Not long after Xuantian Technology Company announced the specific launch schedule on its official website, Future Space Technology Company will launch a rocket with a total of 20 satellites into the sky, marking the beginning of the construction of a global satellite communication system.
In the days that followed, there were basically at least two launches every day. The whole world could see the rockets of Future Space Technology Company taking off every day. Many good people even shot an observation video and sent it to their short video platform every day. .
This is also the rocket launch mission with the highest density of rocket launches so far. If it were not for being very confident in one's own rocket launch technology, it would not be possible to achieve such intensive launches.
The five launch towers of Future Space Technology Company take turns to launch every day, and the number of recyclable rockets prepared is up to 10, and the 10 rockets take turns to perform the launch mission.
The reason why so many rockets are arranged is mainly because after the rockets are recovered, they need to be maintained. The maintenance cycle is about 5 days, which is 5 days shorter than the previous maintenance cycle.
In the global satellite communication system, not all satellites are small. Some satellites are very large, and the number of rockets carried is small, and they can only carry 5.
The main responsibility of small satellites is to provide global signal access. Their functions are relatively single, but their numbers are large. The other type of satellites are mainly used for satellite system control, command and calculation. They are larger in size and have more functions.
During the upgrade of this new communication satellite system, Zhao Yi came up with many new technologies, some of which can be used on the Future Space Technology Company's own space station.
For example, super photovoltaic coatings and protective coatings can significantly increase the power supply to the space station, and can also significantly extend the service life of the space station.
The future space technology company's space station construction is now nearing completion. It has 12 space positions, each named after the 12 zodiac signs. 10 have been launched so far, and the remaining two will be launched in the next month or two.
If there is no space station space for launch on the ground, it only needs to be replaced by photovoltaic paint and protective paint spraying on the ground. However, it is much more difficult to temporarily change the space capsule that has been launched into space.
Fortunately, at this time, the Star Express Company's space shuttle has been successfully developed and manufactured, and has arrived at the launch site of Future Space Technology Company, ready for experimental launches.
After the experimental launch of the space shuttle passes, future manned spaceflight will shift to the main launch of the space shuttle, and the spacecraft will be an alternative.
Compared with spaceships, space shuttles have a longer stay in space and can perform more complex space operations. Theoretically, the cost is higher than that of spaceships, and their reliability is also lower than that of spaceships.
But this is Yingjiang's spaceship. Star Express Company has learned from the failure of Yingjiang's space shuttle, trying to use fewer parts and keep the structure as simple as possible, especially in terms of protection, which is much more advanced.
Coupled with the many super materials provided by Cornerstone Materials, the launch cost of Star Express's space shuttle is not much different from that of a space shuttle. At the same time, the safety has been greatly improved, and the maintainability and reliability are also significantly ahead.
If the product like Eagle Sauce was just a nice-sounding but useless toy, Star Express Company wouldn't have needed such a long time to successfully develop it.
After the space station of the Future Space Technology Company is officially put into operation, the frequency of travel between the sky and the earth will be greatly increased, a large number of personnel and materials will need to be transported, and the space station will also need to be regularly maintained. The space shuttle has a huge advantage in this regard.
However, this is only the first-generation space shuttle. It still uses rocket-assisted mode to send the space shuttle into space, and then the space shuttle's own power system completes the return operation.
Previously, Zhao Yi provided super explosive-related technologies to China Military Industrial Company, such as all-nitrogen metal explosives used to replace conventional explosives, and hydrogen metal explosives needed for strategic bombing.
The formula he gave at the beginning was not the optimal formula, it was just an introduction, but the technical principles provided were real. Huaxia Military Industrial Company can carry out subsequent research and development work based on this information.
Although the total nitrogen metal explosive is a confidential project outside, as a brother enterprise and there is close cooperation, Star Express Company has obtained this information.
All-nitrogen metal explosives can be used not only in the field of explosives, but also in the field of launch fuels. For example, the rockets used by Future Space Technology Company can develop engines using all-nitrogen metal ion salts.
Therefore, the current space shuttle is the first generation product of Star Express Company. The launch method is similar to the launch method of Yingjiang's space shuttle. It requires additional rocket boosting to complete the launch of the space shuttle.
But for the second-generation space shuttle, Star Express hopes to enable the space shuttle to complete all launch tasks by itself, without the need for additional power.
Therefore, the all-nitrogen metal explosives in the hands of China Military Industrial Company came into their sight. They hope to conduct more extensive research on this and further improve the power of all-nitrogen metal explosives.
Now the formula provided by Zhao Yi is actually very powerful, 15 times more powerful than ordinary TNT explosives, but he wants to use the fuel carried by the space shuttle itself to complete the launch work, and do it without significantly increasing the weight.
