Chapter 6 Successive Lift-offs
Because of the unique political system of each state in the Union, some states in the Federation are in good condition at this time, the people are stockpiling supplies in an orderly manner, and digging shelters to actively prevent disasters, but some states have fallen into chaos worse than Britain and Gaul, and the local state governments have lost control of the situation.
As for the federal government, at this time, their main energy is spent on the defense plan for the meteorite, and the government itself has limited control over the states, so at this time, they simply don't bother and let the states deal with these things independently, while the federal government concentrates on completing the defense plan against the meteorite.
After all, as long as the plan can be realized and the orbit of the meteorite can be changed, then Blue Star can avoid a devastating disaster, and all kinds of riots and social problems caused by the meteorite impact will naturally subside, and the government only needs to urge the states to rebuild after the disaster.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this idea that the Federation's disaster preparedness is not ideal.
Of course, the Federation also has shelters and nuclear bunkers, but most of them were built during the Cold War.
With the disintegration of Sovia and the end of the Cold War, the Federation, as the world's only superpower and the largest military power, can be said to be very safe at home, and these shelters and bunkers have gradually lost their role and have been abandoned.
Although it is said that "peace in the United States, guns fight every day", after all, it is a country that has not been hit in two world wars, and in response to possible disasters, the people of the Union have always maintained a kind of optimism that puzzles the people of other countries, and they do not even have a sense of crisis.
This also leads to the fact that in the face of this possible catastrophe, the ordinary people of the Federation can only rely on their own basements, and this must be the propertied class who can afford to live in single-family houses, and as for the poor at the bottom, they can only live in apartments, where can they have a basement to take refuge?
Of course, the real rich people build their own bunkers, and they have all kinds of living facilities and materials, which is indeed incomparable to other countries.
However, despite the fact that each country has various problems and has a big mess, it has not compromised at all in its defense plan against meteorites, and has mobilized all the resources and forces it can mobilize to ensure the implementation of the three plans.
At this time, all countries can no longer care about hiding their nuclear bomb silos, and some nuclear bomb silos that have long been exposed or simply put on the surface have already entered a state of combat readiness, and the nuclear warheads have been loaded with missiles and are ready for launch.
As the core of the implementation of the three plans, the spacecraft of China, the United States, and Russia have also worked overtime to complete the work in the past few months, and they can start to implement the plan just after the meteorite arrives.
The Federalists pulled out their two mothballed space shuttles, Atlantis and Endeavour, and the two old spacecraft, which had been in service for more than 20 years, were once again transported to the launch pad under the cost of overhaul and maintenance.
According to the plan of the Federation, they would need to carry not only a nuclear bomb to propel or detonate an asteroid, but also a drill rig to drill holes, a crew to operate the drill rig and plant the nuclear bomb, and to land on the surface of the meteorite after carrying so many things.
The only space shuttle in the world that can have this kind of carrying capacity, and can take off after landing, is the Federation.
After the Federation provided the Falcon rocket, combined with its own Long March series rockets, the Yan State transformed a heavy spacecraft with multiple engines to exert thrust on meteorites near the lunar orbit and change the meteorite orbit with the help of the moon's gravity.
But so far, everything is only an estimate, and no one knows how much this meteorite weighs, and whether the heavy spacecraft transformed by Yanguo can have enough thrust to change its orbit.
Therefore, after some deliberations, the UN action team decided to adjust the plan, first let the Federation land on the surface of the meteorite to carry out their plan, drill holes to plant nuclear bombs, and then blow the meteorite apart, splitting it into two parts, one large and one small, to reduce the weight of the meteorite body.
At the same time, Yan Guo installed the heavy spacecraft on the surface of the large meteorite after it was blown apart, and used the gravitational pull of the moon, the thrust of the spacecraft itself, and the thrust of the nuclear bomb detonated by the Federation people before to change the trajectory of the large meteorite and make it deviate from the impact orbit.
As for the remaining small pieces of meteorite, it is the Lucians' job to direct a large number of nuclear warheads launched from the Blue Star to deliver a saturation nuclear strike on the small piece of the meteorite itself until it is blown to pieces.
If all goes well, the meteorite, which has a high probability of causing the extinction of humanity with a diameter of more than 10 kilometers, will eventually be blown into a pile of debris in low-Earth orbit and then fall into the atmosphere and burn up.
There may be some large pieces of debris that will eventually fall on the blue star, causing a meteorite impact, but this kind of debris meteorite impact is still within the range that human civilization can bear.
While China, the United States, and Russia were ready to deal with it, the meteorite finally approached the lunar orbit and was heading towards the blue star.
The three teams that have been on standby for a long time will be launched one after another, and they will refuel the International Space Station and Tiangong Space Station in the low Earth orbit of the Blue Star, and then accelerate with the gravitational pull of the Blue Star and the Moon, so that the spacecraft of the Yan Kingdom and the Federation can accelerate to a speed that can land on the surface of the meteorite.
In order to achieve this step, in the past three months, Yan Guo stepped up the completion of the Tiangong space station, while the Federation carried out a major overhaul of the International Space Station, and the two countries each sent a total of six astronauts to be responsible for the operation of the two space stations, in order to ensure that the spacecraft of Yan and the Federation can provide refueling services.
The fuel needed for the entire program has already been launched to two space stations with the help of the SLS system, just waiting for the spacecraft of the two countries to arrive at the space station.
This rescue operation, which is related to the fate of all mankind, also attracted the attention of everyone on the blue star at this time, and the major media and TV stations were also broadcast live 24 hours a day.
Both religious believers and atheists are praying for the success of this project at this moment.
Under the attention of six billion people around the world, the spacecraft of the Yan Kingdom and the space shuttle of the Federation arrived at the Tiangong space station and the International Space Station respectively, and each began to refuel.
As for the Lucia, because they are responsible for dealing with meteorites, they will not come up until after the Flame Nation and the Federation have started to operate, after all, their mission is only to guide the nuclear bomb, and relatively speaking, there is no need to launch the ship into the air so early.