On October 24, the Navigator's "Yuanhang" rocket made its maiden flight on time, carrying mankind's first unmanned exploration spacecraft to distant Mars.

The first flight of the "Yuanhang" super-heavy carrier rocket was very successful, and two booster rockets and one core-stage rocket of the same model were successfully recovered and landed on the recovery ship converted from a merchant ship by the Navigator Company.

For this type of super-heavy rocket, the Navigator company has done quite a lot of work, except for the unfinished near-equatorial launch site and a dedicated rocket carrier, everything else is almost ready.

For the time being, the rocket carrier can use the national team's, so only the cosmodrome near the equator remains.

According to the plan, the construction of the launch site is progressing very well, and it is estimated that it will be ready for use before the manned landing on the moon next summer.

However, if it is put into use, it will not launch Tianxia's first manned lunar spacecraft at his launch site, which is the patent of the national team, especially with the word "first", he does not plan to be a "hero".

The first stage and the same type of booster of the "Yuanhang" were successfully recovered, and a feat was also accomplished on the same day, that is, the successful recovery of the first second stage rocket.

When the second-stage rocket shuts down and disengages, it falls according to the predetermined trajectory, and when it reaches the predetermined position, the inflatable heat shield opens.

The feat was born when it successfully splashed into the predetermined sea.

Humanity's first inflatable heat shield has successfully landed from space orbit!

Or the kind of "cargo", not some kind of test.

There have been similar tests internationally, but none of them have been successful.

Thrown straight down from the tracks, failed.

Throwing it down in the suborbital orbit is also more defeated.

This is the test results of other countries before the Navigator mission.

The outside world knows that this launch mission, the Navigator company has tested the rocket very little, and they believe that the Navigator is in a hurry, and there is a fluke in this success.

Maybe it won't be so successful next time.

If there is no test, the launch will be rash, and the future "major accident" will teach the navigator how to comply with the strict test regime.

But only the engineers within the Navigator knew that Tang Chao had succeeded again.

Navigator's technology has advanced to the point where many testing steps can be omitted.

It's not that they're too arrogant, it's that their technology does get to this stage, and if they don't, it creates a serious waste of resources and time.

As successful as the "Yuanhang" rocket is the first unmanned spacecraft of mankind.

The 32-ton creature flew to Mars, which is definitely the largest Mars exploration device ever built, and when it spread its solar wings and ignited the array of advanced ion engines, the crew of the two space stations clearly saw the blue plume ejected by the spacecraft, and recorded the spectacular scene with the camera.

There are also people on Earth who have recorded this scene, but they use astronomical telescopes, and the recorded scene is not very clear.

But that's enough to shock people.

Of course, even more shocking was to come, when the video taken on the two space stations was reviewed by NASA, they released the video.

The clarity, the jet plume, the sci-fi blue light, absolutely amazing!

Ah, I'm all right!

In fact, it was released first by Tianxia's side, after all, this is a long-faced thing for Tianxia.

Originally, there was no problem with the Merriken Space Agency, but now the government is involved in a lot of things, so the government has also seen it, and the result is that they don't want to promote Tianxia.

Even if they say in various public places, "Aliens are coming, we should work together." ”

But public is public, private is private, and Merrican definitely doesn't want Tianxia to be good, and he doesn't want to do publicity for Tianxia.

But after Tianxia released the video and high-definition images, if they didn't put it, it would seem that they were stingy, which was very unfavorable in public opinion propaganda.

So they immediately released the videos and images taken by their side, and accompanied by professional explanations, indicating the power system of the spacecraft...... Not bad.

Well, this is the last of Merrican's reserves.

The voyage of this unmanned spacecraft shows that mankind has once again extended a step into space and gone farther and farther.

This means that the future of the solar system will become more and more lively.

All of this is actually related to the unknown detector.

Without it, humanity would have come this far, but definitely not so quickly.

