Chapter 944 - Asteroid Mining Program (1/2)

Chapter 944: Asteroid Mining Program

The busy runway didn’t affect Jiang Chen’s return from Canberra.

Busy runway?

At his level, even if a runway wasn’t available, Coro Island International Airport would find a way to construct one for him. In the worst case scenario, his private jet could land at New Moon Island’s military base.

That runway could even land AN-225, let alone a Gulfstream G650?

Back to Coro Island, it was the fifth day after the United Nations Outer Space Summit, and the successful first train of the space elevator was a week ago. In a few days, the passengers on Celestial City would return to the surface.

Nowadays, Celestial City was empty. Other than an experimental field that used some of the Garden of Eden’s technology, only a small area of living space was available that could fit around a thousand people. Only 30 of the astronauts who traveled to the space station would stay in the city.

The first thing Jiang Chen did after he got off the plane was to see Kelvin.

The asteroid capture project was completed, and eight rocket engines all stalled. They quietly rotated around an asteroid 500 meters in diameter in a circular orbit far from Earth.

Kelvin was in charge of preparing for the launch of the Dragon Spacecraft. It was the outsourced project from SpaceX for only two million XND. Compared to the earnings of the first two projects, it was negligible. The launching was quite simple. The robotic arm would lower the Dragon Spacecraft on the outer track of the space elevator, then the rest of the steps were all foolproof.

The launching task was given to his assistant so that Kelvin, who was already bone-skinny, could give himself a small vacation. He didn’t want to do anything other than sleeping on his private island he bought for 10 million. He wanted to catch up on all the sleep he lost last year.

However, after spending just two days of leisure time on the island, he was disturbed by Jiang Chen’s helicopter.

The helicopter’s rotors blew the sand away on the beach as Kelvin sat up from his beach chair. Seeing as it was Jiang Chen, his furrowed eyebrows instantly disappeared as he greeted Jiang Chen with a smile. The technology of Celestial Trade completely blew the mind of the scientist from Mississippi.

Who did he respect the most in the company? It was undoubtedly Jiang Chen. Even if their work relationship didn’t exist, Jiang Chen’s strategic foresight alone was worthy of his respect.

“President Jiang, what brought you here?”

“There’s a problem with the asteroid project. Have you read the news?” Gaining his footing on the beach, Jiang Chen was straightforward.

Kelvin took a moment to think, then shook his head.

“No, what happened?”

Like most companies, Celestial Trade certainly had a public relations department, and public opinion monitoring was its responsibility. Unfortunately, the asteroid capture project was a high-level secret within Celestial Trade. Apart from the relevant personnel, even the group’s top management didn’t know the space launch center executed a plan to capture the asteroid.

Until NASA’s observations came out that the Bennu asteroid was guided by eight rockets. The responsible people from public relations realized this matter might be related to their own company.

Jiang Chen briefly explained to Kelvin what happened and asked his opinion.