B-level Base.
The laser laboratory had obtained control of the "discarded" Explorer No. 7, placing it on a highland to facilitate laser targeting.
Hitting a moving object at relative speeds of several kilometers per second from 380,000 kilometers away was as difficult as getting a hole-in-one from ten kilometers away in golf.
Thousand-Jun Stick No. 1 had never stopped testing in space, and this was its farthest test yet, aimed at testing the limits of its positioning and sight alignment system. For such a distance, the attack couldn't rely on mechanical structures to adjust the deflection of light, but rather depended on tiny changes in the prism emission angle for targeting.
It also required the close cooperation of the Moon's orbit and near-Earth orbit satellites, first correcting the atomic clock in advance, and then continuously determining an extremely accurate orbit with minimal margin for error, to provide the correct guidance for Thousand-Jun Stick No. 1.
