Chapter 483 Failure to Penetrate Enemy Armor

"...In case of emergency, the 041 emergency response plan is now implemented."

"...Everyone should put on spacesuits, thirty minutes."

"... Put down the window guards to protect the landscape windows. There were large pieces of debris in this impact."

"...Start the No. 7 power curtailment procedure to save power. We may lose a large area of ​​solar panels."

"Reporter Li, Camera Zhang, you two, don't be stunned. Come with me. If you didn't leave just now, it's too late to regret it now."

Yang Nianming announced the order loudly, and the others quickly moved. They had received this kind of training when they were on the ground, so although they were a little shocked and nervous, they also knew how to do it.

These two are just two rookies in space. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen even if they were doing interviews in space? For journalists, I really don’t know whether to call it a good thing or a bad thing.

So seeing these two people still standing here, Yang Nianming quickly led them to the nearest safe house.

"Yang... Squad leader Yang, is it okay for us to do this? Can the space station withstand the impact of the debris cloud?" After sitting down in the safe house, Li Danwen had time to ask Yang Nianming.

"No problem," Yang Nianming said while adjusting her seat belt. "Other space stations certainly can't, but our Arc Light Space Station can. If we can't handle this, why build a permanent space port?"

"As a result, it is estimated that some external facilities will definitely suffer, especially the solar panels. I don't know how much damage will be done."

"This is incredible," Li Danwen said in surprise.

"Nothing." After Yang Nianming arranged it for her, he went to arrange the cameraman's seat belt. When he saw the camera next to him, he asked, "Is this machine turned off?"

"It's turned off. It was turned off when I came in." The cameraman replied.

"That's fine. There are some things here that you can't take pictures of, so just take a look and don't take pictures."

As Yang Nianming spoke, he sat down and fastened his seat belt.

"That's for sure. When we came here, they already told us that we have to follow your arrangements." Li Danwen withdrew his gaze to the side and said, "Speaking of which, Squad Leader Yang, can we just wait for the collision like this?"

"Yes, if we had been notified a few hours in advance, we could have raised and lowered the space station to avoid the debris swarm, but the discovery time was too short and it was too late." Yang Nianming turned on the monitor on the wall and continued, "We need to I said that the space station should be equipped with some defensive weapons, which can also break the fragments, but the company seems to have considered the international impact and did not install them. This time something like this happened, no matter what..."

Yang Nianming, who was talking, suddenly saw the weird looks in the two people's eyes, and explained, "Well, this is my own idea, not the company's decision, otherwise I wouldn't tell you, no."

The two of them could only smile awkwardly, and Yang Nianming also felt that it was a good thing that he had turned off the video equipment when he came in. Otherwise, the reporter's mouth, coupled with the video evidence, might have said something.

Although they were sent here to cooperate, it is still better to be careful.

After he turned on the monitor and reconnected with the ground, he discovered the truth of the matter. According to the operating data of the debris cloud sent from the ground, there were too many. Even if he had weapons, he couldn't defeat him. Instead, he had to resist hard. The best choice.

"You two, hurry up and prepare for the impact in 12 minutes."

Yang Nianming remembered that when they were training, their teacher said that this kind of forceful attack on space debris from the front of the space station had not happened before, especially in the past few years, there were two particularly serious incidents.

There are several institutions on Earth that specialize in observing space debris, the largest of which is the United States' intercontinental missile defense system radar network. However, not every piece of space debris is closely tracked.

At present, the total number of objects in space reaches nearly 20,000. This is whole. If you count the fragments, it will be even more. And there are only less than 2,000 aircraft that are actually working. This means that those space junks are almost Dozens of times that of a normally functioning spacecraft.

Although there is thin air in the outer space of our earth to slow down their speed, so that these space junks can turn into meteors and return to the earth, this natural consumption of space junk is too slow, and there are still thousands of tons of space junk to this day. Staying on track, that's the danger.

At that time, there was only the International Space Station in orbit, and it encountered this situation. The orbit of the space debris coincided with the International Space Station, and the ground command center discovered it too late and had no time to change its orbit.

All the astronauts on the space station also gathered together and began to prepare for the worst case scenario. If it was really irreversible, they would all enter the manned spacecraft and prepare to escape.

This incident was the worst outcome. At that time, all the astronauts had already entered the manned spacecraft and were ready to abandon the space station and return to the ground. Fortunately, the worst outcome did not occur. Space debris flew close to the International Space Station. Passing by, the nearest debris was only 200 meters away.

After this incident, the US Space Agency raised the orbit of the International Space Station a lot in order to prevent this problem from happening again.

But it was still hit the year before last, when it was the panoramic observation module of the International Space Station.

A piece of millimeter-sized space junk that could not be tracked directly hit a crater in the glass.

Therefore, space junk can only be avoided by predicting and changing its orbit in advance. If it cannot be avoided, it can only be resisted.

In the past, I had predicted it in advance, so I avoided it. Those two times, I didn't know it in advance. When I found out, it was already too late. So luck was blocked, and the astronauts all turned pale. It was good luck that they didn't get hit.

The other one was also lucky. The debris that hit was very small and only made a crater.

The sealed cabins of modern space stations all adopt a grid-type integral wall panel structure. In order to protect against the impact of small space debris and micrometeors, thickened skins are used, and protective panels are added to key parts.

However, because space launches are extremely sensitive to weight, the weight must be light, and due to cost control, various types of aluminum alloys are used in large areas of the casing. Although other more advanced types of aluminum alloys are being developed,... It's aluminum alloy, not titanium alloy.

Therefore, their protective capabilities are also limited. They can protect small fragments just fine, but once the size of the impact object reaches a certain size, such as the size of a fist, the protection is no different than paper.

Of course, Arc Light Aerospace must learn this lesson, so Dong Chen came up with the material formula found in the radiation world. It was a material that the United States of that world used specifically to build the outer shell of the space station.

The painting style of the Fallout world has always been so rough, and the United States' method of dealing with space junk is to be tough.

They don't clean up more and more space junk because space junk is actually a barrier, used to filter out those cats and dogs who want to come up but are not strong enough.

If the United States cleans up its orbit and has a safe space orbit, then any country can go into space, then what absolute status does the United States have?

Other major space powers have not cleaned up space debris, perhaps because of this consideration.

Although there are infinite materials in the universe, there are only a few materials at the doorstep of the earth.

In the game, the materials used by the United States to deal with space debris decades later were used by Dong Chen to build the current space station.

When Arclight Aerospace released the operational data of the debris cloud, all the satellites in the shrouded orbit moved in an attempt to escape from danger.

Those who are far away have enough time to change their tracks, but those who are close are not far behind. As long as they escape to the edge, they may be safe. If they are lucky, they will escape from the sparse edge area.

And the closest ones are not them, but China's Tiangong Space Station and the International Space Station.

Brighta was very dissatisfied with Arclight Aerospace's ability to find the fragments so quickly, and was even more dissatisfied with the release of the data, but there was nothing he could do for the time being.

However, he was very happy when he saw the arc light live broadcast with a black screen, and he was even happier when he looked at the real-time operation data chart provided by arc light aerospace, because the debris cloud above had come into contact with the Tiangong space station.

But before long, his smile froze on his face and his mood gradually lost control.

Because after the debris cloud passed the space station, the signal from the space station still existed.

Just when he was about to say, "This is all fake," the black live broadcast screen lit up again.