"That burst just now... was it solar radiation?"
"Why is it so strong?"
"What happened outside?"
"Is this what caused the sun roulette to activate the signal just now?"
Chen Jue looked at the completely blackened control panel in front of him and was shocked. The impact of this electromagnetic radiation without warning not only caused all the electronic equipment in the return capsule to malfunction, but even the communication signals on the ground stopped abruptly. Sudden interruption.
.....
At the same time, all the staff in the ground monitoring hall were confused. "Beidou signal lost...return capsule data lost!"
"Space station contact lost!" "Remote sensing satellite lost contact!"
"Level 3 alert response... No! The alert has been raised to Level 1!" "All satellites and spacecraft in orbit in the northern hemisphere have lost contact!"
Originally, they were still monitoring the chatter and laughter in the hall, waiting for Chen Jue to land smoothly towards Mr. Zhong and Liu Chengdong, but now their expressions changed.
I saw red alarms flashing on in the monitoring hall. This was the first major emergency since the establishment of the base. All the hundreds of staff present were heartbroken.
"Don't panic!"
"Hold on!"
"Switch the screen to the ground-to-air electronic eye to see if the return capsule and the space station are in orbit normally!" Mr. Zhong grabbed the microphone in front of him and shouted, his face serious as if he was about to squeeze out the water.
Soon, several staff members followed the instructions and switched the screen on the monitoring screen in the hall. They saw that both the return capsule and the space station in the screen were safe and sound.
It's just that all the red and green signal lights that should have been on these two spacecraft stopped working. "Mr. Zhong, this is..." Liu Chengdong also frowned while looking at the switching screen.
"It was an unexpected power outage, and there are so many satellites that are out of contact... If not as expected, there should be a solar storm!" Mr. Zhong took a deep breath, and finally guessed this unexpected event with his rich experience. An unexpected situation occurred.
"What! Solar storm?!"
"This is such a coincidence. Comrade Chen Jue is about to land..." Liu Chengdong's expression changed drastically when he heard this.
At this time, all the landline phones in the monitoring hall were already busy. Major affiliated research institutes, experimental bases, astronomical monitoring stations, meteorological observatories, etc. were all feeding back the results of signal and data loss.
"We don't have time to say these complaints, let's solve the problem at hand first!"
"Video team, switch the screen to the screen recording lens of the solar telescope, adjust the video data back to half a minute before the signal was lost, and start checking it second by second and frame by frame."
"The emergency team is responsible for trying to restart the communication between the return capsule and the space station. According to the preset procedures, when encountering strong electromagnetic interference such as solar storms, the response time for power outage and restart should be within 3 minutes." Mr. Zhong kept giving orders. At this moment, this An old man over sixty years old seemed to have transformed into a general in an ancient camp. He issued orders from his mouth and constantly mobilized the dazed and confused staff.
Soon, investigation videos and data began to flip on the screen in the hall, and the scene of the sun suddenly bursting into flames half a minute ago was retrieved.
The intense light that flickers on and off stimulates the visual nerves of everyone present.
"No wonder all the satellites in the northern hemisphere were affected. This is a hundred times more terrifying than an ordinary solar storm!" Mr. Zhong muttered as he looked at the strange changes in the sun on the screen.
At this time, some in-orbit satellites that had lost contact began to reactivate and restart, and good news continued to come from the emergency team.
"72% of the lost satellites have been reactivated"
"Twelve satellites have completely crashed. It should be that the computer core module is damaged and cannot be restarted." "The emergency power supply device of the space station is activated, and the internal core main control computer is intact!"
"Great! There are ten astronauts and candidates in the space station. If the power is cut off for a while, just making oxygen supply and pressurization equipment will kill people." The staff below exclaimed, like Feeling relieved.
"Return to cabin situation
How's it going? "Mr. Zhong asked hurriedly. "The return capsule circuit has also been restarted!"
"But... the signal is still lost. It seems that the communication chip is damaged... Wait, no good! This is a deviation of the orbit, with a deflection angle of 15°, and the return capsule entered the descent early!" A staff member wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and reported the report tremblingly.
"Then why are you still standing there! Restart the engine and correct the trajectory!" Mr. Zhong shouted with a microphone. It is no joke that the return capsule has deviated from the preset trajectory.
Once it collides with other satellites or spacecraft, the astronauts there will immediately turn into a space fireworks with a bang.
"Mr. Zhong...the engine control chip also failed..." The staff member swallowed, and even his voice trembled.
"clover!"
"Hurry up and connect the supercomputer data to guess the final landing point of the return capsule. The offset is 15... It's really going to kill me!" Mr. Zhong dropped the microphone in his hand, and his whole body seemed to have been drained of energy. God-like.
Even Liu Chengdong was sweating from behind, constantly praying in his heart, hoping that Chen Jue could land safely.
The atmosphere in the entire monitoring hall was extremely solemn, with only the sounds of keyboard tapping and landline phone calls filling the air.
About a minute later, the staff below reported: "Mr. Zhong, the super calculation result is out! The probability of the return capsule colliding with other orbiting spacecraft is 0.09%... It is the predicted whereabouts that is a bit troublesome. ..."
Seeing that the staff member was hesitating, Mr. Zhong jumped up from his seat, pointed at the other person and shouted, "Stop being so annoying! Tell me quickly, where will it fall?"
"It is expected to land in Waidahuazhou in the central and western part of Eagle Country. The satellite map shows that it is a desert area." The staff member shivered at the roar and hurriedly showed the dynamic picture of the demonstration of supercomputer speculation.
"Okay! This is a bit biased. It actually fell into the Eagle Country? But it's okay, as long as it doesn't fall into the city."
"I immediately contacted the Eagle Space Administration and asked them to arrange humanitarian relief. This old man simply gave up."
"Damn it, I've lived for half my life, but I didn't expect that when I get old, I have to humble myself and beg people from the Eagle Country..." Mr. Zhong took a look at the scheduled landing place and coordinates, his face twitched, and he said helplessly. .
At this time, Liu Chengdong on the side also came over, looked at the map, and his pupils shrank suddenly: "Mr. Zhong! This... There seems to be something wrong with this landing place!"
"This is the rumored District 15!"
Zhong Lao, who had just planned to make an overseas phone call to contact the Eagle Country Space Agency, trembled when he heard it. The landline phone he picked up fell on the table, and a large gasp of cold air rang out in the hall. The sound made countless pairs of eyes look back.
Area 15 is no ordinary wilderness area. There is a large barbed wire fence surrounding it. It is the most mysterious area in Eagle Country, and is even called the 15 restricted areas on the Internet.
Many rumors about UFOs, aliens, and UFOs basically come from this area.
But everyone who knows the details knows that this place is just a secret experimental site stationed at an air force base in Eagle Country. It has the longest runway in the world and an extremely strict underground nuclear test site.
It does not fall under the responsibility of the Eagle Nation Space Agency. Instead, like this base, it falls under the direct jurisdiction of the Hexagon Building and the Eagle Nation Black Palace.
Standing next to the landline, Mr. Zhong froze when he heard the code name District 15. After pondering for a moment, he finally picked up the landline phone, dialed a mysterious number, and said to the staff on the other end of the phone. : "I'm Zhong Deyuan, pick me up from the Beidu office. I have something important to report..."
