Chapter 471: Space factory

The Clipper carrier returned to Earth, leaving the space factory alone on Earth's orbit.
When the space factory stays steady, it starts waiting for activation instructions.
In a satellite orbit a thousand kilometers from the earth, the space factory orbits the earth at high speed.
When it received the order from the ground command center, it began to unfold slowly.
The space factory has been highly folded and compressed. Everything inside it started to work, like a blooming flower.
Immediately after the space factory was fully expanded, the volume immediately increased by hundreds of times.
Its physical part has only expanded eight or nine times. But a large part of the space factory is composed of various magnetic fields.
Now that the space factory has been fully activated, the power supply is starting to deliver power to the corresponding modules.
The mechanical gears started to run at a rapid speed, driving the mechanical components to change. Various processing structures and electromagnetic fields have begun to develop.
The fully expanded space factory is much like a big mushroom.
Various solid substances including communication processing energy are mushroom rods
The volume of the ultra-miniature nuclear power plant occupies 50% of the mushroom rod part of the space factory.
The huge power generation of ultra-miniature nuclear power plants has begun to provide sufficient energy for space factories.
The mushroom umbrella cover is the core processing area of ​​the entire space factory.
It is composed of various composite electric fields to form a complex electromagnetic field material processing center.
Arcs flashed from time to time, not because of a power leak from the space factory. Instead, the processing area uses a super strong magnetic field as the processing means.
The equipment deployed in space has no personnel around it and will not affect the environment of the earth.
Its electromagnetic field is directly exposed to the outside without any shielding treatment.
When the space factory is launched, these electromagnetic fields are also charged to work.
Cosmic particles hit the complex electromagnetic field processing center of the space factory, and are affected by the super strong electromagnetic field, which will cause a discharge phenomenon.
The space factory is fully unfolded, and the self-inspection of each functional module has been completed. Its condition meets the design requirements and you can start working.
It sends a message to the outside and begins to contact the equipment that sent it the raw material.
After waiting a long time, I only saw a blue whale-shaped spacecraft approaching in the distance.
This is Xinghai Explorer II, whose main task is to capture special asteroids in the asteroid belt.
It sends captured samples to Earth for scientists to study. In order to find valuable materials.
But no matter how advanced the scanning equipment is, it is impossible to scan the inside of every asteroid.
There must be some misjudgments in capturing the asteroids in the storage space.
These asteroids do not contain a tiny bit of special material at all. They are composed of very common common compounds such as ferrosilicon.
In the past, Xinghai Explorer 2 would throw these things directly into the universe.
Now that there is a space factory, it can deliver materials that had previously been discarded to the space factory on each return.
Let the space factory use these multi-element asteroid materials to process the right things.
It also saves the need to ship raw materials from the earth for processing. The cost is too high and the product is completely uncompetitive.
Xinghai Explorer 2 came to the space factory.
A transparent tube immediately protruded from the inside and plugged directly into the inlet of the space factory.
Began to transport asteroids through this tube to the space factory.
Most of these asteroids are within one meter in diameter.
The Space Factory received an asteroid from Star Explorer II.
It continues to send tons of material, enough for a space factory to process for a long time.
Xinghai Explorer II, returned to Earth after the delivery.
These asteroids entered the space factory, and they were immediately crushed by a smashing hammer made of silicon gold crystal material.
Residues obtained by crushing these asteroids are subjected to preliminary screening. According to the classification of ingredients, enter different processing workshops.
The material processing workshop of the space factory is basically the same as the microwave oven.
It's just that the power and magnetic field strength have been strengthened tens of thousands of times, and the induction cooker can only heat the moisture value.
Space Factory's compound electromagnetic field machining center, which can heat any element on the periodic table.
Utilize super strong electromagnetic waves to make molecules or atoms inside the material vibrate.
Due to the accelerated movement of particles inside the material, its temperature rises sharply, and soon it begins to melt.
The space plant performs a preliminary screening of these melting materials.
The screened raw materials are immediately transported to the next processing center.
Here is a large high-frequency magnetic field, which is mainly responsible for changing the characteristics of the material.
When the raw material comes here, it is dissociated into an ionic state by a super strong magnetic field.
The space factory mainly uses electromagnetic fields to process materials, and non-ionic electrically neutral materials, which cannot be classified by electromagnetic fields.
Materials in ionic state after passing through multiple composite electromagnetic fields.
Due to the different mass of the charge, each material will follow a certain trajectory.
This device can directly separate different materials.
Materials that require further processing go to the next machining center.
No need to process the materials after electronic compensation. Reduce it to a substance composed of a single element.
The composite electromagnetic field can highly differentiate into absolutely pure raw materials. Even isotopic materials can be separated using this device.
In the raw material storage box, after the tons of asteroids were separated, there was a small yellow rice-sized raw material.
It is uranium 235 with 100% purity. The coveted material of many small nations on the planet.
This simple material separation technique is completely unfeasible on earth.
The space factory is in high-speed orbit, and it is in a vacuum weightless environment.
Processing is not affected by gravity and substances in the air.
There are superconducting materials as the core of the magnetic field generator. Only a not too high current is needed to maintain a super strong magnetic field.
This kind of material processing method that could not be done on earth before was due to the advancement of technology. Has been officially implemented.
Using electromagnetic field processing technology, it is the most cost-effective processing method in the space factory.
Multiple electromagnetic fields screen out the ions that meet the requirements, which will be based on the combination of materials recorded in the computer.
To synthesize this required material, such as wanting a high-strength steel.
The magnetic field machining center responsible for synthetic materials ~ EbookFREE.me ~ It only needs to take in iron, oxygen, carbon, manganese and other ions that make up super steel.
You can move them to a specific location and then compensate the electrons.
Let these ions grow directly into the required super strong steel.
This also makes it very easy to control the composition of the elements inside the raw material.
It can be perfectly manufactured to reach theoretical limits.
The most important thing is that this processing method also uses 3D printing.
It can directly form various parts of the target in the material processing stage. There is almost no requirement for size.
The synthesized materials returned to the solid part of the space factory again.
Here are excellent industrial robots that assemble these parts in accordance with procedures.