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I flicked my radio to the control com channel. "Control, this is Virginia Talens on Sundancer. I'm going for a rescue. Out." I flipped the radio off before anybody on Antaeus could tell me not to. Peggy smiled silently at me from her spot taped to the control panel. I smiled back at her at her and pulled the emergency release. Ninety-seven seconds--exactly one third of a revolution--after the explosion, Sundancer blew free of her cradle. The observatory shuddered from the shock of disengagement, and gee dropped away to freefall. In the viewport, the lazily rotating bolo of Antaeus shrank away against the brilliant crescent of the Earth. There really wasn't any choice. The station had no tugs, and no shuttles were docked at the moment. Sundancer was the only vehicle available with enough delta-vee for a rescue. Sundancer was a free-flying solar observatory designed to be boosted by ion-tug into an eccentric solar orbit, aphelion at Earth's orbit, perihelion inside Mercury's. It had been in assembly at a docking-and-repair station about a third of a gee down the cable from Antaeus's rotation center--high enough gees to keep things from floating around, not enough to be bothersome. Previous - Next |
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