Chapter 438 Preparations for the Moon Landing

Liu Peiqiang waved his hand, and the virtual screen in front of him automatically changed to an underground city in Gabon, Africa. The base of the space elevator on the ground was already covered in endless ice.

As the animation demonstrated, the space elevator before the ice melted appeared in front of Chen Ye. It could be seen that the base of this space elevator was indeed very large and could cover the entire five rings of Beijing.

"This space elevator...where are the cables? So you only have the base of the space elevator left?"

Chen Ye looked at the bare base of the space elevator, touched his head, and was a little dazed. He knew that so many lines would not be piled here, but at least there was a place to store them, right?

"More than ten years ago, the final moment for the Earth to stop came. The Moon was pushed away from the Earth to reduce the Earth's gravitational burden, and the equatorial steering engine was operated at full capacity, eventually causing the Earth to stop rotating.

In this context, the space elevator has completed all existing tasks and can no longer play its role. The coalition government held a meeting and decided to dismantle all the equipment of the space elevator to use resources in other directions.

One thousand one hundred fixed cable sections of the space elevator were dismantled, and all 36,000 kilometers of cables were converted into various building materials and integrated into underground cities around the world.

So if you want a space elevator, the load-bearing satellite at the other end, as well as the space cable, carriage, and cable fixed section all need to be re-produced by us.

How about it? Our production is definitely cheaper than yours, and it’s fast. Anyway, minerals were cheap enough in the three dynasties.”

Chen Ye looked at the three-dimensional reconstruction of the space elevator and was actually very excited. With the space elevator, the cost of transporting materials from the earth to synchronous orbit will be reduced a lot.

In this way, they can not only verify their own spacecraft faction, but also have the resources of the earth. Both sides actually have the intention to test each other, so rocket spacecraft manufacturing technology has always been very developed.

"Hey, the situation has been taken care of. The rocket is expected to be in place in a week. I'm afraid the plan will have to change."

"Okay, I'll do it as soon as possible."

The most important thing is that China in modern time and space has no real territory in the equatorial region. The uncontrolled area is so large that the coalition government cannot prevent troublemakers from destroying the space elevator, let alone modern time and space.

"Good guy, the take-off weight is 8,000 tons? This time I can take a regiment of engineers to the sky. This is what I need."

Let me take a look. There is a model rocket here that we pre-developed in the second year after the Wandering Earth Law was officially implemented. It took seventeen years.

The rear section is the fusion power cabin, with a diameter of 22 meters, equipped with a controllable nuclear fusion engine and more than ten particle nozzles at different angles.

Liu Peiqiang pointed to the distance, where the huge nozzle of the equatorial engine was spraying at full power.

So try to get something that transports more, flies faster, and consumes less. Generally speaking, the more you can pull, the better."

"This is not urgent. I think your most urgent thing is to first consider how to announce it and how much construction machinery you need to bring to the first moon landing.

If the space plane hadn't been suitable for landing on the moon last time, we would have been prepared to use it directly. After all, it has a carrying capacity of more than a thousand tons, but using that thing, Yingjiang may be damaged."

After waiting for another two days, Liu Peiqiang coordinated the rocket and contacted Chen Ye. After Chen Ye arrived at the Wandering Earth Era, he put the rocket cabin that had been stored in sections into the display window, and then took a flight directly to Hainan with He Tao.

The fireworks did not last long. After all, the people here were all government workers. Chen Ye looked at Jupiter opposite the tail flame of the planetary engine and stared at the texture of Jupiter for a while.

He Tao was not surprised when he heard the weight change mentioned by Chen Ye. In their plan, the size of the lunar base was also being re-planned. This launch was completely a test of the waters.

The reason is that the interests involved are too great. This thing is no longer just an elevator, but a question of who is the global boss.

Without paying attention, he sent a copy of what he just said to the coalition government headquarters, closed the virtual screen, and walked out of the conference room.

As Chen Ye waved, a cylinder more than fifty meters high and twenty meters wide appeared. This was the bottom engine compartment of the rocket. On the wide cylinder, the abbreviation of the UEG coalition government was extremely conspicuous.

It is a combination of three sections, divided into a first section transport cabin, with a diameter of 14 meters, a length of 40 meters, and an internal volume of 2,600 cubic meters+.

