When March came, Zhao began to prepare for the creation of a gold and jewelry industry. The first step was to rent a business site from Shangtong Trading Company. This was not difficult for him. He only needed to inform Jia Siqi.
The second step is to ask the human resources company to help find a candidate for the vice president, and ask the law firm to help register the company and other related matters. Zhao Yi does not need to worry about this step for the time being.
The last step is to develop artificial gemstones and related manufacturing machines. Zhao Yi needs to be personally responsible for this step. At the same time, he also needs to build an artificial gemstone production factory.
There is still a huge difference between raw gemstones and processed jewelry. Zhao Yi also needs to find high-level gemstone processing craftsmen across the country. This step cannot be omitted and is also a relatively difficult step.
Artificially crafted jewelry products are all high-end, and most jewelry consumed by ordinary people does not need to be that high-end. If it is made manually, the cost will rise significantly.
Therefore, Zhao Yi plans to develop a high-end 3D engraving machine that can automatically finish gemstones according to program design and produce a variety of jewelry.
The use of automatic processing by machines can not only meet the needs of the huge domestic ordinary consumers and reduce costs, but also reduce the demand for high-end craftsmen. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Moreover, 3D engraving machines are not only used for gem processing at this time, but can also be used on various forms of engraving products. For example, high-end furniture, you can use 3D engraving machines to process various patterns.
While Zhao Yi was busy in the laboratory, the outside world was quite uneasy. First of all, Future Space Technology Company officially announced that it would start building a space station this year, and sincerely invited various countries and teams to come and cooperate.
This is what it should be. Relevant cooperation agreements must be reached with various countries and scientific research groups before the construction of the space station is completed.
Although Future Space Technology Company has achieved tremendous development since it built the Beidou satellite positioning system, it has not had a space program that can be remembered by people around the world.
Their daily job is to help partners launch satellites. Of course, the quality of the satellites they manufacture is still very coveted by others, but for ordinary people, it does not have much influence.
After the Tiangong space station plan was announced this time, government scientific research departments of various countries felt that the news was relatively reliable. After so many years, it is estimated that future space technology companies have been developing space station matters.
Moreover, in the past year, Future Space Technology Company has also conducted five manned space launch missions, possibly to prepare relevant technical reserves for the construction of the space station.
On the contrary, the public has mixed opinions on this, because Future Space Technology Company has appeared too few times in the news sections of various countries in recent years, which has made everyone feel that Future Space Technology Company is like a comet, passing through its highlight. time.
Although Future Space Technology has created many high-tech technologies, such as rocket recovery technology, it is currently the only company in the world that has mastered all three-stage rocket recovery technology. Other countries are still experimenting with first-stage rocket recovery technology.
There is also the one-rocket multi-satellite technology. Although it is not the first of its kind by Future Space Technology Company, it is currently the company with the highest level of launch technology. Not only has it never failed, but it also carries the most satellites on a single rocket.
It's just that Future Space Technology Company is not like Musk, the boss of SpaceX in his previous life, who showed off to the global media every now and then, letting ordinary people around the world know their little progress.
This has caused the general public's impression of Future Space Technology Company to gradually become blurred. On the contrary, the relevant technical departments of various countries are paying close attention to the dynamics of Future Space Technology Company.
So when the Future Space Technology Company announced the construction of its own independent space station, which was also a large-scale private space station in the world, although it attracted widespread attention around the world, it also aroused ridicule from many people.
If it were before, even if you wanted to ridicule, there would be no place to publish it, because ordinary people have not yet mastered the ability of traditional media, and it can only become a topic of conversation in daily life.
But now is the Internet era. The post bar of Qianxun Technology Company immediately established a space station bar. All kinds of ghosts and monsters gathered here and began to express their "real knowledge and insights".
Although the introductory section of the Space Station Bar details space station-related technologies, existing technical problems, and the latest developments, there is recent news that a future space technology company will establish an independent space station.
Moreover, the owner of the forum was kind enough to popularize the achievements of Future Space Technology Company, such as the first company to establish a satellite navigation and positioning system, the first company to realize multi-stage rocket recovery technology, etc.
