The official website of the Space Development Committee.
“Is it true that an asteroid hit Blue Star?”——Suzhou user
"A Suzhou user, this is probably true. Haven't you seen that there are exercises going on all over the country these days?" - Martian
"It seems that the area where the asteroid hit is from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Atlantic. The Milijia and the Xizhou Alliance are now in chaos." - The ancient great god King Jingze
“The Universe Committee won’t come out to explain?”——Dongdao user
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! I haven't broken the boy's skills yet, am I going to get a lunch box?" - Straight Man of Steel
"A, a straight steel man, would you like to make a date?"——Professional kidney transplant
"I'm relieved, I don't have to pay the mortgage anymore." ——Wiaoju
"A small house, we are all happy together!" - Max out the credit card
Huang Junjie had already received Zhong's reminder. He did not expect that this matter would be exposed so quickly, which gave him a headache.
Quickly communicate with Dongtang on the phone.
December 10, 11:30 am.
Dongtang and Galaxy Consortium issued a joint announcement to explain the matter to the domestic people.
Dongdao Keelung, the headquarters of Galaxy Consortium.
Ai Heping stood on the podium meticulously, and he said seriously to all the news media:
"About the impact of asteroid x on the blue star, it is indeed true."
The audience at the scene and watching the live broadcast immediately burst into an uproar. Although many people had already seen the joint announcement, the joint announcement had only been released less than ten minutes ago and many people had not seen it.
Ai Heping pressed his hands and asked the reporters to be quiet: "Don't worry too much, the Space Development Committee has formulated a strict plan. When asteroid x hits the blue star, we are at least 99% sure to intercept it in the atmosphere."
outside."
After speaking, Ai Heping showed everyone the planetary orbital gun plan, roadblock plan, mushroom umbrella plan... and other four plans.
"So everyone can rest assured now that even if a small part of the asteroid fragments will enter Blue Star, it will be safe in the Western Continent and North Atlantic areas, and East Asia and the Pacific."
"Mr. Ai, are you sure you can successfully intercept an asteroid?" a New York Times reporter asked nervously.
"Even if the first three plans all fail, the final mushroom protective umbrella can destroy at least 95% of the asteroid's volume, break it into pieces, and minimize the harm." Ai Heping explained.
"Then why didn't you announce this in advance?" a reporter from the Global Times asked.
"The reason why we did not announce it before was mainly because we were afraid of causing public panic, and all space agencies are studying how to intercept asteroids." Ai Heping said helplessly.
Although many people are not satisfied with this answer, they can only pray that the interception is successful now.
NASA also followed suit and held a press conference. However, unlike Ai Heping's restraint, Maxwell was speechless at NASA's press conference when he was angrily attacked by reporters with long guns and short guns.
Although many people know that the probability of an asteroid being intercepted is very high, it has become everyone's consensus to escape from the North Atlantic coastal area for safety.
In Mi Li's house, many people drove their families and their families to the west in their cars.
The most difficult thing is the John family and the Xizhou Alliance. Most of the entire Xizhou area may be an impact area, and the people don't know where the safe area is for a while.
The Xizhou Alliance can only open air-raid shelters and the like once to provide temporary shelter to the people.
As for those countries in the West Indies of Central America, they can only pray that the cosmic committee succeeds, otherwise the first wave of asteroid impact will wipe them out.
In order to give the world peace of mind, the Space Development Committee has announced some progress from time to time. For example, the mass projector at the Bazhong Base has been successfully transformed into a planetary orbital gun. The tungsten steel warhead is ready and can deliver a fatal blow to asteroid X at any time.
hit.
The thick launch vehicles from various countries were also pulled out to show off their strong muscles to the world.
Kaohsiung base.
In the main control room hall.
"Wang Ju, according to astronomical telescopes around the world and radio telescopes in outer space, our three airships are about to encounter asteroid x in about 30 minutes." Zeng Baojiang said, pointing to the holographic projection star map.
Wang Tu looked at his watch. It was now 13:49 Peking time. He nodded to Zeng Baojiang: "According to the scheduled plan."
"Okay." Zeng Baojiang replied seriously.
About 1.63 million kilometers away from the Blue Star, the olive-shaped asteroid X rushed towards the Blue Star without any direction.
About 63,000 kilometers in front of it, three Xuanwu-class spacecraft were flying towards Asteroid X in a Z-shaped distribution.
However, at this time, the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft suddenly braked and adjusted their flight directions through auxiliary engines. They changed from flying relative to each other to flying in the same direction.
After the three Xuanwu-class ships completed their U-turn, the distance between them and Asteroid X was already less than 24,000 kilometers.
Due to the loss of the head, the speed of the three Xuanwu-class ships dropped to 11 kilometers per second. According to this speed, Asteroid X will soon pass them.
For this situation, the ground control center had already anticipated it.
"In 3 minutes, asteroid x will meet the spacecraft formation."
"2:3o...2:2o...2:o5"
"Start the main engine of the spacecraft at full power immediately."
Due to communication delays, asteroid x had already appeared less than 500 kilometers behind the spacecraft formation, and the spacecraft only received the ground command.
From the main engines of the Xuanwu-class spacecraft, the light blue tail flames suddenly spurted out, and their speed soared crazily.
When asteroid x and the spacecraft formation met, the speeds of the two were almost the same.
At this time, Zhong's artificial intelligence sub-body "Xing" officially took over the control of the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft. With the assistance of the spacecraft's computer, Xing successfully allowed the three spacecraft to accompany asteroid X.
"The first step was successful." Zeng Baojiang said with his fists clenched.
"Don't let your guard down, we are still far away from success." Wang Tu was still staring at the holographic star map.
At this time, the world can observe Asteroid X with astronomical telescopes, and three Xuanwu-class ships have successfully accompanied Asteroid X.
The gaze returns to asteroid x.
I saw three Xuanwu-class spacecraft accompanying asteroid x, and through the correction of auxiliary engines, the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft slowly merged into one, and the "Star" began to perform its mission according to the established procedures.
However, there are no mushroom eggs or the like on the three Xuanwu-class ships. After all, the consequences of exploding an asteroid are very serious, and the Space Opening Committee will not choose it unless it is a last resort.
Because if you explode an asteroid at this location, even if it is successful, the large amount of debris will definitely be a disaster for the spacecraft in the Blue Star orbit.
As for the spray-painting rail-changing method once proposed by Mi Li's family, it's too late now.
The so-called spray paint orbit change method is to spray white paint on the asteroid. The principle of this method comes from radiation pressure. Solar radiation will produce radiation pressure (light pressure effect) on the white surface, and the asteroid orbit will be slowly changed through the radiation pressure.
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The problem is that this method takes a very long time. According to the radiation pressure that the current solar radiation can produce, it will take at least 20 years to change the orbit of the asteroid.
If there are 20 years left and the Universe Development Committee is too idle, it will use this method.
What's more, the situation is urgent now, so there is time to waste.