Arizona Astronomical Observatory, North America.
As a large astronomical observatory built after 2020, this research facility possessed North America's most sensitive radio telescope array. Its precision could even track meteor fragments and space debris as small as half a meter in diameter—as long as they were within the Earth-Moon System.
As North America's newest and most advanced astronomical observation center, the Arizona Astronomical Observatory was nominally a civilian public research facility under the American Astronomical Society. In reality, however, its funding came from the Pentagon's defense budget and it was directly overseen by Space Command.
Since it received military funding, the observatory's mission naturally could not be as simple as it had claimed when it was first established.
According to an internal Pentagon document, only thirty percent of the observatory's observation missions involved searching for habitable planets outside the Solar System.
As for the remaining seventy percent, most were focused on the Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit and Lunar Orbit. The purpose needed no explanation: they were clearly monitoring Hua Nation's space activities within the Earth-Moon System for the Pentagon.
Standing beside the coffee machine and quietly waiting for his coffee to finish brewing, Professor Reston rubbed his aching brow with a headache, trying to relax his overheated mind.
About a week earlier, Hua Nation had launched the first batch of components for its Manned Mars Landing Plan according to the timetable it had publicly released to the international community.
From that day onward, neither he nor the observation team under his command had taken a single day off. They had remained on standby at their posts nearly around the clock, not daring to relax even for an hour.
After all, no one could guarantee that Hua Nation would arrange every launch according to the launch schedule it had disclosed to the