Chapter 522 Peak Period
The changes on the earth seem to have nothing to do with the universe.
In fact, the Earth's atmospheric activity is closely related to solar activity, especially the number of sunspots.
In the orbit of Venus, Sapiens has deployed 12 solar activity monitoring satellites.
At this time, a large number of sunspots have been detected on the surface of the sun.
The Space Division is headquartered in Ceylon.
At this time, in the solar monitoring office under his command, Huang Xiancai, the director, was looking at the latest monitoring report with a solemn expression on his face: "Is it the peak of solar activity again?"
Researcher Wu Sigong didn't take it too seriously: "It's been 11 years since the last solar peak, 14 years ago. Solar activity has an 11-year cycle."
"Old Wu, what did the Meteorological Research Institute find?"
Wu Sigong smiled and replied: "This year, the heat radiated by the sun to the earth has increased, but this is a mixed blessing."
"The climate simulation results are out?" Huang Xiancai seemed to be quite familiar with the situation at the Meteorological Research Institute.
"Yes, it was just updated yesterday. The temperature in mid- and low-latitudes will be higher this year." Wu Sigong spread his hands.
"It seems that the situation is not optimistic!" Huang Xiancai has already thought of the problem.
It appears that the peak of the solar cycle is approaching, causing the Earth to receive more , which could slow global cooling.
But in reality, the situation is not as simple as imagined.
For example, in human history, there was a little ice age that lasted for decades. Obviously, during this little ice age, there would definitely be a peak in solar activity, but this did not cause the little ice age to disappear.
In addition, during the long geological period, there have been ice ages that lasted for hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of millions of years.
Obviously, solar cycle activity is not the core factor that determines the occurrence of ice age.
Huang Xiancai used his authority to check the latest simulation results of the Climate Research Institute. After reading more than a dozen reports, he could only use one adjective to describe the atmospheric climate activities in the next few years: extreme.
The tropics are hotter, the frigid zones are colder, and the alternation of hot and cold in between is mixed with unpredictable changes.
The Ocean Current Research Institute, which specializes in studying the North Atlantic Current, has also come to the conclusion that a sudden warming in a short period of time will cause further chaos in a series of ocean currents, including the North Atlantic Current.
Just when Huang Xiancai was thinking about how to report the recent sunspots.
A researcher hurried in and said, "Director, Researcher Wu, a solar flare just erupted, and our T7 satellite in the orbit of Venus was severely disturbed."
"Solar flare? What level?" Wu Sigong asked quickly.
"At least X2 level."
Huang Xiancai was shocked: "Have you notified other departments?"
"I notified them immediately."
"That's good." Huang Xiancai breathed a sigh of relief.
But Wu Sigong's expression showed no sign of relaxation: "X-class solar flares are a sign that solar activity has entered its peak period. There will definitely be a lot of flares in the next period of time."
"The satellites designed by the company are relatively sturdy, so there shouldn't be any major problems. Many large satellites have artificial magnetic field systems that can withstand the solar wind." Huang Xiancai is still very confident in the company's technology and products.
Wu Sigong shook his head: "I'm not worried about the company's satellites, I'm worried about those half-baked people."
"The Ground Union?" Huang Xiancai reacted after hearing that.
"Especially Musk's Starlink satellites. Do you think those crudely made small communication satellites can withstand the dense solar wind?" Wu Sigong is not optimistic about the Starlink satellites.
At this time, the entire space division headquarters became very busy.
This time, the solar storm ejected by the solar flare happened to be heading towards the Earth, and part of the light waves have reached the Earth-Moon system.
A Homo sapiens space station in mesosphere orbit.
At this time, 36 superconducting magnetic field generators have been started, supplying a large part of the electrical energy inside the entire space station to the magnetic field generators.
Although it is not as strong as the Earth's magnetic field, it is small and powerful. After all, the radius of the Homo sapiens space station is only 500 meters.
Inside the core module of the space station.
The person in charge, Bai Muxi, looked at the feedback data from the 12 surrounding escort satellites, turned around and ordered: "Takahashi, prepare to activate the backup communication module."
Communications equipment manager Takahashi Toru nodded: "Got it."
Next second.
Woo woo woo…
A shrill alarm sounded throughout the space station.
The invisible solar storm, carrying a large amount of helium-3 particles, high-energy neutrons and high-energy rays, arrived at the Homo sapiens space station one after another.
The charged particles were blocked by the magnetic field shield, resulting in a noticeable trajectory deviation.
However, uncharged high-energy neutrons and high-energy rays can penetrate directly into the space station's thick composite lead plate protective layer and radiation reflection layer.
Even with such powerful protection, there are still a small number of high-energy neutrons that can penetrate the protective layer and enter part of the cabin.
Fortunately, all the astronauts were wearing heavy space suits and biological armor at this time, so these high-energy neutrons did not affect the astronauts.
However, a small number of devices were not spared.
Takahashi Tetsuichi quickly checked the operation of the communication modules and found that three of them were faulty. He immediately started the spare communication modules.
"Earth Headquarters urgently announces that all agencies stationed in outer space should report the current situation in accordance with the prescribed procedures..."
As soon as the communication module returned to normal, they received a broadcast from Earth headquarters.
"Takahashi, report back to the headquarters according to the procedures." Bai Muxi ordered.
"OK."
Bai Muxi quickly took the others to conduct a comprehensive physical examination of the space station, first identifying the faulty module and then preparing for repairs.
And in low-Earth orbit is the new International Space Station.
Although protected by the Earth's magnetic field, the intensity of the solar storm here is less than one-tenth of that at the Homo sapiens space station.
The problem is that the defense capability is not even one-tenth of that of the Homo sapiens space station.
After all, the wealthy Homo Sapiens company can equip the space station with a thick lead plate composite layer, and Geostationary Space Network is too focused on cost-effectiveness and naturally will not waste the payload on lead plates.
Therefore, the Earth-linked space station, which had insufficient defense, was directly paralyzed by the solar storm, with a quarter of its equipment paralyzed.
Inside the Earth-link space station, eight astronauts were caught off guard by the sudden solar storm.
Especially the solar panel power supply modules. Nearly half of the solar panels failed during this solar storm.
As the captain of the Earth Union Space Station, Zhang Ming made a prompt decision: "Immediately report our situation to the Earth headquarters and ask them to quickly formulate an emergency plan."
Communicator Owen did not dare to delay and quickly activated the communication equipment. Then his face changed:
"Damn it! The communication system is malfunctioning..."
" Start the backup." Zhang Ming's palms were sweating.
Owen, who was working hard, had cold sweat on his forehead. After trying for a few minutes, he finally found a backup communication device that could be used.
He felt his lips were dry and he licked them subconsciously: "Hoohoo... connected!"
Soon the United Network also responded.
The Earth Union is now in a dilemma about the impact of the solar storm on the space station. Many executives of the association hope that the space station can continue. After all, this is a project that has invested tens of billions of dollars.
