Rebirth of science and technology academic master - Chapter 676

c670 Boarding failed

On April 20, 2031, 226 days have passed since the launch of the BFR rocket carrying the spacecraft.

In the deep space tens of millions of kilometers away from the earth, a silver-white spacecraft is slowly advancing.

Although it looks like it is crawling as slowly as a snail with the distant sun and the nearby fiery red planet as the background, in fact it is still reaching a speed of four kilometers per second after decelerating at this moment. .

Before decelerating, its speed would have been faster. However, after being captured by the gravity of Mars, it actively decelerated and continued to change its orbit. To enter the Mars orbit, the number of orbit changes is much more than that of the Moon orbit. Second-rate.

Floating in the spacecraft, staring at the fiery red planet outside the porthole, Alves raised a smile of victory on his lips.

“Mars! God, we are finally here! We did not die on the way, we are on the orbit of Mars now!” Yalves said, then picked up the camera and took a picture of the fiery red planet, Yalves Ervis said to Brown and Christiana: “Both guys, we have spent 226 days together. Now that we have arrived in the orbit of Mars, why don’t we take pictures together as a souvenir? Believe me, this is very meaningful.”

Christiana also came over, looked at the fiery red planet outside the porthole, and couldn’t help but sigh: “It’s so beautiful! Much more beautiful than the moon! If I could return to Earth, I think I would like to be an astronaut. ”

“Idiot woman, astronaut is a boring and dangerous profession. If you want to do it, I don’t want to be an astronaut.” Brown floated towards Alves: “Hurry up and finish filming this.” In the photo, Christiana and I are about to enter the launch module. Those stupid guys at NASA are constantly urging us. It is said that the launch module is built by Space X. Even if there is an accident, this launch module can protect three people. Astronauts have at least three months to survive. I don’t know if that guy Musk will tell the truth once in this module.”

As the spacecraft is captured by the gravity of Mars, it moves in an elliptical orbit around Mars, but this is not the end. The spacecraft will have to undergo six orbit changes before entering a synchronous orbit before it is ready to launch the landing module.

Of course, the three astronauts would not enter the launch module at the same time. Brown and Christiana entered first, and Alves had to enter the launch module half an hour before the final launch module separated from the spacecraft.

After they landed on Mars in the landing module, they used the engine of the landing module to leave Mars and enter orbit, and then docked under the control of the ground control system.

“Do you think we will become the heroes of mankind? When we return to Earth, will there be countless people holding flowers to welcome us?” In the boarding cabin, Christiana saw Alves coming in, and the cabin door was officially opened. When closing, he suddenly said.

“Christiana, you bitch, please be quiet. It would be great if we didn’t die on Mars. Don’t you think it’s scary? You still want to be a hero and a bear!” Brown said angrily.

“Okay, we have gone through so much time to reach Mars, there is no need to argue anymore!” Alves said: “Our orbit is now at an altitude of 320 kilometers, and we will reach the target airspace in 20 minutes. It won’t take long for us to land. Going to Mars, as long as we stay on Mars for half an hour, we can leave in the rocket module and return to Earth smoothly. Guys, let’s pray, pray that we can return to Earth safely and end this wonderful and terrible journey!”

“It is indeed a bad journey. As far as the eye can see, there is a vast expanse of yellow sand, just like the Sahara Desert!” Brown said: “It is even worse than the Sahara Desert. At least there is life in the Sahara Desert. There is no sign of life on Mars.”

At the fastest, time just passed.

Under the control of the ground command center, the landing module separated from the spacecraft. Then the three Alves felt a violent vibration coming from the chairs. They felt uncomfortable and even had to close their eyes. Yelled.

Although Mars is only half the size of Earth, has a mass about one-ninth that of Earth, and its surface gravity is about two-fifths of Earth’s, the falling speed of the rocket module is actually not as fast as the speed from space to the surface of the Earth. , but for the three people who have traveled for a long time, this level is already very terrifying, and their bodies will not be able to bear it.

But they can only grit their teeth and persist. If they can’t hold on, they will die!

In a conference room in the CNSA headquarters building, dozens of staff were in the conference room. Qin Yuanqing also came over in person, and Zhang Tianqin was sitting next to him.

The big screen has been turned on, and a staff member is talking: “According to our monitoring system and the information released by NASA, their spacecraft entered the deceleration phase five days ago and was successfully captured by the gravity of Mars.”

“According to our satellite reconnaissance, they are currently landing on Mars. The landing module has separated from the spacecraft and is moving in this orbit!”