"Straight to the moon? You really trust the technology of the wandering earth era.

"Okay, how many of these rockets are you going to give them? And the Han Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, and Ming Dynasty should also get a few, right?"

Okay, back to the question just now, what are you going to use the rocket for? I can find a suitable one for you. Some rockets are relatively rare here."

When this thing flies, Yingjiang won't be too nervous, and their observation methods won't think that this thing can threaten them. When the deal is done, they won't be able to do anything about it.

So as long as you want it, you only need to collect space station construction spaceships, and a bunch of them can be quickly produced for you.

"At present, the speed of the earth has exceeded the speed of the third universe by about twice, but Jupiter is too big. If you want to see the earth clearly leaving the perspective of Jupiter, you have to observe it continuously on the navigator for more than ten hours."

He Tao muttered in his mouth, which made Chen Ye break out into a cold sweat. Then he pressed a small remote control, a beeping sound sounded, and a flood of engineering vehicles and some transport vehicles poured out from the base.

Carrying soldiers piloting exoskeleton mechas.

So this launch mission is also an all-round test for us. For this reason, all the top officials from the three launch sites have been transferred here, and everyone is here to learn."

He Tao nodded in agreement with Chen Ye's statement. The weight of the base of the fusion engine directly exceeded 800 tons. With such a large and extremely dense cylinder, the aerospace center was powerless and had to rely on Chen Ye.

Chen Ye instantly understood that in the era of wandering the earth, it was easy to build a spaceship as big as Shanghai. If it were not for the strict allocation of the earth's resources, they would probably keep demolishing the underground city and sending it to space.

Now that we have the time and space of the Ming Dynasty, the people from the spaceship faction will not be stingy with spaceships, they will only meet our requirements unlimitedly to obtain more resources."

"Well, as for the space elevator, the demand in modern time and space is actually not strong, but it can be placed in the Ming Dynasty. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty is about to usher in great development.

Seeing that Chen Ye wanted the space elevator, Liu Peiqiang was still happy. Although they could exchange a lot of things with the earth, they still had to protect their own people's livelihood. If what they could sell was reduced like this, it would be relatively small.

This is the celebration of the entire era of wandering the earth, celebrating the beginning of the official acceleration of the earth. From this moment on, the entire earth will be free from the threat of helium flash.

Listening to Chen Ye's petty attitude, Liu Peiqiang waved his hand and said boldly, the resources of the entire earth are under the management of the joint government, and these industrial machines are really the lowest cost.

"Of course, it's just that the angular momentum is very small and we can't observe it here. This speed is faster than the previous distance of the moon. You see, the steering engine injection angle at the equator is almost close to the horizon."

At the same time, its speed is also very fast. The previous transport plane's maximum speed was twenty times the speed of sound, but now the speed of this rocket, after leaving the space between the earth and the moon, can approach the third cosmic speed, which is Mach 48."

"How many? One is enough. Can you still wholesale sugar cane?"

There is no helium flash crisis on the earth in modern time and space. If we can have a space elevator, we can avoid many detours when we start the interstellar era in the future.

In addition, we have mastered certain helium energy conversion technology, at least there is no shortage of fuel for fusion engines.

"Well, after the cabin materials are installed, you still have to do it all directly, because no matter whether it is Wenchang, Jiuquan, or Xichang, our satellite launch center has no experience in lifting launch vehicles exceeding a thousand tons.

"Why does it feel like the earth isn't moving much? The texture of Jupiter doesn't disappear at all on the horizon. Are we really moving away from Jupiter?"

"It turns out that the bigger the rocket, the better. Through previous large aircraft and some data from the Wandering Earth era, we have guessed that their rockets can carry at least 1,000 tons.

"As long as it can be pulled? Then these rockets that started operating after the braking era basically meet your requirements.

"Well, it seems that I can't see it anymore, so I'll go back first. Just give me a message after you coordinate the rocket and planetary engine."

"The rocket? It's China in modern time and space, and it's going to be used to build the first experimental base on the moon.

"According to the information provided by Liu Peiqiang and others, the launch of this kind of rocket is already very mature. In fact, it can be launched anywhere, but it would be better to enter the synchronous orbit in Wenchang for experiments."

