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Chapter 351 Satellite Impact! (Third Update!)

The White House, Office of the President's Intelligence Advisor.

After hearing what was said on the phone, Price was instantly overwhelmed with anxiety.

He also rose through the ranks in intelligence work; he used to be a special agent.

When I was a secret agent, my favorite type of person was someone who was always on the go. As long as someone was always on the go, even if it was irregular, I could always find an opportunity to take them out.

But if someone stays at home all day and doesn't go out, that can be very troublesome.

If this guy's hideout isn't his home, but some enclosed area, then it'll be even more troublesome.

Moreover, the president wants a living person, not a dead one.

Given this situation, if we take forceful action, all we'll get are dead bodies, which doesn't meet the president's requirements.

After holding his phone in his hand and thinking for a moment, Price whispered to Navarro on the other end of the line:
"Director Navarro, your plan can continue, but please adjust your objectives."

"Continue to monitor, but don't alert them; keep looking for opportunities."

"I'll go and report to the President right away!"

After hanging up the phone, Price got up, left the house, and headed towards the presidential office.

In the presidential office, Barack Obama, America's first black president, was packing his things, seemingly preparing to leave.

Upon seeing Price, Barack looked up and said, "I only have five minutes to spare. If it's urgent, say so. If not, wait for me to come back. I need to go to Baltimore right now."

“Not in a rush!” Price replied, quickly stepping forward and relaying everything Navarro had said to Barack as quickly as possible.

Barack listened with a frown, wanting to utter a few words of criticism, but then realized he couldn't find a position to support his argument.

After all, he wanted to capture others and kill them.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and began to issue new commands:
"Since this plan cannot be carried out, let NASA carry out the second plan, using our decommissioned satellites to probe their satellites."

"If we can knock it down, great; if not, we'll just consider it an early retirement of the satellite."

"I hope I can hear good news in Baltimore."

Leaving a timer for the plan's launch, Barack nodded to Price, then walked past Price and left the White House with the others.

Price stood in the office for a while, sorting out the time Barack had left, and then quickly returned to his office.

Upon returning to his office, he immediately relayed Barack's task requirements to Harrison.

At NASA headquarters, not far from the White House, Harrison looked at the information sent to him and felt utterly overwhelmed.

He really wanted to curse, but he swallowed the words back. There was no way he could do it; if he cursed the president, the president could just fire him.

If someone insults Price, that guy will hear it and try to relay it to the president, who will then remove him from his post.

Without his position, he is nothing.

Having figured this out, he quickly took out his phone and called the head of Goddard Space Flight Center.

Over the phone, clearly inform the other party that you will arrive at the flight center in half an hour and ask them to prepare according to the previous plan for a satellite impact.

After hanging up the phone, Harrison rushed to the parking lot, started the car, locked the accelerator, and headed northeast toward Goddard Space Flight Center.

Goddard Space Flight Center is NASA's largest spacecraft control center, whose primary mission is to control NASA's Earth science satellites.

In addition, it also indirectly controls America's satellite communication system.

In addition to these tasks, they also need to monitor decommissioned satellites.

This control center is not far from the heart of Washington, D.C., less than 20 kilometers away as the crow flies.

Harrison floored the accelerator and arrived at the flight center in less than half an hour.

As soon as he entered, Brooks, the head of the flight center, came up carrying a stack of documents:

"We have 23 satellites in low Earth orbit that are either decommissioned or about to be decommissioned, but only 5 of them are fully under control."

"The missions of these five satellites have been completed, and they can be decommissioned at any time."

"Are you sure you want to start the process now?"

Harrison took the documents from Brooks, read them through from beginning to end, and, confirming that the missions of these satellites had been completed, nodded slightly.
"Let's use these 5 satellites!"

"As we venture into space, competition between nations has also extended to space."

“When people compete with each other, conflicts will arise.”

"What we've done is nothing more than setting an example for everyone to anticipate potential future conflicts."

"So, go for it with confidence!"

