Chapter 1028: Mars Colonization Plan Launched
Even based on the closest distance, the distance from Mars to the Earth is hundreds of times farther than the distance between the Earth and the Moon, and even light takes three minutes to fly. With the current technical conditions, it is basically unrealistic to establish a supply line between Halo City and the Mars colony.
The current research plan formulated by the Aerospace Science and Technology Institute over there in the apocalypse is to design an engine that can be used as an aircraft for a round trip between the Earth and Mars. The requirements of this engine can accelerate a large transport ship of one million tons to 60,000 kilometers per hour, which is close to the speed of the third universe, in one day. In this way, it can travel between the Earth and Mars in one week to half a month. between. Although the relevant technical problems had been overcome for a long time before the war, the engine itself had no ready-made drawings for reference, and could only be redesigned with the help of predecessors' technology.
This is also what Jiang Chen regrets the most.
It is said that the Zheng He launched from Jiuquan can accelerate to one-tenth the speed of light. However, the researchers involved in designing the Zheng He's engine are all valuable talents and cannot be left to fend for themselves in this wasteland.
Since it is not possible to establish a supply line for the time being, this requires that the colonial base deployed on Mars has higher resource utilization efficiency than the lunar colony base, and can be self-sufficient to the greatest extent, and the production cost of its equipment is also that of the lunar colony base. More than several times. .
At the end of the visit, Kerwin reported a number to Jiang Chen.
The cost of the entire equipment is as high as S$25 billion, and 90% of the structure is completed by industrial-grade 3D printers. Just twenty people burned down the market value of a listed company. Even Jiang Chen felt distressed for a while.
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On the first Friday after returning to the new country, it was finally time to launch the Mars colonization plan.
Standing on the sea platform under Star Ring City, Jiang Chen sent twenty colonists onto the space elevator. After shaking hands with them, he personally awarded them commemorative medals in recognition of their contributions and sacrifices to the aerospace industry. .
After arriving at Halo City, they will begin a week of closed training, and after the training, they will board the ship directly and set sail for Mars, which is tens of millions of kilometers away.
For now, it's a one-way ticket. In the next few years or even ten years, they will spend time on the desolate Mars, at least until flights to and from Mars are opened, without being able to see their loved ones again.
The parting scene was quite touching. Seeing the heroes and their families hugging each other to say goodbye, everyone present had tears in their eyes. Media from all over the world recorded this historic scene with their cameras, accompanied by text from different countries, and spread it as news to every corner of the international community.
Regarding being beaten by Starlink Trading to complete the manned landing on Mars,
The response from NASA and SpaceX has been fairly muted. From the moment the space elevator was built, they were fully mentally prepared for this day.
In view of being beaten ahead by the Halo Trade, SpaceX quietly canceled the Mars colonization plan originally scheduled to be launched in 2020 and focused its business on the development of asteroid resources.
But these have nothing to do with Jiang Chen. Regardless of whether SpaceX adjusts its business strategy, he does not believe that the other party can beat him in the space race.
As for how the United States would react and how China would feel, he didn't bother to think about it that much.
After the launch ceremony of the Mars colonization plan, Jiang Chen put down all social activities and spent a leisurely weekend after the first time in a long time. You sleep until you wake up naturally in the morning, and in the afternoon you either go surfing or lie on the private beach and soak up the sun leisurely. As for night, even if he doesn't want to, he will be pulled into the tender homeland of one of the two women.
Occasionally, just occasionally. When Xia Shiyu couldn't bear it anymore, she would ask for help from Ayesha who happened to be hiding aside and peeking. But when she woke up the next day, she would be so ashamed of what happened last night.
Good times always fly by, and May is here in a blink of an eye.
With the addition of Star Ring Trade, the war situation in Ukraine has reached a historic turning point. According to Jiang Chen's instructions, Star Ring Trade soldiers helped the civilian armed forces push the front to the east bank of the Dnieper River and then stopped their offensive. Momentum, turning offense into defense. In addition to maintaining limited air support for frontline civilian armed soldiers, ground troops have basically withdrawn from the frontline.
Now is not the time for victory.
NATO will not allow Ukraine to turn eastward, and Jiang Chen does not want to feed the polar bears all at once. However, passive inaction cannot be too obvious, after all, the employer pays for it. Fortunately, Arrowhead Company sent an additional 20,000 mercenaries to Ukraine and started a mobile war with civilian armed forces in northern towns. This also gave Starring Trade an opportunity to maintain the stalemate.
I don’t know if the release of Star Ring Trade gave the commander of Arrow Company the illusion that he could win. At the end of April, two divisions of the Ukrainian army, with the support of Arrow Company, launched an attack on the east bank of the Dnieper River. Civilian armed forces launched a new round of offensive.
Throughout the battle, a total of 120 tanks, 327 armored vehicles, 27 armed helicopters and 10 fighter jets participated in the war. Steel ruins and tar-smelling black smoke filled every area in the eastern suburbs of Dnipropetrovsk. An inch of land.
If it weren't for two brigades from Star Circle Trading rushing from the rear to support the front line, they almost would have done it. After both sides suffered a lot of casualties, the Ukrainian army finally ended in defeat. The two divisions retreated to the west bank of the Dnieper River just as they came.
Because of the disastrous defeat of the Ukrainian army on the east coast, the Ukrainian president was once forced to the point where he almost resigned. However, Poroshenko has the support of NATO after all, and he has not been ousted by the anti-war people.
The two sides were in a stalemate on both sides of the Dnieper River, and no one could make a step forward. The situation finally eased.
In addition to performing air raid missions, the Aurora-20 would occasionally sneak into the airspace of Poland, Germany, and even France. Following Jiang Chen's instructions, it cooperated with ghost agents to search for Carmen's whereabouts.
I have to say that this guy is quite cunning. After escaping the assassination attempt by Pierson Church, he seemed to have disappeared, leaving all apparent matters to his spokesperson or hired professional agent to handle. He completely hid behind the scenes. Occasionally it surfaced a few times and sank quickly again.
Even with the help of high-tech investigation methods, it is not easy to locate a person's whereabouts in such a vast Europe. What's more, Europe is the stronghold of Freemasonry, and its inherent power is integrated into all strata of society. It can almost be described as deep-rooted. If Carmen doesn't take the initiative to show up, the possibility of catching him is almost slim.
Ghost agents operating in Europe had investigated traces of Carmen's activities in Switzerland and Finland, but when they arrived, there was no trace of him.
But they were not without gain.
On the morning of May 4th, Monica Geller, who returned to Coro Island from Europe to report on work, brought two interesting pieces of news to Jiang Chen... (To be continued.) New website launched