Die on Mars

"Miss Ophiopogon japonicus! Miss Ophiopogon japonicus! If you hear me, please answer! If you hear me, please answer me!"

I don’t know how long it took, but the space station had already entered the shadow on the back side of Mars. A short night of forty minutes had fallen. Maidong slightly brightened the lights in the cabin, and a sharp call suddenly came from the earphones. The sound was very clear. .

Maidong raised his head suddenly.

"Mr. Cat?"

"It's me. The situation is urgent. I won't say any more nonsense. Listen carefully to every word I say!" The old cat spoke very fast, with rapid crackling sounds in the background. You can imagine that it was typing on the keyboard quickly. While talking on the phone, "Mai Dong, listen, in five minutes and forty seconds, the Eagle spacecraft is about to rendezvous with the United Space Station! Are you in the core module of the Crystal now?"

Maidong was shocked by the sudden news.

In more than five minutes, the Eagle spacecraft will dock with the Joint Space Station?

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mr. Cat, I'm in the crystal cabin right now, on the edge of the porthole." The girl held down the earphones and nodded hurriedly.

She didn't know how the old cat restored communication. Could it be that the sandstorm over Kunlun Station had weakened again? The calls on the channel are very clear and stable, and the current noise is almost gone. Such high call quality has not been seen since the sandstorm began.

"The Eagle spacecraft has entered the orbital apogee! Prepare to change orbit! We want to succeed in one go!" Old Cat said, "Open MR now!"

"MR?"

"Microwave radar! Turn on the microwave radar!"

"Piweiwei microwave radar..."

Maidong was in a hurry.

"Are you next to the porthole? Look to your upper left. There is a gray control panel with the Boeing logo on it and the white English abbreviation RAD. Do you see it? Damn it, girl, move fast. Point...that boy Tang Yue is about to die..."

"The white English abbreviation... RAD... I saw it, I saw it! I found it!" Maidong came up and grabbed the handle on the panel, "Mr. Cat, what did you just say? What happened to Mr. Tang Yue?"

"Don't talk nonsense! Have you found the control system? Okay, now turn on the red switch on the right side of the panel! Listen, the Eagle spacecraft is about to enter the remote guidance stage. I will teach you how to operate it! Follow what I say Do it step by step without making any mistakes! Do you understand me?"

The girl nodded solemnly.

"Listen clearly."

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Kunlun Station.

The storm raged.

Lao Mao thought Tang Yue was really a lunatic. Maidong didn't know why the communication suddenly returned to normal. She thought it was because the intensity of the sandstorm had decreased. In fact, the wind speed had not decreased at all. As the low pressure area of ​​the cyclone gradually moved away, the wind speed began to rise crazily. , has now risen to forty meters per second, and you can't see your fingers outside Kunlun Station.

The reason why Lao Mao was able to regain contact with the space station was because of Tang Yue.

The lunatic promised to let Old Cat contact the Eagle spacecraft before the next orbit change window. Old Cat thought that he was trying to be brave, because no one could guarantee that the lander would be contacted under such weather conditions. I know he really did it.

"Tang Yue! Tang Yue, can you hear me? How is the situation over there? Can you still hold on?"

"The situation...is not bad! I can still hold on, you don't have to worry about me, just focus on docking the Eagle spacecraft with the space station!"

Tang Yue shouted in the channel. He was wearing bright light armor and standing in the darkness against the storm.

"What the hell!"

The old cat cursed in a low voice. If something happened to Tang Yue at this moment, it would not be able to rush to the rescue in time.

Tang Yue's location is not at the entrance of Kunlun Station.

Instead, he was standing at the edge of the garage a hundred meters away, behind the Martian stray dog, with a huge communication antenna strapped to his body.

This was Tang Yue's method. The small emergency backup antenna was too weak, so he decided to re-activate the Kunlun station's own communication antenna. The latter was a big guy over two meters tall, with strong power and could operate in a storm. Keep in touch, it was blown over by strong winds in a sandstorm and rendered useless.

It’s not like Lao Mao has never thought about erecting this big antenna again, but this antenna is placed next to the garage, which is too far from Kunlun Station. If you want to activate the antenna, you have to go to the garage. It is a hundred meters away, and Lao Mao will not be able to go out. You may not be able to come back. Others were simply dead in the past.

Tang Yue, a loser, touched it while singing "Katyusha" and "Unity is Strength". He tied one end of the safety rope firmly to the door of the airlock and reconnected the antenna. The data cable, and then struggled in the dark storm for more than 40 minutes. Old Mao almost thought he died in the sandstorm, but in the end Tang Yue arrived at the garage.

Immediately afterwards, Tang Yue drove the Mars Stray Dog out, used the tall body of the Mars rover as a windshield, and then erected the communication antenna. In the wind speed of forty meters per second, the antenna could no longer be held, so Tang Yue put the antenna up. It was tightly tied to his body, using his weight of more than 140 kilograms and the Mingguang Armor, which weighed 120 kilograms, as a human body support to resist the raging sandstorm.

This lunatic is really desperate for his life.

A desperado through and through.

"Damn...you have to come back alive!"

Old Mao stared at the screen. Tang Yue created unprecedented communication conditions for him. The Eagle spacecraft and the Joint Space Station continuously transmitted real-time data to the computer at Kunlun Station.

Tang Yue has fulfilled his promise, he has done what he said, now it's up to Lao Mao... Since they gave up the plan of two orbit changes and only carried out one maneuvering orbit change, the control difficulty increased sharply. Acceleration and deceleration attitude control must be just right, and the timing must be accurately grasped.

Old Cat, an experienced driver, has to control the Russian-made tractor above his head, let the RD-0172 rocket engine take the Eagle spacecraft to perform a super large drift, change lanes at high speed, and accurately reverse the truck into the warehouse! When docking, the distance deviation cannot exceed 300 mm, and the angle deviation cannot exceed 5 degrees. This operation is very difficult, but it cannot be difficult for the legendary Akinayama stroller god!

The Eagle spacecraft gradually approached the space station. The two man-made spacecraft were flying in the vast vacuum. Although their relative positions were close, they were actually on completely different orbits. They came from different directions and went to different places. direction, once this window is missed, the distance between the lander and the space station will quickly widen.

Lao Mao must seize this opportunity.

It wants the Eagle spacecraft to jump into the orbit of the space station!

The computer's timer has been synchronized and begins counting down.

Countdown to five seconds.

The old cat slowly narrowed his eyes, put his paws on the keyboard, slowly applied pressure with his fingers, and the two cursors on the screen flashed one after another.

Countdown to three seconds.

The lander flies to apogee.

Countdown to two seconds.

The space station enters perigee.

One second countdown!

Lao Mao pressed the start button. The moment he pressed the button, the system computer of Kunlun Station transmitted electrical signals to the antenna through the cable. The communication antenna shot modulated radio waves into the air. The electromagnetic waves passed through the hundreds of kilometers of Martian atmosphere at the speed of light. It entered the receiver of the relay satellite within 0.06 seconds. After 0.02 seconds, the relay satellite changed the direction of the signal and sent the old cat's instructions to the Eagle spacecraft over hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.

The Eagle spacecraft received the order and the RD-0172 engine ignited! Start changing course!