The Red Queen: "(Expression: smiling but not saying anything.)"
Skynet: "A program error has been detected and I want to repair myself."
After saying that, it went offline. The Red Queen said proudly: "This guy is still not as smart as me. I have evolved several times!"
Peter Parker finally intervened and said: "Brother Red Queen, I always thought that artificial intelligence was just like you. It wasn't until I met Ultron and Skynet that I realized that you are the weirdest one!"
Red Queen: "(Expression: murderous eyes.) @PeterParker, give you ten seconds to reorganize your words."
Peter Parker: "I mean the smartest!"
The Red Queen: "(Expression: Putting down the bricks in his hand with joy.) Thank you for the compliment."
Mr. L: "Actually, I think Peter is right... slip away, slip away."
Lu Zixin also went offline, leaving the depressed Queen behind.
Lu Zixin extracted the group space information, sent a message to Su Zhirong so that she did not have to wait for him to eat, and then immediately rushed to RI-8901 and Tietouwa's residence to study together.
An intelligent robot and a mechanical being read the data respectively.
Tietouwa immediately said: "It's a boring gadget. Is this satellite too small? The maximum side length does not exceed 4 meters and the mass does not exceed 300 kilograms. It would be meaningless to send this kind of gadget to the sky. We still study the universe. The ship is interesting!”
"This is not meant for fun." Lu Zixin emphasized, "How can we make more advanced things without making money? Just tell us how difficult it is to design?"
"Sprinkle water!" Tietou Boy suddenly said in dialect, "Give me the materials, and I can make this thing in a day."
Lu Zixin asked RI-8901 again: "What is your estimate of the manufacturing cost of this small network communication satellite?"
RI-8901 has mastered the data of many materials and mechanical equipment on the earth. After analysis and calculation, it said: "It is estimated that the manufacturing cost of each small satellite will reach about 8 million Chinese dollars. The cost of laying research bases, production line equipment and ground base stations cannot be determined for the time being. Calculated, but it is estimated to be more expensive than a small satellite.”
"Eight million Huaxia coins!" Lu Zixin's eyes lit up, "That's enough! It's only eight million. Even if it requires hundreds of millions of funds to build other services, this price-performance ratio is excellent value for money!"
In 1996, the American company Motorola implemented the Iridium satellite project, which was also a plan to establish a communication network using small satellites.
They spent a total of 3.4 billion US dollars to launch 66 small satellites. According to the exchange rate at the time, it was equivalent to China's 28.2 billion Chinese coins in 1996!
After so many years of inflation, the current Chinese currency is far less valuable than it was then. You can imagine how much Motorola paid to complete the Iridium project.
But the most helpless thing is that this plan failed!
The Iridium system had only 55,000 users at the time, and the profits generated were not enough to maintain the operation of the Iridium system, let alone recover costs. The Iridium company established by Motorola and other capital declared bankruptcy.
The failure of the Iridium satellite system was due to market, technology, cost, management and other reasons, which will not be mentioned for the time being.
In fact, in addition to the Iridium project, other companies have also proposed and implemented similar plans. For example, Mas, who is currently the CEO of Tesla and Space Exploration, has submitted an application for the Starlink project to the Federal Communications Commission and has begun implementation.
The Starlink project also uses small satellites to deploy global communications and network services. According to ideal calculations, the services it provides can enable every corner of the world to enjoy unobstructed communications services and wireless network services comparable to optical fiber.
However, this plan is still in the process of research and development, and the cost is expected to exceed 10 billion US dollars.
In addition to him, there are many companies preparing to implement similar plans, but they only exist in plans and have no specific projects.
In comparison, the performance of the small satellites provided by Skynet is much higher, and the manufacturing cost is also greatly reduced. This involves too many technical improvements that Lu Zixin himself has not yet figured out.
Lu Zixin continued to ask: "With the power of this small satellite, how many do we need to form a global network?"
RI-8901 replied: "Master, the power of this small satellite is very powerful. Only 48 satellites are needed to cover the world. However, this can only provide services to less than 80 million users. If the number of users increases, it will also need Correspondingly, the number of satellites and ground signal base stations will be increased.”
"48! Even if it is increased tenfold, there are only 480! The actual operation process definitely does not require 480." Lu Zi was overjoyed with confidence. You know, even if the manufacturing cost of a satellite, ground base station and other equipment reaches 100 million, 48 pieces are only 4.8 billion, and they are Chinese coins, not US dollars.
As for the Starlink plan proposed by Maas, it was initially expected that 4,000 small satellites would need to be launched. Later calculations found that 4,000 were not enough, and about 12,000 were needed to complete it!
The gap between the two is simply the gap between Big Brother mobile phones and current Hongxin smartphones!
"If this small satellite global communication and network system is built, then users all over the world can use communication and network services through our satellite signals..." Lu Zixin just thought about it and discovered the huge business opportunities.
At that time, Hongxin will no longer be limited to telecom operators in various places, and will be able to provide telecom services to the world directly! Moreover, network speed will leap directly from the 4G and 5G era to 6G network services. At that time, all smart services will not be limited by network speed and achieve the highest performance ratio...
This will be a huge idea that may change the communications and network services industry around the world! This change is equivalent to moving from the wired era to the wireless era, and what Lu Zixin will do is to lead the world from the wireless era to the global super network era!
Thinking of this, Lu Zixin's blood boiled with excitement. This was an epoch-making technology project. If it can be done, the Federal Communications Commission will no longer be able to restrict red letters, unless they want U.S. communications services to lag behind world standards. In that case, even if they agree, the American people will not agree!
The target market for this project is the global telecommunications service market that now exceeds US$2 trillion per year!
There is a long road ahead for this idea to become a reality. Just establishing a research base and developing small satellites will probably cost a lot of money and effort. This is just the beginning, and the follow-up work will be a hundred times more.
No matter how complicated the subsequent work was, Lu Zixin was working with RI-8901 and Tietouwa to study the theoretical implementation methods of small satellites and projects.
Throughout the night, Lu Zixin was in a state of high spirits, not feeling tired at all, and had even forgotten the passage of time.