The Light of Domestic Products: The whole world begs me to sell

Chapter 304 Nasa's Son and Godson

On the other side of the ocean, on the European continent.

The morning sun slowly rises, bathing this romantic city - Paris.

The city has the world-famous Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Notre Dame Cathedral, and of course the famous local football team Paris Saint-Germain.

but.

Unbeknownst to many, the European Space Agency is also headquartered here.

Inside the European Space Agency.

At this time, Director Mu, who is in charge of the satellite business of the European Space Agency, is browsing the latest satellite information from around the world in his office, which is one of his daily tasks.

After a while, the phone on the desk full of documents suddenly rang.

He subconsciously glanced at the caller ID, and suddenly let out a little surprise.

According to the caller ID, it turned out to be a call from the office of the satellite department of Airbus.

Unlike most people's perception of Airbus, Airbus is indeed a well-known civil aviation aircraft manufacturer, with Airbus-380 and other models under its banner.

but.

At the same time, Airbus is also a satellite manufacturer.

Including the world's leading communication WeChat T-16, the remote sensing satellite SPOT-5, and the most famous European "Galileo navigation and positioning satellite" are all designed and produced by Airbus.

Not only that.

Airbus also provides launch vehicle production, spacecraft manufacturing, lunar exploration vehicles and other space instrument services to the European Space Agency, the French Space Agency and other European space agencies!
It's just that the development of launch vehicles in Europe has always been very hip.

Thinking of this, Director Mu was slightly taken aback. Recently, the space agency and Airbus have no satellite business contacts. What happened to the sudden call?
After a while, he picked up the phone.

"Hello, Director Mu, I'm Jerry, Jerry Ramsay from Airbus Satellite Division."

Jerry's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Jerry, I haven't seen you for a long time, why did you suddenly think of calling me today?"

"Director Mu, we just received the latest news from Yan Country..."

"From Yan Country?"

Director Mu of the European Space Agency froze for a moment, then said with a smile:

"Jerry, you don't want to tell me about the new progress of Yanguo's new airliner C919, do you?"

"Sorry, you made the wrong number. I'm from the satellite department, not the civil aviation department, and I suggest that it's more appropriate for you to call your French Space Agency or the Ministry of Commerce..."

Jerry heard the joke in Director Dem's words.

Recently, as Yanguo's self-produced C919 narrow-body airliner continues to make new progress, Airbus still feels a little pressure inside, and many aerospace employees discuss this matter from time to time.

"Director Mu, what I want to talk about is not a civil airliner, but..."

"Well, I'll send the message to your mailbox, you have to read it quickly, you will be very surprised."

After hanging up the phone, Director Mu shook his head and didn't quite believe Jerry's words.

but.

Out of curiosity, he opened the mailbox immediately...

When he opened the mailbox, he just glanced at the contents of the attachment, and his face immediately changed.

"7nm, aerospace-grade AI computing chip?!"

"'Star AI intelligent processing platform'?"

Director Mu's eyes widened, his first reaction was impossible!
As the head of the satellite department of the European Space Agency, he browses satellite technical information from all over the world almost every week, and he is very familiar with space satellite chips!

The current situation in the entire industry is that almost all aerospace-grade chips are between 45nm and 90nm, you...?
7 nanometers? !
And when he continued to look down, he suddenly became numb.

Good guy.

Global sale of earth remote sensing satellite data...

and.

Are you still accepting global commercial satellite orders?
Director Mu was a little flustered. You must know that the current global commercial aerospace landscape is roughly divided into two businesses.

One is satellite manufacturing and ground equipment service provider, and the other is rocket launch.

Among them, because of the birth of SpaceX, the rocket launch business has swept the world at extremely low prices, resulting in the orders of global commercial satellite companies falling into the hands of SpaceX.

Whether it's Maoxiong, Yanguo or Europe, they basically don't even have the chance to drink soup.

As the second largest market for commercial aerospace development, Europe has always had a good satellite manufacturing industry. Seeing that the launch vehicle has been completely taken over by Aramco, European commercial aerospace is now looking at the satellite manufacturing business to make money.

did not expect.

This Yanguo company that turned out to be the first to produce a 7-nanometer aerospace-grade chip and an "AI intelligent processing platform on the star"?
Good guy.

Accepting global commercial satellite orders?To put it bluntly, this f*ck is here to grab a job!

