Global monopoly of technology

This matter did not cause too much disturbance within the two companies, why should it remain the same, and it has not been affected.

Being so calm lies in having confidence.

For other companies, I am afraid that this time is already a big enemy, and Côte d'Azur and Bluestar Technology have not treated this matter as the first priority at all.

However, the external media took this matter very seriously, and many people were enthusiastically worried about Luo Sheng, and they had to discuss (si) arguments (bi).

"The biggest technology monopoly may be the most common thing in the Internet experience nowadays. This is the nature of the industry."

"Alphad browser is indeed a monopolistic product, and under the existing Bluestar technology product attributes, it is difficult for you to say whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. As an ordinary user, in addition to expecting that these monopoly giants will not do evil or have Apart from conscience, there is really no other thing to do. It is helpless, but this is true."

"But having said that, we are still very confident in the archbishop. At least during the time when the archbishop and Blue Star Technology and the Côte d’Azur are at the helm, we can rest assured, and the archbishop is only in his early thirties, which shows that this problem will be worry-free for 40 to 50 years. ."

"Fighting for a truly open Web? That's really magnificent."

"Then what to do, competition can only be this, and we must be considerate of Google's difficulties."

"Also, what are the so-called monopoly investigations actually? They are all used to rectify opponents. So many companies in Silicon Valley have been monopolizing for decades, and they have not been split up. Even the turbulent Microsoft monopoly back then The case, Gates is no more."

"What a joke, in today's era, cross-border competition. Don't expect small companies to take on this big task. So even if you know that it is an absolute monopoly, you will not split your own company. A fool would do this, which is tantamount to self-defeating martial arts. After the split, what will you use to compete with those multinational giants? The result will be broken one by one."

“It’s just that after some companies have grown bigger, they forget their responsibilities and missions to be bigger. The country makes you bigger because you want you to compete with those multinational giants, but they turned out to be a good player. Hard air won't work, soft external ones won't work."

"When you look around, only the archbishop is the most reassuring. That's why we support him. We have been fighting on the front line. Without him, we have absorbed almost all the firepower in the front, and there are not many that can fight behind us. ."

"So even if you don't support it, you can never denigrate it."

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Just when the outside world was attracted by the science and technology community and Wang Wang, a big event happened in the aerospace industry and it quickly attracted the media's vision.

On January 29, an improved version of the "Falcon 9" rocket successfully sent a satellite from Google worth US$189 million to the scheduled orbit and recovered the rocket. SpaceX's success this time further won The confidence of the market.

The news has also traveled across the ocean and reached the mainland.

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Star Arrow International Headquarters.

"The reason has been found out. It can be determined that the rocket liquid helium temperature is out of control, which caused an explosion on the launch platform before launch."

The speaker is a scientist from the Rocket Recovery Technology Development Department of Star Arrow International. At this moment, seven or eight technical experts in the aerospace field are discussing the results of the survey. The chief scientist of the Rocket Recovery Technology Development Department is Yang Jian’an, who is also a heavy rocket of Star Arrow International. The chief designer of the "Star Arrow" series.

"The problem is summed up, and all the reasons for the failure have been found. The next March launch mission must be sure to be foolproof. If it fails again this time, I will not only have the face to ask Gentleman Luo for money, I can't be the chief teacher. Now," Yang Jianan said solemnly, looking at everyone.

Everyone feels pressure, especially the news from SpaceX on the other side of the ocean, which puts everyone in the "Star Arrow" project department under great pressure.

The failure of this launch experiment not only failed the launch of the rocket, but also lost a satellite of US$210 million worth of Bluestar Technology. The overall loss was as high as US$330 million.

Since the launch of the "Star Arrow" series of heavy-duty rocket projects, it has burned 45.97 billion yuan in. Such investment has left the national aerospace industry far behind. It is important to know that the national aerospace budget last year was about 13 billion yuan. about.

After so many years, Star Arrow International has been established, and its scientific research team is no weaker than the national team. Sufficient research and development funds and high salaries have attracted a large number of aerospace talents to join Star Arrow International.

As of today, Star Arrow International has not made any profit, and the word "profit" has never been thought of at all. Such a high investment is entirely due to Luo Sheng’s two group companies and family funds. As a result of the blood transfusion, scientists like Yang Jianan have the capital to bomb rockets.

The "Star Arrow" series has been on the road of research and development for so many years. Every step is very difficult. Without help, I can only rely on my own perseverance and groping little by little.

SpaceX is backed by NASA’s technical support, and behind Star Arrow International, apart from Luo Sheng, the golden father, technically, the National Space Administration can’t help much, because the entire country of China is behind North America in the field of aerospace technology. The team is also facing this gap.

Luo Sheng's major is in the field of artificial intelligence. Aerospace is not his strong point, so he can't help much technically, and he can't be too busy, so he can only rely on "money ability" to pile up.

We will continue to burn money on a large scale, and at the same time increase the training of talents, and encourage outstanding students to devote themselves to basic scientific research, instead of constantly squeezing into economic management and finance.

Then it is necessary to improve the salary of scientific research personnel. Fortunately, Luo Sheng has money and is willing to invest in Star Arrow International. Outstanding talents in universities and colleges, people with lofty ideals do not need to be forced to choose a more "money way" "Professional.

