Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

For the academic community of China, June is the time for the publication of the preliminary list of academics.

At the same time, June is the third month of the Golden Heart launch...

A silver-white spacecraft slowly progressed in the deep sky, tens of millions of kilometres from Earth.

In the context of the distant sun and the nearby flaming red planet, it moves as slowly as a snail, but in fact it reaches almost four kilometers per second at this moment.

If it had returned faster four days earlier, it would have been the result of almost ninety hours of active deceleration after being captured by the Mars gravitational system.

Floating in the cabin, staring out the starboard window at the flaming red planet for a long time, Johnson's corner of his mouth drew a triumphant smile.

“Mars! God, we're here! ”

Holding an electronic camera in his hand, he took a picture of the flame-red planet racket, and Jones, standing next to the starboard window, similarly voiced emotion.

“… so beautiful! ”

Four days ago, the BFS spacecraft carrying the colonial module was successfully separated from the BFR rocket, entering the Mars gravitational system and orbiting the planet in an elliptical orbit.

Today, after a long active deceleration, the BFR manned spacecraft called Golden Heart finally approached the Mars atmosphere after several complex orbital changes.

This is the end of their journey.

It will also be the starting point for human civilization to move towards the stars!

“When do we land?” Looking at the planet outside the window, Tyvey whispered and said, "I always felt panicked up there. ”

Unlike Johnson, who had a beautiful dream of becoming Columbus, and Jones, who went to sign up for Ares simply because of a broken heart, he came here just to hide from the debt.

As for why we came to Mars to hide...

No reason, he never had a plan.

Perhaps one day when he was drunk, he saw the ad for Space-X and filled out the form with a try attitude, and when he was about to forget about it, someone suddenly called him and told him that he had been chosen.

To be honest, at first he thought it was a fraudulent phone call, after all, he really didn't expect them to find a black man on the ship, and he chose a man who had no culture but played football.

But good thing NASA didn't ask him to do anything complicated either, just to train him on the basics some colonists had to understand, and specific professional issues would be handled by former Marine Johnson.

Unlike Jones, the Golden Heart captain, an astronaut selected and professionally trained, signed a contract with Space-X years ago.

It is said that there was no Ares plan at that time, and that China had not yet begun to carry people to the moon. Colonial Mars was purely Space-X's own intention...

“Landing now!” Leaving the side of the starboard window, Johnson drifted to his seat and watched the two teammates standing in the cabin clap their hands, "Okay boys... and ladies, our new home is in front of us. The current orbital altitude is 316.7 km and will reach the target airspace in 5 minutes! Put on your Mars costume, connect to the environmental protection system, and give me an OK gesture when you're ready! ”

Nervously plugged the tube of the environmental protection system under the seat and fastened it with a seatbelt. Tavy looked to his right and asked nervously: "How long will we live here? ”

Johnson smiled softly and said, "Quickly, maybe four or five years! Someone will ‘trade' with us after the two-round launch window period. Of course, it could be forever. I kind of like it here. The scenery here is like Las Vegas, with a glimpse of yellow sand. ”

Tevy couldn't bear to spit in the gutter: "Las Vegas isn't so desolate! ”

“Then we'll build it a little bit like that... guys, ready to land! In-class environmental protection system activated, 3, 2, 1... ignition! ”

“New continent, here we come! ”

As the ship reached the target airspace, Johnson pressed the landing button at the moment the orbital calibration was complete.

As a violent jitter came from the seat underneath, it was quickly seen outside the starboard window that the dome-shaped shuttle was thrown away behind them, getting further away from them.

Feeling the pull of gravity, Tevy anxiously cursed “Shet," and Johnson's teeth in the main driver's seat were tight, but his face was full of excitement.

Jones, also sitting in the cockpit, looked anxiously around and prayed silently in his heart for peace on the trip.

Whatever their mood, whatever their motivation, they have taken the first step towards Mars.

As for the next step, only God can answer them...

……

Mars is tens of millions of kilometres from Earth, even at close proximity.

It takes at least three minutes to send an email from here to Earth. Therefore, since entering the Mars gravitational system, it has become difficult for the NASA Ground Command Center to accurately track the course of the Golden Heart and provide full navigation.

However, the three-minute delay, while creating considerable difficulty for command, has not prevented the planet from learning of the success of Golden Heart's landing…

Jinling Space Launch Center.

Since the establishment of the Moon Orbit Construction Commission, it has become the home camp of the Moon Orbit Construction Commission.

In order to facilitate the construction of the moon orbit, not only have the two major groups of aerospace and aerospace set up offices here, but even NASA has moved almost two sections from Shanghai to this location.

At this moment, in the conference room on the ground floor of the command tower of the launch centre, an urgent reporting meeting is under way.

Standing at the conference table, Chen Yunhai, deputy director of NASA and director of the organization of the Moon Orbit Construction Committee, pinched a report in his hand, said in a harsh and meticulous manner.

“… 35 minutes ago, we received a message from the Qianzhou Radio Astronomical Observatory confirming that an artificial electromagnetic wave communication signal was transmitted from the Mars azimuth with a message transmission time of 10 minutes. ”

Placing the report in his hand on the table, he looked around the table and continued after a pause.

“This is the FAST Project Team report, and according to their assumptions, Golden Heart should be successfully orbited around Mars! ”

There was a whispering noise at the conference table.

A lot of people cast their gaze at the canoe sitting on the other side of the table, staring at the laptop on the table, but unfortunately the face of the canoe didn't change much.

Yuan Huanmin, chief engineer of Aeronautical Science Group, was silent for a while and said.

“Have they started logging in yet? ”

“It's not certain yet, but I'm afraid if they've successfully gotten into orbit, it won't be very difficult to log in. ”

This is not the first time that NASA has ever visited Mars, although it is the first time that people have been sent to Mars. Beginning with Pirate 1, the American space industry has accumulated half a century of experience in landing Mars Earth research. Even if something goes wrong with Ares, it's unlikely to appear in the circle of landing on Mars.

After hearing the inquiry from Yuan Academician, Chen Yunhai silenced for a few seconds and said.

“We are not sure yet, we are confirming the accuracy of the message…”

“No need. ”

Sitting at the corner of the conference table, staring at the laptop's unspoken ark, he suddenly said.

“… they should have succeeded, and the message just captured by the FAST project team is probably the Golden Heart transmitting a firing video to the NASA Ground Command Center. ”

Chen Yunhai slightly stunned and pushed down his glasses to ask.

“How do you know...”

Without much explanation, the Ark turned the laptop into a circle showing what was in the video.

“Because just over a dozen seconds ago, they updated the video on YouTube. ”