It is precisely because of this external pressure that all countries, especially the big countries with space conditions, will definitely make greater efforts to develop the space industry under the condition of ensuring that the conditions for people's livelihood do not change much.

As a result, there are now various large space programs, and they are much more radical than usual.

Even many dangerous projects are no longer covered, or they are not covered so deeply, after all, there is a big guise of "aliens", and if there is any dangerous content, it can be directly pushed to the purpose of "dealing with aliens".

During this period, some countries have not only launched some satellites, but the number of satellites launched in the future has also increased by several orders of magnitude.

It's hard to determine whether some of them are commercial satellites or not, and many suspect that those satellites are equipped with weapons.

People used to be absolutely terrified, but now ......

"It's all worth it to deal with aliens."

Some people said.

As for whether there are forces behind to promote this topic, I don't know.

Tang Chao didn't expect that he would also expect to use this opportunity to enhance international cooperation between countries, but he didn't expect that he would still do his own thing.

On the surface, there is a trend to cooperate, but in private, it seems that the division is more serious.

This is special, Tang Chao doesn't know what to say.

Humans are amazing.

In space, it's a different story.

In the orbit of Mars, a broken spaceship suddenly appeared!

"Ahh

"This should be the last time, after flashing this time, the remaining energy should be consumed."

"So we're safe? No more unexpected flickering? ”

"That's right, we're safe, we don't have to worry about flickering into the stars and getting burned."

"That's good...... Wait, we seem to be captured by gravity......"

"What do you mean? Aren't we already in the gravitational field of this star? ”

The little green people in the battered ship's cabin were babbling all sorts of information, and soon they noticed the huge red planet outside the porthole.

In the solar system, the planet is called Mars.

They feel very much like "Duna" in the Kan Galaxy, and they have already set up a manufacturing base on it.

"We have been captured by the planet."

"Not the third, but the fourth, which doesn't seem to be very suitable for living creatures."

"It doesn't matter, this one is much better than the others, and we have a good chance of surviving on it for a long time...... Not small. ”

"I think we should think about the current situation, we are not motivated, and we are captured by the gravitational field of a planet, which means ......"

"That means, we're going to fall!"

"Ahh

The ship is falling much faster than an artificial satellite that has lost power, which takes months or even years to fall, and this ship has already rushed towards the fiery red planet at a very large cutting angle.

"Carrara ~ Carrara ~"

Unknown to the fact that some of the parts were not secured or broken were colliding rapidly, the four little green men were ready to fall, and even if something was wrong, they would catapult themselves out and open their parachutes to land.

"Bang Dang~"

"Boom~"

With a loud bang, the ship shook violently and began to spin!

The little greens shouted even more exaggeratedly.

Outside the spacecraft, the falling spacecraft collided directly with a Mars probe, and the probe instantly turned into fragments, falling towards Mars with the broken spacecraft.

And among those fragments, the Star-Spangled Banner on one of the fragments is clearly visible.

At this moment, the captain who shouted stopped shouting, "Hey, we received a short-range communication signal, it turned out to be Probe 34!" ”

These words directly made the other three little green men also quiet.

"Really? Let me be well! ”

"It's true, it's really the No. 34 probe, but it's not in a good state, and many modules have problems."

"It's also falling, just a lot longer than we've been falling."

"Did you think of any of these things?"

Captain Linus looked at them angrily: "Probe 34 is also here, and it arrived before us, which proves that the wormhole is not a one-time thing, it is likely to be a one-way channel, which means that we can wait for the follow-up fleet!" ”

"yes, that's it!"

“WOOOOO！”

The little green people were excited again, and even the process of spinning and falling began to become joyful.

When they are happy, the earthlings are not, especially Merrican.

As soon as the communication delay passed, the Merriken space agency received bad news.

Their Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission rover, known as MAVEN for short, has lost contact.

