Technology's opening live broadcast to build rockets

The tower, known as the Penglai Tower, has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest tower.

The central part of Penglai Tower is a circular hollow, which 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 synchronous orbit. The cable is hung from the counterweight and connected to the Tiangong Space Station, where one section of the cable is fixed, dampers and related supporting equipment are installed, and then continue Let the next section hang down and connect them one by one." Chai Boyan replied.

"The more difficult aspects at present are: first, whether the 40,000-kilometer-long carbon nanotube cable can pass the tensile test; second, whether our space installation steps can be completed smoothly."

"Yes." Du Xingyu nodded in disbelief. This is the most reasonable installation method at present.

Sooner rather than later, after each body has been inspected for the last time, the installation of mankind's first space elevator is finally about to begin!

At the Changhai Satellite Launch Center, the Xingkong-3 nuclear thermal rocket newly developed by the China Space Administration will send carbon nanotube cables to the Tiangong Space Station, a geosynchronous orbit station 36,000 kilometers above the Earth's equator, and to the higher near-Earth spaceport base.

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

Subsequently, astronauts from the space station went out of the cabin to perform installation. During this process, the space station and aircraft must always observe the position of the cable. If the cable is placed too long, the angular velocity of the head and tail will be different and deviate from the axis, destroying the overall structure.

There were some accidents during the period, but fortunately, there were no near misses and they were all passed smoothly.

"Report, the stage from the near-Earth space port to the Tiangong Space Station has been completely completed." reported the astronaut responsible for the first section of the carbon nanotube cable.

"The laying of the A1 cable from the Tiangong Space Station to the ground section has been completed." News also came from the space station.

"Section A2 cable has been connected successfully..."

Cables extend from space to the ground.

"The laser positioning is completed and the last section of the ground connection is carried out." On the tower of Penglai Tower, the long tower crane limits and corrects the cable according to the position corrected by the laser.

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

At this time, the tension structure of the cable relies on the centrifugal force of the earth's rotation. The ground tower is fixed. The space station must monitor the status of the cable at all times to ensure the stability of its structure.

"The cable connection is completed!" The cable work was carried out for several consecutive days, during which several engineering teams were changed.

In the past few days, Du Xingyu and others could only sleep three or four hours a day on average, and then they had to intensively direct and control.

The engineers breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the connection was complete.

"Okay! Continue to monitor the status and start installing the car. Wait until I wake up!" After Du Xingyu said this with dark circles under his eyes, he fell asleep directly on the table.

"General Engineer Du is too tired. He has solved several problems in the past few days." Chai Boyan said, "Let him have a good rest. We will work with German experts to solve the installation of the car."

Du Xingyu slept all day and night. In order to prevent him from being hungry and harming his body, doctors and nurses 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 conducted, and everything was in good condition.

"Commander-in-Chief, currently we have connected the five main bodies of the ground station, cables, cars, space stations and counterweights." Although Chai Boyan looked tired, his tone was very excited, "There is no problem in the first test run! I suggest you can The news has been announced!”

In the past, it would have been impossible for such a super project to be officially put into operation without being simulated and tested tens of thousands of times.

But first things first, human beings now don't have that much time to slowly test. Now that the simulation run and preliminary tests have been passed, the ladder must be put to use immediately.

The near-Earth space port is still waiting for major construction!

The whole world is paying great attention to the ladder, so when the news came out that the ladder was going to be officially transported for the first time, media from all over the world swarmed in, waiting to report this event in real time!

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

On Douyin short video, Du Xingyu posted a short video, which is a drone aerial view of the ladder.

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

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

In ancient and modern times, there are many myths and legends at home and abroad about people who can climb into the sky and reach the sky. Nowadays, technology has turned this fantasy into reality, which makes the viewers who watch the video excited.

"6666! Elevator to heaven!"

"It's so shocking, this is human wisdom!"

"Did the space elevator cause it? When will it be operational?"

"It was built in just over a year? Could it be a concept video?"

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

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

The super tower with a height of 14 kilometers above the ground is undoubtedly very shocking in terms of visual effects. The construction workers and engineers standing on the tower are like small black dots. If you don’t zoom in on the lens, you can’t see clearly at all. .

"Fuck!!!" Some viewers were amazed when they saw the Penglai Pagoda so clearly for the first time.

"But I'm uneducated, so I can tell the world with just one word!"

"I'm afraid of heights. If I were asked to go up, I wouldn't dare to take a step!"

"I think if the tower is taller, we won't need a space elevator. We can go directly to space!"

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

Facing the live broadcast camera, he introduced: "Viewers, as you can see, we will start the operation of the ladder immediately."

"This time, we are preparing to send one hundred tons of supplies and three space assembly robots to the Tiangong Space Station."

"In the past, such a mass required at least a heavy-duty operational rocket and cost tens of millions to send into space. But today, we will use elevator transportation to send these masses into space at a cost of less than 10,000 yuan. Space!”

In the video, the space elevator car 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 it's hollow in the middle, with a ring-shaped space outside, and a rocket thruster at the bottom! This thruster is generally not activated and will only activate when an accident occurs.

Normally, the car is lifted into the air by climbing on rollers. After breaking away from gravity, this kind of climbing consumes almost no energy.