Ye Zhou pressed the start button and the 12 working fluid engines on the Wei Qing entered the working state. Compared with the Zheng He's super high overload, the acceleration of this spacecraft was much gentler.

Even so gentle that he could hardly feel the spacecraft was moving. However, the bright blue flame ejected from the 12-Taiwan engine in the video clearly showed that this perhaps the boldest plan in human history has begun.

How much force does it take to push a star?

Ye Zhou once thought about this problem. Without accurate calculations, he subconsciously believed that this might require hundreds of millions of tons or even billions of tons of power.

But in fact, the answer is that the power of only one finger is needed.

Without being completely free from friction and the satellite's stable orbit in orbit, even a small force is enough to change the orbit of its operation. The effect may take a long time, but it is absolutely effective.

However, if a 1.7x10 kilogram of celestial body to the power of 17 will move 26 kilometers in the direction of its orbiting planet within 1 hour and 57 minutes, how much force is needed?

The answer is 4.7 million tons of thrust.

Only this thrust can generate sufficient acceleration in a short period of time. At the moment Zheng He skipped the target impact point, Io Yui was allowed to crash into Io Yui, and the huge energy generated by the impact was poured back into the adjacent dimension channel.

The numbers on the screen keep flashing. Judging from the intuitive data, the single-machine thrust of the 12 engines on the Wei Qing has increased to 40,000 tons. After 9 minutes, Wei Qing will enter within 1 km of Io's 11 carme, and use the landing device at the front of the spacecraft to directly contact Io and push it off the original track.

The entire acceleration process will last for 16 minutes. The two steering-free working fluid engines have to take the role of angle adjustment and static maintenance, which is also the key to success.

An hour later, Io Wei's huge body was already covered with Ye Zhou's sight. He observed the engine data nervously, fearing that there would be problems in any link.

"I have entered the landing area. Dangyang can land. Pay attention to pushing the engine status and avoid affecting the carme orbital status."

"The Dangyang number was received and began to land."

In the vast starry sky, a huge conical spacecraft approached its target silently. On the huge buffer device at the head of the spacecraft, four giant claws composed of high-strength materials had extended. After a moment, the giant claws touched the surface of Iopa, and then penetrated deeply into the soil and rocks like a probe.

The locking device was activated. When the Yang was firmly fixed on the surface of the satellite, after a brief tremor, the Dang Yang navigator issued a reply of "successful landing".

Then, the Changping and Humen landed in turn, and finally the Wei Qing. When the Wei Qing hull, which had a diameter of more than 1 kilometer, collided with Io Wei XI, Ye Zhou's heartbeat also jumped suddenly.

The loud noise made by the collision did not spread even a meter in the vacuum environment of the universe, but inside the Wei Qing, the sound of a drumbeat had already beaten the war drum for everyone.

"The push ship landed successfully, 110 seconds away from the target push time, and now the countdown begins."

The cold numbers jumped on the screen, and Ye Zhou used the last time to check the engine's working status. Then, at the end of the 60 seconds of the push countdown, as his instructions were issued, all 48 push engines entered a saturated load state.

The hot plasma burns in the furnace, and gases and reacting substances are violently ejected. In the wake of the four spacecraft, a few space dust and meteorite fragments with too small diameter that unfortunately fall into it are even directly evaporated.

"Single-machine thrust 80092, acceleration is underway, and peak thrust is expected to reach 20 seconds."

Ye Zhou calmly reported the status of the engine to the commander, and then locked the engine thrust to 99,000 tons.

"The thrust reaches its peak, and the thrust is locked."

"Received, the spacecraft accelerated normally, and passed the first orbital intersection after 30 seconds. Dangyang and Changping, turn on the engine reverse thrust, reduce the acceleration, and avoid the 38th Orbit of the IWA."

"Dangyang number was received."

"The Jetpin received."

After a brief pause, the two spacecraft each started six push engines backwards, and dust spread everywhere on the surface of Iobain Eleven. An unprecedented sandstorm was scraped on the older satellite.

Io's acceleration immediately slowed down. Two minutes later, it passed by Ioo's Thirty-eight at a distance of 6 kilometers.

“Assess the impact of tidal forces.”

"The direction deflects by 0.3 degrees. When the positive signal has turned on the steering engine, the countdown is expected to be 10,9,8..."

