Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 369 The red star shines on the earth

After Zhou Hu, Liu Yuzhu, and Deng Lin checked and confirmed the eight space spiders one by one, they came to the command center of Lanyue and gave the order to take off.

There are more than a dozen reporters from major media in the command center. They will go to the side of Icarus with the Lanyue to interview and report on the most dazzling star at present.

Last night was a sleepless night for most people on Earth!
Of course, this sentence is very inaccurate, because it is daytime in the western hemisphere.

Icarus, who has been looking forward to it for three months, has finally arrived!

At eight o'clock last night, a bright red star appeared in the night sky of Asia in the eastern hemisphere, becoming the brightest and most dazzling star in the sky.

Because it is too close to the ground, and the surface is relatively smooth, it has a high reflectivity to sunlight, and the brightness of this red star even exceeds that of the moon, just like a red light bulb in the sky.

The red star moves slowly from south to north and from west to east, attracting people's attention.

Until 5 o'clock in the morning, at the darkest moment before dawn, the red star finally stayed steadily over the central part of Asia, illuminating the vast land of Asia.

From that moment on, Earth possessed its second satellite - Icarus.

The Asian people cheered like a tsunami, breaking the tranquility before dawn.

And people in other parts of the world have mixed feelings and mixed feelings!
At [-] o'clock in the morning, a feature article "Red Star Shines on the Earth" issued by the Public Relations Department of Red Star Company ignited the social networking platform even more.

The article stated that "Icarus is the common wealth of mankind, and Red Star Company is also a company for all mankind, and will be committed to the common development of all mankind."

The idea that the red star shines on the earth has been unanimously recognized by the three major federations, and has also been recognized by the people of the world.

This article written by Jiang Shaohua, the vice president of marketing of Red Star Company, was sent to Zhong Cheng's brain three days ago, but the original title was "Red Star Shines on Asia".

After reading it, Zhong Cheng pondered for a long time, and finally replaced the "Asia" in the title with "Earth".

It was under such circumstances that Zhou Hu and others took the reporters to space to conduct nearby interviews and reports.

At 12:[-] noon, Lanyue orbited the earth once before raising its height to the position of Icarus.

Due to the different angles, the asteroid looks red on the ground, but its surface is dark brown when it gets closer.

However, the lavender light emitted by the densely distributed Zhurong electric thrusters on the huge star makes this asteroid full of mystery.

Zhou Hu didn't care about the excitement of the reporters, he was concerned about the space docking of the two aerospace planes.

Under the guidance of the two aerospace planes and the ground command center, Lanyue slowly approached Zhaixing from below.

Ten minutes later, Zhaixinghao and Lanyuehao, brothers who had never met before, overlapped closely together.

Zhou Hu, Liu Yuzhu, and Deng Lin took the lead to enter the Star Reacher from the docking cabin, and saw Zhong Cheng, Yang Xi, Lin Wei and others who had not seen for a long time outside the docking cabin.

Zhou Hu stepped forward excitedly and hugged Zhong Cheng, Zhong Cheng patted Zhou Hu's back in relief, and said loudly: "You son, you did a good job!"

Zhou Hu suddenly felt that the half a year of hard work was worth it, "Boss, I didn't embarrass you!"

Then everyone huddled together and congratulated the members of Star Picking in advance on their triumphant return!

Zhong Cheng delivered a pre-written speech in front of the cameras of the reporters. It was nothing more than an affirmation of yesterday's Red Star Company's special article, and answered the reporters' questions about the Star Reaching Project.

Zhong Cheng arranged for Hu Bo and Li Qiwei to take the reporters to continue the interview and report, while he brought Zhou Hu and others to the command center of Zhaixing.

After some discussion, everyone decided to immediately implement the sixth and final step of the Star Reaching Plan, to fix Icarus.

This step will take the longest and will last three months, fixing 512 carbon nanotube cables on Icarus.

However, in this step, as long as the initial 44 central cables are installed, the construction of the space elevator can be started simultaneously.

Zhong Cheng decided to return to the ground after seeing the first batch of 8 central cables being installed.

At 1 p.m., after everyone had lunch, they started to act.

Zhong Cheng, Yang Xi, Lin Wei, Hu Bo and others are already skilled workers in space operations, and they will be the ones to complete the space spiders on Icarus to start work.

At the same time, it also trains the engineers who change shifts.

Not to be outdone, Zhou Hu, Liu Yuzhu, and Deng Lin strongly demanded to work outside the cabin together. In fact, they wanted to experience the space environment and take a closer look at Icarus.

Zhong Cheng considered that there were so many experienced hands around, and they were just above the earth, so there was absolutely no problem with their safety, so he fulfilled their wish.

Everyone hurriedly put Spider One into space from the decompression chamber of Lanyue.

At this time, two people are needed to hold Spider One down.

Because at this location above the Earth, the speed that Spider One brings from the Laner will throw it outward.

Icarus is temporarily stabilized by the earth's magnetic field and the Zhurong electric pusher on it, and it will not fly away by relying on the space ladder in the future.

The operation process of transporting Spider-[-] is different from that in a completely weightless environment, so Zhong Cheng has to personally complete the installation of the first batch of cables.

It took half an hour for the crowd to bring the "extremely disobedient" Spider One to a hole directly below Icarus.

Zhong Cheng took the end of the cable protruding from the nozzle of Spider No. [-], and drilled up into the one-meter-diameter hole.

This hole is more than 500 meters deep, leading to the energy room in the center of Icarus.

The energy room is currently only ten meters in diameter, and a large transformer is placed, and the cables will be connected to this transformer.

In the future, the energy room will be expanded, and two large Suihuang nuclear fusion generators will be installed to provide electricity for Icarus.

After the cables are installed, the holes connecting the energy chambers will be sealed, so that the cables and Icarus are firmly connected.

These tunnel operations are the masterpieces of Zhong Cheng and others in the past two months.

On the one hand, it is to fix the cables, and the other main reason is to lay circuits inside Icarus to make it electromagnetic.

Zhong Cheng felt a little unbelievable to complete such a large space earthwork project without the help of engineering machinery.

After 10 minutes, Zhong Cheng came out of the hole and signaled to Deng Lin that it was time to power on Spider One and start working.

With Yang Xi's support, Deng Lin lay on the shell of Spider One.

He opened the control panel, turned on the power supply, and after outputting instructions, he left Spider One.

A moment later, light blue light erupted from the eight circular holes in the cone on Spider One's head.

This is the activation of the small Zhurong electric propulsion installed on Spider [-], and Spider [-] began to descend towards the surface of the earth below.

(End of this chapter)