Chapter 1136 Asteroids

However, the distance between the Earth and the Moon is 384,000 kilometers. This is a height of several hundred kilometers. Compared to the distance between the earth and the moon, there is not even a fraction.

However, in order for the probe to complete a flight of hundreds of thousands of kilometers, it is necessary for the probe to have a very fast initial speed at the beginning of its flight. Because any object as long as it is within the sphere of influence of the earth must be subject to the gravitational pull of the earth. It's hard to escape the shackles of the planet.

In order for a human probe to fly away from Earth, it must have a speed that exceeds that of the First Universe. This first cosmic velocity is 7.9 kilometers per second. This velocity, which is the speed at which the satellite is flying around the Earth.

For a probe to fly from Earth to the depths of space, it needs to be faster than this 7.9 kilometers per second. Only beyond this speed can the probe fly away from Earth and into the depths of the universe.

And how does the probe reach a speed beyond the first cosmic velocity? That is, after the probe enters the orbit of the earth's satellite, it must first become a satellite of the earth. Then after flying around the earth once. With the help of a thrust rocket, the speed of the probe exceeds the first cosmic velocity so that the probe can fly out of the Earth's orbit and into the depths of the universe.

The lunar probe launched by Huaguo now applies this principle. This lunar probe, after first circling the Earth, was affected by the Earth's gravity, and its speed was increased. So, it can fly away from the Earth and then fly into the depths of the universe. Of course, when the probe flies in the Earth's orbit, it also needs some external force. If only it were the gravitational pull of the earth. The probe will only reach the first cosmic velocity, and then it will continue to fly around the Earth at a constant speed, becoming an artificial satellite of the Earth.

Only when the probe is constantly accelerated by some external forces in the process of flying around the earth can it get greater speed and be able to get rid of the gravitational pull of the earth and fly to the depths of the universe.

The lunar probe launched by Huaguo this time has now successfully entered the long-distance orbit of the earth. is orbiting the earth. It's also getting faster. After a few hours, the probe will be able to fly away from Earth and begin heading towards the Moon.

Zhao Zhongyao and other scientific researchers were also very nervous. After all, this is a critical time. If the probe is not able to accelerate in time as it orbits the Earth, it will be difficult for it to fly away from the Earth and towards the Moon.

So, at this time, everyone has to be very careful. Constantly monitoring the movement of the probe in space. When it is necessary to increase the speed of the probe, it is necessary to give instructions to the probe to let the probe's own engine start working, and then generate thrust to help the probe increase its flight speed.

And just like that, after another few hours. With the efforts of Zhao Zhongyao and some other scientific researchers. The lunar probe finally gained an acceleration beyond the first cosmic velocity, and then broke free from the gravitational constraints of the earth and began to fly in the direction of the moon.

At this point, everyone can finally breathe a sigh of relief for a while. The command center also erupted in applause.

Zhao Zhongyao was also a little relieved in his heart. He began to study how the probe could get into the moon's orbit when it flew near the moon.

It will take about three days for the probe to fly from the Earth to the Moon. During this period of time, there is generally no problem.

Because after the probe enters the universe, it is almost flying in a vacuum. As long as it doesn't touch some small objects, the probe will always be flying in space at a constant speed at extremely high speed.

At this time, Zhao Zhongyao began to temporarily stop monitoring the big screen. He gave the job to the average scientist. Although, now the probe will always be moving in space at a constant speed at a very high speed. However, there will be some problems if you can't keep it even.

First of all, space is not empty. In space, there will be a lot of star particles. These small celestial bodies can be found throughout the solar system. If a human probe were to fly in space, if it touched such a small celestial body, the probe would be doomed. After all, human detectors are all high-tech things. Although very good quality materials are also used. But as long as it touches some small celestial bodies, it will also damage the probe, and then let the probe be scrapped in space.

Such a situation, although it is unlikely to happen. But we can't take it lightly. Because, once this happens, then all the efforts made in front of me will be wasted!

Zhao Zhongyao has now given this task to a few ordinary scientific researchers. And he wants to study how this probe will be able to cut into the lunar orbit after flying to the moon. Then it became one of the moon's moons.

Now this lunar probe is flying in the direction of the moon at a very high speed. The first day was very smooth. The probe was in space and flew 100,000 kilometers in the big red. In the meantime, nothing happened. No small objects were seen.

It was only on the second day that there was a little accident. When the probe flew 150,000 kilometers in Dahong, a small black dot appeared in front of the probe. After that, this little black dot gets bigger and bigger.

When everyone saw its appearance clearly, they were shocked. Because this small black dot turned out to be an asteroid.

This asteroid, on the big screen, has been like an interstellar dust for years. At the time, no one cared. I still think that just such an interstellar dust is nothing.

But when the interstellar dust flew next to the probe, everyone was shocked. Because this little dust is really a bit big. Compared with human detectors, this small dust can really be said to be a behemoth.

Because this little dust is the size of a small mountain. Now it can only be said that this small speck of dust is an asteroid. It's just that it's a wandering asteroid. There is no fixed orbit, just wandering around the solar system.

After this situation appeared, the two scientific researchers who were monitoring the detector at that time were frightened. After all, an asteroid of this size can be broken by a probe at any time.

