Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 346 Space Elevator
Zhong Cheng called Shi Hanxing into the office and asked him to deal with Liu Jiang's affairs.

Then, he thought of Xu Jiuwen who was on the moon, "Han Xing, find someone to transfer Xu Jiuwen from the Ancient People's Association of Yuegong City back, and arrange him to the Ancient People's Association in Haicheng, where he is responsible for collecting information on the Mutual Aid Association."

Now that he has given up on developing on the moon, it would be a bit of a waste to put Xu Jiuwen on the moon.

He found that they paid less attention to the Mutual Aid Society before, and maybe the Mutual Aid Society may become his number one opponent in the future.

The full name of the Mutual Aid Society is the Mutual Aid Society for the Families of the Fallen Soldiers of the Crusades. It belongs to a church organization with a longer history. It is a secret society and is unknown to the world.

In recent years, after he began to pay attention to Solar System Power Company and Xingwang Company, the company's business research department discovered this deeply hidden behind-the-scenes manipulator.

However, little is known about its organizational structure, operating mechanism, and important members.

He transferred Xu Jiuwen to the Haicheng Ancient People's Association, and wanted him to be in charge of this investigation, to find out the details of this mutual aid association, and to grasp their dynamics.

Shi Hanxing took the order to leave, and after a while, Zhou Hu came.

Zhou Hu asked for some instructions about the company, and said that the business contract with Lei Yongzhong and Wang Anlin on the development and cooperation of the "Dream World" game has been drawn up.

Shanhai Fund holds 30% of the company's shares through technology investment and capital acquisition, and becomes the largest shareholder of Cloud Network Company. Lei Yunzhong and Wang Anlin hold 15% and 8% of the shares respectively, and some small and medium shareholders.

Zhong Cheng roughly read the several hundred pages of business contract, and said that he had no objection, and it was enough for Yang Shuzhen to sign on his behalf.

Zhou Hu also reported that the development team of "Dameng Tianxia" has settled in the R&D area of ​​Red Star University of Technology and started R&D work.

Liu Zhenquan submits work reports every month, and the current research and development work is progressing smoothly.Liu Zhenquan expects to complete the development and testing in two years, and start the online public testing in early 2036.

In the end, Zhou Hu asked Zhong Cheng again about his plans for the next few days of vacation.

It was only then that Zhong Cheng remembered that there were still three days until the National Day holiday. The National Day holiday and the Spring Festival holiday have continued to this day, and they are also two important holidays in the Asian Federation.

Zhong Cheng didn't have any arrangements. Zhou Hu said that he wanted to travel with the two families to the Tarim Basin during the long vacation.

The current Tarim Basin is already the most famous tourist attraction in the world, as well as the most famous man-made landscape. The former Taklamakan Desert has become the Taklimakan Muhe Forest, and hundreds of millions of tourists go sightseeing every year.

The Muhe Forest, which covers almost the entire basin, has completely changed the arid and rainless climate of the Tarim Basin. Surrounded by high mountains and stable temperatures, it has become the most suitable area for human survival.

Dozens of rivers that turned into underground rivers due to low rainfall and water evaporation also flowed above the ground, forming a huge water system with the Tarim River as the main trunk.

The former Tazhong Town has become Tazhong City, and a small town with a few hundred people has developed into a large city with a population of more than 500 million.

Thirteen new cities with a population of more than one million were newly built in the original desert, and the permanent population of the entire Tarim Basin has exceeded 3000 million.

Zhong Cheng has worked in the Tarim Basin for several years, and he is very familiar with it.

But he hasn't been there for two or three years, and he is very concerned about the progress of wood grain and crop farming.

The first batch of wood grain plantations have existed for more than ten years, and the wood grain in the Qaidam Basin has withered and died because of the expiration of the age, and now wheat and other crops have begun to be planted.

For the wood grain plantations in the Tarim Basin, Zhong Cheng decided to use only a small part to grow food crops, and return most of the farmland to forests and plant trees, so as to free up manpower.

But the specific implementation needs to be seen with my own eyes, so that I can accompany my family to travel to Tarim.

After Zhou Hu left, Zhong Cheng sat back at his desk, turned on the optical brain, and called up the Taixu Experimental System.

He wanted to build the implementation progress management program of the second phase of the Nantianmen Project in the Taixu Experimental System. Without the help of the Taixu Experimental System, even a professional team would not be able to complete the detailed planning for such a huge system project within a few months.

Planning engineering projects is one of Zhong Cheng's favorite jobs, just like an artist's favorite art creation.

He has already planned too many engineering projects, and now this Nantianmen Phase II project will refresh his personal record.

The whole project has surpassed the third phase of Xihai Project in terms of time, money and human input.

Zhong Cheng enthusiastically "draws" his ideal blueprint on the optical brain.

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9 month 30 day.

In the large conference room on the first floor of the Kunlun Research Institute, a symposium with the participation of all key members of the research institute was held.

The theme of today's meeting is to discuss how to build the first space elevator on the earth, which is called the "ladder" in the second phase of the Nantianmen project.

The spaceship and the assembly of the space station are not too technically difficult for the Red Star Company.

Red Star Company itself has many years of experience in building large aircraft, and with the relevant information of two competitors, it just needs to adjust and optimize the relevant technology.

The focus is on the implementation process, so it's not specifically discussed at this meeting.

But the construction of this ladder is the first time in human history, and there is no experience to learn from.

Although there have been a lot of ideas for space elevators in science fiction works and scientists' visions, they are only on paper.

Now that they are about to actually build it, it can't just be empty talk, and all the technical details have to be considered.

The first question about the construction of the ladder got into a debate.

That is, where is the ladder built?
According to the common sense of astrophysics, the large space station connected by the space elevator must be built in geostationary orbit.

Geostationary orbit is a type of geosynchronous orbit.

The orbital period of the satellite is equal to the rotation period of the earth in inertial space (23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds), and the direction is also consistent with it. The orbit of the sub-satellite point of the satellite at the same time every day is the same, which is the geosynchronous orbit.

(The sub-satellite point track: the projection point of the artificial earth satellite on the ground is called the sub-satellite point. The movement of the satellite and the rotation of the earth make the sub-satellite point move on the surface of the earth, forming the sub-satellite point track.)
When the geosynchronous orbit coincides with the earth's equatorial plane, it is called a geostationary orbit, that is, the position of the satellite and the ground remains relatively unchanged.

Because a satellite operating in such an orbit will always be located above the equator somewhere, it is stationary relative to the surface of the earth, and the height above the ground is about 3.6 kilometers.

So hanging a cable from a space station in geostationary orbit anchored on the earth's equator can become a ladder to space.

This ladder can lead straight to the stationary orbit, it will not bend when there is no external force, and it can become a transportation line to space.

This is the design idea of ​​the traditional space elevator.

Zhao Wei, Jiang Yan, Gui Bin and others advocated that the Red Star company's sky ladder be built in the equatorial region of the Asian Federation, such as Kalimantan Island, where the equator runs across.

However, Yang Xi, Lin Wei, Li Mei and others advocated that the ladder be built on or near Beishan.

They believe that building the ladder on the equator seems to reduce the difficulty of construction, but the distance from Beishan to the equator is more than 4000 kilometers, and it is more difficult to transport a large amount of equipment and materials to such a long distance.

Zhao Wei asked back, if the sky ladder is built around Beishan, then to maintain the static state of the space station and the elevator relative to the ground, a large amount of power equipment needs to be added, and the power consumption will be permanent.

The two sides held their own views and could not stop arguing.

(End of this chapter)