The rover was launched only a few years ago to investigate the mystery of the disappearance of the Martian atmosphere and to find out why the early water sources on Mars and the disappearance of carbon dioxide were found.

It's very important to the Merrican Space Agency, and they've had their sights set on Mars since they lost interest in the moon, so every rover is very important.

The MAVEN Mars rover spends most of its time in orbit around Mars, occasionally passing through the outer edge of the Martian atmosphere, using 8 instruments to measure gases and monitor surrounding conditions.

These measurements could help researchers figure out how, over billions of years, the uninterrupted winds of solar particles interacted with asteroid impacts and chemicals on the surface of Mars, depleting water and other gases in the atmosphere.

Researchers can model the detected data, and by combining these models with information they know about how the Sun changes over time, researchers can infer the density and composition of Mars' atmosphere at different times in its history.

This is very important to explore whether there was life on Mars and is an important research project for them.

Not to mention that in February this year, it also made a relay guide for the "Perseverance" Mars rover launched last summer, and specially adjusted the orbit for the relay mission.

It was such an important orbital probe that lost contact 10 minutes ago.

The Merriken Space Mission Center is in shambles.

"What's going on, is it a technical issue?"

"Is it a solar storm? No, it's not a solar storm, the sun is very well-behaved during this time! ”

"Maybe it's the alien probe that attacked our probe!"

"Ah, this, it's not impossible, after all, it's an alien probe, and we don't know what's on it."

"Will it be an impact? It doesn't matter meteorites, garbage, wrecks, debris, everything possible. ”

"I don't know, there's too little information, we need more!"

"What about the other probes, now they're all in orbit around Mars, see if they find anything?"

"Yes, yes, bring the data from the other detectors!"

Fortunately, the chaos was only short-lived, and after thinking of all kinds of possibilities, the technicians rushed to verify, and after just a while, there were fewer chaotic shouts and more orderly.

It's just that it didn't last long, because they didn't find any data from it.

Not only did this incident not happen, but there was also no sign of the previous mission to find an unknown probe.

The probe that lost contact was not the one they secretly changed its orbit, and if it were, it would probably vomit blood.

Well, this one is pretty much the same.

A group of uncomfortable hearts.

In addition to the two remaining ones in orbit, they also checked the Petroleum Alliance probe and the Peacock State probe, which have control, and there is no news either.

The two of Europa are negotiating, and it is estimated that the data will be available in a while.

The rest is Tianxia's Tianwen-1 probe.

Tianxia updates the information found by Tianwen-1 every night at 12 o'clock, but Merrican still feels that Tianxia Space Agency is hiding it, because that's what they did.

The information obtained by the probe they secretly activated had never been disclosed to any other organization.

In fact, the Tianwen-1 probe really made a big discovery today, but it is not yet the time for today's data upload, and others do not know yet.

Just when Merrican received the signal of the loss of contact with the probe, Tianxia obtained some precious information at the same time, and after a few minutes, they obtained a photo!

It was a detector and a photo, although it was not high-definition, and it was not possible to see the details, only an outline, but it was enough for comparison.

After comparison, they found that the probe in the photo did not belong to any probe that had been launched by humans.

"That's right, that's it!"

"We found it! We've found it! ”

"Quick, control Tianwen-1 to lean over, we need a clearer image!"

"Understood!"

"Xiao Li, notify the heads of various departments and have a meeting!"

"Understood!"

The Tianxia Space Center also moved quickly.

This matter is too important, even if there was an agreement in the United Nations before, but when it is really found, Tianxia will have to think about it carefully.

In the course of the meeting, the Tianwen-1 probe was sent over the process of discovering the mysterious probe.

A key point was that the mysterious probe just now took the initiative to send some information.

Before receiving this information, Tianwen-1 had already found the vicinity based on many previous information.

As soon as this new information was received, Tianwen-1 made an emergency calculation, and then quickly adjusted the orbit and direction to find the exact position.

In an instant, the first photo of this mysterious probe was taken!