Armor Frenzy

In this way, it took the Sky Hook several days to drag all the containers into space. After the last container was hoisted away, Ouyang Ping heaved a long sigh of relief: "It's finally over."

"It's over?" Ye Han's voice suddenly rose, "You think it's beautiful."

"Ah? What else?" Ouyang Ping exclaimed.

"Where is this, it's still very early!" Ye Han looked very melancholy.

Ouyang Ping was very discouraged and asked unwillingly, "How many are there?"

"How do I know, when is enough and when is it counted." Ye Han said irresponsibly.

Ye Han was right. Early the next morning, a large group of aliens rushed to the base with giant insects, each of which was stacked high on its back.

Everyone continues to receive, and after all the boxes are packed, the Sky Hook will be notified to hoist it away.

In this way, I have to repeat it every few days, Ye Han is numb, and I can't remember how many carbon fiber plants the Skyhook took away. Anyway, the aliens sent him to collect it, and there are not enough containers. It is fulfilling day by day, to be honest, it is exhausting every day.

Finally one day, Ouyang Ping couldn't help but ask, "Boss, isn't it enough?"

Ye Han said: "More than 24,000 kilometers, are you saying enough?"

The gravitational force of Io is only 80% of that of the earth, and its rotation speed is much faster than that of the earth. Therefore, Io's synchronous orbit of the earth is much lower, only 24,000 kilometers, which is two-thirds of the earth.

That is to say, the cable length required by Io Zero must be more than 24,000 kilometers!

Alas? Why not 24,000 kilometers?

Because the center of gravity of the cable plus the space station is placed in the synchronous orbit, the position of the space station must be a little higher in the synchronous orbit, and only in this way will there be no deviation.

Ouyang Ping's eyes straightened: "Is this the year of the monkey and the month of the horse?"

Ye Han sighed helplessly: "When is enough, when is it counted!"

Ye Han has no pain here, and it's not easy in other areas.

The main function of the current Tianhe is no longer a space station, but a primary processing center for alien vines!

The Sky Hook sent the container to the Tianhe. After the Tianhe received the container, it temporarily placed the container outside the space station. The container was taken in order, and the vines inside were taken out for preliminary treatment, and the outer skin, unnecessary tissue and excess water were removed. Leaving swathes of carbon nanofibers behind.

Tianhe has limited conditions and can only handle this step. After processing, it has to be re-packed and transported back to Beiyuezhou to break up the whole bundle of carbon nanofibers, extract the nano-scale carbon nanotubes, and re-weave them together. of carbon nanofiber cables.

This process is not as easy as imagined. In order to disperse the fiber bundles, Beidu and Washington have worked together to manufacture a batch of professional equipment. All carbon fibers transported back to Beiyuezhou are processed by automated machinery.

However, even the most advanced equipment of human beings can only manually separate carbon nanotubes. Industrial production is not so precise at all, and it can be decomposed to the level of dozens of carbon nanotubes.

However, such a level is enough. Dozens of entangled carbon nanotubes are woven into ropes, and then assisted by appropriate treatment, the strength fully meets the needs of rail elevators.

The weaving of the cable was not all smooth sailing, it was more than 24,000 kilometers, and the earth could go around the equator half a circle with turns, and in order to ensure the strength, there could be no joints.

Beidu and Washington have been worried about this matter. After all, this is the first time that humans have built orbital elevators. They can't wait to experiment with all the theoretical things. If the resistance organization knows that humans use them as experiments, they don't know what to do. Impressions!

What's more troublesome is that the speed of weaving is too slow. At the beginning, we could only weave a few kilometers per day.

Beidu and Washington held a very efficient emergency consultation. After the consultation, Ma added dozens of sets of processing equipment, and the weaving equipment was also improved accordingly. Thirty kilometers.

But 30 kilometers a day, it takes more than 800 days to accumulate more than 24,000 kilometers. That is two and a half years. The Earth and the resistance organization are willing to wait, but can Jupiter be safe for that long?

And there is no point in continuing to add equipment, because 30 kilometers a day is the limit, and no amount of raw materials can keep up with it - in order to catch up with the progress, even the carbon fiber produced by the earth is put in.

Fortunately, this thing is not a rope in the usual sense, and it is not the same thickness from beginning to end. The force of each position of the cable is different. The closer to the synchronous orbit, the stronger the force, so the cable just woven is the widest and heaviest. Then it can be gradually narrowed and narrowed.

In order to obtain accurate data, Beidu and Washington used supercomputers to calculate several times respectively, and then got the data together to correct. It took a lot of effort to get the most accurate mechanical model.

The first part of Beiyuezhou is the cable connecting the ground in the atmosphere. This part is not as bad as the space station part, so the difficulty of weaving is relatively high. After this part is woven, the difficulty will gradually decrease, and the speed of weaving will decrease. will gradually increase.

In this way, there is an endless stream of transport ships between the earth and Io~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The high-density transportation will continue until the beginning of June 2029.

The weaving task of Beiyuezhou continued until the tenth of July. In the early stage of weaving, the completed cables were coiled layer by layer in the crater on the ground of Beiyuezhou, but as the project progressed, more and more cables were piled up. The entanglement cannot be solved at all, and all the work will be done in vain by then.

Later, Beidu simply used a spacecraft to pull the cable into space and pulled it from the moon all the way out. At the beginning, it was only a few hundred kilometers, weaving a section and pulling a section, and finally pulling it out for more than 20,000 kilometers, dragging it behind the buttocks of the moon like a strip of ice white Tail - After a strict surface treatment, the outer layer of the cable is glued with a thin layer of insect shell, so it looks light ice white.

Beidu and the base group also issued a joint statement, marking the vicinity of the cable as a no-fly zone, no matter which country's aircraft are allowed to approach, otherwise it will be shot down without consultation. The battleships of the Beiyuezhou fleet and the international fleet must also be jointly Approaching with the permission of the headquarters.

On July 11, 2029, the last section of the cable was completed. With the order of the joint command, the spacecraft that had been holding the cable flew to Io Zero immediately.

So far, the orbit elevator plan that lasted nearly ten months has finally blossomed and is about to bear its first fruit.