Mikhail Nikolayevich’s face changed. It was apparent, even with the poor Internet bandwidth and the low quality of the picture, that he did not know how to respond. He was still waiting for Yulia to continue.
“It’s kind of weird,” Mikhail said, singing the words a little bit.
“I checked everything, the system works properly. It’s not the settings. The system must have reacted to the frequency of the signal.”
She knew that none of the Roscosmos executives don’t like it when employees can’t make assumptions on their own to solve a problem. And emergency situations were not something Mikhail Nikolayevich liked.
“All right, Yulia, send us all the data, we’ll check it now.”
“I already did.”
Mikhail Nikolaevich checked the mail, saw the letter from Yulia, clicked the ‘forward’ icon, typed a few words and sent the letter.
“Stay by the computer, I’ll call you back,” said the boss goodbye.
Yulia, disconnected. She sat by the computer, trying to figure out how disappointed the boss was, until scraps of the sounds of the ill-fated recording reached her. “It’s a bug, and I can’t explain it,” Yulia thought.
Dr Capri and Dr Lamichen came up to the room. Tulu-Manchi was explaining the situation to him in Nepali. Giyanu Lamichen quietly listened to his colleague’s story and nodded approvingly. Nothing seemed to bother him. Yulia could only understand words like ‘Voyager’ and ‘Bach’ in the doctor’s words.
“Right,” Dr Lamichen said in English. “Yulia, you need to look into the causes of this mistake. It is very important for us. Please start over. I’ll call the workers, and you can reinstall the whole system.”
“But…” Yulia began, “it’s not about the installation. It’s about the signal. Either it’s some kind of experiment by the Chinese, or it’s a reflection of the satellite signal,” she couldn’t believe what she was saying, but she continued on. “I informed my supervisor, and he is checking the signal now. He’ll check with the Chinese if he needs to.”
“Then continue,” Dr Lamichen said in English, looking at Tulu-Manchi.
Dr Capri nodded back at him, and Dr Lamichen left the room.
“What does your boss say?” Tulu-Manchi asked Yulia.
“He said he would call back when he checked the signal.”
“Yulia, what else do we know about this signal?” taking a seat next to him, Dr Capri asked.