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Chapter 836 Want to launch a satellite

Could it be that my sister-in-law's spring has arrived?
After listening to it for a while, it didn't seem like it, and I didn't know if it was my illusion.

Su Chen packed his luggage, called a few people out, and planned to have a meal together first.

When Xue Fang went out, he looked more curiously, and found that there seemed to be nothing wrong with his sister-in-law, and her face was not red, as if everything was normal.

After the big guys had dinner together, seeing that it was still early, Su Chen was going to visit the lithium battery factory.

Although Miranda is one step ahead, it is by no means an easy task to build a factory, because lithium batteries are not yet commercialized, and no one knows how to do a lithium battery production line except the technicians of Tiangong Laboratory.

Moreover, there is no matching production line on the market, and many devices need to be manufactured by technicians, adjusted and produced to meet the use.

After the research and development of Professor Goodenough, the lithium-ion battery has stood out among the batteries with its superior performance such as large capacity, high voltage, and good cycle performance, and has become the most ideal and promising battery.

For the equipment researched by the technicians, Su Chen also gave financial support, because these are production tools. In the future, if someone wants to produce lithium batteries, in addition to purchasing their own patents, they also need to purchase their own equipment.

Therefore, before establishing a lithium battery factory, it is essential to have a laboratory.

Miranda is busy with these things now.

The factory is also in Luohu, and now there is only a very large factory building, and the technicians are intensively debugging various equipment.

"Haney, you finally came to see me."

When Miranda saw Su Chen, she came up with a deep and passionate kiss.

Xue Fang turned her head, it was too much and too shameless.

Because Xue Fang was present, they just hugged and kissed each other.

"How are you doing now?" Su Chen asked.

Miranda said: "It can't be done so quickly now, because many devices need to be made or improved by ourselves. I have asked the technicians to record all these devices, and then apply for a unified patent."

"Okay." Su Chen nodded, "I don't worry about your work. When do you expect our lithium battery factory to be established?"

Miranda shook her head: "It's hard to say. According to what Professor Goodenough said, I divided the factory into three workshops, which are the three major sections of the production process. One is the production of pole pieces, and the other is the production of batteries. The third is battery assembly.

Take the preparation of electrode slurry in the production process as an example. This link is the most advanced link and the most important link in the entire production process. Once this link goes wrong, it will lead to errors in subsequent links.

Therefore, in addition to the fact that the equipment must be strong, we also need to train the workers to ensure that these workers can operate proficiently. At the same time, these workers also need to have a certain literacy rate. "

Xue Fang could understand English and asked, "Is this lithium battery so complicated?"

"Of course." Su Chen said with a smile, "but whoever masters this technology will master the new energy market, and our core technology includes the field of power and energy storage batteries, materials, batteries, battery systems, The R&D and manufacturing capabilities of the whole industry chain such as battery recycling and secondary utilization.”

"Su, in a short period of time, our factory may not be able to start operation." Miranda said.

Su Chen nodded: "Cultivate talents slowly. The most important thing now is to debug our equipment safely without any mistakes. When this factory is established, it will be easier for us to establish a factory later."

"I think so too. I received a call yesterday saying that a guest is coming to visit me." Miranda said, "Maybe he will come soon. Are you going to meet me soon?"

"Where did the guests come from?" Su Chen was a little curious. After all, his factory had just started construction, and someone came to the door so soon. Could it be Japan?
Miranda said: "It is said that it belongs to China Great Wall Industry Corporation."

Whoa, this is awesome.

"Let me go and see with you."

As for Xue Fang, Shen Liqun asked Shen Liqun to arrange a few people from the factory to follow her, including lesbians and gay men, and let her wander around Shenzhen so that nothing else would happen.

Xue Fang readily agreed, because she didn't know what to do with Su Chen.

So I took my camera and notebook and went out with people.

Su Chen and Miranda met with visiting customers.

Although the factory has not been built yet, the office building has been arranged, and it looks like a very grand five-story building.

The sign at the door hangs the words Tiangong Energy.

Not long after arriving at the office, customers came to visit.

China Great Wall Industry Corporation is a state-owned enterprise with extraordinary history. It was founded in 1980 and is rooted in China Aerospace.

There were four people in total.

