The picture shows the deep-sea space station
Now another project against the sky is unveiled! To build a space station at a depth of 1,000 meters, is it really intended to build a "Dragon Palace" on the bottom of the sea? What is its special role? It is reported that this deep-sea space station can greatly enhance the strength of marine scientific research, and facilitate the exploitation of seabed resources, while the difficulty is exposed, the construction of such a project, even for the United States and Russia is not an easy task, so how did China do it?
The picture shows the deep submersible
Nine days to catch the moon, can go down to the five oceans to catch turtles is the ancient and simple wish of the Chinese people, and China has made a series of remarkable achievements in the field of spaceflight, such as the completion of the exploration and return of the moon, while the Chinese space station has also begun to build, and ushered in the second batch of resident astronauts, it can be said that the first half of this wish has been completed, and in fact, China has also invested a lot of resources and energy in the second half, that is, the exploration and development of the ocean.
From a scientific point of view, the deep sea hides a large number of organisms that have not yet been discovered by humans, which may be able to reveal the evolution of the earth's geology and life, and from an industrial point of view, the seabed not only hides a large number of rare mineral deposits, but also a large number of oil, natural gas and combustible ice and other fuel resources, waiting for development and utilization, so the manufacture of a deep-sea space station that can stay and work for a long time in the sea area at a depth of more than 500 meters has very important practical significance for China.
In fact, China in the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", has proposed the research and establishment of the deep-sea space station, but the research and development of this kind of facility is not easy, because its research and development process, will encounter a series of problems that have not been encountered before, because the facility itself is large, and works on the deep seabed, the shell must have a strong ability to withstand pressure, in order to protect the internal equipment and personnel, and just like the space station in space, the deep-sea workstation also needs to dock with other facilities and submersibles. Therefore, it is necessary to overcome the difficulties brought by high pressure to docking, in addition, because the waters below 1000 meters are basically in a dark state, the workstation must ensure a continuous energy supply in a long-term harsh environment, thereby maintaining its long underwater endurance, not to mention the corrosive effect of seawater with high salt content on the material, in addition to some equally important communication positioning, emergency rescue, and security problems that need to be solved.
At present, China has built the Longgong No. 1 deep-sea workstation from scratch, which uses electricity as a power source to maintain the standard of the four-season function underwater, with a displacement of 160 tons, can carry 12 people, and can stay underwater for 15 to 18 days, and can also carry a variety of types of underwater robots, underwater robotic arms and underwater lifting and lifting devices, for China, this equipment has a very important role in the development of resources such as submarine minerals and petroleum. Due to the use of a three-step strategy similar to that of the space station in the development of the deep sea, Ryugu-1 can only be counted as the second step, and in the future, China will build a workstation with a maximum diving depth of 10,000 meters, a stay time of one month, can carry 33 people, and has a nuclear power system.
Although China started later than developed countries in various fields, the gap between us and developed countries is rapidly narrowing under the impetus of Chinese scientists working day and night, and even has achieved transcendence in some fields, with the domestic Dragon Palace 1 and the follow-up more powerful deep-sea space station, China will certainly be able to develop the treasure-like South China Sea and make it help the country's further development.