Chapter 167, Space Farmland

In outer space, not too far from the Sky City, a huge "Hercules" space plane slowly opened its hatch. Its huge belly was filled with various materials brought up from the ground, all of which were used to build space farms.

At this time, Gu Feng, the head of space agriculture at Fuyun Group, was wearing a thick space suit and watching the construction of space farms in the "Hercules" space plane.

Since Li Fu inspected the Sky City last time and knew that space agriculture had great potential, he was determined to let the Chinese people eat the rice passed down from their ancestors on their tables again. He fully supported 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 in a hurry to do things, naturally did not sit idle. He quickly found the company's scientific team in the space field and designed a truly feasible space farm plan.

It is definitely not an easy task to build a farmland in space. If it is just like the agricultural area in the sky city, it is not difficult to build 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 that planting, cultivation, and harvesting should be simple, and it should be able to achieve full mechanization to save manpower as much as possible; secondly, safety should be fully considered. The scale of space farmland must be large and it is easy to be hit by space debris; and it must be convenient for the transportation of materials. The development of agriculture is definitely inseparable from water, and the harvested crops also need to be transported back to the earth.

There are many factors to consider, but this is not difficult for the scientist team of Fuyun Group. After all, they already have experience in building the sky city, and with the "Hercules" aerospace plane to transport materials, many things can actually be designed and assembled on the ground and directly transported to space by the "Hercules" aerospace plane, which is relatively simple to operate.

At this time, the hatch of the "Hercules" space shuttle has been opened, and the mechanical arm slowly extends out to slowly move the contents of the belly out. Space is only affected by microgravity, so even objects with large mass do not need much force to move.

The "Hercules" space shuttle is more than 50 meters long, more than 30 meters wide, and dozens of meters high. Its belly is very large and can carry a lot of materials.

The mechanical arm slowly moves out a huge space capsule-like thing. This huge space capsule-like thing is 10 meters long and 5 meters in diameter.

One after another, similar space capsules are moved out, two, two space capsules are combined together, without any difference, and soon, in space, a long stick appears in the field of vision.

Then soon, several more space shuttles slowly approached, the hatch opened wide, and the mechanical arm moved out the same space capsule again, and continued to assemble, and slowly a huge field appeared in space.

This "田" character is composed of four small "口" characters. Each "口" character is a very standard 100 meters, consisting of 10 huge space capsules. One "口" character is 40 space capsules, and one "田" character is composed of 60 space capsules, forming a huge frame.

Each of these space capsules is designed and assembled on the ground. The space capsules are strictly designed. There is an engine 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 drive the space farmland to move and change orbits, and can also be used to rotate the space farmland, adjust the lighting angle, etc.

At the same time, the interior of these huge space cities is hollow, with various instruments, equipment, hatches, mechanical arms, etc., and there are aisles for walking together. The staff of the space farm can directly pass through these aisles to resist any place and cultivate, fertilize, harvest, etc. space crops.

In space, after the "田" character is assembled, the aerospace plane is not idle. It is still transporting space capsules from the ground, and slowly another "田" character is connected to it, constantly expanding the space farmland.

At the same time, in the area where the framework has been completed, an astronaut controls the mechanical arm to carry out the next step. These astronauts control the mechanical arm to assemble long things similar to cultivate troughs to the "口" character. is such a long cultivation trough every 1 meter.

All the cultivation troughs are strictly designed, and there is no difference after being assembled on the space capsule. The space capsule has already left an interface.

Slowly, the cultivation troughs divide this huge "口" character into squares with a side length of 1 meter. A "口" character is just 100 meters long and covers an area of ​​​​10,000 square meters. Now it is divided into 10,000 small squares with a side length of 1 meter.

After installing the breeding tank, the astronauts began to prepare to build the cover. It was still the same principle. First, build a curved frame, and then assemble pieces of slightly curved tempered glass on it. Slowly, a glass cover like a hemisphere was assembled. After the tempered glass covers on both sides were assembled, a closed space was completed.

Gu Feng came to a farmland that had been assembled in a space suit. He walked through the space capsule and opened a hatch at the location of the space capsule. The whole person slowly floated in, as if he was in a world with a round sky and a square earth. Whether it was the top of his head or the bottom of his feet, it was a huge bowl turned upside down, but one side was transparent and the other side was dark, forming a closed world.

"Well, the design of the two sides also takes into account that plants cannot photosynthesize 24 hours a day, and they also need to rest like animals. When the time comes, the direction of these cultivation tanks can be turned, and they can be rotated. They rest while photosynthesizing and growing."

Gu Feng looked at this completed area and nodded with satisfaction. The light in space is very sufficient. As long as there is a need, there is no problem with 24-hour light. However, plants are a combination of light reaction and dark reaction. The light reaction is to synthesize carbon dioxide and water into starch through photosynthesis, which can only be carried out under light conditions. The dark reaction is respiration, which obtains energy for plant growth and development by decomposing starch, and it is carried out 24 hours a day.

In layman's terms, plants, like animals, cannot photosynthesize 24 hours a day and need to rest. Therefore, although there is sufficient light in space, plants also need to rest.

Gu Feng returned to the space capsule. Each space capsule is equipped with a control room, which can control the entire farmland through a computer. At this time, it has just been assembled, so it is natural to conduct inspection and testing.

"Start testing!"

The staff around him controlled the computer to start automatic inspection and testing. Gu Feng looked at the farmland through the window of the space capsule, and he was a little uneasy in his heart. Whether this design can be put into use or not, this is related to his next plan.

"Turn over the cultivation tank!"

Accompanied by the sound of the machine, the cultivation tank slowly turned over, without any problem. The cultivation tank has two sides, both sides can cultivate crops, one side receives light and the other side rests.

"Test the sealing, start releasing compressed air."

The next step is to test the sealing of the farmland. Plants cannot survive without air, so the farmland must be sealed, and the air inside must not leak at all.

"No air leakage was found, the test was perfect."

The farmland was full of air at this time, and the standard was naturally based on the earth. In other words, people can breathe freely in this farmland now, and the staff can enter and exit it freely without wearing space suits.

"Test the nutrient solution delivery equipment in the cultivation tank."

The mechanical sound sounded again, and water began to flow in the cultivation tank in the farmland. The water was delivered by the space capsule under pressure. Water is the foundation of plant growth, and various nutrients needed by plants can be added to the water.

One test after another was carried out, and everything was perfect. Fuyun Group's technological level is getting stronger and stronger, and it has experience in building a sky city. It is natural to build a space farmland.

"Engineer Gu, all the tests are very perfect and can be accepted."

"Well, start the planting experiment."

Gu Feng nodded with satisfaction. The design of the space farmland is the same as the principle of other space construction designs in space. All units are independently designed and operated. Each space farmland has an independent system, life support system, control system, energy system, etc.

So even though the space farm is still under construction and expansion, it has no impact on the completed space farm, and it can be put into production immediately.

"Yes."

The staff next to him received the order and began to operate the computer. Everything in the space farm is automated and mechanized, and only needs to be operated and calculated.

I saw a series of mechanical arms extending from the space capsule. These mechanical arms began to sow seeds in these cultivation tanks. The calculations were very precise. The sowing of seeds was calculated and sown one by one, and the intervals between them were also the same, with almost no mistakes.

The efficiency of the machine was very high, and the seeds were sown very quickly and evenly. This time, because it was an experiment, the vegetables planted were very short-lived vegetables-Chinese cabbage.