Great Power Technology: Domination Of The World Starts With Chips

"This guy, why is it always against me!"

Elon Musk said angrily.

Back then, he wanted to cooperate with Zhiqi Company, but now, Zhiqi Company has threatened his business in various ways.

It’s okay for Tesla to say that Zhiqi Company still sells lithium-air batteries to them. Although the batteries they sell are all a generation behind the battery, but relying on Tesla’s brand power, it is now in the electric vehicle market all over the world. It still occupies a major market share, and because of the introduction of lithium-air batteries, fuel vehicles have gradually been replaced by electric vehicles, so although Tesla's market share has decreased, the entire market has become larger again. Instead, Tesla's sales have increased a lot.

But SpaceX is different. In the past, SpaceX was great because it was the only company in the world that had the ability to launch rockets at a low cost. Now that Zhiqi has even lower-cost technology, SpaceX has almost no advantage. .seven

That is to say, SpaceX has not been listed yet, otherwise, its stock price is expected to plummet.

As for how to deal with the threat posed by Zhiqi, Elon Musk still has no choice.

Abandon the Starlink project?

That is obviously impossible.

Abandon the Starlink project and share all the satellites with others?

Then their company invested so much money, isn't it really doing charity?

So, the only option is to keep launching more Starlink satellites.

As long as he occupies enough low-Earth orbits, according to the space law, whoever occupies it first will own it. In this way, he can continue to occupy this part of the orbit, even if Zhiqi Company will catch up in the future, but when he occupies After there are enough tracks, it is completely possible to negotiate with Zhiqi.

At that time, the two companies will share this part of the satellite.

As for Zhiqi’s so-called handing over control to the Huaguo government, Musk doesn’t believe it. How could Zhiqi really hand over all power to the government?

But what he didn't know was that Ye Cheng publicly stated that he wanted to reach cooperation with Huaguo officials, but the officials didn't know about it. Ye Cheng never told them about it before.

However, when the officials think about it, this matter must be good for them!

Regarding SpaceX's Starlink project, Huaguo officials have long felt a headache, so they have also carried out some countermeasures, such as the Hongyun project, which is a kind of benchmarking plan.

However, the number of satellites that Hongyun Project plans to launch is only 156. Compared with the 12,000 satellites planned by the Starlink project, it is simply a comparison between children and adults.

However, the cost of launching satellites in the past was too high, and it could only be achieved to this extent.

Therefore, since the reusable rocket technology was developed before, I have been thinking about setting up a similar plan to compete with SpaceX on orbit.

However, now that there is an aerospace plane from Zhiqi Company, the cost is lower. Isn't it more convenient to launch satellites?

At that time, their satellites will also occupy low-Earth orbit. Even if SpaceX cannot be stopped, at least they will participate in the ranks of dividing the cake.

Not bad at all.

Therefore, the official quickly contacted Zhiqi Company and asked when the cooperation would start. As for why Ye Cheng didn't contact them about the cooperation and announced it directly, they only asked one more question at most.

And Ye Cheng's answer is also very straightforward. This is because Zhiqi Company does not have so many satellite-making factories. If it wants to build tens of thousands of satellites, this task still has to be handed over to the national aerospace industry.

Although Zhiqi now also owns 20% of the shares of Aerospace Science and Technology Group, the company in Huaguo that can build satellites is not only the Aerospace Science and Technology Group.

Therefore, Zhiqi Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd. reached a cooperation agreement with the official on the Zhoutian Xingdou Project on the technology of launching satellites at low cost.

According to this agreement plan, the two parties will plan to send 10,000 satellites in Earth orbit in the next four years. As for the role of these satellites in the future, it is naturally the same as the Starlink plan, occupying the orbit, and then providing low-cost satellites. global network services.

However, in order to achieve this plan, Zhiqi Company naturally needs to quickly produce more and larger aerospace aircraft.

Of course, as long as there is an aerospace engine, there is no problem.

Moreover, because the aerospace plane is operated by artificial intelligence, Zhiqi Company can completely produce unmanned space planes and then directly launch satellites, which can also reduce more manufacturing costs. After all, unmanned space planes do not It is necessary to consider the corresponding life-support equipment, such as oxygen, temperature, etc., and there is no need to consider the tolerance limit of people for acceleration.