Galaxy Technology Empire

It took less than ten minutes after the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft merged.

They slowly separated again, but this time, there was an extra net in the middle of the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft.

This net is an equilateral triangle with a side length of 300 meters. The material of the net is high-strength carbon nanotubes. In the dark outer space, even astronomical telescopes cannot detect the existence of this triangular net.

"The net is open."

"The fishing plan is ready." Zeng Baojiang shouted, waving his fist.

"yes."

A group of staff in the remote control department began to stare nervously at the holographic computer. Their task was to assist artificial intelligence and correct errors in time.

Wang Tu looked at his watch again. It was December 10, 2019, 15:22 pm.

If their fishing plan fails, the next step will be the first attack of the planetary orbital gun plan at 17:34.

the other side.

Bazhong base.

Academician Ma, Zhao Hongxing and others are also watching the fishing plan. The success or failure of the fishing plan will determine whether the planetary orbital gun at the Bazhong base is activated.

"Lao Ma, get the planetary orbital gun ready." Zhao Hongxing looked at the time and ordered.

"Okay." Academician Ma nodded, then turned around and told his assistant: "Let the planetary orbital guns take their positions."

"Yes." The assistant quickly went to notify the operation department of the planetary orbital gun.

"Lao Ma, do you think the fishing plan will be successful?" Zhao Hongxing asked while looking at the holographic star map.

Academician Ma tensed up and thought for a while before replying: "It's a 50-50 split. Communication delay is a fatal problem and may result in insufficient cooperation."

"..." Although Zhao Hongxing is very calm on the surface, his hands tightly grasping the handrail can be seen to be nervous inside. However, no one is paying attention to his hands now. Everyone is staring at the holographic star. picture.

As Academician Ma said, even Dongtang didn't know that the Galaxy Consortium had artificial intelligence, so they were worried about the communication delay problem.

Only Huang Junjie was relatively calm, because under the control of the "Star" and with the assistance of the ground remote control department, the success rate of the fishing plan was very high.

In fact, the fishing plan was prepared by Huang Junjie for space mining. After Zhonghe and his long-term improvement, the asteroid capture technology has been relatively perfected.

It just so happens that we can take the opportunity to experiment this time. If we successfully capture the WX asteroid, it will be equivalent to obtaining 420 to 450 million tons of iron-nickel ore; if we fail, the WX asteroid will be destroyed at worst.

Beside the WX asteroid, on a parallel orbit less than five kilometers away from it, three Xuanwu-class spacecraft that had opened a large net were slowly changing their positions with the help of auxiliary engines.

Why start the fishing plan on the parallel track accompanying the flight? Instead of setting up a net to catch fish when they meet head-on?

This is mainly due to engine power and relative speed.

The engine power of the Xuanwu-class spacecraft is not enough to fight the WX asteroid head-on. After all, the speeds of both sides are very fast, and the relative speed is even more terrifying.

With the little power of the Xuanwu class, even a hundred Xuanwu class ships cannot hit the WX asteroid with a speed of 15.59 kilometers per second and a mass of 420 to 450 million tons.

The result of hard work is that the Xuanwu-class spacecraft is completely annihilated. After the WX asteroid scratches the skin, it continues to kill the Blue Star.

Therefore, the Space Development Committee chose to fly with it, slowly approaching the WX asteroid in a parallel orbit, and using the method of pushing the boat along with the current.

Just like driving a car, if a car driving at high speed suddenly makes a sharp turn, it will either derail or overturn; if it slowly changes direction, it can safely turn around.

Under the operation of "Xing", the position of the Xuanwu-class spacecraft 004 gradually moved to the right and rear direction of the WX asteroid; the Xuanwu-class spacecraft 002 moved to the upper right direction; and the Xuanwu-class spacecraft 006 moved to the lower right and forward direction.

The tracks on both sides slowly changed from the original parallel tracks to a small intersecting track, but this angle is very small, only about 2 degrees.

The three Xuanwu-class spacecraft pulled the carbon nanotube network and slowly wrapped it towards the WX asteroid. This process was very slow. Under the adjustment of the "star", the speed of the three spacecraft reached 15.62 kilometers per second. This speed was only A little faster than the WX asteroid.

As time passed slowly, the ground control center and space agencies or astronomical agencies around the world were sweating.

At 15:37, the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft finally wrapped the carbon nanotube network on the WX asteroid. Since the angle between the flight orbits of the two sides was very small, and the flight speeds were very close, the WX asteroid gave the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft The reaction force is still within the tolerance range of the spacecraft.

Snapped! Wang Tu slapped the handrail heavily: "Don't let your guard down, everyone, we have reached the most critical moment."

In the Kaohsiung control center, the people in the remote control department did not dare to show their anger. They were all staring at the holographic computer, for fear that a mistake would ruin their previous efforts.

[drop! abnormal! abnormal! 】The remote control system suddenly sounded a loud alarm, and everyone felt tense instantly.

"Look what's going on?" Zeng Baojiang shouted urgently.

The staff are fully engaged at this moment.

"It is the mass anomaly of the WX asteroid. Its mass is heavier than we predicted, reaching about 490 million tons."

Zeng Baojiang frowned and immediately ordered: "It is 40 million tons larger than we predicted. Start the auxiliary engine immediately and increase the power of the main engine."

"yes."

Faced with this unexpected situation, "Xing" didn't know how to solve it and could only follow the established procedures. Fortunately, the ground control center corrected the engine data in time, otherwise it would have been a big trouble.

Of course, there are a lot of troubles now. The ground control center quickly modified the data and asked the supercomputing center to recalculate it. Because the quality has changed so much, everything else is also changing.

All the supercomputing power of Dongtang and Galaxy Consortium were fully activated, and the results came out after adjusting the data in less than three minutes.

"One good news and one bad news." Zeng Baojiang said helplessly.

"Say it!" Wang Tu said, staring at the holographic star map with an expressionless face.

"The good news is that the WX asteroid is still within the controllable range. The bad news is that the cross orbit of the WX asteroid and Blue Star has changed from the previous 19,000 kilometers to between 1,000 and 2,000 kilometers." Zeng Baojiang said The latest orbit of the WX asteroid is marked on the holographic star map.

"At least it's still within control." Wang Tu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"In addition, due to the increased mass of the WX asteroid, the time the spacecraft can be supported by fuel may be reduced by about 12% than expected." Zeng Baojiang continued.

"Start the spare Qinglong-class No. 002 and No. 004 to replenish fuel for preparation." Wang Tu immediately ordered.

"But..." Zeng Baojiang was about to say something.

"Nothing but, execute it immediately." Wang Tu said decisively.

"yes!"

At this time, the flight trajectory of the WX asteroid was slowly changing, and the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft desperately corrected their direction.

After starting the engine for a long time, the nozzle became a little red. Fortunately, the Space Development Council discovered the problem of fatigue deformation of the nozzle before and sprayed a layer of mixed gel on the engine nozzle so that the mixed gel coating can withstand 14,000 degrees Celsius. high temperature.

If it were the previous nozzle, something would definitely go wrong if the engine was used so intensively.