Chapter 945 Mining Plan Launched

The tightness of flights and airport runways did not affect Jiang Chen's plan to return home from Canberra.

A tight runway is also a problem?

At his level, even if there is no runway, Koro Island International Airport will find a way to make one for him. Ten thousand steps back, nothing can be changed, his private jet can directly use the runway of the Crescent Island military base.

Even the An-225 is parked on that runway, let alone a civilian Gulfstream G650?

Back on Koro Island, five days have passed since the United Nations Outer Space Summit, and it has been a week since the first successful opening of the space elevator. In a few days, the passengers on Star Ring City will return to the surface.

Now Star Ring City is bare, except for an experimental field that has applied some of the Garden of Eden technology, only a small area of ​​living space has been cleaned up, which can accommodate about a thousand people. The only ones who could stay in the Star Ring City were the thirty astronauts who accompanied them to the space station and worked for the Star Ring trade.

The first thing Jiang Chen did after getting off the plane was to find Kerwin.

The asteroid capture plan has been completed, and the eight rocket engines have been turned off, and they are quietly wading in orbit away from the earth together with the asteroid with a diameter of 500 meters.

At this time, Kerwin was in charge of preparing for the launch of the Dragon spacecraft. This is an outsourcing project of spaceX, with only 2 million Singapore dollars, which is only a drizzle compared to the first two projects he did. The launch procedure is very simple. Use the robotic arm to hang the Dragon spacecraft on the outer track of the space elevator, and then operate it like a fool.

Handing over the launch mission to his assistant, Kerwin, who was already skinny and skinny, took a long vacation for himself. He didn't want to do anything, he just wanted to stay in his private apartment that he bought for 10 million Singapore dollars. On the island, I lay down in the beach wooden house and slept a lot, making up for the sleep I didn't get enough last year.

However, he hadn't lived on the island for two days before he was disturbed by Jiang Chen's special helicopter plane.

The helicopter's rotors blew the sand on the beach into the air. Kerwin got up from the beach chair. When he saw that it was Jiang Chen who got off the helicopter, he immediately frowned and greeted him with a smile. The technology of Star Ring Trading has completely shocked this technician from Mississippi.

If he had to say who he admired the most in the entire company, it would undoubtedly be Jiang Chen. Even if it's not because of the relationship with his immediate superior, his far-sighted strategic vision is worthy of his respect.

"Jiang Dong, what wind brought you here?"

"There's a little problem with the asteroid project,

Didn't you watch the news? "Standing firm on the beach, Jiang Chen asked straight to the point.

Kerwin froze for a moment, then shook his head.

"No, what happened?"

Like most companies, it is impossible for Xinghuan Trading to be without an online public relations department, and public opinion monitoring is exactly its responsibility. Unfortunately, the asteroid capture plan is a relatively high-level secret in the star ring trade. Except for the personnel involved in the plan, even the top management of the group do not know that the space launch center also has a plan to capture asteroids.

It wasn't until NASA's observation results came out that there were eight rockets in front of the Bennu asteroid, that the person in charge of the network public relations realized that this matter might have something to do with his company.

Jiang Chen talked to Kerwin about the things on the Internet, and asked the project leader for his opinion.

"You can actually see our 'construction site' from the space elevator? This, this is really..." With the dumbfounding expression on his face, Kerwin thought for a while but couldn't think of a suitable word to describe this time. Oolong incident.

The propulsion device used by Star Ring Trade is not a chemical rocket engine in the traditional sense, but an electric propulsion rocket engine named RM-400 designed by Jiang Lin and improved based on the RM-320 rocket engine.

Electric propulsion, that is, the use of electric energy to accelerate the working fluid to form a high-speed jet to generate thrust. The application of electric propulsion technology in the aerospace field actually appeared at the end of the 20th century, but there has always been a shortcoming of insufficient thrust, and it has not been widely promoted. On the timeline of the last days, it was not until the middle of the 21st century that there was a major breakthrough in electric propulsion technology.

Among them, the plasma propulsion derived from electric propulsion technology was applied to some engines of the "Zheng He". Its technical connotation is also very simple to say, nothing more than the electrons in the plasma do Hall drift under the action of the crossed vertical electric field and magnetic field, and the thrust is formed by the ejected ions to propel the spacecraft forward.

However, it is this technology that seems simple to say. Nowadays, even the American Ed Astra Rocket Company, which has gone the farthest in the rocket engine project, has been stuck in the concept of hype to lure investors into the pit. stage.

This kind of engine has a characteristic, that is, it will not form more obvious tail flames and smoke columns at the tail of the rocket.

Don't underestimate this, it's quite critical. This means that if the naked eye is forbidden, the aircraft using this engine can only be observed from the universe at a certain angle, or at a close enough distance. And if it is on the ground, in most cases, even if people find it, they will only treat it as an ordinary star, and will not pay too much attention to it.

"Now the outside world is speculating that it is the star ring trade that dragged the asteroid into the earth-moon system. Under the hype of those who care about it, a wave of mistakes has formed in public opinion. The star ring trade is not a big bonanza that is pulled into the earth-moon system An asteroid, but a 3-gigaton explosive.”

"This kind of speculation has no scientific basis." Kerwin said with his forehead supported.

"That's right, but you can't expect everyone to have studied physics and learn to think rationally." Jiang Chen teased.

The "Bennu" asteroid capture program has been successful. Even if you don't consider the dozens of tons of explosives installed on the asteroid, there is no need to worry about any safety hazards.

As for why, it's easy to explain. Since "Bennu" can be captured by the gravitational force of the earth-moon system, its relative motion speed with the earth as the reference system has already dropped below ten kilometers per second. Even if it really collides with the earth, it is impossible to compare with the previous power.

This is a headache.

After some discussion, Jiang Chen made a decision.

"The asteroid mining program begins immediately, and we must change the public's misperception that our asteroids are out of our control."

As long as the public can see that Xinghuan Trade not only has the strength to bring this trouble to the side of the earth, but also has the ability to solve this trouble, all negative information will be self-defeating. The plan was prepared as early as last year, and now it is just a slight adjustment.

After arranging this matter, Jiang Chen didn't bother Kerwin's vacation, turned around and boarded the helicopter and flew away from the private island.

Looking at the wooden beach house covered in sand and mud, the corners of Kerwin's mouth twitched. If he had known earlier, he would have built a helipad.

After hesitating for a moment, he finally gave up his urge to clean and called the decoration company. The phone number of this decoration company was left for him by the intermediary when he bought the villa. Its business scope is not only decoration, but also building maintenance, overall cleaning and so on.

Only in this way, his original plan to vacation on a beautiful uninhabited island had to be ruined.

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