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Tiangong Spring Festival Gala "special visitors

Power pipeline "" Star Fortress" "Star Trek

By Eric GeorgePublished 2 years ago 6 min read

February 1, 2049, yuan more resumed, century-old renovation. Hundreds of millions of Chinese are immersed in the festival and peace to welcome their own New Year, thousands of miles away in the space of a shining Chinese star like a meteor across the sky over Beijing, CCTV Spring Festival Gala live footage of the China Space station and Tiananmen Square framed a romantic moment.

At this point, people in front of the screen waiting for a long time, the annual "Tiangong Spring Festival Gala" as promised to meet with you.

The night sky, blossoming fireworks dazzling, this "China star" is also very busy. The 20 astronauts from 10 countries, including China and Pakistan, gathered together to bring an annual visual feast of combining tradition and future, culture and technology, and China dancing with the world to the people of the world.

"Space walk", "mechanical dance", "Transformers"... One after another shocking visual effect blockbusters dizzying, the world's people at the moment rhythm of applause and shouts. People held their breath and stared to watch the "Transformers" segment of the wonderful and thrilling cabin "Heaven and Earth moving", suddenly the live signal cut.

"The space station has been attacked by an uncooperative target! AI mode failed! Please move quickly to avoid!" Failure warning system warning instructions spread in each module, commander ordered all astronauts to return to their posts immediately, quickly switch to manual intervention manual control of the space station.

"Probe team locate target source quickly!" "Control team maintain orbit altitude!" Comm group quick start backup comm policy! "Operation team fast moving station capsule reset!" ... After a series of operations, no contact was established with the ground.

Fortunately, however, the interference target source has been located and is currently attached to the large column section of the core module, just located in the dead zone of the manipulator operation. The space robot cannot establish communication connection with the module due to signal interference, so it is urgent for astronauts to come out of the module to handle manually.

Heaven and earth communication signal interruption, the ground in the hall of measurement and control commander anxious, technical personnel tried to establish communication connection for many times all failed, the space station companion fly satellite also lost communication connection.

In the space station, crew members competed for registration. Finally, after collective deliberation, the commander authorized a flight engineer experienced in extraveular operations to go out for disposal, with the cooperation of two robotic arm operation engineers.

One wave is not level and another wave is rising. The hatch cannot be opened due to the manual control mode. In the case of loss of contact with the ground, cutting back to the AI mode hastily will cause the cabin to roll over due to navigation deviation, which seriously threatens the safety of the space station.

At this time, people on the Earth speculated and discussed the truth of the event in various online forums, eagerly following the progress of the event, and even some astronomy enthusiasts live observed the operation of the space station. According to the orbital data observed, the space station was still in normal operation for the time being.

After a rapid and intense discussion, a flight engineer put forward a risky and currently only feasible plan, that is, to switch back to AI mode for a short time, immediately close the cabin door after the flight engineer leaves the cabin and switch back to manual control mode, strictly control the time of human-machine cooperative operation, and minimize the amount of drift as much as possible. But the biggest risk is that the huge differential pressure and vibration of the cabin at the moment the doors open and close will throw the crew off.

The crew again begged to get out. After a thorough consideration, the commander resolutely dismissed the idea of others, everyone's eyes focused on the flight engineer, the flight engineer also plucked up courage without hesitation to the station module.

After the close cooperation of all staff, exit procedures have been ready, "ready, request exit hatch!" The crew held their breath and waited for the order to open the hatch.

"Open the hatch! As soon as the command was given, the flight engineer tried his best to get out of the cabin quickly. As he tried so hard to get out of the cabin, his whole body was suspended in the air and almost collided with the cabin. This scene made everyone's heart in his mouth... Through the unremitting efforts of engineers, the interference source was finally removed.

"Sky/earth communication is back!" After re-establishing communication links with the station, the commander in chief ordered all posts to identify the orbital data and source of the interfering target, which turned out to be space debris! Monitoring results showed that these space debris were generated by defunct satellites, which had been evaded by Tiangong after a "bizarre" orbit change threatened to approach it. This time, there were a lot of them, which led to the urgency of this flight. The specific reason is still being investigated!

"Dear friends from the media, we will release the final investigation results in multiple channels and languages as soon as possible. Please continue to pay attention to the official information. Today's press conference is over. Immediately after the incident, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) set up a joint investigation team and held a press conference to answer questions from Chinese and foreign media. It also issued a notice through the International Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) to respond to people's concerns around the world.

Over the years, China's Spring Festival gala "heavenly palace" as the annual feast of blending technology and art, has become the world's top flow culture program, the planet loves talking about the dangerous space debris near the Chinese space station gala broadcast signal interrupt serious incident, let the family holiday somehow be clouded, also caused the media scramble to report.

All of a sudden, the international public opinion was boiling over and the notice issued by IADC was ignored. Some even went so far as to claim that the incident was "Major Mistakes in the Space Live Broadcast of The Chinese Spring Festival Gala". "China is Testing New Space Technologies", wanton smearing and distorted arguments are in full swing, earning enough traffic in the international public opinion field for a while.

"The day before the event, the monitoring system had reported the approaching event as an ordinary event by default. After manual analysis, it was confirmed that the dangerously approaching debris came from an abandoned satellite, and no alarm processing was made. But the debris was thrown off course by a solar storm, causing the event. The solar storm monitoring report reported by the Center shows a peak in solar storm activity during the same period, which is proof of this." At the investigation result evaluation meeting, the person in charge of the monitoring center reported the investigation conclusion of this incident to the investigation team. According to the current technical conditions, the experts of the investigation team unanimously agreed and approved the conclusion, which will be released at an appropriate time.

As a matter of fact, as early as 2035, China, together with many friendly countries, established a round-trip flight system to the Moon and the first permanent human base on the moon. In order to reduce the threat of solar storms and space debris to spacecraft, many countries have joined hands to build a lunar solar storm warning and monitoring system and a ground-based space debris warning and monitoring system, which form an outer barrier to protect humanity. Both systems are operated by the China Space Debris Monitoring and Management Center.

Since its establishment, the system has effectively warned tens of thousands of dangerous approaching events of extraterrestrial objects and space debris, effectively protected the safety of human home on Earth and spacecraft operation, and become an important sensing system for human society to evaluate and defend against extraterrestrial threats.

"The occurrence of this incident is enough to give us a profound warning! When facing unpredictable space threats, our system still has certain blind spots, which can bring danger to spacecraft in orbit and space bases at any time. We hope that we can seriously zero out rectification, improve the monitoring system operation and research mechanism, optimize the hardware and software supporting facilities, with first-class standards to polish the golden brand of China's space industry."

At the meeting, the head of the investigation team again solemnly stressed the serious impact of the incident, hoping that all parties concerned can draw inferences from one example to another, lead human space civilization with science and technology, and defend China's space discourse in the world with strength.

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