The tightness of flights and airport runways did not affect Jiang Chen's plan to return home from Canberra.
Isn’t it a matter of just being nervous on the runway
At his level, even if there is no runway, Koro Island International Airport will find a way to create one for him. Even if he takes ten thousand steps back, nothing will change. His private plane can just use the runway of the Crescent Island military base.
Even the An-225 was parked on that runway, let alone a civilian Gulfstream G650
Back on Koro Island, five days have passed since the United Nations Outer Space Summit, and it was already a week ago that the space elevator was successfully put into operation. In a few days, the passengers on the Ring City will return to the surface.
Now Star Ring City is bare. Except for an experimental field that applies some Eden technology, only a small area of living space has been cleared out, which can accommodate about a thousand people. The only people who could stay on the Halo City were the thirty astronauts who accompanied them to the space station and worked for the Halo trade.
The first thing Jiang Chen did after getting off the plane was to find Kerwin.
The asteroid capture plan has been completed, the eight rocket engines have been turned off, and they are quietly wading in orbit far away from the earth together with the asteroid with a diameter of 500 meters.
At this time, Kerwin was in charge of preparing for the launch of the Dragon spacecraft. This is an outsourcing project from spaceX, with only S$2 million, which is only a drop in the bucket compared to the first two projects he did. The launch steps are very simple. Use a mechanical arm to hang the Dragon spacecraft on the outer track of the space elevator, and then operate it like a fool.
After handing over the launch mission to his assistant, Kerwin, who had become skinny and skinny, took a long vacation for himself. He didn't want to do anything but stay in his private cabin that he bought for 10 million Singapore dollars. On the island, I lay down in a beach hut and took a good nap, making up for all the sleep I didn’t get enough last year.
However, he had not lived on the island for two days when Jiang Chen's helicopter plane disturbed his dream.
The rotor of the helicopter blew the sand on the beach around. Kerwin climbed up from the beach chair. When he saw Jiang Chen getting off the helicopter, he immediately relaxed his brows and greeted him with a smile. The technology of the Star Ring Trade has completely shocked this technician from Mississippi.
If he had to say who he admired most in the entire company, it would undoubtedly be Jiang Chen. Even if it wasn't because of his relationship with his immediate boss, he still deserved his respect because of his far-sighted strategic vision.
"Director Jiang, what brought you here?"
"There is a problem with the asteroid project. Didn't you watch the news?" Jiang Chen asked straight to the point as he stood firm on the beach.
Kerwin was stunned for a moment and shook his head.
"No, what happened?"
Like most companies, Star Ring Trading cannot be without an Internet public relations department, and public opinion monitoring is exactly its responsibility. Unfortunately, the asteroid capture plan is a high-level secret within the Star Ring trade. Except for those involved in the plan, even the senior management of the group do not know that the Space Launch Center has a plan to capture asteroids.
It wasn't until NASA's observation results came out that there were eight rockets in front of the Bennu asteroid, that the person in charge of network public relations realized that this matter might be related to his company.
Jiang Chen told Kerwin what happened on the Internet and asked the project leader for his opinion.
"You can actually see our 'construction site' from the space elevator? This, this is really..." Kerwin thought for a while and couldn't think of a suitable word to describe this time. dragon incident.
What Starring Trading uses as a propulsion device is not a chemical rocket engine in the traditional sense, but an electric propulsion rocket engine named RM-400 designed by Jiang Lin and based on the RM-320 rocket engine.
Electric propulsion uses electric energy to accelerate the working medium to form a high-speed jet to generate thrust. The application of electric propulsion technology in the aerospace field actually appeared at the end of the 20th century, but it has always had the shortcoming of insufficient thrust and has not been promoted on a large scale. In the apocalyptic timeline, it was not until the mid-21st century that major breakthroughs were made in electric propulsion technology.
Among them, plasma propulsion derived from electric propulsion technology has been used in some of the engines of the "Zheng He". Its technical connotation is also very simple. It is nothing more than that the electrons in the ion undergo Hall drift under the action of cross-vertical electric fields and magnetic fields, and the ejected ions form thrust to propel the spacecraft forward.
However, even with this seemingly simple technology, nowadays, even the American Ed Astra Rocket Company, which is the furthest along in the rocket engine project, has been stuck in the concept of hype to attract investors. stage.
One characteristic of this kind of engine is that it will not form obvious tail flames and smoke plumes at the rear of the rocket.
Don't underestimate this, it's very important. This means that if the naked eye is restricted, aircraft using this engine can only be observed from the universe at a specific angle, or at a close enough distance. And if it is on the ground, in most cases even if people find it, they will just treat it as an ordinary star and not pay too much attention.
"Now the outside world is speculating that it is the star ring trade that drags asteroids into the Earth-Moon system. Under the hype of thoughtful people, a wrong trend has formed in public opinion. What the star ring trade drags into the Earth-Moon system is not a big pile of rich ores. An asteroid, but an explosive with a yield of 3 billion tons.”
"This kind of speculation has no scientific basis." Kerwin said, holding his forehead.
"That's right, but you can't expect everyone to have studied physics and learn to think rationally." Jiang Chen teased.
The "Bennu" asteroid capture program has been successful. Even if you don't consider the dozens of tons of explosives installed on the asteroid, there is no need to worry about any safety risks.
As for why, it's easy to explain. Since "Bennu" can be captured by the gravity of the Earth-Moon system, its relative motion speed with the Earth as the reference system has already dropped to less than ten kilometers per second. Even if it really collides with the earth, it cannot be compared to the previous power.
This is a headache.
After some discussion, Jiang Chen made a decision.
"The asteroid mining program begins immediately and we must change the public's false impression that our asteroids are not under our control."
As long as the public can see that Star Ring Trading not only has the strength to bring this trouble to the earth, but also has the ability to solve this trouble, all negative information will be self-defeating. The plan was already prepared last year, and now it’s just a slight adjustment.
After arranging this matter, Jiang Chen did not disturb Kerwin's vacation. He turned around and boarded the helicopter and flew away from the private island.
Looking at the beach house covered in sand and mud, Kerwin's mouth suddenly twitched. If he had known it, he would have built a helipad.
After hesitating for a moment, he finally gave up the urge to clean it himself and called the decoration company. The phone number of this decoration company was left to him by the agent when he bought the villa. Its business scope is not only decoration, but also building maintenance, overall cleaning and other services.
But in this way, his original plan of vacationing on an uninhabited island with pleasant scenery had to be scrapped.
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