Everything was normal. Ye Han stretched himself and stood up: "Let's go, leave one person on duty, and everyone else should go back and wash up and sleep."
"Is this the end?" Luo Qi was a little confused.
He was called back temporarily by Ye Han before he had time to look at the project plan.
Ouyang Ping stretched out his hand and pulled him up: "Let's go, let's go, it'll be a few days, I'll be on the first shift first!"
Luo Qi's eyes fell on the screen, and he suddenly figured out what Ouyang Ping meant.
The spacecraft traveling between the Earth and Europa must not be slow, otherwise the trip will take too long.
Ordinary spaceships are very fast, not to mention fast transport ships. They are so fast that they can't get close to Jupiter, nor can they get close to it. Europa's little gravity cannot hold such a fast spaceship.
It must have flown by, and I don’t know where it went.
Therefore, any spacecraft flying towards Io must slow down a few days in advance to a point where Europa can catch it, so that it can smoothly enter the orbit and circle around Io.
This is a law of nature, no matter whose spaceship it is, it must abide by it, and the same goes for Kuaijiu and Cable.
The Kuaijiu ship towing the cable is like a locomotive, but the cable is soft. The Kuaijiu ship can slow down, but the cable will definitely continue to float forward.
There are only two ways to slow down the cable. First, the Kuaijiu ship turns around and throws the cable forward, and the spacecraft slows down again to pull the cable.
The second one is to use the one just now and get on another spacecraft to slow down simultaneously.
Beidu also specially found a few aerospace experts here, and everyone agreed that the second method was more reliable, so today's matter happened.
Now the speed of the spacecraft and the cable is a bit fast, and it will take a few days to slow down.
After figuring out the joints, Luo Qima sneaked back to sleep. After a full sleep the next day, she got up and asked for the project plan of the orbital elevator. She read it carefully from beginning to end, and finally had a rough idea in her mind.
Spectrum.
In the next few days, the most important task of the forward base is to pay attention to the deceleration progress. The command room is kept at hand 24 hours a day for fear of problems with the cable.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly. A few days later, the speeds of the two spacecraft and the cable dropped below the standard line at the same time. At this time, they also flew near Europa.
The two spacecrafts flew to a synchronous orbit and stopped. While circling Jupiter's zero point, they adjusted the position of the cable. To be more specific, the two spacecrafts continued to keep their distance and kept the cable roughly straight. After that, they quickly
The ship slowly approached the Tianhe.
The Tianhe was no longer at its original position, and had moved to the synchronous orbit of Europa in advance. After the Kuai 3 ship approached, it directly vomited out everything in the belly of the ship and handed it to the Tianhe.
Tianhe receives the outer end of the cable, pulls the fixing device into the depths of the space station and secures it firmly, and finally locks the fixing device. From now on, unless the fixing device is blown up, no matter whether it is automatic manual or remote control, no one can even think about removing the cable from the space station.
Get it out.
After completing this step, nothing happened to the Kuai-3. The Tianhe began to change its orbit to a higher orbit, and the Kuai-9 at the other end was not idle either. It opened the bottom compartment and placed the ground station hidden in the belly of the ship.
come out.
The ground station placed in the cabin was in a state of disassembly. The mechanical arm on the Kuaijiu ship took out the parts needed for the ground station one by one and assembled them together outside the ship. After a while, the main body of the ground station, which was like a diving bell, was assembled.
forming.
The Kuaijiu ship also completed its mission. After speeding away, another transport ship came over to fill the position and continued to assemble the ground station.
Two more transport ships flew nearby, but they did not get close to the ground station. Instead, they directly opened the cabin and took out the parts in the cabin. Then they released several engineering boats, dragging the parts along the cables and flew to a distance from the ground station.
After more than a hundred kilometers, the parts were put down and assembled on the cable one by one. In a short while, the simple low-orbit pier was completed with the efforts of the engineering boat.
At this time, the ground station was also completed. In addition to the main body that resembled a diving bell, the assembled ground station also had a swimming ring-like ring on the outside. At a glance, it looked like a flying saucer was tied under the cable.
At this point, all preparations were completed, and with an order from the base, the flying saucer started, pushing the ground station out of the synchronous orbit, and slowly flew towards Europa.
At this time, the cable was still roughly straight. Tianhe, which was stuck in the synchronous orbit, was like the leg of a compass fixing the center of the circle. The ground station on the other end drew an extremely large arc and slowly approached Jupiter.
As the height decreases, the linear speed of the ground station becomes lower and lower, and it is gradually pulled by Europa's gravity and begins to fall like a free fall.
At this time, the role of the flying saucer is no longer to push the ground station, but to support the ground station to prevent it from falling too fast.
The whole process lasted for more than three hours, and finally the ground stood firmly suspended outside the atmosphere, about 140 to 50 kilometers above the ground.
Due to the effect of gravity, the cable at this time has been stretched straight. The Tianhe is hanging more than 24,000 kilometers away, and the ground station is hanging below and dangling, which is reminiscent of a wrecking ball used to demolish a house.
Everything was ready, the situation was reported to the forward base, Ye Han issued the orbit change command to the Tianhe, and the Tianhe started the engine and slowly approached Europa at a stable and low speed.
The ground station was pulled by Europa's gravity and descended as Tianhe changed its orbit. It entered the atmosphere after a while and slowly fell to the ground.
At this point, the orbital elevator has been 80% successful. As long as there are no problems with the strength of the cable, success is certain.
The critical moment was coming, and Ye Han could no longer stay in the base. He led a group of men to put on armor and rushed out of the base as quickly as possible. He rushed to the base of the orbital elevator before stopping, looking up at the sky.
descending ground station.
When the ground station was still a few hundred meters away from touching the ground, Ye Han issued a new order to the Tianhe. The Tianhe adjusted its engine output and the ground station's descent slowed down until it was only a few dozen meters away from the ground before remaining suspended.
The ground station is as big as a weight hanging in the sky, and it feels like you will be trapped no matter where you hide.
Ye Han gestured to Zeng Rui, and Zeng Rui immediately sent a message. The aliens who came to help immediately fluttered their wings and rushed into the sky to support the ground station.
Tianhe continued to descend, and a group of aliens vibrated their wings to align the lower end of the ground station with the base, causing the ground station to get stuck on the base accurately.
Ye Han quickly rushed up with the soldiers, turned on the locking equipment, and locked the ground station firmly... The locking equipment on the ground was not completely locked like the Tianhe, but the team could unlock it at any time if necessary.
It can be unlocked to allow Tianhe to pull the ground station into space.
