However, with the addition of the battle in this mission, it seems a little extraordinary.

Far away in the starry sky, the Forbes-Soil Mars rover is orbiting the orange planet at a speed of 4.53 kilometers per hour.

To the lower right of it, a potato-shaped star has slowly emerged.

This is Phobos, an irregularly shaped celestial body about 27 kilometers long, 22 kilometers wide and 18 kilometers high.

Its escape speed is only 11 meters per second, and if humans stand on this planet, they may be able to fly into space with a slight jump. This is also the reason why Maozi is confident that his probe will land on Phobos and collect enough soil before returning to Earth.

Located just 6,000 kilometers from the surface of Mars, Phobos is the shortest distance from Mars of any natural satellite in the solar system and one of the smallest moons in the solar system.

It orbits Mars very quickly, with a period of just over four hours, which is much faster than the rate at which Mars rotates, so if humans stand on Mars and look at the sky, they can see the Martian moon rising in the west and setting in the east.

Because of the proximity and the tidal forces, one day in the future, Phobos will plunge headlong into the arms of Mars, giving birth to a planetary cataclysm, or it will be torn to pieces by Mars' gravity, and then form Martian rings similar to Saturn.

However, I don't know how many thousands of years from now, and it is still unknown whether human civilization will survive or not.

As the distance from Phobos approached, the Forbes-Soil Mars rover suddenly made some movements. The fastening mechanism began to loosen slowly, and a device the size of a washing machine and another microwave oven detached from the Forbes-Soil probes.

The washing machine-sized one is China's "Firefly No. 1", and the microwave-sized one is the war-breaking "Firefly".

Immediately afterward, the engines on the Forbes-Soil probe restarted, slowly pushing the Soil lander into Phobos' orbit with the remaining fuel.

Since the gravitational pull of Phobos is too small, this manipulation must be very careful and precise, and Chen Xin can't control it so much if these intelligent programs on the own soil number control it.

Not long after separating from Forbes-Soil, China's Firefly-1 Mars rover slowly opened its solar panels. Officially entered the orbit of Mars.

The most striking thing about the table is the "Firefly" made of steel. I saw that the mechanical structure inside it suddenly began to rotate, and the surface structure began to bulge or retract constantly, and almost in an instant, the original cuboid-shaped Firefly actually turned into a small unmanned aerial vehicle with a flying wing layout.

Under the control of intelligent programs. The Firefly's tail erupted with pale blue flames. It starts to turn around. One flew headlong towards the surface of Mars, more than 6,000 kilometers below.

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China, Capital Aerospace Flight Control Center.

As the minutes passed, the entire central hall fell silent.

It's live. If Forbes-Soil does not return control to China and Russia, as the war has claimed, especially when the leaders of both countries are watching from the scene, then this live broadcast will be a joke.

But it's also a way for China and Russia to show confidence in the war, and whatever the outcome, just over a month to get the Forbes-Soil Mars rover over a distance of more than 70 million kilometers is enough to shock everyone.

In the live broadcast hall of CCTV, the host Bai Yan kept discussing the significance of the Mars mission with aerospace experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the TV station also took the trouble to broadcast the animation of the simulated separation of "Firefly 1" and "Forbes-Soil" over and over again.

The livestream attracted the attention of people across the country, and more than 100 million people tuned in to watch the live broadcast of China's first-ever Mars exploration mission.

As the scheduled time to receive the signal approached, the atmosphere in the live broadcast hall began to become tense.

Bai Yan looked at the watch on his wrist and said, "Professor Qu, just now you said that all the actions of the Forbes-Soil probe are automatically completed by the intelligent program on the probes, if nothing else, we should be able to receive the signal that the Forbes-Soil probe and the Firefly-1 have successfully separated at about half past eight?"

The gray-haired Professor Qu nodded and said with a smile: "That's right, in fact, Forbes-Soil should have been separated from Firefly 1 at this time, but because the distance is too far, it will take more than five minutes for electromagnetic waves to travel back to Earth from Mars at the speed of light, so I think we have to wait a little longer." When our Firefly-1 separates from Forbes-Soil, it will fly to the other side of Mars on its own, but that doesn't mean it won't interact with the Forbes rover. The lander carried by the Forbes probe will land on Phobos, but its main body will still fly around Mars, so our Firefly will also cooperate with Forbes to jointly explore the space environment near Mars......"

Professor Qu Mingbo from the China Academy of Space Studies analyzed the steps and principles of the exploration operation to the national audience in a simple way.

The minutes and seconds passed, and it was almost half past eight o'clock.

Bai Yan interrupted Professor Qu's speech and said, "Professor Qu, the time is almost up, now let's connect with our reporter Zhang Ling, who is at the scene of the space flight command center." ”

Soon, a beautiful female reporter appeared on the TV screen, and Bai Yan said: "Hello Zhang Ling, can you tell us about the situation at the space command center now?"

Zhang Ling said: "Hello Bai Yan, hello audience friends. I am now at the Tangjialing Space Flight Control Center in the northwest suburbs of the capital, and you should be able to see from behind me that the staff members are already in place, waiting for further information to come. Due to the rotation of the earth, at present, we can only wait for Yuanwang-6, which is on a mission in the Indian Ocean, and China's deep space tracking and control station in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to receive signals in the direction of Mars to determine whether the Forbes-Soil Mars probe has been successfully separated. ”

The reporter's words made the audience in front of the TV also nervous, and the bumpy fate of the Forbes-Soil had made everyone worry about what happened to the probe next.

Even Wang Xiaoyue, who was watching the live broadcast with Ling Wei at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, couldn't help but say, "Sister Weiwei, do you think it will be successful this time?"

The camera pans over the faces of the Grand Elder and Putin, neither of whom has any expression.

Ling Wei said firmly: "Xiaoyue, don't worry, you have to believe in Chen Xin, he will definitely be able to do it." ”

Just when everyone was a little uneasy, Didi's voice suddenly sounded in the hall of the command center.

The communication light of "Yuanwang No. 6" on the big screen suddenly turned on, "BJ, BJ, I am Yuanwang, I have captured the signal of Firefly No. 1 and am establishing a communication channel." ”

Then, China's satellite monitoring and control stations around the world came with good news: "Dar es Salaam reported that Firefly-1 has successfully separated from the Forbes-Soil Mars rover, and the solar sail panels are being deployed." ”

"The Russian State Space Agency reports that Forbes-Soil has been accurately put into orbit and will enter the landing procedure tomorrow at 8 a.m. Moscow time!"

As the good news kept coming, the scene of the Capital Aerospace Flight Control Center fell into a boiling atmosphere.

Putin and the Grand Elder stood up and applauded one after another, shaking hands with smiles on their faces.

After the camera turned away from them, they turned around one after another to shake hands with Chen Xin.

Putin said: "Mr. Chen, thank you for your assistance in the war, without your intervention, there would have been no success of the Forbes-Soil program." ”

The Great Elder also smiled and said, "I hope to continue to cooperate with the Strategic Flickering Agency (SFA) in the aerospace field in the future." (To be continued......)

PS: I want to add V to Weibo, now the number of fans is not enough, let's go to Xinlang to give steel hammer powder. It takes 100 people to go, thank you