The Start Of Technology Live Broadcast To Build Rockets

Chapter 95 – Ladder stitching!

This tower, known as Penglai Tower, has been certified as the tallest tower in the Guinness World.

The central part of Penglai Tower is a circular hollow, where it will be the “traffic pipe” for cables and cars.

“How do you plan to lay the cable?” Du Xingyu asked Chai Boyan.

“The current plan is to split the cable into multiple sections and use rockets to transport them to the synchronous orbit. The cable hangs from the counterweight and connects to the Tiangong space station, where one section of the cable is fixed, dampers and related supporting equipment are installed, and then continue. Hang down the next section and connect them one by one.” Chai Boyan replied.

“Currently, the more difficult areas are whether the 40,000-kilometer-long carbon nanotube cable can pass the tensile test; the second is whether our space installation steps can be successfully completed.

“Yeah.” Du Xingyu nodded irresponsibly. This is the most reasonable installation method at present.

Sooner rather than later, after the final inspection of each subject, the installation of the first space elevator for all mankind is finally about to begin!

At the Changhai Satellite Launch Center, the Xingkong-3 nuclear thermal rocket newly developed by China Space Administration sends carbon nanotube cables to the 36,000-kilometer geosynchronous orbiting station Tiangong Space Station and higher near-Earth spaceport bases.

When the rocket reaches the corresponding altitude, the transport module carrying the cable separates and slowly flies to the space station and the base of the space port.

Afterwards, the astronauts of the space station went out of the cabin for operation and installation. In this process, the space station and the aircraft must always observe the position of the cable. When the cable is placed too long, the angular velocities of the head and tail will be different and deviate from the axis, destroying the overall structure.

During the period, there were some accidents, but fortunately, there were surprises and no dangers, and they all went through smoothly.

“The report, the stage from the near-Earth spaceport to the Tiangong space station has been completely completed.” The astronaut in charge of the first section of the carbon nanotube cable reported.

“The A1 section of the cable from the Tiangong space station to the ground has been laid.” The space station also sent a message.

“The A2 cable has been successfully connected…”

The cable extends from space to the ground.

“The laser positioning is complete, and the last section of the ground connection is made.” On the tower of Penglai Tower, the long tower crane limits and corrects the cable according to the position of the laser correction.

The end of the carbon nanotube cable is connected to the holder of the tower, and the rope machine rotates slowly to keep the cable straight.

At this moment, the tension structure of the cable is maintained by the centrifugal force of the earth’s rotation, and the ground tower is fixed. The space station must constantly monitor the status of the cable to ensure the stability of its structure.

“The rope connection is complete!” The rope operation was carried out for several days, during which several batches of engineering teams were changed.

In the past few days, Du Xingyu and others could only sleep for three to four hours a day on average, and then they had to exercise intense command and control.

The engineers breathed a sigh of relief when the connection was completed.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“Okay! Continue to monitor the status, start installing the car, and wait until I wake up!” Du Xingyu finished speaking with dark circles under his eyes, and actually fell asleep directly on the table.

“Mr. Du is too tired. He has solved the problems several times these days.” Chai Boyan said, “Let him rest. We will solve the installation of the car together with the German experts.”

Du Xingyu slept all day and night. In order to prevent him from being hurt by hunger, the doctor gave him glucose to replenish energy and water while sleeping.

When Du Xingyu woke up, the engineers told him that the car had been installed, and preliminary tests had been carried out, and everything was intact so far.

“Commander-in-chief, we are all connected to the five main bodies of ground station, cable, car, space station and counterweight.” Although Chai Boyan looked tired, but his tone was very excited, “The first test run is no problem! I suggest yes. The news is announced!”

If it were in the past, such a super project would not be open to formal operation without simulating and testing tens of thousands of times.

But things are urgent and right now, humans don’t have so much time to slowly test, since the simulation run and preliminary tests have passed, the ladder must be used immediately that day.

The near-Earth spaceport is still waiting for major construction!

The world pays much attention to the ladder, so the news that the ladder is going to be transported for the first time on the same day came out, and the media from all over the world flocked to it, waiting for real-time coverage of this event!

As usual, Du Xingyu opened a live broadcast room and watched their results for more than a year with hundreds of millions of viewers.

On the shaking short video, Du Xingyu posted a short video from the perspective of the drone aerial photography ladder.

In the video, a carbon nanotube cable descends from the sky, passes through the sky, and connects to a huge tower more than ten kilometers high. Below the tower is a beautiful artificial island.

This scene looks like a scene in a science fiction movie!

In ancient and modern times, in many myths and legends, there are people who can ascend to the sky and reach the firmament. Nowadays, technology has turned this fantasy into reality, which excites the viewers who get to the video.

“6666! The elevator to the sky!”

“Too shocking, this is human wisdom!”

“Did the space elevator cause it? When did it run?”

“This has been completed in just over a year? Isn’t it a concept video?”

In the creator’s avatar, it is shown that the author is live streaming, and viewers click in to watch it.

As soon as they entered the live broadcast room, everyone saw a magnificent super tower, Penglai Tower!

The super tower with a ground height of 140,000 kilometers is undoubtedly very shocking in terms of visual effects. The construction workers and engineers are standing on the tower, like small black spots. If you don’t zoom in on the lens, you won’t be able to see it at all. clear.

“Fuck!!!” Some viewers were amazed when they saw Pengleta’s picture so clearly for the first time.

“However, I am uneducated, so I can’t help but do it in the world!”

“I have a fear of heights, if I were to go up, I wouldn’t dare to take one step!”

“I don’t think this tower needs a space elevator anymore, it will go directly to space!”

The drone flew near, and Du Xingyu and a group of engineers were discussing the operation of the car.

Facing the live broadcast, he introduced: “Dear viewers, as you can see, we will start the operation of the ladder immediately.”

“This time, we are going to send 100 tons of materials and three space assembly robots to the Tiangong space station.”

“In the past, such a mass would require at least a heavy-duty operating rocket, which cost tens of millions of dollars to be sent into space. But today, we will use elevator transportation, costing less than 10,000 yuan to send these qualities into space. Space!”

In the video, the car of the space elevator has appeared!

Its shape is completely different from the elevator in people’s common sense, it is more like a flying saucer! It’s just that the middle is hollow, and the outside is a circle of space, and there is a rocket booster at the bottom! This thruster is generally not activated, and will only be activated when an accident occurs.

Under normal circumstances, the car is lifted into the air by climbing on rollers. After being out of gravity, this kind of climbing requires almost no energy.