Chapter 601 The House Leaked and It Rained All Night

After five days of orbiting, gravitational slingshot, and entering the lunar orbit, the spacecraft named "Lunar 7" finally reached the lunar orbit without any danger.

At this time, the spacecraft's fuel has almost reached its limit. The remaining fuel can allow up to 8 to 10 small orbit changes and 3 to 4 large orbit changes.

Therefore, the landing was imminent, and both the NASA headquarters in Houston Space City and Hawk and Wade at Lunar Outpost 1 couldn't help but become nervous.

Now that the spacecraft is orbiting, it does not need to consume much fuel, but if it lingers any longer, it is very likely to delay the landing.

October 19, around 1 a.m.

At this time, Lunar Outpost 1 has entered the moonlight period, and Lunar 7, which is orbiting above, plans to start landing.

At least they don't know that danger is coming to the moon.

Toad Palace Space Station.

Qin Anmin, the head of the Lunar Emergency Office, is paying close attention to extreme astronomical phenomena that may affect the moon.

Especially after the last high-intensity solar storm, the mainland only launched a Long 12, sent three solar wind monitoring satellites to the Lagrange point L1 between the sun and the blue star, and established a solar wind observation station.

Currently, these three monitoring satellites are orbiting the blue-solar Lagrange point L1, using multi-layer composite protective layers to reduce the impact of solar storms.

Although the ray flow of solar storms is close to the speed of light, the flow of neutrons, protons, and charged atoms are not close to the speed of light, and there is a time difference of several hours.

At this moment, a stream of solar rays sweeps past the blue-solar Lagrangian point L1.

The instantaneous data was then fed back and relayed through communication satellites in synchronous orbit. The supercomputing system of the instantaneous headquarters calculated the intensity of the solar wind.

In the Toad Palace Space Station, Qin Anmin, who was in the astronomical data module, suddenly frowned, and a notification from the headquarters popped up on the computer page.

[Please pay attention to guard against solar storms. The intensity of this solar storm is 9.2,...]

He immediately sounded the alarm and issued a solar storm warning.

Although a solar storm below level 10 is like a breeze blowing on the blue star protected by a magnetic cage, it will hardly cause any ripples.

However, the moon without a natural magnetic cage and solar storms above level 8 may have a negative impact on the spacecraft.

Hongwan Plain No. 1 Hot Well Power Station.

Fang Hong's internal communication channel rang an emergency notice: "All astronauts working outside, please pay attention. A solar storm is coming. Please enter the bunker and pay attention to protection... Repeat..."

Upon hearing the news, he immediately stopped drilling and jogged toward the capsule area.

Although among the eight space capsules, two are power capsules (with about 27 tons of fuel left), and six are functional capsules.

Among the six functional cabins, one is a substation cabin, one is a distribution cabin, and four are accessory cabins of the power station.

Most of the accessories in the accessory cabin must be assembled into a power station, and an empty shell will be left in the end. Considering the full utilization, the secondary transformation of these empty shells was taken into consideration at the beginning of the design.

Currently, two component cabins have been vacated, and the main base of Guanghan Palace has also sent people over twice to install lead composite panels on the two cabins and add some living modules inside.

Although it is relatively simple, the conditions are much better than before.

As soon as Fang Hong arrived at the simple living cabin, Li Jianxian also appeared not far from him. The two quickly dusted off and entered the simple living cabin.

However, they did not take off their exoskeleton spacesuits, because if something went wrong with the space capsule, they could still use the exoskeleton spacesuits, which would provide an extra layer of insurance.

Other astronauts working outside also evacuated to the inside of the base, or directly entered the off-road vehicle.

A magnitude 9.2 solar storm can already harm some spacecraft. To be safe, personnel should try not to appear directly in the wilderness on the lunar surface.

Time passed by minute by minute.

About two hours after the ray stream passed, a subsequent particle stream swept across the white area of ​​the moon.

The Lunar 7 spacecraft, which was just about to land at this time, was directly over the white area of ​​the moon and was directly swept by the dense particle flow.

In an instant, some of the electronic components of Lunar 7 experienced system abnormalities.

However, the Houston Space City, which was responsible for the control, did not discover it immediately because there was a delay of about 3 minutes in the communication between the moon and the blue star.

However, Hawke and Wade at the Lunar Outpost 1 base did not have master control authority, only the authority to assist the landing.

Under normal circumstances, communication delays can be overcome through pre-set programs. With the assistance of the lunar base, there will generally not be any major problems.

However, the situation that Lunar 7 encountered at this time was a moderately intense solar storm. The landing procedure set by itself had become abnormal, and manual intervention was required to correct it.

However, due to communication delays, NASA headquarters did not know that Lunar 7 was being impacted by the particle flow of the solar storm at this time.

The landing is still continuing, the engine is spitting out light blue flames, and it is flying rapidly in the direction of Lunar Outpost 1.

Three minutes later.

Inside the command center at Space City Houston.

Finally, the abnormal data feedback from Lunar 7 was received, but it was already too late.

"Farke!"

"Oh! NO!"

"what to do?"

"Damn it!"

Everyone in the command center suddenly looked extremely sad. They were about to succeed, but they didn't expect that something went wrong at the last moment.

Lunar 7 is rapidly approaching Outpost 1. According to the predetermined trajectory, it will land in an area about 2.4 to 2.5 kilometers south of Outpost 1 in 2 minutes.

However, due to a program anomaly, the braking time of one of the auxiliary engine brakes was delayed by about 4.7 seconds.

Just these 4.7 seconds had terrible consequences.

Lunar 7 has a total of six auxiliary engines. If one of them is slow, it will cause abnormalities in the flight direction and speed.

This caused the landing time of Lunar 7 to suddenly advance by about 7 seconds, and the landing position changed from 2.4 to 2.5 kilometers south to about 1.5 to 1.6 kilometers southeast.

What's even more frightening is that the landing time was advanced, causing the flight speed to be much faster than the scheduled landing speed.

One minute later.

Before Luna 7 had time to push back and slow down, the spacecraft plunged into the lunar sea and was directly smashed into pieces.

A large amount of lunar soil, small rocks, and spacecraft debris were sputtered in all directions.

The moon's low-gravity sub-vacuum environment allows these sputtered stones, lunar soil, and debris to fly relatively long distances.

At this time, Outpost 1, which was only about 1,542 meters away from the crash site, bore the brunt of the impact.

The lunar soil is a little better, but the key is the small rocks and spacecraft wreckage.

Facing the crash area, Outpost 1, three pieces of spacecraft debris and two small stones directly smashed through a living cabin and two scientific research cabins.

[alarm! There was an air leakage and pressure loss in the living cabin A2. ]

[alarm! There was an air leakage and pressure loss in the scientific research module B2. ]

[alarm! There is an air leakage and pressure loss in scientific research cabin B3, and chemical agents are leaking. Please deal with it as soon as possible...]

"Fake Squid!" Wade yelled in panic.

Hawke and Wade quickly evacuated to living cabin A1, and then closed the hatch to prevent air leakage and pressure loss in living cabin A1.

Just looking at the messy base and the crashed Lunar 7 spacecraft, the two of them felt extremely depressed.

The current situation in Outpost 1 is that the house is leaking and it rains all night long, and bad luck has been hanging over them.

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