Chapter 1588

At a height of 36000 kilometers, a man in a white work shirt is standing in front of the thick porthole glass on an astronomical observation space station, overlooking the vast starry sky from afar.

There are more than ten towering star ships.

With a thick long mechanical arm stacking the steel skeleton to the right position, an engineering UAV came out of the cabin to stop the tide, twining the grand outline like a firefly, and twinkling the weak but not negligible electric fire with the track of up and down turning.

The empty space section of the whole space elevator is forming at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Every hour when we build a space station, we will take a high-resolution picture of that space station. If we choose two pictures together, we can clearly feel the difference between them.

"It seems that they are serious."

The man who said that, whose name was field, was recently sent by the North American space agency to be a permanent observer here.

Since this is the closest synchronous orbit space station in North America to the space elevator construction site, the scientific mission here has changed from observing distant stars to observing those Asians as early as a week ago.

"Otherwise? Even for trillions of dollars, there's no reason for them to muddle through. "

When he got to field, Johnny handed him a bag of coffee.

"Would you like some coffee?"

"Thank you."

Taking the coffee bag from Johnny's hand, field took the plastic straw out of the bag and gave it a big bang.

Looking at the construction site outside the side window, Johnny said in a chat.

"Say, you're a space engineering major."

"That's right. I worked for SpaceX for a while before joining NASA."

"Is it? From the perspective of a professional, what stage do you think their construction site has reached? "

Looking out of the window at the starry sky, field thought for a moment and gave an answer.

"From experience, they're probably still building the main girder of the space station."

Hearing this, Johnny raised his eyebrows and gave him an unexpected sideways look.

"Such a big girder?"

Although his major is not Aerospace Engineering, he has worked on this observation space station for so many years, and he is quite familiar with his working environment.

At least in his mind, he had never heard of a space station that would build such a long girder.

In order to keep the center of gravity relatively stable in the orbit, most of the space stations will be designed in a flat shape to shorten the length of the axial direction of gravity as much as possible.

"Yes..." Obviously, with this in mind, field, a professional, looked down and continued, "in terms of the length of the main beam, the space station is at least twice the size of the Tianzhou."

Otherwise, there is no need to exaggerate the main beam.

And it's not just that. He didn't say another word, but he planned to write it on the observation report.

What surprised him most was not the length of the main beam, but the position of the whole main beam relative to the contour of the space elevator.

After working for so many years, he has seen a lot of space stations, but it is the first time for him to see such a strange design scheme.

Although he didn't read the drawings of the space elevator's empty space section, his intuition told him that the pan Asians might be building something amazing.

"A gyroscopic space station?"

"Don't you They plan to use centrifugal motion to balance the mass change of the space elevator and the pull of the counterweight on the center of gravity? "

The pupils were slightly constricted, and he murmured in his mouth.

“…… How could it be. "

It is almost impossible to achieve such a thing, including the load of the space elevator cargo cabin, the speed of movement, solar wind, air flow and a series of other influences, which may cause the change of the center of gravity position of the space elevator.

This not only tests the ability of information processing, but also the strength of materials and the ability of controlling machines.

If they can do it

That's just to say, it's a little weird.

……

Just as field and NASA were stunned by the construction site of the space elevator's empty space segment, the waves were rolling at sea level as far as 36000 kilometers.

Just a few hours ago, there was a rainstorm in the sea area, but the strong wind did not cool the blood boiling hearts.

Over the roaring waves, there are more than two hundred thousand ton engineering ships, which look like a floating fortress in the distance.

Each of them was designed for the construction of a large port with a throughput of more than one billion tons, but now they are all far away from the familiar coastline and come to this boundless sea level.This time, their task is not just to build a port, but to build a steel Island here and a city on the island.

Holding the telescope in his hand and looking at the sea level in the distance, chief engineer Wang of East Asia heavy industry raised a smile at the corner of his mouth.

"If this project is successfully delivered, it will be a milestone in the history of human engineering!"

Standing next to him, another academician expert of East Asia heavy industry group, said with a smile.

"Do you still use that? The whole space elevator from 36000 kilometers to our feet, which inch structure is not a miracle in human history! "

In theory, space elevators should be built from the sky down, but academician Lu gave different suggestions.

That is to say, the construction of empty space section and sea level section shall be carried out at the same time. And after the completion of the two parts of the project, the part of the sky section starts to move towards the ground, like a long sword into the sheath, connecting the synchronous orbit with the sea level.

After the proposal was put forward, it was adopted immediately. The engineering ships of East Asia heavy industry also came out. Almost all the production capacity deployed at sea level was concentrated in this area.

At this time, a staff member trotted to the bridge, stopped beside chief engineer Wang and said excitedly.

"All engineering ships have reached the target area! Chief engineer Wang, should we go on to the next step now! "

The smile on his face is more and more brilliant.

Put down the telescope in his hand, chief engineer Wang's face was slightly neat, he said in a sonorous and powerful voice.

"Preparation of all engineering ships --"

"anchoring!"

As a chain of iron broke into the sea, the frightened fish scattered and fled.

With the engine rumbling, heavy engineering equipment began to work at sea level.

From the sky to the sea level, from this moment on, this industrial machine, called Pan Asian cooperation, has been fully mobilized, giving out a roar that people in this century have hardly heard.

It's a neat sound when a group is determined to do something.

The voice is not transmitted through the air, but it rings through everyone's heart.

At this moment, its industrial capacity has reached the limit, even breaking through the edge of people's imagination, and it is turning the impossible into possible.

Perhaps as the triumphal ceremony was announced to them by a great man who was destined to be famous in history.

They are the people who are looked after.

They are burdened with the future of human civilization and the community of shared future.

At the same time, it is also the "destiny" engraved in their cultural blood by their ancestors.

When the construction of space elevator is in full swing, people's enthusiasm is completely ignited by iron and electricity, and the academic community is brewing an exciting storm.

In the third week after the celebration of ignition day, land boat suddenly released a public proposition on LSPM, and made a solemn promise at the end of the proposition.

If someone can solve the problem he put forward, or make enough outstanding achievements in this field, he will personally award him the land and boat Science Award.

Give awards in your own name.

Although this sentence sounds strange, and even some of the suspicion of boasting, but no one thinks there is something wrong.

Even

No matter in the field of mathematics or physics, the enthusiasm in the hearts of all scholars has been ignited.

No one has ever received such a great honor in the history of the land boat Science Award personally presented by the land boat.

In the face of this honor, even the huge bonus has been eclipsed.

After all, he is a land boat.

The man who is called to stand on the top of human mind

When the news spread, the whole academic community was crazy about it