Reborn: Billionaire in College

Leave professional matters to professionals. This is the entrepreneurial principle that Chen Pingjiang has always believed in.

Commercial aerospace is a serious, high-tech industry. Chen Pingjiang can only be in charge of the overall situation at most. He cannot have the energy to follow it step by step, so it is very important to build a Galaxy Battleship.

There must be a heavyweight figure in charge of every link, including those who study liquid rockets, those who study engines, those who are responsible for launch, and those who are responsible for engine manufacturing.

Chen Pingjiang traveled around the country for a full half month and finalized the recruitment procedures for the relevant people.

That is to say, the space agency gave him a lot of convenience, and he himself was a golden signboard, so he could go smoothly. He pulled up the big framework in a short time.

As soon as Chen Pingjiang returned to Dongjiang, he was blocked in the office by Lin Bin.

"Haha, Mr. Chen, I see that you don't look very well. You must be exhausted during this period of time." Lin Bin is a veteran of the group and he felt no restraint when he came to Chen Pingjiang's office.

Chen Pingjiang nodded helplessly: "I have been out and about for almost a month, with endless meetings and endless people to meet."

Chen Pingjiang had never hidden the commercial space project from his own people, and Lin Bin also knew something about it.

"When I heard that Mr. Chen was going to do this project, my first reaction was shock, my second was admiration, and my third was opportunity." Lin Bin smiled and said, "Mr. Chen, have you heard of the Iridium Project?"

"No."

Lin Bin slapped his thigh and said, "It's a pity that Lao Zhou is on a business trip, otherwise it would be best for him to introduce it to you in person. Didn't Lao Zhou work for Motorola before? As early as the last century, Motorola proposed the Iridium plan, intending to achieve global communications by launching 77 low-orbit small satellites. Unfortunately, the Iridium system was put into operation at the end of 1998, but it went bankrupt in 2000 due to high costs. The failure of the Iridium system was because it was too advanced and ahead of market demand, which is not a problem in itself, especially now that SpaceX is tinkering with Starlink, which makes us at Orange Technology eager to make a move."

"Although we are a terminal company, we have never fallen behind in the field of communications over the years. We previously cooperated with Huawei, but we have also been working hard on our own research. After hearing that you were preparing for commercial aerospace, I wondered if we could take over the satellite company. Now that national policies have been relaxed, Lao Zhou and I have always believed that low-orbit satellite communications based on microsatellites are the inevitable path for communications and aerospace. We can definitely set up a satellite communications company dedicated to providing automotive-grade and consumer-grade low-orbit satellite (LEO) constellations."

"Compared to ground-based optical fiber communications, satellite communications are not affected by terrain and have significant advantages in remote rural areas, deserts, oceans and other places. In the 21st century, with the development of the Internet and mobile phones, satellite Internet has found its place. But the current difficulty is that satellite orbital frequencies are in short supply. The ITU adopts a "first come, first served" principle, and governments and commercial companies around the world want to compete for satellite radio frequency resources with high orbital value."

"The key is that we didn't catch up with 4G, we are cooperating with Huawei on 5G, and we want to try 6G and make early arrangements. Now is the time."

The 6G network will be a fully connected world integrating ground wireless and satellite communications. By integrating satellite communications into 6G mobile communications, seamless global coverage will be achieved, and network signals will be able to reach any remote village.

After Lin Bin finished his introduction, he drank his tea silently, and then waited for Chen Pingjiang opposite him to frown and think.

Chen Pingjiang has been focusing on space rockets for a while now, and he doesn't know much about satellites. After all, he is still a human being, and it is impossible for him to know everything. Now Lin Bin has reminded him.

Yup!

According to SpaceX’s plan, the number of Starlink satellites will reach 12000 in the future!
How many satellites can the entire low-Earth orbit accommodate?
When the satellites fly at a speed of 7.9 kilometers per second, there must be a sufficient safety distance between satellites. According to international standards, the safety distance between satellites is usually required to be 50 kilometers. If this data is followed, only about 900 satellites can be operated in an orbit with the same altitude and inclination.

Currently, satellite orbital resources follow the principle of first come, first served. For example, after SpaceX obtains a certain orbital plane, it has the right to require subsequent satellites to avoid it at a safe distance. When SpaceX has enough of its own satellites on this orbital plane, it has actually occupied this orbital plane.

In addition to orbital resources, there are also communication frequency resources. The lack of high-quality frequency resources will also limit the communication bandwidth, which will seriously affect the actual performance of communication satellites. It is reported that the lower frequency L, S, and C band resources are almost exhausted. The Ku and Ka bands are the main frequency bands used by geostationary orbit satellites. At present, the giants have already laid out the Q/V band in advance.

"It seems that time is running out for us." Chen Pingjiang felt tired.