This kind of power is still a bit small. According to their calculations, in order to basically complete the target requirements, the power of the all-nitrogen metal explosive must be more than 20 times that of the existing TNT explosive.
It's just that Star Express doesn't have much strength in this area of work. It can only hope that China Military Industrial Company can complete this research as soon as possible to solve the propellant problem of their second-generation space shuttle.
In addition to the problem of propellant, there is also the need for a matching engine product. Star Power Company has actually been researching this for a long time, and the project is currently progressing steadily.
After these powerful explosives were developed, Zhao Yi had notified Star Power Company to develop corresponding engine products for these new propellants.
The main purpose is to enable existing rockets to carry larger tonnage materials, which can further reduce the cost of space rocket launches and further accelerate the pace of space development.
As mentioned before, future space technology companies hope to be the first to establish a permanent base on the moon. To do this, material transportation capabilities must be greatly enhanced and unit costs must be further reduced.
Therefore, it is a practical need for Star Power Company to develop engines adapted to new propellants. Otherwise, it would be too difficult to establish a permanent lunar base with existing technology, and the cost would be prohibitively high. .
Moreover, Future Space Technology Company will not only establish a permanent scientific research base on the moon, but also develop lunar tourism projects to achieve wider commercial operations and raise more funds for their follow-up plans.
Therefore, costs must be effectively reduced, not only to make most wealthy people have the desire to try, but also to earn high profits for themselves, otherwise this idea is equivalent to a castle in the air.
Of course, Huaxia Military Industrial Company is interested in larger explosives in the future. After all, it is a military industrial company. Even if Star Express Company does not have this requirement, they will conduct in-depth research and development.
More importantly, their next generation aviation military equipment must have air and space cruise capabilities. In other words, their aircraft can directly fly into outer space and achieve outer space strike capabilities against global targets.
This coincides with the goal of Star Express's second-generation space shuttle. It can even be said that Star Express's space shuttle is actually exploring the path for the next generation of military aviation vehicles of China Military Industrial Company.
As for the next generation of military equipment, Huaxia Military Industrial Corporation has basically determined its goals, which are super maneuverability, strong stealth performance, beyond visual range strike, and unmanned operation.
The main reason for setting these goals is that they have accumulated a lot of technical strength in this area and can achieve the goals in a short period of time.
Moreover, such a goal is to dominate the next generation of military aviation equipment, to achieve an absolute leading position, and even to leave opponents far behind.
Compared with hoping that all-nitrogen metal ion salts will be used more in the aerospace field, the application field of hydrogen metal is simpler, that is, using it to make more powerful explosives.
Although Zhao Yi provided a hydrogen metal explosive formula, its power was only about 40 times that of ordinary TNT explosives. Although it also had certain strategic value, Huaxia Military Industrial Company was obviously not satisfied with this.
Hydrogen metal explosives and hydrogen bombs are just one step away. Hydrogen metal explosives also need to make hydrogen atoms highly compact so that their electrons can move freely to form metallic properties.
The hydrogen bomb is a nuclear fusion reaction that allows two hydrogen atoms to form a helium atom, releasing huge energy. What they have in common is that they need to provide enough energy to compress the distance between hydrogen atoms to the limit.
Hydrogen bomb detonations generally use nuclear bombs as high-temperature explosives. Now, hydrogen metal explosives can be used as the explosive to ignite hydrogen bombs, which can further reduce the nuclear radiation hazards of hydrogen bombs.
If the technology related to hydrogen metal is further improved, it will not even need to use external high temperature to promote the nuclear fusion reaction of the hydrogen bomb. The hydrogen bomb explosion can be realized at room temperature and have more uses.
And now Zhao Yi is also having a headache with the nuclear radiation elimination work. Now that he has taken over the climate and land transformation plan of the northwest region, he will build it into the new Jiangnan.
Then he must do this well, especially in the future, he plans to build a city cluster in the Lop Nur area to inject new vitality into the northwest economy and change the current face of the northwest region.
One of the problems he needs to face is how to eliminate the nuclear radiation in Lop Nur. If he doesn't do it, it won't really matter. The worst he can do is avoid the nuclear radiation area, but he always feels unhappy in his heart.
Nowadays, domestic nuclear tests no longer need to conduct real detonation experiments, because China Military Industrial Company has a complete set of simulation operation systems that can truly simulate the entire process of nuclear tests, making it more green and environmentally friendly.
Therefore, it is no longer necessary to retain such an area. Naturally, it is necessary to tidy up the environment of this area and not leave a "scar" on the vast land.
