Exploration and Revision

In early August 2018, the design work for the floating module was preliminarily completed. A test version was to be built on Blue Star's surface to verify the technology.

The site selected for building the floating module was the central Pacific Ocean, where the sea was vast and the climate relatively stable.

An uninhabited island in Kiribati near Bell Island was chosen as the experimental base.

After all, the central Pacific was not densely populated. Even if the floating module fell during testing, it would not cause serious casualties.

The floating module project progressed steadily.

Preparations also began for the industrial facilities intended to accompany the floating module, such as carbon extraction plants, carbon material processing plants, vacuum chamber shell manufacturing plants, solar panels, carbon-powder energy storage power stations, and so on.

With Venus's atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide, self-sufficiency in raw materials could basically be achieved.

Time flew by.

October 15.

After traveling for 128 days, Vanguard 003 finally arrived in low Venus orbit. After successfully entering orbit, it circled Venus along an equatorial orbital plane roughly 750 kilometers above the planet's surface.

Vanguard 003 was an unmanned transport vessel carrying 480 tons of supplies, mainly artificial satellites, small airship probes, and surface probes.

Various satellites were launched. This time, the Ministry of Aerospace had come prepared and no longer treated Venus with the same lack of importance as before.

Since Venus lacked a powerful protective magnetic field like Blue Star's, artificial satellites deployed in Venus orbit had to be prepared to defend against the solar wind.

After all, Venus had no powerful protective magnetic field and was relatively close to the Sun, so it was frequently struck by strong solar storms. Quite a few artificial satellites had previously been taken out by solar storms.

The twelve communication satellites