Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 529 Reference Point

2050 1 Month 1 Day.

The Lagrangian L1 point of the sun and Venus.

Wearing an engineering mech, Ye Wenxin completed the installation and positioning of the first Hadron Collider proton acceleration pipeline in space under the protection of Zhong Cheng and Alicia.

It marks the official opening of the hadron collider construction project!

On that day, a three-kilometer-long proton acceleration pipeline was assembled in a void at L1 point.

The accelerator tube is only 1 meter in diameter, covered by superconducting magnets, cooled with liquid helium, and placed in a circular tunnel with a diameter of [-] meters.

There are also many auxiliary facilities such as cooling compressors, vacuum equipment, control motor equipment, freezing tanks, etc. built in the circular tunnel.

In addition, a small Zhurong electric pusher will be installed on the tube wall of the circular tunnel to offset the external forces that cause the acceleration tube to deviate from its position in space, such as the sun's gravity, the gravity of the major planets, the solar wind, etc., so that the acceleration tube will always Stay on track.

Such a structure is actually very simple for the Federation's current level of technology. The difficulty is to build a length of 5 million kilometers, and to ensure that the centerline of the proton acceleration pipeline is on the same plane as a whole, and the straightness error is within 1 micron.

Because on the circumference of 5 million kilometers, any small section of it is a theoretical straight line, which is also the advantage and difficulty of the VLC.

In the following month, with the three-kilometer acceleration pipeline at the L1 point as the axis, a huge space station with a diameter of three kilometers was built.

But it will take up to a year until the final completion, but the reference point of the acceleration channel of the entire Hadron Collider has been set, and the large-scale construction implementation can start.

2 month 1 day.

On the Qinglong aircraft carrier Xuanyuan, which had arrived in the airspace of the core base, Zhong Cheng gave the order to start work.

He appointed Paul, Meng Ye, and Zhong Yi as the on-site commanders of the federal army, and unified dispatch and command of the construction army.

The Engineering Command divided 500 million Federal Army and 300 million engineering and technical personnel of Red Star Company into 5 construction corps, and started construction projects simultaneously on the [-] million-kilometer orbit around the sun.

The project construction starts with 50 sub-control base stations evenly distributed on the track, and each sub-control base station will provide power, control, monitoring, and maintenance services for the [-]-kilometer-long acceleration pipeline.

And each sub-control base station will also install eight large and medium-sized orbital electromagnetic guns, which will be responsible for cleaning up any asteroids, meteorites or other space foreign objects close to the sub-control acceleration pipeline.

Therefore, the sub-control base station is also a large space station with a diameter of one kilometer, like a thousand balls strung on a ring.

During the construction period, the sub-control base station will also become the front-line command headquarters of each construction corps and a place for rest and supply stations in turn.

Each Construction Corps is not only responsible for the construction of sub-control base stations, but also responsible for the construction of 50 kilometers of acceleration pipelines, and must ensure the final connection accuracy.

Zhong Cheng's method of splitting and lump sums can maximize the role of huge manpower and ensure the quality of construction.

The 5 million-kilometer acceleration pipeline, broken down into 50-kilometer segments, is less daunting.

Following Zhong Cheng's order, more than 800 million construction troops took more than 2500 space battleships and more than 1200 civilian spaceships and aerospace planes to carry the construction materials of the space station to their respective sections.

Three days later, a construction corps on the other side of the sun, the farthest from the core base station, arrived in the designated airspace.

2 month 25 day.

One thousand sub-control base stations have completed the positioning project and frame construction, and completed the construction of personnel rest places.

A thousand and one man-made celestial bodies appeared out of nothing in the orbit about 8000 million kilometers away from the surface of the sun, like bright pearls scattered in the boundless void.

At this time, a large number of construction parts shipped from the earth, the moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, and even distant Jupiter and Saturn have been delivered to various construction corps.

Nearly 3000 space battleships and spaceships were tasked with transporting accelerated pipeline construction components manufactured in Red Star's factories across the solar system to engineering sites.

The inner space of the solar system on the inner side of Venus has turned into a busy large construction site. Witnessed by all human beings, the unprecedented huge project has entered the busiest stage.

Under the guidance of the federal propaganda department under the leadership of Shi Hanxing and Xu Jiuwen, most of the federal people are aware of the benefits this project will bring to mankind.

Caring about the progress of the project has become a part of the life of most federal people, and every major progress will bring joy in the human society.

A large number of outstanding engineering technicians and soldiers who emerged from construction projects have become new stars and are sought after by countless federal youths.

Under the attention of the federal military and civilians, the acceleration channel of the Hadron Collider is centered on a thousand sub-control base stations, and extends to both sides by one kilometer, ten kilometers, and one hundred kilometers.

Ye Wenxin, Yang Xi, Lin Wei, Zhong Xin and other engineering and technical management personnel took the aerospace plane to supervise the quality of project implementation at various project points and solve technical problems that occurred.

Paul, Mengye, and Zhongyi divided the entire project into three sections, each responsible for the command and coordination of one section.

Sun Lin, Deng Jinhai, Li Shaojie, Chen Yilong and others coordinated the organization and transportation of construction materials throughout the solar system.

The federal army's command system, which has been tested by war, played a huge role in the project. If a project involving tens of millions of people was carried out before the war, Zhong Cheng could not imagine how to complete the command and coordination work.

Coupled with the federal soldiers who came down from the war and the engineers and technicians of the Red Star Company who experienced wartime production, their high organizational discipline and hard-working spirit are unmatched by builders in peacetime.

The construction plan designed by Zhong Cheng, even with the industrial strength of the Red Star Company and the advanced technology of the Kunlun Research Institute, without such a construction army to be responsible for the implementation, it is still far away to turn the design drawings into reality. It is difficult to complete for decades.

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2051 6 Month 5 Day.

Zhong Cheng and Ye Wenxin personally rushed to the airspace at the sections of the 205th and 206th work areas of the Fuxi Project.

There is only a gap of one meter left between the two five-meter-diameter acceleration pipes in the void, and hundreds of engineering personnel wearing engineering mechs or tactical mechas are surrounding here.

This is the section in charge of Zhong Yi, specifically the work area under the command of Ying Zongliang's Mars 33 Legion. They were the first to build the acceleration pipelines of the two work areas to the closing stage.

This is also a key part of testing the quality of the completion of construction tasks of each construction corps!
The two 25-kilometer acceleration pipelines extending from the sub-control base station must be connected within an error of 1 micron, which is a test for all construction engineers and federal soldiers.

If the accuracy allowed by the error is exceeded, the entire acceleration pipeline of hundreds of thousands of kilometers must be reworked and adjusted.

The adjustment time may be a few days or a few months. After all, the center line of the acceleration pipeline is not a solid line, but is determined by the tube wall. Mapping such a long pipeline in the space environment is time-consuming and laborious.

In this way, not only will you lose the honor of being the first, but you will also be responsible for delaying the construction period.
Moreover, it was Zhong Cheng and Ye Wenxin who came to carry out the inspection.

Although Zhong Yi, Ying Zongliang and other commanders were all "veterans" on the battlefield, they still broke into a cold sweat!
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