Which company in Yanguo is so powerful?
Aerospace Group? !

hiss……!
When Director Mu continued to look down, his eyes were suddenly attracted by the name of "Phoenix Group".

Why does this company look familiar?

After a while, something suddenly came to his mind.

Isn’t Phoenix Group the same company that participated in the Frankfurt Motor Show some time ago and brought a new energy electric sports car and a self-driving bus?

At that time, their "unmanned self-driving bus" also aroused a lot of interest.

Moreover, there has been a lot of news about them recently, saying that they have provided Mao Xiongguo with a large number of high-end chips in private...

wrong.

Thinking of this, Director Mu reacted.

Phoenix Group?

After a while, he quickly opened his chat software, searched the chat records from memory, and suddenly opened his mouth in disbelief!

This Nima!
Two or three months ago, a Yanguo company approached the French Space Agency and asked to rent a SPOT-5 remote sensing satellite to obtain satellite data. At that time, the French Space Agency directly offered 2 million dollars a year!
After the Yanguo company refused, people from the French Space Agency laughed at the company for being played by them when they talked about it.

My God, if you read it right, the company that was asking for rent at that time was called Phoenix Group!
Director Mu felt flustered, shit.

Two or three months ago, you were begging people to rent satellites in a low voice, and in a blink of an eye, you sent remote sensing satellites to the sky, and even produced "7-nanometer aerospace-grade chips" and AI smart satellites? !
???

Such efficiency, even the world-renowned SpaecX company does not have it?

"The idiots of the French Space Agency, if they had leased the satellite to them, maybe they would not have developed a satellite at all!"

"This is finding a competitor for myself for no reason at all!"

In anger, Director Mu cursed loudly, and after venting, he quickly dialed the phone on the desk.

"Secretary, collect all the information on this Yanguo satellite company for me immediately, I want all their information!"

"By the way, I'll send you an email right away, and you forward it to the CEOs of all our satellite commercial companies, so that they must find a way to understand everything about this Yan country company!"

……

After the explosive appearance of the "7nm aerospace-grade chip" of the Phoenix satellite, not only the European Space Agency immediately captured this news, but Aramco also quickly obtained similar news.

but.

Unlike Director Mu of the European Space Agency who was quite nervous, Mr. David, the chairman of Aramco's "Commercial Space Development Alliance" and the boss of Boeing, did not appear particularly excited.

Because his recent thoughts are all on the next-generation moon landing rocket SLS, which will be launched on the 29th of this month.

Having said that, I have to talk about the old stories of Boeing, Nasa and the Ameri-military military.

After Big Brother "Asu" successfully launched the first artificial satellite into space in October 1957, it kicked off the prelude to the space race between Ami and Big Brother Su.

随着1961年5月阿美第一次登上月球，到1972年12月第6次登月成功后，Nacs（阿美宇航局）花费了255亿美刀成功完成了“世界第一”的使命。

The purchasing power of US$1972 billion in 255 is now about US$5000 billion, which is not too much.

At that time, the rocket that transported humans to the moon was called "Saturn V". So far, Saturn V is still the heaviest launch vehicle ever used in human history.

The height of the "Zero Space" rocket is only 20 meters, the total mass reaches 40 tons, and the payload is 1.5 tons.

And the Saturn V...

It is 110.6 meters high, with a take-off weight of 3038 tons, a total thrust of 3408 tons, a carrying capacity of 118 tons in low-earth orbit, and 45 tons in lunar orbit...

Compared with the Saturn V, the "Zero Space" Clipper series rockets are not even counted by grandchildren.

Such a powerful launch vehicle was produced in 1965, and several companies such as Boeing, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM were used as contractors, and they were responsible for manufacturing it.

That's right.

Boeing, like Airbus, not only produces aircraft, but also produces launch vehicles, satellites, and the famous spacecraft and space shuttle.

It can be said that in the days when Ami and Asu confronted each other, because of Ami’s national strategy, Nasa’s funds were very sufficient, and it was omnipotent. The companies that cooperated with NASA were full of food.

but.

As Aso fell completely, the space race came to an end, and NASA also fell into another embarrassment.

There are no powerful external enemies and no targets.

It follows that there is no reason for the entire country of Aramco to invest heavily in NASA for the space race.

NASA's funds began to be tight year by year, and at this time Boeing and Lockheed Martin (Lockheed Martin, the one that produced the F22) gradually became the two giants in the Aramco aviation industry in the development of commercial aviation because of the company's good management.

