Global Monopoly of Technology

March.

"Xiao Du, haven't you pulled down the information?" Academician Yang Jian'an repeatedly urged his assistant.

Du Yangping put a lot of material files and reports in his bag, followed Yang Jianan with the bag and assured: "It's all inside, but Mr. Yang, it's 2017 now, so upload the information directly to Wouldn't it be better to leave the cloud to Mr. Luo?"

"I can see the paper manuscript, and I feel at ease." Yang Jianan answered him, the two walked out of the Star Arrow International headquarters, and a special car had been waiting for a long time.

Five minutes later, the two drove to the airport. Luo Sheng's A380 private plane had been waiting at the airport for a long time. He was already on the plane and was about to fly to Qiongzhou.

And "Xingjian 1703" has arrived at the Qiongzhou launch site.

Yang Jianan's vehicle arrived at the airport, and he got out of the car with his assistant and boarded the plane.

In a living room in the cabin, Yang Jianan said apologetically when he saw Luo Sheng: "Mr. Luo, I'm sorry that things took a little time."

Luo Sheng smiled and said, "There are still three or five minutes until the takeoff time, which is just right."

Yang Jianan immediately asked Du Yangping to give him the materials, and then handed them directly to Luo Sheng, and said, "Mr. Luo, if the 'Star Arrow 1703' is successfully recycled this time, it will be officially finalized. According to the established medium and long-term plan, It is expected that around 2027, we will have about 10 types of launch vehicles, forming a new generation of small, medium, large, heavy and super heavy-duty Star Arrow series of recoverable rockets."

Luo Sheng took the material report and didn't read it, but put it aside, looked at Yang Jian'an and said with a smile: "Old Yang, don't worry, take a rest first."

Tang Xin, who temporarily succeeded An Qingxue as Luo Sheng's personal assistant and secretary, was now a cameo as a flight attendant and brought a few cups of tea to everyone.

Yang Jianan stopped and hurriedly said: "How dare you rest, if 1703 can't go to the sky, my heart won't fall."

As the chief engineer of the Star Arrow series of rockets, Yang Jian'an is very aware of how big a burden he is carrying. He has already spent more than 40 to 50 billion yuan in it. The more money he spends, the greater the pressure on him.

In addition to the internal pressure, the bigger one is the external pressure, which is the competitive pressure between Blue Origin and SpaceX.

This time, Star Arrow International and SpaceX will win the title of "second-hand rocket" recovery for the first time in March. Even Luo Sheng personally went to the Qiongzhou launch site, which shows the importance attached to this launch experiment.

At present, private space exploration companies around the world have emerged one after another, but only three of the first echelon are competing with each other, namely Star Arrow International, Blue Origin and SpaceX.

Blue Origin helped Jeff Bezos get the title of "first person in rocket recovery", SpaceX gave Elon Musk the title of successful rocket recovery from an offshore platform in 2015, and Luo Sheng's Star Arrow International There haven't been any bright "first-time" titles so far.

This space race is undoubtedly behind its competitors, and it has invested the most funds among the three parties, which makes Yang Jianan feel more pressure.

However, Star Arrow International started the latest after all. SpaceX was established in 2002, and began the development of the "Falcon" series of rockets in 2006, with NASA's technical support behind it.

Star Arrow International was only established in 2011. It was the latest one, and without the support of a strong institution like NASA, everything basically depends on itself.

Fortunately, Luo Sheng has a skill that neither Elon Musk nor Jeff Bezos can match—the ability to make money.

The powerful "money capability" will not be too far behind. It has been catching up wildly in the past five years. Now it has the ability to compete with SpaceX. From this, it can also be shown that China's aerospace talents are not weaker than foreign countries.

The special plane has already taken off. In the living room of the cabin, Luo Sheng, who is sitting by the window, said with a smile, "Mr. Yang, don't put too much pressure on you. The title of first-time recovery of second-hand rockets is definitely going to be a fight, but The first priority is still to be stable, a temporary lead does not mean the final lead, even if the 1703 is successful, it does not mean that the Star Arrow series recycling technology is mature, and the road is still long.”

Yang Jian'an nodded and didn't say much. The big money master said so, what else could he say, all he had to do was to move forward steadily and send the rocket to the sky.

...

Just when Luo Sheng and the others arrived in Qiongzhou, they got off the plane and got unexpected news.

"What did you say? SapceX announced the launch plan a week earlier?" Luo Sheng was stunned for a while when he heard Tang Xin's report, the latter affirmed: "Elon Musk posted on his social account MicroBlog an hour ago. , it was confirmed that it would be a week earlier, and some media have already reported it."

Hearing this, Luo Sheng couldn't help but complain: "Elon Musk is still playing MicroBlog after staying up in the middle of the night, who did he show it to..."

The accompanying Yang Jianan estimated and said: "SpaceX's original launch plan was on March 22, one week in advance, it was to be launched on March 14, and our Star Arrow was launched on March 16."

His assistant Du Yangping casually said: "Elon Musk is obviously coming for us, and it is premeditated."

Star Arrow's second-hand rocket launch plan has been announced a month in advance, and it will also be launched live, and SpaceX's Falcon rocket also announced the launch plan at the beginning of the new year.

At this moment, Yang Jianan couldn't help but lift his heart. He couldn't help but glance at Luo Sheng, but he was extremely worried that Luo Sheng would be stimulated by this news, and asked to let the rocket go to the sky before SapceX.

