930 days of hook fishing
At dawn, Ye Han left the base with his subordinates.
Raising his eyes and looking up, Ye Han barely saw a small bright spot flashing in the distant sky, turned on the telescope, magnified it several times in a row, and the small bright spot suddenly turned into a clear transport ship, the main engine vents on both sides of the spacecraft went down, and the flashes in the reaction chamber were one after another.
"Skyhook, I've seen you, very clearly."
"Roger, ready to release the cable, keep an eye out!"
"Understood!" Ye Han agreed, turned off the telescope and looked left and right, and simply turned over and lay on the ground, so as not to raise his head and tired his neck.
A few people around him saw Ye Han's style, and they also lay on the ground together.
To Ye Han is Lin Yi on the left, and Ouyang Ping is on the right.
Lin Yi's duty is to control the rocket used for escape, according to the requirements of the Northern Capital, this rocket must be able to rise at any time, so he usually stays in the base and does not come out, but with the gradual deepening of cooperation, the risk assessment of Ganymede in the Northern Capital is getting lower and lower.
Because he was not familiar with the situation, Lin Yi simply followed behind Ye Han's ass and became a follower with peace of mind.
The Celestial Hook flew closer and closer, the slower it became, and the frequencies of the flashes in the engine became higher and higher, and by the time it flew directly above the forward base, the flashes were already connected and indistinguishable.
Ye Han knew that it was the Sky Hook using its main engine to fight against Europa's gravity!
Spaceflight is all about creating speed against gravity, and the slower the relative speed, the stronger the gravitational attraction on the spacecraft.
Ordinary spaceships can't resist the gravitational pull of the planet even if the engines run at super power, but the Sky Hook is different, it is specially designed for this mission, the same type of spacecraft has only two engines, and the Sky Hook is equipped with eight!
Eight engines were running at the same time, and the power had to be at least 90 percent for Skyhook to hover.
Theoretically speaking, the Sky Hook can land on the surface and return to space with ultra-high engine thrust after takeoff, but levitation is a very fuel-consuming behavior, and taking off from the ground burns more fuel than levitation, which is completely more than worth the loss.
After the Sky Hook stabilized, Ye Han heard a voice: "Base, the cable has been released!" ”
Ye Han immediately replied: "The base understands and is observing!" ”
Through the telescope function, it can be seen that a cable is released directly under the ship, and a hooked pendant is attached to the end of the cable, which is extending down from the bottom of the ship.
"Skyhook, I see the cable, everything is normal!" Ye Han said.
After the earth got the carbon fiber plant, it was planted for a few months, although it didn't grow as fast as the aliens here, and it didn't collect as much as the aliens, but it was no problem to get a few cables.
"The Sky Hook understands, three seconds to accelerate the countdown - three, two, one!"
As soon as the words fell, the pendant, which had been slowly descending, suddenly fell down like a kite with a broken string, and the speed became faster and faster, and soon burrowed into the atmosphere.
Ye Han's eyes were firmly fixed on the sky, and he suddenly had a very strange feeling in his heart, feeling that the pendant with a hook was like a fishing hook, the cable was like a fishing line, and the Sky Hook was naturally a fisherman.
The speed of the high-speed winch on the Sky Hook is extremely fast, and the landing speed of the pendant is not even as fast as the release speed of the winch, and the cable behind the pendant is loose and crumbling, and it has never been straightened.
Ye Han silently estimated the height of the pendant, and when it was estimated that the pendant was only five kilometers away from the ground, Ye Han decisively shouted: "Sky hook, slow down!" ”
The Sky Hook hurriedly complied, and the speed of the pendant immediately decreased by half, and the cable was immediately straightened, pulling the pendant below, and dangling irregularly in mid-air like an oversized pendulum.
"Slow!"
The pendant was half as slow as it was, and it was only a quarter of what it had just been, but it shook even more.
Ye Han continued to watch, and when the height of the pendant dropped to about a kilometer, he slowed down the sky hook again, and half a minute later, the pendant hook the size of a car hung down to the ground.
"Okay-" Ye Han stretched his throat, and the Sky Hook was immediately stuck to untie the cable, and at this time, the height of the hook was only more than two meters, and it swayed back and forth more happily.
Ouyang Ping's eyes widened: "Boss, this can't be relied on?" ”
The hook swings so fast that even with power armor, it's enough to smash this thing.
Ye Han frowned: "Sky Hook, put three more meters down!" ”
"Sky Hook received!" As he spoke, the cable was put three meters further, and the heavy hook slammed into the ground, because the speed was too fast, the heavy hook jumped and rolled on the ground, bringing up a large piece of turf and soil, and ploughed out a ditch dozens of meters long before stopping.
The hook stopped, but the cable on it was buzzing like a string that had been violently hooked by a naughty boy.
Ye Han breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and said, "Ouyang, bring a few people to carry the hook over." ”
"Great!" Ouyang Ping waved his hand, and several soldiers quickly followed, and a total of seven people rushed over, and it didn't take much effort to lift the hook.
Ye Han jumped on the container in a few steps, beckoned and shouted, "Here!" ”
The soldiers carried the hook to the side of the container, and Ye Han said on the radio: "Sky hook, rise two meters!" ”
"Sky Hook received!"
The cable immediately straightened, and the hook that touched the ground slowly rose a little, but it was a little lower than the height Ye Han expected.
Ye Han didn't shout again, but beckoned the soldiers to hand over the hook, Ouyang Ping hurriedly jumped on top of the container, caught the hook with Ye Han, and the two of them worked together to hang the heavy hook on the container.
Ye Han first made a gesture for Ouyang Ping to go down, and then he checked the hook himself, and after making sure that there was no problem, he turned around and jumped down, and shouted while touching the ground with both feet: "Tianhuo, after mounting, you can go up!" ”
"Sky Hook received!"
The spaceship in the sky immediately increased the engine power, and the suspended spacecraft gradually rose, and the cable, which was still a little loose, suddenly tightened, and then pulled the container tightly, and then lifted the container off the ground.
The container was thrown out all of a sudden, almost hitting Ye Han's body, so frightened that he hurriedly lay on the ground, turned over and looked at the swaying container, and couldn't help but be glad that this place was some distance from the base.
It's just such a way, if you have to smash the base on the edge of the base.
The winch was not powerful enough, and the Sky Hook could not be hung there all the time wasting fuel, and the spacecraft accelerated as soon as the container left the ground, dragging the container forward and gaining altitude.
The container flew higher and farther in Ye Han's eyes, and it was just in time for the rising sun, but it didn't take long for it to be out of sight.
The Sky Hook rose more than a hundred kilometers in one breath, and finally dragged the container out of the atmosphere, and then the spacecraft flew straight to the space station, handed over the cable to the space station and slowly dragged it back, and the Sky Hook went back to continue to hook the second container.