Great warships

Chapter 568 Commercial Operation Qin Tao is the Best
Zhao Ling looked at her husband with a smile, and she knew that as long as Qin Tao came here, the meeting would be completely different from before.

In the past, the aerospace system held a meeting every year. It was just that the leader gave a speech on it, describing the work achievements of the aerospace system in the past year, and then the outstanding representatives of various institutes gave speeches. Finally, there was some encouragement, and the meeting was considered over.

What about this time?Qin Tao came over, and immediately proposed the concept of competition, and also proposed to split the system into two parts, sending people to the blue sky and sending people to the west sky, which suddenly changed the atmosphere of the meeting.

In the past, competition and splitting would definitely make many people unwilling and worry many people, but now, the big guys are laughing, especially Qin Tao's impromptu song, which is so interesting.

"One is engaged in satellites, and the other is engaged in sanitation... One is happy that they will be paid, and the other is happy that they will be laid off."

Qin Tao finally finished the doggerel, the scene was silent for a second or two, and then burst into warm applause.

"It's a joke." Qin Tao said with a smile.

On the rostrum, Mr. Wu was very emotional: "Mr. Qin introduced it in great detail. Our aerospace system does have to compete. This method of classification is the best. One of our important tasks next year is to follow this classification method. , Disassemble our aerospace system and start a competition."

"That's right, we have to separate those who send people to the blue sky from those who send people to the western sky." Wang Lao also said: "From then on, we will concentrate on manned spaceflight and send people to the blue sky, and you will concentrate on developing missiles. Send the enemy to the west!"

"President Qin, your starship company won't compete with our two companies at the same time, right?" Mr. Wu continued.

"Of course it's impossible. We have no competition with our space system. Our goal is to send people to Mars."

You just circle around the earth, we circle directly inside the solar system, these are two different goals.

"Yeah, our mission is different from that of the Starship Company." Elder Wang said, "Mr. Qin, are you going to work on a manned spaceship project in the future?"

"Yes, the thrust of our rocket is greater, so our manned spacecraft will also be larger." Qin Tao introduced: "Our spacecraft will only have two compartments, the return module and the propulsion module. The capsule will accommodate six or seven astronauts living and working at the same time."

The current manned spaceflight project is developing the Shenzhou spacecraft, which uses the design idea of ​​Lao Maozi's Soyuz spacecraft. It is divided into three sections, the last is the propulsion module, the middle is the return module, and the front is the orbital module. The biggest advantage of the cabin section is that the volume of the return cabin is greatly reduced, which can reduce the technical difficulty when returning.

However, this design leads to too much redundancy, resulting in the return capsule can only accommodate three astronauts, if it is to perform deep space exploration missions, it is unqualified.

Therefore, the new generation of manned spacecraft has a two-stage structure.

"Hearing Mr. Qin's words, I feel like we can lose our jobs, and we can realize manned spaceflight directly with the Mingzhou Group's plan." Wang Lao said with a smile.

This is of course a kind of humility.

"Of course not." Qin Tao said: "Our technology is more difficult, so we may not be able to have the ability to manned spaceflight within 20 years, and our national team's project is taking a solid and safe path. Maybe it will be able to send astronauts into space."

Before engaging in the manned spaceflight project, several years of project demonstrations have been carried out, and a safe plan was finally selected.

Qin Tao also has a clear understanding of this.

"Besides, our starship company only engages in rockets, and the astronauts we need need to be borrowed from our space agency."

Speaking of astronauts, Qin Tao is also very emotional. In fact, according to Lao Maozi's standards, every astronaut trained in China is qualified and fully capable of space missions, but there is no way. The country's space engineering needs There are few people.Therefore, there are some astronauts who accompany the runners, who are obviously capable enough, but they never go to the sky once.

If the starship company can succeed, it can borrow astronauts from the country's aerospace engineering, so that more astronauts have the opportunity to go to the sky.

"Boss Qin, your rockets have a stronger thrust. According to our three-step strategy for manned spaceflight, we will definitely build a space station in the future. At that time, we will still need your rockets to help launch the cabin." Wang Lao continued. .

"That's for sure. Facts have proved that relying on others is unreliable." Qin Tao said: "No country can help us develop aerospace technology, we can only rely on ourselves."

In 93, the atmosphere in the world was harmonious. A total of 11 countries including the United States, Russia, 16 European Space Agency member states, Japan, Canada and Brazil decided to build a special International Space Station.

