Chapter 10 The Open Sail
In the SA Space Center, a large screen is also playing the scenes of the Lagrangian point taken by satellites in real time, just like Nasa.
On a screen next to it, there was a screen of Chen Yu's live broadcast room hanging, but Chen Yu did not start broadcasting at this time, and the live broadcast room was pitch black.
It's still morning, and there are only a few staff members on duty who are busy with their own affairs, which seems a bit deserted.
However, as the sun gradually rose, people came to work one after another.
"Old Qin, it's early today!" A staff member on duty could not hide his tiredness, but when he saw his colleague who came to work, he smiled and greeted him.
"Isn't this to watch the live broadcast?" The colleague named Lao Qin also had a smile on his face and handed the plastic bag in his hand to the colleague on duty: "Give it to the buns from the third canteen. I got up early to buy them. It was just out of the pot and it was still hot."
"Thank you! You, Lao Qin, are you, knowing that I like to eat buns." The colleague took the buns and reached out to touch them. Seeing that it was still hot, he was overjoyed.
Lao Qin sat down and looked at the screen. Seeing that it was still black, he asked his colleague: "Not the broadcast has started today?"
"Well, not today yet. I guess what happened yesterday was hit?" The colleague bit the bun and answered Lao Qin a little vaguely.
When Lao Qin heard his colleague say this, he couldn't help but sigh, and at the same time he did not forget to comment: "I can't stand it, I worked hard for several days and thought the situation had improved, but it turned out to be a vicious cycle. He could get up early to work and start live broadcasting today, so this young man will become a great man!"
"Come on, Lao Qin, you say that everyone will become a great man!" The colleague glanced at Lao Qin with disdain, obviously not taking his last words to heart. After all, this sentence almost became Lao Qin's catchphrase.
Lao Qin also knew that he had said too many times, so he smiled awkwardly and changed the topic: "When it comes to this matter, how about the matter discussed in the previous meeting? Is there any way to help that young man?"
"It's hard. Yesterday, various departments held a meeting to discuss for several hours, and there was no good plan." The colleague shook his head and sighed and said: "Although we have many launch plans this year, they are all formulated for the construction of space stations. Even if we temporarily want the plan, we will free up the cargo spacecraft to send supplies to Lagrangian points...
Not to mention how much things can be delivered, it will take at least several months to adjust and prepare. When we can deliver the supplies, we may either build a spaceship or starve to death."
This is actually a kind of helplessness. For these astronauts who are engaged in cosmic exploration, there is a creation of an alien civilization shaking in the sky, and there are people who are broadcasting live every day to explain in detail how you want to build a larger alien civilization creation, but it will take at least several months before you can send the spacecraft on it.
Especially in the past two days, they saw with their own eyes how Chen Yu built a building in space that was several times larger than that of the International Space Station that humans had spent more than ten years building in space.
This comparison is enough to make people clearly realize the difference in technology generation between the two, which is like a vast abyss.
But more importantly, they want to help their compatriots who are fighting alone in the sky at this moment.
This has nothing to do with whether Chen Yu has powerful alien technology. Even if he is just an ordinary civilian, he is trapped in outer space at this moment, and the country will find a way to rescue him. Even if such a rescue may affect the original aerospace exploration plan, the amount of funds that are enough for ordinary people to be called astronomical.
Unfortunately, they did not have much potential to help Chen Yu, who was 380,000 kilometers away at this moment.
Of course, it is no problem to launch a spacecraft with the technology currently mastered by humans and arrive at the Lagrangian point with supplies and materials needed by Chen Yu.
However, the space power that humans currently possess cannot be launched by launching a spacecraft.
Whether it is China, the United States, or other countries in the world, everyone has not built a spaceship that can be used immediately after it is put there.
Human technology cannot reach the point where the spacecraft is put there and when it needs to be used. This is not only a scientific and technological issue, but also a problem of economic and resource investment. A spacecraft and a rocket don’t seem to be much, but the investment cost is amazing.
Especially if you have to fly to the moon, this requires a lot of capital investment.
So under normal circumstances, countries currently capable of sending spacecraft to space will formulate plans a few years in advance, and then invest funds and resources to prepare. After building rockets and spacecraft, they will wait for the appropriate launch window, and then send rockets and spacecraft to space.
Sa does have a rocket that can be used and a cargo spacecraft originally scheduled to deliver goods to the space station, but their launch plan was already scheduled a few years ago, just for low-Earth orbit use. Even if it is temporarily modified and adjusted, it will never be possible to handle it in a few months.
Just as Lao Qin and his colleagues sighed about this, the real-time monitoring screen on the big screen suddenly changed, as if something was unfolding.
"What is that?" Old Qin noticed the changes in the picture with sharp eyes and immediately shouted loudly: "Enlarge the picture, something is moving!"
At this time, there were already people in the control center coming to work one after another, and there were more people. When they heard Lao Qin's shouting, someone immediately went to do it and enlarged the picture on the big screen.
"What is that? It looks like... a sail?" Someone asked such a question as looking at the object gradually unfolding like a sail on the picture.
Lao Qin squinted his eyes and looked at the thing that gradually formed after it was unfolded. After hesitating for a while, he guessed: "Maybe it a solar sail, or it may be some kind of detection or acceptance equipment?"
Lao Qin was not sure. Although this thing looked like an octagonal metal cloth flattened, no one knew what alien technology looked like.
If it looks like a solar sail and it turns out to be a radar antenna, it may be possible, and it may even be a sun visor.
After all, after the figure was fully unfolded, the diameter had reached one thousand meters. Although it looked very small on the picture, in fact, if you look at it from a close distance, the thing would be like a curtain covering the sky!
Chapter completed!