Chapter 167, Space Farmland
In the outer space of the earth, in the void not too far from the Sky City, a huge "Hercules" space plane slowly opened its cabin door. Its huge belly was filled with all kinds of supplies carried from the ground, all of which were used to build space farmland.
At this time, Gu Feng, the head of space agriculture of Fuyun Group, wore a thick space suit and watched the construction of space farmland in the "Hercules" space plane.
Since Li Fu visited Sky City last time and learned that space agriculture has great potential, he is motivated to let the Chinese people eat rice passed down from their ancestors again on the dining table, fully support Gu Feng in developing space agriculture, and appointed Gu Feng as the head of the company's space agriculture.
Gu Feng, who has always been doing things in a hurry, naturally did not stay idle. He soon found the company's scientific team in the space field and designed a really feasible space farmland plan.
It is definitely not an easy thing to build a farmland in space. If it is just like the agricultural area in Sky City, it is not difficult to create an experimental farmland. The key now is to design and build a professional space farmland.
Professional high-tech space farmland must first meet some conditions. The first is to plant, cultivate and harvest, be simple in terms of full mechanization, and save manpower as much as possible; secondly, safety is also fully considered. The scale of space farmland is definitely not small and is easily impacted by space garbage; in addition, it is necessary to facilitate the transportation of materials, and the development of agriculture must be inseparable from water, and the harvested crops also need to be transported back to the earth.
There are many factors that need to be considered, but this is not difficult for the scientist team of Fuyun Group. After all, they already have experience in building a Sky City. In addition, there are "Hercules" aerospace planes to transport materials, many things can actually be designed and assembled on the ground. They can be transported directly into space using the "Hercules" aerospace planes, which is relatively simple to operate.
At this time, the cabin door of the "Hercules" space plane had been opened, and the mechanical arm slowly stretched out to slowly transport the things in the belly. The space was only affected by microgravity, so even a large mass object actually did not require too much force to move.
The "Hercules" space plane is more than 50 meters long, more than 30 meters wide, and dozens of meters high. Its belly is very large and it can carry a lot of supplies.
The robotic arm slowly transported out a huge object similar to a space capsule. This huge object like a space capsule was 10 meters long and had a diameter of 5 meters.
One similar capsule after another was transported out, two, two capsules were combined together, and it was no different. Soon, in space, a long stick appeared in the field of view.
Then soon, several aerospace planes slowly approached, the cabin door opened wide, and the robotic arm carried the same space capsule out and continued to assemble it. Slowly, a huge field character appeared in space.
The character "天" is composed of four small characters "天" and each character "天" is very standard 100 meters. It consists of 10 huge space capsules. One "天" means 40 space capsules, and the character "天" is composed of 60 space capsules, forming a huge frame.
Each space capsule is designed and assembled on the ground. The space capsule is strictly designed. There is an engine installed in the middle of each space capsule. Of course, it is definitely not a plasma engine, but an ordinary jet engine, which can be used to promote the space farmland to move and change the orbit, or it can be used to rotate the space farmland, adjust the light angle, etc.
At the same time, the huge space cities are hollow inside, with various instruments, equipment, hatches, robotic arms, etc., and there are also corridors where you can walk with you. The staff of the space farmland can directly block any place through these corridors, and cultivate, fertilize, harvest space crops, etc.
In space, after combining the word "field", the space plane was not idle. From the ground, the space plane was still transporting the space capsules one by one. Slowly, another "field" character was connected to the past, constantly strengthening the space farmland.
At the same time, the area where the frame construction has been completed, an astronaut operated the robotic arms to carry out the next step. These astronauts operated the robotic arms and assembled long things similar to the cultivation groove into the word "mouth". There is such a long cultivation groove every 1 meter.
All cultivation tanks have been strictly designed and are not bad after being assembled on the capsule. There has been an interface on the capsule.
