On the fifth day (16) we overturned
"Run! Escape! Mai Dong escapes——! ”
The old cat roared hoarsely.
The girl was stunned for a moment.
Three seconds later, there was a deafening bang, and a violent vibration came along the bulkhead and the air, and all the small pieces floating in the cabin seemed to freeze at this moment, and the air seemed to be compressed.
Time stood still for a moment.
Then they all flew out violently, and the panels and screens attached to the bulkheads cracked together.
The structure of the space station emitted a high-pitched grief of metallic twisting, and the alarm of loss of pressure sounded rapidly.
Mai Dong only felt that she was hit hard in the chest by a strong force, and her first feeling was that she had been in a car accident and the car she was riding in was rear-ended.
Her body flew out uncontrollably, tumbling in mid-air, and then was pulled by the headphone cable, which wrapped around her arm, and Mai Dong's body slammed into the control panel like a pendulum pendulum.
The space station completely lost its attitude, and everything in front of the girl's eyes was rolling, dizzy, and the world was spinning.
There were screeching alarms in my ears, and the entire core cabin was dyed red by the alarm lights.
Mai Dong couldn't control her body at all, and she slammed into the porthole again.
Before falling into a coma, Mai Dong could only see red light and thick smoke in his eyes.
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The computer screen is still flashing with a shocking alarm window, and the old cat is holding a headset in his hand, standing in front of the workbench, and his heart is cold.
It's over.
It's really over.
At the last moment, the broken computer of the Eagle spacecraft still went wrong.
According to the normal docking procedure, the Eagle spacecraft should start to steer and decelerate when approaching the space station for 10 kilometers, reduce its relative speed to less than 100 meters per second at a distance of 5 kilometers, and reduce its relative speed to about 3 meters per second when it finally enters the approach section within 100 meters.
The old cat uses the strategy of jumping into orbit at one time, accelerating and decelerating a lot, and not mooring when passing through the parking point, which will cause the lander to dock at a higher speed than usual.
According to its plan, when the Eagle spacecraft docks with the space station, the relative speed can be reduced to one to two meters per second, which is like letting the large trailer weighing more than ten tons immediately enter storage after accelerating and drifting through the corner and changing lanes, and slow down to zero within this stage.
The previous steps have been very smooth, and by the time the distance between the Eagle spacecraft and the space station has been reduced to three hundred meters, the relative velocity has been reduced to ten meters per second.
Following this trend, the lander will be able to dock with the space station perfectly.
Next, the sensors of the Eagle spacecraft stabbed Louzi.
In the approach stage, or even in the closer translational approach stage, because the target vehicle and the tracking vehicle are too close and there is a delay in ground remote control, the docking control at this stage is generally completed by the spacecraft independently.
If there is no crew on the Eagle spacecraft, then control is in the hands of the computer.
Once again, it had a bug at the most critical moment, misjudged its own speed, and turned off the thrust reverser engine early.
The Eagle spacecraft suddenly lost its thrust reverser and decelerated, and it followed its own inertia and directly hit the space station at a speed of six meters per second.
At this time, the distance between the two was less than forty meters, and it only took less than six seconds for the lander to cross this distance, and no one had time to react.
The Kunlun station sensed that the Eagle spacecraft was pumping and called the police as soon as possible.
But it was still too late.
The docking mechanism between the lander and the space station can withstand an impact of up to five meters per second, five meters is the limit, and no matter how high it is, it will cause damage to the mechanism and destroy the airtightness...... To be honest, the engineers who designed the interface didn't think that anyone would be able to hit it at a speed of five meters per second, and the docking speed is usually a few tenths of a meter per second, which is slower than the speed at which a person walks.
They felt that the redundancy of five meters per second was too much.
For the sake of this redundancy of five meters per second, they simply designed the docking mechanism to be as solid and strong as the anchor, wasting a lot of weight.
The old cat sat down in silence, and it saw the two cursors on the screen slam together.
Then dense pop-up windows popped up, each one was an alarm, the numbers jumped rapidly, and the parameters of the Eagle spacecraft and the space station turned from green to red, out of the normal range.
Imagine a large trailer of more than ten tons, slamming into it at a speed of six meters per second, nothing can withstand such an impact, and the concrete walls are like papier-mâché.
The old cat looked at the screen stunned.
It couldn't imagine what was happening in the orbit four hundred kilometers above its head, and it didn't even know if Mai Dong was still alive...... The Eagle spacecraft and the space station deviated from orbit at the same time after the impact, and the docking mechanism could not lock the high speed of six meters per second at all.
The metal guides and locks of the interface were all broken, and the Eagle completely destroyed the interface, then lost control and fell into a tumbling.
It flipped through space, parted ways with the space station, and disappeared into the dark depths of space.
The Joint Space Station was violently impacted, and its attitude began to lose control, and the space station slowly rotated around its central axis.
The Eagle's rear-end collision destroyed an interface and flattened the Dawn module.
The old cat received a pressure loss alert from the Union Space Station, which indicates that the impact caused the damage to the station's shell, and the air in the cabin is leaking, and the air pressure is dropping rapidly.
Smoke alarms also sounded, and sensors inside the space station detected smoke, which indicates a fire hazard.
The space station is filled with pure oxygen, and the slightest spark is a catastrophe.
"Miss Mai Dong! Mai Dong! Mai Dong ——! Hear it, please answer! Can you hear me? The old cat yelled, and the signal was not interrupted, but there was no answer in the channel.
Obviously, something may have happened to Mai Dong.
The old cat's head is going to blow up.
After all, this launch was too hasty...... It's too late to do a thorough inspection, it's not surprising that there are bugs in the system computer and sensors of the Eagle spacecraft, the working conditions are so extreme, the spacecraft is a thing with a high failure rate, whose spacecraft space station is not full of problems?
But 99% of other people's problems are innocuous minor problems, and tinkering will not affect the use.
Like the Eagle, there were two problems, and each time it was fatal...... It's the first time the old cat has encountered it.
The old cat doesn't sweat, and if it could, it would be sweating now.
It forces itself to calm down.
Calm down.
Calm down!
Can't mess around...... Don't mess around! There are so many problems, we have to solve them one by one! Let's start with the most urgent!
The old cat of the Eagle spaceship has no time to care now, it will die wherever it likes, and the farther away it will die, the better.
The old cat first wants to save the space station from the brink of destruction...... Mai Dong does not know whether he is alive or dead, and he may have lost his ability to move.
The only one who has the power to save her at the moment is the old cat.
The inside of the space station is losing pressure, and the air pressure and temperature continue to drop, and will soon drop below the safety line, and if the old cat does not take any more measures, Mai Dong will die of suffocation...... However, the old cat did not know which compartment was damaged, so it could only take control of the space station and immediately close all the hatches to isolate the air circulation between the cabins.
Everything that can be done has been done, and the old cat only hopes that it is not the core cabin that will be damaged.
Next is the smoke alarm.
There is also an attitude instability alert.
The old cat's two paws bounced like a fly, solving the alarms one by one.
The Joint Space Station is like a leaky wrecked ship at the moment, and the old cat is frantically plugging the loopholes, pulling the ship back from the brink of sinking little by little, and it wishes it could have two more claws.
"Old cat...... How's it going? Tang Yue asked, "What step has it been?" ”
"Tang Yue, now I can only trouble you to hold on for a while." The old cat gritted his teeth and whispered, "We overturned." ”