Great Power Technology

The situation took a turn for the worse, and Jane hurriedly entered the operation instructions, but she was shocked to find that all the instructions she had given were like mud into the sea, sinking into the vast space, while the thousands of Starlink satellites did not respond at all.

Even after she entered the final emergency shutdown command, the satellite still kept the orbiting engine on, slowly but surely deviating from the planned orbit.

"What exactly is going on!?"

Jane shouted hysterically at James beside her. The latter did not answer, but immediately restored the communication between heaven and earth and began to calmly report the situation to the ground in cipher text.

What he reported was simple:

All space-based units, including but not limited to Starlink satellites, are completely out of control.

How is this done?

Logically speaking, even if the other party cracks one's own ciphertext or even interferes with the operation command signal, it will never achieve such an effect.

Thousands of Starlink satellites need to be controlled simultaneously, which cannot be achieved by simply interfering and tampering with instructions. What it requires is a complete set of systems, and even the operation fitting model is unique.

Yes, the other party may be able to influence one or two satellites individually, or control dozens or hundreds of satellites, but without an operating system, it is impossible for them to achieve unified scheduling of the entire Starlink system.

It was almost like some kind of miracle.

James stared numbly at the signal display on the screen. After a moment, he suddenly realized.

The movement trajectories of those satellites are almost exactly the same as the movement trajectories after they issued the first operation command.

The other party did not interfere with the operation instructions at all.

They just intercepted their own instructions, and after using some method to deceive the system, they reissued the instructions that had already been executed.

But now, our own side has absolutely no way to do this - even if control of the Starlink satellites is restored, who can guarantee that the operational data will not double after the next command is issued?

"Contact the ground."

James sighed helplessly.

"There is no need to continue struggling. This is not a problem that we can solve. We must communicate directly with the other party."

"What do you mean? You mean we have to admit defeat??"

Jane looked at James in astonishment, who nodded and replied:

"At least they just doubled the data. If they tripled the data, probably 80% of the Starlink satellites would have crashed by now."

"We just have to throw in the towel because we don't even know how they did it."

"But."

"alright."

James interrupted Jane's rebuttal and asked simply and directly:

"Apart from this, do you have any other options?"

Tiangong Space Station, Tianhe core module.

Looking at the Starlink satellites fading away, Luo Yaping finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In the past two hours, they have experienced the most tense moments since entering the space station.

Three Starlink satellites are approaching, with an orbital distance of only more than ten kilometers. If you are not careful, the satellites and the space station will collide, completely destroying this space station that has been the focus of countless efforts.

They have made all preparations for orbit changes. As long as they enter the final time window and the situation still does not change, they will perform an emergency orbit change to avoid those satellites that obviously carry malicious intentions.

But fortunately, the final result was within the command's expectations.

For some reason that cannot be discussed publicly, the Ugly country's satellite actively avoided its own orbit. It can even be said that it used an extremely exaggerated maneuver to far away from its own space station.

"It's really a bit thrilling this time. The last opportunity to change orbit has already entered the time window. We should give advice to the command center and prepare in advance next time. The error tolerance rate of this operation method is too low."

Hearing Luo Yaping's words, Ye Fuguang, who was sitting opposite, nodded slightly and replied:

"After all, this is the first operation, so it is normal to be a little tight on time. After optimizing the process, we should be able to reduce the operation delay to less than 20 minutes. By then, our fault tolerance rate will be improved a lot. "

"That's what I say, but I still feel it's a bit risky. I can't take the situation completely into my own hands. After all, I still feel uneasy."

Ye Fuguang gave him a funny look and asked:

"Take the situation completely in your own hands? Do you really regard other people's star chain as your own? It's not bad to be able to do it now."

"Think about what we were like before? Their satellites were just flying over, and they ignored you when you tried to communicate with them. Are you going to confront them head-on? I'm not afraid at all."

"Yes, they are just a satellite. If they collide, they will collide. We are a space station! Can we afford to collide with them?"

"It's so frustrating, like a scoundrel!"

"We thought before that we could just use missiles to shoot them down, but we could only think about it and we couldn't hit them."

"Because a fight would be equivalent to a declaration of war."

"What now? Hey, you guys changed your ways, what does that have to do with us?"

"Moreover, the current method of operation is the safest. No matter how much we check, we can't find it - we haven't changed the data!"

Having said this, Ye Fuguang smiled proudly and opened the heated pork rice with pickled vegetables in front of him, carefully scooped up the rice with a spoon and put it into his mouth.

He dared not speak while eating, otherwise food crumbs would fly into the living cabin, and even if it had no negative impact on the equipment, it would pollute the living environment of the space station.

After finally swallowing the food in his mouth, he continued to speak:

"Let me tell you, the command will definitely ask us to stop the interference later - we should delay it for a while longer and use up all the fuel of their satellite's orbiting engine before we stop."

"In the future, if they launch a batch of satellites, we will interfere with a batch of them and turn all those satellites into waste. Let's see if they can do anything about it!"

Hearing this, Luo Yaping said helplessly:

"Obey orders, obey orders, Brother Ye! Besides, who said we did this? You should remember the external caliber. Their derailment accident this time was entirely due to their own system problems."

"Hum, I know, I'm an old comrade too, don't you understand this? This is just us talking and complaining."

As he spoke, Ye Fuguang finished his rice bowl in threes and fives. After he packed the remaining garbage in special storage bags, the space station communication system happened to receive communication messages from the command center and the Dragon spacecraft at the same time. .

The content of the former is very simple, with only one text:

"Cooperate with the Dragon spacecraft and the opponent's ground command system to restore Starlink operation."

The latter is a real-time call application.

Luo Yaping glanced at Ye Fuguang, and after seeing the other party nod, she turned on the communicator and connected to the communication with the Dragon spacecraft through the public channel.

"Hello, this is the Chinese Space Station, Tiangong-2."

"This is the Ugly Dragon spacecraft. Have you received notification from your command system?"

Luo Yaping paused for a moment, then said:

"We have received notification and our headquarters has ordered us to do our best to assist you in restoring control of the Starlink system. What help do you need?"

Hearing this, Jane on the Dragon spacecraft was so angry that her face was distorted.

How can I help you? Don’t you know what help we need?

Turning off your damn interference system would be the greatest help to us!

But she couldn't express this idea directly, because she had fully understood the current situation in her previous communication with her own headquarters.

The other party did not leave any evidence, and the whole matter was handled cleanly, as if the orbit change accident of the Starlink system was really caused by our own improper operation.

It was impossible for them to admit that they had tampered with it, and we couldn't ask.

Because that is equivalent to completely exposing one's own weaknesses to the public.

Jane took a deep breath, suppressed the fierce and turbulent emotions in her heart, and said:

"We need to use your system to perform navigation calculations on Starlink satellites and feed the navigation data back to us to re-adjust the satellite orbit and attitude. Please cooperate."

"Understood."

Luo Yaping answered succinctly.

"Within half an hour."

Jane's tone was a little stiff, but she still controlled her emotions.

Just when she was about to hang up the communication, Luo Yaping's voice suddenly came from the earphones.

"etc!"

"Is there anything else?"

"Did you forget something?"

The other party's voice was brisk and indifferent, and his tone seemed no different from his own a few days ago.

Jane was stunned for a moment and asked:

"Forgot something?"

"Forgot to say thank you to us. We have helped you so much, shouldn't you say thank you?"

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Jane's fists clenched instantly, and she looked at James aside with a distorted face. The latter calmly took the microphone of the communicator, took a deep breath, and said in an extremely sincere tone:

"Thank you, Tiangong-2."