From the Moon to Mars, the distance is 85 million kilometers.

The distance from Mars to the asteroid belt is 300 million kilometers.

After a short stay in Martian orbit and witnessing the deployment of 18 moons, after a week-long journey, everyone came to the asteroid belt.

This is an open area sandwiched between Mars and Jupiter, and in order to avoid danger, the spacecraft did not cut into the asteroid belt along the orbital plane, but made a small detour, as if descending from above, giving them a chance to see the entire asteroid belt.

They came here not for sightseeing, but also for the deployment of satellites, just because they could not rely on satellites to orbit the planet to maintain monitoring of the planet like a planet, and the significance of deployment in the asteroid belt was more reflected in understanding this vast world.

In this 1.5 billion km stretch area, the focus of the deployment is on Ceres, Marriage, Homo sapiens, and Vesta.

Ceres, the only dwarf planet, is 950 kilometers in diameter, 30 times smaller than the Moon, and is the largest star in the asteroid belt, with a total of six moons deployed nearby.

The remaining three planets are the 2nd to 4th largest planets in the asteroid belt, with three satellites deployed.

There are a total of 15 satellites, which is quite a lot, but unfortunately there are too many asteroids around, and the signals sent by the satellites are often blocked and absorbed by the stars. However, it is too far from the sun, and the energy harvesting rate brought by solar energy is extremely low, and the satellite runs on batteries as the main energy source, so it cannot operate for a long time.

"It seems like a loss outweigh... However, the East Galaxy Company will not be stingy in this regard. Cao Chuan came to a conclusion, and then, Nana controlled the spaceship to lean over, getting closer and closer to this world full of stars...

There are as many as 500,000 asteroids in the asteroid belt, and their trajectories, inclination angles, and spectra are inconsistent.

Including the Flora Star Clan, the Justice Star Clan, the Raven Star Clan, the Aurora Star Clan, and the Sili Star Clan, each of them forms an independent whole, including the satellites they deploy, if they do not follow the orbit of the asteroid and move aimlessly, the possible result is that the orbits coincide and collapse.

By following the orbit of the asteroid family, the spacecraft drifted in the asteroid belt, even so, Nana still walked on thin ice, for fear that the target Queen Nana would be hit by an asteroid that suddenly appeared, even if graphene made a superhard shell, it would still be hit to pieces.

In order to reduce the probability of accidents, their cruising speed in the asteroid belt had to be reduced to 100 km/s, so that most of the asteroids behind them were eating dust behind their butts and it was impossible to catch up.

Joe Canal is constantly taking pictures, such a close range of photos, coupled with the use of a 25 million pixel camera, the effect is far better than the equipment used for the asteroid belt probe sent by the lighthouse nation more than ten years ago.

"Alas... It's a pity that I can't send **. "As a young man, Qiao Canal still likes to show off, if he sends out a big photo of Ceres, I don't know how many people will regard him as a god and worship him.

"Anyway, save it first." He could see that the Queen Nana had been born, and it was no longer far from the possession of the exploration department, and when the time came, they would have a chance.

"I heard that the next Hengyue-class ship will be the production version of the Queen Nana, so there's no reason for the trade department to grab us again." He confidently thought that from the perspective of use, the trade department would not look down on this kind of spacecraft with a small cargo capacity, and how much profit would be made by using this kind of spacecraft to carry cargo?

"When the time comes, let's get a mental model..."

Qiao Canal knew that Nana was a real, perfect, emotional artificial intelligence, and for such a considerate and all-round assistant, he was extremely envious, and he could simply hand over all the work of the spaceship, and he could lie down and give orders.

He couldn't help but think of the female secretary he had left on Earth, and he didn't know what happened to her.

"This special operation is really worth it! Seeing Mars, touching the asteroid belt, and even deploying satellites himself..."He couldn't help but feel complacent when he thought of Sophia's lack of opportunity to participate because the exploration department was on a mission outside.

Just as he was immersed in his imagination, Nana's voice rang in his ears.

"Warning! The tail of the spaceship was hit by a star and malfunctioned! ”

"Nana, what's wrong?" Cao Chuan asked aloud,

While calling out the status of the spacecraft on the screen, it is clearly seen through the diagram that several cabins at the tail of the spacecraft have been damaged by unknown objects, and all of them are displayed in red and have lost contact.

Then they played back the surveillance footage transmitted at the end, and they saw that the culprit was a small rock half a meter in diameter.

Since the cause of the problem has been found, at this time, how to deal with the problem is the most critical, because no one has a way to avoid this accident in advance, and the most vocal is undoubtedly the honorary advisor Cao Chuan.

Cao Chuan didn't show any panic, thinking that it was not a big problem, "Nana, urgently carry out the cabin closure operation, and send our maintenance robot to try to repair the damaged cabin." ”

Nana replied calmly: "Execution, cabin 057 closed, cabin 058 closed, cabin 059 closed... There is an abnormality in the closure of the 060 cabin! ”

"Put on your protective suits and go over there and take a look." Cao Chuan turned his head and gave an order, he knew that the defensive power of the protective suit was trustworthy, and he did not have the slightest worry.

The nervous employees hurriedly organized and divided into a small team of several people to hurry up.

He asked, "Nana, does the ship need urgent maintenance?" ”

Nana replied, "Yes." The ship's hull was damaged, and we needed a day of maintenance to accelerate out of the asteroid belt. ”

"In that case," staring at the rough map of the asteroid belt they've collected so far, "we're resting on this asteroid." ”

He clicked on the map, where asteroid 403 was marked, less than 50,000 kilometers away, on the outer edge of the asteroid belt, and was large enough to hide on its back to protect the spacecraft.