the tasks to be performed in the future will definitely be more complicated, so the traditional training process is no longer suitable.

Tang Chao had a meeting with senior management and added several new environmental training subjects.

These include "Space Warfare" and "Space Marine" training!

Although there are no signs of this, but... better safe than sorry.

Moreover, he doesn't really train astronauts as space marines. After all, they are not full-time warriors, and they can't be space marines in science fiction works. So the space warfare training is more game-like, at most it is a hardcore game.

There are no mandatory tasks and performance requirements, and it can be used as leisure and entertainment after training.

However, Tang Chao did not limit this project to the company, but put it in the company's game options, and opened it to the public as a hardcore space marine and space warfare training game simulator.

The external player group is much larger than the Pathfinder company's astronaut group. Maybe someone will like this one, and then study it carefully, and finally find something.

It doesn't have much effect now, but at some critical moment, it may give him a big surprise.

So this hardcore "game" is free!

A group of people took the orbital shuttle to dock with the manufacturing center. The combination of the manufacturing center and the repair bay was large enough, but the solar panel array on the manufacturing center was even larger, and it was golden, which looked quite exciting!

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After that, they put on their intravehicular spacesuits, put on their helmets, entered the manufacturing center, and then transferred to the repair bay, where they saw the Worker Bee-1 quietly parked inside, and the communication satellite fixed in front.

The Worker Bee-1 was fixed in the repair bay, and the communication satellite was fixed on the Worker Bee-1, but there were other fixing devices in the repair bay, and there was no gravity here, so there was no need to consider the load-bearing capacity of the fixing devices, so any mechanical arm could play a fixing role.

The intravehicular spacesuits they wore today were a bit special, especially the shoes, which were special electromagnetic shoes. When turned on, the wearer could walk steadily on the metal "floor".

If they want to do some fine work, they can't float so much.

When Tang Chao manipulated a mechanical arm to grab the satellite and put it 5 centimeters away from the "ground", everyone "dong dong dong" stepped on the floor and walked to the front.

"I really didn't expect that I would be able to see it in my lifetime."

A national team engineer said with emotion.

"Yes, Lao Yang, this satellite was assembled by you and your team back then, hahahaha, more than ten years have passed in a flash, we are old."

"The organization should have sent Lao Yang over this time with this idea in mind. Among us, he is the only one who knows the most about this satellite."

While they were sighing, they were not idle. Instead, they circled the satellite and took a look at it.

Tang Chao was naturally in the ranks. He looked at it and touched a small hole on the satellite that was not on the design drawing and said, "Although the official information says that it has only run out of fuel, it is obviously abnormally damaged. This small hole looks like it was hit by a micrometeorite, but it just didn't hit a critical device, so the impact is not significant."

"Well, we have records. This satellite did have some anomalies at several points in time. We analyzed that it was also hit, but judging from the data, the impact was not significant. The biggest problem was that it deviated from the orbit a little bit." Engineer Yang said.

Chapter 2 will be released at 12:00