"It's pretty fast."

said the director of NASA.

Leaning back in his seat, he began to think about what might happen.

He thought that there would be space departments from other countries to inquire about the situation, but he didn't expect that the first one would be from Merriken's.

I just don't know if this communication only represents NASA, or if it has the full authority of the president and Congress?

But whatever it is, just connect and chat.

Of course, communication can't be here, there are too many people here, he has to go to his office, and he has to communicate under surveillance.

He made an excuse to leave, and the discussion continued in the conference room.

Directly let the orbiter of Tianwen-1 change its orbit to specifically look for the unknown probe, then the mission it set before will definitely not be completed.

This is Tianxia's first Mars rover, which has undertaken quite a lot of tasks, and will launch the probe later, and it will also provide data relay services.

If it were to change orbit now to find the unidentified probe, it would run out of fuel quite quickly.

In the case of an unknown search time, it may have consumed all its fuel before it even found an unknown probe, and then crashed on Mars due to the gravitational pull of Mars.

If so, the loss is great.

I had already caught up with foreign aerospace achievements to a certain extent, but I got rid of the orbiter myself, which was simply sick.

If you really find it, then it's okay, and it's a great achievement.

But if you can't find it, or if you find it, it turns out that it's either an alien probe or a secret probe of a certain country, then it's a loss.

On the second side, the method of forming a "horizon telescope" by networking space telescopes is less risky.

This method can be performed on Earth, just like the photograph of a black hole was captured.

The mission was to use eight radio telescopes distributed in many parts of the world to jointly observe the same target source and record the data, forming a virtual telescope with an aperture equivalent to the diameter of the Earth, and increasing the angular resolution of the telescope to the extent that it is sufficient to observe the event horizon scale structure.

It's a bit complicated to say, but just know that it's good.

By using telescopes in different locations to network and then form a virtual telescope with a large virtual aperture, it is possible to observe extremely small objects in extreme distances.

It's just that this method is too cumbersome.

First of all, humans don't know the specific coordinates of the detector, and they can't do it if they want to observe it at a fixed point.

Second, even if it is observed, the image of the unknown detector is not necessarily clear.

Just like the first photograph of a black hole, people fantasize about it as a clear picture of this and that, and when they see the real thing, people's reaction is ......

That's it?

Yes, it's too vague.

You must know that tens of millions of gigabytes of data were generated when photographing the black hole, and finally after more than two years of processing, a picture of the black hole was not very clear.

Although Mars is close, the probe is also small, only a few meters in size.

The black hole is 55 million light-years away from Earth and is estimated to have 6.4 billion times the mass of the Sun.

I really don't know who is bigger and who is small.

Therefore, if you only use domestic telescopes to connect to the Internet, you can't really be sure what you will shoot.

And it's too time-consuming.

It's best to figure out what it is as soon as possible, and the alien starfleet has arrived before the Earth side has yet to analyze anything.

That's a piece of!

So it's better to do this with international cooperation, which is too difficult for a single country to do.

As long as the countries that have the capacity to join forces and even sign a valid contract to ensure that the accurate data of Mars will be shared in the future, then why not let the Mars rover change orbit to find the unknown satellite.

Several detectors cooperate to exchange data, and the position of the signal source received at different times must be different, so the cross is locked, and then after calculation, the position of the unknown detector must be accurate to a relatively small range.

It's definitely fast and fuel-efficient.

But I really don't know if other countries will cooperate, because this may be the first time that humans have come into contact with an extraterrestrial civilization.

This name, as well as the interests that may exist behind it, are really not small.

Humans are very strange creatures, and they are thinking about backstabbing at the same time as they are thinking about cooperation.

Especially when the final stakes are enormous, or even just enormous.

When they were talking about these problems, Tang Chao was already thinking about the first method.

Mars probes on this side of the planet are understandably precious, given the limited funding of various countries.

The vast majority of funds and resources are actually used for people's livelihood.

The proportion of funds used in scientific research, especially in the field of aerospace, is not large, or even very small.

But the situation is different on the Kanxing side, where the funds in the aerospace field definitely account for the lion's share.

Moreover, Kanxing has already established industrial bases on the moon and Mars-like, and many space facilities are now manufactured on them, and the cost is lower.

Tang Chao can come up with a "Mars probe" at any time, or a probe using Kanxing's advanced power system, which is said to be that the company has a Mars exploration plan a long time ago, just in time for the completion of the manufacturing now.

The fire detection orbit currently commonly used by mankind is not the shortest flight time, but the most fuel-efficient, and actually goes around in a big circle.

Therefore, Tang Chao can use the new Mars probe and accelerate it with full power along the way.

Because it is an unmanned detector, it does not need to consider the endurance of human beings, and even if it is not the best time to detect fire, it can be achieved within a month.

At that time, there won't be much time wasted, and you can also look for the unknown detector without scruples, because Tang Chao can use it as a one-time detector.

He actually has his own advantages in doing this, because the probe is his, and he has first-hand access to information.

You can even set permissions, even if you send information to multiple targets at the same time, his side will definitely receive the most.

It's not that he's boasting, he's definitely the most suitable human to deal with aliens, because the little green man is also an alien to some extent.

It's just that for some reason he directly became his subordinate.

And he has Kanxing technology, and he has the entire Kanxing as a backing, and he can now let the little green people build space battleships to deal with aliens that may come at any time.

For better or worse, it's always good to deter with a space battleship first.

Even if he is defeated, at least he will resist, and he will be able to give him time to retreat into Kanxing, and then use ten times the development speed to come back and take revenge after being strong.

Of course, this is the worst-case scenario that confirms that that thing is an extraterrestrial probe.

This is not necessarily the case.

After all, the unknown probe did not come to Earth, but was directly captured by the gravitational pull of Mars, and just stayed in the orbit of Mars.

This shows that the other side's aerospace technology is not very sophisticated.

At least that probe should be about the same level as Earth's space flight.

In fact, this is also where the informed country is entangled.

This thing may be about the same level of technology as the Earth, and then suddenly appear on Mars, maybe it is a hidden probe entrained when a country on the Earth launches a Mars probe.

The signal detected this time may just be faulty, and the unknown language may be the garbled characters caused by the fault, or a new encryption method.

Anyway, this unknown probe is weird.

But the stranger it is, the more it arouses human interest.

While they were discussing, the Director came in again, and he silenced the crowd before saying, "We had a video call with me from the Merrican Space Agency just now, and we exchanged some information that wasn't classified. ”

"Depending on what they mean, they're planning to cooperate on this search mission, not just us, but several other major space agencies."

"It's just that they haven't gotten permission from Congress and the president, and they're not going to convince Congress and the president directly, they're going to explain the situation to the General Assembly, and then get a vote, and they want us to send some representatives, what do you think?"