Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

"Mr. Xu..."

Xu Huasheng from the Space Exploration Company came here today. Seeing Xu Huasheng coming, everyone had a smile on their face.

In the live broadcast hall, a huge screen was broadcasting live.

In the picture, on a huge ship, a rocket was ready and about to be launched.

And this ship and this rocket are both from the Space Exploration Company. Since its establishment, the Space Exploration Company has been busy.

The Suzaku-1 rocket has been successfully launched many times, and has launched thousands of Starlink experimental satellites into the predetermined orbit.

However, Starlink has not been laid on a large scale and has been in the technical verification stage. Now the verification work of the entire Starlink satellite has been completed.

The Starlink satellite of the Space Exploration Company has a design life of 10 years. The highest altitude in orbit ranges from more than 300 kilometers to more than 1,000 kilometers.

Compared with the Starlink of the United States in the original time and space, the Starlink designed by the Space Exploration Company this time is more awesome. There are five layers of structure in total, 330 kilometers, 550 kilometers, 800 kilometers, 1100 kilometers, and 1600 kilometers.

Each layer of the structure consists of 20,000 satellites, and the entire Starlink has a total of 100,000 satellites. After the entire Starlink is formed, its functions are very powerful.

Whether it is satellite communication, satellite Internet, positioning, or photo reconnaissance functions, they all have them.

Not only that, Starlink satellites have another function, which is to actively collide with flying objects. Whether it is an earth-orbiting satellite or a ballistic missile.

This thing is part of the anti-missile system. The same is true for the Starlink of the United States in the original time and space, otherwise why would Space Exploration Company receive orders from the US Department of Defense and technical support from NASA.

Now, Xu Huasheng's Space Exploration Company has done it more extreme, integrating China's Qianfan Satellite and the United States' Starlink to make a more powerful and tighter network.

Today, it is crucial for Space Exploration Company.

Because the rocket that launches satellites today is no longer Suzaku-1. Suzaku-1 is a solid rocket, and when this thing was originally designed, it was not specifically used to launch rockets.

Now, the rocket that launches satellites on this ship is the latest rocket Suzaku-2 developed by Space Exploration Company. Compared with Suzaku-1, this rocket has completely different technology.

Suzaku-2 rocket is a single-stage liquid rocket. The most amazing thing is that the fuel of this rocket is liquid oxygen-methane, and the engine also uses a liquid oxygen-methane engine. The shell of the entire rocket is made of special stainless steel.

The entire rocket looks smooth, like a stainless steel cylinder, without any aesthetic feeling. But although it is not beautiful, this rocket is really awesome.

Because this rocket is a recyclable rocket.

This rocket is specially prepared for launching Starlink. Ordinary rockets crash after launch. But this rocket is different. After the launch, this rocket will be recycled and can be reused.

After the entire rocket is recycled, it can be reused after entering the factory for re-inspection and maintenance. And this reuse cycle is about one month.

The technology of this rocket was naturally brought out by Xu Huasheng. Whether it is rocket materials or engine technology, etc., they are all brought out by Xu Huasheng.

Special stainless steel materials allow this rocket to be recycled hundreds of times without any problems, and this rocket is a single-stage rocket with a low cost.

The rocket's shooting height is not high, and its load is not too large, but its crazy cost advantage is enough to make people collapse.

Compared with traditional rockets, the launch cost of this rocket is only about 2% of the launch cost of traditional rockets.

With the launch of this rocket, the launch cost of a Starlink satellite is only about 500,000 yuan. Because Starlink satellites are now also modularly produced, many satellites are the same and are directly produced on a large scale on the production line.

500,000 yuan per satellite, this is a crazy cost. At this cost, the cost of 100,000 satellites is only 50 billion yuan.

50 billion yuan to build such a huge Starlink system, this is simply a bargain.

Therefore, today's launch is very important.

In the live broadcast room, everyone was waiting. Soon the rocket took off from the ship and rushed straight into the blue sky. This time the rocket directly carried 30 Starlink satellites.

The Starlink satellites designed by Space Exploration Company are larger, longer-lived, and more versatile than the Starlink satellites designed by Musk in the original spacetime.

So launching 30 at a time is already pretty good. These satellites are stacked in the fairing like a pyramid, and will be released after reaching the predetermined orbit.

The rocket was launched, and everyone in the live broadcast roomWith a serious expression. The rocket quickly ascended and soon reached the predetermined orbit. This orbit was the high orbit of the Starlink project, with an altitude of 1,800 kilometers.

Technically, satellites below 2,000 kilometers are actually earth orbit satellites. The real high-orbit satellites are geosynchronous satellites, with an altitude of 35,786 kilometers. At such an altitude, the Suzaku-2 single-stage rocket could not send them up at all.

When it reached the predetermined altitude, the fairing was detached, the satellite began to release, and the Suzaku-2 rocket began to fall. Everyone was paying attention to the Suzaku-2 rocket at this moment.

Not only Xu Huasheng was paying attention, but the Chinese military was also paying attention.

Under the gaze of everyone, the Suzaku-2 rocket fell towards the predetermined position. When it fell, the pre-stored fuel inside was continuously released, and the attitude of the entire rocket was constantly adjusted.

At the last moment, the buffer engine at the bottom of the rocket ignited, and the huge rocket finally landed successfully on the recovery ship, and the recovery was quite perfect.

"Great..."

When they saw the successful recovery of the rocket, all the technicians of the Space Exploration Company cheered.

Success, perfect recovery.

This recovery is of great significance. This recovery means that the Starlink deployment plan can be officially launched.

"Immediately mass-produce this rocket, and speed up the manufacturing of Starlink satellites. Five years, our plan is to complete the entire Starlink system within five years..."

Xu Huasheng said directly. Everyone swallowed their saliva when they heard this.

Wow, in five years, the Starlink system is fully networked. This requires launching 20,000 satellites a year, which is crazy.

However, Xu Huasheng is not short of money, and it is not a difficult task for China. Just build more rockets and more satellites.

One rocket can launch 30 satellites a month, and 10 rockets means 300 satellites, so it takes about 60 rockets. In this way, 60 rockets can launch 1,800 satellites a month, which is 20,000 satellites a year.

Sixty rockets, an average of two launch missions a day, which is indeed a bit crazy. However, what China has done in recent years has been crazy, not just this one.