Chapter 13 - Landing meteorite
The success of the Federation team greatly boosted the morale of the Yan Guo team, and also rejoiced the six billion people who were looking forward to Blue Star. Even Chen Xin was full of confidence in the success of this rescue operation.
After all, the federal people have completed the mission with their lives, and the rescue operation has completed one-third. As long as the next mission of the Yan Guo team is successfully completed, the meteorite will be pushed out of the impact orbit, and the Blue Star will be impacted, causing the end of the world crisis. Will be lifted.
At this time, everyone in the world has put aside what they are doing, staring closely at the TV screen, paying attention to the people who are saving the Blue Star 380,000 kilometers away.
At this time, the Yan Guo team was encouraged by the success of the Federation team, and the Yan Guo spacecraft was also driving towards the meteorite while the debris flow on the surface of the meteorite was blown away by the blasting nuclear bomb.
Perhaps because of the change in the volume of the meteorite, or the absence of interference from the EMP shock wave formed by the explosion of the nuclear bomb, the Yan Guo team did not interrupt the communication with the Blue Star even though the signal was not good when it was approaching the meteorite.
Thanks to this, six billion people around the world can clearly see the Yan Guo team approaching the surface of the meteorite through the cameras installed on the Yan Guo spacecraft, watching the meteorite gradually change from a large mountain in the universe to the entire land. process.
Chen Xin was also shocked by the scene on the screen, which is definitely not a scene that can be easily seen on the blue star.
The Yanguo spacecraft is equipped with a wide-angle camera, so the captured images are wider than ordinary cameras, and the impact of the images displayed at this time is also more shocking.
The surface of meteorite is uneven, and there are some pits formed by the impact of debris on it, which looks like a piece of burnt cake.
But I am afraid that no one in the world will have an appetite for this cake, because it is too big.
Even though they were broken by the Federalists and split into two pieces, these two meteorites still have a volume of several kilometers in diameter. As the spacecraft approaches, watch them grow bigger in sight until they fill the whole The line of sight, that kind of visual impact is indescribable and indescribable.
If you have to make an analogy, it’s the feeling that a rock the size of the Himalayas fell from the sky, and it was slammed down right on your forehead.
Looking at the huge meteorite, Chen Xin couldn’t help thinking in his heart, if such a big meteorite really hits the blue star, can human beings really survive?
I dug a refuge, prepared food and water, and considered all aspects, but… there was a fatal loophole that Chen Xin could not deal with with all these preparations.
That was when the meteorite hit him, he was really lucky to survive, or he was even more lucky, and the meteorite hit his head.
Although a meteorite with a diameter of several kilometers is not as powerful as its original diameter of more than ten kilometers, if it falls within Asia, Chen Xin can say with certainty that his chances of surviving are slim.
At this moment, looking at the huge meteorite rolling in, he panicked and scared.
Originally faced with the disaster of a meteorite hitting the blue star, as a web writer who usually has a black hole above his neck, this kind of thing is not even worth mentioning in his novels. This also caused Chen Xin to face this disaster. Insufficient sense of crisis.
Although he tried his best to prepare for various disaster response measures, he more leisurely digs shelters, reserves supplies, and is ready to survive the doomsday…
But he does not have a precise concept of the meteorite attack.
It’s like everyone knows that tigers are dangerous, but how dangerous tigers are. Before they see people bitten to death by tigers, no one thinks that the one in the zoo’s cage is fat and can’t walk. That is, the limp creatures like big cats can eat people.
People always realize the terrible danger only after encountering danger.
Chen Xin is the same. He had no idea about meteorites before, so he was able to calmly respond to this kind of life and death crisis, but now he was shocked when he saw how big the huge meteorite was.
was not only frightened, but Chen Xin was also truly frightened. He was afraid that he would really die.
Just by watching the live TV on Blue Star, you can feel such a strong impact and the pressure brought by this extremely impactful picture. It is conceivable that the astronaut facing the meteorite in space at this time. What kind of pressure do we have to endure?
But at this time on the Yanguo spacecraft, the astronauts from Yanguo did not fear the difficulties and dangers. While withstanding the pressure, they shouldered the lives and deaths of six billion people around the world, flying the spacecraft toward the meteorite. .
Previously, I saw that two space shuttles of the Federal team used nuclear bombs to blast the debris stream and forcefully land on the surface of the meteorite. It seemed that it was not difficult. But when the Yanguo astronauts drove the spacecraft toward the meteorite by themselves. At the time, I realized how difficult it is.
Although the impact caused by the nuclear bomb blows away the debris flow, this does not mean that it is not dangerous to land on the surface of the meteorite.
Because there are still some rubbles that have not been blown away, or blown not enough open, in the event of a collision, the hull of the ship will be damaged, and the ship will be destroyed.
Fortunately, the spacecraft manufactured by Yanguo is more flexible than the federal space shuttle. The astronauts have also done relevant simulation exercises before departure. Therefore, with the astronauts’ superb driving skills, the Yanguo spacecraft is still smooth. It landed on the surface of the meteorite, only a layer of paint was scraped off by the debris, several antennas were broken, and there was no major damage.
Landing on the surface of the meteorite is only the first step. Next, the Yanguo astronauts will have to go out of the cabin, and fix the main part of the spacecraft-the special heavy propeller and fuel tank on the surface of the meteorite, and then let it Do work on the meteorite and push it to change orbit.
Because the meteorite is to be promoted, the landing location of the Yanguo spacecraft has also been precisely calculated to ensure that the thruster installation point is a suitable force point. Otherwise, even if the thruster can propel the meteorite, the thrust direction is the same as expected. If the direction is different, then all this is in vain.
Fortunately, everything seems to be blessed by the gods. Although the Federation team lost a space shuttle, so far, all the steps of the rescue operation are proceeding as planned. Even the Yan Guo team’s spacecraft also landed on In the ideal location.
As long as the astronauts fix it on the surface of the meteorite, they can use the thrust of the thruster and the gravity of the moon to push the meteorite away from the impact orbit, so that the blue star can avoid the doomsday crisis.