Chapter 990 - Success is "garbage", defeat is also "garbage"
This is all blamed on the instigation of the Americans, no one expected that this large space station of the Chinese would have a laser cannon, and it would fire directly without saying a word.
The Japanese space agency can only watch as one of its $50 million spy satellite turns into space junk, and half an hour later, it will become garbage within a garbage.
Before the Japanese side had time to protest to China at the first time, China's news media had already preemptively released the news that China had recently conducted a large-scale laser weapon experiment and successfully hit a target of "space junk".
Space junk?
Space junk of the pit daddy!
It doesn't matter whether the target is a Japanese spy satellite, before the Japanese official protest, the satellite had really become the "space junk" in the mouth of the Chinese, and was destroyed in the impact after losing control.
After the launch of the "Buzhou Mountain" plan, the attitude of the Chinese side suddenly became very tough.
"Well done!"
"It's effortless!"
In the attitude control cabin of the "Buzhou Mountain" air and sky port, Wang Xuejun and Meng Yinan, who had completed the one-hit kill, touched their fists to celebrate.
As for the protests of the Japanese, who cares!
"Something isn't good!"
Astronaut Si Qiang in the other corner of the console stared at the screen in front of him with a solemn face, his hands were rapidly tapping on the keyboard, as if he was doing some kind of complicated operation.
"What happened?"
Wang Xuejun put away his smile, stood up from his position, and approached Si Qiang's side.
"You look at the prediction map I just made on the screen, the Japanese satellite did an evasive maneuver before it was shot down, and now it has drifted to this space junk orbit, it is expected that there will be a collision in twenty minutes, and then hit another mass of debris, at least eleven chain impacts will occur, after calculation, a total of 53,821 debris will be scattered within a diameter of 23,678 kilometers, and there will be as many as 179 flying objects that pose a deadly threat to the air and sky port alone."
Si Qiang pointed to the flight trajectory of space junk deduced by the computer data model, which encased the "Buzhou Mountain" air and sky port in great detail, including various meteorite fragments, artificial satellite fragments, solid and liquid materials leaked from spacecraft, debris generated during the explosion and collision of rockets and spacecraft, and even the entire rocket engine.
"How so? Can it be avoided? ”
Wang Xuejun was a little anxious, he had just destroyed a thief-headed "spy" a second ago, but he didn't expect that the corpse of this "spy" had triggered a space meteor shower, which was simply a super-large-scale super-high-speed shotgun scattering.
"Can't avoid it! Our luck is just too bad! ”
Si Qiang smiled bitterly and shook his head, God knew that the remote control evasion of the Japanese spy satellite would be so unfortunate and send out such a terrible chain reaction, even if Meng Yinan's attack was launched a second earlier or a second later, there would not be such a coincidence.
With the help of the powerful computing resources of supercomputers on the ground, these space junks that deviated from the original trajectory completely blocked the front and back paths, and not only destroyed the safety of higher and lower orbits, but also made the safe low-earth orbit arranged by the China Space Administration for the "Buzhoushan" air and space port dangerous.
The "Buzhoushan" air and space port is so huge that it is possible to hide in a safer orbit with a few fewer hits from the cracks of the computer than the International Space Station, but as an air and space port to accommodate more space vehicles, it is much more clumsy.
Even if there are engines in every corner, they are not easy to turn on, and if the power is not evenly distributed, it is very easy to break and tear the entire airport like a cookie.
Space accidents are no small matter, and they are full of murderous opportunities.
"Hell!" Wang Xuejun's face became extremely ugly, and then said, "Do we still have a way?" ”
"Yes!"
Si Qiang nodded unexpectedly, pointed to the outside of the cabin, and said, "As long as we can open the repulsion shield, we can save the day, at least those small fragments can be completely ignored, but it may not be in time to catch up." He glanced at the time and said that the first shock would arrive in 57 minutes, a task that would have been almost impossible for a two-hour job.
"Can't you attack with a laser cannon?" Meng Yinan interjected into the conversation between the two: "The high-energy laser can directly vaporize the target in space, and large debris can be pushed away by electromagnetic railguns, plus the buffer parachute, it should be able to cover the transfer of the air and sky port to a safe orbit." ”
Hearing the dense attack of space junk coverage, the three people in the attitude control module did not panic, which was completely expected for them, and it would be strange that "Buzhou Mountain" had been calm during the construction process.
On the ground, astronaut training includes a program to deal with space junk debris attacks.
"Lasers can only hit a limited number of targets, there are too many debris in the attack, where can you take care of it, too much energy consumption will also affect the operation of the air and space port, the same is true for the electromagnetic railgun, it will destroy the dynamic balance of the air and space station and the existing orbit, the buffer umbrella seems to be able to be used, but its defense is limited, if you are not careful, it will become a new space junk."
