The vast expanse of the sea near the space elevator has been classified as a military exclusion zone by the Star Empire.

Dense with warplanes and warships cruised in the nearby waters, so well defended that even birds did not dare to pass by.

Sea platforms equipped with laser and missile air defense systems are deployed in the sea near the space elevator to defend against missiles or aircraft that may pose a threat to the space elevator.

If today's insurgents can target civilian aircraft, future terrorists could well target space elevators.

So placing the space elevator in a remote location will be the best way to reduce the risk.

When the anchorage point of a space elevator is located on a mobile platform in the Pacific Ocean near the equator, it is at least 600 kilometers away from any airway or ship route.

No matter where the insurgents attack from, the defenders of the space elevator will have plenty of warning time.

In addition, the structure of the space elevator determines that a terrorist attack from the ground can only threaten a small part of the elevator, that is, the part below the height of fifteen kilometers kilometers.

The space elevator is expensive and strategically important.

Like a space station or spaceship, a space elevator should have the ability to avoid space junk.

The cable of the space elevator will be anchored to a moving platform in the sea near the equator.

This mobile platform is like a zoomed-in version of an offshore oil rig. The moving platform is equipped with thrusters that can change positions back and forth to move the space elevator away from incoming space debris or meteorites.

As a space elevator, the sea surface base station is capable of docking a 100,000-ton displacement freighter, and the runway next to it is a spacecraft.

The three space elevators that have been built so far have four passenger lanes on the inside and four freight lanes on the outside.

The passenger passage is equipped with a carrying compartment, which adopts the principle of electromagnetic drive, and the whole shuttle-shaped carrying compartment is like a projectile of an electromagnetic gun, accelerating on the energized guide rail.

As for the freight channel, the principle is similar to that of the passenger channel, except that because it is to transport goods, there is no need to consider the gravity of the human body, so the vertical velocity reaches the first cosmic acceleration.

Each freight car can push hundreds or even thousands of tons of cargo to the synchronous orbit, which is equivalent to the carrying capacity of several to dozens of heavy launch vehicles.

Although the construction and maintenance of the space elevator is expensive, when put into operation, it has a huge advantage over traditional spacecraft in terms of transportation costs.

It will reduce the launch cost per kilogram of cargo from 40,000 to 60,000 Stars to about 500 credits.

There is no doubt that the first country to have a space elevator will be the first to obtain space resources and enjoy the "elevator dividend".

For this miracle staircase connecting outer space and the earth, the countries of the Blue Star seem to know something, but they may understand that it may not be useful if they know, so they all remain silent.

Compared with the silence of various governments, the people of Blue Star have exploded on the Internet.

Space Elevator!

This concept, which originally only existed in fantasy literature, film and television works, was actually moved to reality by the Star Empire!

The Blue Star people of this era have been witnessing history, they have all seen alien spaceships, but they didn't expect that even the space elevator would appear in their lifetime.

"My God, imagination has become reality!"

"It's unbelievable that humanity has entered the interstellar age in the 21st century!"

"The technology of the Star Empire is so powerful!"

Not only the spontaneous discussions of netizens, but also major scientific research institutes, authoritative journal literature platforms, and countless news media have reported on the space elevator at length.

"Breakthroughs in nuclear fusion technology and multi-walled carbon nanotube technology will once again add to the edifice of science, and at the same time, it will bring humanity and the universe closer together."

"One of the incredible fantasies of human history has been inaugurated, the space transportation mode belonging to the rocket has announced its end, and the space age has officially begun for us!"

"As its name suggests, the Empire of the Stars has become the most dazzling empire in the history of mankind, it has led mankind into space, and it will go further in the future......"

"Hundreds of years later, when the space elevator, the bridge to the universe, is built, the inhabitants of the Blue Star will migrate to outer space on a large scale, and tens of thousands of large and small space cities will be established on the periphery of the Blue Star. At that time, a space cableway will be built between the space cities, just like the roads and railways that connect the cities. ”

"With the extensive construction of space elevators, in the distant future, when viewed from Mars or Venus, the blue star will be surrounded by a web of spider silk, and the dazzling halo above the equator will be a connected space station.

This super circular space station is connected to Earth by multiple space elevators, like the spokes of a bicycle. Similar to Blue Star, the other inhabited planets in the solar system, the Moon, Mars, and Titan, can also install space elevators on their equators, which will serve as a bridge between space settlements. ”

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Blue Star, the administrative center of the capital of the Stellar Empire, the Führer's office.

Looking at these unsparing words of praise, Shen Sen smiled and threw them aside.

The first five-year plan has passed, and the results appear to be remarkable, with three major projects developing dramatically.

In addition to this, the Star Empire has also undergone a major upgrade of the infrastructure of the four worlds.

Transportation, post and telecommunications, water supply and power supply, commercial services, scientific research and technical services, landscaping, environmental protection, culture and education, and health services have all ushered in tremendous improvements.

The technology and resources from the four worlds are blended and promoted, like a key to open the door to a new era, and the technology in various fields of the Star Empire is developing like a blowout.

People feel that the changes every year are comparable to the changes in the previous decade, and all kinds of future technologies have come out of the film and television to change the way everyone lives.

Next, it's time to push forward with the implementation of the Second Five-Year Plan.

Shen Sen picked up the plan submitted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Star Empire, and his eyes swept over the lines of simple words.

【Second Five-Year Plan of the Star Empire】

First: In the next five years, the existing basic industrial system of the Qunxing Empire will be upgraded with weak artificial intelligence technology in an all-round way to reduce the input of labor, and strive for the penetration rate of intelligent automatic mechanization to reach 80%.

Second: to carry out the first phase of STC production template technology imitation and improvement, and strive to come up with a mature technical system within five years.

Third: Within five years, strive to make the Star Empire have three billion outstanding scientific research talents and establish a sufficient human resource pool.

The Empire of the Stars does not stop developing, just as the universe does not stop turning.

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