At that time, China was also very happy and actively wanted to participate in the construction of this project, but it was ruthlessly rejected!

No country is willing to see China's strength, and is unwilling to take China to spaceflight. Therefore, the astronauts in the East can only suppress this anger, practice hard, and do it ourselves!
In later generations, the International Space Station is facing the risk of decommissioning due to all kinds of filth, and no country has the funds and strength to build a new International Space Station again. However, the East has continued to move forward step by step, and has established its own space station.

Westerners were sour and protested loudly: You actually use Chinese on the space station, which does not conform to international practice!

Our own space station is used by ourselves, why should it conform to the international practice you say?Russian is still used on the Mir space station, why don't you protest?
Of course, there are also some people who have recognized the reality and started to study Chinese hard, hoping to go to the eastern space station.

At this time, Qin Tao's words immediately aroused strong emotions in everyone's hearts.

"That's right, Mr. Qin is right. You can't rely on others. Our aerospace engineering can only follow our own path firmly." Mr. Wang was deeply touched by this, because when he was working on the International Space Station, he once He went to negotiate with him, but was squeezed out. Thinking of the experience of this period of time, Mr. Wang clenched his fists.

"Not only the manned spaceflight project, but also the navigation system." Qin Tao said: "At present, our Beidou navigation system should be deployed as soon as possible. Our navy is still waiting!"

Qin Tao has always been a shipbuilder, and his position is still on the navy.

The Navy needs navigation systems, and the need is most urgent.

Navy warships can’t just wander around their own coastlines, but also need to go out to visit and sail on the ocean, which requires navigation and positioning. Although there are thousands of years of sailing experience and devices such as sextants, but, A modern navigation system is also necessary, and the Navy needs professional navigation methods.

Warships need to install their own Beidou navigation terminals, so as not to be connected to GPS signals by the Americans at critical times. The navy's long-range aircraft, such as Flying Leopard fighter-bombers, also need to be equipped with satellite navigation terminals.

Not to mention advanced precision-guided weapons, but also an advanced satellite navigation system.

Countless needs are calling!
Hearing Qin Tao's request, Sun Lao, who is in charge of the Beidou navigation system, nodded: "Yes, we also know that the army is waiting, so we are also hurrying up to do research. Before 2000, we must send the Beidou navigation satellite to the Sky."

Back then, when the Beidou navigation system was just launched, Qin Tao excitedly went to see the R&D team, only to find that they were actually doing R&D in the warehouse because the boiler in the office building was broken and there was no money to repair it.

At that time, Qin Tao waved his hand and helped to repair the boiler with money, and also provided a batch of computers to support the R&D team.

Therefore, Mr. Sun and Mr. Sun are considered old acquaintances, but now, Mr. Sun feels a little embarrassed when he listens to Qin Tao's urging, just like a student who scored 98 in the test is embarrassed to meet his parents, because he did not pass the [-] test. .

"However, Mr. Qin, we still have a lot of problems." Elder Sun looked at Qin Tao and continued: "For example, we are not good at the commercial operation of our Beidou navigation system. We can give the army However, if it is provided to the public, it may be difficult to compete with GPS.”

If it cannot be operated commercially, it will not be able to make money. Their Beidou navigation system is a high-investment project, which makes them a little embarrassed.

"For commercial operation, there is absolutely no charge." Qin Tao said.

In 94, the GPS system of the Americans started to be free to the whole world. It sounds like the Americans are very generous, but in fact it is to make users from various countries rely on GPS and facilitate their control.If the army of a country is accustomed to using GPS, but when the Americans turn off the civilian signal of GPS on the battlefield, then the army of this country will be completely blinded.

In 03, the ten-year free period promised by the Americans arrived. It was originally planned to charge, but Galileo in Europe has already started, and Da Mao’s has also maintained its operation. There is also Beidou in the East, in order to compete with these systems , American talent decided to continue free.

If Beidou charges fees, it will definitely be scolded.

However, if there is no fee, how can you make money?

"Mr. Sun, I have mentioned it in the past. When the Beidou system comes out, our Mingzhou Group hopes to authorize the production of chips for ground receivers. At present, we are actively working hard to improve the production process of chips. By 2000 In 0.18, it is likely that we will already have a [-] micron production process, or even lower, and then we can use this process to produce dedicated receiver chips."

0.18 microns?Everyone looked at Qin Tao in surprise, your Mingzhou Group is too powerful, right?
"Of course we can. We entrust SMIC to manufacture all the receiver chips." Sun Lao said.

