In the fourth sentence of F, John, the pilot of Archangel Gundam I, told VEDA to detonate the bomb around his neck. Survived after treatment.
Later, in order to find out veda, a special engine for the space ship was installed on a meteorite in the universe. It is the illusion that the meteorite attacked the earth and destroyed the orbital elevator. In fact, it is to use the gravel belt produced after the Union army smashed the meteorite to block the solar power generation satellite and make the world blacked out. (In the first episode of Gundam OO season 2, what Sha Ci did was to bring the rubble made by Feng En to clean up,) so that we can know that the only place to send electricity is veda.