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The head of the operations engineering team hurried back to his office, picked up the phone and called President Shotwell.

At this time, Shotwell was discussing with his boss, Musk, the upcoming "one arrow and five flying" plan.

After listening to the person in charge's report, Shotwell was displeased, but since the accident had already happened, it was necessary to figure out what went wrong first.

After a few words to the person in charge, Shotwell hung up the phone.

Seeing that Shotwell's face was a little ugly, Musk asked curiously: "Why is his face so ugly? What happened?"

Shotwell said in a heavy tone: "Just now, our Starlink satellite suddenly disappeared inexplicably when it passed the orbit above Hua Guojing..."

"Disappeared? Could it be that the network module has malfunctioned? After all, this kind of thing has not happened before." Musk asked back.

Shotwell shook his head and said: "I thought so at first, but this problem has occurred in several satellites in a row, and even the positions of the coordinate points are almost the same. Even if the module fails, it cannot be such a coincidence. There may be problems with several in a row."

Musk thought about it and said, "Have you checked the monitoring satellite?"

Shotwell nodded and said: "Well, it's adjusted, and the technicians have already checked it, and found nothing unusual..."

"Oh? That's interesting..." Musk was not in a hurry, but continued with interest: "How is the situation now?"

"The person in charge said that as long as our satellites pass through that area, they will lose their signal inexplicably... So far, we have lost six satellites..."

Musk put down the marker pen in his hand, sat back on his office chair, crossed his legs, rubbed his fingers under his nose, and thought: "How big is the area where the satellite will disappear?"

"Uh... this is not sure yet. But according to the person in charge, the coordinates of the disappearance of these satellites are about a few meters up and down... the exact number is still uncertain..."

Musk nodded and said: "In that case, let's try out the scope of this area first..."

"Uh...what do you mean?" Shotwell vaguely felt that his boss was going to start burning money again...

Musk said with a smile: "Let the operation team send instructions to the satellites that will pass behind, and move the position by two meters, four meters, and six meters, until the range of that area is tested..."

"Uh... But in this way, our satellites will lose a lot..."

Musk said indifferently: "The loss of a few satellites will not affect our Starlink system. But if we make incredible discoveries, it will be worth the money..."

Get the boss's order, as the president of SpaceX, Shotwell must implement the boss's decision without hesitation.

Therefore, Shotwell called the person in charge of the boss's decision, and the person in charge confirmed that he had heard correctly before proceeding to implement it.

After about an hour and the loss of forty satellites, the operation engineers finally calculated the area where the satellite disappeared inexplicably.

"One hundred square meters?" Hearing the report from the person in charge, Shotwell couldn't help asking in surprise.

Musk heard Shotwell's words from the side, raised his eyebrows, and waved to Shotwell, motioning her to turn on the speaker.

Then, Musk asked: "Is this a plane?"

Hearing the voice of the boss Musk, the person in charge quickly responded: "At present, we can only measure this range, because the satellite disappears when it reaches this area... If you want to know whether this is a plane, you need to turn the satellite. ..but if this is the case, our satellite is likely to deviate from the orbit due to power failure, or even crash..."

Musk weighed the pros and cons. After all, 2000 satellites have been lost, and the direct cost alone has reached 4000 million US dollars. If the rocket launch cost is included, the loss this time is almost close to [-] million...

There was no sound on the other end of the phone, and the person in charge asked hesitantly: "Boss...President...Then what should we do next? If we leave it alone, our satellites in this orbit will all disappear. ..."

Seeing that the boss did not respond, Shotwell also asked: "Boss... what should we do next?"

Musk also responded because of too much loss in doing so: "Let the technicians evaluate it, and if conditions permit, let the satellites in this orbit be raised or lowered to avoid this area..."

After getting the boss's order, the person in charge said hello, then hung up the phone to carry it out.

At the same time, Musk stood up with his arms supporting the desk, and said to Shotwell: "Come on, let me communicate with NASA. This matter is no longer something we can handle..."

At the same time, the Huaguo Space Administration also monitored the series of abnormal behaviors of the Starlink satellites through the SLC-18 space surveillance radar, and the engineer who discovered the frequent abnormal orbit changes of the Starlink satellites reported the situation to the bureau immediately. lead.

After the bureau leader heard the news, he rushed to the satellite monitoring center to analyze the danger of the incident without taking a break.

After evaluating and calculating a series of data from the Starlink satellites returned by the radar, the Huaguo Space Administration came to an unexpected conclusion. The chief engineer reported to the director: "Director, after analysis, we agree that the Directly above, in the 550-kilometer low-Earth orbit, which is the orbit on which SpaceX's Starlink satellites currently operate, for some unknown reason, some accidents have occurred. At present, forty Starlink satellites have disappeared from the radar... "

The director asked in disbelief: "Disappeared? Is it possible that these satellites have changed their orbits, and our radar hasn't detected it yet?"

The chief engineer shook his head confidently and said: "No, our radar has already covered all low-Earth orbits, and the activity trajectories of SpaceX Starlink satellites are all under our monitoring. The forty satellites that disappeared have never disappeared. From the moment they disappeared, they have never appeared again! Moreover, we found that the coordinates of their disappearance are also very regular, which should be caused by SpaceX's human intervention."

Then, the chief engineer showed a newly drawn coordinate map to the bureau leader, and explained: "Director, this is the model we drew based on the coordinate points when the satellite disappeared. From this picture, we can see that At this location, for some reason, there is a square area ten meters long and ten meters wide. As soon as the satellite arrived in this area, the signal disappeared for no reason..."

After the chief engineer's explanation, the director suddenly had an image in his mind, and blurted out: "Could it be a black hole?"

The chief engineer shook his head and explained: "Probably not, the closest black hole to our blue star discovered so far is also 1560 light-years away. Moreover, if a black hole really appears in the blue star's low-Earth orbit, it will definitely not be just now Such a situation..."

After listening to the chief engineer's explanation, the director also felt that he had made a mistake just now. After thinking about it, he said, "Then, could this be the fault of the beautiful country?"

The chief engineer thought for a while and said: "It shouldn't be...the Starlink satellite project was initiated by them, what is the purpose of losing forty satellites for nothing?"

Everyone in the monitoring center showed embarrassment, and couldn't figure out what was going on for a moment.

Seeing that everyone couldn't explain why, the director didn't wait any longer, and said to the chief engineer: "You guys continue to monitor first, and I will report this situation first. After all, this abnormal situation happened in the sky above the capital, and the location is too far away." You are too sensitive, you must first let the upper management know..."

After the director finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the monitoring center quickly. The chief engineer continued to analyze the abnormal situation together with other engineers.