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The staff member was constantly introducing the situation. Mars is too far away from the earth, and communication is inconvenient. Even NASA itself uses the spacecraft’s communication system. It takes three minutes for the message to be sent back to NASA. There is a three-minute communication delay. It is extremely scary, which means that many things are beyond control. It is CNSA. The communication system will be more developed, but the communication delay has also reached 30 seconds.

“Has the satellite been aligned with the landing point and monitoring the spacecraft?” Zhang Tianqin said.

“Well, it has been adjusted immediately. This is the current position of the NASA spacecraft. Judging from the photos, the NASA spacecraft is in normal condition and has not malfunctioned. The satellite has also been adjusted in place and is monitoring.” The man replied.

Subsequently, regarding the satellite in the orbit of Mars, it had been aimed at that position. Qin Yuanqing even saw the landing module entering the atmosphere and producing flames. The moon has no atmosphere, but Mars has an atmosphere.

Through the image, you can see that Mars appears red. Mars appears orange-red visually because iron oxide is widely distributed on the surface. Its red appearance is unique among celestial bodies visible to the naked eye.

“NASA made a miscalculation this time. The landing site and time they chose coincided with a sandstorm.” Suddenly, a person exclaimed, and then he saw in the data that the sky was filled with yellow, forming a tornado-like shape. This was a sandstorm.

Mars is basically a desert planet with sand dunes and gravels all over the surface. There is no stable liquid water. The atmosphere, which is mainly carbon dioxide, is thin and cold. Sand and dust are suspended in it. Dust storms often occur every year.

“Detect electromagnetic waves and see if they are successful!” Zhang Tianqin said.

Qin Yuanqing sighed at this time. He knew that NASA’s manned landing on Mars failed this time. Due to the impact of a sandstorm, the rocket module crashed into a mountain at high speed. You must know that the mountains on Mars are very high. The speed of the cabin is so fast. Under such an impact, the only outcome is the destruction of the cabin and death.

Qin Yuanqing silently observed three seconds of silence for the failure of mankind’s first manned landing on Mars.

Sure enough, after half an hour of continuous monitoring, no electromagnetic waves were transmitted. NASA’s official website lost other colors and turned white, and officially announced that the three aerospace heroes died heroically, which is a huge loss for mankind.

In less than an hour, the news of NASA’s failure to land on Mars spread throughout the world. As a result, North American aerospace stocks reacted immediately and suffered heavy losses. Countless people sold their aerospace stocks in panic, and then… The rising curve of aerospace stocks took a big hit and fell rapidly.

It doesn’t matter how nice you say it, what a heroic sacrifice is, what a huge loss to mankind, what it has made a huge contribution to the development of the world’s aerospace, and what it is that will be remembered in human history. Failure is failure, and failure has to pay a price. Originally, the situation was great, and aerospace stocks were naturally favored. Now that they have failed, they are naturally abandoned. I want to sell the stocks in my hands quickly to avoid becoming waste paper.

The heavy fall in aerospace stocks directly brought the entire market down. After all, the U.S. stock market is one of the world’s stock market centers. This drop immediately caused a chain reaction. All major stock markets were frightened, and all fell to varying degrees. .

Even the Chinese stock market has been implicated. It is obviously developing very well, and the aerospace industry is obviously advancing by leaps and bounds, but at this time it is turning green. Basically, no stock is red, and all stocks are turning green.

At this time, countless people who played stocks were liquidated and felt extremely depressed. They paid the price for adding leverage to make a small gain.

Qin Yuanqing did not expect that NASA’s failure of manned landing on Mars would cause such a huge reaction, causing global aerospace stocks and stock markets to suffer setbacks. It was simply a Black Thursday. However, Qin Yuanqing doesn’t pay much attention to the stock market. After all, he doesn’t play stocks. He focuses on NASA and private aerospace companies in North America. The failure of this manned mission to Mars means that NASA will pay the price and spend so much money. The result failed, and the people were angry. Naturally, they needed to take action, and they needed a scapegoat to give people an explanation.

As for private aerospace companies, although the bosses behind them have already used money to obtain huge wealth, this does not mean that everything is fine. If they really get serious, they will also face a series of investigations.

“Interesting, this failure will not be a fatal blow to this dangerous building, right? If this building collapses, will it have a greater impact than the collapse of the building in the 1990s?” Qin Yuanqing whispered to himself Talk to yourself.

His eyes looked out the window, as if he had traveled across the Pacific Ocean, and saw a leaning building on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, which collapsed in an instant. The building collapsed, corpses were strewn everywhere, and broken eaves and broken walls were everywhere.

He didn’t know if it would be like the 1990s, when a building collapsed and cast a shadow of darkness. That had nothing to do with him. Even if it was the case, it could only be said to be self-inflicted. No one could blame it.

You can still live if you do evil by God, but you can’t live if you do evil on your own!