The bridge suddenly became quiet, and Luo Qi nodded fiercely: "It's possible, it's very possible!"
He Ludao: "Europeans have wanted orbital elevators for a long time, and the United States has been thinking about it for a long time. I heard that Washington has never given up, and has been in contact with Beijing every now and then. The boss said
Maybe there is some agreement reached with Washington..."
"Yes, that makes sense!" Luo Qi nodded vigorously again, "It has taken so long to build two orbital elevators and they have not been delivered. There must be a story, plus catching up with Mars...hehe
, the European side can’t even agree to it.”
Ye Han frowned and said, "I don't care how this orbital elevator came about. I just want to know how it will be distributed in the future with just one elevator!"
Everyone wants to know the answer, but who can answer it?
At this time, Leishan was located over the northern hemisphere of Mars. Soon after, Leishan penetrated into the shadow of Mars. When the battleship came out of the shadow, the south pole of Mars came into view.
Ye Han and others were surprised to find that the survey of the Antarctic had ended. There was not a single person in the entire Antarctic. If the mechanical equipment used for the survey were not still on the ground, he almost thought that the previous survey was an illusion created by him.
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Luo Qi spoke quickly, widened his eyes and turned around: "Didn't you say that the location of the Antarctic has been determined?"
He Lu raised his eyebrows: "Looking at what this means, I should have decided on a location first. It's hard to say when it will be used."
"It's a good idea to focus on building the Arctic first, and then use the Arctic resources to build the Antarctic." Ye Han said.
From the earth to Mars, it can take as short as half a month or as long as more than two months. The transportation cost is terrifyingly high. If the two bases are built together, the transportation cost alone can bring down the two major groups, and the timeliness is extremely poor.
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On the contrary, if Mars resources can be used to build a Mars base...it will definitely be a bit troublesome at first, but as long as the resources are developed and put into orbit, the cost will not be a problem at all.
Thinking of this, Ye Han suddenly realized that the base group's withdrawal from Antarctica might also be a reason to concentrate on developing Arctic resources.
Using Arctic resources to build the Antarctic... This is likely to be one of the costs of prioritizing the construction of the Arctic.
Maybe Beijing will have to provide an orbital elevator for Antarctica...
When Leishan turned back to the North Pole, the orbital elevator had changed from vertical to flat, and the 20,000-kilometer-long cable was pulled straight by centrifugal force, just like a crane with only one blade left tied to the North Pole of Mars.
The rotor is like a red fruit connected to a straight and slender branch.
At this time, a sky train had already left the space station. It was like a small insect lying on a branch, slowly but firmly squirming towards the fruit.
Under normal circumstances, the space train only travels between the ground and low-orbit terminals, but this does not mean that the space train cannot reach the space station.
"Why don't you park the car at the dock?" a bridge officer asked curiously.
"Do you even need to ask?" He Lu looked helpless, "It's weird that there is still room to put the train in the pier with such a long cable!"
Thinking about the internal structure of the low-rail dock, Ye Han felt that the low-rail dock must have been hollowed out to accommodate so many cables. The dock might be busy repairing it.
Twenty thousand kilometers is not close, equivalent to running half a circle around the earth's equator. It takes three full days for the train to land. In order to speed up the progress, the three space trains in the space station set off one hour apart, and the small bugs on the branches changed from one to the other.
Into three.
At the same time, the fleet continued to airdrop supplies to the North Pole, and engineers built three platforms near the platform with extremely high efficiency, and also built a two-kilometer track along the cable.
The herringbone track starts from the platform, gradually extends to the cable, rests on both sides of the cable several hundred meters away from the platform, and then extends for one kilometer along the cable to the end.
This weird design caught Ye Han's attention. After some observation, he finally figured out the purpose of the herringbone track.
The sky train is equivalent to a cylinder that is cut vertically, separates when on the ground, and then closes after getting on the cable.
But those orbital elevators are all perpendicular to the ground. Mars lies directly on the ground, which is fundamentally different from the previous orbital elevators. Naturally, the method of landing the train has to be changed, and the closing process that originally took place at the ground end has to be changed.
, changed to the extended track.
Ye Han didn't know how many technical difficulties there were, but since the higher-ups had the courage to put the orbital elevator in the North Pole, all the technical difficulties that needed to be solved must have been solved.
The more he thought about it, the deeper he went, and suddenly he felt that the ground end used at the North Pole of Mars should be somewhat different. It seemed to be just a strong anchor.
The size of that thing is not small. Its diameter accounts for more than half of the platform. It is very strong without asking. But compared with the total mass of the orbital elevator and the pulling force generated during operation, the ground end of about six meters seems to be so heavy.
Point strength is insufficient.
Well, the ground terminal might be made of some special metal, or it might be the legendary alien formula!
By the way, I have been researching alien technology for several years, but apart from nuclear engines, I have never heard of anywhere else where alien technology has been used. The military’s research progress seems a bit slow!
Just as the space train was climbing towards Mars, Ye Han finally received a notification from the Jizhou: the asteroid belt task force headed by the Nanzhou had arrived in the asteroid belt a few days ago and was about to rendezvous with the remaining fleet.
It is expected to head to Ceres on the 4th!
This news immediately attracted everyone's attention, not because everyone was too bored, but because the remaining fleet has been hovering near Ceres, and converging with the remaining fleet would be equivalent to encountering an alien fleet.
Today is August 2nd. If the news from Jizhou is accurate, the asteroid belt task force will encounter the alien fleet the day after tomorrow!
The success or failure of the Nanzhou Fleet Group is not only related to the ownership of Ceres, but also the success or failure of colonizing Mars, so everyone cannot help but pay attention to it.
Ye Han immediately forgot about Mars and ordered Leishan to focus its camera on Ceres.
The panoramic helmet was very powerful. Ye Han felt that the scenery in front of him had changed. The sparks under his feet had disappeared and were replaced by a pitch-black void.
Twelve pitch-black human warships were right in front of Ye Han and others. They were the twelve warships left by the task force in the asteroid belt, and every one of them was captured by the camera.
When the Leishan returned, the Beihai was also ordered to return to Beiyuezhou. There were only six human warships left in the entire asteroid belt, exactly three in Beidu and three in Washington.
These six battleships are all the forces left by mankind in the asteroid belt, and together they form the asteroid belt remaining fleet.
