Chapter 714 Coding

"Report to the command center, I have prepared for the detonation, all personnel have been transferred to a safe area and are ready to act at any time!"

"Stay on standby and execute according to the plan!"

"Yes!"

Deng Lei turned off the communication and continued to stay at the control console to be on guard.

Like the last time, except for the two astronauts left behind at the Yushu base, the rest of the members in the lunar orbit wore space suits to prevent accidents.

You should know that the total equivalent of this explosion will add up to more than 80 million tons, which is the largest equivalent of a single explosion in human history, 60% higher than Big Ivan.

According to ground calculations, the strong electromagnetic pulse generated by such an equivalent will last for more than 40 minutes, or even up to an hour. Many detectors with insufficient protection measures may be damaged, and the entire lunar communication will be disconnected after the explosion.

Fortunately, the explosion was on the back of the moon, otherwise the Earth's orbit might be slightly affected.

The danger for the astronauts on this mission is also greatly increased. The strong electromagnetic interference lasts too long. Even if the space station assembly is on the opposite side of the explosion, the electromagnetic pulse aftermath is still strong when it runs to the explosion surface.

Deng Lei has enough confidence in the huge space station assembly. The current Wutu space station has an operating mass of more than 200 tons, not including the Jiuzhang.

Even if the space station loses power, the stored supplies and emergency equipment can support half a month, and can definitely support until the rescue arrives.

As for Artemis VI, which participated in this mission, NACA had no intention of keeping them here to take risks, and embarked on the return journey the day before.

Whether it is the "Gateway" space station or the Orion spacecraft, their protection performance is actually almost good, mainly because they cannot provide astronauts with enough emergency survival resources, and NACA can't bring themselves to squeeze into the "Wutu" space station.

Now there is still one hour before the scheduled detonation time, and the space station is still running on the explosion surface, and can see the scheduled explosion site.

Senator Bill occupied the observation position of the porthole and carefully observed the location of the mining area through the follow-up function of the intelligent astronomical telescope.

The operating altitude of the Wutu Space Station is only a few dozen kilometers, and the big pit left by the last explosion can be clearly seen through the telescope.

Even though the astronauts later traveled around the explosion area and destroyed it, it was still a perfect circle in the lens.

As a typical hawkish congressman, Bill's initial purpose of participating in the Sky Dome Project was to find flaws in the United Mining or to interfere with it.

However, after half a year of getting along, he has established a good personal relationship with others, and often scolds the federal government together, so that Bill suspects that his position will be questioned after he returns.

Fortunately, he is now in his seventies and has no plans to participate in the election. He is very satisfied with the current situation.

"Matthew, I think we can give NACA a definite answer."

Bill naturally has a mission. After the first test explosion, NACA came up with the idea of ​​trying to use the perfect parabola produced by the nuclear explosion to build a space radio telescope based on it.

However, they still have doubts about the residual radiation and the effect of the explosion, and asked the members participating in Sky Dome No. 4 to conduct an investigation. Now it is almost time to give the results.

Matthew and Bill have been to the moon several times, collecting and analyzing samples from many places, and all the results meet the requirements of NACA.

Matthew: "I have written the report. In the future, Amei will also have its own nuclear bomb crater on the moon."

"NACA wants a big one with a diameter of 3 kilometers, and it must have a yield of 10 million tons."

Rosen, a nuclear expert from the country of Taiwan, interrupted. He is the most active among the multinational expert group and has been studying some strange things. In addition to the initial nuclear bomb transformation of the terrain, he has recently been doing some underground blasting to create underground cities.

"Mr. Rosen, is the country of Taiwan ready to set up a nuclear bomb blasting company?"

Bill joked casually that this is because the country of Taiwan is extremely concerned about the plan of the United Mining Company, and it is even rumored that it intends to become its long-term supplier and sell nuclear bombs to build large-scale buildings on the moon.

"That's not necessarily true. Maybe we will produce hydrogen bombs on the moon in the future."

"Everyone, please note that we have entered the front of the moon!"

Deng Lei's reminder made Bill and others quiet down immediately and quickly find a place to stay.

Matthew and Rosen came over, and several people gathered around the control console in front of Deng Lei.

This was the first time that humans detonated multiple hydrogen bombs at the same time, and they were all large things with a yield of tens of millions of tons, so there were strict requirements for the timing of detonation.

There might be a risk of delay difference in remote detonation on Earth, so the method adopted on the ground was a traditional timer, which was calibrated with atomic clocks in advance and then detonated at the scheduled time.

The countdown was only 15 minutes, and it was sent from the satellite to the hydrogen bomb 30 minutes before the explosion, and then feedback was given to confirm that the clock timing was correct and all activated.

This time, the activation command was used by the five parties to enter a specific code, which was recorded by a special person before entering space and entered before issuing the command.

"Here it comes!"

The built-in program of the laptop connected to the control console was activated 30 minutes before the explosion, and five boxes popped up automatically, with their respective national flags next to them.

Zhou Jie was the first to press the keyboard, and everyone else saw the code he entered: LHLH180712.

Simple and clear, Deng Lei immediately understood the meaning in his mind.

The next four people came forward one by one, and everyone was focused when entering.

"Giant Man"

"Tulips"

"1799LF"

"SusanMuickSandy"

When lead expert Jamie finally lost, Rosen finally couldn't help but complain:

"Last time you just used the names of the robbers, but now you use the names of the Queen's three corgis?"

Jamie didn't bother to pay attention to him and just muttered "hillbilly" quietly.

Hours after the five-segment code is entered, a signal is sent from the space station to the satellite, which in turn transmits the signal to the mining area.

A minute later, several prompts popped up on the laptop screen.

"All unit activation status passed, clock calibration passed, explosion point confirmation passed... Done!"

The countdown on the screen began to beat. Deng Lei subconsciously touched the connection point of the helmet, took a deep breath and gently held the nearest cabin handle.

In the next ten minutes, all non-essential functions of the space station were powered off, with only basic life support parts retained and emergency equipment on standby.

Ten minutes before the explosion, the yellow warning light in the cabin began to flash, and a piercing alarm sounded from the headphones.

Deng Lei stared closely at the constantly beating countdown numbers, only to feel that the speed of its changes was getting faster and faster, and finally stopped abruptly.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but when the number returned to zero, he felt a little hairy all over his body, but the world outside the porthole did not change at all.

The originally "rustling" radio noise in the earphones suddenly became louder for a moment, and then was automatically cut off by the communication system, turning into dead silence.