Although both reading and writing were called elevators, the base of this elevator was much wider than the average high-rise building. However, even so, with a length of more than 30,000 kilometers, the vertically suspended elevator looked as thin as a noodle.
Jiang Chen boarded the Celestial Trade warship and boarded the base station of the space elevator.
Not long after he left the port, a group of people came to him.
"We did it!"
When Jiang Chen returned to reality and saw Calvin for the first time, the proud middle-aged man was as excited as a child and didn't let go of Jiang Chen's hand.
On the contrary, Jiang Chen was more composed. Compared to the excitement of witnessing the birth of a wonder and the excitement of leaving his name in history, he was more relieved that his wish was fulfilled and that he was relieved for the distant future.
"Yes, we did it."
Jiang Chen let go of Calvin's hand and looked up at the space elevator. He suddenly looked at the technical director standing next to Calvin and asked.
"If I want to engrave a line at the bottom of the space elevator, what kind of pen should I use?"
The technical director paused for a moment and then said, "A laser welding torch will do."
"Help me get a laser welding torch."
Although he didn't know what the president was planning, the technical director still signaled the engineer next to him. Soon, a five or six kilogram laser welding torch was handed to Jiang Chen. After Jiang Chen took it, he weighed it in his hand. Calvin and the technical director were all amazed by the weight.
To be able to hold the five or six kilogram welding torch in one hand, the president's strength was much greater than it looked.
Jiang Chen walked to the side of the space elevator, pressed the switch of the welding torch, and used the spearhead that emitted a dazzling white light to engrave a line of simplified Chinese on the titanium alloy shell of the base of the space elevator.
Taking two steps back, Jiang Chen looked at the line of words he engraved and nodded with satisfaction.
"I know we can solve the next problem because we have solved all the problems that have appeared before." Calvin, who had learned Chinese, frowned and repeated the sentence. He looked at Jiang Chen and asked, "Is there any deeper meaning in this sentence?"
"Nothing, just a souvenir." Jiang Chen laughed, turned off the power of the welding torch, and threw the welding torch back to the engineer. "Let's go, show me inside the elevator."
Inside the space elevator, Jiang Chen, through the engineering holographic concept map displayed by Calvin, had a panoramic view of the entire space elevator track and its operating mechanism. There were a total of six passenger tracks, three of which went up and the other three went down. The carriages would change tracks after arriving at the terminal.
Due to the one-way design of the monorail, a single track could carry multiple carriages traveling at the same speed. It could be foreseen that in the near future, space activities were bound to be quite frequent. People will take space elevators to outer space, and it will even be as convenient as we take high-speed trains today.
This kind of design was also a precautionary plan for the future rail traffic congestion.
After the visit, Jiang Chen went directly to the cafeteria on the offshore platform and enjoyed lunch with the executives of the Space Launch Center, including Kelvin. At the dinner table, Jiang Chen asked Calvin 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," Kelvin put down the fork in his hand and said with a troubled expression. Calvin put down the fork in his hand and said with a troubled expression, "Although the supercomputing center has accurately calculated the orbit of the asteroid, it is still difficult to ensure the speed and orbit of the asteroid at the same time with the current technical means. Every acceleration of the towing rocket is quite critical. Even if there is a wrong step, it must be recalculated. "
"And the Bennu asteroid doesn't 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 have to wait six years. "The asteroid capture project leader sitting next to Kelvin interjected.
It was within Jiang Chen's expectation that there would be so many difficulties. He could bring back technical information from the apocalypse, but he couldn't help these scientists and technicians digest these era-defining technologies. Even in the 22nd century, asteroid mining was a cutting-edge discipline.
"Deploy explosives on the asteroid to ensure that if it suddenly goes out of control, we can at least blow it up outside the atmosphere."
"We're already doing it," Kelvin said seriously. Kelvin said seriously, "We deployed 2.5 tons of TNT equivalent explosives on the Bennu asteroid. If there is a mistake in the orbit change and the remaining fuel of the rocket thruster is not enough to escape the grasp of Earth's gravity, we can detonate it into meteorite fragments when it approaches the exosphere. "
After lunch, Jiang Chen arrived at the Space Launch Center with Kelvin.
The launch site that was originally used for launching rockets was idle after the completion of the space elevator. The transport ship between the Earth and the Moon had been designed and was now in the experimental stage. At present, to transport supplies to the Moon colony, the second-stage rocket of Celestial 4 was directly sent to the geosynchronous orbit through the space elevator, and then accelerated into the Earth-Moon transfer orbit.
Because of the direct elimination of the first-stage rocket and the fuel pushed to outer space, the cost of traveling to and from the Moon was reduced by 60%. Celestial Trade was studying the feasibility of expanding the scale of the Moon colony. If the plan was finally implemented, Celestial Trade would send another 100 colonists to the Moon.
Just as Jiang Chen finished inspecting the situation of the Moon colonial base, a phone call appeared on his watch.
He opened the watch, picked up the phone, and Xia Shiyu's voice immediately appeared in Jiang Chen's ear.
"Our guests are here."
"Oh? Are they guests from Hua or Russia? Or are they from the Capital? "Jiang Chen asked with a pleasant tone.
"They are guests from Hua. They have already gotten off the plane at Coro Airport. The Minister of Commerce and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Xin have already gone to pick them up. The purpose of the other party is very clear. They want to talk to us about the space elevator. "
Jiang Chen opened the holographic screen and looked at the time. It was already past five o 'clock.
"Since they came from afar, let them rest for a day first. By the way, have they contacted a place to stay? "
"They have already booked a room at the Hilton Hotel in the Heart of the Sea and are now on their way to the hotel," Xia Shiyu replied.
"That's it for now."
After that, Jiang Chen hung up the phone and turned his eyes to Kelvin.
"Has the nuclear fusion generator been sent to the Moon colony?"
"Yes, in the newly built power station, one of the nuclear fusion generators has been put into use to replace solar energy to power the Moon colony. In order 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. "
"This is not urgent. I need you to prepare a report and send it to me by tomorrow afternoon."
"Report? What report? "Kelvin looked at Jiang Chen in confusion.
"About the transportation cost of the space elevator, I need you and your team to make an accurate assessment. We will use it in tomorrow's negotiations. "
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