Chapter 1580 Less than 3% Success Rate

In the meeting room on the first floor of the Pan-Asia Science and Technology Department, it was crowded with people at this very moment.

The time for the meeting was getting closer and closer, but academician Ge Huaizhi, who was sitting at the head of the conference table, had no intention of announcing the start of the meeting. He just switched his gaze back and forth between the watch and the door from time to time.

Seeing that the time was about to come, the assistant sitting next to him still didn't hold his breath after all, and whispered a reminder.

"Academician Ge...the meeting will start soon."

"I know," replied impatiently, Academician Ge turned his gaze to the door again, and said casually, "Where is Academician Lu? Is he coming or not?"

There was a wry smile on the assistant's face, and he said in a low voice.

"He... said in his reply to our email that he would consider our invitation, but he didn't seem to make it clear that he would definitely come."

What is this guy doing?

Such an important meeting, as the general counsel, unexpectedly did not come.

Although he knew that his academic status was not enough to criticize that boss, Ge Huaizhi couldn't help but sighed heavily for his unreliability.

"Thinking about it? Look at this point... He probably won't come," Academician Ge glanced at the people in the meeting room, and after a moment of silence, he lowered his voice, still unwilling to give up on his own words. The assistant said, "Go outside and look around. In case he can't find a place... you can bring him here."

Hearing this sentence, a wry smile appeared on the assistant's face, but he didn't say anything, just nodded, and then walked towards the meeting room.

Watching the back of his assistant leaving until the door of the conference room was closed again, Academician Ge sighed and turned his gaze to the bustling conference room.

Stretching out his knuckles and knocking on the table vigorously, he waited for the conference room to become quiet before speaking in a serious tone.

"The outline of the meeting has been sent out, so I will make a long story short here."

"This meeting is very critical, and I hope everyone will play up to 120 points."

"Now, the meeting begins."

As we all know, although the name of the space elevator has the word "elevator", it is not the same as the elevator that people often understand. This elevator is not built from the bottom up, but from the top down.

That is, first select an area with relatively stable geological activities on the ground as an anchorage, and then build a space station on the synchronous orbit above the anchorage.

Then from this space station, the "ladder" is lowered little by little, and finally lands on the anchorage.

It is precisely because of this that this space station located above the synchronous orbit can be said to be the most important component besides the ladder itself.

Considering the importance of this space, the Space Elevator Project Office invites design proposals from the academic and industrial circles within the Pan-Asian Cooperation in the form of public bidding for the design of this space station.

Considering the investment scale and strategic significance of the project, almost all scientific research units or enterprises engaged in space station design or aerospace engineering research in the Pan-Asia Cooperation participated in the bidding for the project.

As for the purpose of this meeting, it is natural to review the design proposals of these research institutes and companies—that is, the so-called expert bid evaluation process.

Academician Ge personally led the expert team for bid evaluation, and almost the entire core researchers of the space elevator project team participated in this evaluation process.

The meeting quickly got down to business.

The first thing to be shown is the design plan of the Institute of Aerospace Science and Technology of Yenching University.

As a man about 40 years old walked to the center of the circular conference room, he placed a thumb-sized cassette on the projection device located in the center of the conference room.

Soon a blue light beam appeared in the center of the meeting room, and a ring-shaped space station about half a person's height and two steps wide appeared in front of everyone.

Although it is an ordinary face, the aerospace experts sitting here are no strangers to this young and middle-aged professor.

As an expert in the field of aerospace engineering, Professor Zhu Haiqing, who teaches at Yanda University, once participated in the design of the Atlantis space station. He is a well-known master in both industry and academia. The difference from the title of academician is only some qualifications and accumulation.

This set of design proposals launched by the Yanda Institute of Astronautics was completed by the research team led by Professor Zhu.

"This is the design plan of our Yanda Aerospace Research Institute."

"Referring to the design of the Tianzhou space station, we divided the entire space station into three areas: residential, commercial, and industrial, which are distributed sequentially from the inside to the outside."

"The counterweight rod located in the center of the space station is the core of the entire design scheme. Considering that as the mass of the space station changes, the center of gravity of the space elevator will float up and down in the synchronous orbit. This design can ensure that the center of gravity of the space elevator is always in a proper position."

When talking about this set of design schemes, the man had a confident smile on his face.

Listening to his explanation, there were whispers in the conference room.

Looking directly at the holographic blueprint suspended in the light beam, Professor Zhang, who was sitting next to Academician Ge, whispered to him and asked.

