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Chapter 247 Prospector Rocket

In the United States, there is a place called Cape Canaveral in Florida, which is known as the Aviation Coast, with the Kennedy Space Center and Canaveral Air Force Base nearby, and all the space shuttles and most of the rockets in the United States are launched from these two places. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Sanctuary

Cape Canaveral was chosen as a rocket launch base mainly because it could make better use of the Earth's rotation, which is the largest centrifugal force generated by the Earth's rotation near the equator, and in order to take advantage of this centrifugal force, the rocket must fly eastward in line with the direction of the Earth's rotation after liftoff.

Another consideration is that in the event of an accident, the lower leg of the rocket's flight is a sparsely populated area and will not cause great damage, and a wrecked rocket falling into the sea is the best outcome. Although there are many places in the United States that are close to the equator and close to the ocean, such as Hawaii and Puerto Rico, Florida has very convenient logistics and transportation conditions.

At the very tip of Cape Canaveral is Canaveral Air Force Base.

At this moment, the staff inside Canaveral Air Force Base are busy at their respective posts early, meticulously completing the work in their hands.

Because in a few hours, there will be another launch mission here, from which the fifteen-meter-high Prospector rocket will be launched, and the main things in it will be carried are mainly NASA and some university experimental projects.

Originally, such launches, the air base launched every month, but the luck of this project does not seem to be very good, and every time it is its turn, there are always some minor problems. For example, it was supposed to be launched a month ago, but half an hour before the launch, it was discovered that there was a small glitch in the Prospector's computer, and it took at least a few hours to fix this fault, so the optimal launch time was missed, and the launch plan was postponed.

The launch of the rocket is not always possible.

If you miss a window of time, you'll have to wait for the next one.

This is a month.

Today, with clear weather and cloudless skies, it's an excellent time to launch.

NASA's empire is spread over a wide range of territories, from Maryland to California, from Europe to Japan, and there are NASA branches or offices in all of these places. The latest chapter of the Templar

Space launch is a very high-end work, and it can only be completed by the cooperation of major departments.

At this moment, the staff of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland had just started work, they greeted each other, and then returned to their work, brewed a cup of strong coffee to refresh themselves, sat on the chair and turned on the power of the computer, they wanted to log in to their computer, check if there were any more emails in the mailbox, and arrange the work schedule for today.

However, they found that there seemed to be something wrong with today's computers, and the speed of entering the system after turning on was very slow, as if driving a classic car.

Finally, when the login screen appeared on the monitor, they entered their account number and password, and it was a long login process.

Today's internet speed also seems to be very slow, and it took them a long time to see the familiar work interface.

They tried to type in characters and bring up their email client, only to find that the computer's response to the keyboard was unbearably slow, and a keystroke had to be delayed by at least a second or two before it appeared on the monitor.

Except for slow, or slow!

Slow! Slow! Slow!

It's just terrible!

Everyone asked each other, and it turned out that this is not an isolated phenomenon, but the vast majority of people.

So they invariably burst into a foul language: "bull**!" ”

The good mood of the day was completely ruined by the surprisingly slow response speed of the computer in front of me.

Just as they were about to call the system administrator, a box popped up on the monitor with a text in the middle:

“yoursystemhasbeenlocked！ (Your system is locked!) ）”

This message then disappears, and the following message begins to appear on the monitor, line by line:

File deletion... Succeed!

File deletion... Succeed!

File deletion... Succeed!

File name 4) File deletion... Succeed!

……

The file names shown in the preceding file names are the names of the important files they saved on disk. 《》

When NASA staff saw this information, they immediately fell into a panic.

Some of them try to press the shortcut to terminate the program, but the button doesn't work at all. The computer completely ignores their input instructions.

NASA employees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from researchers to scientists, and these documents, some of which are reports of their work, some of which are of the latest research results, and some of which are of the latest observations, many of which are not backed up.

In other words, these documents are very important!

In the panic, someone found that at the bottom of the display, there was a small text:

If you don't want all files to be deleted, please enter your username and password to terminate them immediately!

Underneath this line of text, there is an input box, where a cursor flickers inaudibly, prompting the person to enter.

Many users see this message and fill in their username and password without thinking.

Sure enough, the information that had just appeared on the monitor disappeared immediately, and was replaced by a work interface that they were very familiar with.

The first thing a lot of people do is to immediately check the files on the disk to see if they are still there.

To the great relief of those people, the documents were all well there, and there was no one missing.

The previous information seemed to be just a prank.

Aside from the fact that the computer is now running very slowly, it doesn't seem to have suffered any damage at all.

However, is it really a prank?

Many people still report this phenomenon to their system administrators.

This incident immediately caught the attention of the system administrator.

On this day, the staff of NASA's Goddard Center for Aeronautical Studies, Maryland, and the office of NASA's Computer Cybersecurity Center for Space Physical Analysis (SPAN) were bombarded with numerous phone calls as soon as they got to work.

Countless users have reported that the system has suddenly become snail-slow, and in the beginning, there is a scary prank.

John Edward is exactly one of the assistant administrators of cyber security at this center. He manages more than half of the SPAN computer network at the Goddard Aviation Center.

SPAN is an abbreviation for Space Physical Analysis Network, which is connected to other computer terminals around the world, but it is not the same as the Inter Internet, which is open to the whole world. SPAN connects only a few important agencies in the U.S. national sector, such as NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Defense, the FBI, and all scientific research institutions, including prestigious universities.

From a technical point of view, the operating system running on a computer is completely different from that of a computer on the Internet.

Most computers on the Internet use operating systems from Unix, Apple, or Microsoft. The SPAN network is mainly composed of VAX computers running the VMS operating system. Even the protocols they run between them are completely different.

The Inter Internet is based on the TCP/IP protocol, while the SPAN network is based on the DEC protocol.

That's why the SPAN network is called the "DEC" Internet. The vast majority of the computers on this network are made by DEC in Massachusetts.

John Edward has actually just been transferred here not long ago, he was a member of another NASA research team, he was just transferred here from that group, and he is still in training.

Today, just after he went to work, he received a call from system administrators from all over the country, giving him feedback on this strange phenomenon today.

"Prank?" After hanging up the phone, Edward's brows furrowed when he heard the news, and he had a bad premonition.

Sure enough, another system administrator soon called, this time it was his acquaintance, Thomson.

"Man, there's bad news. We discovered that there was a strange unauthorized web program that was starting to spread on the SPAN network, and it looked like a worm. It is currently replicating and spreading like crazy, and quite a few computers have been infected with this worm......"

"Worms?!"

Edward was stunned when he heard this.

This was the first time he had encountered a worm on the SPAN network in his work. Before that, all viruses and worms basically appeared on the Internet.

Due to the particularity of the SPAN network, ordinary people do not have access to VMS/VAX computers at all, so they do not have an environment to write viruses and worms, and many people are not even aware of the existence of such an operating system.

The incompatibility of VMS/VAX computers ensures its security. As a result, viruses rarely appear on the SPAN network, let alone worms.

And now, the system administrator below actually told him that a worm appeared on the SPAN network!

He immediately realized the gravity of the situation.

"Damn, is the author of that worm trying to send his work into space!"

Edward remembered the Prospector rocket that was to be launched this afternoon, and it looked like it might be delayed again.

Even if the computer on the Prospector is not infected with worms, it will not be easy to remove the worms from other computers, and without the cooperation of other computers, the rocket launch mission cannot be completed at all.

Edward immediately called the system administrators and asked them to take care of the worm samples and send them to the Cyber Security Center for analysis.