Chapter 820: The Garbage Cleaner (Part I)

The officials of those countries have already gone back, but they have left relevant personnel to supervise the progress of the Starfall Group's project, in fact, they don't need to supervise, now the radars of their countries can monitor the satellite movement of the Starfall Group, and it is very easy, the reason why it is so easy is because of the sensation caused by the set of photos taken by the astronauts in the International Space Station before spread throughout the world.

At this moment, nearly two months have passed since the launch of the satellite to clean up the garbage by the Starfall Group, and in the past two months, the satellites of the Starfall Group have circled the Earth's orbit without knowing how many times, but these are not the most critical, and the most critical thing now is the volume of the garbage cleaning satellite launched by the Starfall Group, and now its volume has expanded by at least four times, or simply put, it has completely lost the appearance it was when it was first launched.

In addition to its tail, the outside of its satellite is covered with all kinds of garbage, from a fragment with a diameter of less than 1CM, to some larger, and even some countries directly abandoned satellites, at this moment are like being attracted by magnets, just sticking to the satellite, and then the satellite takes them to wander in the uninhabited space, although now Yang Yiwei can't determine how much space junk his satellite has collected, but according to the volume and Xiaoxi's calculations, At least more than 1,000 tons of space junk are now captured by traction fields.

The take-off weight of the satellite named Garbage No. 1 by Yang Yiwei is only more than 700 tons, although its volume looks very large, but because the strength of many materials in it is terrifying, but the mass is not heavy, so its volume is not large, and most of the fuel is loaded inside. Even ion thrusters need fuel, but unlike ordinary chemical fuels, the fuel it needs is gas for ionization, which is not used in space, and it does not need to consume fuel to ionize the gas itself, which is part of the energy directly used to stimulate the energy of the core.

The gas that the entire satellite is now carrying is basically depleted because of the small size of Junk 1, so it must carry fuel, and the fuel consumption rate is also very fast, and when Xuelu arrives in space. It can directly capture the ubiquitous cosmic rays of all kinds in space, and so on. Because cosmic rays actually refer to a stream of charged particles with considerable energy from the universe, and there are enough ions in it to use.

And now it's time for Garbage 1 to return, and now Garbage 1 is called a veritable garbage 1, and you can't see it for what it is. The outside of it is completely surrounded by a huge amount of garbage of all kinds, and even a space glove thrown by an American astronaut decades ago is in the garbage heap. Some of these abandoned satellites can be found everywhere. But anyway. Now this massive monster at least proves that the Starfall Group has succeeded.

As long as the rest of the garbage is captured, it is actually very simple, although I don't know how the Ludao Starfall Group restricts this garbage to only stick to the entire satellite, but now that these space junks have been restrained together, then the steps to clean up this space junk are very simple, directly control the satellite orbit change at the current speed, and then directly plant it in the middle of the Pacific Ocean or the middle of the Atlantic.

The terrifying speed and friction of the air can make these not a whole. But the huge garbage gathered together was easily burned up. However, the people of these countries are obviously interested in the means used by the Starfall Group to capture this garbage, and they have not yet analyzed what kind of means it is, but they have also guessed that it is definitely not the same means as a robotic arm, because now the entire satellite except for the jet thruster in the tail. The rest of the area is surrounded by garbage, and there is no place for the robotic arm to stick out.

Besides, if it was a robotic arm, it had been used for two months and captured such a terrifying volume of space junk, it would have already failed, right? But no matter what, when the Junk 1 satellite of the Starfall Group in space began to slow down, everyone knew that the Starfall Group was going to start dealing with the junk satellite, and most people thought that the Starfall Group was going to crash this thing directly into the Earth and then let it burn up to deal with it.

The Starfall Group did not act as they thought at all, the entire satellite did begin to descend towards the earth, but the speed of descent was very fast at the beginning, and soon began to slow down, if someone could directly observe it in the air, it would be seen that the head of the satellite also began to shoot out powerful ion beams, and the garbage located at the head of the satellite melted directly, and some of them were directly separated from the satellite, and then fell to the ground in a free nakedness, but it was quickly burned up in the air.