"Mr. Zhao, no, an asteroid has appeared on the forward route of the probe. What can we do now?" One of the two scientific researchers, a young scientific researcher, was a little helpless when he saw this situation, and hurriedly came to report to Zhao Zhongyao.

Zhao Zhongyao is still studying how to smoothly merge the probe after it reaches the moon. But he hasn't studied this problem yet, and the detector here is in trouble again.

Although Zhao Zhongyao had already carried out a lot of research work before. He knew that this time the lunar probe would definitely be able to enter the lunar orbit. But in order to be 100% successful, it is necessary to do more accurate calculations.

Therefore, after the successful launch of the probe, Zhao Zhongyao still used the three days that the probe flew in space to make further calculations and corrections.

Zhao Zhongyao originally thought that there should be no problems in the past three days. Because, once the probe is free from the shackles of the earth, it can always move at a constant speed in space at a very high speed without encountering any problems. After all, space is a place of nothing. Probes can fly in space at high speeds without encountering any problems.

The first day went very well. Originally, Zhao Zhongyao thought that the next two days would also be very smooth. As long as the probe flies to the moon on the third day and can be successfully merged into the moon's satellite orbit, then the probe launch mission will be successfully completed.

But he never imagined that there was a little problem with the detector the next day.

"What's going on, you make it clear. What problems did our probes encounter?" Zhao Zhongyao couldn't help but get nervous looking at the panicked young scientific researchers.

"Mr. Zhao, you better hurry up and take a look! A behemoth appeared on the flight path of the probe. The young scientific researcher didn't know how to explain it to Zhao Zhongyao. He just said it casually.

"Okay, let's go over together. After Zhao Zhongyao finished speaking, he hurriedly came to the big screen in the command center with this young scientific researcher.

As soon as he arrived in front of the big screen, Zhao Zhongyao saw at a glance that there was an asteroid on the flight path of the probe. This asteroid as a whole is an irregular cone. It's like a hill floating in space.

As soon as he saw Zhao Zhongyao coming, another scientific researcher also looked at him nervously and reported back: "Mr. Zhao, look, our probe is only a few thousand kilometers away from this asteroid. It could be a few minutes before it hits this asteroid. ”

When Zhao Zhongyao saw this situation, he also felt a little tricky. However, he has always been a calm and calm person. As soon as he encountered this situation, he immediately thought about what he should do.

Besides, this probe launch mission is also a live mission. Now it's not just all the scientists in the command center who have seen this. Aerospace experts from all over the world, all the news media and some astronomy enthusiasts who are following the launch of China's lunar probe are all paying attention to China's lunar probe launch mission.

As soon as I saw the situation. Everyone was nervous. After all, everyone doesn't want to see Huaguo's lunar probe launch mission fail again.

But there are some people who are very happy right now. After all, they just want to make Huaguo's lunar probe launch mission fail. That way, they can gloat.

These people, of course, are some aerospace experts from country M and reporters from some news media. They just want to see the joke now!

And, of course, Hans and Jack. These two guys want to see jokes too!

After the failure of the last manned space experiment of country M. Jack was removed from his position by his superiors. Of course, it can also be said to be an early retirement. He is now the same as Hans. It's just a retiree. I don't care about the aerospace industry of country M anymore.

And the tall leader of that Jack was also demoted. However, he was clever and asked his superiors for instructions, saying that he wanted to make up for his mistakes. It is necessary to personally serve as the number one leader of the military industrial base of the mountain falling machine. Want to continue to finish what Jack didn't do.

The superior leader listened to the words of the tall leader and felt that it made sense. Now that Jack has been removed, another leader must be arranged. In this way, this tall leader named David became the new leader of the military industrial base of the mountain machine.

Now Jack and Hans can be said to have become idle people. There is no power. The two of them ended up at ease.

When Jack was removed from his position, he often went to Hans. Now the two no longer have to be busy and quarrel over the manned space industry of country M. The two of them can now talk and chat, and they can go fishing together.

But after all, they are people who have retired from the aerospace industry of country M. The two still pay attention to some aerospace industries in their own country and abroad.

In particular, China's aerospace industry is also the focus of their attention. The two are now paying attention to Huaguo's lunar probe launch experiment.

When the two of them saw that Huaguo's lunar probe had a little problem in space, the two of them were also a little happy. After all, it was his opponent who had the problem. Of course, the two of them are also a little gloating.

Although both of them were because of the aerospace industry of country M, the leaders retired early. But it is impossible for the two of them to blame their leaders for this. It is impossible to move towards China's aerospace industry because of this. After all, the two of them are the people of country M. Both of them have always been oriented towards their country.

"Haha, Hans, you see, there is a problem with the probe launched by Huaguo this time. They're definitely going to fail again. When Jack saw the problem with Huaguo's detector from the live TV, he immediately looked at Hans with a smile and said.

Hans, of course, saw this as well. But he knows that Zhao Zhongyao is an extremely powerful figure. This time, the lunar probe was also designed by him himself. The problem that has emerged now may not be solved by others, but Zhao Zhongyao must have a way to solve it.

However, Hans also hoped that Zhao Zhongyao would not solve this problem and let Huaguo's probe be damaged in space, in which case, Huaguo's lunar probe launch mission would be a failure.