However, these introductions are actually not detailed, and with this general introduction, ordinary people do not understand how difficult it is. They feel that the technology is sparse and ordinary. The most typical one is the multi-stage rocket recovery technology, which feels ordinary at first glance.
Therefore, there are most comments on Tieba that are not optimistic about future space technology companies. At present, the only countries that have initially mastered space station technology are the United States and the Soviet Union, and there are still accidents and the scale is not large.
The Tiangong Space Station built by Future Space Technology Company is quite large in scale and can allow dozens of people to stay in space for a long time to conduct daily life and related scientific experiments, which is more difficult.
More importantly, Future Space Technology Company announced that the Tiangong Space Station will be the world's first fully commercially operated space station, which also creates the history of human space station operations.
The construction of a space station is not only technically difficult, but more importantly, the construction cost is not low at all. As a commercial organization, it is understandable that future space technology companies want to make profits from this.
But there is no news that the space station can be profitable. Anyway, both Polar Bear and Eagle Sauce are operating at a loss, and the national finance supports the construction and operation of their space stations.
The space station is not the first of its kind by Future Space Technology. As early as 1971, Polar Bear launched its own Salyut 1 space station. However, their transport spacecraft had an accident, resulting in the death of three astronauts.
Followed by Yingjiang, it launched the Skylab space station in 1973, carrying a large number of scientific instruments and conducting a large number of space science experiments.
It's just that these are small-scale space station constructions. Not only are there few permanent personnel, but the experimental projects are also very limited. They are incomparable with the plans of the Future Space Technology Company.
In fact, as early as last year, in 1986, Polar Bear launched the core module of the Mir space station and began the 10-year construction of the Mir space station. Finally, in 1996, the Mir space station consisting of six modules was built.
However, the Mir space station was finally completed in 1996, and its service period only lasted until 2001. Its service period was not long. Even counting from 1986, it only lasted 15 years.
Compared with the Mir space station, which has an extremely long construction period of 10 years, the construction period of Future Space Technology Company's Tiangong Space Station only takes one or two years, and a certain scale will be initially completed in the first year.
More importantly, if there are no space accidents, the service life of the Tiangong Space Station will be more than 30 years, which makes the Tiangong Space Station lead the world in this regard.
The most important thing is that Future Space Technology Company leads the world in rocket recovery technology, which can save the material transportation cost of the space station on a large scale, which provides the possibility of commercial operations.
This still uses spaceships for transportation. If space shuttles are used for transportation in the future, the cost may be further reduced, which can bring greater profit margins to future space technology companies.
Although the impact of this news is extraordinary, both the media and ordinary people around the world are highly interested in it, and the intensity of discussion is quite high.
It's just that the international cooperation that Future Space Technology Company wanted did not go as smoothly as expected. Although scientific research institutions in some countries expressed interest in it, none of them completed the signing of a cooperation agreement.
Future Space Technology Company knows that all countries in the world are not willing to let go of the hawk before seeing the rabbit, and they will not sign such a cooperation agreement without seeing any results.
Therefore, Future Space Technology Company launched the core module of the Tiangong Space Station in early April, and has since maintained a monthly launch mission, with each launch being a functional module.
Future Space Technology's high-frequency space capsule launch plan has completely shocked the governments of other countries. This is a pretty crazy space station construction plan. In comparison, Polar Bear and Eagle Sauce's space station construction is like playing with children. Like home.
By October, Future Space Technology Company has completed the launch and docking mission of six functional modules. Other countries have no doubts about this. As long as you look into space with a telescope, you can clearly see the huge space station. Right on the head.
More importantly, in the process of successively launching functional modules, Future Space Technology Company has also successively announced the experimental environment and related space experimental equipment provided by the Tiangong Space Station, possible space experimental projects, etc.
Space station technology may not be exclusive to Future Space Technology Company, but the experimental equipment and experimental environment they announced are not provided by other space stations, which is very attractive to scientists.
The first six space capsules were only made by Future Space Technology Company under conservative circumstances, because they needed to be observed while launching. By October, Future Space Technology Company finally had a great deal of confidence in its technology.
Starting in November, Future Space Technology's launch missions became twice a month. By the beginning of 1988, all 12 of their space capsules were finally successfully launched.
