Jiang Hao was lost in thought when the chief rocket engineer walked over and said with a smile, "President Jiang, you're standing there touching the big rocket and staring into space. What are you thinking about? Don't tell me you've come up with another wild idea."
Jiang Hao smiled. He really did have an idea. He wanted to build a nuclear-powered spaceship, arm it, install Plasma Cannons, and hang some duck eggs from it.
But there were some things he could not tell him.
"Heh, I do have a few ideas. Our spacecraft has a very strong carrying capacity, with an effective payload of 170 tons. It can carry a hundred satellites into space at a time. This launch only has thirteen satellites and five robots, using only a small portion of that capacity."
"Waste is shameful. I think we should conduct some experiments."
"What kind of experiments?" the chief engineer asked.
"There's a great deal of Space Debris in orbit. Satellites and rockets could be struck by it at any time. This debris has now become the greatest threat to satellites, right?" Jiang Hao said.
Chief Engineer Cui had studied rockets, so he naturally understood the issue. "There are currently around 4,500 tons of debris in space. There are roughly 23,000 pieces larger than ten centimeters, around 500,000 pieces measuring one centimeter, and tens of millions of even smaller fragments. They're densely scattered throughout orbit.
"These pieces of debris travel at six to ten kilometers per second, twenty times the speed of a fired bullet. Even an insignificant little screw could turn a spacecraft into a pile of scrap metal."
Jiang Hao nodded. "Capturing and recovering this debris is difficult because it's too widely scattered, yet it poses a threat to spacecraft and satellites. So I plan to equip