The main part of the satellite began to slow down rapidly, and when it entered the gravitational range and began to decline with gravitational acceleration, the speed of the satellite was already very slow, and it has been decelerating in the air, and it is obvious that the reaction force of deceleration is very strong, and the current satellite is like being reversed when it was launched, the only difference is that the purpose is not to send the satellite to space, but to begin to decelerate gradually.

Because there are still people left behind by various countries in the headquarters of the Starfall Group, there are not many people left behind by various countries, but they are all professional personnel, when the satellite in the sky is approaching the ground at a slower and slower speed, everyone below is dumbfounded, and you are like seeing a huge garbage heap that is three or four times larger than the satellite at the time of take-off slowly descending from the sky. At this time, everyone discovered that not only there were deceleration thrusters at the bottom of the satellite, but also many small thrusters that opened from the side on the cylindrical body of the satellite, and it was obvious that these thrusters were used to assist the satellite in adjusting its posture so that it could land on the ground at a steady speed.

It's like those vertical take-off and landing fighters, but this is a satellite that is many times heavier than a fighter plane! How powerful the thrusters have to be! Because there is an initial velocity when entering the atmosphere, and then with gravitational acceleration, it is much more difficult to land stably than sending a satellite into space.

What's even more weird is that the space junk that is leaning on the satellite has no sign of detachment, but they can't get close to the satellite, they can only watch it from a distance with a high-powered telescope, because the place where the satellite landed is in the vast Pacific Ocean east of the Starfall Group. What the hell is this trying to do?

Is there any effect on the garbage in space? It's nothing more than a pile of scrap metal, even those abandoned satellites, because of the technology of how many years ago, even if you get it down, you can't get anything useful from it, and it's all old I don't know how many years old, the things inside have long been broken, as for the value of the garbage itself...... Well, even if it's something that can go to space, the raw materials are very expensive, but this thing ...... Even if everything could be recycled, how much would it cost?

It's not even as much as the amount of fuel you spend to land your satellite safely! What's more, haven't countries provided you with close to 10 billion dollars? However, Yang Yiwei won't tell them that these garbage will come back, because the metals in them are all precious metals, and basically synthesizing them will almost get back the energy cost consumed by this launch. Of course, Yang Yiwei was reluctant, as for the money, it was for nothing, of course, he couldn't give it up, and he could save it.

I don't think it's anything in space, and when it falls into the sea, the huge waves formed by the satellite falling into the sea even make the nearby Si/Chuan sway a few times, which can be similar to how big this guy is now, it must be no smaller than the size of a small destroyer. However, after the satellite landed on the sea, the force restraining the garbage immediately dissipated, and all the garbage fell directly into the sea with a "bang".

The ship, which had already been prepared, had already swooped down, and quickly used a special net to catch the satellite that was beginning to sink slowly, and all the garbage fell into the sea, but the satellite had already been caught and transported by crane to a super-large cruise ship next to it. After more than three hours of hard work, the satellite finally appeared to be transported to the press without any damage.

The only difference is that its surface has become a little potholed, which are not deep, but are clearly knocked down by the garbage. The surrounding area has been blocked by the Chinese Fourth Fleet, and Yang Yiwei and Lin Hu are on the flagship of the Fourth Fleet, the Four/Chuan.

"You cow." Lin Hu directly gave Yang Yiwei a thumbs up and said with admiration. It is not difficult to send such a terrifying satellite into space, not to mention that an aerospace giant like the United States, even China, a country that has come from behind, has the ability to send it up, but to send it up, and let it enter orbit around the earth and circle the earth at a rather terrifying speed, I don't know how many times, and collect at least hundreds of thousands of tons of space junk, and this satellite seems to have no damage, which is what even the United States can't do!

Yang Yiwei shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Isn't it that there are funds provided by various countries to seduce me there, I didn't expect that there would be money to be made by cleaning up a space junk, of course I have to do my best." (To be continued......)