The "Star Arrow" project entered the experimental stage in July 2012, and it took nearly a year to conduct 10 experiments to verify whether the engine code-named "YF-127" can meet recovery requirements in terms of thrust adjustment function and landing support. condition.

In July 2013, the first soft landing attempt was made. Although the rocket successfully completed the ignition and deceleration during the recovery process, it eventually exploded because of the failure to control the rocket’s attitude. A pile of scrap copper and rotten iron was recovered. The first attempt failed. end.

After learning from the experience and lessons of this failure, the time flickered for the second soft landing attempt in March 2014. This time the rocket's attitude control spacecraft was perfect, and a series of actions such as a scheduled U-turn, entry into the atmosphere, and soft landing were realized. .

After that, we took advantage of this momentum and tested it twice in July and September to further improve the accuracy of the soft landing, which laid the foundation for the subsequent recovery plan.

At the beginning of 2015, after Yang Jian’an’s team determined that they had accumulated a certain amount of experience, “Star Arrow” finally began to try to recover the rocket on the offshore platform. However, because the rocket did not control the speed before landing, it hit directly during the first recovery. An explosion on a barge at sea.

What made the team more gratified was that the SpaceX company next door was also conducting the launch experiment of the recovery rocket on the offshore platform during this period. Seeing that they had also failed, I felt a lot of balance.

The second experiment was launched in April, this time a pair of scrap copper and rotten iron were harvested again because of the failure to control the landing posture.

Fortunately, rockets are much cheaper than traditional rockets. There are several traditional rockets on top of each other. Luo Sheng said he can accept it. Brother has the money to blow it up for you.

After two consecutive failures, the Yang Jian’an team improved and optimized the rocket’s docking device, and the third experiment started as scheduled in July 2015.

The third launch attempt, which I thought would make history, disappeared because the rocket accidentally exploded less than three minutes after launch. This time, it directly lost more than 78 million US dollars.

Three consecutive failures made Luo Sheng feel depressed, and the morale of Yang Jian'an's team was also low, so they had to appease and encourage them.

After experiencing successive failures, Yang Jian’an’s team did not immediately launch the fourth experiment, but ordered a death order. The cause of the explosion must be thoroughly investigated. If the reason is not clear, no launch experiment plan will be carried out. This also leads to All subsequent launch plans were put on hold.

On the one hand, it is not possible to go to heaven with problems, and on the other hand, Chief Yang Jian’an himself feels very distressed about the funding. Although Luo Sheng at Star Arrow International guarantees that they have money to burn, one bombing is a direct loss of several hundred million yuan, not counting other sinking Cost and time cost.

During the half-year-long investigation of the accident, good news came from colleagues. The Blue Origin founded by Jeff Bezos announced in November 2015 that it had successfully recovered its own "New Shepard" rocket on an offshore platform. The video screen was announced.

This feat directly surpassed Luo Sheng's Star Arrow International and Elon Musk's SapceX, and the bald Bezos took the lead in becoming the first rocket recovery person.

This is something that everyone didn't expect. I thought it was SpaceX that got the title, but Bezos made a big news silently.

At the same time, the pressure on the Yang Jian'an team responsible for the "Star Arrow" project can be imagined, including SpaceX, which also felt the pressure brought by Blue Origin.

However, during this half-year investigation period, Star Arrow International did not sit idle.

In response to the problems exposed in the explosion, Yang Jian’an’s team made a comprehensive improvement to the “Star Arrow” heavy rocket, which greatly improved the rocket’s reasoning, and made a series of plug-in devices required for recovery as standard equipment for the new rocket. The new version of "Star Arrow" finally achieved land recycling again at the end of December 2015.

However, this is just a starting point. Being able to recover on land does not mean that recovery can also be achieved on unstable seas, but being able to recover on sea is of greater significance.

After the team regrouped again, Yang Jianan decided to continue trying to recover the rocket on the offshore platform. This hurdle cannot be avoided anyway.

However, the fate was ill-fated. In the following 2016, it experienced two more failures, and the good news from the SpaceX company next door has made the Yang Jianan team feel pressured to breathe.

In the second half of the year, Star Arrow International finally passed this hurdle and finally achieved the first recovery of rockets at sea.

Although the rocket was successfully recovered at sea this time, it does not mean that the technology has matured.

At the same time, SpaceX also completed its own launch mission. This private space race has also intensified. Star Arrow International, Blue Origin and SpaceX have all desperately chased their opponents or kept ahead of them.

In January of this year, just shortly after the successful launch of SpaceX, Elon Musk once again announced to the world that SpaceX is the king in this field.

The next 2017 is the real highlight. Both Starship International and SpaceX will compete for an important "first" title in the "history of human rocket launches" in March.

That is, use the "second-hand rocket" to launch again and successfully recover again.

The previous rocket recovery was successful, but it was not reused. This time it was completely different.

The launch mission of Star Arrow International in the next March is to use the rocket that was recovered at sea last year. It has now undergone nine months of overhaul, inspection and testing and passed these procedures. Next Will launch again in March.

And if the launch mission of Star Arrow International in the next March is successful, it will be the 9th successful recovery in the 16th rocket recovery program so far since the establishment of the company. If the launch is successful before SpaceX, it means yes. For the first time in the history of human rocket launches, second-hand rockets were successfully recovered.

This is not just a question of winning a lottery. The meaning behind it is to compete for talents. The more honor a company has is a manifestation of its strength, and it will attract more talents to join in.

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