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"It's pretty fast."

Said the director of the space agency.

Leaning on his seat, he began to think about possible situations.

He thought that the aerospace departments of other countries would come to inquire about the situation, but he did not expect that the first one would be from Meriken.

I just don’t know whether this communication only represents the space agency, or it has all the authority of the president and Congress?

But no matter what it is, you will know when you connect to the chat.

Of course communication cannot be here. There are too many people here. He has to go to his office and communicate under surveillance.

He found an excuse to leave and continued the discussion in the conference room.

If the Tianwen No. 1 orbiter is directly asked to change its orbit to specifically search for the unknown probe, then the mission it set before will definitely not be completed.

This is Tianxia's first Mars rover, and it has undertaken quite a few missions. When the rover is launched later, it will also provide data relay services.

If you let it change orbit now to find the unknown detector, its fuel consumption will be quite fast.

When the search time is unknown, it may even consume all the fuel without finding an unknown probe, and then crashed on Mars by the gravitational pull of Mars.

If this is the case, the loss can be great.

It had already caught up with the achievements of foreign aerospace to a certain extent, but as a result, I destroyed the orbiter, which is simply sick.

If you find it, it's fine, and it's a great achievement.

But if it can't be found, or if it is found, it turns out that the thing is not an alien probe, or a secret probe of a certain country, then it will be lost.

It is the second one. The method of forming a "horizon telescope" with a space telescope network is less risky.

This method can be implemented on the earth, just like the photo of the black hole was captured.

That mission was to use 8 radio telescopes distributed in many parts of the world to jointly observe the same target source and record the data to form a virtual telescope with an aperture equivalent to the diameter of the earth, and to increase the telescope's angular resolution to a scale structure sufficient to observe the event horizon. Degree.

It's more complicated to say, but just know that it's very impressive.

Through the use of telescopes in different locations to form a network, and then form a virtual telescope with a super-large virtual aperture, you can observe extremely small objects in the extreme distance.

But this method is too troublesome.

First of all, human beings don't know the specific coordinates of the detector, and there is no way to make fixed-point observations. They have to look for it first and then observe it.

Second, even if it is observed, the image of the unknown detector is not necessarily clear.

Just like the first photo of a black hole in human beings, people imagine that it is a clear picture of this kind, and when they see the real guy, people's reaction is...

That's it?

Yes, it is too vague.

You must know that tens of millions of gigabytes of data were generated when the black hole was taken. Finally, after more than two years of processing, a picture of the black hole is not clear.

Although Mars is close, the probe is small, only a few meters in size.

The black hole is 55 million light-years away from Earth and is estimated to have 6.4 billion times the mass of the sun.

I really don’t know who is bigger and who is smaller.

Therefore, if you only use domestic telescopes to connect to the Internet, it is really not certain what will be photographed.

And it's too time consuming.

This kind of unknown thing is best to figure out what it is as soon as possible. Don't analyze anything on the earth side, the aliens' interstellar fleet has already arrived.

That's a fart!

Therefore, it is best to conduct international cooperation in this matter. It is too difficult for a single country to do it.

As long as capable countries unite and even sign a valid contract to ensure that accurate data on Mars will be shared in the future, then why not let the Mars rover change its orbit to find the unknown satellite.

Several detectors cooperate to exchange data. The positions of the signal sources received at different times are definitely different. That way, cross-locking, and after calculation, the position of the unknown detector can definitely be accurate to a relatively small range.

That's definitely fast and save fuel.

But whether other countries will cooperate, I really don’t know, because this may be the first time humans have come into contact with an alien civilization.

This name, and the interests that might exist behind him, are really not small.

Human beings are very strange, they are considering backstabs while considering cooperation.

Especially when the final benefit is very huge, even only when it may be very huge.

When they were talking about these issues, Tang Chao was already considering the first method.

The Mars rover on this side of the earth is relatively precious, which is understandable, after all, countries have limited funds.

The vast majority of funds and resources are actually used for people's livelihood.

The proportion of funds used in scientific research, especially in the aerospace field, is not large, or even extremely small.

But the situation on Kanxing's side is different, and the aerospace sector definitely accounts for the bulk of the funds.

Moreover, Kanxing has already established industrial bases on the moon and Mars-like, and now many aerospace facilities are manufactured there at lower cost.

Tang Chao can come up with a "Mars probe" at any time, or a probe using Kanxing's advanced power system. That is to say, the company had a Mars exploration plan long ago, and it just happened to be completed now.

At present, the fire detection track commonly used by mankind is not the shortest flight time, but the most fuel-efficient, and actually goes around a large circle.

So Tang Chao can use the new Mars rover to accelerate the past with full power along the way.

Because it is an unmanned detector, there is no need to consider human endurance. Even if it is not the best time for fire detection, it can be reached within a month.

At that time, not much time will be wasted, and you can look for the unknown detector without scruples, because Tang Chao can use it as a disposable detector.

He actually has his own advantages in doing this, because the detector is his, and he has the right to obtain first-hand information.

You can even set permissions. Even if you send information to multiple targets at the same time, he will definitely receive the most.

It's not that he is boasting, he is definitely the most suitable human being to handle alien affairs, because the little green man is also an alien to a certain extent.

Just because of some reasons, he became his subordinate directly.

Moreover, he has Kanxing technology and the entire Kanxing backing. He can now let the little green people build space battleships to deal with aliens that may arrive at any time.

Whether it's good or bad, it's always right to use a space battleship to frighten you.

Even if he is lost, at least he will resist, and he will be able to retreat to Kanxing with time, and then use ten times the speed of development to come back for revenge after being strong.

Of course, this is to confirm that the thing is an alien probe, and the worst case.

This is not necessarily the case.

After all, the unknown probe did not come to Earth, but was directly captured by Martian gravity and stayed in Mars orbit.

This shows that the other party's aerospace technology is not very smart.

At least that probe should be of the same level as the Earth's spaceflight.

In fact, this is also the entanglement of the informed state.

This thing may be about the same level of science and technology as the earth, and then suddenly appears on Mars, maybe it is a hidden probe carried by a certain country on the earth when it launches a Mars probe.

The signal detected this time may just be a malfunction, unclear language, or a garbled code caused by the malfunction, or a new encryption method.

Anyway, this unknown detector is strange.

But the stranger it is, the more it can arouse human interest.

While they were discussing, the director came in again, he quieted everyone, and then said: "Just now the Meriken Space Agency had a video call with me, and we exchanged some non-confidential situations."

"Look at what they mean, they are planning to cooperate on this search mission, not only us, but also several other major space agencies."

"It's just that they haven't got the permission of the Congress and the President, and they don't plan to persuade the Congress and the President directly. They plan to explain the actual situation at the UN General Assembly, and then get voted support, and hope that we can send some representatives. Look?"