"What do you think of this plan?"

"It's quite satisfactory," Academician Ge rubbed his chin, pondered for a moment, and then continued, "If I look at it this way, I can't see anything wrong with it."

Professor Zhang said with a smile: "Even your old man can't see any problems, isn't that stable?"

"Don't say that, no one has really seen a new thing like a space elevator, and the past experience is not an experience at all. We are all crossing the river by feeling the stones, and no one is better than the other," paused After a while, Academician Ge made a mark on the form in his hand, and continued without making any comments, "Let's look at a few more plans."

Professor Zhang, who is also one of the review committee, nodded and agreed.

"makes sense."

After finishing the final explanation, Professor Zhu Haiqing, standing in the center of the meeting, bowed slightly to the members of the review committee who walked into the meeting room, and then left the review site with his proposal.

Next on stage was Academician Liu Binrui from the Institute of Aerospace Science and Technology of Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

This academician Liu is also a great big cow. Although he is 60 years old, he is still active in the front line of aerospace engineering research. And unlike Professor Zhang of Yanda, he has quite rich practical experience in the design of large space stations.

Including the Lagrangian point space base of the Pan-Asian cooperation, and the orbital transfer station newly in service over Tiangong City, all of which have his research results.

Although it is the proposals that are reviewed, not the qualifications of the bidders and the academic resumes of the project leaders themselves, but it has to be admitted that the results produced by these industry giants are far better than those sent by low-end research institutions as if they were just joining in the fun. The design plan that came over is indeed much better.

After seeing the plan proposed by Academician Liu, the expression on Academician Ge's face became more and more tangled.

Not because of a bad plan.

It was because both looked good that he didn't know which choice to make for a while.

"Let's go through all the plans first...wait until the end to make a choice." After making a mark on the form, Academician Ge glanced at Professor Zhang next to him, and continued to ask, "How is the preparation on the matrix?" ? Has the application been completed yet?"

Professor Zhang nodded.

"The Ministry of Science and Technology has already contacted the military through the chairman, and they agreed that we use the 'matrix' for twelve hours."

The so-called matrix is ​​the quantum computer array seized from those awakened people.

Although it is still unclear where this 'matrix' came from and who built it for what purpose, after research by the Pan-Asian Academy of Sciences, most of the dangers have finally been ruled out

Considering that this supercomputer is used for scientific research—especially its unparalleled performance in the field of computational simulation, this time Academician Ge deliberately used the privilege of the space elevator project team in scientific research priorities to apply to the organization for this supercomputer Computational simulations for space elevator design proposals.

"Twelve hours?"

Academician Ge nodded after pondering for a moment, and said as if talking to himself.

"It should be enough."

...

In fact, it took less than twelve hours at all.

Most of the waiting time is spent on the long communication distance and relatively narrow communication bandwidth.

If it's just calculations, twelve hours is simply too much for the quantum computer array buried deep under the surface of the asteroid.

Just a few minutes may be enough.

Finally, he went through all the design proposals, and after reviewing the opinions of other researchers in the project team, Academician Ge announced the shortlist and expressed his gratitude to those research units that failed to be shortlisted for their active participation.

Next, it is the calculation simulation verification on the supercomputing.

All the data was transmitted to Ceres, hundreds of millions of kilometers away, and after being tested by the quantum supercomputing array there, the staff of the space elevator project team received the returned data from the Pan-Asian Academy of Sciences.

Looking at the list of items projected on the holographic screen, Professor Zhang cast a questioning look at Academician Ge who was sitting next to him.

"Which one to start with?"

Academician Ge pondered for a while, then spoke.

"Let's start with the Yanda team's plan."

For Professor Zhu's plan, his first sense is quite good, and he should be able to get a good evaluation result.

And if the first news they hear is good news, it will undoubtedly boost the morale of the entire space elevator project team.

Both Academician Ge and Professor Zhu Haiqing himself are full of confidence in the results of the assessment!

Professor Zhang nodded quickly, and quickly tapped the holographic keyboard a few times with his ten fingers, and soon the simulation results of the Yanda team's design plan were presented in the holographic beam.

However, at the moment of seeing this result, almost everyone had a surprised expression on their faces, and their mood instantly fell to the bottom.

The originally expected picture of the stable operation of the space elevator did not appear. Instead, it was replaced by space junk scattered on the synchronous orbit, and those calculation parameters marked in red.

Especially the most eye-catching number, which stung everyone's eyes.

Program success rate——

Only less than 3%!

What the hell? !