At the same time, the two companies have directly monopolized all NASA launch missions by virtue of the launch vehicle developed through long-term cooperation with NASA.

At this time, NASA can only rely on Boeing and Lockheed Martin to launch satellites. The two brothers formed the ULA alliance. Every time NASA launches a rocket, the two brothers will kill each other.

No way.

Satellites are not like other commodities. The cost of a high-precision satellite can easily be hundreds of millions of dollars. In order to be able to launch safely, no matter how expensive the launch cost is, you can only grit your teeth and endure it as long as it is safe.

What's more, at that time, no other company could launch except these two brothers.

How ruthless are these two brothers?
For example, the Delta IV medium-sized rocket at that time could send 11 tons of payload to low-Earth orbit, and the average cost of each launch was about 1.6 million US dollars.

At that time, the Yanguo Long March 11B sent the same 6000-ton payload to low-earth orbit, and the international quotation only needed [-] million U.S. dollars.

but.

Satellites, especially the satellites sent to the sky by organizations like NASA, contain major secrets, and it is impossible to find foreign companies to launch them.

In this way, with no fear, with the capital blessing behind the two companies Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the two companies began to join forces to cheat their fathers, and NASA could only admit it with tears!
Unexpectedly, these two brothers became more and more outrageous, and the quotations increased year by year. The average quotation of large and medium-sized rockets exceeded 4 million US dollars.

Originally, NASA's funding decreased year by year after the loss of Asu's opponent. In this way, after the launch cost rose sharply, NASA's troubles could not be explained.

at last.

NASA decided that it could not let them do whatever they wanted, so in order to teach their two sons a lesson, they decided to accept a few godsons.

In 2008, NASA launched a tender for the "Commercial Transportation Service" project, which is to deliver express delivery to the International Space Station...

You know, unlike the Yanguo space station, Ami had a space station in space a long time ago, and in order to operate normally in the space station, it needs to transport various materials from the earth on time and in volume.

and so.

After NASA just launched the business of delivering express delivery to the space station, many aerospace companies in Aramco began bidding.

Because Ami people are different from Yan people, many wealthy people in Ami are keen to send people to the sky and space travel, so many businessmen have established various aerospace companies.

For example, Amazon CEO's Blue Origin.

Branson's Virgin Galactic.

Google founder Page's Planetary Resources.

And the SpaceX company created by the well-known Mask...

finally.

SpaceX was selected by NASA to be the godson, and began to send 16 tons of materials to the space station in 12 times for $20 billion.

This price...isn't it better than two sons, Boeing and Loma?

In this way, SpaceX quickly won the favor of NASA by virtue of its price far lower than that of Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Subsequently, after SpaceX received NASA's blessing, its technology progressed rapidly, and then, it renewed its cooperation several times, and finally made SpaecX a long-term partner of NASA.

As a result, Boeing and Lockheed Martin's Delta IV medium-sized rockets and Atlas V rockets are no longer commercially competitive because of launch costs.

Boeing didn't care about the rocket launch business when its main business was good before. After all, Boeing's main business is large aircraft and the U.S. military...

Unexpectedly, Boeing's planes have been killed by Airbus in recent years, and the biggest funder, the military father, has also been persuaded. In the past two years, he also bought a few SpaceX Falcon Heavy rockets and started to try it out. Effect.

Boeing panicked, and finally got an order from NASA for the next-generation moon landing rocket SLS.

On the 29th of this month, Aramco's next-generation super-heavy moon landing rocket SLS-1, developed by Boeing for NASA, will face its first launch.

At such a critical moment, although you are the chairman of Aramco's "Commercial Aerospace Development Alliance", Mr. David, the CEO of Boeing, can still take care of the satellites of the Phoenix Group?

joke.

Do you understand the gold content of the moon landing rocket SLS-1, which cost more than 400 billion US dollars?

Do you understand that the gold content of 41 billion U.S. dollars is needed to ignite once?

How much money do you make for a commercial satellite?
not to mention……

The proportion of our Boeing satellite business is really not high. No matter how awesome the commercial satellite is, it's none of my business. Let's stand aside first.

In this way, when the data of the Phoenix "Viewing Series" satellites were sent to Mr. David, David did not deal with it in time, and he did not even hold a special meeting.

For a while, although the entire "Commercial Space Development Alliance" paid attention to this news, other commercial satellite manufacturers could only collect information about the Phoenix satellite in private.

……

the other side.

(End of this chapter)