The reason why nuclear radiation persists after a nuclear explosion is mainly because the scattered nuclear materials did not react completely and were scattered in the nuclear test area. These scattered nuclear materials still undergo spontaneous nuclear fission for a long time, thus forming persistent radiation. .
Therefore, if you want to control these nuclear radiations, you must clean up these scattered nuclear materials. It is very difficult to complete this work mechanically. Regardless of whether the technology can pass the test, at least the cost cannot be lowered.
In order to be able to deal with these scattered nuclear radiation at low cost, Zhao Yi's first thought was naturally biotechnology. This has been a tried and tested method and helped him solve many problems.
It is not easy to develop organisms that can efficiently absorb nuclear materials. At least it is very difficult to further develop organisms from existing organisms.
So Zhao Yi is still preparing to cheat. In the Zhouling Space, he is preparing to develop a new nuclear material absorbing plant by himself, just like the development of Shuangshencao.
Although he has experienced this kind of research and development from scratch a few times, he feels very uncomfortable every time. This is not just about having technical data and sitting back and thinking, but also having to conduct simulation experiments to confirm whether the gene is spreading. Danger.
Because these new plants may carry genes that do not exist on earth, it is unknown whether they pose a threat to the existing earth ecology.
This is why he did not directly throw the technical information to the busy high-end robots in the laboratory, but chose to conduct simulation experiments in the Zhouling space to analyze the degree of threat it posed.
After the results of this step come out, he will pass the relevant technical information to the high-end robots in the laboratory to cultivate and experiment with new plants.
In addition to this not particularly urgent task, which is the development of service robots, these tasks are so unchallenging that he has delayed solving them until now.
He is quite open-minded about service robots and will not rent them. Although the price of each robot is not too cheap, it is aimed at enterprise users who can afford such costs.
In addition, service robots have relatively single functions. Even if they want to be used for other purposes, there is no way to do so. It will not cause big problems. You don’t even have to worry about others buying them and replicating them.
Because in terms of hardware, there is really nothing special. As for the software, he does not plan to build a separate set by himself, but directly uses the services of Hengchen Technology Company.
Their intelligent customer service system is sufficient to meet the needs of this kind of service robot and can help users solve most of their consultation problems. There is no need to develop a separate system at all.
Moreover, for a service robot like this, you need to pay a sum of money to purchase the hardware, and then you need to pay a monthly software service fee. The charging price is determined based on the complexity and diversity of the service content.
Therefore, in terms of hardware, he is not prepared to sell it too expensively. Of course, it will not be too cheap either. The price of each service robot is 50,000 yuan.
This kind of service robot was not originally intended to be purchased by all merchants. It is completely unnecessary. It is mainly targeted at enterprises that require a lot of inquiries and require manual guidance services, such as banks.
No matter what, if every branch of Minsheng Bank owned by him purchases one unit, it will be enough for Xuantian Technology Company to earn more than one billion yuan. Other places like Tianwen Library are also more suitable for this type of service. Robot use.
However, compared with the domestic service robots he imagined before, the market size is far behind. If it were not to let the public feel that the robot era is approaching, he would not bother to fix these things.
The annual market size of service robots like this is worth several billion yuan. If you are an ordinary entrepreneur, you will be very happy to achieve such good results.
But for someone like him, whose annual operating income is in the trillions of yuan, he is a bit disdainful of such "small" profits, which are incomparable to the personal holographic projection business that was just launched.
If it weren't for the good response from the holographic projection equipment market, Zhao Yi would never be as carefree as he is now. He would have long considered how to make money from other aspects to fill the gap caused by domestic service robots.
It is also the booming holographic projection equipment market that makes him relatively optimistic about the smart glasses market. Compared with holographic projection, smart glasses are no less sci-fi.
Although the civilian version has been weakened, reducing the use of human-computer interaction technology, it only retains a few simple recognition actions, and at the same time strengthens eye movement recognition technology.
But in today's era, it is also a proper black technology, and in terms of the breadth of application, it is better than holographic projection equipment, so the market size should be even larger than holographic projection equipment.
The cost of smart glasses is actually not low. It is higher than the cost of personal holographic projection equipment. The cost of each smart glasses is close to 600 yuan.
In order to gain more consumer markets, the price is half lower than that of personal holographic projection equipment. The market price should be 5,000 yuan per unit.
This year Xuantian Technology Company mainly relies on its three main businesses of holographic projection, smart glasses and global satellite communication systems to make money. As for the robot business, it is considered a side business and will not become its core business for the time being.
In addition to Xuantian Technology Company, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company's overseas plan of Shuangshencao is also a business that he is more concerned about, because this new business may bring him huge benefits.
This extra new business income is a good choice whether it is continued to be invested in the China Housing Company or used for the development and construction of the Northwest. (End of chapter)