"If we knock their satellite down, it only means that their satellite is of poor quality and not up to standard."

"In their Chinese parlance, it means that if you fall behind, you will be bullied."

Harrison returned the data to Brooks, bypassed him, and headed towards the flight center's control room.

Brooks, carrying the documents, followed closely behind.

The two walked into the control room together. Hearing their footsteps, everyone in the control room looked up, their faces tense.

Satellite collisions are not a one-off incident for America. Just last year, they managed to have their own satellite collide with a Russian satellite.

They successfully destroyed a Russian satellite.

But that time it was only one.

This time, there are 5.

Five satellites may sound like a lot, but satellites move very fast relative to each other, and the other side is constantly monitoring their signals. If even one satellite malfunctions, the rest will also malfunction.

There's no chance again.

Under the gaze of the crowd, Harrison walked straight to the command platform, picked up the walkie-talkie, and began to call out:
"Everyone!"

“I am Harrison. Brooks should have told you about the next task as well.”

"Now I will repeat it again, we will use five satellites that are about to be decommissioned to collide with the Xiaomi 1 satellite from China Xiaomi Heavy Industry."

"There's only one chance, so I hope everyone will be on their toes."

“We launched 5 satellites, so they must destroy at least 5 satellites.”

"Otherwise, we won't be able to explain ourselves!"

"Now let's start drawing up a detailed plan."

"Observation team, as previously instructed, collect the orbit data of the Xiaomi 1 satellite closest to these five satellites."

"Operation control group, after the observation group transmits the data to you, immediately begin maneuvering and changing orbits. The speed must be fast, and the orbit change must be completed before everyone can react. Wait in the other party's orbit, and when the other party's satellite gets close, detonate the satellite directly and destroy it with fragments."

"External Communications Team, prepare two announcements immediately."

"After our satellites were adjusted to their designated orbits, we issued the first announcement to the International Satellite Operators Alliance, informing them that our satellites needed to undergo mass orbit adjustments and decommissioning due to fuel depletion and battery aging."

"Orbit control team, after this announcement is issued, you must prepare for detonation." "Detonate the Xiaomi 1 satellite immediately once it reaches its designated orbit."

"After confirming that the satellite had been detonated, the external communications team immediately sent out a second notification."

"That means our satellite encountered an unforeseen event during its orbit change, and the satellite forcibly activated its pre-set decommissioning procedure, causing it to explode."

"After this announcement is released, you need to prepare a press conference and also prepare a speech for me."

"The main content of the speech was repentance."

“I will personally go on stage and repent to them, taking the blame for this.”

"Now, let's get to work!"

With Harrison in command, the people on site immediately got to work and carried out his orders in an orderly manner.

The orbit control team confirmed the satellite's status immediately, since these satellites, which are about to be decommissioned, are more or less due to problems with the satellites themselves.

To collide with someone else's satellite, you need to adjust its orbit. If the satellite can't even reach the target orbit, then what's the point of trying?

Once they confirmed the status of their own satellite, the observation team connected to the International Satellite Operators Alliance and began collecting orbital data of the Xiaomi 1 satellite.

Soon, they collected seven satellites that were closest to their satellite.

Once the data collection was complete, it was immediately handed over to the orbit control team.

The orbit control team, taking into account the conditions of their own satellites, carefully selected three suitable satellites from these seven options.

Brooks quickly presented Harrison with the data from these three satellites:

"The two satellites launched before 2000 were not equipped with an automatic destruction system and could not produce fragments."

"The orbital control team just reconfirmed that the satellite launched in 2003 has an antenna problem, and the signal is currently uncontrollable."

"Unable to execute commands precisely."

"us……"

"That means we can only attack a maximum of three satellites."

"Actually, this kind of work should be carried out by the military."

Harrison really wanted to punch someone, really wanted to slap Brooks across the face, because of this last-minute mistake.

