Super Copy of Great Power Technology

The night passed quickly, the sun rose again, and a new day began. Qiao Ruida got up early, had breakfast, and came to the rocket flight control center. The rocket launch was imminent, and there was still a lot of preparation to be done. Perhaps everyone knew the importance of today's rocket launch to the company, when Qiao Ruida entered the flight control center, he found that most of the employees were already working at their workstations.

"Good morning everyone, have you had breakfast?"

"Good morning, Mr. Qiao!"

"Ate."

After greeting everyone, Qiao Ruida sat down at his workstation and began to operate the computer, checking weather information to ensure that there would be no problems with today's rocket launch.

At eight o'clock in the morning, all the fifty or so employees working at the flight control center were present. Cao Yifei, who had just inspected the rocket launch site, also came over.

"Mr. Cao, what's the situation on the scene? Is there any problem?" Qiao Ruida asked.

"Everything is normal, the staff are in place, and no problems have been found with the rocket. As long as the weather forecast is reliable, today's rocket launch will be stable."

"What about the construction team? Have they been notified to stop work?"

"We received the notice last night. No construction sites are open today. Before the rocket launch, our logistics personnel will organize the construction workers to temporarily take shelter in the underground bunker."

"Okay then. I declare that we will now officially enter the rocket launch process, with a five-hour countdown for preparation. Contact the official ground control stations at various locations to synchronize information. The engineers at the launch site will begin the final inspection of the engine, fuel system, sensor system, and communication system." With Qiao Ruida's order, the rocket launch entered the final sprint stage.

"Understood" "Received"

Everyone agreed within the internal communication system, and then completed a series of inspections according to the pre-planned rocket launch process.

At 500 a.m., the live broadcast room on the Ruida Group homepage started on time. At this time, more than million netizens were already waiting online in the live broadcast room. At the same time, Tiantian Toutiao, a subsidiary of Ruixue Interactive Entertainment, and Kuaipai, a software currently in public testing, also broadcast live simultaneously. The number of people online in the live broadcast rooms on these two platforms also exceeded one million, which was unprecedentedly popular.

The first person to appear on the live broadcast screen was a beautiful lady wearing a blue work suit with the words "Rui Da Aerospace" on it and a yellow safety helmet.

"Hello, everyone in the live broadcast room. I am your anchor Du Qingqing. Do you see the big guy fixed on the launch tower behind me? That is today's protagonist, the Suzaku carrier rocket. The rocket has a two-stage configuration, with a body diameter of 3.35 meters, a full rocket height of 49.5 meters, a takeoff weight of 219 tons, and a takeoff thrust of 268 tons. The capacity for a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit is 4 tons, and the capacity for a 200-kilometer low-Earth orbit is 6 tons. It can send two SUVs into space at the same time. The first stage of the rocket uses five Tianque 5-ton liquid oxygen-methane engines in parallel, and the second stage uses one Tianque 80-ton liquid oxygen-methane engine..."

As Du Qingqing introduced, the live camera moved upwards, including the 70-meter-high rocket launch tower and the 50-meter-high Suzaku rocket. This upward-looking camera alone amazed the netizens in the live broadcast room, and the comments became more and more dense, covering half of the screen.

"Hey, this female anchor is so beautiful, who has her profile and contact information?"

"This female anchor looks familiar. She seems to be the girlfriend of Mr. Qiao. I saw a photo of the two of them on Mr. Qiao's Weibo last time."

"So she is the girlfriend of Mr. Qiao, no wonder she is so beautiful and has such a good temperament."

"Hey, hey, isn't there a live broadcast of a rocket launch today? Isn't your focus a bit off?"

"The performance of this Suzaku carrier rocket is just average, and its carrying capacity cannot catch up with the Long March 2F carrier rocket developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation more than a decade ago."

"The Suzaku rocket is a reusable rocket that uses methane as fuel. Its main advantages are safety, environmental protection, and low cost. It is not from the same era as the Long March 2F."

"Don't forget that Ruida Aerospace is just a private aerospace company that has been established for less than half a year. It is not easy for it to come up with a liquid rocket with such a high degree of completion."