Slowly, each cultivation trough divided the huge character "叶" into squares with a side length of 1 meter. The character "叶" is just 100 meters long and has an area of 10,000 square meters. Now it is divided into 10,000 small squares with a side length of 1 meter.
After the installation of the cultivation tank, the astronauts began to prepare for the construction of the cover. The same principle was still the same. First, build a curved skeleton, and then continuously assembled pieces of tempered glass with slightly bent. Slowly, a glass cover that was like a hemisphere was assembled. After the tempered glass cover on both sides was assembled, a closed space was completed.
Gu Feng came to a completed farmland in his space suit. He walked through the space capsule and opened a cabin door at the space capsule. He slowly drifted in, as if he was in a world with a round sky and a sole of the sky. Whether it was above his head or the soles of his feet, there were a huge bowl pressed upside down, but one side was transparent and the other side was dark, forming a closed world.
"Well, the design of both sides is also considered that plants cannot perform photosynthesis for 24 hours, and they also need to rest like animals. At that time, the direction of these cultivation tanks can be rotated, and while resting, they are performing photosynthesis growth."
Gu Feng looked at this completed area and nodded with satisfaction. The light in space is very sufficient. As long as it is necessary, there will be no problem with 24-hour light. However, plants are combined with light reactions and dark reactions. The light reaction is to hydrate carbon dioxide into starch through light energy synthesis. It can only be carried out under light conditions. The dark reaction is breathing. By decomposing the starch, energy is obtained for the growth and development of the plant. It is carried out for 24 hours.
In layman's terms, plants, like animals, cannot perform photosynthesis for 24 hours, 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 was equipped with a control room, which could control the entire farmland through a computer. At this time, it had just been assembled, so it was naturally necessary to conduct inspection and testing.
"Start the test!"
The staff around him controlled the computer to start automatic detection and testing. Gu Feng looked into the farmland through the window of the space capsule, and was slightly nervous. Whether this design could be put into use was related to his next plan.
“Flip the cultivation trough!”
Accompanied by the sound of the machinery, the cultivation trough slowly flipped without any problem. The cultivation trough has both sides, and crops can be cultivated on both sides, receiving light while resting.
"Test the seal and start releasing compressed air."
The next step is to test the sealing properties of the farmland. Plants cannot survive without air, so the farmland must be sealed, and the air inside must not be leaked at all.
"No air leakage was found, the test was perfect."
At this time, the farmland was already full of air, so the standard was naturally based on the earth. In other words, people can breathe freely in this farmland. Usually, staff can enter and exit freely without wearing space suits.
"Test the nutrient solution delivery equipment in the cultivation tank."
The sound of machinery sounded again, and water began to flow from the cultivation trough in the farmland. These water were transported through the space capsule. Water is the foundation of plant growth, and various nutrients needed by plants can also be added to the water.
Tests are constantly going on, and everything is perfect. Fuyun Group's technological level is getting stronger and stronger, and it has the experience of building a sky city. It is naturally easy to build a space farmland.
"Keep Gu, all the tests are perfect and can be accepted and passed."
"Well, start the planting experiment."
Gu Feng nodded with satisfaction. The design of space farmland is the same as other space construction design principles in space. All units are independently designed and operated. Each space farmland has independent systems, survival systems, control systems, energy systems, etc.
Therefore, although space farmland is still being built and expanded at this time, it has no impact on this completed space farmland and can be put into production and use immediately now.
"yes."
The staff next to him received the order and began to control the computer. Everything in the space farmland was automated and mechanized, and only the calculation was manipulated.
I saw robotic arms stretched out from the space capsule, and these robotic arms began to sow seeds in these cultivation tanks. The calculations were very accurate. The seeds were sown one by one, and the distance between them was the same, with almost no mistake.
The efficiency of the machinery is very fast, and the seeds are quickly sown very evenly. This time, because the experiment is conducted, the vegetables with very short growth cycles are planted - Xiaocai.
Chapter completed!