Chapter 387: Chapter 48 Turing_3 Chapter 387: Chapter 48 Turing_3 Again!
You wanted to show off your skills, wouldn’t it have been enough to hack a satellite and gain control?
Why did you also need to start the satellite’s reverse thrusters, causing it to lose speed?
“The altitude is still dropping!
4,000 satellites gradually forming 5 straight lines…
They’re densely packed!
And their altitude has already dropped to 370 kiloters!
...
Still decelerating, still descending!
Could it be…
Are they intending to drag the satellites into the atmosphere??”
Bang!
The manager dashed forward, looking at the huge screen displaying the on-orbit indicators of the Starlink Satellites.
Over 20,000 rapidly moving small white dots wrapped around the Earth like a net, dense and nurous like a tirelessly diligent swarm of bees.
For many years, this is how the Starlink System had operated, without a single error.
But now!
It was very clear, over North Arica in the Northern Hemisphere, the Western Pacific, the Eastern Atlantic…
Roughly 4,000 small white dots were nearing an altitude of 300 kiloters!
Was this a direct crash?
The end of Mi Country??
“No, that’s not right…”
The manager wiped his sweat, suddenly realizing that if it were rely to crash, why ticulously control the direction of these 4,000 satellites, making them form five different straight lines?
Lowering the orbital altitude, aligning in straight lines…
What exactly was Team China’s freestyle performance planning to do?
…
At the New Jersey Sports Stadium, a crowd of 80,000 spectators buzzed with confusion, not understanding what the young man from China was up to.
Since it was a freestyle performance, there was no need to submit the show’s content in advance, and it could also be changed midway, purely for the sake of showcasing dazzling skills.
No one knew what the young man from China on stage was fiddling with.
However…
What could he do at this point?
Facing Kevin Walker, who had already breached China’s Big Dipper Satellite, and a score difference over 80 points, he was already powerless to co back.
Suddenly!
A scream erupted from the stands:
“The sky…
the sky!
Look at the sky!!”
It caused a thousand ripples with a single stone.
The fully seated 80,000-person stadium roared as everyone looked up to the pitch-black night sky.
Gasps rose all around.
The sky had been starless and black, with the moon obscured by clouds all night and nowhere to be seen…
But at this very mont!
There was a bright line of light rapidly crossing the sky!
It was like a silver snake.
Traversing the entire sky.
But it wasn’t just this one!
“Quick, look to the south!
There’s another light!
What on earth is this?”
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“There are more on the east side!
Two more light spots flying over!
Is this a UFO?”
The entire venue erupted into chaos, with exclamations of shock echoing around.
Everyone stared, agape, at the two bright spots on a direct collision course in the sky…
like a miracle.
At the highest point of the stands.
Chu Anqing’s mouth was slightly agape as she looked up, watching the bright lines of light streaking across the sky, with two more appearing in the western sky!
There were now five lines crisscrossing in the night sky, heading towards the sa convergence point.
They were so straight, so bright.
What in the world were they?
Why were they glowing?
How was this possible?
“Those are Starlink Satellites.”
Turning to a dumbfounded Chu Anqing, Huang Que, who was supporting her shoulder from behind, explained:
“The usual operating altitude for Starlink satellites is over 550 kiloters above the Earth’s surface.
Because they are so high, they are normally undetectable.
To be able to see the satellites with the naked eye like now…
I think their altitude must have dropped to around 300 kiloters, or even lower.”
“Of course, even at this altitude, they would usually be invisible, because the satellites are so small, and at a distance of 300 kiloters, you wouldn’t be able to see them clearly…
But at night, it’s different.
In the dark night sky, even the smallest point of light shines like a star.”
She smiled and hooked a lock of Chu Anqing’s hair, smoothing it behind her ear and fastening it with a hair clip:
“[Just like you.]”
“If the entire world were silent, or filled with hisses, your cheers would be that deafening.”
Chu Anqing’s eyes were wide open.
She didn’t even blink, staring fixatedly at the streaks of light cutting across the sky.
Now, two of the bright lines had intersected, forming a “cross” shape in the sky.
“But…”
Chu Anqing, like a question-asking machine, inquired:
“Why would satellites emit light?”
“That’s the reflection of sunlight.”
Huang Que also looked up, watching as the five bright lines in the sky gradually converged:
“Solar panels on the satellites and reflective materials all reflect sunlight, but normally not so intensely and uniformly.
Satellites rotate to stabilize their attitude while ascending from low Earth orbit to higher orbits and when descending from high orbits to lower ones…
So, it is precisely because they rotate that the reflected sunlight is evenly distributed and bright.”
“As for why satellites reflect sunlight…
little princess, you surely don’t need to explain such junior high knowledge, do you?”
Chu Anqing, feeling a little embarrassed, scratched her head and chuckled lightly.
Sort of understanding.
Seeming to understand.
“So in that case, these satellites are Senior Lin Xian’s performance piece for the freestyle segnt, huh?
That’s incredible!”
“Hehe, the incredible one is you, actually.”
Huang Que playfully flicked Chu Anqing’s nose:
“If it weren’t for you, he definitely wouldn’t have shown this trick.
This is a gift he’s giving you.”
“Ah…” Chu Anqing was a bit flustered for a mont, but still could not bear to look down; her pupils reflected the five bright lines, all converging towards a center:
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