I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

"Still unable to contact Artemis?"

Robert came to the Artemis team worriedly and saw the person in charge shaking his head calmly:

"No, according to your instructions, we gave the channel and key to communicate with Artemis to XAP, but they have no choice. The flipped Artemis can't find a stable communication direction at all, but it's not completely It’s all bad news.”

"So what's the good news?"

"XAP's high-orbit satellite captured a photo of Artemis. According to our judgment, Artemis's reflective surface should be fully unfolded, not only partially unfolded as expected, indicating its working mechanism. is normal."

Robert frowned:

"If it is fully deployed, it should not cause deflection due to overload, and the attitude system can fully cope with it."

Person in charge: “So we suspect this is actually a sensor failure, or an error in the computer program.

The deployment of Artemis should have been very smooth, but some of the tens of thousands of sensors around it were wrong and sent back wrong signals, causing the attitude system to make wrong adjustments, mistakenly thinking that something big had happened to Artemis. Range offset.

Then this deflection further led to errors in judgment, more corrections to the wrong attitude, and finally caused Artemis to actively start spinning, and the attitude system simply shut down. "

Robert found the pictures transmitted from Xinyuan and NACA's emergency analysis report, which at least proved that the structure of Artemis was basically intact. As long as the huge reflecting surface was not broken, it was necessary to get it back on track as much as possible.

"Then can we find a way to restart the system, or re-enter the parameter correction?"

Faced with the director's expectations, the person in charge still shook his head:

"We don't know the source of the fault yet, and there is another problem. Artemis is about to enter the dayside. Its spin speed is not very fast yet, and the sunlight may cause it to spin too fast. quickly, eventually leading to its own disintegration.

We roughly calculated the limit endurance range of its orbit and materials. If it passes through the dayside at most three times, the speed change caused by sunlight will definitely exceed the endurance limit, and the reflective surface will be torn off. "

Artemis is currently running in an orbit of about 400 kilometers, with an orbiting period of almost 90 minutes, which means there is still a little more than two hours. After that, even if the expensive artificial sun does not need ground-launched missiles, it will It will disintegrate and be destroyed as it spins faster and faster.

NACA can't find any clues now. The key is that even if it lowers its head and goes to the Aviation Development Commission, the other party will be unable to do anything.

The Soyuz spacecraft also had an uncontrolled spin accident three years ago. The space shuttle could fly over and forcefully correct it, but Artemis could not.

Even if a space shuttle could arrive and capture it within a mere two hours, it would not be able to stop its spin.

First, Artemis has a mass of more than 150 tons. Even if it spins slowly, its momentum is quite terrifying, making it useless for ordinary space shuttles;

The second and most important thing is that Artemis is too fragile, so fragile that only the uniform and gentle thrust of its own ion thruster can adjust its posture, otherwise the huge reflective surface will be torn apart.

So the problem is quite tricky. Artemis is like a soap bubble floating around. You have to stop it but you can't pop it.

The anxious Robert thought about it and suddenly asked:

"Can it shrink back? As long as it can shrink back, it will be much easier to solve later."

Person in charge: "Theoretically, it's possible, but there's still a signal problem. Even if we try, we can't contact Artemis.

Unless we find a way to launch a satellite precisely to it, then maneuver with it and transmit commands.

But I don’t recommend doing this. The space affected by Artemis’ rotation is too large, and it is very easy to block the signal of this satellite, which may cause further damage. In addition, we do not have a preset emergency contraction command. Now If you do it..."

"Then do it now. This is the only way we can do it. This is 10 billion US dollars! The Apollo project didn't even use this much money!"

Robert interrupted the person in charge’s explanation and immediately commanded:

"Write the command immediately. Be quick. I will only give you 30 minutes. The rocket will launch in 60 minutes at most!"

The person in charge was dumbfounded and asked subconsciously:

"60 minutes? This is not even enough time to hoist the rocket to the launch pad, and we do not have satellites that can perform the mission immediately."

Robert: "But the Air Force has it. Their emergency network repair system has both rockets and satellites. I think there is no problem in using one for 10 billion US dollars. You just need to do it immediately. We don't have time to waste!"

Just as he was hurriedly making plans, Deputy Director Jim rushed in and said breathlessly:

"The Hexagon...they requested NACA's assistance to let Artemis..."

Robert frowned, interrupted him and replied impatiently:

"We're doing it, and we need their help right away, and I want to save Artemis more than any of them.

I know Artemis caused a big disaster, but believe us, it will only cause chaos for a period of time at most. The Aviation Development Commission has reached an understanding with us. "

Jim: "No, not to keep it, but to let it continue to cause large-scale radio interference, preferably affecting most of the Eastern Hemisphere!"

Robert was startled and realized something was possible. He rushed forward and grabbed Jim's shoulders with both hands and asked fiercely:

"What happened again? Damn it, are they crazy? We finally reached a settlement!"

Jim was a little dizzy because of him. He wanted to say the answer but shuddered. He uttered a few words with his eyes blank:

"war...the war, it's there."

This extremely sensitive word instantly made Robert shudder and almost jumped up on the spot.

"No, this is impossible! These crazy people, no, I can't do this, there must be some misunderstanding, I will never execute this order!"

Robert reacted, grabbed the head of Artemis by the neck, and almost roared in front of him:

"We must not let Artemis continue to create chaos, immediately, immediately get the order I need!

Jim, I need a helicopter, we can stop these as quickly as possible!"

Robert dragged Jim out and ran, then he seemed to think of something, took out his mobile phone and opened a certain software, hesitated for a moment and clicked it, and pressed the letters one by one while running dizzy, and finally pressed the send button tremblingly.

After seeing the successful sending, he felt a sudden shock in his heart, but inexplicably relaxed a little, and then deleted the operation record locally.