"In fact, the technical content of the Suzaku rocket is not low at all. It is the world's first launch vehicle that uses methane as fuel, the first reusable launch vehicle in China, and the first rocket launched by a domestic private aerospace company. With so many firsts, doesn't that speak for itself?"

"You are all discussing rockets, but no one cares about the navigation and communication satellite that will be launched today? A private aerospace company has started to develop navigation satellites. How the hell is this? How embarrassed are the island countries and India who have always been obsessed with navigation systems!"

"There is a Ruida Automobile Company under the Ruida Group. They have the need for positioning and navigation, so there is nothing wrong with launching a navigation satellite."

"Aren't you curious about where the Ruida Group got the navigation satellite technology and rocket technology?"

"How else can it be obtained? It must have been developed with huge investment. When I was looking for a job last time, I saw the recruitment information of Ruida Aerospace. The number of recruitments for various rocket developers and satellite developers was very large, and the salary was quite high. I was very tempted by it, but I don't have the ability, so I can only stare at it helplessly."

"I'm a researcher at the Reda Research Institute. I can tell you some inside information. In fact, the Suzaku rocket was developed by our CEO Qiao and Chief Engineer Candice. As for the navigation and communication satellite, I'm not sure." "I remember that CEO Qiao majored in integrated circuits in college. How come he also knows about rocket technology?"

"It is impossible for ordinary people like us to guess what a genius like Mr. Qiao is. Perhaps for a genius like Mr. Qiao, crossing disciplines and industries is just a routine operation."

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One hour after the live broadcast of the rocket launch, Du Qingqing brought the cameramen and tens of millions of viewers directly to the rocket flight control center.

"Dear audience, this is one of the core buildings of our Ruida Space City, the Rocket Flight Control Center. It is the command and dispatch, flight control, analysis and calculation, data processing and information exchange center for the launch and recovery of carrier rockets. All kinds of instructions during the launch of carrier rockets are issued from here. Now let's interview Qiao Ruida, the person in charge of the Suzaku rocket launch mission. If you have any questions, you can post them in the comment section of the live broadcast room. Our staff will count the questions raised by the audience, and I will select some questions that appear more frequently and help everyone ask Qiao Ruida."

After saying this in the live broadcast room, Du Qingqing brought the cameraman and went directly to Qiao Ruida and said, "Mr. Qiao, do you have time to be interviewed? On behalf of the tens of millions of live broadcast room viewers, I would like to raise a few issues that everyone is concerned about."

Facing the camera, Qiao Ruida was quite calm. He raised his wrist, checked the time and said, "It is 11:10 am now, and there are nearly two hours before the rocket launch. I am not too busy at the moment, so please ask any questions you have."

"Well, the most frequently asked question by netizens in the live broadcast room is, Mr. Qiao, how much money do you have?" Outside the live broadcast camera, Du Qingqing winked at Qiao Ruida and then threw a very tricky question to him.

"Uh, this question has nothing to do with the theme of today's live broadcast, right? Well, the problem is with me. I didn't limit the scope of questions, but I will only ask questions that are not related to the theme this time and never again. I don't know exactly how much money I have. If I only count the deposits in my personal bank account, it's probably only a few million. If I count the liquid funds in the accounts of the various companies under my name, it's probably around 700 to 800 million, but it's less than 10 billion anyway. If I calculate the value of the company shares I hold, it's not easy to estimate because most of these companies are not listed. I can only give a conservative estimate of about 500 billion yuan."

As soon as this answer came out, there was a sound of gasps at the flight control center, and the comments and messages in the live broadcast room were overwhelming.

"Wow, a net worth of 13 billion is really outrageous! If divided equally among billion Chinese people, each person can get at least yuan."

"Mr. Qiao is too modest. If the entire Ruida Group is listed, it will not be difficult for its market value to exceed one trillion yuan."

"The richest people in the country before were either house sellers or water sellers, or Internet entrepreneurs, and their technical skills were not high. It was not until the emergence of the richest man, Qiao Ruida, that there was a sense of technology creating wealth."