In this process, the construction of the space capsule is all completed automatically without any human intervention. For future space technology companies with artificial intelligence technology and high-precision docking technology, these are a piece of cake.
After all the space capsules are launched, the next step is to launch various precision instruments and equipment for space research, which requires manual placement and assembly.
To be honest, although the previous space launch missions went very smoothly, when it came to manned launches, Future Space Technology Company was still quite nervous, even if detailed experimental data had been obtained before.
However, the first batch of manned launches only needs to launch three astronauts. The main task is to be responsible for the reception, assembly and debugging of experimental equipment.
Fortunately, there were no accidents during the manned launch, and everything went very smoothly. By August 1988, all work on the Tiangong Space Station was completed, and the first batch of partner scientists could be officially welcomed in.
The entire construction cycle of the Tiangong Space Station lasted one year and four months. In such a short period of time, a large-scale space station was completed, which brought unparalleled shock to the world.
The most direct result is that Polar Bear has accelerated the construction of its Mir space station. As if to compete with Future Space Technology Company, it has also begun a plan to launch a space capsule every month.
However, although they had accumulated considerable experience in space launches before, unfortunately, a launch failure occurred during this launch process. Fortunately, there were no astronauts and no casualties were caused.
However, this launch accident also had a huge adverse impact on the construction of their space station, forcing them to change the original launch plan, which had a huge impact on the construction of the entire Mir space station.
After the construction of the Tiangong space station was completed, the first batch of scientific researchers settled in. Whether they were domestic or foreign, they all reported in detail on this crazy space station construction.
Among them, ATV, because it is a sister company, can obtain more detailed data, so it produced a documentary "Crazy Space Station", which not only recorded in detail the construction process of Future Space Technology Company's Tiangong space station.
At the same time, it also announced various data that other media did not have, such as cooperation cost data, various experimental equipment data, and experimental projects that can be carried out, etc., and made detailed comparisons with existing space stations.
The documentary has been broadcast, and the number of viewers reached 100 million in just one day, and 500 million in one week.
One week after its premiere on ATV, the documentary began to be launched on major Internet platforms, mainly the video website of Xinghan Technology Company. Within a month, the number of viewers reached 2 billion, making it the most watched documentary in the world.
In fact, this is also part of the promotion of Tiangong Space Station. After the documentary came out, more and more countries wanted to cooperate with future space technology companies. Even small countries wanted to let their own country's scientific researchers do research.
In the past, space activities were a standard feature of big countries. Other small countries, no matter how wealthy they were, were not qualified to make a difference in this field and could only watch.
Now the Tiangong Space Station adopts a fully commercial operation model, which has completely ignited their enthusiasm. More importantly, the cost of cooperation with Future Space Technology Company is much lower than the cost of cooperation with Polar Bear and Eagle Sauce.
Not to mention these small countries that do not have much space exploration capabilities, even Polar Bear and Eagle Sauce have not given up cooperating with Future Space Technology Company and have reached relevant cooperation plans.
Because they have calculated and found that by cooperating with Future Space Technology Company, their costs are lower and the risks they bear are smaller. At least in the short term, they have no way to reduce costs to the same level as Future Space Technology Company.
In fact, big countries like Polar Bear and Eagle Sauce will not give up their space station construction plans even if they cooperate with Future Space Technology Company, because this is a battleground for big countries.
It’s just that it’s a great deal to cooperate with Future Space Technology Company, and other countries are cooperating with Future Space Technology Company. Even if they build the space station alone, they can only use it themselves, and the construction cost will be higher.
Therefore, their plan to build their own space station on their own is much slower. Even the construction speed of Polar Bear's Mir space station has also slowed down, as if it is not in a hurry all of a sudden.
No matter what purpose they have in cooperating with Future Space Technology Company, they will not reject anyone who comes. Anyway, on the surface, they can't see much. The core things they can't see with the naked eye.
For example, why the Tiangong space station has been in service for so long, this involves new space materials and space station design.
Another example is why the Tiangong space station has such a high degree of automation. This involves automation technology and artificial intelligence, which can reduce the management cost of the space station to a minimum.
Another major international event was that in early 1988, the space shuttle developed by Star Express Company conducted its first test flight. The test flight results were very good.
