"Worker Bee One, its name is Worker Bee One."

Oh, it's the space three-bang... Bah, who gave me the nickname? Is the three-thruster the three-bang?

Adding the word "space" is so great?

The moment Tang Chao saw the barrage, he was about to start scolding on the spot, but he thought that the impact was not good.

I'm a public figure.

Just bear it.

Its name is "Worker Bee One", which is an orbital engineering spacecraft specializing in salvage, dragging, temporary rescue and other work of orbital facilities.

Another equipped spacecraft is called "Worker Bee II", which are all orbital maneuvering facilities in industrial areas.

There are only two at present, but they are "worker bee-class" orbital vehicles, which are small orbital vehicles specially used for work. When there are more large space facilities in the future, their number will increase accordingly.

Sitting in the command position, Tang Chaowen technician said: "How is the status of Worker Bee 1?"

"It's absolutely fine, Mr. Tang, you can start the task at any time." The technician looked at Tang Chao and said.

"Then let's start, let's actually experiment with its ability to work."

As Tang Chao said, he paused suddenly, then slapped the table and said, "By the way, I also need to notify the Space Administration and say that our mission is about to begin and let them pay attention."

"Okay, I'll inform you now."

The space agency that Tang Chao said is of course Tianxia's space agency. As for why they need to notify them, it is of course because their experimental mission will be equipped with Tianxia's satellite.

Of course, scrap satellites.

Worker Bee One is an engineering spacecraft, and it has salvage and dragging functions. Moreover, the latest launched module is a maintenance cabin. Maintenance must be done with something that needs repair.

Unfortunately, the pilot has been developing for a short time and the satellites launched are still very "young". They are not only young, but also have great health and have no problems at all.

Such a healthy satellite, you can't just drag it over to repair it in order to show the capabilities of the maintenance cabin?

Of course not.

So the pilot needs to get a broken satellite for testing and then repair it.

He has worked with Tianxia so many times, and it has been half a century since Tianxia Space Agency launched Tianxia's first satellite.

In the past half a century, many satellites have been launched in Tianxia? Decades have passed, and there must be scrapped satellites.

Just like the target this time? A scrap communications satellite in low-Earth orbit.

In fact, it is not completely scrapped? It just runs out of fuel and can no longer keep track? But its solar panels and communication systems are not a problem, and they are still performing their own tasks steadily.

But how long will this task be performed? In a few more months, it will completely re-enter the atmosphere and then burn.

So in fact, it has not been completely scrapped, but the task sequence has been removed, and the backup star that replaced it has been in the sky for several months? It is just right to use him for experiments.

According to the tradition of the Navigator? This mission was also live broadcast, which is why he did not want to catch a scrap satellite casually, but formally found Tianxia Space Administration.

The audience who watched the live broadcast found that the three thrusters of Sanbengzi had ignited and began to transfer the track, and then they understood that the planned task was about to begin? They all watched with concentration.

According to the mission description, this is definitely the first time that humans have been in space salvage, orbital maneuvering, pressurized chamber maintenance and hardware upgrades.

If the project starting from maintenance can be carried out? It will also be the first time that humans have repaired and upgraded scrap satellites in orbital pressurized repair chambers and refueled fuel.

Humans have done space maintenance before? They repair space stations, telescopes, etc., but they repaired a scrapped thing? They need to upgrade it? This is the first time.

And with the flight of Worker Bee One? Everyone saw things that they could not see normally.

Space rubbish!

The space garbage that people usually see is in science fiction movies or in public information from the Space Administration.

But in science fiction movies, everyone knows that it is fake.

Although the public information of the Space Administration is true, the way space garbage is displayed is data or some small highlights. Apart from the name, people don’t know that it is space garbage.

If you are not a professional, you can't tell anything from your name.

Mainly, the space garbage tracking system of the Space Administration is made by ground radar stations. Of course, the things they obtain are data. Although there are various optical observation satellites in space, those things are just for viewing the ground. There is no time to see the space garbage "beside" them, or even "overhead".

And whether you can see it is another matter.

It's different now. Now Worker Bee One is heading towards the space garbage and taking pictures of everything clearly.

As Worker Bee One flew, he found a bright light. After getting closer, he found that it was a pile of spacecraft fragments. There was also a big guy in the fragments, which seemed to be the upper stage of a rocket.

And that pile of spacecraft fragments should not be the rocket's thing, they look more like they belong to a certain satellite.

These two things are mixed together, and I don’t know if the rocket was smashed into the miserable satellite, and the two just happened to float together.

So far, thousands of artificial satellites are orbiting the Earth at different altitudes above the Earth.

However, these are just the number of normal in orbit. If the scrapped satellites are included, this number will be much higher.

These scrapped satellites, coupled with the "space garbage" formed by some messy things, pose a huge threat to normal operating satellites.

Modern rocket launches require a series of research and analysis before finalizing the plan. The problem of avoiding garbage is one of the key issues, because it directly affects the safety and integrity of the launched rocket and its payload.

In the early days of space exploration, scientists and space engineers did not think much about the distant future of the satellites they launched. At that time, they were not worried about what would happen if rockets and satellites entering space were scrapped, as long as they could enter space.

However, today, a large amount of space garbage has accumulated in Earth's orbit. Even small-scale collisions between two objects may trigger chain reactions and even cause catastrophic consequences - just like the movie "Gravity".

Just like machines, satellites have a clear service life, but unlike machines on Earth, satellites operate in space, which means that humans cannot handle those scrapped satellites for a short time.

So, how will the scrap satellite be handled?

There are two simple and crude ways.

First, reduce the speed of the malfunctioning satellite, let it fall back to the earth, and burn out in the atmosphere during the reentry process.

Second, push the scrapped satellite to a higher orbit so that it will continue to orbit the Earth for hundreds of years, away from normal satellites.

According to their purpose, artificial satellites are at different orbital altitudes, some are very low, only a few hundred kilometers away from the ground, such as the International Space Station several hundred kilometers.

Some satellites have very high orbits, tens of thousands of kilometers away from the ground, such as geostationary satellites.

The way to deal with scrap satellites depends largely on how far they are from Earth.

The first one is solved in a short time, and the earth's atmosphere is directly burned out. The next one is left for future generations. After pushing up the orbit, at least a few hundred years will be left. One or two centuries later, human technology can always solve it.

Well, believe in future people, they will definitely be able to solve these things.

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