Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 1875 Persistence

Daxia Institute of Science and Technology.

Outstanding young scientists and academicians, elite scientists of the Mesozoic era and the older generation with gray hair gathered together.

"Please keep the information of today's meeting confidential..."

The voice of the initiator of the meeting occasionally echoed in the ears of these leaders in the field. The security personnel standing tall and straight around made everyone understand that the seriousness and discipline of this meeting were different from usual ones.

Everyone has worked hard to reach their current position, and of course they have participated in similar meetings before. They know that meetings of this scale are often important meetings that have a huge impact on Daxia, so they quickly calmed down and got into work mode.

However, when the staff opened the encrypted folder and let these bigwigs see the information inside, the work status of many people was instantly disrupted.

"A space elevator can only be built at the equator. The 36,000-kilometer orbit requires very high cable material strength. We can make an estimate that to achieve this strength, it is equivalent to a rope as thick as a hair, pulling up hundreds of elephants, and the material properties must be stable.

The cables and rigging would need to be at least 100,000 kilometers long. To build them, we also need to consider the strong winds at high altitudes. Currently, the space elevator is still a theoretical discussion. There is still a long way to go before it can be truly implemented and built.”

"Decades ago, scientists from Russia proposed this concept, and our entire aerospace community is paying attention to this direction. But even if carbon nanotubes can be mass-produced, the biggest problem is orbital resources. Building a space elevator requires clearing all satellites in the equatorial plane orbit, which is simply impossible at this stage."

"The moon has huge strategic resource value, and the space elevator may be the most important ladder for us to enter space in the future, but I don't think it is necessary to invest a lot of resources in this project now."

At the end of the discussion, even the older generation of academicians shouted excitedly: "Whose plan is this? Such a joke?! Every penny we spend is earned by the hard work of all Daxia citizens! How can they be so wasteful!"

"For this kind of project, even if you want to do theoretical research, wouldn't the Spiritual Ecological Laboratory provided by Jiuzhou Technology be enough? Do you just want to attract so much investment as a gimmick?"

Even though they knew that the status of today's meeting was very high and understood the powerful influence of the organizers behind it, this group of older scientists still righteously rejected the plan.

Even after the subsequent appearance of data files related to [Jiuzhou Technology], they still did not change their position.

"The moon is an important commanding height for modern space stations. Jiuzhou Technology has already mastered the technology of cyclic lunar landings, so it is natural that we hope to make some achievements in the space elevator project. Moreover, this may also prove that Jiuzhou Technology does not want us to master the rocket and spacecraft technology for low-cost, repeated lunar landings."

"It's obvious that Jiuzhou Technology must have discovered extremely important strategic materials on the moon, and they are trying to confine this hope of all mankind within their small area! The moon soil and moon rocks given to us at the beginning may be selected samples, so that we can't detect these substances!"

"We have completed one moon landing, so we can complete the second, third, and tenth one! Perhaps we will also discover crucial special substances. When the time comes, it won't be too late for us to cooperate with Jiuzhou Technology on the space elevator project."

Jiuzhou Technology has been treating senior intellectuals and workers with great preferential treatment since its inception. It has close cooperation with top scientific research institutions and universities such as Daxia Institute of Science and Technology, and has always maintained high investment and high welfare benefits for scientific research projects. This has led to many professors and academicians not choosing to return to their original units after retirement, but resolutely going to work at Jiuzhou Technology.

But despite its excellent history of cooperation, Jiuzhou Technology was still "criticized" at the meeting on the space elevator project.

A person in charge of the conference organizer, upon hearing the discussion becoming increasingly heated, stood up and placed his hands in the air, signaling everyone to calm down.

After everyone's emotions had calmed down for a while, the person in charge finally spoke: "At present, the project is just for discussion, and Jiuzhou Technology has not made any other requirements except confidentiality, so please don't get too emotional.

In addition, today's meeting focused on discussing the technical feasibility of the project, as well as the exploration and imagination of our current space development field.

Our Daxia Aerospace Group’s engineering team also participated in this meeting, and it is just a project exploration, so please feel free to speak your mind…”

  Having said that, what flowers have these scientific research leaders of Daxia Institute of Science and Technology not seen? What words have they not heard?

An industry leader immediately said loudly: "Whether it is project exploration or theoretical discussion, my personal opinion is that the current space elevator project is not mature from both theory and practice. We can invest resources to overcome the project, but we cannot invest resources on a large scale, nor can we waste resources!"

"That's right. If we want to cooperate with Jiuzhou Technology, we should also clearly divide the rights and responsibilities! Last year, when Jiuzhou Technology reorganized the cooperative experimental project with us, a lot of old accounts were resolved. We can't add new ones now!"

Facing these bigwigs from the aerospace and materials fields, none of the leaders and engineering team of Daxia Aerospace Group looked relaxed.

Just looking at the relationship, the relationship between Daxia Aerospace Group and Jiuzhou Technology is already very close. They even signed a contract at the beginning. Under several special circumstances, Jiuzhou Technology's aircraft have the same protection specifications as Daxia Aerospace Group's aircraft.

The Jiuzhou Space Station, which is now under the charge of Jiuzhou Technology, has also opened a fixed cabin for the Daxia Aerospace Group, allowing Daxia astronauts to enter the Jiuzhou Space Station for long-term living and work.

In addition, Jiuzhou Technology has been returning the favor by providing confidential data and giving away lunar soil and rocks...

Although it is known that these industry leaders are considering the interests of Daxia as the starting point, sometimes the situation is like this. This group of people still regard Jiuzhou Technology as a company, and the senior management of Daxia Aerospace Group has had in-depth exchanges with the previous ones.

They clearly know that Jiuzhou Technology is now a partner rather than an "enterprise" in development.

Moreover, the engineering team of Daxia Aerospace Group is also very curious about the extent of aerospace technology mastered by Jiuzhou Technology.