In the past, only Eagle Sauce was able to produce space shuttles. After the successful first flight of Star Express's space shuttle, it marked that the second country had mastered space shuttle technology.
And then the Star Express Company announced to the outside world various data on the space shuttle it produced and manufactured, and they all disparaged the space shuttle developed and manufactured by Eagle Sauce.
The space shuttle developed and manufactured by Star Express Company has, firstly, a larger load tonnage and larger internal space; secondly, it has low maintenance cost and very short maintenance speed; thirdly, its service life and number of launches are 10 times that of the Eagle Space Shuttle. times.
The space shuttle is the most technologically advanced space transportation vehicle. After the successful first flight of the Star Express company's space shuttle, Future Space Technology Company immediately announced the purchase of their space shuttle for space transportation missions.
This means that the space shuttle of Star Express Company has been recognized by Future Space Technology Company, and naturally it has made a big appearance in the world.
Even if Star Express Company makes its space shuttle so popular, it will not be as influential as a real space exploration company like Future Space Technology Company that applies it to actual space activities.
Future Space Technology Company purchased six space shuttles from Star Express Company for material transportation to the Tiangong Space Station and the lunar manned exploration program.
In fact, Star Express did not make any money on the space shuttle. The six space shuttles purchased by Future Space Technology Company only allowed them to just recover the cost.
As for subsequent profits, they are basically ignored. At most, they only earn some maintenance fees. As for selling more space shuttles, it is currently impossible because their space shuttles are included in the export ban list.
So currently there is only one customer, Future Space Technology Company, and there may be customers from the national team in the future, but it is unlikely in the short term.
However, although they did not make any money from the space shuttle project and only recovered their capital, the cascading effects brought them a lot of benefit.
Their passenger aircraft business had already surpassed the other two aviation manufacturing companies before. After the successful first flight of the space shuttle, the growth of their passenger aircraft business has once again increased significantly.
Because in the eyes of major airlines, since Star Express can develop high-tech products such as space shuttles, ordinary passenger planes are naturally a no-brainer.
In addition, their passenger aircraft have a good reputation internationally, which naturally leads major airlines around the world to increase their procurement efforts, especially the I200 model passenger aircraft, which gradually has a tendency to monopolize the international flight business.
As for the I100 model passenger aircraft, it is basically impossible to monopolize global business. Like Eagle Sauce and the European Community, internal flights purchase their own aircraft and will not purchase passenger aircraft from Star Express.
However, their international flight business still has to purchase I200 aircraft, because international flights need to compete directly with other airlines around the world. If they do not purchase I200 aircraft, they will be at a competitive disadvantage.
What's more important is that Star Express's super large passenger plane has not even made its first flight, but many airlines have already come to inquire about relevant information, and the feedback they have received is very positive.
At present, a purchase intention contract for 200 aircraft has been reached. As long as their super large passenger aircraft successfully makes its first flight and obtains an airworthiness certificate, these contracts will take effect immediately.
The reason why they are so active is that they recognize Star Express' aviation manufacturing technology, and they have had enough of waiting in line before, allowing airlines to conquer the international market, causing them huge losses.
So this time they learned the lesson and no longer waited until the matter was settled before slowly queuing up to buy. Then the day lilies would get cold and they would have to purchase a batch before the airline they flew to feel more at ease.
The success of the first flight of the space shuttle not only benefited their commercial passenger aircraft business, but also their recently launched private jet business.
In fact, since they transformed Zhao Yi's private jet, Star Express has included the private jet business in their research and development plan. After a long period of research, it was just launched not long ago.
It’s just that after the private jet business came out, the international response was average. Because in the private jet business, there are already other private jets with mature experience in this area. In addition, the market size of this industry is not large, so such results are predictable.
After the successful first flight of the space shuttle, Star Express Company subsequently launched a private jet platform similar to the space shuttle, which made their private customized aircraft business appear in the international arena.
In addition, this gimmick is indeed very good, which has made many rich people around the world very interested in this kind of private jet similar to the space shuttle. Some rich people have already tried to place orders.
In addition to the safety guarantee, another important requirement for a wealthy private jet is to be cool enough. Among aircraft-type aircraft, there is currently nothing cooler in appearance than the space shuttle. (End of chapter)