บท 142: Sol Two Hundred and Seventy-Five, We Only Want Sixty Kilograms

"The work that you'll be doing next will be complicated. I'll need to explain it to you in detail, Miss Mai Dong."

Tomcat sat up straight, looking serious.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm listening, Mr. Cat." Mai Dong floated in front of the camera as she took on the look of an attentive student.

Tang Yue sat to the side at a loss for words. He stared blankly at the pen and paper on the desk, knowing that it was hopeless. Getting the Eagle to return to Kunlun Station was impractical. Regardless if a rocket engine was installed or not, the lander had no means of a successful landing.

The Orion II's Raptor 10D engines weren't designed for landing. Even Orion II itself wasn't capable of atmospheric entry. The massive but weak propellant reservoir tanks attached to it couldn't withstand much stress, so it was bound to suffer structural meltdown upon atmospheric entry.