Minister Ma is indeed an extraordinary opponent. His opponent has laid out commercial aerospace and satellite communications too early and too deeply, and has the strong support of NASA. He has run too far, and it is very difficult to catch up with him.

In the domestic Internet and even other fields, he can rely on the advantages of foresight to make a big splash, and it has always been others who have to catch up with him, but this time it is his turn to chase others.

This is very interesting.

Originally, Chen Pingjiang planned to put the satellite company in the commercial aerospace sector, but Lin Bin's words obviously touched him.

Orange Technology does have a natural demand for satellites!
After thinking for about 5 minutes, Chen Pingjiang finally nodded gently: "In principle, I agree, but the specific shareholding of the satellite company and the proportion of shares still need to be negotiated by multiple parties. I suggest that Orange Technology only hold a share in it, and its main focus should not be on how to develop satellites, but on satellite communication technology and space broadband plans."

To put it bluntly, it is to focus on the research of 6G!

The Space Broadband Program aims to use space satellite networks to achieve high-speed data transmission and global coverage. Its transmission speed is over 100Gbps, far exceeding the limits of traditional communication networks.

In addition, mobile phones can be directly connected via low-orbit satellites to realize an integrated air-space-ground communication network.

Hearing that Chen Pingjiang roughly agreed to the application, Lin Bin was relieved, but also a little embarrassed, as this was like taking food from the brother group.

But there was nothing he could do.

In 4G, Orange Technology started too late, and its 5G R&D is not as good as Huawei's, so it must make a comeback in 6G. In Chen Pingjiang's original plan, the satellite business should be handed over to commercial aerospace companies.

There is a huge satellite terminal business behind the rocket launch!
Currently, the global satellite launch market remains at around US$50 billion per year.

Satellites are expensive to build and launch.

Looking back at Space X's growth experience, it is not difficult to find that its success is based on the shoulders of the giant NASA. According to Space X's first ten-year plan announced in 2012, of the $10 billion in revenue it has controlled, about 50% comes from NASA's development and launch contracts.

Now let’s sort out the relationship between them.

During this period, Chen Pingjiang mainly prepared a commercial aerospace rocket company, and the rocket products it made were nothing more than helping the military, universities, enterprises or other countries launch satellites. In addition, they could also be used for space tourism.

The so-called space tourism refers to private rocket companies providing rocket launch services to carry passengers into the Earth's suborbital altitude, which is between the highest flight altitude of existing aircraft and the lowest orbital altitude of satellites. It allows passengers to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and have a bird's eye view of the Earth from above the dark universe.

At present, foreign private rocket companies such as Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin have already explored this emerging tourism market, charging between US$20 and US$30 per ticket.

When it comes to making money, playing with rockets is much worse than the Internet.

If Chen Pingjiang develops a game, his profit in one year may exceed the total profit of Rocket Company in ten years.

Satellite companies are easy to understand. To put it simply, they develop and manufacture different types of satellites. Satellites are divided into many types, such as military, meteorological, resource, and navigation.

Among them, Starlink is about communication, but it does not belong to 6G yet. Once Starlink completes its networking, SpaceX will not only be a rocket launch company, but also a broadband satellite Internet operator.

Chen Pingjiang originally planned to place the satellite company under the Aerospace Group and introduce state-owned capital.

But now Lin Bin has proposed that Orange Technology acquire a stake in the company, which means that the equity needs to be restructured and the satellite company's R&D focus must also be slightly adjusted.

Apart from the shares held by Chen Pingjiang himself and Orange Technology, who else will get the next share?
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At the end of May, a strange wind blew out of nowhere, and several news items about Chen Pingjiang's dynamics climbed onto the hot search list.

"Informed sources revealed that Chen Pingjiang is preparing a commercial aerospace-related company"

"The richest man's new venture - commercial spaceflight?"

"A domestic version of SpaceX is coming?"

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However, these trending searches only stayed on the list for less than two hours before suddenly disappearing from people’s sight.

The request was issued by Chen Pingjiang.

Cooking oil over a raging fire has never been a good thing since ancient times.

For Chen Pingjiang, his fame has already reached its peak and there is no need to publicize it further.

What's more, he has lost some of the confidence he had when he was working on TikTok for this commercial rocket project.

Douyin and Rocket are both projects launched recently, but Chen Pingjiang is full of confidence in the former. He feels that no one and nothing can prevent him from making Douyin a success, but it is different for Rocket.

But even so, the news about Chen Pingjiang playing with rockets was spread in a small circle by interested parties.

It would be a lie to say that people were not curious. Considering the recent opening of national policies and the brilliance of SpaceX, Renren began to become popular in an instant.

Local governments and the state-owned assets behind them, like sharks smelling blood, surfaced and swam towards Chen Pingjiang.

With the help from the space agency, Chen Pingjiang's work phone became increasingly busy.

Who wouldn't want to take advantage of this opportunity and actually achieve political achievements? (End of this chapter)