Volume 1, Pot of Gold, Chapter 756, The Placement of the Space Elevator

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Today, 7 nautical miles east of Anga Island, this is the territorial boundary of the new country. Further southeast, there is the open sea, and there is not a single island in sight. However, because of the recent application for manganese nodule mining here, the future mining industry used an engineering ship to tow an offshore platform.

Strange to say, however, there has been no sign of construction of the offshore platform after the future mining left the offshore platform alone on this sea. Except for a few soldiers standing guard on it, and a few civilians who looked like workers, not even the equipment for mining was visible.

What does the Future People Group want to do?

The United States, which has been staring at the Future People Group since the completion of Penglai City, is undoubtedly the most curious. But curiosity is curiosity, and they can't ask directly, so the White House used the usual method, through an unnamed White House official to leak this information, and then let these reporters to find out the news.

However, the Future People Group obviously did not accept the reporter's set, and asked about the offshore platform deployed by Future People Mining at sea, and the answer was one sentence in a unified voice: "Legal behavior, no comment." ”

The "cover-up" of the Future People Group has made the public more curious. For a while, all kinds of rumors were rampant, and all kinds of keyboard warriors analyzed the actions of the Future People Group and dug out the deep-seated reasons. Some people say that they are building a second Penglai city in the future, some people say that they are building an undersea city, and some even say that they have found alien relics under the seabed......

Public opinion was easily steered to strange places.

What exactly is the Future People Group doing?

Everyone was curious about the question......

……

"What's that?"

Boarding the offshore platform, Kerrwin, the CEO of the Transwarp Trade Space Science and Technology Center, glanced directly above the platform, where there was a board about twenty square meters horizontally. From the outside, unlike solar panels, he really couldn't think of what this thing could do.

"Anti-satellite laser arrays. It is too cumbersome to introduce, in short, it means that the spy satellite above our heads can only see a luminous point of more than ten square kilometers, and the radio signals that are monitored all become a chaotic noise. Jiang Chen patted the guardrail of the offshore platform, looked at Kerryn and smiled, "This is one of the top secrets of the Future People Group, and now you still have a chance to regret 2." ”

"But that would keep me awake from sleep. Kirwin shrugged his shoulders and followed Jiang Chen.

The water droplets stopped in the square of the offshore platform, but it was obviously not this strange submersible that Jiang Chen was going to show him.

After entering the water droplet, Jiang Chen set the route on the holographic screen, and then turned on the panoramic imaging, turning the entire Water Drop No. 1 into a veritable water droplet, transparent from the inside out......

"Amazing technology. Kirwin reached out and poked the bulkhead, pointing to the steel plate, "It's the first time I've seen such an amazing submersible...... Is this the top secret?"

"Do you think it needs to be kept secret?" Jiang Chen said with a smile.

Kerrwyn smiled as well.

It's also said that compared to the technology that the Future People Group has come up with, this thing has nothing to keep secret. Even in Penglai City, Jiang Chen did not hide anything from the media when the construction started, and even began to auction the properties on this artificial island halfway through the project.

Clearly, there's something terrible hiding under the sea.

However, what puzzled Kerrwin was why he found himself under the sea, his job was in the aerospace area!

Without waiting for a long time, that is, two minutes of effort, the Water Drop No. 1 had slowly descended to the bottom of the sea. When the searchlight was turned on, Kirwin's eyes widened as he looked at the beam.

A huge metal cube, looking down from above, is two or three thousand meters long and wide. Compared to Penglai City, this cube is not shocking, but for some reason, he can feel a stronger sense of science fiction from this structure......

And his intuition told him that this thing had something to do with astronautics.

Thinking of the space elevator that Jiang Chen told him some time ago, a trace of enlightenment suddenly appeared in his heart, could it be ......

"What the hell is this?" asked Kirwyn in a trembling voice.

"I thought you could guess," Jiang Chen smiled back, and pressed on the holographic screen, letting the water droplets stop in place, "The space elevator base, although it hasn't been finished yet." ”

Yes, it's a half-finished product.

The base of the space elevator from the Beluga Submarine Research Station was disassembled parts, and Jiang Chen mobilized all the amphibious engineering machines he brought to the present world, and assembled them for half a month before assembling them into their current shape.

Kirwin was silent for a moment before sighing.

"For some reason, I always have a feeling of regret. ”

Jiang Chen asked, "Oh?

"Before I have taken what I have learned in my life to the extreme, the era of rockets is over. Kirwyn said in a teasing tone.

At least, the era of space rockets is over.

If the cost of space flight could be reduced from tens of millions of dollars to less than $1,000, who would pay for a space rocket? Even the X-SPAE's Falcon rocket would not be as cheap as that. It is foreseeable that the Star Ring Trade, which masters the space elevator, will cover all the satellite launch projects in the world without any suspense...... At least a commercial satellite launch project.

"It's too early to say. Jiang Chen shook his head with a smile, paused for a moment, and then continued, "The space elevator has only completed the first phase of the project, that is, the base of the space elevator, and the remaining part needs to be completed by the Aerospace Science and Technology Center and Future People's Heavy Industry." ”

Unlike all buildings on Earth, this "Tower of Babel" to synchronous orbit was built from the top down. The space station in a synchronous orbit will be built first, and then the construction of the terminal balance and the 36,000-kilometer orbit will begin at the same time.

This means that all construction materials must be launched into outer space by guò rockets. Leaving aside the cost of the materials themselves, the cost of a rocket launch alone is not a small amount. This is also the reason why Jiang Chen began to merge and acquire private aerospace companies last year to develop the Transwarp N series of rockets. Only by reducing the launch cost to a relatively reasonable price can the Future People Group have the conditions to build a space elevator.

As early as last year, Jiang Chen was preparing for this moment.

"All the technical information about the space elevator has been developed, and the next thing we have to do is take it off the drawings. I don't have a cap on the budget for the whole project, and your only task is to complete the Tower of Babel for me. ”

After a pause, Jiang Chen then smiled.

"If it happens, your and my names will go down in history. (To be continued.) )