Chapter Ninety-Four: Salvage Plan

October 12th.

A seemingly ordinary day.

But for the world's space agencies, around 14 o'clock in the afternoon, it was like the end of a nightmare that had been haunted for many days, and the intermittent mysterious signal finally disappeared completely after this point.

The mysterious radio wave incident that has plagued scientists for many days and made them anxious and panicked has finally come to an end.

……

Stars and Stripes National Space Agency.

Inside the conference room.

An expert with red-eyed eyes and a tired look, as if he hadn't slept well for many days, reported:

"Director Robert, according to the decipherment of our information experts for many days, the general meaning of the electromagnetic signal containing 120 bytes of information should be 'help' and 'help', of course, this is only a rough speculation, the real meaning, maybe not necessarily it."

"I think it can only mean 'call for help', otherwise why would that mysterious signal last for 90 days and be repeated countless times? Just like a ship on the high seas, once it encounters danger, it will constantly send out SOS signals, and the two have a similar behavioral logic. Another expert said.

"In addition, Director Robert, the source of the mysterious signal, we are basically sure, is not from the deep space of the universe, but from the low earth orbit around the blue mercury, only the orbit near the blue mercury can make it possible for the transmitted signal to be received by every scientific satellite."

"In other words, the source of the mysterious signal is a satellite in low-earth orbit."

Listen to these debriefings.

Director Robert Parsons, with his hands fingers crossed and his elbows resting on the table, fell into a deep dudden, and in his mind, there were countless question marks.

The mysterious signal came from a satellite in low-earth orbit, so, which country made and launched the satellite?

AT 160GHZ, NONE OF THE STARS AND STRIPES HAVE EVER MADE A DEVICE TO PRODUCE A SIGNAL OF THIS FREQUENCY, LET ALONE SEND IT TO THE SKY.

Big Mao Country?

Or Xia Guo?

Or the friends of Ouzhou?

But when people called to ask, they all shook their heads and denied that they had launched high-frequency communication satellites.

After thinking about it, he asked: "Is it possible to use large-caliber ground-based radar to search for and lock on that mysterious satellite, with its ability to emit high-frequency and short-wave waves, the volume and mass of the satellite, at least more than ten tons, will definitely be locked by the radar!" ”

"I'm sorry Director, we used the ground-based radar base array in Klomonda to scan all the satellites in space that are larger than a baseball, but we didn't find the huge satellite, the mysterious space device, which exists like a ghost."

Another expert said.

But in fact, their ground-based radar base array should have scanned the mysterious device that can emit high-frequency and short-wave waves, which happens to be larger than a baseball, but they never thought that the mysterious device would be so small.

Secondly, there are countless baseball-sized objects in space, most of which belong to "space junk", and even if their judgment is correct, it is difficult to find the real target from the large amount of space junk.

And now that the mysterious signal is gone, it is even more impossible to lock the location of the mysterious device.

So NASA meetings went on and on, and nothing came of it, except for more confusion.

……

The situation is similar for the Ouzhou Space Agency, the space agencies of Damao, the island countries, and the three countries of India.

After some discussion, they also came to a consensus: the source of the mysterious signal is in the low earth orbit of Blue Mercury, but they can't lock the specific source.

Only a wide variety of speculations can be made.

"It must be a new type of space verification weapon launched by a major country, using the greater destructive power of high-frequency and short-wave waves to damage the space satellites of other countries."

"Space should be the last pure land of human civilization, and we call on all countries to use space peacefully and prohibit military use."

"IN FACT, IT MAY ALSO BE THAT A MAJOR COUNTRY IS EXPERIMENTING WITH A NEW TYPE OF SPACE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, 160GHZ HIGH-FREQUENCY SHORT WAVE, CARRYING THOUSANDS OF TIMES THE INFORMATION DENSITY OF ORDINARY MEGAWAVES, CAN INSTANTLY TRANSMIT TERABYTES OF DATA, THE EMERGENCE OF THIS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, WILL ALSO AFFECT THE BALANCE OF SPACE FORCES IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES."

"By the way, is it possible that the aliens sent a distress signal into space, the purpose of which is to summon their compatriots to come to the rescue?"

There is also a scientist who speculates with a lot of brains.

However, his speculation was not recognized by most people, after all, the mysterious signal incident occurred in the vicinity of Blue Mercury, and if there were aliens, they would have been exposed and captured long ago, and they were put on the dissection table and subjected to thorough research.

