Dragoon fighter

In addition to serving as a relay station for spacecraft, another important responsibility of "Buzhou Mountain" is to serve as a node for cleaning up space debris.

If it were not for the "Buzhoushan" spaceport not being on the right track, otherwise the space debris in nearby orbits would have been cleaned up using special technologies and then recycled and reused.

However, with only 8 pilots currently stationed in the huge airport, the undeveloped "Buzhou Mountain" is still not able to handle this kind of danger with ease.

Although the ground command offered permission to abandon "Buzhou Mountain", none of the pilots took this final order to heart. Each of them knew very well what the "Buzhou Mountain" airport meant to the entire country and nation.

The losses of materials, inputs and funds are also secondary. The most important thing is that it is a heavy blow to China's aviation industry, which will not be able to recover for at least ten years.

"Danger, danger, China is entering. Abandon the space station immediately and push the space station into the atmosphere. Hurry! We are too late to rescue!"

Coming from a low orbit about 330 kilometers above the earth, an emergency call from the International Space Station rang in the attitude control room. The other party had obviously noticed an abnormality, and the "space station" entered by China was in danger.

No matter how much they dislike China and refuse to join the International Space Station program, they do not want to see the sacrifice of Chinese astronauts. After all, they are living lives and the most precious space talents.

At this time, there is no such thing as schadenfreude.

Even Japan, which just lost a spy satellite for this reason, is praying to the great god Yaozhao that nothing happens to China's "space station", and it is best to remain intact.

Once such a huge "space station" gets out of control, it means that the threat of space debris, which is already a headache for people, will become even worse and become a new nightmare for all satellites, spacecrafts and space stations still in use in space, which may cause An even more terrifying low-Earth orbit blockade will stagnate space science and technology for several years.

"Contact has begun! Everyone, protect yourselves."

Seeing that the first light point representing the fragments inevitably came into contact with Kongyaogang, Wang Xuejun's voice suddenly became louder.

Compared with these space debris, armor-piercing projectiles are simply weak.

At this moment, the airport began to shake violently, and a crackling sound could even be heard coming from the bulkhead. A red warning light flashed in the attitude control cabin, and warnings were issued continuously.

"Computer, start reporting damage!"

Wang Xuejun shouted while trying to control Kong Yaogang to avoid it.

"15% of the external isolation layer of South No. 1 and No. 7 cabins has been lost!"

Due to insufficient resources, the airport control system is highly intelligent and can immediately recognize the pilot's voice commands.

In the pictures that popped up on several screens, the thick protective layer on the surface of the two space capsules was cut off, and a large piece like a double bed was cut off. "The main solar panel on the left side of South 2 lost 19%, and the East 4 capsule was damaged." Breakdown, automatic repair has started, and the blocking is expected to be completed in 20 seconds."

There was not just one loss, there were more than ten skin injuries in Kong Yaogang alone, and one was a penetrating injury.

The fishbone-shaped "Buzhou Mountain" swayed gently, and a large cluster of solar panels that looked like mimosa slowly left Kongyao Port and floated towards the earth.

Perhaps it will not become one of the dangerous floating objects in space and will soon turn into dust in the ionosphere. This is the best outcome.

Wang Xuejun, who was trying hard to control and avoid losses, had his back completely soaked with sweat. He had just tried his best to carefully control Kongyao Port to choose the most favorable balance between disintegration and being hit by debris.

Fortunately, it was an unimportant empty cabin that was penetrated. If it had directly hit the control cabin, the lives of Wang Xuejun and the other three people would still be in danger. I am afraid that the "Buzhou Mountain" plan would have to be aborted midway.

After 35 seconds, the shaking, trembling and abnormal noise disappeared.

"I finally got through it, it's going to kill me!"

Wang Xuejun felt that his hands were getting weak, even more exhausted than fighting the enemy for an hour.

"The first wave of impact is over, and the next waves are expected to be after 5 hours, 17 hours, 23 hours, and 27 hours later, lasting at least 1 minute. Well, there will be at least 4 more waves before it is upgraded to an orbit of 1,000 kilometers. Our troubles are not over yet."

Si Qiang, who helped calculate the avoidance route, wanted to reach out and wipe away the cold sweat, but he encountered a transparent barrier and realized that he was still wearing a space suit.

The situation is still not optimistic, but the current loss situation is the best result, and there are no casualties among the pilots.

"5 hours? Fortunately, let Mao Jiadong install the seg immediately. As long as the repulsion shield is activated, we will be safe."

Meng Yinan was panting heavily. He had performed beyond his level just now when he was highly concentrated.

Si Qiang shrugged and said, "That's for the best, otherwise I'm worried about whether Kongyaogang can survive."

"Then give it a try, I won't give up easily."

Wang Xuejun waved his hands, showing no timidity in the face of the challenge.

"There's something wrong with the seg mounting slot."

Si Qiang, who looked at the screens in front of him, saw an unusual signal. He quickly called another pilot outside the airport: "Mao Jiadong, go to the SEG installation slot immediately and check."

