The shortage of flights and airport runways did not affect Jiang Chen's plan to return home from Canberra.
What's the big deal about the runway?
At his level, even if there was no runway, Coro Island International Airport would find a way to create one for him. Even if it couldn't be created, his private plane could directly use the runway at the New Moon Island military base.
Even the An-225 could stop on that runway, let alone a civilian Gulfstream G650.
Back on Coro Island, it had been five days since the United Nations Outer Space Summit, and the successful opening of the space elevator was a week ago. In a few days, the passengers on Celestial City would return to the surface.
Now Celestial City was bare. Except for an experimental field that applied some of the Garden of Eden's technology, only a small area of living space was cleaned up, which could accommodate about one thousand people. Only thirty astronauts working for Celestial Trade could stay in Celestial City.
The first thing Jiang Chen did after he got off the plane was to find Calvin.
The asteroid capture plan had been completed, and the eight rocket engines had been turned off. They were quietly in orbit with the asteroid with a diameter of 500 meters away from Earth.
At this time, Calvin was responsible for preparing for the launch of the Dragon Spacecraft. This was an outsourcing project from SpaceX, only 2 million Xin New Dollars, which was nothing compared to his previous two projects. The launch process was very simple. The robotic arm was used to hang the Dragon Spacecraft on the outer orbit of the space elevator, and then it was foolproof operation.
After handing the launch task to his assistant, Calvin, who was already skinny, gave himself a small vacation. He didn't want to do anything except stay on the private island he bought with 10 million Xin New Dollars. He wanted to sleep in his cabin and make up for all the sleep he didn't get last year.
However, he didn't live on the island for more than two days before his dream was disrupted by Jiang Chen's helicopter.
The helicopter's rotors blew the sand on the beach. Calvin climbed up from the beach chair and saw it was Jiang Chen who got off the helicopter. His eyebrows suddenly relaxed and he greeted Jiang Chen with a smile. Celestial Trade's technology completely shocked the 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 wasn't for the fact that Jiang Chen was his boss, Jiang Chen's strategic vision was worthy of his respect.
"Chairman Jiang, what brings you here?"
"There are some problems with the asteroid project. Didn't you see the news?" Standing on the beach, Jiang Chen asked directly.
Kelvin was stunned for a moment and shook his head.
"No, what happened?"
Like most companies, Celestial Trade certainly had an online public relations department, and public opinion monitoring was its responsibility. Unfortunately, the asteroid capture plan was a high-level secret within Celestial Trade. Except for the personnel involved in the plan, even the senior executives of the group didn't know that the Space Launch Center had a plan to capture asteroids.
It wasn't until NASA's observation results came out that the Bennu asteroid was followed by eight rockets that the person in charge of online public relations realized that this matter might be related to his company.
Jiang Chen told Kelvin about what happened on the internet and asked for the project leader's opinion.
"We can actually see our 'construction site' from the space elevator? This, this is really … "The onlookers didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Kelvin thought for a while and couldn't think of a suitable word to describe this blunder.
The propulsion device used by Celestial Trade was not a chemical rocket engine in the traditional sense, but an improved RM-320 rocket engine designed by Jiang Lin called the RM-400 ion propulsion rocket engine.
Ion propulsion was the use of electric energy to accelerate the working medium to form a high-speed jet to generate thrust. The application of ion propulsion technology in the aerospace field actually appeared at the end of the 20th century, but there had always been shortcomings of insufficient thrust, so it was not widely promoted. In the timeline of the apocalypse, it was not until the middle of the 21st century that ion propulsion technology made a major breakthrough.
Among them, the plasma propulsion derived from ion propulsion technology was used on some of the engines of "Zhenghe". The technical connotation was also very simple. It was nothing more than the electrons in the plasma performing Hall Drift under the action of crossed perpendicular electric and magnetic fields, and the ejected ions formed a thrust to propel the spacecraft forward.
However, this seemingly simple technology, even the UA Ed Astra Rocket Company, which was the furthest in the rocket engine project, had been stuck in the stage of hyping up the concept to attract investors.
This engine had a characteristic, which was that it would not form a more obvious tail flame and smoke column at the tail of the rocket.
Don't underestimate this point, it was quite critical. This meant that if you relied on the naked eye, only at a specific angle or close enough distance could you observe the spacecraft using this engine from the universe. And if it was on the ground, in most cases, even if people discovered it, they would only treat it as an ordinary star and not pay too much attention.
"Now the outside world is speculating that it was Celestial Trade that dragged the asteroid into the Earth-Moon system. Under the hype of some people, the public has now formed a false trend. Celestial Trade did not drag a large asteroid rich in minerals into the Earth-Moon system, but an explosive equivalent of 3 billion tons. "
"This speculation has no scientific basis." Kelvin facepalmed.
"That's right, but you can't expect everyone to study physics and learn to think rationally," Jiang Chen mocked.
The "Bennu" asteroid capture plan was successful. Even without considering the dozens of tons of explosives installed on the asteroid, there was no need to worry about any safety hazards.
As for why, it was easy to explain. Since "Bennu" could be captured by the gravitational force of the Earth-Moon system, its relative speed with the Earth as a reference frame had long been reduced to less than ten kilometers per second. Even if it really collided with the Earth, its power would not be comparable to before.
This is a problem that gives me a headache.
After some discussion, Jiang Chen made a decision.
"The asteroid mining plan will begin immediately. We must change the public's wrong impression that 'the asteroid is not under our control'."
As long as the public saw that Celestial Trade not only had the ability to pull this problem to the Earth, but also had the ability to solve this problem, all the negative information would disappear. The plan was completed as early as last year, and now it was just a slight adjustment.
After arranging this matter, Jiang Chen did not disturb Kelvin's vacation. He boarded the helicopter and flew away from the private island.
Kelvin's mouth twitched as he looked at the beach cabin covered in sand and mud. If he knew this would happen, he would have built a tarmac.
After hesitating for a moment, he finally gave up the urge to clean up and called the renovation company. The number of the renovation company was given to him by the agent when he bought the mansion. Its scope of business was not only renovation, but also building maintenance, overall cleaning, and other services.
But as a result, his original plan to spend a vacation on the beautiful uninhabited island had to be ruined.
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