"In this way, the price of the chips we produce can be higher, and the higher part will be used as the main income for our Beidou satellite system."

Can you still play like this?
Elder Sun looked at Qin Tao in surprise, moved his lips, and wanted to ask a question, but felt a little embarrassed. Since Mr. Qin said yes, then he must do it, right?
"We can charge 50 yuan for a chip. In this way, even if there are only 1000 million commercial users, then we can charge [-] million chip patent fees." Knowing what problem Mr. Sun was struggling with, Qin Tao gave Sun I did a simple analysis.

A patent fee of 50 yuan for a chip is not much. You must know that buying a GPS navigation receiver in this era costs thousands of dollars!The terminal of Beidou is cheaper, even if it only sells for 2000 yuan, 50 yuan of which will be allocated to the Beidou project, it is absolutely not obvious.

Until later generations, with the continuous advancement of microelectronics technology, the cost of navigation modules for mobile phones such as GPS and Beidou was reduced to tens of dollars. (There is also a saying that it is a few dollars, I don’t know much about it.)
The price of launching a navigation satellite is about [-] million, that is to say, just relying on the patent fee collected on the chip is enough for a satellite!
The Beidou first-generation navigation system uses the principle of dual-star positioning, and only two satellites are enough.

Now, just by tampering with the chip, half of the cost can be returned. How can Mr. Sun not be tempted?

Qin Tao continued: "Next, we can also set up a special Beidou navigation company, register the Beidou navigation trademark, develop a special Beidou navigation digital map, and calculate according to the user's update of the navigation map every three months. One hundred, we can give a commission of ten yuan, so that is [-] million a year."

The next step is to calculate on an annual basis, and you can get hundreds of millions every year!

Elder Sun opened his eyes wide: "Boss Qin, your plan is great! We entrust the Beidou Navigation Company to you Mingzhou Group!"

If a professional user does not need a digital map, what their satellite navigation terminal shows is only the coordinates of latitude and longitude, and then the user can know his exact position by comparing it with the map.

However, ordinary business users cannot.

Commercial users are not so professional, and they don't look at the latitude and longitude coordinates, they only look at pictures.The navigation system is hardware, and it must cooperate with software such as digital maps.

In later generations, free navigation maps such as AutoNavi and Baidu are so popular that people forget that the former leader of car navigation is Kay Rucker.The latter has occupied the car navigation terminal for many years, and each upgrade costs dozens or even hundreds.Due to the constant change of urban roads, it has to be upgraded every few months.

Kay Rucker almost made money lying around, so they didn't care about user experience and the like, and were finally defeated by the free navigation system.

Now, Qin Tao has put forward a related plan. Instead of letting others make money, it is better to make money by himself. At least if he makes money, some of it will be returned to the Beidou project, so that the Beidou system can be profitable. And they With money, we can continue to develop the next-generation navigation system and realize circular progress and development.

"Inviting Mr. Qin over here is really beneficial." Mr. Wang said with a smile, "Mr. Qin, can our manned spaceflight project also be profitable?"

In fact, it is very difficult to compete in the aerospace field, because aerospace is inherently high-input and low-return.Domestic aerospace engineering going out is nothing more than undertaking some international satellite launch missions. Although it can make money, it is definitely not as good as the investment.

"Of course." Qin Tao said: "You only go up to two astronauts each time, and sell the third seat, so that you can definitely make money. There are still a lot of billionaires in this world who are looking forward to flying into the sky."

Everyone was a little dumbfounded. This President Qin is too whimsical, right?What a serious project manned spaceflight is, to turn it into space tourism?
Qin Tao smiled. He was indeed a joke. At the beginning, the manned spaceflight project was very difficult and dangerous, and it was difficult to sell tickets. After all, it was different from the mature Soyuz spacecraft.

"When our spacecraft matures, half of the seats on our starship can be sold." Qin Tao said: "In this way, we can make a fortune every time we launch, and our rockets are reusable. Yes, the Starship Company will definitely be able to achieve profitability for our group."

"reusable?"

"Yes, the development direction of rockets and spacecraft must be reusable, so as to save a lot of money." Qin Tao said: "If we want to land on Mars, we must develop reusable aerospace equipment."

"What's the difference between that and the space shuttle?" Someone asked.

In the general impression, rockets are disposable, and space shuttles can be reused. Now, Qin Tao wants to say that both rockets and spacecraft can be reused, isn’t it the space shuttle?You know, the space shuttle is far from reaching the number of times it can be reused.