"Copy that! Act now!"

Mao Jiadong, who was holding the seg seal box, immediately got out of the external maintenance cabin and continued his original work.

Half an hour later, he opened the sealed cabin where the installation slot was located, looked around, and reported: "Everything is normal, no physical damage was found. Can it be installed?"

"Wait, something is not right, Mao Jiadong, take a look to see if there are any contaminants in the xrat module. Well, I will send out a signal. Take a look to see if there is a yellow signal light that flashes three times quickly."

Si Qiang's eyebrows became tighter and tighter. The signals fed back by several functional modules in the installation slot were somewhat abnormal.

"Is there anything wrong?"

Wang Xuejun cast his eyes over.

"Six modules failed due to short circuit. I asked Mao Jiadong to check one of them first."

Si Qiang clicked a few times on the screen to display the module diagram analysis diagram of the seg installation slot.

This is directly derived from the mounting slot structure of the X-8 "Monster" deformable wing fighter. After adjustments by experts, it can be applied to large air ports.

"I didn't see it. Let me check first."

Mao Jiadong took out a strong flashlight from his waist and carefully inspected the inside of the installation slot. Suddenly, a few thread-like reflections fell into his sight, which seemed a bit unusual.

He immediately reported the abnormal situation to the control cabin, "Report! Something doesn't seem right. I'll share the video with you, using high-power close-up mode."

Through the high-power optical lens on the space suit, the unusual reflections were immediately locked.

"Is the metal wire loose somewhere?"

Wang Xuejun, Meng Yinan and Si Qiang looked at the ox hair filaments with metallic luster that appeared on the screen in confusion. The computer system automatically recognized the size, which was about 1.78 centimeters in length.

"It's not the circuit wires on the mounting slot, it's the Seaford pins! Something imported from the United States."

The voice of the ground command came to the ears of the pilots, and the ground personnel obviously recognized what it was.

The West Ford Needle Project, which is composed of copper dipole wires, is a project in which the United States scatters metal needles in low-Earth orbit to form a cloud-like ring to reflect radio signals, and then conducts remote transmission through a satellite wire set up in the town of West Ford. Communication aid.

Fortunately, it only fired once and was stopped. Otherwise, the entire outer space orbit would be covered with 430 million copper dipoles with a total length of 1.78 centimeters and a diameter of 25.4 microns that were pushed out of orbit by the pressure of solar radiation. Wire.

"The airtight cabin cover was penetrated and very small holes were found."

Mao Jiadong noticed traces of the intrusion of these fine needles. The densely packed small holes on the outer surface of the hatch cover made his scalp numb. In the impact just now, the SEG mounting slot unfortunately encountered a ball of Seaford needles.

Although these small needles are inconspicuous, the penetrating power brought by the speed in space will be very terrifying. A very small number of fine needles successfully invaded the inside of the installation slot and destroyed some modules due to the unremitting efforts of the predecessors. components.

"To prepare to replace the damaged modules, we must activate the repulsion shield as soon as possible, otherwise we will have to abandon 'Buzhou Mountain'."

The ground command did not hesitate and immediately issued the latest instructions. They did not believe that the current situation of Kongyao Port could survive the next four rounds of impacts.

"The spare parts for the seg installation slot are stored in East No. 4 cabin! Uh"

The three people were speechless. They remembered that just now, the system reported that the cabin that had been penetrated was the East No. 4 cabin.

"I'm going to East No. 4 cabin to check!"

Fan Liming, who was responsible for repairing pipe damage, immediately took action. While quickly passing through the cabin and nodes, he said: "Si Qiang, help me block the nodes and prepare to evacuate the air in the East No. 4 cabin. Tell me the location of the spare parts. Mu Hong." Tian, ​​enter sleep mode for one hour and set off in one and a half hours."

"yes!"

The other pilot also quickly prepared, and he was racing against time with death.

"Only one intact spare part was found, the other spare parts were damaged!"

A moment later, Fan Liming, who was only holding on to module components like bricks, looked at the messy East No. 4 cabin with an ugly face, as if the place had just been hit by an armor-breaking bomb, and many spare parts were damaged to varying degrees.

It seemed that a piece of metal fragment the size of a cattail fan penetrated the cabin shell and disintegrated into countless fragments inside the cabin. Only two pieces with strong kinetic energy penetrated through the cabin shell from the other side unabated. The breach has been temporarily sealed with high-strength gel.

It was very unfortunate that the spare parts shelf of the seg installation slot was directly hit by a metal fragment that penetrated into the cabin. It was very lucky to be able to find an intact spare part.

The eight pilots in the airport and the ground command headquarters were actively discussing response plans one second, but fell into a collective dead silence the next second.

It was a leaky house and it rained all night, it was fate that just when she gave her a glimmer of hope, she kicked her into the vagina again. The feeling of rising and falling almost made me spurt out blood in depression.

"Organize an emergency dispatch immediately! Rush to transport spare parts!"

A big boss from the Hangyao Bureau broke the silence, but unexpectedly received no response.