Even at the closest distance, the distance between Mars and Earth is hundreds of times greater than the distance between the Earth and the Moon, and even light can fly for three minutes. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info With the current technical conditions, it is basically unrealistic to want to establish a supply line between Star Ring City and the Martian colony.

At present, the research plan of the Aerospace Science and Technology Research Institute on the other side of the world is to design an engine that can be used as a vehicle to travel between Earth and Mars. The engine is required to be able to accelerate a mega-ton transport ship to nearly 60,000 kilometers per hour in a single day, close to the third cosmic speed, so that it can travel between Earth and Mars in a week to half a month. Although the technical difficulties had been overcome for a long time before the war, the engine itself had no ready-made drawings to refer to, and had to be redesigned with the help of the technology of its predecessors.

This is also what Jiang Chen regrets the most.

It is said that the Zheng He launched in Jiuquan can accelerate to one-tenth of the speed of light, but the researchers involved in the design of the Zheng He engine are valuable talents and cannot be left to fend for themselves in this wasteland.

Since it is not possible to establish a supply line for the time being, this requires the colony base deployed on Mars to have a higher resource utilization efficiency than the lunar colony base, to achieve maximum self-sufficiency, and the production cost of its equipment is also several times that of the lunar colony base.

At the end of the visit, Kerwin reported a number to Jiang Chen.

The cost of the entire equipment is S$25 billion, and 90% of the structure is completed by industrial-grade 3D printers. With just twenty people, the market value of a listed company was burned, and even Jiang Chen felt distressed for a while.

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On the first Friday back in the new country, it was finally time for the Mars colonization project to start.

Standing on the offshore platform under the Star Ring City, Jiang Chen sent the twenty colonists to the space elevator, shook hands with them, and personally awarded them a commemorative medal in recognition of their contributions and sacrifices to the aerospace industry.

After arriving in Star Ring City, they will begin a week of closed training, and after the training, they will directly board the ship and set sail for Mars, which is tens of millions of kilometers away.

As it stands, it's a one-way ticket. They will spend years or even decades on the deserted Mars, at least until flights to and from Mars open, and they will not be able to see their loved ones again.

The parting scene was quite touching, witnessing the heroes and their families hugging each other, and everyone present was in tears. Media outlets from all over the world recorded this historic scene with their cameras and words from different countries, and spread it as news to every corner of the international community.

NASA and SpaceX reacted quite calmly to the manned landing on Mars before they were preempted by Ring Trade. From the moment the space elevator was built, they were already mentally prepared for this day.

Given that it was preempted by the Star Ring Trade, SpaceX silently canceled the Mars colonization plan scheduled to start in 2020 and focused on the development of asteroid resources.

However, none of this has anything to do with Jiang Chen, no matter whether SpaceX adjusts its business strategy or not, he doesn't think that the other party can beat him in the space race.

As for how the United States will react and how the Chinese Congress will feel, he is too lazy to think about it so much.

After the launching ceremony of the Mars colonization plan, Jiang Chen put down all the entertainment and spent a leisurely weekend after a long absence. Wake up naturally in the morning, and spend the afternoon surfing or basking in the sun on a private beach. As for the evening, even if he doesn't want to, he will be pulled into the gentle village of someone in the second daughter.

Occasionally, just occasionally. When Xia Shiyu couldn't bear it, she would also ask Aisha, who happened to be hiding on the side and peeking, for help. It's just that when she wakes up the next day, she'll be ashamed of what happened last night.

The good times always go by quickly, and in the blink of an eye it's May.

With the addition of Transwarp Trade, the war situation in Ukraine ushered in a historic turning point, according to Jiang Chen's instructions, after the soldiers of Transwarp Trade helped the civilian armed forces push the front to the east bank of the Dnieper River, they stopped the momentum of the offensive and turned from offensive to defensive. With the exception of maintaining limited air support for civilian armed soldiers on the front lines, ground forces have largely withdrawn from the front lines.

Now is not the time for victory.

NATO will not allow Ukraine to fall to the east, and Jiang Chen does not want to feed the polar bears all at once. However, passive slacking cannot be done too obviously, after all, the employer pays for it. Fortunately, the Arrowhead Company sent an additional 20,000 mercenaries to Ukraine and waged a movement war against civilian forces in the northern towns, which also gave Star Warp Trade a chance to maintain the stalemate.

I don't know if the release of the Star Ring Trade gave the commander of the Arrow Company the illusion that he could "win", at the end of April, two divisions of the Ukrainian army, with the support of the Arrow Company, launched a new offensive against the civilian armed forces on the east bank of the Dnieper River.

A total of 120 tanks, 327 armored vehicles, 27 helicopter gunships and 10 fighter jets were involved in the battle, and steel ruins and tar-smelling black smoke spread every inch of the eastern outskirts of Dnipropetrovsk.

If it weren't for the two brigades of Transwarp Trade rushing to the front line from the rear to support, they would have almost done it. After both sides paid a lot of casualties, it finally ended in the defeat of the Ukrainian army, and how the two divisions came to retreat to the west bank of the Dnieper.

Because of the crushing defeat of the Ukrainian army on the east bank, the Ukrainian president was once forced to the point of almost stepping down. However, Poroshenko is backed by NATO after all, and he has not been ousted from power by the anti-war people.

The two sides were deadlocked on both sides of the Dnieper, and no one could take a step forward, and the situation finally eased.

In addition to carrying out air raid missions, Aurora-20 will occasionally sneak into the airspace of Poland, Germany, and even France, following Jiang Chen's instructions and cooperating with ghost agents to search for Carmen's whereabouts.

I have to say that this guy is quite cunning, since he escaped the assassination of the Plzeň church, the whole person seems to have disappeared, pushing all the affairs on the surface to the spokesperson or hired professional agent to deal with, and he is completely hidden behind the scenes. Occasionally, it surfaced and quickly sank back.

Even with the help of high-tech reconnaissance methods, it is not easy to locate a person from the vast expanse of Europe. What's more, Europe is the stronghold of Freemasonry, and its inherent power is integrated into all strata of society, which can almost be described as ingrained, and if Carmen does not show up on his own initiative, the possibility of catching him is almost remote.

Ghost agents operating in Europe have investigated Carmen's activities in Switzerland and Finland, but by the time they arrived, they were nowhere to be seen.

But they weren't without gains.

On the morning of May 4, Monica Geller, who returned to Corro Island from Europe to report to work, brought two interesting news to Jiang Chen...... (To be continued.) )