Across the ocean.
Xiu City Space Control Center.
It was the morning when everyone had just gone to work. Everyone had a hint of fatigue on their faces.
Fatty, who was in charge of monitoring the Hawkeye satellite, was even more so.
Ever since the satellite was launched, his job had remained the same.
The satellite images were all encrypted and sent to the Ministry of Defense. They did not have the authority to view them.
He was only responsible for receiving and processing the daily operation data of the satellite.
Orbit correction.
At this moment.
The fatty was still thinking about the good times at the strip club last night.
Suddenly.
A strange code began to appear on the data chain on the screen.
【sos001】
When this code sounded.
At the same time, an alarm sounded in the control hall.
Finally, there was a change in the unchanging work.
However, this variable made his career full of danger.
This code was the initial error code of the satellite.
It meant that there was an irreparable error in the satellite and it was going off track.
In a few minutes, the satellite would disintegrate in space.
Fatty tried to use the correction code to control the satellite, but he knew very well that this was meaningless work.
Small data deviation could be corrected.
The initial code meant that the satellite had suffered structural damage, and the possibility of correction was minimal.
At this moment.
The four persons-in-charge of the Space Control Center all came behind Fatty.
Ever since the last space shuttle launch failed.
The space control center had not sounded the alarm yet.
Their hearts tensed up.
This was a big event that would be on the national news. If things went wrong, the four of them might be fired.
"What happened?"
"Everything was normal in the report for the last hour. Why did the code suddenly appear?”
"Is there any way to correct it?"
The few people in charge were all talking at once.
Beads of sweat rolled down Fatty's forehead.
He did not know if there was a way to correct it.
Even if there was.
He couldn't do it in a panic.
At this moment, his hands were just typing randomly on the keyboard.
Immediately after, the image of the International Space Station was connected to the Space Control Center.
The space station's orbit was larger than that of the low-Earth satellites, so it could provide accurate images of the Hawkeye satellites.
Everyone could see it clearly.
The Hawkeye satellite's electrical panel was disintegrating.
The huge fan seemed to have been pierced by something.
The components at the connecting parts had already turned into pieces.
Then, the main body of the satellite broke.
Countless parts floated in space like disassembled toys.
Seeing this scene.
Everyone had an answer in their hearts.
It was impossible to repair it.
At this moment, the Hawkeye satellite had already become a piece of space junk, floating in a disorderly manner in low-Earth orbit.
At this moment.
Fatty's professional career ended here.
The four people in charge formed a small circle, puzzled.
"You all saw it. The scene just now didn't seem to be an internal malfunction!”
John, who had many years of experience in satellite operations, looked worried.
Now that the satellite had disintegrated, the only thing they could do was to find out the reason.
"It's like this."
"But I've seen the airspace environment report for this period of time.”
"The orbit is very pure and there are no obstacles. It can't be caused by external forces, right?”
During the flight of a spacecraft, it would indeed be disturbed by many debris.
It could be space junk.
It could also be a small meteorite.
However, the current orbital environment prediction could be 99% accurate, so they ruled out this option.
An engineer frowned.
"Could it be a physical attack?"
After thinking about it, there was only one possibility.
The disintegration of the satellite was clearly caused by external forces.
This external force was either debris floating in the universe or other weapons.
However…
John strongly denied this.
"Impossible!"
"There is no weapon in the world that can destroy a satellite without leaving a trace!”
"Even if there is!"
"Who would risk the crime of despising space warfare and provoke such an international dispute?”
"Even the Dragon Country can't be so irrational!”
As soon as he said that.
Everyone fell silent.
This was indeed the case.
It was a little far-fetched to attribute the disintegration of the satellite to external forces.
No matter what.
This was a satellite belonging to the military. The exact decision was left to the military.
John braced himself and wrote a report to the Space Force.
A bearded general read the report.
He was furious.
"Unacceptable! Now was an important period for the Dragon Country's North-South Military Drill!”
"How can the satellite be offline at this time!”
To the military.
The importance of the Eagle Eye was self-evident.
Without it, they would have no way of grasping the situation of the military exercise in the Dragon Country.
Especially the Eastern Sea Battlefront.
Over the years, they had continuously released new equipment, greatly increasing their combat strength.
The Eagle Eye was an important tool to assess the combat power of the Eastern Sea War Zone.
The report submitted by the space center meant that they were already blind in one eye.
"Trash! You're all trash!"
"Dismiss all the members of the Hawkeye project team!”
"The satellite disintegrated, but no one told me the reason. This is ridiculous!”
This made the bearded man even angrier.
Mistakes were not scary.
The scary thing was that he didn't know how he made a mistake.
In the report, they didn't even say clearly what kind of problem caused a satellite worth 800 million US dollars to go up in smoke.
"I will report to the military headquarters. You guys continue to investigate.”
"Otherwise, how should I explain this to the commander?”
After the general left, his subordinates trembled in fear.
If the China National Space Administration couldn't figure out what was going on, the Space Force probably couldn't do anything about it.
Could it be aliens?
In space, a satellite had mysteriously disintegrated. This was already very difficult to explain with existing science.
After that, they also made many conclusions.
However, no one attributed the reason to the ground.
Because they didn't dare to think that way.
The next day, in the military's official statement.
They only claimed that the Eagle Eye had a serious technical error that caused it to disintegrate.
When He Weiguang saw this message, the breakfast in his hands was no longer fragrant.
"My goodness!"
"Little Lin's flashlight blinded Redneck in one eye!”
"I have to register for a special grade skill!"
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