Chapter 658 [Big and small bosses standing in front of Star Arrow International]
In mid-March this year, the Star Arrow Heavy Rocket successfully launched its first and successfully recovered the core first-stage and booster second-hand rockets, making the space launch again hit the headlines of global news websites after many years.
Xingjiang International has also gained countless admiration and praise. The R&D process took only five years and was completely independent, achieving its carrying capacity beyond the Falcon 9 Heavy Rocket and became the world's number one in service.
The successful launch of the "Star Arrow 1703" was launched worldwide, which not only made the Falcon 9 rocket and Sapcex, which were fighting together but failed to launch, but also made Nasa's own son SLS very embarrassed, and also put a lot of pressure on old aerospace companies in the United States, Europe, Japan and Russia. You must know that the "Arian 6" rocket that Europeans are developing cost more than 5 billion US dollars, and the R&D efficiency of Star Arrow International really shocked them.
As commercial spacecraft becomes more and more successful, the most embarrassing thing is the SLS of Nasa. The SLS is a product of the space shuttle era and its goal is to be a new generation of heavy rocket system of Magnesium. Nasa hopes that it will surpass the legendary "Saturn 5" and cooperate with another super-burning Orion spacecraft to become a new generation of killer weapons for Magnesium's lunar exploration, fire exploration and deep space exploration.
SLS was launched in 2011 and successfully passed, and has been attracting money at a rate of about US$2 billion per year.
The cost of a heavy rocket from Star Arrow International is about US$110 million. The second-hand ones can now be 40% off. If the ultimate version of the "Star Arrow 17e" heavy rocket is successful for the first test flight, the launch cost will be further reduced, and the life of SLS will be even more difficult, because its launch cost is conservatively estimated to be around 1 billion. Isn't it embarrassing?
News about Star Arrow International began to spread, and domestic media were reporting in big books, especially self-media, which put out various exaggerated titles.
Netizens also like to compare Spacex's failure and Star Arrow International's history. This time Star Arrow International finally made headlines.
Domestic media are reporting in big books, and the mainland people are also proud of their melon-eating people. They used to be sour Spacex, but now it is finally the turn to be sour.
Some people are happy and some are sad. The articles of foreign media are quite jealous. This round of competition ended with the victory of Star Arrow International, which greatly reduced their experience when watching the fun.
Now the pressure has moved to Elon Musk and Spacex. After all, it was established early and with the technical support of Nasa, he claims to be the leader in the industry. The result is that this situation is both stressful and embarrassing.
After all, it has been fifteen years since your spacex was established, and Star Arrow International has only been five or six years since its establishment. The current technical level is getting smaller and smaller, and it is even slightly ahead.
This shows that Xingjiang International's progress speed is far higher than Spacex. At this speed, will it lead all its peers in five years?
The person behind Xingjian International is Luo Sheng, a man who is good at constantly creating miracles. He is facing competition with such a person with real swords and guns. Spacex's launch experiment failed and the lottery was snatched by Xingjian International. It is conceivable how much pressure Elon Musk is now.
The worst thing is that now it is not only competing with Luo Sheng in the field of private space exploration, but both sides are also rivals in the field of electric vehicles. Luo Sheng’s Blue Pure Electric Automobile Company has a market value of more than 1 trillion US dollars, and its market value is the first in the automotive industry and the second in the world.
In contrast, Tesla's market value is now in its seventh year of listing, and its market value is not as good as a fraction of the Blue Pure Electric Automobile Company.
The biggest pain of Tesla's electric vehicles is that it was not for Spacex to borrow and embezzle Tesla from its US$2.6 billion order contract with Nasa, I'm afraid that the pure electric vehicle company would have gone bankrupt now.
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The Star Arrow Heavy Rocket Launch Plan successfully ended. Luo Sheng did not stay in Qiongzhou for too long. He returned to Sucheng the next day, and his work focus was temporarily put on Xing Arrow International.
"Although there was a little episode during this launch plan, it was a great success and won the best of the company. Finally, there was a glorious honor to show off." At the internal meeting of the Star Arrow International Headquarters, Luo Sheng laughed at several senior executives and technical experts such as Yang Jian'an.
Everyone was also quite happy. They had been suppressed by Spacex before, and life was not good. Seeing the Falcon Rockets crash the day before yesterday, and yesterday's Star Arrows successfully formed a sharp contrast, which is of course a great deal.
At this time, Luo Sheng added: "There are occasionally leading, but the gap must be faced. The honors and achievements that Xingjian International has achieved are one-sided. It is an indisputable fact that my country has weak basic technology levels in materials and technology. Recyclable rocket technology still requires astronauts to continue to strive. Xingjian International is currently 100% of domestic research and development technology. I don't want to face the key basic technology like the Costa delle of the Azure. "
When everyone heard that Luo Sheng, the head of the sect, was so calm, they did not feel too contented. They also allowed everyone to temporarily put the joy of success aside and return to reality.
Luo Sheng said again: "It doesn't mean anything to be a little ahead of Spacex. Xingjiang International's total funding investment in space exploration averages US$16.2 billion per year, second only to Nasa's US$19.3 billion. The total R&D investment of the "Star Arrow" project alone exceeds US$6 billion. Compared with Spacex? No, we need to be Nasa."
This made the people present shocked and as excited as if they were injected with chicken blood. If someone else said this, it might be a delusional idea, but the person who said this was the richest man in the world in the contemporary world, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and even managed these trillions of dollars of assets.
Compared with Nasa, at least it is absolutely worthwhile in terms of funding budget, and I also know that Luo Sheng is willing to spend a lot of money.
Luo Sheng continued: "The heavy rocket 'Star Arrow 17e' is to allow us to gain a foothold in the field of space exploration, and what really makes us proud is the super heavy rocket 'Star Arrow 20s'."
The so-called "Star Arrow 20s" and the number "20" represent the expected finalization in 2020, and the rocket's low-Earth orbit carrying capacity will reach 160 tons, which is unprecedented data. It not only surpasses the 127 tons of near-Earth capacity of "Saturn 5", but also surpasses the current three versions of Nasa's SLS and SLS (block i, ib, ii) with low-Earth orbit capacity ranging from 95 tons to 140 tons.
"At present, although Nasa's SLS has not officially entered service for the first time, in terms of technological leadership and ability, US$2 billion per year is more than Star Arrow's investment. It basically kills the world in seconds. Only our "Star Arrow 20s" can suppress it, so we are not worthy of pride."
Everyone nodded silently.
But then again, this is actually worthy of pride. Behind Nasa is the world overlord today, and behind Xingjian International, Star Arrow International, no private space company dares to compete with Nasa.
But it is also because of this that the astronauts of Xingjian International are surging in fighting spirit.
In fact, Luo Sheng is just regarded as the small bosses at the midway level for his current competitors Spacex, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada, Orbital Science, etc., as private aerospace companies such as those who are now competing with Spacex, orbital science, and it is worth winning them. These small bosses are all the little brothers raised by Nasa, and Nasa is the big boss.
The ultimate boss is the North American military industry system, which are the major ace companies, Boeing, Norg, and Lockheed Martin.
The outside world has benchmarked private aerospace companies such as Star Arrow International and Spacex, Blue Origin and Orbital Science, and has not thought about the Nasa or North American military industry system at all, because everyone thinks it is unreliable.
But Xingjiang International has such a bold idea. The dream must always be there. What if it is realized?
Otherwise, can it be worthy of the annual budget of more than $16 billion?
However, Luo Sheng was not in a hurry. The boss had to swipe one by one and pass the levels one by one.
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Chapter completed!