Chapter 782: Arrived on Mars?

For the Chinese academic community, June is the time for the announcement of the academic primaries.
At the same time, June is also the third month of the launch of the Heart of Gold ...
In the deep space tens of millions of kilometers away from the earth, a silver-colored spacecraft slowly moved forward.
Although viewed from the background of the distant sun and the fiery red planet nearby, it is slowly moving as slowly as a snail crawling, but in fact it is now reaching almost four kilometers per hour.
If it was faster four days ago, it would be the result of nearly 90 hours of active deceleration after being captured by Mars' gravitational system.
Floating in the cabin, staring at the fiery red planet outside the porthole for a long time, a victorious smile evoked in the corner of Johnson's mouth.
"Mars! God, we are finally here!"
Holding the electronic camera in his hand, taking a picture of the fiery red planet, Jones standing beside the porthole also made a sound of emotion.
"... It's so beautiful!"
Four days ago, the BFS spacecraft carrying the colony capsule successfully separated from the BFR rocket, entered the Martian gravitational system, and orbited the planet in an elliptical orbit.
Now, after a long active deceleration, the BFR manned spacecraft, known as the Heart of Gold, has finally successfully approached the Martian atmosphere after several complex orbital changes.
This is the end of their journey.
It will also be the starting point of human civilization towards the sky!
"When are we landing?" Gave a glance at the star outside the window and muttered quietly, "I always feel panic floating on it."
Unlike Johnson, who was dreaming of becoming a Columbus, and even more than Jones who ran for the Ares program just because of a broken heart, he only came here to hide his debt.
As for why you want to avoid debt to Mars ...
There is no reason why he never planned anything.
Maybe when I was drunk, I saw the advertisement of Space-X, and then filled out the form with a mentality of trying. As a result, when he almost forgot about it, someone suddenly called He told him he was chosen.
To be honest, he thought it was a scam phone call at first. After all, he didn't expect that they would actually find a black man on this ship, and he chose him who had no culture and only played football.
Fortunately, NASA did not ask him to do anything complicated. He just trained him some basics that the colonists must understand. Specific professional issues will be handled by former Marine Corps Johnson.
Unlike him and Jones, the "Captain" of the Golden Heart is an astronaut who has been carefully selected and professionally trained and signed a contract with Space-X a few years ago.
It is said that there were no Ares plans at that time, and China had not yet started manned moon landings. Colonizing Mars was purely Space-X's own plan ...
"Land right away!" Leaving next to the porthole, Johnson floated to his seat, watching the two teammates standing in the cabin clap, "Okay guys ... and ladies, our future The new home is at hand. The current orbit altitude is 316.7 kilometers, and it will reach the target airspace in 5 minutes! Please put on the Mars spacesuit and connect with the environmental control bio-security system. When you are ready, give me an OK gesture! "
Nervously inserted the pipe of the environmental control life insurance system under the seat, and Tawei, who had fixed herself with a seat belt, looked around and asked nervously, "How long will we live here?"
Johnson smiled heartily and said, "Four words, maybe four or five years! After two rounds of launch window, someone will" shift "with us. Of course, it may be a lifetime, I kind of like it. The scenery here is like Las Vegas, look forward to a long yellow sand. "
Taiwei couldn't help but whisper: "Las Vegas is not so desolate!"
"Then we will build it a little bit like that ... guys, ready to land! The in-cabin environmental control life insurance system is activated, 3, 2, 1 ... ignition!"
"New World, here we are!"
As the spacecraft reached the target airspace, the moment the orbital calibration was completed, Johnson pressed the landing button.
With a violent shaking coming from the seat below him, he quickly saw outside the porthole that the dome-shaped shuttle-shaped aircraft was thrown away by them, getting farther and farther away from them.
Feeling the pull of gravity, Tave whispered "Shett" uneasily, Johnson's teeth sitting in the main driver's seat clenched, but his face was full of excited expression.
Jones, who was also sitting in the cockpit, had a tense expression, and looked around uneasily, silently praying for the peace of the trip in his heart.
Regardless of their mood or motivation, they have taken the first step towards Mars.
As for the next step, only God can answer them ...
...
Even at the approach point, Mars is thousands of kilometers away from Earth.
Sending an email from here to Earth takes at least three minutes. Therefore, after entering the Mars gravitational system, NASA's ground command center has been difficult to accurately track the route of the Golden Heart and provide full navigation.
However, although the three-minute delay brought a lot of difficulty to the command, it did not prevent the news of the successful landing of the heart of gold on the earth ...
Jinling Space Launch Center.
Since the establishment of the Lunar Orbital Construction Committee, it has become the home base of the Lunar Orbital Construction Committee.
In order to facilitate the construction of the lunar orbit, not only the two major aviation and aerospace groups have set up offices here, but even the space agency has almost moved the two departments from Shangjing to this place.
At this moment, in the conference room on the first floor of the command center of the launch center, an urgent report meeting is underway.
Standing in front of the conference table, Chen Yunhai, the deputy director of the space agency and director of the organization department of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee, holding a report in his hand, said at this moment that he looked stern and meticulous.
"... 35 minutes ago, we received a message from the Qianzhou Radio Astronomical Observatory. We confirmed it through the diagnosis and identification of the active space signal. The artificial electromagnetic wave communication signal was transmitted from the Martian azimuth. The message transmission time was 10 minutes."
Putting the report in his hand on the table, he looked around the conference table and paused before continuing.
"Here is the report of the FAST project team. According to their speculation, the Golden Heart should successfully enter the orbit of Mars!"
A whisper sounded at the conference table.
Many people turned their attention to Lu Zhou, who was sitting at the other end of the conference table and staring at the laptop on the table. Unfortunately, Lu Zhou's face did not change much.
Yuan Huanmin, the chief engineer of the Aviation Science Group, said a few moments of silence.
"Have they started landing?"
"It is not certain at this time, but if they have successfully entered the orbit, it will not be difficult to land."
Although this is the first time people have been sent to Mars, this is not the first time NASA has visited Mars. Beginning with Viking 1, the US space industry has accumulated half a century of experience in landing Mars surface research. Even if there is a problem with the Ares plan, it is unlikely to appear on the Mars ring.
After hearing Academician Yuan's inquiry ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Chen Yunhai was silent for a few seconds, he said.
"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 without talking, Lu Zhou said suddenly.
"... They should be successful. The piece of information captured by the FAST project team just now is probably the video of the golden heart transmitting to the NASA ground command center."
Chen Yunhai froze slightly, pushed his glasses and asked.
"how do you know……"
Lu Zhou didn't explain much, turned the laptop around and showed the content in the video.
"Because they updated the video on YouTube just a few seconds ago."