Both men and women.

"Hello, Miss Miranda, I am Liu Jiyuan from China Great Wall Industry Corporation. These are my colleagues. This is Wang Yongzhi, this is Wang Deren, and this is my translator and assistant Zhang Hongying." Liu Jiyuan introduced several other people to Miranda respectively.

Miranda stood up and shook hands with them: "Welcome to you, it's a pleasure to meet you."

China Great Wall Industry Corporation came here at this time, mainly for the tendering of the establishment of the second-generation national satellite communication system by Australia's Optus in September last year.

At that time, four western aerospace groups participated in the bidding as prime contractors.

The fledgling China Great Wall Industry Corporation participated in the bidding with the launch service subcontractor qualification and the main contractor combination, which means that China's Long March [-]E rocket has begun to compete with European and American rockets.

Among the four Western aerospace groups, only the main contractor Hughes Corporation included in the launch plan the Long March 4E rocket that China has not yet had.

But does this have anything to do with lithium batteries?

Of course, because of the traditional zinc-silver battery, it is necessary to fill the zinc-silver battery electrolyte and other processes when performing tasks.

If the Tiangong lithium battery can meet the overall requirements for the volume and weight of the battery, and at the same time meet the electrical performance requirements, then compared with the previous cumbersome operation steps of the zinc-silver battery, the operation of the launch site will be reduced by 50%. launch process.

In fact, everyone has no experience with this, just relying on bold guesses.

If it is as they think, lithium batteries can save the cumbersome process of zinc-silver batteries, avoid the "irreversible state" before product launch, and be able to deal with emergencies such as launch delays and mission terminations more calmly.

Moreover, after their inference, lithium batteries are smaller in size and lighter in weight under the same energy conditions, which can provide greater margin for the design of other systems, and while meeting the development trend of rocket miniaturization and light weight, enhance the rocket's performance. carrying capacity.

Although no matter whether this assumption is true or not, it will not affect the negotiation with Hughes Corporation of the United States this time, but this inference can provide ideas for subsequent rockets.

Of course, out of caution, they would not tell Miranda about this guess.

I just want to get the parameters of the lithium battery first, so I can do further research.

Miranda greeted everyone, and said: "This is the chairman of our company, Mr. Su Chen."

"Hello, Mr. Su." Liu Jiyuan and others greeted Su Chen with a handshake.

Su Chen replied politely one by one, and then said: "Comrades, please sit down."

After everyone sat down and poured tea, Su Chen said again: "I don't know if some comrades are here this time, do you have any business to discuss with us?"

Liu Jiyuan nodded: "It's like this. We are very interested in the lithium batteries exhibited by your company at the Japanese exhibition, but when we wanted to learn more, you stopped the exhibition. After hearing that you built a factory in Shenzhen, we Come here without stopping."

"Then do you want to purchase in large quantities or in small quantities?" Su Chen asked.

Liu Jiyuan opened the mouth and said: "Well, we don't know the performance for the time being, and it is a bit difficult to purchase in large quantities. We have to carefully understand the parameters to know whether it meets our requirements."

Su Chen pondered for a while, and didn't intend to hide it anymore, and said directly:
"You are from the Great Wall Industrial Corporation. I know a little bit about the scope of business. I had some agreements with the leadership before. Now I want to launch a satellite. Can you report to your superiors, and then we can talk about it in detail?"

Hearing his words, several people instantly had black question mark faces on their heads.

Want to launch a satellite?

"Mr. Su, are you sure you're not joking with us?" Liu Jiyuan asked cautiously, he was afraid that this guy just had a hot head, if he called the leader, what if it was an oolong?
Su Chen looked serious: "Do I look like a joke now? I really want to launch a commercial satellite, and I hope that this system can be entrusted to you to develop."

He said: "Because we now have many large stores under our umbrella, I want to build my own satellite communication system so that each store distributed around the world has its own terminal and is connected to the headquarters via satellite.

This system requires that the inventory, shelves, and sales volume of each product can be checked within one hour. Moreover, I also hope that this system can be used in logistics to let us know where each logistics vehicle is. , which is the navigation system. "

A few people were caught in the circle, didn't they come to see the lithium battery?

How come a business comes out of nowhere?
(End of this chapter)