Chapter 247 Prospector Rocket
There is a place called Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, which is a well-known aviation coast. There are Kennedy Space Center and Canaveral Air Force Base nearby. All space shuttles and most rockets in the United States are launched from these two places.
The reason why Cape Canaveral was selected as a rocket launch base is mainly because it can make better use of the rotation of the earth, and the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the earth near the equator is the largest. In order to use this centrifugal force, the rocket must fly eastward and be consistent with the direction of the
Another consideration is that if there is an accident, the next flight of the rocket will be a sparsely populated area and will not cause huge damage. The crashed rocket falling into the sea is the best result. Although the United States has many places close to the equator and the ocean, such as Hawaii and Puerto Rico, Florida has very convenient logistics and transportation conditions compared with them.
The tip of Cape Canaveral is Canaveral Air Force Base.
At this moment, the staff in Canaveral Air Force Base are busy in their posts early and meticulously completing their work.
Because in a few hours, there will be another launch mission here. The 15-meter-high explorer rocket will be launched from here, mainly carrying things, mainly NASA and some university experimental projects.
Originally, such a launch, the air base launched every month, but the luck of this project does not seem to be very good. Every time it is its turn, there will always be some small problems. For example, it should have been launched a month ago, but half an hour before the launch, it was found that there was a small fault on the computer on the seeker. It took at least a few hours to troubleshoot the fault, so the best launch time was missed, and the launch plan was postponed.
The launch of the rocket is not always possible.
If you miss a time window, you have to wait for the next time.
This is one month.
Today, the weather is sunny and the sky is cloudless, which is a great time to launch.
NASA's imperial territory is widely distributed, from Maryland to California, from Europe to Japan, where there are branches or offices of NASA.
Space launch is a very high-end work that requires the cooperation of major departments to complete it together.
At this moment, the staff of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland had just started to work. They greeted each other and returned to their actions, soaked a cup of strong coffee to refresh themselves, sat in a chair and turned on the computer. They wanted to log in to their computer. Check if there are any more emails in the mailbox and schedule the day's work schedule for today.
But they found that there seemed to be something wrong with today's computer. After booting, the speed of entering the system was very slow, as if driving a classic car.
After waiting for the login screen in the monitor to appear, they entered their account number and password, and it was a long login process.
Today's network speed seems to be very slow. It took them a long time to see the familiar work interface.
They wanted to type in the character and call out their email client, but they found that the computer's response to the keyboard was unbearably slow. When they hit a key, it took at least one to two seconds to appear on the display.
In addition to being slow, it's still slow!
Slow! Slow down! Slow down!
This is too bad!
Everyone asked each other and found that this was not an isolated phenomenon. Most of them said rudely: "BwDht!"
The good mood of the day was completely ruined by the surprisingly slow response speed of the computer in front of me.
Just as they were about to call the system administrator, a box suddenly popped up on the display, with a text in the middle of the box: "YwystmHa48emLokd!" Your system is locked!)
Then the information disappeared, and then the following information began to appear line by line on the display: file name and file deletion... Success!
file name 29 file deletion...success!
file name 3 file deletion...success!
File name 4 file deletion...successful!
The file names shown in the previous file names are all important file names they save on the disk.
NASA staff immediately panicked when they saw this information.
Some of them tried to press the shortcut key to terminate the program to terminate it, but the key did not work at all. Computers completely ignore their input instructions.
The identities and backgrounds of NASA employees are also very different. There are researchers and scientists. Some of these files are their work reports, some are the latest research results, and some of the latest observation data, and many files are not backed up.
In other words, these files are very important!
In a panic, someone found a small word at the bottom of the display screen: # If you don't want all the files to be deleted, please enter your user name and password immediately to terminate!
At the bottom of this line of text, there is an input box, and a cursor flashes inaudible here, prompting the party to enter.
Many users saw this message and filled in their usernames and passwords without thinking.
Sure enough, the information that just appeared on the display immediately disappeared, replaced by the working interface they were usually familiar with.
Many people immediately check the files on the disk to see if they are still there.
To the great relief to those people, these documents stayed there well, and there was not a few.
The previous information seems to be just a prank.
Except that the computer is running very slowly now, it doesn't seem to have suffered any damage at all.
However...is it really a prank?
Many people still report this phenomenon to the system administrator.
This incident immediately attracted the attention of the system administrator.
On this day, the staff of the NASA Goddard Aviation Center in Maryland, the office of the NASA Space Physics Analysis Network (SPAN) Computer Network Security Center, were bombed by countless telephones as soon as they went to work.
Countless user feedback systems suddenly became as slow as a snail, and at the beginning, there was a scary prank.
John Edward is a network security assistant administrator in this center. He manages more than half of the SPAQT computer network of Goddair Aviation Center.
SPAN is the pomegranate writing of the space physics analysis network... This network is integrated with other computer terminals around the world, but it is not the same as the Intmt Internet, because the latter is open to the world. SPMG only connects some important institutions of U.S. national departments, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Defense, BI, and all scientific research institutions, including famous universities.
SPAN and the computer on the Internet, from a technical point of view, the operating system running on the computer is completely different.
Intmt Most computers on the Internet use Apple or Microsoft operating systems. The SPAN network is mainly composed of VAXqT computers running the MS operating system. Even the protocols running between them are completely different.
InТNT Internet is based on TCP/IP protocol... while SPAN network is based on DECNE, which is why SPAN network is called "DE№T" Internet. Most of the computers on this network are made by DE in Massachusetts.
John Edward has actually just been transferred here. He used to be a member of another NASA research group... He has just been transferred here from that group and is still receiving training.
Today, just after he went to work, he received a call from system administrators from all over the country and gave him feedback on today's strange phenomenon.
"Prank?" After hanging up the phone, Edward frowned when he heard the news. He had a bad feeling.
Sure enough... Soon another system management called, this time it was his acquaintance Thomson.
"Man, I have some bad news. We found that a strange unauthorized network program began to spread on the SPAN network, and it looked like a worm. At present, it is frantically replicating and spreading itself, and many computers have infected with this worm..."
"Worm?!"
Edward was stunned when he heard the words.
This is the first time he has encountered a worm on the SPAN network since his work. Before that, all viruses and worms basically appeared on the Internet.
Due to the particularity of the SPAN network, ordinary people have no access to MVAXqT computers at all, so they do not have an environment to write viruses and worms, and many people do not even know the existence of such an operating system.
The incompatibility of the MVAXqT computer ensures its security. Therefore, viruses rarely appear on the SPAN network, let alone worms.
And now, the system administrator below actually told him that there was a creep on the SPAN network and he immediately realized the seriousness of the truth.
"Damn it, does the author of the worm want to send his work to space!"
Edward remembered the explorer rocket to be launched this afternoon... It seems that this matter may be delayed again.
Even if the computer on the seeker is not infected with the worm virus, it is not easy to remove the worms on other computers, and without the cooperation of other computers, the rocket launch mission cannot be completed at all.
Edward immediately called the major system administrators to collect worm samples and then send them to the network security center for analysis.