"Mr. Qiao created an astonishing fortune of 500 billion in just three years. This is an oriental wealth myth that cannot be replicated."

"I'm right up there with Joe, the average billionaire."

"Mr. Qiao has a unique vision for investment. If you look at the subsidiaries of Ruida Group, none of them are losing money. They all launch their first product within a few months of establishment, and their sales explode, and then they start to make huge profits."

In the flight control center, Du Qingqing's interview continued, "Second question, Mr. Qiao, why did you create Ruida Aerospace Company? Can you really make money in aerospace?"

"You asked two questions, okay, okay, you are a woman and you are right."

Qiao Ruida thought for a moment and continued, "In fact, I have mentioned many times on other occasions that I have had a dream since I was a child. In my lifetime, I must fly out of the earth, out of the solar system, and even out of the Milky Way in a spaceship designed and produced by myself, to see the wider universe. When I had no money before, this was just a dream that appeared in dreams and imagination. When I started my own business and had a certain economic foundation, I decided to open an aerospace company to realize my dream, so I established Ruida Aerospace.

As for whether aerospace can make money, I think it is not difficult. Do you know how many satellites are launched by countries around the world in a year? According to the statistics I have, in 2012, there were 78 space launches in the world, 72 of which were successful, 4 failed, and 2 partially failed; a total of 140 spacecraft were launched, of which 133 spacecraft successfully entered orbit, 4 satellites failed to launch, and 3 satellites failed to launch partially. The cost of each space launch is about 5000 million US dollars. In other words, these 78 launches will cost a huge amount of 39 billion US dollars.

The Suzaku rocket we developed is a reusable rocket. Once the first and second stages are successfully recovered, the cost of a rocket launch can be controlled to less than 1000 million US dollars, and the launch cost per kilogram of payload can be controlled to less than 2000 US dollars. With such a low launch cost, the Suzaku rocket is extremely competitive in international commercial satellite launches. Even if it can only receive a quarter of the global satellite launch missions, it can still make a lot of money. "

In fact, Qiao Ruida lied. The production cost of the Suzaku rocket is only about 1000 million US dollars. If the first and second stages can be successfully recovered and reused, the cost of a launch can even be controlled to less than 1000 million RMB. However, this information is a commercial secret and cannot be disclosed to the public. Otherwise, it will be difficult for Ruida Aerospace to negotiate prices when undertaking satellite launch missions.

"My third question, Mr. Qiao, what are the chances of success in launching and recovering the Suzaku rocket today?"

"The Suzaku rocket is the result of the collective wisdom of hundreds of researchers from our Ruida Aerospace Company and Ruida Research Institute. Before this launch, the Suzaku rocket has undergone dozens of simulation tests, module tests, and several revisions and updates, and is already very mature in terms of technology. So, I am 99% sure that this rocket launch will be successful. The difficulty of rocket recovery is much higher than that of rocket launch. The success rate of first-stage rocket recovery is probably more than 70%. The recovery of the second-stage rocket requires additional flight attitude adjustment, re-entry into the atmosphere, and blackout clearance. The difficulty is more than ten times higher than that of the first-stage rocket recovery. The success rate is about 30% to 40%, and the confidence is not very high."

"Fourth question, does Reda Aerospace have any plans to develop space tourism?"

"Space tourism is another hot spot for aerospace development after satellite launches. We at Ruida Aerospace certainly have relevant plans. However, we will not consider developing the space tourism market until our space plane is successfully developed, which is at least a few years away. The current launch vehicles and manned spacecraft have a terrible riding experience. The acceleration of more than 4G during the launch phase is not something ordinary tourists can bear."

"Fifth question, according to the promotional video previously released by Ruida Aerospace, this rocket launch mission is carrying a navigation and communication satellite. Does Ruida Group intend to build a satellite navigation system that covers the entire world?"

"As everyone knows, our Ruida Group has both a mobile phone company and an automobile company. In order to increase satellite communication power supply for the mobile phones produced by our group, and to provide more accurate positioning services and smarter automatic driving power supply for the cars produced by our group, we decided to develop a navigation and communication satellite system that integrates positioning, navigation, communication and timing. (End of this chapter)