Chapter 388 The new future of satellites
This communication satellite was undoubtedly lucky, and it ran until it ran out of fuel.
Everyone conducted an external visual inspection for it and found out the situation that caused the abnormal record of the space agency, and they were hit without exception.
Some were knocked through, some were cut into a small hole, and some were hit by a small hole.
Fortunately, the impact points are very small, and it is conceivable that the impact object should be very small, but so, if the impact object is big enough, they will not see the satellite, and basically it is difficult to find the wreckage.
So far, space garbage should be operated first, and many space facilities are hit and scrapped by space garbage.
Although the collision between space garbage and space garbage will have a later impact, there will be no losses at the time.
If there is a running aerospace equipment being hit, it will make the aerospace department feel very distressed.
Not only will it feel distressed, but it will also affect the development of the country. Some small countries even launch a satellite in total. If it is hit all of a sudden, it will return to "before liberation".
Don't think that there isn't, it's true.
That was more than ten years ago. A country in South America called Guado finally sent a self-developed microsatellite called "Pegasus", about 10 cm long and wide and weighing 1.2 kilograms to space, playing the Ecuadorian national anthem in space, sending space images back to the ground.
It is Guado's pride and a symbol of Guado's touch of space.
This tiny satellite was launched in Tianxia, but it was less than a month after entering orbit and lost contact because it collided with space garbage.
After a while, the Guado Space Agency announced that after being loaded with space garbage, the Pegasus did not leave its original orbit, but the solar panels were damaged, the antenna was "undirected", and the satellite "rotted around two axes."
"The satellite became fainted after the impact, but it was still there," said Guado's director of the Space Administration.
Although they were still praying, everyone knew that their space pride was gone and the symbol of touching space was gone. After that, we can only say that they had... touched space.
The space symbol of a country is gone, but it is too small after all? The country it is located in is also small? Therefore, the attention it receives is limited.
For a long time, the International Space Station was the largest man-made object in space. It was so big that it was too likely to be impacted.
Are large pieces of space garbage under monitoring? Can they be warned in advance? The International Space Station can maneuver and dodge in advance, but some tiny space garbage cargoes are difficult to monitor and dodge.
It is hard to say about the cabins in other cabins? You can basically not see them if you don’t go out unless you hit them directly? But the watchtower of the International Space Station was clearly seen.
The watchtower is a projecting observation cabin made of several portholes. It is nothing to look away from it, but when you look closer, you will find dense scratches and some tiny impact craters on it.
The more famous one is the photo taken by a stationed astronaut, which is an impact crater about 7 mm in diameter on the porthole.
This is very dangerous for the space station, because no one has discovered this small impact crater before? It was not until someone went to the "viewing window" to observe that he accidentally discovered this small impact crater.
Didn't realize that the space station was hit? Although I didn't hit it this time? But this is also a very dangerous phenomenon.
If it is not processed, the space station is likely to be hit by something that doesn't know what it is one day? Then no one of the astronauts on the space station can escape.
But as astronauts, they have no choice because this is not something they can solve, so they can do? They just sign some agreements that are not public before entering space.
Now, things seem to have finally gotten better.
The Navigator began to do this seriously.
And the astronauts watching the live broadcast on the International Space Station can think of the scars on the International Space Station from the scars on the satellite.
"I hope the pilot and Tianxia Space Agency's test will be successful."
"Well, they succeeded in our safety and we wouldn't have to pray every time we entered space."
"By the way, our International Space Station is indeed seriously aging. When can we move into a new space station?"
"I don't know, now there are only a few small commercial space station projects internationally, and then Tianxia's Tianting Project. Oh my God, it's simply a space giant."
"I don't know if we have the opportunity to go inside, and I don't know if the above plans to cooperate with the other party..."
Just as the astronauts on the International Space Station were looking forward to it, Tang Chao had already started to dismantle the satellites.
They have to remove the damaged modules and the backward equipment.
In more than ten years, some equipment has been updated very quickly, such as solar panels, which have been updated for several generations. This time, a new solar panel will definitely be replaced with.
It can provide more electricity and higher voltage with a smaller wingspan.
Not only because of its advanced nature, there are also old solar panels in the places where they were hit before, but it was also hit by a hole, causing the conversion power of the solar panel to drop. In addition, other messy reasons, the decline is quite large.
Therefore, a new one must be replaced.
Even if it is due to obsessive-compulsive disorder, you have to replace it with a new one if you don’t want to see broken solar panels.
When they really get started, they feel that this kind of thing seems to be... very simple.
Even the upgrade plan they finalized on the ground is not 100% suitable.
Because the situation in space is really different.
Why do they have to be careful when building satellites on the ground? Some structures need to be discussed repeatedly, because this satellite cannot be used just by making them. It also undergoes a period of "violent transportation" in the middle. Many of the structures inside it are used to deal with this.
However, when upgrading satellites in space, the issue of "violent transportation" is basically unnecessary to consider.
Because it is already in a microgravity environment, there is no need to super accelerate to get rid of gravity. There is no thick atmosphere here, and there will be no violent friction, various vibrations, shaking, and acceleration effects of course will be much smaller.
So they can be more bold in upgrading and renovating satellites!
This situation led to them dismantling all the possible dismantlings, leaving only the intact satellite frame, and they temporarily stopped.
They want to contact the ground, and they may be able to create an ultra-magic version of the new satellite in space.
If this can be changed, it will not be a satellite, it will be many satellites.
Some satellites of the same type as it have entered the atmosphere and burned down, some are about to be "scrapped", and some are not successfully launched at the beginning.
If this can make a good start, then the satellite repairs and upgrades will be much more convenient.
Especially those who did not launch successfully for various reasons, but had entered orbit but had not been running for even one day, which was a loss.
Now, they have hope of re-entering.
They thought of it, and many people thought of it too.
"Good guy, because of the rocket or satellite itself, there are indeed some satellites in the earth's orbit that have not worked. If they can be repaired, it would be a resource-saving thing."
"Yes, satellite manufacturing materials are very precious. If they can be repaired and put into use again, it will be worthy of the hard work of scientists and the original mission of the satellite!"
Chapter completed!