On Earth, the African Free Trade Area has been officially established, and various constructions are proceeding in an orderly manner.
On Mars, the expansion rate of Dayun's Mars base is constantly accelerating.
After the first phase of the project was completed, the Mars base was officially put into use. A large number of equipment and personnel also continued to settle in the Mars base.
In the Mars base, robots are busy and templates are being assembled.
The second phase of the Mars base project is much larger than the first phase. During this time, several spacecrafts are also constantly going back and forth to deliver equipment and modules.
The huge second phase of the project includes two spacecraft docking ports and a huge industrial area.
The industrial area is the most important. The energy of the Mars base is now self-sufficient. The equipment currently used is the latest type of controllable nuclear fusion reactor.
Now that the reactor has been put into use, it can be loaded with fuel once and can be used by the entire base for fifty years without any problems.
The second phase of the project is the most important part of the Mars base. The first phase of the project is just a temporary base, and the project is the core of the real base.
After the modules were assembled piece by piece and the power was turned on, various tests began. The anti-gravity device was also officially launched, and the second phase of the project was officially completed.
"Testing completed..."
"The fresh air system has been started..."
Various systems were officially started. When all systems were started, the huge sealed door opened.
After the huge sealed door opened, everyone who had been waiting for a long time entered the second phase of the project.
The second phase of the project is much larger than the first phase, and the huge space is very open.
The entire second phase of the project has a very large construction area. There are living areas, entertainment areas, agricultural areas, warehouses, and most importantly, industrial areas.
There is an advanced smelting center and a processing and manufacturing center.
With these two centers, resources on Mars can be developed and utilized. In other words, many things can be self-sufficient on Mars. In this way, when the spacecraft transports things, it only needs to transport the Mars base.
The production of things will be enough, which greatly increases the construction of the Mars base.
When we come to the smelting base, the huge smelting base is very advanced. It is not large in scale, but has a complete range of types and can carry out small-scale smelting. These equipments are currently the most advanced equipment and use the most advanced and environmentally friendly technology.
"Steelmaking furnace No. 1 starts..."
The staff were already impatient and started working immediately after entering their work stations.
The iron ore that has been mined long ago is put directly into the steel-making furnace.
This kind of iron ore on Mars was found some time ago. This kind of iron ore is not only rich in iron, but also contains many other rare metals.
The iron ore is put into the steel-making furnace. This is the latest electric furnace, and the reducing agent is not ordinary coke.
The steel-making furnace is not big, but it is very advanced and powerful. The temperature control in the furnace is precise to every degree to ensure the smelting effect.
Looking at the changes in various data, everyone is looking forward to it.
The industrial base is starting to get busy, and everyone is looking forward to it.
Various slags are removed, the iron ore is turned into molten iron, and the molten iron is turned into iron ingots after cooling.
After the iron ingots cooled, the staff began to inspect the iron ingots to see the quality of the refined iron ingots. The reason why they were refined into iron ingots was to see the quality of the iron ore here.
"Product qualified"
After the test was completed, the news made everyone laugh.
If the iron ingot product is qualified, it means that the iron ore here is qualified. With iron ore, steel can be made. Different steel products can be refined through different formulas and different processes.
With steel, many things can be solved, including the infrastructure modules for base construction. More than 95% of the things in these modules are special steels, and now the base can completely smelt itself.
The production base became busy, and various iron ores were put into the furnace to start smelting. However, this time, instead of smelting ordinary iron ingots, they directly smelted the required steel.
Not only that, the waste residue produced by these iron ores has been smelted, because there are many rare metals in the waste residue. Specifically, the value of these waste residues may be more expensive than the value of the steel.
The industrial zone is busy, and various special steels are being refined. After being refined, they are sent directly to the processing workshop for processing according to requirements. As for the products that cannot be refined and processed here, many backups have already been shipped from the earth.
After a series of operations, a complete building module was processed. After testing, it was found that the quality of these building modules was better than those made on earth.
Because this is Mars, and the processing is done directly in the vacuum workshop, the gravity is small, and the processing is more convenient and precise.
"successful"
Looking at the building modules in front of them, people in the base cheered. Being able to produce building modules by themselves means that the construction of the entire Mars base can be accelerated again.
More Earth-Drilling Dragons can be used, and the spacecraft only needs to transport key parts.
The efficiency has been greatly improved this time. If the building module is compared to a mobile phone. In the past, the spacecraft needed to transport the entire mobile phone. But now it only needs to transport a small chip.
In this way, a spaceship that originally could transport 100,000 building modules can now transport millions or even tens of millions of key components in one trip.
Transportation efficiency has increased dozens or even hundreds of times, with the continuous expansion of the Mars base. The goal of the entire base is not only self-production, but one day in the future, the things produced here will be transported back to the earth and sold back to the earth.
The second phase of the project was completed, and the third phase of the project also started randomly. Construction here is almost non-stop around the clock.
The spaceship fleet once again arrived at the Mars base, but this time it did not land directly outside.
The two spaceships slowly lowered their altitude. Halfway up the mountainside of the valley, two huge hidden hatches opened. After opening, a huge landing pad appeared in front of the spacecraft.
The two spaceships slowly drove into the apron. The entire apron was actually a huge enclosed hangar. When the spacecraft was stable, the door of the hangar was closed.
After the door is closed, various equipment in the hangar are activated. Anti-gravity devices, disinfection devices, etc.
After the disinfection is completed, the hatch of the spacecraft is opened.
In the spaceship, all the crew members got off the spacecraft. Everyone's faces were full of curiosity. After a month of flight time, they finally reached their destination.
"Welcome to the Mars base, everyone. Welcome."
The greeting staff smiled and said that after the completion of the second phase of the project, the existence of the Mars base is no longer top secret information for the staff here.
There are also a lot of staff coming this time. Letting them know that this is a Mars base will also allow them to work better.