Chapter 107 Miracle Project
United States, General Government, Conference Office.
After Mohan's private plane arrived in Washington, he took a special car directly to the conference room where the heads of several major departments of the United States gathered.
There was no formality, and his visit to the United States was a private visit.
As early as on the plane, Mohan had seriously thought about the purpose of this trip and the possibility of subsequent implementation.
At this time, because of the reasons he had discussed with Wells before, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Oro, General Nasa Roy, and Secretary of State McKen were all present in the meeting.
In the past, given the United States' status as the global hegemon, it would not be easy for him to meet anyone here alone.
But now the situation is completely different. After hearing his call, Wells, like a drowning man grabbing at a straw, agreed to meet without hesitation, and at Mohan's request, invited all the bigwigs present.
Mohan looked at it, frowned slightly and said, “President, may I ask why President Mark is not here?”
"He is a businessman who rose to prominence by relying on our Nasa technology. How can he be qualified to attend a meeting of this level?"
The person who spoke was Chief Nasa, and his tone was extremely disdainful of Mark.
What he said makes sense to a certain extent, but it is not entirely correct. Mark Spieth did receive technical support from Natha in the early stages of its development.
But after that, Mark led the team to complete the research and development of rocket recovery technology, reducing the cost of rocket transportation, which led to the current achievements of Spieth Company.
Upon hearing this, Mohan glanced at Chief Nasa and shook his head secretly.
“Come on, you have called so many of us, including the President of South Australia, to come here privately. If there is nothing important, don’t waste your time.”
The Chief of the Armed Forces, Oro, also snorted coldly.
In his eyes, although South Australia has a vast land area and rich natural resources such as minerals, its technological and economic strength is relatively backward. In the past, he had no interest in even taking a second look at them.
Mohan didn't care. He looked at Wells, who was silent and had lost his former charm, and felt contempt.
What the reporter said was right, this president who only cares about making money is the sinner.
"Do you remember what Daxia was like four years ago?"
Mohan spoke softly, but no one spoke.
He smiled indifferently and continued, "Four years ago, Daxia couldn't even make a five-nanometer lithography machine. In the global high-end chip market, their market share was zero!"
"That's enough. Tell me why you came here today."
Wells stared at him coldly. Although her approval rating has dropped to the bottom now, she is still the real president of the United States after all.
There is still momentum.
Mohan curled his lips and stopped provoking these guys who were still immersed in their past glory.
He turned his gaze to Chief Nasa with a hint of amusement on his face.
"Your space station is about to be retired, right? Why not let it make use of its residual heat once more during this process?"
Seeing that everyone was looking at him in confusion, Mohan sneered and put forward his idea.
Three months later, the construction of the space elevator has entered the completion testing phase.
During this period, Fan Ren was not idle either. He led a group of scientists who used to work on the lunar project of the Daxia Aerospace Department and were busy with the expansion design of the Guanghan Palace base all day long.
After the design and expansion, Guanghan Palace covers an area of 3000 square meters, of which the public living area occupies square meters, including residential, entertainment and leisure, canteen, medical and other facilities.
In previous recruitments, Fanren also did not forget to recruit a group of chefs with multiple cooking skills.
Scientists at the Asgard space station have successfully cultivated vegetables, fruits and melons that can grow in space. With the addition of space elevators to transport supplies in the future, meat ingredients can also be transported from Earth to the lunar base at a very low cost.
He believes that it is very important to ensure that the workers and astronauts stationed 30 kilometers away can have a hot and fresh meal every day.
There is also an engineering equipment maintenance area, where specialized maintenance technicians with relevant skills will be stationed at the lunar base for a long time.
In Fanren's vision, the future lunar base will become a small city with a growing population, and its main task will be to mine the moon.
Of course, when it comes to salary, Xinghai is as generous as ever. The income from working on the moon for a year is ten times what you would earn from the same job on Earth.
The construction of the space elevator basically accounts for 95% of the total amount of praseodymite currently collected on the moon.
Therefore, the promotion of nuclear fusion is currently only allowed for projects that are particularly needed.
Fan Ren stood under the towering space elevator, looking up, but could not see the end at all.
36000 kilometers!
It is no exaggeration to say that this is the greatest building ever built on a single project in human history.
It took only half a year to complete this great project. Putting aside the financial investment, on this planet, only the workers of Daxia have the ability to do so.
The elevator uses double tracks and separate up and down transportation.
The transportation power uses electromagnetic motors to push the platform up and down. With the power provided by several nuclear fusion reactors, it only takes two days to complete the 36000-kilometer transportation distance.
It is conceivable that without the tri-titanium alloy as the external support frame and the electromagnetic track of carbon nanotubes, ordinary materials such as aluminum alloy alone would not be able to maintain structural stability at a transportation speed of up to 780 kilometers per hour.
For this reason, even though the building materials are provided by Xinghai’s own lunar mining base, the construction cost is as high as 5000 billion.
Next, a large working platform, a launch vehicle docking station, and a logistics warehouse will be built on the top.
If there were no space elevator, the investment required for these projects alone would be a huge expense.
As he looked up at this 'miracle', the phone in his pocket rang.
"Boss, it's not good."
The call was connected. No one except A-Dai called him that, but this time A-Dai's tone was very urgent.
"What's wrong? Don't panic, just explain clearly."
Upon hearing this, Ah Dai calmed himself down and his eyes fell on the supercomputer display screen of the space base.
At this time, a warning message was flashing red exclamation marks madly.
"Boss, the supercomputer has sent an early warning that the space station that was scrapped not long ago has lost its orbit-maintaining fuel and is beginning to fall toward the Earth.
This process would have caused it to break into several pieces and scatter due to the high temperature generated by friction with the atmosphere when it re-entered the atmosphere.
Fan Ren didn't know what that meant and asked in confusion: "Then what? What does this have to do with us?"
"Boss, damn Nasa, there is something wrong with the falling path they set. The supercomputer is warning that the theme cabin of this abandoned space station will hit our space elevator at a speed of Mach 5 in 20 hours, 200 kilometers above the ground."
"Are you sure? Are the calculations accurate?"
"Confirmed, confirmed! After the results come out, I will ask the outer space satellite of the Space City to monitor it. Boss, think of a solution quickly."
"Okay, keep in touch anytime."
Fan Ren hung up directly.
With a humming sound, a violent sonic boom erupted on the track of the space elevator that was being tested in front of him.
It seems that at a certain altitude, directly accelerating will produce a huge sonic boom, so this problem must be solved.
Otherwise, people in this area will not be able to live a normal life.
While he was dialing Liu Shengzhan's number, he was also thinking about the flaws of the space elevator.
I got up late, so I quickly made up for today's intake
(End of this chapter)
