Chapter 37 Attack Satellites

Stars shine in the night sky of Lushan City, but in this seemingly empty sky, an invisible aircraft is rising rapidly.

Kusanagi Momoko and Athena are fully controlling the hunters to continuously improve their height to the sky. Due to their non-human bodies and the protection of the predator armor, the series of adverse reactions to the human body brought by vertical rise have no effect on them at all.

Kusanagi Momoko looked at Athena in the passenger seat and asked, "Athena, what is the flying height of the hunter now?"

In order to facilitate the control of Athena, who has been connected to the hunter system, immediately reported: "Report to the major, the hunter is now 40,000 meters away from the ground!"

At a height of 40,000 meters, it is the stratosphere in the atmosphere. The air in the stratosphere is relatively stable and the atmosphere flows smoothly. Therefore, there is very little steam and dust, and the visibility outside is very good.

Seeing that Kusanagi Momoko had reached this height, she spoke again: "What is the speed now!"

Athena answered very concisely "Mach 5"

Now it is only forty seconds before taking off, and the hunter has reached a flight altitude that ordinary aircraft cannot reach. Therefore, it can be seen that the speed of this specially built hunter is so fast.

Kusanagi Motoko knew that it was time, so she immediately ordered: "Open the anti-gravity system and immediately increase the speed to the first cosmic speed!"

The so-called cosmic velocity refers to a speed in which an object can escape the constraints of the earth's gravity when it reaches a speed of 11.2 kilometers per second. This speed is now divided into four levels. The first cosmic velocity Kusanagi Mosaic just mentioned is also an orbiting speed. It is a speed that ordinary spacecraft must have when moving around the earth's surface. It is also a process of moving towards the second cosmic velocity.

"Yes, start to enter the first cosmic speed." After receiving this latest order, Athena immediately began to increase the hunter's speed again so that she could rush towards the sky faster.

As Athena's voice ended, the anti-gravity system installed under the hunter's body began to take effect. Although it could not completely allow the huge fuselage to completely enter a gravity-free state, it greatly reduced its own weight.

Under the savvy control of the computer system and Athena, a large amount of blue flames began to eject from the tail of the hunter, and his speed further increased and he rushed towards the high altitude.

After Kusanagi Momoko looked at the sky around the hunter through the glass in the cab, she spoke again: "What is Athena's current height?"

Athena's calm voice came from the hunter again and said, "Major, the hunter is now 500 kilometers away from the ground. He has entered the warm zone."

The warm layer is located about 100 to 800 kilometers away from the earth's surface. The most prominent feature of the warm layer is that when sunlight is exposed, the ultraviolet rays in the sunlight are absorbed by the oxygen atoms in the layer, so the temperature rises, so it is called the warm layer. The temperature here increases rapidly with the altitude, and the maximum temperature can reach a high temperature of 1,500 degrees.

However, it is not a problem for hunters who are all shells made of Edman alloy. At this moment, it is rapidly rising to a higher place.

"The major can now enter the second universe speed!" Not long after, Athena reported to Momoko Kusanagi.

Kusanagi Momoko immediately replied: "Okay, you will enter the second universe immediately, speed up the breakthrough of the atmosphere, and enter the predetermined orbit!"

"Yes, start to accelerate now!" As Athena's words ended, the hunter, who was rising vertically, immediately further increased his speed.

The second cosmic velocity refers to the minimum initial velocity required for an object to completely break away from the earth's gravity and fly away from the earth. Also known as the disengagement speed. When the spacecraft exceeds the first cosmic velocity, it will break away from the earth's gravitational field and become an artificial satellite orbiting the sun.

About fifteen minutes later, the hunter at the second cosmic speed finally broke through the atmosphere at an extremely high speed and entered the outer space.

Looking at the endless universe outside and the countless stars emitting beautiful light, Kusanagi Momoko couldn't help but say, "Is this the universe? It's really beautiful!"

At this time, Athena's voice came again: "Major, now the hunter has begun to enter high-altitude orbit, and there is no other satellite around it, which has completely met the requirement of the attack satellite release."

At this moment, the hunter had turned off the engine and began to enter the satellite orbit and prepare for the next step of action. The hundreds of satellites of various countries that were originally in the space orbit had long been destroyed by the previous meteorite attacks.

"I understand, Athena now controls the hunter, I will go to the rear cabin to prepare for the space orbit. After hearing my order, you will immediately open the cabin door." After Kusanagi Motoko unbuttoned the safety belt tied to her body, she began to float towards the rear of the cabin. Now the hunters are already in a state of weightlessness.

Athena immediately replied, "I understand, Major, please be careful!"

Kusanagi Motoko nodded and floated towards the renovated cargo warehouse behind. At that time, the space hunter was built on the ground, and some parts of the rear cabin were specially converted into a cargo warehouse that could be opened at any time like a space shuttle.

