Die on Mars - Chapter 191

c191 Day 322 (1) Restart

The next morning, Tang Yue and Lao Mao informed the news to Ophiopogon japonicus, which had just woken up.

“Tianzhou… No. 37?” Maidong was surprised, “Is it still alive?”

Tang Yue nodded.

“Tianzhou 37 was launched before we set off. I don’t know why, but this spacecraft escaped the bad luck of disappearing from the world and found its destination very accurately. Twenty days later it will arrive on Mars as planned.”

“I remember Tianzhou 37 was a cargo spacecraft.”

“Yes.” Tang Yue spent several hours calming down his excitement so that he could look a little calmer, but he still couldn’t suppress the joy in his eyes, “There is enough food and drink on that spaceship. It’s five tons, including fruits, vegetables, beef, fish, and canned Australian lobster!”

He sent the supplies list to Ophiopogon japonicus.

Ophiopogon japonicus began to count.

“Forty-four types of I-category foods, 23 IM-category foods, nine NF-category foods, fifty-four R-category foods, and twenty-seven T-category foods…including raisin oatmeal, yogurt, preserved apricots, Dried pears, Moscow brown bread, assorted shrimps, steak, sausage patties, fish skin and peanuts, corn tortillas, dehydrated mushroom soup, spaghetti with meat sauce… hiss – bread pudding, beef noodles, mushroom beef fillet… hiss – Vegetable salad, diced pork rice…”

“Girl, saliva… saliva!”

Maidong wiped his saliva, tears filled his eyes, and a fiery light burst out from his eyes.

“Tang Yue, Mr. Cat, I…I saw heaven.”

“Yes.” Tang Yue nodded, “That’s heaven.”

Maidong hugged Ah Q, the stuffed toy dog, and buried his face in the furry dog’s belly, humming and laughing. He then started rolling around in the core cabin.

“Great, great! Haha, great!”

Tang Yue and Lao Mao looked at each other.

Old Mao shrugged: Your performance just now may not be much better than Miss Maidong.

Tang Yue cleared his throat, “Girl, supplies and materials are not the focus. The most important thing is that we need to change the landing plan – Tianzhou 37 is a very safe lander. You can come down on the Tianzhou. We don’t need to let Orion go.” Forced landing.”

“Understood.” Maidong nodded, “That means I need to wait on the space station for another twenty days.”

“The enemy.” Tang Yue said, “After the Tianzhou enters the orbit of Mars, we will let it dock with the United Space Station first. You can bring everything you need into the spacecraft, including the extra supplies on the space station and the plants you raise. We can also bring you down together… Tianzhou has the ability to land you safely, and it will land accurately at the entrance of Kunlun Station. I guarantee that the whole process will be very smooth and safe.”

“Understood.” The girl rolled her dark eyes and smiled, “But you just said last night that I could have dinner with you tonight. Doesn’t this promise count?”

“Of course it counts.” Tang Yue said, “It’s just that it will be postponed for twenty days. Then we will entertain you with Australian lobster.”

“For the sake of lobster…” Maidong snorted, “If you let me go this time, I will forgive you.”

“Miss Maidong.” The old cat moved over and squeezed Tang Yue away. The gossip was over. Now it was time to get down to business.

“I’m here, Mr. Cat.”

“You are already aware of the current situation. Since the landing plan of the Orion 2 spacecraft has been temporarily cancelled, we need you to turn off the landing mode.” The old cat crossed his paws and rested his chin, sitting upright. The monitor in front of him showed the work of Orion. status, eight engines are shut down, but the Raptor-05 Raptor rocket in the center is marked in red, “The ground shows that Orion 2 is undergoing its second attitude adjustment, and Raptor-05 is in pulse operation.”

Ophiopogon japonicus drifted to the edge of the porthole and looked out through the porthole.

At this time, the United Space Station is located in the shadow on the back side of Mars, and the Orion 2 spacecraft is adjusting its attitude. In the landing procedure designed by Lao Mao, Orion needs to make three attitude adjustments before officially entering the atmosphere.

Looking from a distance, the Raptor engine of the Orion power module is flashing a light blue light in the darkness. It flashes like a beacon light or a small candlelight swaying in the wind. This is not the Raptor engine. In the normal working state, it is the pulse throttling program designed by Laomao, which ignites the rocket in stages and with frequency in order to save propellant. The methane is fully burned in oxygen, and the tail flame is bright and conspicuous blue.

The Raptor-05 engine is pushing the spacecraft to slowly change its trajectory and attitude.

“Yes, Mr. Cat.” Maidong replied. She glanced at the control panel again, “The Orion’s engine is working and in normal condition.”

“Turn it off,” the old cat instructed.

“Just turn it off?”

“Just turn it off.”

Maidong opened his laptop, accessed the control system, and pressed the cancel button.

“Mr. Cat, there is no response.”

Maidong said and poked the button a few more times.

“Is there a bug again?” The old cat scratched his head. Maidong’s button was pressed, but the engine of the Orion 2 spacecraft was still flashing. It was obvious that the control chain from Maidong’s notebook to the spacecraft engine There was a problem with one link. After all, this was not the original program of the spacecraft, but a temporary program written by Lao Mao. It is not surprising that a bug appeared. “But it’s okay, don’t be nervous, it’s just a minor problem… Just restart it.”

Restarting solves ninety-nine percent of program problems.

The last one percent requires a few more reboots.

“How to restart?”

“Circuit breaker.” Old Cat said, “Open the circuit breaker directly to the control system. This is the easiest way to restart it.”

Maidong pulled down the gate on the instrument panel, waited for a few seconds until all the indicator lights on the control panel went out, and then pushed the lever all the way up.

“Try closing Raptor-05 now.” Old Cat instructed.

Maidong leaned against the porthole, holding her laptop in her arms, and pressed the cancel button again.

This time it worked, and a prompt window popped up on the computer page: Raptor-05 is closed and has exited landing mode.

Then a second window appeared: Orion entered normal flight mode.

Lao Mao then received a notice that all nine Orion engines were marked red.

Maidong clearly felt that the bulkhead began to vibrate slightly. This was because the system ignited all the engines of Orion. The propellant and oxidizer burned violently in the combustion chamber. The vibrations were transmitted along the hull and truss to Maidong. After the landing plan was cancelled, , the Raptor rocket is needed to push the United Space Station back into normal orbit.

The girl looked out. In the dark shadow on the back side of Mars, the majestic flames suddenly burst out from the nine Raptor engines, as hot and bright as the sun. The orange-red light almost illuminated the entire world at that moment.

Ophiopogon japonicus floats in the warm light, as if looking directly at the sunset at the last moment before setting. The girl’s cheeks are white, and the thin soft down is clearly visible, and is dyed with a blush like an oil painting.