Although the reading and writing are called elevators, the base of the elevator is much wider than the average high-rise building. ★ However, even in this length of more than 30,000 kilometers, the vertical hanging elevator looks slim like a noodle.
On the starship trading warship, Jiang Chen boarded the sea surface base station of the space elevator.
Not long after leaving the port, the group came over to him.
"We have succeeded!"
When Jiang Chen returned to reality and saw the first side of Kervin, this arrogant middle-aged man was excited like a child, holding his hand.
On the contrary, Jiang Chen is more stable. Compared to the excitement of witnessing the birth of the spectacle, the excitement of the name history, at this moment his heart is more gratified by his wish, and the distant future is relieved.
"Yes, we have succeeded."
Released Kervin's hand, Jiang Chen looked up and took a look at the space elevator, and suddenly looked at the technical director standing next to Kervin and asked.
"If I want to engrave a line on the bottom of the space elevator, what pen is better?"
The technical director squatted and immediately said, "The laser torch can be."
"Help me get a laser torch."
Although he did not know what the chairman was paying attention to, the technical director gave a look to the engineer next to him. Soon, a laser torch with a weight of five or six pounds was handed to Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen took it and took it in his hand. He looked at the side of Kervin and the technical director.
The hand of the five-six-pound welding torch can be played in one hand, and the strength of the chairman is much larger than it seems.
Going to the space elevator, Jiang Chen pressed the switch of the welding torch, and used the gun head with the glaring white light on the titanium alloy casing of the space elevator base to engrave a square and square simplified character.
Two steps back, Jiang Chen looked at the line he had carved, and nodded with satisfaction.
"I know that we can solve the next problem, because we have solved all the problems that have occurred before." Kervin, who has already learned, frowned and said that year, and looked at Jiang Chen, "This Is there any deep meaning in the sentence?"
"Nothing, just keep a commemoration." Jiang Chen laughed, turned off the power of the torch, and threw the torch back into the engineer's arms. "Go, take me to see the elevator."
Entering the interior of the space elevator, Jiang Chen used the engineering hologram concept shown by Kervin to appreciate the whole picture of the entire space elevator track and its operating mechanism. There are a total of six passenger rails, three of which are open upwards and the other three are down. When the train arrives at the terminal, the track will be replaced.
Because of the monorail one-way traffic design, multiple cars can be operated simultaneously on one track. It is foreseeable that in the not too distant future, space activities will be quite frequent. People take the space elevator to the outer space, and it will even be as convenient as we can take the high-speed rail today.
This kind of design can also be regarded as a plan for the future of rail traffic congestion.
After the visit, Jiang Chen directly enjoyed lunch with the high-level center of the space shooting center including Kervin in the canteen of the offshore platform. At the dinner table, Jiang Chen asked Kerwin about the progress of the asteroid capture program.
“The work of Deng 6 and weaving nets went very smoothly, but the progress of the orbital work was slower than expected,” Kerwin put down the fork in his hand, saying it was difficult to say, “although the center is on the asteroid orbit. Accurate calculations, but how to ensure the degree and orbit of the asteroid at the same time, there are still some difficulties with the current technical means. Every addition of the traction rocket is quite critical, even if it is a wrong step, it has to be recalculated."
"And the time for the Benu asteroid to leave us is not much. In mid-January, the asteroid will be farther and farther away from us. If you want to catch it, you have to wait six years." The head of the asteroid capture program next to Erwin interjected.
There will be so many difficulties, and they are all expected in Jiang Chen. He can bring back the technical materials of the distant era from the end of the world, but there is no way to help these scientists and technicians to digest these epoch-making technologies. Even in the 22nd century, asteroid mining was a frontier discipline.
“Deploy explosives on the asteroid to make sure that if it suddenly gets out of control, we can at least blow it out of the atmosphere.”
"We are already doing it," Kerwin said earnestly. "We deployed 2.5 tons of t.nt equivalent explosives on the Benu asteroid. If the orbital error occurs, the rocket propeller's remaining fuel is not enough to disengage it." The capture of the Earth's gravity, we can detonate it into meteorite fragments as it approaches the dissipating layer."
After lunch, Jiang Chen arrived at the Space Shooting Center by boat.
The shooting field originally used to shoot rockets has been idle after the completion of the space elevator. The transport ship between the Earth and the Moon has been designed and is now in the experimental stage. At present, the remnant is delivered to the lunar colony, and the second-stage rocket of Xinghuan No. 4 is directly sent to the synchronous orbit through the space elevator, and then added to the earth-moon transfer orbit.
The cost of returning to and from the moon was cut by 60% by directly eliminating the need for a Class 1 rocket and fuel pushed to outer space. The Star Ring Trade is studying the feasibility of expanding the size of the Moon Colony. If the plan is finally implemented, the Star Ring Trade will send 1oo colonists to the Moon.
Just as Jiang Chen inspected the lunar colonial base, a phone call hit his watch.
When I opened the watch and connected the phone, the voice of Xia Shiyu immediately appeared in the ear of Jiang Chen.
"Our guests are here."
"Oh? Is it a guest from China or Russia? Or, from Washington." Jiang Chen and Yan Yue asked.
"It is a guest from China. They have already got off the plane at the airport in Coro. The Minister of Commerce of the New Country and the Minister of Foreign Affairs have already picked up the plane. The purpose of the other party is very clear and I hope to talk to us about the space elevator."
Jiang Chen opened the holographic screen and looked at the time. It was already more than five o'clock.
"Since it is coming from afar, let them rest for a day. Right, have they contacted the place?"
“They have booked a room at the Hilton Hotel in the heart of the ocean and are now on their way to the hotel.” Xia Shiyu replied.
"Then let's do this first."
After that, Jiang Chen hung up the phone and turned his eyes to Kervin.
“Is the nuclear fusion power unit already sent to the moon colony?”
“Yes, in the newly built power station, one of the nuclear fusion machines has been put into use, replacing solar energy to supply power to the lunar colonies. In order to meet the needs of nuclear power plants, we need to build a heavy water plant to produce the crucibles needed for fusion reactions.”
"This is not anxious beforehand. I need you to prepare a report for me before tomorrow afternoon."
"Report? What report?" Kervin looked at Jiang Chen in confusion.
“With regard to the transportation costs of space elevators, I need you and your team to make an accurate assessment. Tomorrow's negotiations, we will use them.” (To be continued.) 8