But in the end, when he raised his hand, he slapped himself across the face, accompanied by the loud sound of a slap, and then his voice rang out explaining:

"If we intervene, it's called an accident; if the military intervenes, it's called starting a war."

"Understand?"

Taking a deep breath and forcibly suppressing his anger, Harrison waved his hand dismissively:
"The satellite has begun to change its orbit and is preparing for impact. No matter what, we must take down this satellite today."

Upon receiving his order, the track control team began to control the orbit change.

…………

Yanjing West Suburbs Aerospace Control Center.

It was already late at night, and the staff of the satellite and debris observation team were sitting in front of their computers, chatting casually.

"Have you heard? The testing team has loaded the satellite data into missiles and is launching them like crazy in the western desert."

"What's the use of hearing that? That's the work of the group next door, it has nothing to do with us. We can only sit in this room, enjoying the air conditioning, drinking tea, and watching these signals."

"Let's change the subject! I also want to join the testing team, I also want to touch the missile, and I also want to see the big explosion."

"To be honest, I want to too!"

"Alright, let's change the subject. This topic is getting more and more upsetting."

"Okay, let's think about when we can start building the space station."

"I think we have to wait until 2025. In 2025 we will start launching the test module, and after the test module is verified in 2030, we will be able to build a space station in space."

"I think it won't take that long. If this company can design a satellite with strong enough performance in such a short time, then maybe they can also build a space station."

"You're overthinking it. The biggest difference between a space station and a satellite is whether they are manned or unmanned. Satellites don't need to guarantee the survival of people, but space stations do."

Just as everyone was engrossed in their conversation, the alarm on the control panel suddenly went off.

The red light of the alarm flashed in the room, suddenly freezing the group of people who were chatting enthusiastically.

After a brief moment of surprise, the people who had been chatting quickly returned to their positions and began checking the observation records.

After reviewing the observation records, one of the observers suddenly looked up and shouted:
"Four observation satellites of America have suddenly changed their orbits. Based on the predicted orbit change angles, these four satellites will approach the newly launched Xiaomi-1 satellite after changing their orbits."

Upon receiving his message, the observation team leader abruptly turned around and shouted to the people behind him:

"Check if they've made any announcements!"

"Check again whether these four satellites have an automatic destruction system, and be quick!"

Upon receiving the order, the people responsible for retrieving the information each performed their duties, and within two or three minutes, they found the corresponding results.

America Space Agency has issued a statement saying that their four satellites need to be repositioned due to a problem.

Just as the team leader was about to relax after hearing the announcement, another voice rang in his ears.

"Team leader, two of these four satellites have automatic damage control systems!"

These words made the team leader's heart jump into his throat.

Satellites are man-made objects, and as such, they have a limited lifespan.

And since that thing was floating hundreds of kilometers in the air, it was impossible for a person to use a net to retrieve it.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, when these satellites are about to reach the end of their service life, the ground control center will control these satellites to deorbit and go to some areas where no satellites pass, where they will wait to be scrapped.

This is just a regular satellite.

Some special-purpose satellites and military satellites are equipped with automatic destruction systems at launch, which detonate the satellite when it reaches the end of its service life or after a problem occurs, to prevent it from falling to the ground and being obtained by others.

The team leader quickly turned to look at the large screen. According to the data synchronized by other observation centers, America's four satellites were gradually approaching the Xiaomi-1 satellite.

With their sudden change of course and the automatic damage system, the purpose of these guys is self-evident.

Thinking of that terrible possibility, the team leader immediately roared:

"Control team, immediately change course and move away from these satellites."

He reacted quickly, and the control team was also quick; they immediately began to control the satellite's propulsion system and adjust its orbit.

However, the satellite was moving very fast, and the slight adjustment only caused a minor change in its orbit. According to the observation data transmitted back from other control centers, the satellite they were controlling was still gradually getting closer to America's satellites.

Goddard Space Flight Center.

As the satellite drew closer, Harrison grabbed the walkie-talkie and roared in a frenzied voice, "Detonate!"

(End of this chapter)