Si Qiang selectively rejected and agreed with Meng Yinan's plan.
When the three of them are on the same post, their division of labor and thinking angles in the control cabin will also be different.
"Let's divide the work, Xiao Meng, you use the laser cannon to eliminate the most threatening eyes as much as possible, release the buffer parachute in time for defense, I will control the air and space port as much as possible to maneuver and avoid, Si Qiang, help us keep an eye on the flight trajectory of space junk debris, and tell Xiao Meng and me the most threatening debris in time."
Wang Xuejun immediately made a decision, and the assigned work was also what everyone was good at, Meng Yinan and Si Qiang nodded and had no opinion.
"Hey, hey, I said, you guys have no conscience, I'm still outside! Will you want me to be a shield? Good ruthlessness! ”
Mao Jiadong, who was crawling towards the SEG installation position, complained from the communicator in the control cabin, and he heard the conversation in the control cabin.
"Extravehicular operations are scheduled to be suspended! Prepare to recycle Mao Jiadong! ”
Major General Fan Liming, who was in the command module, immediately made a decision, the outside of the cabin had become very dangerous, and it had become unnecessary to continue the task of loading SEG.
Recycling is an easy thing to do, pull the safety line, and it will be back in minutes.
"The ground command agreed to cancel the installation operation and abandon the 'air and sky port' if necessary."
Neither the astronauts nor the SEG are hard to come by, and the ground command would rather use passive defense than put either one in danger.
As long as the people are still there, the big deal is to rebuild, and the space agency has been mentally prepared to bear huge losses from the very beginning of the "Buzhou Mountain" plan.
If you want to step into outer space, it is simply impossible to always have smooth sailing, and the rise of great powers will inevitably pay a tragic price.
"Wait!"
Wang Xuejun suddenly opened his mouth and interjected.
"Please give me the reason, Wang Xueping."
Fan Liming was not angry, in the air and sky port, only the division of labor was different, and there was no distinction between superiors and subordinates, so when calling each other, the military rank was automatically erased.
"There is an embedded external maintenance cabin between the SEG installation slot and Mao Jiadong to accommodate the construction robot, if he can get to the installation slot to activate the SEG, it is the best, if not, he can hide there nearby, and temporarily activate the SEG in the cabin, then there is no problem in forming a repulsion shield that is enough to envelop the cabin, enough to ensure his safety."
Before the launch, Wang Xuejun spent a lot of energy knowing every detail of the "Buzhou Mountain" air and sky port, and his proposal was also a gamble, but it was very thoughtful before and after, and the danger was not high.
"Mao Jiadong, your opinion?"
"I don't have a problem, just do what Wang Xuejun said, I'll fight!"
Mao Jiadong gritted his teeth and panted desperately to speed up his movements, if he could catch up with the first wave of space junk in time to open the repulsion shield before the impact, then it meant that the sky port would have a great chance of surviving this unexpected natural disaster intact
All the construction robots have been recycled into the maintenance cabins of the various nodes, and they are all precious labor.
"All attention, check the spacesuit, prepare to withstand the first round of impact, and the 30-second countdown begins."
In the attitude control module, Wang Xueping, wearing a heavy spacesuit, was fully responsible for this response and defense, and he was fully engaged in piloting the huge air and sky port, penetrating the space junk like a wild horse with as little loss as possible.
It is as if driving a submarine, carefully dodging the depth charges constantly dropped by the anti-submarine fleet on the sea, as long as it takes a heavy hit, I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out and there will be no place to bury.
Due to the limited manpower, all eight astronauts in the space port were assigned to their posts, and two astronauts were stationed in the carrier module to receive the evacuated astronauts at any time.
Mao Jiadong finally failed to arrive at the SEG installation tank in time, so he had to give up and continue to move forward, hiding in the maintenance cabin that Wang Xuejun said.
Fan Liming and another astronaut are on standby in the air and space port, ready to go into emergency repair work at any time.
Meng Yinan used all his strength, controlling the defense system to continuously excite green laser beams, and cooperating with Si Qiang to specifically attack the most threatening targets.
As if the missile-like cylindrical buffer parachute launch pod broke away from the air and sky port, after flying out of dozens of kilometers, it quickly opened a huge round umbrella using special nanomaterials, extremely strong and tough, and consumed the impact of those space junk debris debris as much as possible to cover the "Buzhou Mountain" air and sky port behind it.
A finger-sized debris slammed headlong into an antenna at a very high speed, and almost in the blink of an eye, the kinetic energy was completely converted into heat, and the antenna was vaporized on the spot.
This disaster is far from over, and "Buzhou Mountain" is paying the price for its own growth.