More than an hour later, the train finally stopped.
Luo Qi stood up with his arms suspiciously, stepped on the pile of vines and jumped twice. He didn't feel any weightlessness at all. It was actually almost the same as the gravity on the ground.
After thinking about it for a while, he understood the reason and couldn't help laughing: "This is too different." There will definitely be no weight loss until the synchronous orbit, which is fine.
Ye Han also stood up: "Let's go, stop talking nonsense."
The car door opens... Due to the change in orientation, the door opened left and right when getting on the car, but now it opens up and down. There is an airtight door outside the door that opens left and right. The two doors open at the same time, and there is an expanding square in the middle.
A group of people walked out of the carriage and immediately found several guys wearing power armor standing on the platform outside the door.
Seeing Ye Han coming out, the leading captain quickly stood at attention and saluted: "Hello, chief, I am Tang Bei."
They are workers at the low-orbit terminal. The distance between them is only more than 200 kilometers, but one is in the sky and the other is on the ground. They have only contacted each other through communication.
Ye Han returned the gift and stretched out his right hand: "Hello."
Tang Bei was flattered and quickly shook hands with Ye Han: "The spaceship is ready and ready to go at any time."
Ye Han was very pleased: "Okay, please take us there."
"This way, please!" Tang Bei led the way, and Ye Han followed behind with a group of subordinates. Everyone looked left and right curiously.
The low-rail pier is much larger than expected. After exiting the train, there is a small fan-shaped square. At the end of the square, there is a metal bulkhead for enclosed space, and there are also floor-to-ceiling oversized portholes. Through the portholes, you can see the vast starry sky outside.
And there are two types of portholes, one is a layer of aerospace glass, and the other has a reflector on the outside, so you can see the cables and Europa below the low-orbit dock.
Looking back, everyone was amazed again.
Luo Qi suddenly grinned and said, "Brothers, do you think this car looks like it poked a chrysanthemum on the dock?"
The soldiers were stunned at first, and then burst into laughter.
The shape of the low-orbit pier is similar to that of the ground station, both of which look like an oversized diving bell. The center of the pier is hollow and divided into more than a dozen floors from top to bottom. Except for the top two floors where the centers are tightly locked with cables, each floor has
Corresponds to one carriage.
In other words, the platform of the sky train is not the in-line type on the ground, but vertical from top to bottom.
The docking procedure of the sky train is as follows: when the train is about to arrive at the low-rail terminal, a docking signal is sent in advance. The terminal closes all the airlocks in the docking area and opens the main airlock in the bottom center.
The train drills into the pier from below. After it is completely drilled into the pier, it is locked with a locking device. After that, the main airlock under the pier balances the air pressure and can be opened to unload the carriage.
This form is indeed a bit like a **, and it is self-enclosed, but Beidou will never care about what the train looks like when it enters the track. They only care about the practicality of the low-rail terminal.
Ouyang Ping smiled and punched Luo Qi: "Are you holding it back?"
Luo Qi laughed heartily, feeling proud instead of ashamed.
Ye Han in front also burst into laughter and shook his head helplessly.
Tang Bei said with a smile: "Some people here also say that, and they talk about ** docks, broken chrysanthemum trains and so on. I guess it won't take long for this joke to spread throughout the fleet."
Ye Han smiled and asked: "How does this place feel?"
"It's good!" Tang Bei said, "There is gravity, it's no different from the ground. I'm used to it."
While they were talking, everyone walked to the side of the square, passed through the air-tight door and went down a few stairs. A small airport appeared in front of everyone, with more than a dozen transport boats parked on the pier, neatly arranged in an arc.
Tang Bei pointed to the No. 1 boat and said: "Chief, we only have the No. 1 passenger boat here. The conditions are limited. Please be patient."
Ye Han waved his hand: "What are you waiting for? This is not bad. Without it, I would have to sit on the cargo boat even if there is one."
Tang Bei pressed a switch and the boat door opened automatically. He made a gesture of invitation again: "Chief, the pilot hasn't come yet. Would you like to get on the boat first or wait a little longer?"
"Let's get on the boat first." Ye Han turned around and said hello, "Why are you poking at me? Get on the boat!"
The soldiers immediately got in, and Ye Han was the last to board the boat, not forgetting to wave to Tang Bei before entering.
There is not much space in the traffic boat, with about twenty seats in total. There is an open cockpit in front of the boat, and the bridge and portholes in front of the boat are clearly visible.
Everyone curiously poked their heads around and found out that there was a metal airlock outside the porthole window. They were all discouraged and stayed in their positions.
As soon as Ye Han was put on the boat, Tang Bei immediately called the pilot on the radio. After a while, a pilot hurried over.
Tang Bei whispered to Feng Ju before letting the crew get on the boat. After boarding the boat, the pilot glanced at it, found Ye Han and walked over quickly, saluting and asking for instructions: "Chief, shall we set off now?"
Ye Han frowned slightly: "Is there any problem?"
"There is no report... It's just that the air brake needs to be pumped out, which is a bit troublesome..." the pilot said solemnly.
Ye Han understood, nodded and said, "Then just wait for a while."
The pilot took a deep breath and hurried to the cab to make preparations for the flight.
Although the pilot spoke nonsense, Ye Han understood the meaning behind his words.
The small fan-shaped square and the airports on both sides are supporting facilities. Materials unloaded from the train can be directly sent to the airport for loading and transportation.
The low-orbit terminal is located outside the atmosphere. Any resources inside the terminal must be used sparingly, and important resources such as air are no exception. Therefore, every time the terminal is opened, the air must be drained first and then the airlock is opened.
If Ye Han wanted to leave now, it would be no problem to open the airlock, but in this case, the air would have to be drained out in advance, and other transport boats would not be able to load the vines, which would affect the transportation progress of the entire dock.
Anyway, if you leave early, you are following the transport ship. It doesn't make any difference if you leave first and later. It doesn't matter if you wait.
As expected, a few minutes later, a group of soldiers drove an electric transport truck piled with vines to the airport. They sent the trucks one by one to the transport boats, filling one and then loading the next. The transport trucks came and went.
One car after another.
Each transport vehicle is as big as a small truck. It can easily carry three to five tons. Ye Han calculated that about seven to eight vehicles can fill a transport boat. Based on the capacity of the carriage, one carriage is about
Can fill four transport boats.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help grinning, worried about the transport capacity of the transport boat.
However, he also knows the situation of the low-orbit terminal. The dead weight, load and volume of the transport boat have been strictly calculated. If it is larger, the risks of entering and leaving the port will also be magnified. It is simply not worth the gain.
