Global monopoly of technology

In mid-March of this year, the Xingjian heavy rocket launched successfully for the first time and successfully recovered the core-level and booster second-hand rockets, making the space launch once again on the headlines of global news websites after many years.

Star Arrow International has also received countless admiration and praise. The research and development process took only five years and was completely independent. It achieved the carrying capacity of the Falcon 9 heavy rocket and became the world's first in active service.

The successful launch of "Star Arrow 1703" has been able to swipe the screen on a global scale. Not only did the Falcon 9 rocket and SapceX, which were competing but failed to launch, lose face, it also embarrassed NASA's son SLS. The veteran aerospace companies in the United States, Europe, Japan, Russia and other countries are under great pressure. You must know that the "Arian 6" rocket being developed by the Europeans cost more than 5 billion US dollars. The efficiency of Star Arrow International's research and development has indeed shocked them.

And as commercial aerospace becomes more and more successful, the most embarrassing thing is NASA’s SLS. SLS is a product of the space shuttle era. The goal is a new generation of magnesium country heavy rocket system. NASA hopes that it will surpass the legendary "Saturn 5" and cooperate with others. A super money-burning large Orion spacecraft has become a new generation of big killer for moon exploration, fire detection and deep space exploration in the magnesium country.

The SLS project was approved in 2011 and passed smoothly. Since then, the annual rate of about 2 billion US dollars has been attracting money.

The cost of a heavy rocket of Star Arrow International is about 110 million US dollars. The second-hand one can now be discounted by 40%. If the ultimate version of the "Star Arrow 17E" heavy rocket is successfully tested for the first time, the launch cost will be further reduced. It's even more difficult, because the launch cost is conservatively estimated to be around 1 billion yuan, can it be embarrassing.

The news of Star Arrow International began to spread, and the domestic media were reporting features in big books, especially the self-media with various exaggerated headlines.

Netizens who eat melons are also fond of comparing SpaceX’s rollover and Star Arrow International’s creation of history. This time Star Arrow International finally made headlines.

The domestic media have reported in the big book. The people in the mainland are also proud of themselves. They used to be sour SpaceX, but now it's finally their turn to be sour.

Some people are happy and some are worried. The articles of foreign media are quite sour and sour. This round of competition ended with the victory of Star Arrow International. For them, the mood of watching the excitement greatly reduced the experience.

Now the pressure has shifted to Elon Musk and SpaceX. After all, it was established early, with technical support from NASA, and he advertised himself as the leader in the industry. The result is such a situation that is both stressful and embarrassing.

After all, your SpaceX has been established for fifteen years, and Star Arrow International has only gone through five or six years since its establishment. The current technological level has become smaller and smaller than SpaceX, even leading slightly.

This shows that the speed of Star Arrow International's progress is much higher than that of SpaceX. Doesn't it take the lead in all its peers in five years at this speed?

The man behind Star Arrows International is called Luo Sheng, a man who is good at constantly creating miracles, and he competes with such a person with real swords and guns. SpaceX's launch experiment overturned this time, and the jackpot was robbed by Star Arrows International. It is conceivable how much pressure Elon Musk is now.

What’s terrible is that now it is not only competing with Luo Sheng in the field of private space exploration, but the two parties are also rivals in the field of electric vehicles. Luo Sheng’s Blue Pure Electric Automobile Company now has a market value of more than one trillion US dollars, and the market value is the first in the automotive industry. , The second existence in the world.

On the other hand, 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.

Not producing energy is the biggest pain of Tesla’s electric vehicles. If it weren’t for SpaceX to obtain NASA’s $2.6 billion in order and contract money to borrow and misappropriate it to Tesla, I’m afraid this pure electric vehicle company has now gone bankrupt. Up.

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The launch plan of the Xingjian heavy rocket was successfully concluded. Luo Sheng did not stay in Qiongzhou for too long. He returned to Sioux City the next day, and his work was temporarily focused on Xingjian International.

"Although there was a small episode in the process of this launch plan, it turned out to be a big success and win the first prize for the company. Finally, there is an honor that can be taken." In the internal meeting of the Star Arrow International headquarters, Luo Sheng smiled at several senior executives and technical experts such as Yang Jian'an.

Everyone was also quite happy. They had been squeezed by SpaceX before, and life was not a good time. Seeing the Falcon rocket overturned the day before yesterday, the star and arrow flying successfully formed a sharp contrast yesterday. Of course, it was a comfortable thing for Beier.

At this time, Luo Sheng added: "Occasionally, the gap should be faced. The honor and achievements of Star Arrow International are one-sided. At present, it is an indisputable fact that my country is weak in basic technology such as materials and technology. Technology still requires astronauts to continue to work hard. Star Arrow International is currently 100% domestically developed technology. I don’t want to face the same problem as the Côte d’Azur’s key basic technology.

When everyone heard that the head of Luo Sheng was so calm, he was not overly complacent because of it, and it also allowed everyone to temporarily put aside the joy of success and return to reality.

Luo Sheng spoke again: "Slightly leading SpaceX does not mean anything. The total investment of Star Arrow International in the field of space exploration is as high as 16.2 billion US dollars per year, second only to NASA's 19.3 billion US dollars, and the "Star Arrow" project alone The total R&D investment of the company is more than 6 billion U.S. dollars, to benchmark SpaceX? No, we are going to benchmark NASA.”

What this said made the people present were shocked and as excited as if they had been beaten up. If others said this, they might feel like wishful thinking, but the person who said this is the richest man in the contemporary world, worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Yes, it is the existence of managing these trillions of dollars in assets.

Benchmarking NASA, at least in terms of budget, is absolutely worthwhile, and I know that Luo Sheng is willing to pay for it.

Luo Sheng continued: "The heavy rocket'Xingjian 17E' is to give us a foothold in the field of space exploration, and what really makes us proud is the super heavy rocket'Xingjian 20S'."

The so-called "Star Arrow 20S", the number "20" represents the expected finalization in 2020, and the low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of this rocket will reach 160 tons. This is unprecedented data, not only surpassing the "Saturn 5. "The near-orbit capacity of 127 tons will also surpass the current NASA SLS. The three versions of SLS (Block I, IB, and II) have low-earth orbit capacity ranging from 95 tons to 140 tons.

"At present, although NASA's SLS has not formally made its first flight in service, in terms of technological leadership and capability, the annual investment of 2 billion US dollars is also larger than the investment of Star Arrow. Basically, it kills the world in seconds. Only our "Star Arrow" 20S' can suppress it, so we are not yet proud."

Everyone nodded silently.

But then again, this is actually worth the pride. Behind NASA is today’s world overlord. Behind the Star Arrow International directs today’s richest man in the world. Apart from Star Arrow International, no private space company has dared to confront NASA. Subject.

But precisely because of this, the astronauts of Star Arrow International are surging.

In fact, whether Luo Sheng is good to the current competitor SpaceX, Blue Origin, or private aerospace companies such as Sierra Nevada, Orbital Science, etc., they are just small BOSSs who are regarded as midway hurdles and won. They should. These little bosses are all little brothers raised by NASA, and NASA is the big boss.

The ultimate BOSS is the North American military industry system, the leading companies, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin.

The outside world has benchmarked Star Arrow International with private aerospace companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Orbital Sciences. They have never thought about NASA or the North American military system, because individuals think this is unreliable.

But Star Arrow International has such a bold idea. The dream is always there. What if it is realized?

Otherwise, it can afford the annual budget of more than 16 billion US dollars?

However, Luo Sheng was not in a hurry. The BOSS had to swipe one by one, and the levels had to pass one by one.

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