Monster Factory - 1070

Behind is the blue planet, and behind is the dark and endless universe.

Before the launch, the commander-in-chief Chen Fangli consulted Ye Qing and asked what the name of the communications satellite was.

Ye Qing had a name in his heart, but Ye Qing hoped to announce it after it was successfully launched.

It now appears that 80% of the journey to success has been completed.

The satellite flies to the final orbit at the first cosmic speed. Then there is deceleration work. The universe has no gravity. As much energy is usually expended on advancing, the same energy must be used to reduce the speed to zero.

“The signal is normal.”

“Long-range surveillance radar and altitude measurement radar, tracking is normal.”

“Slow down in thirty minutes. Try to get into orbit.”

On the display wall, data that Ye Qing didn’t understand kept flashing.

Listening to the report from the technical staff, all this was unexpectedly normal.

The half-hour wait became so long that when the commander-in-chief Chen Fangli patted Ye Qing on the shoulder and told Ye Qing that the satellite had successfully entered orbit, Ye Qing still didn’t react.

“Mr. Ye, this time the orbit is extremely smooth. From starting the booster to adjusting the attitude, the satellite uses the reverse thrust to decelerate to zero. The whole set of actions is done in one go, without any extra secondary fine-tuning actions, saving at least about 7%. fuel.”

“The propulsion system of this satellite is excellent.”

“This shows that our domestic industrial technology is making great progress, and we have made proud achievements in the aerospace industry.” Ye Qing pretended to smile lightly.

The satellite propulsion system was purchased from the scientific research factory supporting the space center. Of course, this is due to the excellent software and hardware integration of the giant monster industry, no matter how strong the control software is, the hardware must pass the test.

“Being on track means that 90% of the journey has been completed successfully, and I have a chance to win the remaining 10%.” The commander-in-chief Chen Fangli also praised the giant beast industry easily.

After speaking, the commander-in-chief Chen Fangli turned his head and shouted into the microphone: “Enter the solar panel deployment procedure.”

“Yes~” the commander issued an order, “all departments pay attention, the solar panels will be deployed in one minute.”

“The satellite sensor is normal.”

“The radio transmitter is normal.”

“The energy storage battery cycle is normal.”

“The windsurfing board needs to be adjusted to a negative 27% angle, and manual intervention is required to correct it at any time.”

“Ready, unfold the windsurfing.”

“Yes!”

An electromagnetic wave, invisible to the naked eye, set off from the launch station of the aviation center at the speed of light. After 0.13 seconds, the electromagnetic wave reached the position of the satellite.

The satellite radio receiver receives the signal, and after the signal is verified by the multi-channel encryption chip, the control program automatically executes the command in the signal.

Unfolding solar panels is the last and most accident-prone procedure after the satellite enters orbit.

Satellites need a lot of power to perform their missions. Taking the communications satellite of Behemoth Industry as an example, it needs at least ten square meters of solar panels to provide thousands of watts of energy supply to meet the requirements.

Satellites without energy can only be space junk. For energy, satellites must have huge solar panels and ensure that one side of the solar panels is always facing the sun.

The space of the satellite carrier is limited, which also requires the windsurfing boards to be gathered together before the satellite goes to the sky.

Therefore, the solar panels of the satellite are all fixed on both sides of the satellite with a spring restraint mechanism, and the pyrotechnic mechanism is used to lock it.

Each gram of the carrier rocket’s load is extremely precious. The satellite can only deploy the windsurfing board with the lowest weight one-time deployment plan. After deployment, the windsurfing board loses its ability to retract.

Similarly, the satellite has only one chance to unfold the windsurfing board, and failure becomes a box.

In every major aerospace country, there are examples of failed solar windsurfing deployments.

If you don’t look for it, the Changsan rocket, which sent the giant monster industry satellite to the sky, encountered it when it launched the Sino Satellite Communications satellite.

The reason for the repeated problems is that the satellite deploys the windsurfing board using an all-mechanical solution. The mechanism that locks the windsurfing board to spread out is eight explosive bolts.

Explosive bolts are pyrotechnics and cannot be technically tested in advance.

This means that it may be flawed.

And these explosive bolts are made by the giant monster industry itself.

“The explosion screw insurance is released, and the two detonates at the same time.”

There was a shout from someone in the space center, followed by two flashes on both sides of the orbiting satellite at the same time. Then came the second time, the third time…

With each flash, there will be two extremely small screw caps that burst out of the surface of the satellite.

“The detonation of the No. 1 screw is complete.”

“The second screw detonation is complete.”

“The third… screw detonation is complete.”

“Number four… number four also succeeded!”

All the explosive screws detonated, losing the bound spring restraint mechanism, and immediately released the elastic force after rigorous calculation, pushing the six solar windsurfing boards into a plane.

The sun is at the negative 27% angle of the satellite, the light sensor automatically captures the sun’s position, and the control system drives the windsurfing board to rotate slowly, turning the dark blue surface toward the sun.

The moment the sun shines on the windsurfing.

The moment when the windsurfing board converts the hot sunlight into electricity and stores it inside the battery pack.

Excited applause came from the command hall of the Space Center again.

“The solar windsurfing board has been deployed, the energy circulation system is working normally, and the windsurfing automatic attitude adjustment system is normal.”

“We succeeded!”

“Success…success?” Ye Qing asked the commander-in-chief Chen Fangli with his eyes, and the latter gave a positive look.

“Perfect. From launch to satellite deployment, every step is as perfect as a textbook.” Commander-in-chief Chen Fangli excitedly held Ye Qing’s hands. Transceiver.”

“The main transceiver is the core and most energy-consuming component of WeChat communications.”

“Now that everything is normal for the main radio transceiver, we have completely succeeded!”

At this moment, Ye Qing’s cell phone rang.

After answering the phone, the company’s Dianjing reported to Ye Qing that it had been able to contact the satellite from the control room ten seconds ago.

“very good!”

“Then enter the test work, after testing the satellite communication capabilities, adjust the optical lens, take a picture of our building to see.”

“Yeah!” Dianjing strongly agreed.

After more than ten minutes, Ye Qing received a picture from Dianjing on WeChat.

It was a picture with a surface full of noise and slightly distorted colors. At first glance, it looks like it was shot by a copycat mobile phone camera with only 300,000 pixels.

But its real source is the image taken by the communications satellite located more than 30,000 kilometers away in space.

The diamond-shaped building is slightly slanted and stands on the ground.

Above the building, you can also vaguely see the giant monster logo of the Giant Monster Industry, emitting a silver light in the sun.

It is obviously unrealistic to allow a communications satellite in a synchronous orbit to have the same excellent capabilities as a low-orbit reconnaissance satellite.

But based on the clarity of this photo, Ye Qing’s idea of allowing communication satellites to lock and track aircraft in real time has been established.

“Commander Chen, didn’t you ask me what this satellite is called?”

Ye Qing clenched his fist and said to him: “This satellite is called [Skynet One].”

“Soon there will be Skynet No. 2, No. 3, No. 4…”