Homo sapiens

Just when the International Space Station of the Earth Alliance was arguing with the Earth Alliance Association.

In the orbit above the space station, there are 16 small communication satellites owned by the Space Exploration Company. They were damaged beyond repair during this solar storm.

The orbital control systems of these satellites have failed, and the communication systems are also unusable. They are considered completely scrapped.

One of the scrapped Starlink satellites lost control and collided with another nearby Lucia spy satellite.

Due to the outbreak of the solar storm at this time, communications on the earth have been affected, and some communication satellites have been scrapped. As a result, members of the Earth Alliance are unable to monitor all spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.

Especially the side of low-Earth orbit that is swept by solar storms.

After the scrapped Starlink satellite collided with the Lucia spy satellite, both satellites were severely damaged and both deviated from their respective orbits.

Debris and debris produced by satellite impacts are sputtered in all directions, especially to lower orbits.

The orbital altitude of these two satellites is approximately 670 to 680 kilometers in low-Earth orbit.

The Earth Alliance's new International Space Station is in the low-Earth orbit area of ​​450 to 460 kilometers.

Hundreds of satellite fragments and debris drifted all the way to lower orbits.

Soon, three more Starlink satellites and two satellites from other forces were involved. These colliding satellites and debris ejected more debris and debris, further expanding the scope of the debris sputtering.

About an hour and a half later.

Dozens of pieces of satellite debris have drifted near the new International Space Station.

Due to the attack of the solar storm, nearly a quarter of the equipment of the International Space Station was paralyzed, and a large part of the equipment failed. These small debris were not detected approaching the space station at all.

A piece of debris separated from the Lucia spy satellite rolled and hit the No. 3 experimental module of the space station.

This satellite shell, with a radius of almost 0.4 meters, instantly smashed through the bulkhead of the No. 3 experimental cabin with the help of rapid speed.

[alarm! alarm! There is an air leak in Experimental Cabin No. 3...]

Zhang Ming's face changed drastically when he felt that the surrounding air pressure began to drop rapidly: "No! Close the pressure gate of Cabin 3 quickly..."

Robert, who was responsible for controlling the management of the internal air pressure system, quickly pressed the emergency button.

Immediately, the doors on both sides of Experimental Module 3 automatically closed, and some of the air pressure inside the space station stopped falling.

However, they didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief.

Another satellite fragment the size of a screw quietly penetrated a fuel tank on the space station, leaking a large amount of methane stored in the fuel tank.

[alarm! alarm! The F5 fuel tank leaked...]

"This..." Zhang Ming was shocked.

The entire new International Space Station has four pairs of fuel tanks, corresponding to the 16 attitude control engines on the space station.

Power system manager Jin Shangwen swallowed his throat: "Captain, we only have 9 posture control engines left."

Zhang Ming thought for a moment and made a decisive decision: "Immediately activate emergency plan No. 7."

"receive."

The other seven astronauts had no objections. This emergency plan was also prepared for this situation.

They quickly put on extravehicular spacesuits and headed to the space station's emergency escape craft. It was obvious that Zhang Ming had already sensed the problem with the space station and did not dare to be careless.

Come to the emergency escape craft.

Correspondent Owen received the order from the Ground Alliance headquarters.

"Captain, the headquarters requires us to stay here for half a month. After half a month, the headquarters will launch two spaceships and send us a batch of repair components."

Zhang Ming frowned: "Have you reported our current situation?"

Owen's face was also very ugly: "I reported it."

"Fake! Don't they know that the space station is facing the crisis of losing control and disintegrating?" Robert cursed angrily.

Although Zhang Ming was very angry and disappointed, he still forced himself to calm down: "Owen, in the name of all our members, please apply to return to Earth again and explain the crisis of the space station at this time."

"yes."

Then Zhang Ming said to others: "Everyone, we must be prepared on both sides. On the one hand, we must find a way to eliminate the danger of the space station first, and on the other hand, make an emergency evacuation plan."

Everyone also knows that this is one of the few things they can do at the moment.

However, Zhang Ming and other astronauts didn't know that the satellite debris sputtering everywhere was going crazy at this time.

Since the Space Exploration Company has a large number of Starlink satellites, there are currently 3,572 satellites operating in low-Earth orbit, plus some satellites launched in cooperation with the Earth Alliance in recent years.

Moreover, these satellites are still crowded in this orbit at an altitude of 400 to 750 kilometers.

When a large amount of debris is flying everywhere, and solar storms interfere with communications, many satellites responsible for monitoring space debris in low-Earth orbit have large-scale monitoring blind spots.

Soon the number of satellites colliding with each other increased to 37.

These satellites colliding with each other further increase the size of the debris.

As if a chain reaction had been triggered, a large number of debris and debris were scattered around in low-Earth orbit.

Homo sapiens' space division headquarters.

It was very clear what happened in low-Earth orbit at this time, and the trajectories of various debris were even monitored.

Facing this mess of low-Earth orbit, Homo sapiens also feels very troubled and can only give priority to protecting the company's satellites.

This is one of the reasons why the Homo sapiens company placed the space station in a mid-level orbit.

It is because the large number of Starlink satellites launched by Musk can easily trigger a chain reaction if they lose control.

And if the current large-scale Homo sapiens space station is placed in an orbit of 400 to 500 kilometers, it will be numb in the face of such dense and chaotic satellite debris.

Homo sapiens company has cleared the door for itself.

The Earth Federation Association on the other side finally noticed the problem, but it was too late.

Especially those Starlink satellites with limited fuel have no way to make large-scale maneuverable orbit changes. This has led to a rapid increase in the number of Starlink satellites hit by debris.

This situation has further increased the scale of satellite debris.

A vicious cycle begins.

Three hours later, the helpless Dilian Association had to declare that the evasion plan had failed.

During this period, the new International Space Station was hit by seven more debris of different sizes.

Zhang Ming's face turned extremely dark as he looked at the emergency escape spacecraft's bulkhead where a small hole had been smashed by the debris.

"No! Although the air leak has been blocked, one of the attitude control engines of the escape spacecraft has been damaged, and the escape spacecraft cannot be used." Jin Shangwen floated out of the escape spacecraft.

Other astronauts were worried.

Robert even yelled: "Fake Squid! Those bastards killed us! If they hadn't stopped us from returning to Earth, we would have returned to Earth safely long ago."

Zhang Ming asked: "Owen, has there been no reply from the Ground Alliance headquarters yet?"

Owen shook his head in disappointment: "No, they asked us to continue waiting."

"Wait a minute!" an astronaut exploded.

In fact, the Prefectural Federation Association was also very anxious at this time. It was not that it was indifferent, but it was useless to be anxious.

After receiving the request for help from the space station, the management of the Earth Alliance immediately held a meeting to discuss how to solve the problem.

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