However, at this moment, the warehouse is not loaded with anything. In order to reduce the weight as much as possible, it is easy to get rid of the earth's gravity and break through the atmosphere quickly, the goods used are all loaded in storage bracelets.

This is also why Athena and Kusanagi Momoko were specially selected for this space operation. Because they have the ability to move in a vacuum environment without any protective equipment, Mu Chenxing and others do not have such ability.

As the hunter's warehouse opened, Kusanagi Motoko's body gradually floated up. She immediately activated the raider armor and began to fly into the space orbit with the power of the armor itself.

This is also the reason why Momoko Kusanagi and others wore Predator armor. In the universe, these armored suits have very good movement ability and can move faster than on Earth.

Under the continuous guidance of Athena from the hunters, Kusanagi Momoko finally arrived at the best satellite orbit. She then decisively unbuttoned the armor on her left hand, revealing her hand with special gloves and the storage bracelet on her wrist.

After some action, a huge satellite began to appear in orbit. Kusanagi Momoko immediately flew over and began to connect with the satellite through special devices of the raider armor. After a series of program inputs, the satellite, which was originally in a standby state, began to stretch out its wide solar windsurfboard and began to enter a working state.

As the satellite's system gradually started, the attack satellite "Tiansha" located in space finally showed its full appearance.

The attack satellite developed by Lao Xia and others is significantly larger than the satellites launched by other countries, and is equivalent to that of two hunters. The reason why such a large size is in addition to various reconnaissance and communication equipment, the most important thing is its weapon system. The main weapon is a large-caliber particle cannon, and the secondary weapon is twenty attack missiles.

The reason why we chose the particle beam weapon is entirely because it is currently the most mature energy weapon mastered by Lao Xia and others. The destruction mechanism of the particle beam weapon is kinetic energy killing and γ and x-ray damage. However, the particle beam is not affected by natural environment such as clouds, fog, smoke and other natural environments and target reflections, and will not fail due to the target being obscured or disturbed. It has good all-weather and anti-interference performance.

At the same time, the particle beam can penetrate directly into the deep of the target without maintaining a certain period of time, which is conducive to attacking multiple targets. If the particle beam does not directly hit the target, γ and x-rays will be generated around the target, causing the second type of damage and damage.

The destructive effect of particle beams is manifested in: (1) vaporizing or melting the target structure; (2) detonating the fuse in the warhead in advance or destroying the thermonuclear material in the warhead; (3) causing the electronic equipment in the target to be invalid or destroyed.

The particle beam can not only perform "hard killing" that directly penetrates the target, but also perform "soft killing" with local failure. The charged particle beam has extremely strong penetration ability to the target, has concentrated energy, and has high pulse emissivity, and can quickly change the emission direction.

The sub-weapon attack missile is to attack the missile in the future if it encounters an external attack, it can launch self-defense defense when the particle beam cannot attack, or attack other close-range targets, such as satellites.

After seeing the attack satellite that was already in full working state, Kusanagi Momoko immediately contacted Athena among the hunters and said, "Athena, is the situation of the satellite now? Nothing went wrong!"

"Major, everything is normal for attacking satellite systems. Attacks can be launched at any time. Can you test the effect of the weapon?" Athena quickly reported.

After hearing Athena's instructions to ask whether to attack the ground, Kusanagi Motoko immediately ordered: "No need for the time being, Athena, quickly connect the satellite system to the ground base."

If you really follow Athena's proposal and come to the earth below for a while, it will be lively. Such a space-based weapon is now the only one in the world, and it will be impossible not to attract other people's attention.

After contacting, Kusanagi Momoko immediately activated the plundering armor and flew back towards the hunters in the distance. It was not the time to expose this weapon. Of course, after all the plans were completed, he and others had a safe base, so don’t worry about it.

When Kusanagi Momoko entered the hunter safely, she immediately floated towards the control room. After sitting in the cab, she asked Athena beside her: "Athena, will our encrypted communication be deciphered by the forces of other parties?" Kusanagi Momoko is still very concerned about the signals sent by her side through satellites. Once someone discovers it, it will not be wonderful.

Athena immediately replied: "Major, this can fly. At present, the technology we master must be at least twenty years ahead of the world. The countries on the ground cannot crack our signals... Well, the connection with the base has been completed..."

After hearing Athena's words, Kusanagi Momoko nodded in this regard. She still believed in her own strength very much, so she immediately turned on the communicator and spoke and said, "This is Hunter No. 1. Are the signals from the base still clear?"

"It's totally clear, Major congratulates you. Everything is normal for success. We have received various image information from the satellite..." Not long after, the sound of the ground base came out of the communicator of the hunter. It seems that everything is normal for the system. Now they finally have their own satellites.

After seeing everything was normal, Kusanagi Momoko finally smiled. She said to the communicator: "Okay, let's go to the next location right now to start the next plan. You can study this satellite carefully. Athena, let's go to Gralangese point."

"Yes, the hunter is activated!" Athena replied concisely.
Chapter completed!