The engineer wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said in a slow tone: "The coordinates are confirmed, yes, they have been confirmed. The predicted orbit formula has also been drafted, but at present we may not have satellites with the right distance to implement this plan."
"Um?"
This answer made SpaceX controller Mars Krypton narrow his eyes slightly, "Will our satellites still have insufficient distance?"
The engineers looked at each other, and finally an old engineer who had joined SpaceX when it was founded explained: "In a previous geomagnetic storm, as many as 40 of the 46 Starlink satellites we launched in this orbit and area were damaged, so currently It has not yet been able to extract available satellites for operations.
However, according to the orbit of the Jiuzhou Technology aircraft, after waiting for another hour, our three communication satellites will be able to change their orbit and hit it head-on. "
"Geomagnetic explosion? The geomagnetic explosion five years ago caused us to lose 49 satellites. Including the previous geomagnetic explosion, we have lost a total of 89 satellites!?"
Elon Musk's shocked expression was a bit exaggerated when he asked back, but the old engineer at the scene did not change much in his demeanor. He still explained calmly: "Yes, the geomagnetic explosion problem, the foundation problem of the launch site, and Problems with maintenance programs for communication satellites and other issues have cost us hundreds of satellites.
If we do not expand our team and add maintenance service mechanisms, more satellites will not be able to work properly in the future. "
Expand your team and add maintenance services?
Hearing these two plans, Mars Immigration Pioneer and Free User of Tram Patent, Mars Krypton, shook his head.
“SpaceX’s current team size is already Blue Star’s top team, and the number of satellites sent to the sky by Jiuzhou Technology is not even half of ours.
I think you should develop more efficient and concise system procedures to help these satellites extend their service life. Xia Weidu can compress 30% of the code, can't you?
Or are you unwilling to work overtime on the project? "
If it were not for the organization behind SpaceX and the salaries of himself and others, some engineers on site would have wanted to leave long ago.
For safety reasons, the Chinese Space Station has implemented preventive collision avoidance control for Starlink satellites.
At this moment, the command center of Jiuzhou Science and Technology Southwest Launch Center, Li Jian, chief engineer of Jiuzhou Science and Technology Aerospace Project, was keenly aware of a problem.
How come the satellite density in this orbital region is higher than what we planned and predicted?
He made a magnifying gesture with his right hand to broadcast real-time footage of the orbit that the Ergou spacecraft was about to pass through, and also enlarged certain satellite patterns that could be photographed.
Later, Li Jian took a deep breath and sighed: "SpaceX's Starlink satellite maneuvered several times to the orbital height of our Daxia Space Station. In order to avoid unnecessary collisions, the Tiangong Space Station had to make two emergency orbit adjustments.
SpaceX has launched nearly 5,000 satellites, which are simply 5,000 large pieces of space junk. It is really too shameless. "
Zhan Kunhu, the head of the satellite R&D and manufacturing department under the Jiuzhou Science and Technology Aerospace Department, heard the chief engineer sighing like this, and felt anger rising in his heart.
"It's not just shameless, it's simply selling swords! SpaceX plans to launch 42,000 satellites!
At first, this project was resisted by many international experts and scholars, but Mars Krypton lobbied all parties and even came up with a solution. He said that Starlink satellites will have a built-in 'autonomous avoidance system', using the NORAD database to guide the satellites to automatically avoid all spacecraft.
But what's the result?
According to incomplete statistics from our department and some international institutions, more than half of the close contact incidents between satellites that have occurred since the lunar calendar year 1019 were caused by Starlink satellites.
In addition to our space station in Daxia, many spacecraft of other Guo Jiahe agencies have also been threatened by Starlink satellites.
For example, the European Space Agency's wind monitoring satellite Aeolus almost collided with SpaceX's Starlink satellite. If the space agency's staff had not discovered the danger in time and urgently changed the satellite's orbit to avoid the collision, otherwise the collision would have been avoided. Wind detection satellites will be destroyed immediately. "
When it comes to the bad things about Starlink satellites, as an expert in satellite research, Zhan Kunhu is very angry.
It even gave a conclusion: "The 'autonomous avoidance system' built into the Raushi Starlink satellite is better said to be a remote control system that specifically controls Starlink satellites to collide with other satellites."
When other experts and engineers in the command center heard this, their faces looked angry.
Now looking at the company's support, it is obvious that its own aerospace department has gradually become the number one department in Jiuzhou Technology Company, and even the Titan Star department has to provide support to its own department.
If Starlink satellites really slow down the progress of certain projects in the future, or even cause a certain decline in scores in the eyes of company executives, it will be more than worth the gain.
Li Jian listened to Zhan Kunhu's anger, but still looked calm.
"Although our Daxia Tiangong space seems stationary, in fact it has been maintaining a high-speed motion of 7.68 kilometers per second. Under normal circumstances, it only takes 90 minutes to circle the Blue Star.
As for our spacecraft carrying Ergou this time, it will take almost one hundred minutes.
When the relative speed difference is relatively small, two spacecrafts on the same axis and moving in the right direction can come into contact, such as aerial refueling of fighter jets or docking tasks between a space station and a space shuttle, and it will not be too big. problems arise.
But if this speed exceeds the safety threshold. It is extremely easy to cause extremely serious consequences. For precision satellites and other spacecrafts, even ordinary collisions are enough to destroy the stability and integrity of their equipment structures, directly affect the normal operation of the equipment, and even cause equipment damage. .
At an important meeting before, experts from the Daxia Aerospace Group revealed to us that there were obvious control operations during the two approaches of the Starlink satellites. They judged that they were both human-controlled.
After the first collision was unsuccessful, the second operation of the Starlink satellite was even more dangerous. It continued several orbital maneuvers. As a result, our Daxia Palace Space Station was completely unable to evaluate and predict its movement direction and error, and could only implement emergency collision avoidance. , leaving the established track. "
The staff who can enter this command center have a considerable amount of knowledge in the aerospace field, so they all know that Mars Krypton has evil intentions.
According to the chief engineer's narration, some new employees planted seeds of distrust and even anger toward the Starlink project in their hearts.
(End of chapter)
