$930 Skyhook Fishing

At dawn, Ye Han led his men out of the base.

Looking up, Ye Han could barely see a small flashing light in the distant sky. He opened the telescope and zoomed in several times. The small light suddenly became a clear transport ship. The main engine nozzles on both sides of the spacecraft were facing downward, and the flashes in the reaction chamber were one after another.

"Skyhook, I have seen you, very clearly."

"Received, prepare to release the cable, pay attention!"

"Understood!" Ye Han agreed, closed the telescope, looked around, and simply turned over and lay on the ground, so as not to tire his neck by looking up.

Several people around him saw Ye Han's behavior and lay on the ground together.

On Ye Han's left was Lin Yi, and on his right was Ouyang Ping.

Lin Yi's responsibility was to control the escape rocket. According to Beidu's requirements, this rocket must be able to take off at any time, so he usually stayed in the base and didn't come out. However, as the cooperation gradually deepened, Beidu's risk assessment of Jupiter's moon Zero became lower and lower. After a long time, he finally relaxed a little and could come out for a walk.

Because he was not familiar with the situation, Lin Yi simply followed Ye Han's buttocks, feeling at ease as a follower.

The closer the Skyhook flew, the slower it was, and the frequency of flashes in the engine became higher and higher. When it flew directly above the forward base, the flashes were so connected that it was impossible to tell the number.

Ye Han knew that it was the Skyhook using its main engine to fight against the gravity of Jupiter's moon Zero!

Spaceflight is all about speed against gravity. The slower the relative speed, the stronger the gravity the spacecraft is subject to.

Ordinary spacecraft cannot resist the gravity of the planet even if the engine is running at super power, but the Skyhook is different. It is specially designed for this mission. There are only two engines on the same type of spacecraft, and the Skyhook is equipped with eight!

The eight engines run at the same time, and the power must reach more than 90%, so that the Skyhook can float in the same position.

Theoretically, the Skyhook can land on the surface and return to space with the super high engine thrust after taking off, but floating is a very fuel-consuming behavior. Taking off from the ground burns more fuel than floating, which is completely not worth the loss.

After the Skyhook stabilized, Ye Han heard a voice: "Base, the cable has been released!"

Ye Han immediately replied: "Base understands, and is observing!"

Through the telescope function, it can be seen that a cable was released directly below the spacecraft, and a hooked sinker was connected to the end of the cable, extending downward from the bottom of the ship.

"Skyhook, I see the cable, everything is normal!" Ye Han said.

After Earth got the carbon fiber plants, it was planted for a few months. Although it didn't grow as fast as the aliens here, and the aliens didn't harvest as much, it was still no problem to get a few cables.

"Skyhook understands, three-second acceleration countdown-three, two, one!"

As soon as the voice fell, the sinker that was originally slowly descending suddenly fell down like a kite with a broken line, and the speed was getting faster and faster, and soon drilled into the atmosphere.

Ye Han's eyes were fixed on the sky, and he suddenly had a very strange feeling in his heart. He felt that the hooked sinker was like a fishhook, the cable was like a fishing line, and the Skyhook was naturally a fisherman.

The high-speed winch on the Skyhook was extremely fast, and the sinker's descent speed was even slower than the release speed of the winch. The cable behind the sinker was loose and had never been straightened.

Ye Han silently estimated the height of the sinker. When he estimated that the sinker was only five kilometers away from the ground, Ye Han decisively shouted: "Skyhook, slow down!"

The Skyhook quickly followed suit, and the sinker's speed was immediately reduced by half. The cable was immediately straightened, pulling the sinker below, like an oversized pendulum, swinging irregularly in the air.

"Slow down again!"

The sinker slowed down by half again, and the falling speed was only a quarter of the previous one, but it swung even more violently.

Ye Han continued to watch, and when the height of the sinker dropped to about one kilometer, he slowed down the Skyhook again. Half a minute later, the sinker hook, which was as big as a car, fell to the ground.

"Okay--" Ye Han stretched his throat, and the Skyhook immediately stuck and untied the cable.

At this time, the height of the sinker hook was only a little over two meters, and it swung more happily left and right and back and forth.

Ouyang Ping's eyes widened: "Boss, this is not possible?"

The speed of the sinker hook swinging is too fast. Even if you are wearing power armor, it is enough to be hit by this thing.

Ye Han frowned: "Skyhook, lower it three meters!"

"Skyhook received!" As he spoke, the cable was lowered three meters, and the heavy sinker hook hit the ground heavily. Because of the high speed, the heavy sinker hook jumped and rolled on the ground, bringing up a large piece of grass and soil, and plowed a trench several tens of meters long before stopping.

The sinker hook stopped, but the cable above was like a string that was hooked hard by a naughty boy, buzzing and swinging non-stop.

Ye Han breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and said: "Ouyang, bring a few people to lift the hook."

"Okay!" Ouyang Ping waved his hand, and several soldiers quickly followed. A total of seven people rushed over and lifted the sinker hook without much effort.

Ye Han jumped onto the container in a few steps, waved his hand and shouted: "This way!"

The soldiers lifted the sinker hook to the side of the container, and Ye Han said on the radio: "Skyhook, rise two meters!"

"Skyhook received!"

The cable immediately straightened, and the sinker hook that touched the ground slowly rose a distance, but it was a little lower than Ye Han expected.

Ye Han did not shout again, but asked the soldiers to pass the sinker hook up. Ouyang Ping quickly jumped onto the container and caught the sinker hook with Ye Han. The two of them worked together to hang the heavy hook on the container.

Ye Han first gestured for Ouyang Ping to go down, then he checked the hook himself, and only turned around and jumped down after confirming that there was no problem. As his feet touched the ground, he shouted: "Skyhook, the mounting is complete, you can rise!"

"Skyhook received!"

The spacecraft in the air immediately increased the engine power, and the suspended spacecraft gradually rose. The cable, which was originally a little loose, suddenly tightened, and then pulled the container tight, and then lifted the container off the ground.

The container was thrown out all of a sudden, almost hitting Ye Han, and he was so scared that he quickly lay on the ground, turned over and looked at the shaking container, and couldn't help but feel fortunate that this place was a distance from the base.

If it was shaking like this, it would definitely smash the base if it was next to the base.

The winch power was not enough, and the Skyhook could not stay there and waste fuel. After the container left the ground, the spacecraft immediately accelerated, dragging the container while moving forward and increasing its altitude.

In Ye Han's eyes, the container flew higher and higher and farther, and just in time to catch up with the rising sun, it disappeared after a while.

Skyhook rose more than 100 kilometers in one breath and finally dragged the container out of the atmosphere. The spacecraft then flew directly to the space station, handed the cable to the space station and slowly towed it back. Skyhook then went back to continue hooking the second container.