Chapter 945: Mining Plan Starts (Ask for a Monthly Pass!)
The tension on flights and the airport runway did not affect Jiang Chen's plans to return from Canberra. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Is it also a matter of tight runways?
At his level, even if there is no runway, Koro International Airport will find a way to make one for him. If he takes 10,000 steps back, he can't change it, and his private jet can directly use the runway of the Crescent Island military base.
The runway is even parked with the An-225, not to mention a civilian Gulfstream G650?
Back on Koro Island, it was five days after the United Nations Outer Space Summit ended, and the first opening of the space elevator was a week ago. In a few days, the passengers above the Star Ring will be returning to the surface.
Now the Star Ring City is bare, except for an experimental field that has applied part of the Eden technology, only a small area of living space has been cleaned up, which can accommodate about a thousand people. The only people who could stay on Star Ring City were the thirty astronauts who accompanied them to the space station to work for the Star Ring Trade.
The first thing Jiang Chen did after getting off the plane was to find Kerrwin.
The asteroid capture program has been completed, and the eight rocket engines have been turned off and are quietly walking in orbit away from the Earth with the asteroid with a diameter of 500 meters.
At this time, Kirwin was in charge of preparing for the launch of the Dragon spacecraft. This is SpaceX's outsourcing project, which is only S$2 million, which can only be regarded as a drizzle compared to the first two projects he did. The launch step is simple, use a robotic arm to hang the Dragon spacecraft on the outer orbit of the space elevator, and then it is a fool's errand.
Handed over the launch to his assistant, Kerwin, who was already skinny, gave himself a long vacation, and he didn't want to do anything but stay on his private island that he bought for S$10 million, sleep in a beach cabin, and make up for all the sleep he hadn't slept enough last year.
However, he didn't live on the island for two days before he was disturbed by Jiang Chen's helicopter plane.
The rotors of the helicopter blew the sand on the beach into the air, Kerwin got up from the beach chair, and saw that it was Jiang Chen who got down from the helicopter, and immediately frowned, and greeted him with a smile. Transwarp Trade's technology has completely shaken the Mississippi technician.
If he wants to say who he admires the most in the whole company, it is undoubtedly Jiang Chen. Even if it is not for the relationship between his own immediate boss, he is worthy of his respect for that far-sighted strategic vision.
"Jiang Dong, what kind of wind blew you here?"
"There was a little problem with the asteroid project, didn't you watch the news?" Standing firmly on the beach, Jiang Chen asked straight to the point.
Kerrwyn was stunned and shook his head.
"No, what's going on?"
Like most companies, Transwarp certainly can't do without an online PR department, and public opinion monitoring is where it lies. However, unfortunately, the asteroid capture program is a high-level secret in the Star Ring Trade, and in addition to the people involved in the program, even the senior management of the group does not know that the Space Launch Center has a plan to capture asteroids.
It wasn't until NASA's observations, with eight rockets in front of the Bennu asteroid, that the head of online public relations realized that it might have something to do with his company.
Jiang Chen told Kerwin about the Internet and asked the project leader's opinion.
"You can see our 'construction site' from the space elevator? This, this is really ......" The look on the onlooker's face was crying and laughing, and Kirwin thought for a while but could not come up with a suitable word to describe this oolong incident.
Instead of a chemical rocket engine in the traditional sense, Transwarp Trade used as a propulsion device, but an electric propulsion rocket engine designed by Jiang Lin based on the RM-320 rocket engine, called the RM-400.
Electric propulsion, that is, the use of electric energy to accelerate the formation of a high-speed jet of the working fluid to generate thrust. The application of electric propulsion technology in the aerospace field has actually appeared at the end of the 20th century, but there has always been a shortcoming of insufficient thrust, and it has not been popularized on a large scale. In the post-apocalyptic timeline, it was not until the middle of the 21st century that there was a major breakthrough in electric propulsion technology.
Among them, plasma propulsion derived from electric propulsion technology was used in some engines of "Zheng He". Its technical connotation is also very simple, it is nothing more than the electrons in the ion body do Hall drift under the action of the cross-perpendicular electric and magnetic fields, and the ejected ions form thrust to propel the spacecraft forward.
However, even the Ed Astra Rocket Company in the United States, which has gone the furthest in the rocket engine project, has been stuck in the stage of hyping the concept to attract investors into the pit.
One of the characteristics of this engine is that it does not form a more obvious tail flame and smoke column in the tail of the rocket.
Don't underestimate this, it's crucial. This means that if it is forbidden to use the naked eye, only at certain angles, or at a close enough distance, can a vehicle with this engine be observed from the universe. And if it's on the ground, most of the time, even if people find it, they will just think of it as an ordinary star, and they won't pay too much attention to it.
"Now there is speculation that it is the ring trade that drags the asteroid into the Earth-Moon system. Under the hype of people with good intentions, a trend of error has now formed in public opinion. Instead of a large chunk of rich ore asteroids, the ring trade pulled into the Earth-Moon system, but a 3 billion tons of explosives equivalent. ā
"There is no scientific basis for this speculation. Kirwin said.
"Yes, 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, and even without considering the dozens of tons of explosives installed on the asteroid, there is no need to worry about any safety risks.
As for why, it's a good explanation. Since "Bennu" can be captured by the gravitational pull of the Earth-Moon system, its relative speed with the Earth as a reference frame has long since dropped to less than 10 kilometers per second. Even if it really collides with the earth, it will not be comparable to the previous power.
It's a headache.
After some discussion, Jiang Chen made a decision.
"The asteroid mining program began immediately, and we had to change the public's misconception that our asteroids were out of our control. ā
As long as the public can see that Transwarp Trade not only has the strength to pull this trouble to the side of Earth, but also has the ability to solve this trouble, all negative information will be self-defeating. The plan was already in place last year, and now it is only slightly adjusted.
After arranging this matter, Jiang Chen did not disturb Kerrwin's vacation, turned around and boarded the helicopter and flew away from the private island with a whining.
Looking at the beach cabin covered in sand and mud, the corners of Kirwin's mouth twitched, he knew he would fix a tarmac.
After hesitating for a moment, he finally gave up the urge to clean up himself and called the renovation company. The phone number of this renovation company was left to him by the agent when he bought the villa, and its business scope is not only decoration, but also building maintenance, overall cleaning and other businesses.
It's just that in this way, his original plan to vacation on an uninhabited island with pleasant scenery has to be ruined.
(Brothers, the last three days, if you can kill back to the top five, eleven will be thanked!) (To be continued.) )