In fact, the difficulty of this rescue mission was even greater than Chen Xin imagined.

Not long after the Dream began to change orbit, the AI on the Dream suddenly sounded the alarm: "Alarm, alarm! Shenzhou 9 is slowing down, Shenzhou 9 is slowing down!"

"What's going on?"

Qiao Ting and Chen Xin were both stunned, how could an aircraft without any power inexplicably slow down in space? This is also too strange!

Qiao Ting hurriedly contacted the ground, while Chen Xin continued to talk to the AI.

"Dream AI, can you find out the reason for the slowdown of Shenzhou 9?"

The AI said: "There is too little information to make an accurate judgment!"

"Sh*t!!" Chen Xin scolded in a low voice.

After a while, Qiao Ting also finished the call with the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, and Chen Xin asked, "What do the people on the ground say?"

Qiao Ting said in a deep voice: "They are consistent with the number we observed, and the experts judge that it is very likely that Shenzhou 9 was hit again, and the fuel leakage in the power compartment caused the spacecraft to slow down." ”

Chen Xin's eyes shrank slightly, if this is the case, the reduction in speed will inevitably lead to the reduction of the orbit of Shenzhou 9, once Shenzhou 9 enters the atmosphere earlier than expected, then the astronauts on it will be really dangerous!!

Chen Xindao: "Then how much time do we have now?"

Qiao Ting said: "This requires further collection of parameters to calculate. ”

Chen Xin nodded and said, "Give me an answer!"

"Yes!"

……

Washington, D.C., NASA Headquarters.

U.S. President O'Ao, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen and other senior dignitaries and dignitaries led the space science advisor and NASA Administrator Professor Charles Bolton to the lobby of NASA's Space Tracking and Observation Command Center.

The big screen in the lobby. Various graphs and orbital parameters are being displayed, and the numbers on them are constantly jumping and changing, and it is clear that NASA is fully engaged in real-time tracking of the Shenzhou 9 and Dream space aircraft.

The arrival of O'Aoguanhai and others did not affect the working atmosphere at the scene, and most of them focused on their own affairs, and some of the parameters of the Dream spaceplane were more interesting to NASA engineers than these politicians.

At this time, a NASA engineer hurriedly greeted him with a document and said to Charles Bolton: "Director, the latest orbital numbers of Dream and Shenzhou 9 have been calculated. The situation with Shenzhou 9 seems to be something wrong. ”

Charles Bolton took the text and flipped through a few pages. frowned, handed it back to the other party, and said, "Keep tracking!"

"Yes!"

O'Guanhai asked Charles Bolton, "Mr. Bolton, what's wrong?"

Ao Guanhai is a lawyer who has a good understanding of those professional terms and numbers on the big screen. Okuguanhai is completely a layman.

Of course. It doesn't matter if he is a pure liberal arts student. At least he was proficient in a small piece of JavaScrip code at a programming conference held by a non-profit organization, and he successfully drew a square, making him the first president in the history of the United States to know how to code.

Charles Bolton smiled. said: "The Chinese are in big trouble. ”

Ao Guanhai was slightly stunned and said, "What do you say?"

Charles Bolton said: "Originally, according to the previous estimate, Shenzhou 9 could support at least two days before falling into the atmosphere, but just now Shenzhou 9 seems to have had an accident, the speed has decreased abnormally, and now their orbit is rapidly declining, so I am afraid that I will not be able to hold on for two hours, and I don't know if the battle will continue to carry out the rescue plan." ”

O'Guanhai, Leon Panetta and others immediately looked at each other, and they didn't know whether this was good news or bad news, if it was good news, problems in Chinese's space industry would naturally be a great thing for the United States, but if the rescue plan for Shenzhou 9 was canceled because of this incident, and the United States lost an opportunity to observe the Dream, it would be bad news.

Okukankai said: "Regardless of whether they succeed or not, this time we must collect as many numbers as possible about this space plane." ”

Charles Bolton said: "This is certain, and I don't know where the confidence comes from, and I dare to take such a job." If there was a glimmer of hope for them, it would be impossible for God to save the crashed spaceship now!"

Ao Guanhai was silent, and after a while, he asked: "Charles, if according to our current technical level, you say that it will take about how long it will take to develop a flying machine at the same level as this aerospace aircraft?"

Charles Bolton exclaimed, "Twenty years, at least!"

Ao Guanhai nodded, but he was not surprised by Charles's words, after so many unbelievable events, it would be really stupid for Americans to underestimate the war situation.

At this time, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was following behind Ao Guanhai, said: "It would be great if our high-energy laser cannon had been completed, and now we could give this space plane a shot!"

Ao Guanhai secretly shook his head and glanced at Defense Minister Leon Panetta, and both sides couldn't help but laugh.

Fortunately, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, interrupted Hillary's YY in time and said: "Ms. Hillary, we'd better not have this kind of thought, the laser cannon is what we use to deter and last defense, we don't even know how many aerospace planes the other side has, once we expose our plans, then I'm afraid it will be troublesome for us at that time......"

Admiral Mike Mullen didn't say anything later, but everyone understood what he meant.

Hillary's face couldn't help but look a little difficult to look at.

……

Chen Xin naturally didn't know what happened in Washington, but he wouldn't give up the rescue plan as Bolton predicted.

At this time, he was engrossed in driving the Dream at high speed to chase the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, which had completely lost control.

Just now, the Great Elder and he had a temporary call, and the two sides exchanged views on the rescue plan, and the Great Elder asked Chen Xin how sure he was of saving Shenzhou 9, if it was less than 50%, then give up saving Shenzhou 9, after all, the current orbital altitude of Shenzhou 9 is already very dangerous, and if you are not careful, Dream will probably put yourself in.

Chen Xin replied categorically: "Ninety percent success rate!"

So the Great Elder said no more. (To be continued......)

PS: The new chapter is coming out again, I feel like I'm going crazy, can everyone go crazy with me?