Chapter 998: Crashed?

When Chen Wei in Africa gave a random order to let the "parasol" locate the lazy bus, he just gave a random order.

But he didn't know that his order frightened many people.

On the other side of the globe, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii, the top of Mauna Kea is home to the most prestigious Mauna Kea Observatory.

Because it is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and hangs alone on the sea, Mauna Kea is almost one of the places on earth that is least disturbed by human activities. The Mauna Kea Astronomical Park built here is also one of the holy places of astronomy in the world.

On the top of this mountain, in the 500-acre astronomical park, there are as many as twelve astronomical telescopes belonging to different countries and institutions.

At this moment, almost all of the twelve astronomical telescopes have only one target.

That is the new satellite that is 2,000 kilometers above the earth, whether it is deorbited or not successfully put into orbit, the parasol.

Since ancient times, human beings have liked to look up at the starry sky.

The vast starry sky is not only admired by human beings, but also a lot of knowledge and secrets have been discovered by human beings.

Both astronomy and astrology are related to the sky full of stars.

But since the launch of the first artificial satellite in 1957, when humans look up at the starry sky, there is one more object that can be observed.

This is artificial satellite observation.

For example, the prestigious "Iridium Flash" is one of them.

There are three very smooth silver aluminum antennas on Iridium. These three antennas reflect sunlight, sweep the ground, and when they shine into the eyes of observers or astronomical telescopes, they can observe extremely bright flashes. This is the legend The iridium star in the sky flashed.

Because there are as many as 66 iridium stars in the sky, as long as you check the transit time and observation time of iridium stars, you can easily observe iridium star flashes.

Compared with the Iridium satellite, which is only 700 kilometers high, although the orbit of this satellite is more than a thousand kilometers higher, its huge umbrella is much larger than the Iridium satellite antenna.

The twelve astronomical telescopes on Mauna Kea belong to different countries and institutions, but without exception, these countries and institutions are very concerned about the actions of the lazy god system.

At this time, the "parasol" is almost directly above Mauna Kea, which is the best angle for observation.

In an astronomical telescope, a sunshade 2,000 kilometers above the ground can still see many details.

This is very helpful for many countries to study the technology of Lanshen Technology.

Moreover, many people are very suspicious of the dynamics of "Umbrella", and are confused by its strange and unreliable track.

The Gemini North Telescope is one of the two identical North-South Gemini Telescopes jointly invested by seven countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. At this time, it is observing the parasol above its head. A researcher is recording some observations Parameters, while recording the words: "The satellite rotates synchronously with the ground, and has the characteristics of a geosynchronous orbit, but its altitude is only one-ninth of the geosynchronous orbit. Well... this is a bit strange."

He scratched his head: "Does this satellite have its own power system? But I don't see any injectors on the satellite..."

At an altitude of 2,000 meters, keeping the same rotational speed as the earth, the centrifugal force brought by its angular velocity is not enough to resist the gravity of the earth. This satellite should have been falling down, but now the satellite is obviously stationary, and it must This can only be done with external force.

Remembering this doubt, he turned his head and brought over a cup of coffee, and when he looked up again, he was completely stunned.

Hey, where's the parasol?

Why did it suddenly disappear?

"Who messed with the angle!" He suddenly stood up annoyed. He knew that there were many research projects waiting in line to use this telescope, but the most important task of this telescope now is to observe the "parasol" !

Around, some colleagues looked up in a daze, wondering: "Move the angle? No!"

The researcher carefully looked at the angle parameters, and even ran to the telescope to take a look, then came back scratching his head in wonder: "What's the matter, the angle is not messed up, why is the satellite gone... Could it be... Could it be?" Crashed?"

"Crash?" This sentence immediately attracted the attention of many people. Everyone observed and searched for a long time, but they did not find any trace of the parasol.

In the vast universe, a parasol with a diameter of one kilometer is actually just a tiny speck of dust. But no matter how insignificant it is, it is impossible to say that it disappears and disappears.

After all, for human beings, this is a real behemoth!

"Quickly go and ask what's going on, ask other people..." The researcher called out a few times, then picked up the phone himself: "Forget it, I'll do it myself!"

At the same time, not far from the Gemini North Telescope, there is a huge pot-shaped antenna weighing 250 tons. This is a radio telescope, or one of the ultra-long baseline arrays.

Those who have watched X-Men: The First Battle must be deeply impressed by the huge antenna of the radio telescope that Magneto used his own strength to twist the radio telescope while weeping. The huge antenna is the radio telescope.

While all other telescopes had lost track of the parasol in the sky, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Soclo, New Mexico, USA, detected a strange clutter.

This wave spread from the Pacific Ocean to the west at an alarming speed, reaching the top of Africa.

And in just five minutes, from the researchers at the Gemini North telescope, the information spread at an astonishing speed.

Through hundreds of phone calls and emails, news of the mysterious disappearance of the parasol spread around the world in a matter of minutes.

On the twitter account, one of the largest astronomical organizations in the United States, an account operated by the University Astronomical Research Society, announced a news in a very timely manner: "The survey and test satellite 'Sunshade' No. 1 launched by Lazy God Yafei mysteriously disappeared , suspected to have crashed."

As soon as this news was sent out, the University Astronomical Research Society, which was not paid much attention to, instantly exploded in popularity.

This explosive news spread all over the world in an instant.

Lazy god Yafei's satellite crashed?

At this time, the twitter of the South African Observatory released a message: "The South African Observatory observed the 'parasol' satellite and confirmed that the 'parasol' has reached the sky over the Indian Ocean..."

Wait, two completely different pieces of news were released five minutes apart. Did it crash or did it fly to the Indian Ocean?

The people who were attacked by completely different public opinions were immediately confused.

Astronomers and aerospace experts looked at each other, what is going on? (To be continued.)