Ground console, through communication with the space shuttle.

Simulates the environment of the space shuttle and its flight attitude.

On the light curtain of the space base ship, an animation of the space shuttle made by Star Blue is played.

People can clearly see the images of the space shuttle flying in space, and the subtle movements of the deployment of satellites.

The shuttle opened the hatch located in its belly, and three robotic arms extended from inside.

Each robotic arm grabs a quantum communication satellite.

After the shuttle adjusts its attitude, the robotic arm releases the quantum satellite.

It directly retracts the robotic arm. Turn the head and start switching tracks. Fly away.

Seeing this picture, netizens in the virtual space discussed.

Little Taurus: "This operation really surprised me. I thought the Space Shuttle was going to change orbits repeatedly.

Deploy quantum communication satellites to different geosynchronous orbits.

Unexpectedly, the space shuttle actually threw the satellite away. ”

Demacia: "The shuttle is gone, what to do with these satellites, which are in geosynchronous orbit at 36,000 kilometers.

The orbital period of a satellite around the Earth is the same as the autobiographical period of the Earth. For us, they are always in one position. ”

Xu Mingda (professor of Huaxia University of Aeronautics and Astronautics): "I estimate that after Xingyu Technology puts the satellite into geosynchronous orbit.

One of the satellites remains unchanged, and the other two satellites need to fly to their designated location under their own power.

This is a very efficient solution. If the space shuttle were to be released at different positions in orbit, it would need to change orbit many times.

The time and fuel it takes is enormous. ”

As they talk, the animation changes, and four images appear.

The big one is that the space shuttle is constantly changing orbits, entering the designated location, and deploying the remaining two satellites.

Three small images show the action of three quantum communication satellites.

The two satellites were ignited separately and flew to both sides.

In the universe, as long as they are given a forward momentum, they will naturally be under the action of gravity.

It takes less than a day to start moving around the earth to reach the designated position.

Even the seemingly stationary satellite is actually orbiting the earth at high speed, but at the same time as the Earth's rotation.

Using the Earth as a frame of reference, it is stationary.

It's like people on Earth, using Earth as a frame of reference. Man is still.

In fact, man follows the earth around the sun at high speed.

The quantum communication satellite parked in place, it turned on the solar panels and officially provided quantum network signals to the earth.

Li Lingqiu walked to Zhang Zhi's side, and she said happily: "Brother Zhang, Sister Qu has news. The quantum satellite in the sky has officially started operation.

It emits a quantum signal that our company has received.

As long as the quantum satellite network is successfully formed. After commissioning, we can log in to the virtual world from anywhere in the world. ”

After Bai Qing heard this, he looked at Zhang Zhi. He asked suspiciously: "Mr. Zhang, usually as long as there are three satellites in synchronous orbit, quantum communication covers almost the whole world.

I see that you are going to build a quantum satellite network, using five quantum communication satellites, and what kind of orbit are these two deployed. ”

Zhang Zhi looked at Bai Qing, thought about the specific situation of the quantum satellite network, and said with a smile: "Director Bai, we are going to arrange it in the polar orbit. Enhance the communication carrying capacity of satellite networks. ”

Bai Qing said in surprise: "Mr. Zhang, you are really generous. In addition to military reconnaissance satellites, land and resources exploration satellites, meteorological satellites, and navigation satellites, polar orbits.

Very few other satellites use polar orbits, and you have covered most of them with geosynchronous orbits.

It's not worth it. The operating conditions of satellites in polar orbit are much harsher than those in synchronous orbit. ”

Li Lingqiu blinked his eyes and asked suspiciously: "What is the polar orbit satellite for, is this better than the synchronous orbit satellite?" ”

Zhang Zhi explained simply: "The polar orbit is an artificial earth satellite orbit with an inclination angle of 90°.

Satellites orbiting in polar orbits can pass over any latitude and north and south poles in each circle. ”

Zhang Zhi continued: "Let two quantum communication satellites operate in polar orbits, and it can pass through polar orbits to reach any location in the world.

If there is a significant communication need that geostationary satellites cannot meet, or if they have unexpected situations, this is an effective complement to quantum communication networks. ”

After Li Lingqiu listened to Zhang Zhi's words, she smiled and said, "I understand, it can go to the sky of any place in the world.

With this in mind, we should set up polar-orbiting satellites. It's so flexible. ”

Bai Qing gave a thumbs up, and he said with emotion: "I didn't expect Mr. Zhang to deliberately arrange two polar-orbiting satellites for the quantum communication network.

It would be an accident if quantum communication networks were not popular all over the world. ”

As they spoke, the shuttle had already flown to its designated position and adjusted its flight attitude.

Using a robotic arm, the two quantum communication satellites are released one after the other.

Now the space shuttle is parallel to the Earth's equator, from its point of view.

Two quantum communication satellites, one up and one down. Fly to the north and south poles respectively.

After the shuttle retracted its robotic arm, it adjusted its attitude and headed back towards Earth.

Now that it has completed all the tasks that happened this time, it is only necessary to return safely, and this launch will be completed perfectly.

Zhang Zhi saw that the space shuttle came back for a while, and he took Li Lingqiu and Bai Qing to the restaurant.

Sipping tea and eating snacks. Wait for the shuttle to return to the space base ship.

He wasn't worried about the shuttle at all, even now all the instruments of the shuttle were out of order.

It crashes into Earth like an asteroid, and the shuttle won't do much damage.

Zhang Zhi saw Poplov looking for him with the information, he took the information and said gently: "Mr. Poplov, you sit down and drink tea first." ”

Poplov sat down, curled his big tongue, and said happily in Mandarin with a Russian accent: "Mr. Zhang, Xingyu Quantum Communication Company sent us a message.

The five quantum communication satellites we sent, all activated, and control has been transferred to quantum communications. ”

Li Lingqiu feels that today is more and more difficult to feel like a lack of knowledge.

She asked Poplov: "Mr. Poplov, I have only one satellite in the designated place. ”

Poplov glanced at it, and he said in broken Chinese: "It's three, satellites in polar orbit, they are running at any time."

The remaining two quantum communication satellites carry enough electricity to activate their basic functions.

Now they have started the quantum communication service separately and are debugging while flying. ”

Zhang Zhi nodded, just wanting to ask for details.

In the restaurant, someone shouted in surprise: "Look, there is something blocking the road in front of the space shuttle, can it reach the earth safely?" ”