Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 374 Breaking News

After the installation of the eight cables was completed, the engineering staff coordinated with the power control system on Icarus through the control center.

Gradually reduce the downward restraint of the powertrain on the Icarus, thereby increasing the upward pull of the cable.

The eight cables were slowly tensioned until the maximum readings on the various sensors reached the predetermined load of 1 tons.

Fu Huaquan, who accompanied him to visit, exclaimed: "I didn't realize that this rope, which is only as thick as a thumb, can withstand 1 tons of force!"

Yang Xi smiled and said: "This is a super carbon nanotube wire. Deng Lin won the 2028 Shennong Science and Technology Progress Award for Materials Science for his invention of this material. That is a prize of 10 billion yuan!"

Lin Weidao: "Yes, Deng Lin's attainments in nanotechnology really make people have to be convinced!"

Fu Huaquan smiled bitterly and said, "But this Deng Lin is too involved, he doesn't go home all year round, his wife has come to me to complain, and you two deans don't care?"

Zhong Cheng saw that both Yang Xi and Lin Wei showed embarrassing expressions, he took the words and said: "Old Fu, leave this to me!"

Although Deng Lin is under Lin Wei's management, Lin Wei can talk about things other than work, and it's really hard to dictate Deng Lin's actions in other matters.

Although Deng Lin is easy-going on the surface, his aloofness in his bones has been revived along with his achievements.

In Red Star Company, maybe only Zhong Cheng and Li Mei could talk about him, but when Li Mei was asked to persuade Deng Lin, Zhong Cheng didn't even think about it, she just didn't make trouble.

The first batch of eight cables are evenly distributed in a circle with a diameter of 1 meter, serving as the core positioning cables of the ladder.

In the ten-meter cylindrical space outside them, 64 cables will be installed as the main cables of the ladder.

Then take the 10-meter cylindrical space of these main cables as the center, and surround the three-layer concentric ring with cables at an interval of 12 meters.

Six hollow pipes with a diameter of 6 meters are erected in the ring on the first floor, 11 on the second floor, and 12 on the third floor.

A total of 36 such hollow pipes are used as the vacuum running channel of the elevator cabin.

And through the elevator cabin transit dispatching center of the ground station and the space station, hundreds of elevator cabins are invested for the transportation of goods and personnel.

At the elevator cabin transfer dispatch center in the belly of Yuxu Peak, Zhong Cheng and his team inspected several elevator cabins that had been parked in front of the transfer station platform.

The structure of the elevator cabin is simple, which is a standard cylindrical shape, but there is a magnetic levitation device at the bottom, which can be sent into the vacuum operation channel through the guide rail.

The diameter of the elevator cabin is ten meters, and the height is 30 meters. The cabin is divided into multiple floors. The number of floors and the height of the floors depend on the cargo loaded. The maximum carrying capacity is 5000 tons, and it can carry 1000 passengers.

Zhou Hu said that there are a total of 36 space spiders used for cable installation and subsequent vacuum operation channel laying, and all of them have been put into use now.

The installation of 64 main cables and some inner channel cables can be completed in one month, and the laying of the vacuum operation channel can be started simultaneously.

But the laying of the vacuum operation channel is very slow, and it takes a month to lay one of the 8 space spiders in sections.

It's not that they can't make more space spiders, but the production speed of special soil materials can't keep up.

At present, 20% of the maximum production capacity of soil materials dedicated to making super carbon nanotube wires has been used to meet the second phase of Nantianmen Project, unless market orders are sacrificed or production capacity is expanded again.

But Zhong Cheng thinks that this is not advisable, and it is enough to maintain this kind of construction progress.

Because the Nantianmen Phase II project also has a large number of other supporting equipment, facilities and materials, it does not only need super carbon nanotube wires.

This largest and most magnificent construction project in the history of mankind cannot be completed in a short period of time.

Zhong Cheng just hopes that the construction of the spacecraft can be completed first.

Only after the completion of the spacecraft will it be possible to start the development of Mars on a large scale.

In the following time, Zhong Cheng sat in Kunlun City and personally supervised the construction of the ladder.

And Yang Xi and Lin Wei went to the temporary headquarters on Icarus to take charge of the renovation project of Icarus.

9 month 10 day.

The installation of the main cable and the inner cable of the ladder is completed, and the permanent command center inside Icarus is completed, and two large Suihuang nuclear fusion power generating units are connected to the grid for power generation.

10 month 15 day.

The erection of the first running channel of the ladder is completed, the installation of the middle cable of the ladder is completed, and the installation of the outer cable is started.

The large Zhurong electric pusher on Icarus began to be partially dismantled, and a single elevator cabin transfer station was built.

11 month 11 day.

Under the attention of the whole world, the first elevator cabin carried 99 passengers directly from Kunlun City to Icarus in outer space 3 kilometers through the sky ladder, and it took 1 hour and 36 minutes.

A global sensation, mankind's first space elevator was built successfully!

Although it is still a long time before the official operation, people have already seen the dawn of the era of cheap and fast space transportation.

Four days later, on May 11.

Another piece of news detonated human society and attracted the fickle attention of the people.

Starnet's Super Challenger space shuttle successfully reached Jupiter, which is 7.5 million kilometers away.

Xingwang Company announced that it will live broadcast the Super Challenger's entry into Jupiter's gravitational circle, transfer to Ganymede's orbit, and implement the whole process of landing on Ganymede within the next week.

Let all human beings witness this great feat together, human beings have set foot on the outer planets of the solar system!

Mr. Robin, chairman and executive president of Starnet, said modestly in an interview with reporters that this is a big step for Starnet, but only a small step for mankind.

Human beings will travel to every corner of the solar system!
"How shameless!"

When Zhong Cheng saw this interview, he was talking with Wu Tie and Lu Yao at the engineering headquarters in Kunlun City.

All three of them expressed their disdain for Mr. Robin's words at the same time. Is it interesting to copy the words of their ancestors?

Moreover, they also tampered with the order of the words in the original words in a sensational way to emphasize the contribution of Xingwang Company. Is there really no limit to the shamelessness of human beings?

But the three of them have nothing to do about it. Human society needs such news now to provide spices to the ordinary life of the people.

Whether they like it or not, news from Jupiter will flood the media spaces in the weeks and months to come, gnawing at their nerves.

However, not many people know the price that Xingwang Company paid for this.

Even those who know about it hope that things will develop for the better and that the tragedy of the year will not repeat itself.

Wu Tie and Lu Yao came together for the opening of AirAsia's aviation service building in Kunlun City next year.

Of course, I also want to talk about the construction of Tiangong City on the other side of the ladder.

Tiangong City will become the largest space transportation hub on Earth in the future. Not only the outer space vehicles of the Asian Federation, but also the outer space vehicles of the European and American Federations will use the space port "dock" of Tiangong City.

The three major federations do not want the Red Star Company to monopolize the most important transportation hub in the future human society.

But this transportation hub is on the ladder of the Red Star Company, and the opinions of the Red Star Company cannot be ignored by them.

Moreover, federal laws and regulations do not have any applicable regulations to prohibit a company from docking space vehicles on its own space station and charging other users a certain fee.

If the Red Star Company must insist on controlling the space terminal by itself, the three major federations have no way to stop it.

(End of this chapter)