"Of course there is a difference. The space shuttle needs a runway to land, and the spacecraft lands with a parachute. If it is flying to another planet, our rocket can directly land on it vertically and then take off again."

The rocket landed vertically!

Everyone felt that Qin Tao was talking about the world of science fiction.

"Speaking of reuse, Lao Maozi's Blizzard is more suitable than the American space shuttle." Wang Lao said: "Unfortunately, when the Red Empire collapsed, Lao Maozi's space shuttle was completely abandoned."

The Americans first proposed the concept of the space shuttle, and built five of them.Of course, Lao Maozi is not far behind, and has also created a similar space shuttle.

The biggest difference between the two is the engine.

The main engine of the United States is on the space shuttle, and the big drum hanging outside is the fuel tank. The advantage of this is that the engine can be reused and the cost is reduced. The old man’s Blizzard space shuttle is hung on the Energy rocket. The space shuttle Only small attitude adjustment engines.

Critics of later generations agreed that Lao Maozi's design is better, and it will greatly reduce the accident rate. The repeated accidents of the American space shuttle, which even led to its final retirement, fully demonstrate the unreliability of this design.

"Yes, the space shuttle Blizzard is really good. It is a masterpiece of Lao Maozi's spaceflight era. Unfortunately, if the Red Empire has not collapsed, then this space shuttle will definitely become Lao Maozi's main means of entering space."

Who said that the low-earth orbit carrying capacity of hundreds of tons is useless?The take-off weight of the Snowstorm is 105 tons, and the weight when it returns is as high as 82 tons!This means that the space shuttle Blizzard can also launch heavy-duty satellites, and it can also capture satellites from other countries in orbit, and then take them back for their own use!
In the competition to land on the moon that year, Lao Maozi could only leave with hatred because he did not have a suitable rocket. In the 80s, with the successful development of the Energy Rocket, Lao Maozi already possessed this ability.

Even in theory, Energy can send 270 tons of payload to low orbit, 32 tons of payload to the moon, and 27 tons of payload to Mars.

Unfortunately, with the collapse of the Red Empire, the world no longer needs such a powerful launch vehicle, and the entire Energia rocket ended without a problem. One booster of the Energia rocket can become the Zenith Star rocket, which is enough It shows the powerful capability of this energy rocket.

At this time, when he heard about the Blizzard and Energy, Qin Tao was also a little emotional. It seemed that the collapsed factory building of the Baikonur launch site in later generations appeared before his eyes. The Blizzard space shuttle that once flew into the sky, because of the factory building It collapsed and was completely smashed, and an era was completely over.

"During the era of the Red Empire, a total of two Blizzards were built." Speaking of these, Mr. Wang was eloquent, as if he had forgotten the main topic of this meeting.

"The one numbered 1.01, named Blizzard, is the only space shuttle of Lao Maozi that has ever flown in space in autopilot mode. The second one is numbered 1.02, named Little Bird, originally planned to be used for Carried out the second space flight in autopilot mode and docked with the Mir space station, unfortunately, I have never experienced a single flight, and there are still a few behind, which were dismantled directly.”

"If only we could get one back." Wang Lao said with emotion.

Qin Tao nodded: "Yes, it would be really good if you get it back and put it in the museum. Wait until you have a chance in the future."

History has proved that the space shuttle is useless. Although Lao Maozi's space shuttle is more perfect in design, it is still eliminated. The new generation of manned spaceflight uses spaceships, so Qin Tao didn't like Lao Maozi at all. space shuttle.

However, it would be good if it was brought back as an exhibit. If it is a complete imitation, there is no need for that.

A big guy weighing more than 100 tons, even Starship's rockets can't launch it into the sky.

"Mr. Qin, we've been talking for a long time, but you should come and sit down!" Mr. Wu continued to greet: "Our meeting has to officially begin."

"Forget it, I'll sit with Xiaoling." Qin Tao said, sitting next to Zhao Ling generously.

Zhao Ling's face was a little flushed, while Qin Tao was very calm.

The meeting continues.

"This year, the Hongqi-16 missile developed by our affiliated Huating Aerospace Research Institute successfully conducted a plateau test, which means that our plateau defenders have an additional air defense weapon. The developers of this missile have made great contributions. The next rewards are awarded to the R&D team of Hongqi-16, Comrade Zhao Ling is invited to come up to receive the prize!"

Qin Tao applauded immediately.

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