Chapter 1615 Heavenly Court!

Just when reporters from all over the world were shocked by what they saw in Penglai City, a similar scene was also happening on the synchronous orbit 36,000 kilometers away.

It's just that the people who were touched by the sight before them were not the reporters from all over the world, but the members of the Space Elevator Construction Committee who took the shuttle to check and accept the project, as well as the engineers and scientific researchers who were in charge of the design work.

"Is this the Heavenly Court..."

Sitting on the open space shuttle to the Tianting, looking directly at the towering space fortress outside the porthole, Li Guangya's eyes were filled with excitement, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh.

As the general person in charge of the Space Elevator Construction Committee, his signature means the final red stamp on the project delivery documents for the entire project.

Therefore, after hearing the news of the completion of the space elevator, he immediately asked his secretary to cancel all the itinerary for the day, and boarded the first flight to the Tianting without stopping.

"Yes," Lu Zhou glanced at Li Guangya, who was standing beside him, and casually replied in a chatty tone, "How do you think it compares to the one in the myths and legends?"

Originally, Lu Zhou just said these words casually, but he did not expect that Li Guangya, who heard this sentence, thought about it seriously for a long time.

After a long time, he shook his head and said softly with emotion.

"There is no way to compare. The imagination of the ancients is still too lacking in propositions about the universe. Even if I go through all the myths and allusions I know, the palace on the clouds is shabby compared to this majestic fortress." Point. Whether it is from the perspective of artistic value or practicality, I can only use the word incredible to describe it..."

The several-kilometer-long cylindrical structure is stably suspended in a synchronous orbit, and its central axis points straight to the blue planet. The four arc-shaped cantilevers on the outside spread out, just like the propellers at the tail of a submarine, rotating silently at a slow speed.

From a distance, the majestic space fortress is like a spinning top, pulled by the inertia of the two motion systems, and achieves a dynamic balance that can be adjusted at any time with gravity.

If nothing else, this is probably the largest and most complex space project built in a gravity environment in the history of human space.

Although the scale is slightly inferior to the space base at Lagrangian point, the interfaces left on the outside of the Tianting provide infinite possibilities for the future of this space station.

You know, it took more than half a century for the Lagrange point space base to develop from the initial berth hovering near the Lagrange point to the current scale.

As for the Tianting, it still has at least a century to fill its wings and show its prosperity to the world...

"It's really exciting."

"What to expect?"

Looking at Lu Zhou, Li Guangya showed a smile on his face.

"Of course when the Sky Elevator is completed."

Long before taking the position of chairman, he was working hard to realize this dream. Whether it is for leaving a name in history, or for a certain ambition that Wei once said, this space elevator is an indispensable and important part of the blueprint in his mind.

Although he has also considered that with the current technical conditions, maybe he may not be able to see the space elevator actually completed on this planet until he retires.

However, no one expected that during his lifetime, he actually saw his dream come true.

Just like he never thought that the greatest scholar a hundred years ago would wake up from the grave, lift the coffin board and come out to help him "realize his dream".

All of this is so unreal...

He glanced at this guy, although he vaguely felt that he might be thinking about something impolite when he said this, but Lu Zhou didn't say anything.

Although he didn't express that emotion in words, Lu Zhou could still feel the shock of being overwhelmed by the charm of science overflowing from his heart from the guy's clenched fists.

For taller, stronger and more magnificent buildings, it is the eternal pursuit of the Chinese civilization that originated in the Mesopotamia. For thousands of years, this emotion has already been integrated into everyone's blood and engraved in the genes of culture.

And on this space station named Tianting, these elements are undoubtedly reflected to the extreme.

Standing in the vast cold night, it is like a star that never falls, covering up all the shining in the entire night sky, as well as the crystallization of all the wisdom of all civilizations in history.

It's not just a spectacle.

It is a milestone of civilization...

...

Passing through the circular hatch at the bottom, with the docking of the connecting arm and the lowering of the airlock, the shuttle quickly landed firmly on the berth of the Tianting space station.

This was supposed to be where the elevator was connected.

However, the most important middle section of the entire space elevator has not yet started construction, so it is temporarily used as a temporary berth.

"The entire Tianting space station can be divided into two parts, namely the central axis and the cantilever. The position we are in now is the ground side of the central axis area...that is, the first floor of the entire space station."

After getting off the shuttle, he led a group of people towards the control center. While admiring the almost perfect "work of art" he designed, Lu Zhou introduced the situation here to others behind him.

"If the axial region is the heart and brain, the cantilever region is the torso."

"While the outer cantilever compensates the gravity of the space station through the motion inertia, it also provides an 'approximate gravity' through the center of the circle to the inside of the ring structure on the outer side of the cantilever due to its own rotation. This gravity is not caused by gravity , provided by centrifugal force, but can have a similar effect."

"Therefore, when designing the cantilever part, I defined the living area on the blueprint, and made a special design for the interface of this part."

"When the living space is insufficient, we can dock a new space station on the outside of the cantilever, and adjust the rotation speed of the cantilever and the position of the center of gravity of the space station, so as to restore the balance of the motion system..."

Listening to Lu Zhou's eloquent talk, Li Guangya's face was full of misty expressions.

Finally, when the introduction came to an end, he saw the right opportunity, coughed dryly, and interjected.

"I already know that the cantilever is the living area... What about the central axis? I don't care about the specific theory, you put it simply..."

"It's not a complicated theory. Putting aside those details, I think even junior high school students in the 21st century can figure out these things."

After squinting at Li Guangya, Lu Zhou continued.

"I positioned the central axis on the blueprint as the industrial area and the experimental area. This part of the area is stationary relative to the earth, and the gravity in both the longitudinal and vertical axis directions is close to zero. If the outer cantilever The Cantilever District is for people to live in, so this part is the factory and logistics transfer base that provides daily necessities for the residents of the Cantilever District.”

"At the same time, it is also the place where Tianting connects with the space elevator."

When he said this, Lu Zhou couldn't help but put a smile on his face, and his eyes unconsciously fell on the floor-to-ceiling windows beside him.

There is the moon.

It is also the direction of Guanghan City.

As a bridge between heaven and earth, he envisioned the space elevator to be more than just a fast track for exchanging matter, or a bridge that would allow people to travel faster to and from empty space.

The second-generation controllable fusion reactor has been completed on the moon, and the huge reserves of helium-3 are being converted into inexhaustible energy. However, the industrial capacity on the moon alone is not enough to completely digest these energy sources.

In order to allow these energies to enter the atmosphere-filled surface from the vacuum environment with lower loss, he needs an optical cable extending from the surface to space to carry the huge energy from the moon.

And this is another layer of meaning that this space elevator is most valuable to human civilization besides the elevator itself——

That is, an energy and information corridor spanning between heaven and earth!