Chapter 485 The most expensive fireworks

The International Space Station did not escape its fate and was successfully smashed into pieces according to the "American plan".

This also saves the United States from investing money here all day long and fighting with several other countries over who pays how much. It also saves the United States from worrying about how to safely destroy it five years later.

Although the space station was scrapped in advance without telling other countries, Asan Kingdom took the blame for this matter, and the United States was not cowardly at all.

Of course, this was their previous plan, and it was just their side plan.

But now, the incidental plan has been completed, and it is perfect, but the main plan has not been completed at all!

Although the United States has launched the most satellites in space, they were all launched very early, and many of them have already expired.

The plan is to throw away some satellites that have reached their end of life or are scrapped, or even some less important commercial satellites to deceive others, and then move away their important satellites before danger comes.

This not only affects the strength of other countries, but also preserves or even improves its own strength.

But all this was ruined after Arclight Aerospace released the operational data of the debris cloud. Satellites from other countries did not suffer any major losses and all ran away in advance.

In the end, only a dozen functioning satellites were lost, which had little impact on the daily activities of countries on Earth. Those that should be used for navigation are still navigating, those that should be providing communication services are still providing communication services, etc.

Instead, I scanned through some of the scrapped satellites that were sent up many years ago.

The technology of launch vehicles was not very good at the time, and the height at which satellites were thrown was generally not high. In addition, after being scrapped, they could not maintain their orbits and slowly lowered their orbits under the deceleration of the extremely thin atmosphere. Therefore, there were a large number of scrapped satellites concentrated here.

Originally, this circle was considered a garbage patch, a test that aerospace equipment must pass, but the gap between them is still very large anyway, and they are large and easy to track. As long as the window time is calculated, they can be launched. Come up.

This time, the large pieces of garbage were cleaned up, but small fragments were formed that were more uniform. Although there were gaps, it was not easy to launch a manned rocket into space again.

It doesn't take too big a piece of debris to destroy a spacecraft, but smaller pieces are extremely difficult to monitor. This is where the trouble lies.

Buletta stared blankly at the signal of the International Space Station that disappeared, and then looked at the Tiangong Space Station, which was basically fine in the live broadcast, and he broke out in cold sweat.

Victor next to him originally planned to say something, but then a staff member came and said, "Deputy Director Victor, the emergency evacuated astronauts have landed successfully, although the landing location deviated from the scheduled location and was damaged during landing. A parachute was thrown, but they were all fine."

"Okay, I understand, I'll go over right away," Victor nodded to the man.

Then he turned around and glanced at Buletta again, "Although I'm not of a high level and don't know your detailed plans, no matter what, your plans didn't succeed. You'd better think of how to explain it."

After hearing Victor's words, Buletta raised her head and watched him walk to the command podium and start issuing orders, and then lowered his head again after looking at the content on the live broadcast.

He took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat and murmured in a low voice, "My plan is right. If it succeeds, everything will be available. Just like you don't know that Asan's materials have problems, I don't know that their materials have problems." Problem, so no matter how hard you look for this matter, you can’t find it in me.”

After wiping his sweat, tidying up his clothes, and taking a final look at the Tiangong Space Station in the live broadcast, he picked up his bag and left.

Although this time it was not his fault, it was the fault of information collection, but it was still a big difficulty for the Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Not only did the International Space Station, which still had five years of life, be taken down, leaving the United States with no place to conduct experiments, but the most important thing is that the Tiangong Space Station, which can be transformed into a space battleship at any time, is completely intact.

Don't talk about maintaining the absolute advantage of the United States in the future. It will be good if you can not be left behind by others.

If I don't go back and study how to explain to Congress and the President, it won't work.

This crisis is temporarily over for the country. Because only a few countries or companies have satellites that were destroyed, the overall impact is not big. Now they have raised their orbits, and the debris is also moving downwards, so It's safe for now.

But what to do in the future still needs to be carefully studied. Although there are external reasons that cause the fragments to go downward this time, it is much better than those fragments that naturally rely on the sparse atmosphere to slow down and take hundreds or even thousands to fall.

However, except for those fragments that are about to fall and be burned, it will take decades for other fragments to fall.

Not to mention the hazards this time, people on earth are considered blessed. During this period, we often see some of the space debris falling into the atmosphere burning across the sky.

Especially today, the first batch of falling debris is the most spectacular. It is the debris of the International Space Station. Some cabins were not even smashed, and the whole fell into the earth.

Some people used various equipment to take pictures of the scene, especially the scene of the cabin exploding in the air, which is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

But there are also people who feel sad that this seems to be the end of an era.

"Tsk, tsk, this contrast is a bit too sharp. Let me slow down. I just know how much it costs to make the outer shell of the Xintian Palace Space Station with such fierce materials."

"Yes, several solar panels of the Xintian Palace Space Station were damaged due to the same impact from the debris cloud, and the International Space Station crashed directly."

"Save the trouble. Aren't the countries cooperating with the International Space Station quarreling about maintenance costs? There is no need to quarrel this time."

"Did you read the news? A man's backyard in West Pakistan was hit by unburned debris from the space station. He sued the space agencies of the United States, the Bear Country, and other countries, demanding compensation."

"Is it so slippery? Looking forward to progress."

"Shouldn't we be concerned about space junk now? We are already blocked on the earth, and the news says that nothing will fly out of the earth within a few decades."

"Yes, aren't those private companies' "Mars immigration plan," "space tourism plan," and "inflatable space station plan" all going to waste? Aren't the shareholders going to lose money?"

"It's a total loss. Their stocks I bought have been falling..."

"What should we do with the space workers at Arc Light Aerospace? There are reporters up there. The supplies inside them won't last for decades. Can the aerospace plane still take off to deliver supplies? Will it be damaged?"

"I don't know. Just wait and see the news. Arclight Aerospace will definitely find a solution."

Not only ArcLight Aerospace is looking for solutions, space agencies and aerospace companies around the world are also looking for solutions. Space agencies have national missions, and private companies rely on this to make a living, so they have to come up with a solution even if they think hard.

But there is a problem that must be solved first, and that is the "culprit" Asanguo this time.

If the satellite they launched had not suddenly gone out of control, how could it have caused such a huge consequence.

The issue of space junk must be solved, and it must be solved in the shortest possible time, otherwise it will be delayed for decades. According to the current rate of human development, the earth will definitely be in trouble.