Professor Reston swears that even after being exposed to Hollywood sci-fi blockbusters, he never imagined that he would one day see such a shocking scene in reality.

I saw eight slender robotic arms stretching out from the edge of the Lunamiya space station, like spider feet, wielding flexibly between the three sets of spacecraft components.

As if threading a needle, more and more spacecraft components were strung together, gradually outlining the outline of the Xufu colonial ship.

"It can't ......"

The expression on his face was as if he had gone crazy, and Professor Philgoethe, who stood next to Professor Reston, kept opening and closing his lips, muttering the same words over and over again.

"The assembly of extravehicular spacecraft on the space station by means of a robotic arm...... How is this possible! ”

The expression on Professor Reston's face was just as shocked.

Assemble a spacecraft on the space station!

And it's also operated with a robotic arm!

It sounds like a dream.

This is not as simple as spacecraft docking, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is even an order of magnitude more technically difficult than a simple spacecraft docking.

Without a separate power system, these spacecraft components floating in outer space are not much safer than space junk.

Just think about how difficult it is to clean up all that high-speed space junk, and how impractical it is to assemble these scattered sky components with robotic arms on the space station.

A slight carelessness and failure to control the speed and altitude of the orbit may cause the space station to collide with those floating spacecraft components, and eventually cause a tragic space accident!

"Could it be holographic projection technology?" "I've heard that they have a holographic projection technology that works with real people...... It was exhibited at the Bird's Nest Stadium. ”

"It sounds more incredible than assembling a spaceship in space."

Hearing Professor Philgoethe's speech, which seemed to be in his sleep, Professor Reston had a wry smile on his face.

He'd heard of the Bird's Nest holographic projection show, and he'd even seen the video on YouTube. Many people evaluate it as a new era of film media technology, and the picture presented in front of people has almost been realistic to the extent that it is fake.

However, he knew that this thing needed something like water vapor as an imaging medium, and where did this thing come from in space?

In fact, in addition to the mechanical arm that stretched out from the Moon Palace, there was another thing that puzzled him even more.

Is there really no problem with such a random assembly method?

You must know that manned spacecraft have very high requirements for the airtightness of the ship's cabin. Especially in a state of acceleration, each additional interface will increase the risk.

And now......

These Chinese people are equivalent to dismantling the entire "Xu Fu" into large parts, and even the cabin has been dismantled in half. Can such a casual assembly method really ensure the safety of the astronauts in the cabin?

Professor Reston was quite skeptical about this.

However, this doubt did not stay in his mind for long.

Soon all the confusion in his heart was dispelled by the shocking scene.

He wasn't the only one who saw it.

Everyone standing in the command room saw it.

I saw that the front end of one of the mechanical arms on the Moon Palace suddenly flashed a series of faint but unignorable white lights. The white light swept through the articulation of the spacecraft's hull like a dagger.

At the same time, a crazy thought came out of Professor Reston's head.

Weld!

They actually equipped the robotic arm with a "welding torch"!

Although space additive construction is not news, in the eighties of the last century, Soviet cosmonauts carried out the first human extravehicular welding test outside the Salyut 7 space station, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States also carried out similar research, but the application of this technology to the assembly of large spacecraft, he has heard of it for the first time!

And what happened on the Moon Palace at this moment simply completely subverted his understanding of the space industry.

Where is this like assembling a spacecraft......

It's like reassembling a space shuttle on the space station!

Realizing the gravity of the problem, Professor Reston immediately looked at the assistant standing beside him. Ignoring the stunned look on the assistant's face, he ordered in a serious tone.

"Immediately send the captured footage to the Pentagon Space Command!"

Snapping back to his senses from surprise, the assistant nodded quickly, and then trotted out of the command room.

Returning his gaze to the big screen, Professor Reston clenched his fists tightly, a layer of gloom gradually looming between his eyebrows.

It is very likely that Huaguo's mastery of space construction technology has exceeded their estimates.

If they were really able to assemble spacecraft of more than 100 tons in outer space......

Theoretically, it's about making a bigger one.

It won't be too difficult either.

……

In fact, compared to other cutting-edge technologies used in this "simple" spaceport, plasma welding is just one of the most inconspicuous.

It's just that in comparison, other techniques are not so easy to observe directly.

Even researchers from all over the world working on the Moon Palace are ignorant of these things, let alone optical satellites that are more than 300,000 kilometers away.

And these technical reserves are also the confidence of Huaguo not to make any concealment in the fire plan.

What can you do if you are seen?

Even if something is placed in front of you, it is not easy to copy one of them.

Regardless of the turmoil in the hearts of Professor Reston and Professor Philgoethe, almost all the foreign researchers on the Moon Palace at this moment were so surprised by what happened outside the porthole that they were speechless.

Staring at the gradually forming Xufu colony ship, Professor Pearson from the Department of Physics at Harvard University, his face was full of indescribable shock.

He is a professor of particle physics who came here through the IMCRC.

Since the completion of the Lunar Hadron Collider, he has served at the Lunar Research Station and on the Moon Palace.

Even though he has been surprised by all kinds of novel aerospace technology for a while, he still can't control the shock from the bottom of his heart at this moment.

Finally he couldn't help it, he asked.

"Those robotic arms...... Is it someone who is doing it? ”

"How is that possible? Who still has the ability to operate eight hands at the same time," Professor Yan Xinjue, who was also serving in the Lunar Research Station, who was standing next to him, said with a braggart smile, "If nothing else, this thing should be controlled by artificial intelligence." Didn't the Tsukinomiya replace the chipset of the central computer some time ago? Maybe it was this technology that was upgraded at that time...... Of course, I'm just guessing, and I don't know exactly what the situation is. ”

Undisguised from the look of envy in his expression, Professor Pearson looked away from the porthole and looked at Professor Yan Xinjue, "Your aerospace technology is really impressive...... I envy you. ”

Hearing this honest compliment, Yan Xinjue smiled a little embarrassedly.

Although he is not an expert in the field of astronautics.

But to be honest, this feeling of being looked at with envy by scholars from other countries still makes him quite dark in his heart......