At dawn, Ye Han led a group of men out of the base.
Looking up, Ye Han could barely see a small bright spot in the distant sky. He turned on the telescope and zoomed in several times. The small bright spot suddenly turned into a clear transport ship. The main engine nozzles on both sides of the spacecraft pointed downwards.
, the flashes of light in the reaction chamber came one after another.
"Skyhook, I've seen you, very clearly."
"Received, prepare to release the cable, pay attention!"
"Understood!" Ye Han agreed, turned off the telescope, looked left and right, and simply turned over and lay on the ground to avoid straining his neck by raising his head.
When several people around him saw Ye Han's behavior, they also lay on the ground together.
On the left of Ye Han is Lin Yi, and on the right is Ouyang Ping.
Lin Yi's duty is to control the escape rocket. According to Beidu's requirements, the rocket must be able to take off at any time, so he usually stays in the base. However, as the cooperation gradually deepens, Beidu's interest in Mu
Wei Zero's risk assessment is also getting lower and lower. As time goes by, I finally relax a little faster and can go out for a walk.
Since he was not familiar with the situation, Lin Yi simply followed Ye Han and felt at ease as a follower.
The Skyhook flew closer and closer, its speed became slower as it got closer, and the frequency of flashes in its engines became higher and higher. By the time it flew directly above the forward base, the flashes had been connected together and were indistinguishable.
Ye Han knew that it was Skyhook using its main engine to resist the gravity of Europa!
Spaceflight is all about creating speed to counteract gravity. The slower the relative speed, the stronger the gravity the spacecraft experiences.
Ordinary spaceships cannot withstand the gravity of the planet even if their engines are running at super power, but Skyhook is different. It is specially designed for this mission. The spacecraft of the same model only has two engines, but Skyhook is equipped with eight!
Eight engines are running at the same time, and the power must reach more than 90% so that the Skyhook can levitate in the same position.
Theoretically speaking, the Skyhook can land on the surface, take off, and then return to space with ultra-high engine thrust. However, levitation is a very fuel-consuming behavior. Taking off from the ground burns more fuel than levitation, which is totally not worth the gain.
After the Skyhook stabilized, Ye Han heard a voice: "Base, the cable has been released!"
Ye Han immediately replied: "The base understands and is observing!"
Through the telescope function, you can see that a cable is released directly below the spacecraft. The end of the cable is connected to a pendant with a hook, which is extending downward from the bottom of the ship.
"Skyhook, I saw the cable, everything is normal!" Ye Han said.
After the earth got the carbon fiber plants, they planted them for a few months. Although they didn't grow as fast as the aliens did, and they didn't harvest as much as the aliens did, it was still no problem to get a few cables.
"Skyhook understands the three-second acceleration countdown - three, two, one!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the pendant that was descending slowly suddenly fell down like a kite with its string broken, and the speed became faster and faster, and soon entered the atmosphere.
Ye Han's eyes were fixed on the sky, and he suddenly had a very strange feeling in his heart. He felt that the pendant with the hook was like a fishhook, the cable was like a fishing line, and the Skyhook was naturally a fisherman.
The high-speed winch on the Skyhook is extremely fast, and the falling speed of the pendant is even slower than the release speed of the winch. The cable behind the pendant is loose and has never been straightened.
Ye Han silently estimated the height of the pendant. When he estimated that the pendant was only five kilometers away from the ground, Ye Han decisively shouted: "Skyhook, slow down!"
The Skyhook quickly complied, and the speed of the pendant was immediately reduced by half. The cable immediately straightened, pulling on the pendant below, swinging back and forth in mid-air irregularly like an oversized pendulum.
"Slower!"
The pendant slowed down by half again, its falling speed was only one-quarter of its previous speed, but it swayed even more violently.
Ye Han continued to watch. When the height of the pendant dropped to about one kilometer, he slowed down the skyhook again. Half a minute later, the pendant hook, which was the size of a car, dropped to the ground.
"Okay -" Ye Han said in a long voice, and the Skyhook immediately got stuck and unhooked the cable. At this time, the height of the hook was only a little over two meters, and it was shaking more solidly from side to side.
Ouyang Ping's eyes widened: "Boss, you can't get through this?"
The hook swings too fast. Even if you are wearing power armor, it will be enough to hit you.
Ye Han frowned: "Skyhook, lower it another three meters!"
"Got the skyhook!" As he spoke, the cable was lowered another three meters, and the heavy hook hit the ground heavily. Because the speed was too fast, the heavy hook jumped and rolled on the ground, bringing up a large area of turf and soil, and plowed a path.
It stopped after a ditch dozens of meters long.
The hook stopped, but the cable above it kept buzzing like a string that had been hooked hard by a naughty boy.
Ye Han breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and said, "Ouyang, bring a few people to carry the hook over."
"Okay!" Ouyang Ping waved his hand, and several soldiers quickly followed. A total of seven people rushed over and lifted the hook without any effort.
Ye Han jumped onto the container in a few steps, waved and shouted: "This way!"
The soldiers carried the hook to the container, and Ye Han said on the radio: "Skyhook, rise two meters!"
"Skyhook received!"
The cable immediately straightened, and the hook that touched the ground rose slowly, but it was lower than Ye Han expected.
Ye Han didn't shout anymore, but instead called for the soldiers to hand over the hook. Ouyang Ping quickly jumped on top of the container, and Ye Han caught the hook. The two of them worked together to hang the heavy hook on the container.
Ye Han first gestured for Ouyang to get down, and then he checked the hook himself to make sure there was no problem before turning around and jumping off. When his feet touched the ground, he shouted: "Skyhook, the mounting is complete, you can raise it!
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"Skyhook received!"
The spaceship in the sky immediately increased its engine power, and the suspended spacecraft gradually rose. The cable that was originally a little loose suddenly tightened, then tightened the container, and then lifted the container off the ground.
The container was thrown out at once, almost missing Ye Han. He was so frightened that he quickly fell to the ground, turned over and looked at the swaying container. He couldn't help but feel grateful that this place was some distance away from the base.
With such a swaying method, if it is next to the base, the base will be smashed.
The power of the winch was not enough, and the Skyhook could not keep hanging there to waste fuel. The spacecraft accelerated immediately after the container lifted off the ground, dragging the container forward while raising the altitude.
The container flew higher and farther in Ye Han's eyes, and it happened to catch up with the rising sun, but it disappeared after a while.
The Skyhook ascended for more than 100 kilometers in one breath, and finally towed the container out of the atmosphere. Then the spacecraft flew directly to the space station, handed the cable to the space station and slowly towed it back. The Skyhook went back and continued to hook the second container.
