Homo sapiens

The second solar storm is coming.

The Homo sapiens space station still withstood the baptism of the solar storm with its powerful magnetic field shield and lead plate composite layer.

The component damage caused by the solar storm more than a week ago has been repaired by now.

That’s right, it’s been repaired.

Although the outbreak of the second solar storm once again damaged some components, for the Homo sapiens space station, this is not a big deal.

After all, the Homo sapiens company also attaches great importance to the triple redundancy design of the spacecraft.

In addition, there are three specialized maintenance cabins inside the Homo sapiens space station. This maintenance cabin uses biosynthesis technology and can synthesize many components.

From the beginning, the design plan of the Homo sapiens space station has planned in advance modularization, quick repair, and self-production of parts.

The designs of various parts are specially prepared to facilitate rapid production in outer space.

In addition, some parts of the Homo sapiens space station have self-repair capabilities.

With heavy protection, self-repair, and self-produced parts, the Homo sapiens space station can basically sit back and relax, repairing some damaged parts within a few days.

And the other side.

The second X2 solar storm is coming.

This puts the new International Space Station, which was already in danger, into an even more dangerous situation.

As time goes by, more and more satellite debris and debris are found in low-Earth orbit.

This also means that the risk of traffic accidents in spaceflight between the earth and low-Earth orbit is becoming increasingly greater.

What's even more frightening is that the ability of the Starlink satellites to adjust their orbits is so poor. In the face of dense debris clouds, they can basically escape the first day of the year, but not the fifteenth day.

Three days have passed since the rescue spacecraft accident, and at this time, 376 Starlink satellites and 21 other satellites have been destroyed in low-Earth orbit.

These satellites further sputtered out more debris and debris.

If the debris is more than 10 centimeters in diameter, it can still be barely monitored.

The problem is that many of the fragments are small fragments of a few centimeters or even millimeters in diameter.

For a spacecraft, the results of being hit by fragments with a diameter of tens of centimeters are similar to those of being hit by fragments of a few millimeters in diameter.

The number of small fragments is very large, forming a lot of debris clouds, and it is difficult to fully lock it. This is simply a spacecraft assassin, and it is still impossible to prevent it.

Whether it was the management of the Earth Alliance or the member space agencies, everyone was paralyzed when faced with the debris flying around in low-Earth orbit.

What is cocooning oneself?

This is trapping oneself in a cocoon.

Musk is at NASA headquarters at this time.

Bill, who could no longer bear it, said very directly: "Your company's Starlink satellites must fall into the atmosphere as soon as possible, and they cannot be allowed to stay in low-Earth orbit."

"Director Bill, no matter what you say, I have nothing to do." Musk spread his hands.

"..." Bill was very angry. Of course he knew the reason why Musk was so arrogant. It was simply because the Pentagon was behind it.

Bill resisted the urge to roar and asked through gritted teeth: "What is the use of Starlink satellites now? Is the Pentagon still so naive? Look at the situation this time! Open your eyes and take a look!"

Sean, the head of the Pentagon Space Equipment Office, looked a little embarrassed.

The Pentagon did miscalculate this time.

Originally, for the Starlink satellite system, the Pentagon's positioning was to destroy the death-ray satellites placed in low-Earth orbit by the Homo sapiens company through suicide impacts at critical moments.

However, in this accident, the performance of Starlink satellites was simply garbage.

The hundreds of death-ray satellites deployed by Homo Sapiens in low-Earth orbit were not affected at all.

The Pentagon discovered that the maneuverability of these dead-ray satellites was too strong. They used their own cobalt rods to generate electricity and used electric jet thrusters to continuously adjust their orbits.

In addition, the protective shell of the dead-ray satellite is very strong, and small debris cannot threaten the dead-ray satellite at all.

In fact, the other satellites of the Homo sapiens company have very good protection and maneuverability, because these satellites were positioned as "quasi-military satellites" from the beginning.

When Li Qingye was developing the aerospace industry at Homo Sapiens, he set the tone and was always on guard against America committing suicide attacks.

The situation at this time was already within Li Qingye's expectation.

The Pentagon's dark ideas failed.

Not only did it not threaten the Sapiens Company's satellites, but it destroyed 21 professional satellites in the free world. In addition to the more than 300 lost by the Space Exploration Company, the total of nearly 400 satellites was scrapped, and a large number of satellites were created. A pile of debris.

Bill stared directly at Sean: "What do you think about the Pentagon? If you still insist on maintaining the operation of the Starlink satellite, then I will resign tomorrow."

"Don't be angry, Director Bill, the situation is not serious enough yet." Sean reassured.

"I will resign immediately." Bill had only one thought in his mind at this time: I'm tired! Destroy it! I don’t want to do it anymore!

"Don't be impulsive! NASA still needs you, we can discuss it."

Bill finally couldn't help but burst out: "Shet! What are you discussing? Don't your space equipment office know the current situation? If the remaining Starlink satellites are not destroyed, the scale of space junk will become larger and larger, and we will be Completely trapped on earth, you can only watch the Homo sapiens company controlling the moon and Mars."

Sean certainly knew something about the situation, but he and the Pentagon executives were taking chances.

Musk, who was on the side, was also full of tangles at this time.

He has very complicated feelings about Starlink satellites. On the one hand, he believes that Starlink satellites are out of date and have seriously threatened human exploration of outer space. On the other hand, because of the interests of his company, he is unwilling to deny Starlink. The existence value of satellites.

Such are the complex emotions that come with his identity.

So he chose silence at this time.

As the head of NASA, Bill is more biased towards the aerospace industry itself and will not be too concerned about the losses of space exploration companies.

In short, the three people's positions are somewhat different, which leads to great differences between them on the issue of whether to continue to retain Starlink satellites.

As for the issue of astronauts on the new International Space Station, Bill, Sean, and Musk have no idea of ​​​​discussing it because they do not need to worry about this matter.

Even if those astronauts died, it would not have any impact on the three of them.

Their current focus is actually on the space debris caused by Starlink satellites, which blocks the waterway in low-Earth orbit.

Sean thought for a while, then turned to Musk and asked: "Elon, can you increase the operating altitude of the Starlink satellites and increase their orbit to more than 700 kilometers, so that the probability of continued collisions will be greatly reduced. ”

"Is that so?" Musk thought for a moment: "Doing this will reduce the life of the Starlink satellites by 30 to 50%. Is it acceptable to the Pentagon?"

Sean nodded helplessly: "Okay."

Bill's face was still as dark as the bottom of a pot: "Even so, the remaining space junk is still a big trouble."

But Sean was already prepared: "Hasn't Jeju Island's space tower project entered the trial operation stage recently? Let them use small launch vehicles to pull down the debris of relatively large satellites in low-Earth orbit and destroy them in the atmosphere."

Although Bill is dissatisfied with the Pentagon's intervention, he can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

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