After all, influenced by film and television culture, even in the minds of these scientists, they believe that those aliens should look similar to octopuses, with huge heads and eyes, three claws, or insects, extremely ugly, and very different from humans anyway.

Therefore, the mysterious signal generation device should be the masterpiece of a certain great country!

……

The other side.

Xia Guo Space Agency.

But it fell into an even more eerie calm.

In particular, high-level leaders and dozens of important experts who knew the real situation were given gag orders and private discussions were strictly prohibited.

October 12th, 6 p.m.

The "mysterious signal" discussed by the space agencies of various countries disappeared four hours later.

Emergency meeting room.

Director Yang Wei, Deputy Director Tian Kehua, heads of several important departments, and a number of senior experts filled the big round table.

Even though the meeting had already begun, they just looked at each other and were relatively silent for a long time.

In the end, it was Wu Wanzhou, the veteran expert in charge of satellite audits, who broke the silence.

He sighed and said:

"I didn't expect that the small satellite sent by the Gangbia country would have so many famous names in it."

"That young man of Xia descent from the country of Gangbia, every word he said was the truth in terms of the performance parameters of that satellite."

"160GHZ OPERATING FREQUENCY, DISCONTINUOUS SHORTWAVE, WIDE-AREA RANDOM ALGORITHM, AND THREE MONTHS WORKING LIFE."

"That young man said it lightly, but he didn't understand what these words, put on a small 5-kilogram satellite, mean to us scientists?"

"IN TERMS OF OPERATING FREQUENCY, NOT TO MENTION 160GHZ, IT IS A 16GHZ SIGNAL GENERATOR, AND WE ALL USE EQUIPMENT AT LEAST THE SIZE OF A TRUCK! FOR EXAMPLE, THE X-BAND RADAR (FREQUENCY 8-12GHZ) USED BY THE STARS AND STRIPES TO MONITOR MISSILE LAUNCHES, FLOATING ON THE SURFACE OF THE SEA, WEIGHS UP TO 50,000 TONS, AND LOOKS LIKE AN OIL DRILLING PLATFORM. ”

"BUT THEY DID, IN A DEVICE THAT'S SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN A THERMOS CUP, EMITTING 160GHZ OF SHORT WAVES."

"And the discontinuous short waves emitted, each of which is 120 bytes, are evenly sent to all corners...... The industrial control technology contained in this is probably far above the high-precision missile gyroscope and satellite atomic clock, and the value is more than that of E-class supercomputers. ”

"In the end, with the power consumption of that small satellite to transmit shortwaves, if you use an ordinary lithium battery, you will run out of power for a maximum of three hours, but it will work for a full 90 days! Not a day less! ”

"The battery technology contained in this is far beyond our imagination!"

"Think about it, it's just a small five-kilogram satellite, but it contains so many technologies that we can't imagine, it's hard to realize, and we can only look up to, whether it's the Gangbians who have mastered the technology we don't have, or the Gangbians have learned magic,"

"Or ...... Is there a possibility that there is a problem with the origin of that small satellite? ”

"I'm a scientist, I'm more inclined to the third guess!"

Wu Wanzhou, a veteran expert, said.

Everyone present nodded, agreeing with his guess.

Because in the past three months, on behalf of the Xia National Aerospace Administration, they took the initiative to propose cooperation in the aerospace field to Gangbia, extended an olive branch, and hoped that the two sides would send personnel to learn from each other.

However, Gang Bia does not even have a dedicated aerospace department, let alone any experts.

Even if Xia Guonau proposed cooperation, Gang Biya's side only nodded and said yes, but there was no follow-up.

So, it can only be the origin of that satellite, there is a huge problem!

It is even possible that there are technological items that do not belong to Blue Mercury.

Therefore, everyone present has a very strong interest in the small satellite floating in space and is now in a state of "space junk"!

It just so happened that the small satellite was launched using their Yuanzheng-2 rocket, and they knew everything about its orbital parameters.

The crowd discussed for a while and discussed and formulated a "salvage plan."

Yang Wei stood up and finally concluded:

"I will immediately feed back the 'Salvage Plan' to the above, and strive to launch the 'Survey No. 1' in the fastest possible time, salvage the small satellite, and organize experts to conduct detailed research."

"However, before that, we also have to ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to cooperate with the operation, notify Gambia in advance, say hello, and seek their consent to allow us to salvage."

Even if the small satellite has become space junk, it is also space junk belonging to Gangbia, whether Gangbia agrees or not, the necessary notice must be done, otherwise once exposed, public opinion will have an adverse effect.