This can be troublesome.

If it is so hasty to change the original launch plan, it will definitely cause endless troubles, and it is very likely that it will bring problems to the sky and face the risk of failure again.

Luo Sheng said calmly: "Don't be influenced by outside news, they play with theirs and we play with our own, so we can take the opportunity to observe and learn."

Hearing Luo Sheng's words, Yang Jian'an finally let go of his heart that had just been suspended. He was afraid that Luo Sheng would be stimulated by this news, and that he would be fooled by his opponent when he fought with Elon Musk.

In fact, Luo Sheng had already noticed Yang Jian'an's reaction just now, especially when he deliberately glanced at his little action, obviously because he was afraid that he would be affected by this news.

After all, Luo Sheng is now the CEO of Star Arrow International, and he founded the company. He gave all the research funds. He has the right to make arrangements for the company's plans and insists on implementing them. No one can stop him.

Fortunately, Yang Jian'an's worries are more than that. Luo Sheng himself has been engaged in scientific research in his last life, which is very different from other leaders. Naturally, he knows that scientific research cannot be rushed.

Today is March 9th, and there is still a week before the launch of "Star Arrow 1703". After Luo Sheng arrived in Qiongzhou, he and Yang Jian'an were temporarily separated. Mr. Yang took his assistant to the launch of China and the West to preside over the work.

Luo Sheng led his new little secret Tang Xin to Sanya for a few days' vacation to experience the tropical style.

...

On the morning of March 15th.

Luo Sheng just had a dream, dreaming that the rocket was launched, and then felt a little dull, and then woke up from his sleep.

When he woke up, he opened his eyes and saw Tang Xin was looking at him with a smile.

"Mr. Luo good morning~"

Luo Sheng said helplessly, "Can't you wake me up in another way?"

Tang Xin said playfully, "For example?"

Luo Sheng immediately got up and stretched, then he opened the floor-to-ceiling curtains, and the view from the outside shone into the room. After looking out for a while, he looked back at Tang Xin and said, "This is beyond your job. It doesn't give you a promotion or salary increase or other financial benefits, and you may even lose your current job because of it."

Although what he said seemed a bit ruthless, Luo Sheng knew very well that some openings could be opened, but some openings should never be opened, otherwise the detonator would be buried and cause unnecessary trouble.

Besides, it was the little secret Tang Xin who took advantage of these few days to bring it to the door. Luo Sheng said that he was innocent and refused at first, but he was also a normal person.

Tang Xin smiled and looked at Luo Sheng's face and replied indifferently, "I would be happy to have such an encounter with the world's richest man and the first person in technology, even if I lose my job because of this."

Luo Sheng: "..."

There's no way to retaliate. I thought it was a bit ruthless to beat her, but she said so, and if she said anything else, it would seem that she was too mean and unkind.

Not to not to be.

There is no doubt that a clever girl is so smart, even a little secret is so smart around her, it is really possible that she can't control this group of people without any strength.

However, Luo Sheng was relieved. That's right. It proves that the management of the company is not a group of pigs' brains.

Luo Sheng represents the core of this huge commercial technology empire composed of Bluestar Technology and Azure Coast, and the people who can get in touch with the core must have something, otherwise they will not be able to reach this level.

Tang Xin had already prepared a breakfast, Luo Sheng simply finished washing and then dined, just sat down at the dining table and glanced at the clock on the wall, and immediately said, "Yo, this point should be 'Falcon 9'. Let's launch it... Where is the computer?"

Hearing this, Tang Xin immediately went to get a laptop for Luo Sheng, and opened the live broadcast page shortly after.

Luo Sheng stared at the screen while enjoying breakfast. The countdown showed that there was still one minute before the launch time.

At the same time, the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in North America on the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean was brightly lit, especially the Falcon 9 rocket with a height of 70 meters.

[10, 9, 8...3, 2, 1 ignition]

As the countdown ended, the launch site was as bright as day, and Luo Sheng, who was watching the live broadcast of the launch, stared at the screen without saying a word, listening to the cheers of SpaceX employees coming from the live broadcast room.

Tomorrow is the day of the launch of the Star Arrow, and I hope to declare success amidst cheers.

Tang Xin, who was sitting next to him eating breakfast, glanced at the live broadcast and said, "I really hope it explodes in the air..."

Just after Tang Xin's words fell, the Falcon 9 in the live broadcast was less than 800 meters high, and suddenly... exploded!

The cheering background sound of the live broadcast changed to "holy sh*t", "OMG", "WTF", and then fell into a dead silence.

Luo Sheng, who was eating melons, was also stupid. After a while, he turned back to Wang Zhe and Tang Xin: "Have you opened your mouth?"

Tang Xin stared at the screen with excitement: "It exploded, it really exploded..."

Luo Sheng suddenly scolded softly: "How can you say that? It's not just that SpaceX blew up a rocket fireworks worth more than $60 million, it's also a major loss to the human spaceflight industry. Don't be so gloating."

Tang Xin couldn't help sticking out her tongue, but when she saw Luo Sheng scolding with an undisguised happy expression at the moment, she couldn't help rolling her eyes.

The so-called happiest thing in the world is to watch the opponent slump. At this time, Luo Sheng's heart is already cool, so don't be too sour.

I told you to play tricks, let's blow it up now.

Luo Sheng focused his attention on the live broadcast again. He wanted to see if the director would give a shot of Elon Musk, and wanted to see what his expression looked like at the moment.

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