Just when the International Space Station of the Earth Alliance was arguing with the Earth Alliance Association.
In the orbit above the space station, there are 16 small communication satellites owned by the Space Exploration Company. They were damaged beyond repair during this solar storm.
The orbital control systems of these satellites have failed, and the communication systems are also unusable, so they are considered completely scrapped.
One of the scrapped Starlink satellites lost control and collided with another nearby Lucia spy satellite.
Due to the outbreak of the solar storm at this time, communications on the earth have been affected, and some communication satellites have been scrapped. As a result, members of the Earth Alliance are unable to monitor all spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.
Especially the low-Earth orbit on the side swept by the solar storm.
After the scrapped Starlink satellite collided with the Lucia spy satellite, both satellites were severely damaged and both deviated from their respective orbits.
Debris and debris produced by satellite impacts are sputtered in all directions, especially to lower orbital areas.
The orbital altitude of these two satellites is approximately 670 to 680 kilometers in low-Earth orbit.
The Earth Alliance's new International Space Station is in the low-Earth orbit area of 450 to 460 kilometers.
It is because the large number of Starlink satellites launched by Musk can easily trigger a chain reaction if they lose control.
Faced with this mess of low-Earth orbit, Homo sapiens also feels very troubled and can only give priority to protecting the company's satellites.
"Captain, the headquarters requires us to stay here for half a month. After half a month, the headquarters will launch two spaceships and send us a batch of repair components."
Correspondent Owen received the order from the Ground Alliance headquarters.
The Ground Federation Association on the other side finally noticed the problem, but it was too late.
[Alert! Alert! The F5 fuel tank is leaking...]
"This..." Zhang Ming was shocked.
Other astronauts were worried.
Homo sapiens' space division headquarters.
However, they didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief.
Robert even yelled: "Fake Squid! Those bastards killed us! If they hadn't stopped us from returning to Earth, we would have returned to Earth safely long ago."
Dozens of pieces of satellite debris have drifted near the new International Space Station.
"Fake! Don't they know that the space station is facing the crisis of losing control and disintegrating?" Robert cursed angrily.
Everyone also knows that this is one of the few things they can do at the moment.
Robert, who was responsible for controlling the management of the internal air pressure system, quickly pressed the emergency button.
Especially those Starlink satellites with limited fuel have no way to make large-scale maneuverable orbit changes. This has led to a rapid increase in the number of Starlink satellites hit by debris.
Homo sapiens companies are cleaning up their business.
They quickly put on extravehicular spacesuits and headed to the space station's emergency escape craft. It was obvious that Zhang Ming had already sensed the problem of the space station and did not dare to be careless.
These satellites colliding with each other further increase the size of the debris.
The entire new International Space Station has only 4 pairs of fuel tanks, which correspond to the 16 attitude control engines on the space station.
However, Zhang Ming and other astronauts didn't know that the satellite debris sputtering everywhere was going crazy at this time.
"yes."
As if a chain reaction had been triggered, a large number of debris and debris were scattered around in low-Earth orbit.
Zhang Ming thought for a moment and made a decisive decision: "Immediately activate emergency plan No. 7."
When a large amount of debris is flying everywhere, and solar storms interfere with communications, many satellites responsible for monitoring space debris in low-Earth orbit have large-scale monitoring blind spots.
Owen's face was also very ugly: "I reported it."
Zhang Ming asked: "Owen, has there been no reply from the Ground Alliance headquarters yet?"
Although Zhang Ming was very angry and disappointed, he still forced himself to calm down: "Owen, in the name of all our members, please submit another application to return to Earth and explain the crisis of the space station at this time."
This is one of the reasons why the Homo sapiens company placed the space station in a mid-level orbit.
Due to the attack of the solar storm, nearly a quarter of the equipment of the International Space Station was paralyzed, and a large part of the equipment failed. These small debris were not detected approaching the space station at all.
Soon, three more Starlink satellites and two satellites from other forces were involved. These colliding satellites and debris ejected more debris and debris, further expanding the scope of the debris sputtering.
Soon the number of satellites colliding with each other increased to 37.
The other seven astronauts had no objections. This emergency plan was also prepared for this situation.
Power system manager Jin Shangwen swallowed his throat: "Captain, we only have 9 posture control engines left."
Zhang Ming looked at the emergency escape spacecraft's bulkhead where a small hole had been smashed by the debris, his face turned extremely dark.
Another piece of satellite debris the size of a screw quietly penetrated a fuel tank on the space station, leaking a large amount of methane stored in the fuel tank.
"No! Although the air leak has been blocked, one of the attitude control engines of the escape spacecraft has been damaged, and the escape spacecraft cannot be used." Jin Sangwen floated out of the escape spacecraft.
This satellite shell with a radius of almost 0.4 meters, with the rapid speed, instantly smashed through the bulkhead of the No. 3 experimental cabin.
Since the Space Exploration Company has a large number of Starlink satellites, there are currently 3,572 satellites operating in low-Earth orbit, plus some satellites launched in cooperation with the Earth Alliance in recent years.
Moreover, these satellites are still crowded into orbits at an altitude of 400 to 750 kilometers.
Zhang Ming frowned: "Have you reported our current situation?"
During this period, the new International Space Station was hit by seven more debris of different sizes.
Then Zhang Ming said to others: "Everyone, we have to be prepared on both sides. On the one hand, we must find a way to eliminate the danger of the space station first, and on the other hand, we must make an emergency evacuation plan."
"receive."
This situation has further increased the scale of satellite debris.
Immediately, the hatches on both sides of Experimental Module 3 automatically closed, and some of the air pressure inside the space station stopped falling.
It is very clear what happened in low-Earth orbit at this time, and the trajectories of various debris were even monitored.
Three hours later, the helpless Prefectural Federation had to declare that the evasion plan had failed.
And if the current large-scale Homo sapiens space station is placed in an orbit of 400 to 500 kilometers, it will be numb in the face of such dense and chaotic satellite debris.
A vicious cycle begins.
Arrive at the emergency escape craft.
Hundreds of satellite fragments and debris drifted all the way to lower orbits.
Owen shook his head in disappointment: "No, they asked us to continue waiting."
About an hour and a half later.
A piece of debris separated from the Lucia spy satellite rolled and hit the No. 3 experimental module of the space station.
[Alert! Alert! There is an air leak in Experimental Cabin No. 3...]
Zhang Ming's face changed drastically when he felt that the surrounding air pressure began to drop rapidly: "No! Close the pressure gate of Cabin 3 quickly..."
"Wait a minute!" an astronaut said directly.
In fact, the Prefectural Federation Association was also very anxious at this time. It was not that it was indifferent, but it was useless to be anxious.
After receiving the request for help from the space station, the management of the Terrestrial Association immediately held a meeting to discuss how to solve the problem.
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