Chapter 926: A Guest From Afar

Although both reading and writing are called elevators, the base of this elevator is much wider than ordinary high-rise buildings. However, even so, the length of more than 30,000 kilometers makes this vertically suspended elevator look as slender as a noodle.

Taking the warship of Star Ring Trade, Jiang Chen boarded the sea base station of the space elevator.

Not long after getting off the port, a group of people walked towards him.

"We made it!"

When Jiang Chen came back to reality and saw Kerwin for the first time, this proud middle-aged man was as excited as a child, holding his hand tightly.

On the contrary, Jiang Chen seemed more stable. Compared with the excitement of witnessing the birth of a spectacle and the excitement of leaving a name in history, at this moment, his heart is more gratified that his wish has been fulfilled, and he is relieved in the distant future.

"Yes, we succeeded."

Letting go of Kerwin's hand, Jiang Chen looked up at the space elevator, then suddenly looked at the technical director standing next to Kerwin, and asked.

"If I want to engrave a line on the bottom of a space elevator, what pen should I use?"

The technical director was stunned for a moment, and then said, "A laser welding torch is fine."

"Get me a laser torch."

Although he didn't know what the chairman was paying attention to, the technical director still winked at the engineer next to him. Soon, a laser welding torch weighing five or six kilograms was handed over to Jiang Chen. After Jiang Chen took it, he held it in his hand and weighed it. Kerrwin, who was standing beside him, was amazed by the technical director.

To be able to hold this welding torch weighing five or six kilograms in one hand and play with it like this, the chairman's hand is much stronger than it looks.

Walking to the side of the space elevator, Jiang Chen pressed the switch of the welding torch, and with the tip of the torch emitting a glaring white light, he carved a line of simplified Chinese characters on the titanium alloy shell at the base of the space elevator.

Taking two steps back, Jiang Chen looked at the line he had engraved, and nodded in satisfaction.

"I know we can solve the next problem, because we have solved all the problems that have arisen before." Kerwin, who had already learned Chinese, frowned and repeated that sentence, looking at Jiang Chen and asking, " Is there any deep meaning in this sentence?"

"It's nothing, it's just a souvenir." Jiang Chen laughed, turned off the power of the welding torch, and threw the welding torch back into the engineer's arms.

"Come on, take me to see inside the elevator."

Walking into the interior of the space elevator, Jiang Chen experienced the overall picture of the entire space elevator track and its operating mechanism through the engineering holographic concept map shown by Kerwin. There are a total of six passenger tracks, three of which run upwards and the other three run downwards, and the carriages will change tracks after arriving at the terminal.

Because of the one-way design of the monorail, multiple carriages traveling at the same speed can run on one track at the same time. It is foreseeable that in the not-too-distant future, space activities are bound to be quite frequent. People take a space elevator to outer space, and it will even be as convenient as we take a high-speed rail today.

This design can also be regarded as a precautionary plan for future rail traffic congestion.

After the visit, Jiang Chen had lunch directly in the cafeteria on the offshore platform with the high-level executives of the space launch center, including Kerwin. At the dinner table, Jiang Chen asked Kerwin about the progress of the asteroid capture plan.

"The work of landing and weaving the net is going very smoothly, but the progress of the orbit change is slower than expected," Kerwin put down the fork in his hand, and said with a look of embarrassment, "Although the supercomputing center has carried out the asteroid orbit We have achieved accurate calculations, but how to ensure the speed and orbit of the asteroid at the same time still has certain difficulties with the current technical means. Every acceleration of the tractor rocket is quite critical, even if it is a wrong step, it has to be recalculated."

"The Bennu asteroid does not leave us much time. After mid-January, the asteroid will be farther and farther away from us. If we want to catch it again, we will have to wait six years later." Next to Irwin, the project manager for the Asteroid Capture Program interjected.

Jiang Chen expected so many difficulties to arise. He was able to bring back technical materials far beyond the era from the end of the world, but he couldn't help these scientists and technicians digest these epoch-making technologies. Even in the 22nd century, asteroid mining is a cutting-edge science.

"Put explosives on the asteroid to make sure that if it suddenly goes out of control, we can at least blow it up outside the atmosphere."

"We are already doing it." Kerwin said seriously, "We have deployed 2.5 tons of T.NT equivalent explosives on the Bennu asteroid. If there is a mistake in the orbit change, the remaining fuel of the rocket propeller is not enough to make it break away Captured by Earth's gravity, we can detonate it into meteorite fragments as it approaches the exosphere."

After lunch, Jiang Chen and Kerwin arrived at the space launch center by boat.

The launch site, which was originally used to launch rockets, has been idled since 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, to deliver supplies to the lunar colony, it is enough to directly send the second-stage rocket of Halo 4 to the synchronous orbit through the space elevator, and then accelerate into the earth-moon transfer orbit.

The cost of going to and from the moon is cut by 60% due to the direct omission of the first-stage rocket and the fuel propelled into outer space. Halo Trade is studying the feasibility of expanding the size of the lunar colony. If the plan is finally implemented, Halo Trade will send another 100 colonists to the moon.

Just when Jiang Chen finished inspecting the situation of the lunar colony base, a call came to his watch.

After turning on the watch and connecting to the phone, Xia Shiyu's voice immediately appeared in Jiang Chen's ears.

"Our guests have arrived."

"Oh? Is it a guest from China or Russia? Or, from Washington." Jiang Chen asked pleasantly.

"They are guests from China. They have disembarked from the plane at Keluo City Airport. The Minister of Commerce and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand have already gone to pick them up. The other party's purpose is very clear, and they hope to talk to us about the space elevator."

Jiang Chen turned on the holographic screen and checked the time. It was already past five o'clock.

"Since they have come from a long distance, let them rest for a day. By the way, have they contacted where they live?"

"They have already booked a room at the Hilton Hotel in the Heart of the Ocean, and they are on their way to the hotel where they will stay." Xia Shiyu replied.

"Then let's do this first."

After speaking, Jiang Chen hung up the phone and turned his attention to Kerwin.

"Has the fusion power plant been sent to the moon colony?"

"Yes, one of the fusion generators is already in operation at the newly built power station to replace solar power to power the lunar colony. To meet the needs of the nuclear power plant, we need to build a heavy water plant to produce the deuterium needed for the fusion reaction. "

"There is no rush. I need you to prepare a report and send it to me before tomorrow afternoon."

"Report? What report?" Kerwin looked at Jiang Chen in confusion.

"As for the transportation cost of the space elevator, I need you and your team to make an accurate assessment. Tomorrow's negotiation, we will use it." (To be continued.) Activate the new website