The orbit that was deviated from the tidal force generated by the passing of Io Mai-38 was corrected in a blink of an eye. The engine was pushed back and ended. Io Mai-11 continued to approach the Io Mai-yi orbit under the push of four spacecraft.

Everything was going very smoothly, and the engine was working properly--even more energy.

This made Ye Zhou feel a little relieved. The situation he was most worried about did not happen. The filter was working normally. Even though the furnace temperature had reached an astonishing 200 million degrees Celsius, and even if the rate of furnace ash had exceeded the volume observed by humans in any fusion reaction, the powerful filter still held on to such pressure.

"The countdown to the end of the push is 10 minutes, there is no intersection track ahead of you, everything goes well."

The voice of the navigator of the Washington DC came, and they were still on the original track, maintaining a safe distance that could be intervened in time, monitoring the dangers behind the four Chinese spacecraft.

"Understand, the push countdown is 10 minutes, and the thrust locks at 99,000 tons."

The tense emotions of everyone in the fleet were slightly relaxed, and for them, the most difficult part of the entire plan was actually over.

As long as the landing is completed, the engine is driven to run smoothly, and as long as the rail intersection of Io 38 is avoided, the road ahead will be smooth.

It is true that it is not difficult to control this satellite with a diameter of more than 40 kilometers to accurately crash into the mobile target dragged by Zheng He, but with the assistance of a quantum computer with terrifying computing power, the possibility of an accident is actually extremely low.

"It seems that the mission has been completed. After I go back, I will go to Tokyo to take a hot spring."

"tokyo? Then it's better to go to China."

The navigators on the Washington and Dante spacecraft who were left behind easily chatting in the communication channel. The navigator Wei Qing immediately interrupted:

"Don't chat on public channels, stay alert, our mission is not over yet!"

Ye Zhou was also helpless about their behavior, but from another perspective, this was probably their national character.

Even under extreme pressure, they still deal with it with an almost cynical attitude that is so relaxed that it can almost be said to be cynical.

Such a personality also has a good side, such as strong stress resistance, but at the same time, the probability of problems will increase greatly - especially when doing work that requires high concentration and high precision.

"Don't be so nervous, everything next is very simple, don't worry, I'm looking at your butt."

The Navigator of the Washington jokingly said, and after a moment of pause, he continued to report:

"The orbit is normal, and the push engine has disturbed the original satellite orbit, but these disturbances will not be transmitted after they have been revolved. By then, we have already evacuated to the safe area."

"Get it, start detecting the unlocking device."

"The unlocking device is normal. After 6 minutes, the unlocking number will start to be performed."

"Received, unlocked in 6 minutes."

"Washington, starts the thrust engine and prepares for emergency intervention."

"The thrust engine has been started, and the current load is 40%, so you can intervene at any time--but I don't think you need it."

Ye Zhou looked at the location information that kept flashing on the screen and couldn't help but repeat in his heart:

Yes, it shouldn't be needed.

However, just as his thoughts flashed, the exclamation of the Navigator Washington suddenly came from his headphones.

"Shit! 1700 kilometers away, Ioba is approaching! It is expected that the orbital intersection will be generated in 21 minutes!"

“It will hit the carme!”

"What's going on?"

"It was Zheng He's disturbance! Its engine turbulence changed the orbit of Ioba. Unlike what we calculated, Ioba was captured by Ioba's tidal force, and its orbit was rising!"

"I understand, I will make a decision in two minutes."

The voice of the Navigator Wei Qing was still calm, but at this moment, Ye Zhou's expression was already cold.

At this moment, they have no choice.

If they continue to travel at the current acceleration and after 8 minutes, all the pushing ships will be out of the carme, then they will be powerless to the impact of Io Forty-one.

If they slow down like avoiding Megumi Thirty-eight, it means that they have to start accelerating again, and the acceleration process will be forced to be extended for more than 20 minutes, which means that all four Chinese spacecraft will lose their escape window.

"This is Wei Qing's name, and the following is the decision-making order."

"Dangyang, Changping, Humen, turn on the engine to push back and perform slowing down."

Ye Zhou breathed a long sigh of relief, and he understood the meaning of this command.

These four Chinese spacecraft can't be returned.

His hand was placed on the button on the screen to unlock the thrust, but just as he was about to press, the voice of the Navigator Washington came from the headphones again.

"Don't be anxious."

"You continue to follow the original plan."

"This is Washington, we will conduct an interception on Io."

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