Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 368 Space Spider
March 7, 29 am.

Zhou Hu, Liu Yuzhu, and Deng Lin left the Nantianmen Phase II Project Headquarters at the Kunlun Pass and headed for Gaoyuan City.

At this time, the Kunlun Mountain Pass has already changed beyond recognition, and a new aerospace port city - Kunlun City has begun to take shape.

Four heavy-duty expressways directly leading to Golmud City, Gaoyuan City, Xijing City and Tazhong City have been opened to traffic.

AirAsia Service's aviation service building and five logistics transit centers have been erected and will be put into use early next year.

A large number of supporting buildings are under intense construction.

Yuxu Peak, which is located in the center of these buildings, has not only been flattened on the top of the mountain, but also hollowed out on the side of the mountain.

The six huge transmission channels extending from the mountainside connect the aviation service building and the logistics transfer center at one end, and the huge elevator cabin dispatching transfer center in the mountainside at the other end.

On this huge construction site with a radius of [-] kilometers, tens of thousands of engineering personnel from Red Star Company, AirAsia and related contractors are working day and night, and thousands of construction machinery and intelligent robots are scattered all over the construction site.

All kinds of equipment, equipment, and raw materials from Red Star Company, the Asian Federation, and even the world poured in like a flood.

The world's most advanced construction techniques, technical equipment, and materials are gathered and applied here, showing the world the latest achievements of human beings in transforming the power of nature.

Kunlun Mountain Pass, an inaccessible snow-covered plateau, is rapidly becoming the largest distribution center for people and materials in the human world.

During the half a year when Zhong Cheng went to Ceres, Zhou Hu assumed the responsibility of the commander-in-chief of the second phase of the Nantianmen construction project, strategizing and commanding thousands of troops.

He has proved his ability and Zhong Cheng's vision with indisputable facts. He is qualified and capable of taking on the duties of the general manager of Red Star Company.

He is not just Zhong Cheng's "assistant"!
Zhou Hu has followed Zhong Cheng for more than 20 years, and has always existed as Zhong Cheng's assistant in Red Star Company, which was overshadowed by Zhong Cheng's dazzling light.

He has no sense of presence among the middle and senior management of Red Star Company, so that after Li Changfeng retired, he was appointed as the general manager by Zhong Cheng, which caused some criticism.

Due to Zhong Cheng's authority, although no one dared to say anything in person, Zhou Hu still felt the contempt hidden behind the smiling face.

Lei Yongzhong and Wang Anlin, two old friends, put this contempt on the surface, not to mention Zhao Wei and Liu Yuzhu.

Zhou Hu held his breath in his heart.

This time Zhong Cheng left the earth and entrusted him with the important task of the commander-in-chief of the second phase of the Nantianmen Project, which was his best chance to prove his ability.

He forgot to eat and sleep, worked day and night, guarded in the iron house at the Kunlun Mountain Pass, and he personally commanded the site for more than eight months without going down the mountain.

So much so that Qin Wenyu sued Ceres.

Now that Zhong Cheng finally came back, he had successfully and brilliantly fulfilled the responsibility assigned by Zhong Cheng, which made Zhou Hu feel completely relieved.

In fact, he is a person without much thought. Ever since he met Zhong Cheng and agreed and admired him from the bottom of his heart, Zhou Hu got used to working under Zhong Cheng's orders.

People are different!

This time he was in charge of Red Star Company alone for more than half a year, and Zhou Hu didn't feel the pleasure of being in power.

He just realized how hard it was for Zhong Cheng to shelter them and his group for so many years.

I also realized that Zhong Cheng has taken care of him for so many years, and he didn't let him do the real hard work.

Today Zhou Hu will lead a team to take the second Luanniao aerospace plane 305 Lanyue of Red Star Company, and go to outer space to meet Zhong Cheng in person.

Because the amount of engineering has been greatly reduced, it is expected that five 305s will be produced, but now only four are enough.

When Zhou Hu, Liu Yuzhu, and Deng Lin arrived at Zabuye Airport in Gaoyuan City, the Lanyue had already parked on the airport runway.

Accompanying them are more than 160 engineers and technicians from Red Star Company. They will replace the personnel on the Asterisker and take over the continuous control and transformation of Icarus.

It's just that in addition to nuclear fusion raw materials, there is also a brand-new equipment loaded on Lanyue, called Xiyang Cable Synthesis and Automatic Installation Equipment, nicknamed "Space Spider".

This is a kind of equipment specially designed and manufactured for the construction of space elevators. The main body is cylindrical, and the two ends are conical. It is three meters in diameter and ten meters long. It has nothing to do with spiders in appearance.

But this kind of equipment can directly make graphene nanotube wires from graphene raw materials, and can "spit" out of the conical head like a spider spinning silk. From this point, the name spider is very vivid.

Theoretically speaking, as long as the graphene raw material is always supplied, space spiders can manufacture soil cables of unlimited length.

And the tens of thousands of kilometers of space cables are the core technology in the space elevator project, because the cables of the space elevator do not allow joints in the middle.

The cable of the space ladder is to carry the huge tensile force of the space city and the counterweight, and the second is to transmit high-voltage current, which must be a complete wire.

Of course it will not be one cable, but hundreds, but the burden shared by one cable is also very huge.

This is also the main reason why space elevators have been hyped in human society for decades, but have not been realized.

The three of Zhou Hu boarded the Lanyue, and the first thing they did was to check the preparations for the space spiders.

This time Lanyue will carry eight space spiders to space, complete the installation of the eight main cables of the space ladder, and stabilize Icarus first.

But to really tie Icarus above Kunlun City, more than 500 cables are needed.

Dozens of space spiders are needed to install the more than 500 cables.

A space spider has a net weight of more than 200 tons after removing raw materials, and it has to be transported into space several times.

Deng Lin is the main designer of the space spider, and he has made great efforts for this.

Concentrating the huge carbon nanotube cable synthesis equipment into the space spider, and ensuring sufficient production speed, the design and manufacture of the space spider is extremely difficult.

With the personal assistance of Liu Yuzhu, Lin Hansheng, Gui Bin and even Zhong Cheng, it took nearly three years to narrowly catch up with the second phase of the Nantianmen project.

The space spider also made a trick in the design principle, separating the synthesis of the most complicated pure graphene sheet material, that is, the soil material, from the final production of carbon nanotube cables.

The former is placed in a factory on the ground, and only carbon nanotube cables are made in the space spider
It's just that this trick is extremely difficult in terms of technology, and it is also possible thanks to the almost free power supply and sophisticated chemical control system today.

This is how the space spider came out!
(End of this chapter)