Because their latest model of launch vehicle has a relatively large thrust and has a material transport capacity of more than 4,000 tons, I am afraid that one vehicle can meet our preset total weight of the lunar experimental base."

"It's so beautiful. Even the current American emperor can't make such a big baby. If it were to be equipped with a nuclear bomb, tsk tsk tsk."

"The rocket will be launched here when the time comes. You can release it. The first stage is the material warehouse, right? Just put it in the warehouse area over there.

Its advantage is that its transportation capacity is very strong, and it can be regarded as a purely engine-carrying version of the last transport aircraft.

"The reason is not complicated. The struggle between the spaceship faction and the earth faction has never stopped, and the voices are getting louder and louder.

As soon as Liu Peiqiang finished speaking, Chen Ye's figure flashed in front of him and disappeared.

"It's done. When not launched, it can withstand level 7 wind force, but you'd better fix it as soon as possible."

After walking around the Wenchang base, He Tao determined the placement point of the satellite, which was a preset base, and parked the car in front.

That's fine, but the engine base is a bit heavy and you can't install it, so I'll just fix it for you first."

Then add the space elevator to my private purchase order. After all, we don’t have a unified government in modern time and space, so we can’t do things on the equator.”

The entire rocket has a total height of 140 meters, an empty weight of 1,700 tons when fully powered, and a maximum take-off weight of 8,000 tons when fully loaded.

"The schedule is a little rushed. The plan will definitely change. I'm going to select someone to carry out the first experimental mission."

For this type of rocket, we can directly get you ten units in stock, otherwise you think that the Navigator space station is for nothing?"

Chen Ye is already very satisfied with the carrying capacity of this rocket. The most important thing is that this thing is different from a transport aircraft.

So at first Chen Ye was very interested in the space elevator, but in modern time and space, He Tao and the others were not so interested, and even other than the information, they were not very eager for Chen Ye to bring it back.

"Okay, that's why we took this into consideration and said it was given to you as a gift. We will discuss the specific price of the space cables later.

On the other side, Chen Ye had already flashed into modern time and space, picked up the mobile phone on the table, and dialed He Tao's number.

The helium energy hybrid energy capsule in the middle section carries the required fuel and various fusion equipment. This section has the longest distance.

The main purpose of this trip was to realize the long-decided experimental mission of manned spaceflight landing on the moon. It was also changed again and again, and in the end it was a mission that even the higher-ups chose not to plan.

Therefore, in order to reassure them, the coalition government decided to use the two Navigator space stations as the ideal model of the spacecraft, and the earth as the construction base.

"Hey, shopkeeper, are you kidding? If you were dealing with other non-renewable resources, they might be scarce on our wandering earth, but there are a lot of surplus rocket ships stored in the warehouse.

Now that Chen Ye wants the base of the space elevator, he can exchange a lot of things no matter what. It will be very beneficial to be able to replenish the earth that is almost drained and store some supplies for emergencies.

"The original plan was to launch in Gansu, but the load capacity you gave us was too scary. In order to prevent accidents, we decided to be more cautious here in Wenchang."

It is convenient for us to load and unload supplies. Since it is mature, we will go big and go directly to the moon."

A red light exploded while the two were chatting. They looked out the window, and strings of fireworks bloomed in the sky, making the endless frozen Pacific Ocean shine with crystal clear light.

"Well, isn't the earth's resource very scarce? Why is it still building rockets? And there are so many of them,"

Under Chen Ye's watchful eyes, these vehicles quickly rushed to the rocket engine section, and then one of the vehicles was the frame itself, which was assembled by exoskeleton mecha soldiers to become a simple launch tower, which fixed the rocket.

In less than two hours, the engine section of the rocket was already being erected by three tower cranes more than fifty meters high, making it no longer look so obtrusive.

"Good guys, is this the speed of engineers? You can absorb it much faster than the Ming Dynasty."

"This is just a simple fix. Thanks to the supercomputers from the era of wandering earth, the situation here has been simulated several times."

He Tao's words were full of simplicity, and his expression was still very proud. Being able to quickly use other people's tools is also a kind of ability, isn't it?
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