Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 366
It took less than 10 minutes after the three Xuanwu-class spaceships merged.

They separated slowly again, but at this time, there was an extra net between the three Xuanwu-class spaceships.

This net is an equilateral triangle with a side length of 300 meters. The material of the net is made of high-strength carbon nanotubes. In the dark outer space, even astronomical telescopes cannot detect the existence of this triangular net.

"The net is opened."

"The fishing plan is ready." Zeng Baojiang shouted loudly, waving his fists.

"Yes."

A group of staff in the remote control department began to stare nervously at the holographic computer. Their task was to assist the artificial intelligence and correct mistakes in time.

王图再一次看了看手表，此时此刻是2019年12月10日，下午15：22。

If their fishing plan fails, the next is the first attack of the planetary orbital gun plan at 17:34.

the other side.

Bazhong Base.

Academician Ma, Zhao Hongxing and others are also looking at the fishing plan. The success or failure of the fishing plan will determine whether the planetary orbital gun at the Bazhong base will be activated.

"Old horse, get the orbital gun ready." Zhao Hongxing looked at the time and ordered.

"Okay." Academician Ma nodded, then turned around and told his assistant, "Let the orbital guns take their positions."

"Yes." The assistant hurriedly went to inform the operation department of the orbital gun.

"Old Ma, do you think the fishing plan will succeed?" Zhao Hongxing asked looking at the holographic star map.

Academician Ma tensed up, thought for a while and replied: "[-]-[-], communication delay is a fatal problem, which may lead to a situation where cooperation is not in place."

"..." Although Zhao Hongxing was very calm on the surface, he was holding his hands tightly on the railing, and he could see the tension in his heart, but now no one pays attention to his hands, and everyone is staring at the holographic star. picture.

As Academician Ma said, even Dongtang didn't know that the Galaxy Consortium had artificial intelligence, so they were nervous about communication delays.

Only Huang Haojie was relatively calm, because under the control of "Star" and the assistance of the ground remote control department, the success rate of the fishing plan was very high.

In fact, the fishing plan was prepared by Huang Haojie for space mining. After Zhong and his long-term improvement, the asteroid capture technology has been relatively perfect.

Just this time, I can take the opportunity to experiment. If the WX asteroid is successfully captured, it is equivalent to obtaining 4.2 to 4.5 million tons of iron-nickel ore; if it fails, the WX asteroid will be destroyed at worst.

Beside the WX asteroid, on a parallel orbit less than five kilometers away from it, three basalt-class spaceships that have opened their nets are slowly changing their positions with the help of auxiliary engines.

Why start the fishing plan on the parallel track of the accompanying flight? Instead of fishing with a net when they meet head-on?
This is primarily a matter of engine power and relative speed.

The engine power of the Xuanwu-class spacecraft is not enough to attack the WX asteroid head-on. After all, the speed of the two sides is very fast, and the relative speed is even more terrifying.

With the little power of the Xuanwu class, even a hundred Xuanwu class ships can't do it if they want to work hard on the WX asteroid with a speed of 15.59 kilometers per second and a mass of 4.2 to 4.5 million tons.

The result of hard work is that the entire army of Xuanwu-class spacecraft was wiped out. After the WX asteroid was scratched, it continued to kill the Blue Star.

Therefore, the Space Development Committee chose to accompany the flight, slowly approaching the WX asteroid on a parallel orbit, and adopting the method of pushing the boat along the way.

Just like driving a car, if a car running at high speed makes a sharp turn suddenly, it will either derail or overturn; if it changes direction slowly, it can turn around safely.

Under the operation of "Star", the position of Xuanwu-class spacecraft 004 is slowly approaching the right and rear direction of the WX asteroid;

The tracks on both sides gradually change from the original parallel track to a small angle crossing track, but the angle is very small, only about 2 degrees.

Three basalt-class spaceships pulled the carbon nanotube net and slowly wrapped it towards the WX asteroid. A little faster than the speed of the WX asteroid.

Time passed slowly by minute and second, and the ground control center and space agencies or astronomical agencies around the world were all in a cold sweat.

At 15:37, the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft finally wrapped the carbon nanotube network on the WX asteroid. Since the angle between the flight trajectories of the two parties is very small, and the flight speed is very close, the WX asteroid is given to the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft. The reaction force is still within the bearing range of the spaceship.

Snapped!Wang Tu patted the railing heavily: "Don't let your guard down, we have reached the most critical time."

In the Kaohsiung Control Center, the people in the remote control department did not dare to show their arrogance, and they all stared at the holographic computer, for fear that a mistake would ruin the previous efforts.

[drop!abnormal!abnormal! ] The remote control system suddenly sounded alarms, and everyone felt tense in an instant.

"Let's see what's going on?" Zeng Baojiang shouted urgently.

The staff are also fully committed to it at this moment.

"It is the mass anomaly of the WX asteroid. Its mass is heavier than we predicted, reaching about 4.9 million tons."

Zeng Baojiang frowned, and ordered decisively: "It is 4000 million tons larger than we predicted, start the auxiliary engine immediately, and increase the power of the main engine."

"Yes."

Faced with this sudden situation, "Star" didn't know how to solve it, so it could only follow the established procedures. Fortunately, the ground control center corrected the engine data in time, otherwise it would be a big trouble.

Of course, there are a lot of troubles now. The ground control center hastily modified this data and asked the supercomputing center to recalculate. Because the quality has changed so much, everything else has also changed.

All the supercomputing power of Dongtang and the Yinhe Consortium was fully activated, and the results after adjusting the data in less than 3 minutes came out.

"A good news and a bad news." Zeng Baojiang said helplessly.

"Let's talk!" Wang Tu said, staring at the holographic star map expressionlessly.

"The good news is that the WX asteroid is still within the controllable range. The bad news is that the intersecting orbit between the WX asteroid and the blue star has changed from the previous 1.9 kilometers to between 1000 and 2000 kilometers." Zeng Baojiang The latest orbit of the WX asteroid is marked on the holographic star map.

"At least it's still within the controllable range." Wang Tu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"In addition, due to the increase in the mass of the WX asteroid, the time the spacecraft's fuel can last may be reduced by about 12% than expected." Zeng Baojiang continued.

"Activate the spare Qinglong-class 002 and 004 to replenish fuel for the preparation." Wang Tu immediately ordered.

"But..." Zeng Baojiang was about to say something.

"There is nothing to do, execute it immediately." Wang Tu said firmly.

"Yes!"

At this time, the flight trajectory of the WX asteroid was slowly changing, and the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft were desperately correcting their direction.

After starting the engine for a long time, the nozzle became a little red, but fortunately, the Space Development Committee discovered the fatigue deformation of the nozzle before, and sprayed a layer of mixed gel on the nozzle of the engine, so that the mixed gel coating can withstand 1.4 degrees Celsius high temperature.

If it is the previous nozzle, such a high-intensity use of the engine will definitely cause problems.

(End of this chapter)