对金属进行熔炼大约已有几千年的历史了。然而,随着航天技术的发展,在太空进行金属冶炼,那可以称得上是一件既新鲜又顺理成章的事。 空间冶炼也叫宇宙冶金,是在航天飞行器中特定的超高真空和失重的太空环境中对金属进行冶炼,以获得具有新奇特性的金属。 一般熔炼金属都要在熔炼炉中经燃料加热进行,而宇宙冶金则不同。它只用几只电磁线圈和一套特别的装置,就可以完成冶炼。被熔炼的 Smelting metal has been around for thousands of years. However, with the development of space technology, metal smelting in space can be regarded as something new and logical. Space smelting, also known as cosmic metallurgy, is the smelting of metals in the spacecraft’s specific ultrahigh vacuum and weightless space environment to obtain novelty metals. Generally, the smelting metal is heated by fuel in the smelting furnace, while the cosmic metallurgy is different. It uses only a few solenoids and a special set of equipment to complete smelting. Melted