Completion

May 24, 2022.

Bell Island, equatorial waters in the central Pacific Ocean.

As the final section of elevator cable completed its docking, it marked the moment when travel between Blue Star's geostationary orbit and its surface broke free from traditional chemical rockets and entered the age of the space elevator.

Standing atop the building on Bell Island, Huang Xiuyuan looked up at the space elevator's cable. This was a brand-new starting point for humanity's journey into the sea of stars.

About 2,000 meters to the west, another cable was also nearing completion of its docking.

A complete space elevator system required two cables, one ascending and one descending. Although the Federation currently did not need to transport many resources from outer space down to Blue Star, the two-cable design had been planned from the very beginning.

This was mainly for safety and efficiency. After all, with only one cable, it could only go up or down at a time, and changing direction would require readjustment.

Only by setting up a double line could maximum efficiency be ensured.

Huang Xiuyuan and the project leaders left the 3,500-meter-high rooftop and returned to the control center.

About seven hours later, the other cable successfully docked as well. The staff began a comprehensive inspection of both cables to ensure that no problems had been overlooked.

Although the two cables weighed 450,000 tons, and the Jianmu Geostationary Orbit Space Station had already been expanded to 320,000 tons, bringing the total mass of the Jianmu Space Elevator's geostationary station and cables to an astonishing 770,000 tons.

However, the Jianmu Geostationary Orbit Space Station was not pressing downward toward the ground at this moment. Instead, it was pulling the cables outward from Blue Star, generating centrifugal force.

Therefore, Bell Island's ground station was not actually bearing pressure,