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Arclight Aerospace’s acquisition of this list is the least controversial.

In fact, no matter what you do in space, it can be done with today's technology, but the cost of sending it into space is too high.

It's so big that you can't recoup the cost, and you'll eventually be impoverished, so no one will do this kind of thing.

It’s the same regardless of company or country.

The issue of space junk is of concern to everyone now. After all, you can see a "meteor" streaking across the sky from time to time, but this "meteor" is man-made.

Now there are people specifically staring at the sky, trying to capture this kind of scene. After Arc Light Aerospace takes over this mission, they may not be able to see it in the future.

Although according to the mission progress announced by Arc Light Aerospace, it will take more than half a month to complete the modification of the garbage recovery ship, but this does not affect people's confidence in Arc Light Aerospace at all.

On the third day after the special meeting on global aerospace development, Arclight Aerospace held another test flight because their new aircraft had been modified.

The color and appearance of the new aerospace transport aircraft have basically remained unchanged, but it looks thicker, because according to news from Arc Light Aerospace, many parts of its fuselage are equipped with high-strength protective panels. For this reason, 10% of the load capacity is sacrificed.

However, in order for it to pass through the debris belt, this kind of armor is indispensable, and due to the special nature of aircraft as a vehicle, this kind of armor cannot be too thick, so it is impossible for aircraft to withstand collisions like space stations. .

No. 1 has given full authority to track the debris to Arc Light Aerospace, so now Arc Light Aerospace is tracking these debris every day.

Moreover, Arclight Aerospace has another business, which is to sell the operational data of the debris cloud. Compared with the vague monitoring and tracking of various countries, Arc Light Aerospace's technology is very clear.

The impact fragments flew out in all directions. Most of them flew downward due to the initial force, but there were also other directions.

The Xintian Palace Space Station is not afraid of that. The large forces can attack it, and it is even less afraid of the scattered little things. Moreover, now that there is enough time to monitor and react, the cosmic garbage cannot even damage the solar panels.

But the satellites of other countries and companies are extremely afraid. As long as a small fragment is needed, the satellites they spent a lot of money to manufacture and launch will be gone. The monitoring in other places is unreliable, so the information about buying Arc Light Aerospace is still Very necessary.

The debris cloud moves around the earth, but there are sparse differences. Although even the smallest debris is dangerous to other spacecraft, the "Diao" class transport aircraft equipped with armor can actually fly.

On a day with clear skies, Zhang Zijian, an experienced pilot, took two outstanding pilots to space again.

This flight mission was an unloaded test flight. They chose a window with sparse debris and rushed out of the debris blockade zone. As they passed through the debris zone, they could hear the sound of debris streaking across the armor, but the aircraft's monitoring system did not. There were no alarms and no control failures.

When the plane flew to the Xintian Palace Space Station for docking, both the people in the space and those in front of the live broadcast cheered.

Arclight Aerospace did not disappoint them.

After the docking was completed, the maintenance robot in the space station conducted a comprehensive inspection of the aircraft shell, and the astronauts who arrived here entered the space station to drink tea.

Viewers who watched the live broadcast found that compared to the chaos of the last post-disaster live broadcast, this time the place has become tidy again, and there are new changes.

Since reporter Li Danwen is a woman and she doesn’t know how to work as a space worker, she has some free time except for shooting some video materials with the cameraman, but she just can’t stay idle.

After asking what things should not be touched, she began her journey of decorating the interior cabins of the space station.

The cabin of the new space station is very spacious, and everyone has electromagnetic shoes, so there is no need to fly around like the previous space station, so she installed a lot of small decorations and artworks inside.

For example, she used some scraps of recycled solar panels to glue a map of the Earth onto a board, and then fixed the board to the wall.

Dong Chen had seen that picture in advance. Not to mention, from an artistic design point of view, the broken pieces were quite impressive when put together. Hanging them on the wall gave the space station some literary and artistic atmosphere, and also made it warm. a lot of.

The audience felt that this beautiful reporter was really versatile. In addition to interviewing, she could also create art.

Dong Chen looked at the envy and yearning barrage of the audience in the command center, and felt that this was a good opportunity to make ordinary people pay more attention to space technology and create a wave of enthusiasm.

After thinking about it, Dong Chen said to Bai Hongxian, the commander-in-chief of the space center, "Old Bai, what do you think if we hold a similar event?"

"Similar?" Bai Hongxian was a little confused. He didn't know what the chairman was thinking of, and asked doubtfully, "What do you mean?"

Dong Chen also knew that what he said was too abrupt, so he explained, "I think we can hold an event, which is to decorate the space station or something. The participants will make a work by themselves, and we will select the top five, and then let them bring it with them. Their works can be taken on a one-day trip to space, and the final works can be left in the Tiangong Space Station."

"I think a lot of people will come and attend."

"This will not only allow ordinary people to participate in the construction of the space station, bring the space industry closer to ordinary people, but also warm up our future space travel. There should be many other benefits. What do you think?"

What do I think?

I feel starfish.

"I feel good, Chairman," Bai Hongxian nodded and said, "Many large-scale space missions have similar activities for ordinary people to participate, such as naming the spacecraft, naming the lunar rover, etc., but let the winners directly Let’s take a space tour, then our Arc Light Spaceflight is really the first.”

"That's fine. You can find the relevant people to formulate the rules and time for participation later. Once you have formulated it, publish it." Dong Chen stood up and said deeply, "Although the sky is full of space junk now, the plane just passed through They must have been deeply impressed by the garbage patch moment, and the more they were in this situation, the more attractive the starry sky was."

"Okay, Chairman, I've written it down."

Because of Li Danwen, the audience felt that the space station was suddenly much closer to them, and they could actually decorate it like their own home.

Although... its materials are decorated with fragments of the tall solar panels on the space station.

Apart from this, the happiest thing is the inspection result of the aerospace plane. From the perspective of the maintenance robot, although there are bruises on some external armor, the most are scratches, and the marks are not deep.

This shows that the garbage patch really has little impact on arc-light spaceflight, and its space activities are still unaffected.

Judging from the inspection results of the robot, the armor needs to be replaced only after it has traveled dozens of times in a sparse space garbage patch, and the armor materials can be recycled and reused, so the cost will not increase much.

After the aerospace plane landed back in the Arc Space Base, Arc Space officially announced the resumption of the space station mission.