Mars Mission I: Surviving the Kessler
- ISBN-10
- 1734224606
- ISBN-13
- 9781734224603
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-03-15
- Author
- Christopher Lee Jones
Description
Mars Mission I has landed successfully on Mars when a nasty State player shoots two satellites out of low earth orbit which causes the Kessler effect. The Kessler effect is a chain reaction of orbital debris destroying all other satellites in low earth orbit and was first identified in 1978 by Donald Kessler an Orbital Debris Specialist with NASA. The loss of all satellites throws the Earth into chaos as everything grinds to a halt with no cell phones, no power, no gasoline, no air transport, no GPS and no internet and no communication with the International Space Station or the 21 astronauts on Mars. This effectively maroons the astronauts on both the International Space Station and Mars. The International Space Station endures several encounters with orbital debris and this knocks out almost all of their systems. NASA Mars Mission I director Brad Brown is left scrambling to try and find some way to communicate with both operations and rescue the isolated astronauts on the ISS and the astronauts 35 million miles away on Mars.
