Ingenious and rough, these are two states.

Other countries have rough measures against space garbage, while the pilots have exquisite measures against space garbage.

How to say it, Meriken previously proposed a radical way to "clean up" near-Earth space.

One of their university research teams is studying a new technology that uses gas "pulses" to shoot space debris. This proposed new system is called the "Space Debris Clearance System". By launching gas pulses onto the routes that target debris must pass, increasing the friction of space waste, causing it to fall and fall into the Earth's atmosphere to burn.

There is also the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which will invest in the development of two-dimensional spacecraft, made of special two-dimensional film materials that can wrap up space waste and leave it out of orbit.

It is said to be a spacecraft, but it is actually a "big net", and its working style is similar to a net gun that captures drones.

OK, not too similar.

Anyway... I understand it myself.

In addition, there are also miniature electric thrusters that use small satellites, which can safely bring the satellite back to the earth's atmosphere and burn it out in the air, thereby avoiding the generation of space garbage and controlling the congestion of satellites in low-altitude orbits.

Other countries also install robotic arms for aerospace equipment to cut solar cells...

Bah, how is it possible? The robotic arms are used to do serious business. The capture equipment can be close to space garbage, then extend the robotic arms to grab it, and then send it to high orbit so that it does not affect the flight of other spacecraft.

Or push it off orbit and send it to the direction of the earth. Small garbage is burned into the atmosphere, and large garbage passes through the atmosphere and completely "buried" in the "spacecraft cemetery" in the waters of the South Pacific.

Well, that's basically it.

"Burn, burn it. If it is not burned, there will be no clean orbit on the earth, and no bright future for mankind!"

In fact, when these "cleaning facilities" are not available, scientists have a way to deal with some space garbage.

For example, in order to abandon the satellites in low-Earth orbit, space engineers will slightly change their orbits, allowing them to enter lower orbits, and reenter the atmosphere within 25 years to burn them. This is called the "25-year rule" of satellites.

The fuel of satellites is very valuable and cannot be used unless it is absolutely necessary.

If you want to change the orbit without external thrust, each thread of fuel must be calculated accurately. Therefore, these satellites will only use the last few seconds after they consume the fuel to add thrust to the satellites, allowing them to start decelerating and enter the descent orbit.

If the satellite is too large to burn completely during reentering the atmosphere? Then the last remaining fuel of the satellite will be used to slow down and de-orbit it in a certain direction? To make the debris fall in a remote area, which can be called a "spacecraft cemetery" and is located in the South Pacific.

Hum? This is a very famous place that burys many well-known aerospace equipment in human history.

They are all big.

As for humans, they just like big ones, and the bigger ones are, the more famous they are.

Of course? These are satellites in low-Earth orbit? And the Earth is not only low-Earth orbit? It also has artificial satellites far away from the Earth, such as synchronous orbit.

If a scrapped satellite is in high orbit? Then reducing its speed and de-orbiting it will require a lot of fuel? This is something that artificial satellites at the last moment of their life cycle do not have.

So, since you cannot send it back to Earth, then just push such a satellite to a higher orbit? It is a place called the "cemetery orbit".

In fact, pushing scrapped far-earth satellites into such a higher orbit only requires changing the speed of 11 meters per second, while reducing their orbits to re-enter the atmosphere requires changing the speed of 1? 500 meters per second, so the "fuel economy" can be seen, and the carefully calculated engineers know how to do it.

Cemetery orbits, also known as "garbage orbits" or "abstention star orbits", are located more than 36,000 kilometers above the earth, several hundred kilometers higher than the farthest distant satellites, so as to ensure the safety of other normal satellites.

Satellites in "cemetery orbit" will continue to orbit the earth for hundreds of years before gradually losing their altitude.

Scientists are not worried about this distant future. Perhaps two or three centuries later, scientists of that era will have a way to remove this space garbage.

As a result, in less than two or three centuries, the Navigator will now start to remove this space garbage.

It is too wasteful to burn out space garbage, and the navigator has to do a meticulous job.

Equipment that is already in orbit of space is too precious.

Worker Bee 1 shuttled through the garbage belt for a while. Although it hit some space garbage, it had little impact because it was relatively slow. It would not knock out the space garbage and cause trouble to other normal-operating satellites.

Although the probability of hitting some space garbage can cause trouble to other satellites is very low, it is not 100% OK.

The Navigator is a responsible human company, and it will not do that.

Soon, Worker Bee One found the Tianxia communication satellite.

The cameras on Worker Bee 1 are not comparable to those of ordinary rocket-mounted cameras. Generally, there will be some photos before satellites enter space, but after the satellite enters space, its final images come from the cameras on the rocket-mounted cameras. Almost no one has seen the real orbit of the satellite.

So just like watching the space garbage all the way, people finally saw the real operation of artificial satellites this time.

Then the Worker Bee 1's iron hand was ruthless and directly grabbed the solid structure on the satellite with its robotic arm. Tianxia Space Administration's permission to use it made the satellite put away the solar panels.

Fly faster like this.

Of course, you can fly with a solar panel on it, but with such a large plate, Worker Bee 1 is definitely not afraid of the impact of space garbage, but when flying back to the maintenance compartment, the satellite may be really scrapped.

The satellite put away the solar panels, and Worker Bee One began to transform. Two hatch doors were directly opened in the middle of the hull, and the robotic arm lightly put the satellite in.

This is a complete satellite, you can't just push it forward and rush back all the way back. You have to protect it better.

The better the protection, the more convenient it will be to upgrade the maintenance.

After the satellite was safely transported back to the maintenance compartment, the spacecraft entered the maintenance compartment, and then it was fixed, and finally, the lights were turned off!

Only those who watched the live broadcast reacted.

"Then what?"

"Is this gone?"

Of course no, how could the Navigator work so hard?

The repair cabin is just a repair cabin, with machines and equipment, but the most important thing is that it has a large space and is empty enough to provide enough pressurization space.

Therefore, many manufacturing equipment do not have it. Without manufacturing equipment, parts cannot be manufactured. They need to be used in conjunction with the manufacturing center.

This is also the reason why the two maintenance cabins are installed on both sides of the manufacturing center.

And the manufacturing center was launched in a week.

The Yishan rocket needs to undergo some maintenance and then launch the manufacturing center.

At that time, astronauts will be boarded to the manufacturing center on an orbit shuttle and then enter the maintenance compartment through the manufacturing center.

As for maintaining and upgrading satellites, it is normal to wait for a week.

Anyway, it's almost scrapped. If you can repair it and upgrade it by the way, you will definitely make a lot of money.
Chapter completed!