Global Monopoly of Technology

In mid-March this year, the Star Arrow heavy rocket was successfully launched for the first time and successfully recovered the second-hand rocket of the core stage and booster, 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 has achieved a carrying capacity that surpassed that of the Falcon 9 heavy rocket and became the world's number one in active service.

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

As commercial spaceflight 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 heavy rocket systems. NASA hopes that it will surpass the legendary "Saturn 5" and cooperate with another A super money-burning Orion spacecraft has become a new generation of big killers for Magnesium's lunar exploration, fire detection and deep space exploration.

The SLS project was established and successfully passed in 2011. Since then, it has been attracting gold at a rate of about 2 billion US dollars per year.

The cost of a heavy-duty rocket of Star Arrow International is about 110 million US dollars, and 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. The days of SLS It is even more difficult to do, because its launch cost is conservatively estimated to be around 1 billion, can it not be embarrassing.

The news of Star Arrow International began to spread, and the domestic media reported on the big books, especially the self-media, which made various exaggerated headlines.

Netizens who eat melons also like to see the comparison between SpaceX's overturning and the history of Star Arrow International. This time Star Arrow International finally made the headlines.

Domestic media are reporting in big books, and the people who eat melons in the mainland are also indescribably proud. They used to be sour about SpaceX, but now it is finally their turn to be sour.

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

Now the pressure is on Elon Musk and SpaceX. After all, it was established early, with the technical support of NASA, and advertised itself as a leader in the industry. The result is such a situation, which is both stressful and embarrassing.

After all, it has been fifteen years since SpaceX was established, and Star Arrow International has only been established for five or six years. The gap between the current technology level and that of SpaceX is getting smaller and smaller.

even a small lead.

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

And the person behind Star Arrow International is called Luo Sheng, a man who is good at creating miracles constantly, and he competes with such a person with real swords and guns. SpaceX’s launch experiment overturned, and Star Arrow International took the top prize. , it is conceivable how much pressure Elon Musk is now under.

The worst thing is that now it is not only competing with Luo Sheng in the field of private space exploration, but also in the field of electric vehicles. Luo Sheng's Weilan pure electric vehicle company is now worth more than one trillion US dollars, and its market value is the first in the automotive industry. , the second existence in the world.

In contrast, Tesla’s market value is now in its seventh year of listing, and its market value is not as good as a fraction of that of Blue Pure Electric Vehicles.

The inability to mass-produce is the biggest pain of Tesla's electric vehicles. If it hadn't been borrowed and misappropriated to Tesla with SpaceX's $2.6 billion contract from NASA, the pure electric car company would have gone bankrupt now. .

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The Star Arrow heavy rocket launch plan was successfully concluded. Luo Sheng did not stay in Qiongzhou for too long. He returned to Suzhou City the next day, and his work focus was temporarily placed on Star Arrow International.

"Although there were some small episodes in the process of this launch plan, it turned out to be a great success and won the top prize for the company. Finally, there is a good honor." In the internal meeting of Star Arrow International Headquarters, Luo Sheng laughed to several senior executives and technical experts such as Yang Jian'an.

Everyone was also very happy. They had been crushed by SpaceX before, and their life was not a good one. Seeing the Falcon rocket overturned the day before yesterday and the success of Xingjian flying yesterday were in stark contrast, of course, it was a refreshing thing.

At this time, Luo Sheng added: "Occasionally leading, but the gap still needs to be faced. The honors and achievements of Star Arrow International are one-sided. It is an indisputable fact that my country is currently weak in basic technologies such as material technology. Recyclable rockets The technology still needs astronauts to continue to work hard, and Star Arrow International is currently 100% domestically developed technology. I don’t want to face the same key basic technology as the Côte d’Azur.

When everyone heard that the head of Luo Sheng was so calm, they didn't get too complacent, and also let everyone put aside the joy of success temporarily and return to reality.

Luo Sheng spoke again: "Slightly ahead of SpaceX doesn't mean anything, Star Arrow International's total investment in space exploration is as high as $16.2 billion per year on average, second only to NASA's $19.3 billion, and the 'Star Arrow' project alone The total R\u0026D investment is more than 6 billion US dollars, benchmarking SpaceX? No, we have to benchmark NASA.”

These words shocked the people present, and they were as excited as chicken blood. If someone said this, they might think it was 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, it is absolutely true, and I know that Luo Sheng is willing to spend all his money.

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

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

"At present, although NASA's SLS has not officially launched its first flight, in terms of technological leadership and capabilities, the annual investment of 2 billion US dollars is larger than that of Star Arrow, which basically kills the world in seconds. Only our 'Star Arrow' 20S' was able to suppress it, so we're not yet proud."

Everyone nodded silently.

But then again, in fact, this is already worth the pride. Behind NASA is today’s world hegemon, and behind Star Arrow International is the current world’s richest man. Except for Star Arrow International, no private space company has dared to confront NASA. target.

But it is precisely because of this that the astronauts of Star Arrow International are full of fighting spirit.

In fact, Luo Sheng is only regarded as a small boss in the middle of the road, whether it is the current competitor SpaceX, Blue Origin, or private aerospace companies such as Sierra Nevada, Orbital Science, etc. They should be, these little bosses are the little brothers raised by NASA, and NASA is the big boss.

The ultimate BOSS is the North American military system, the big ace 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 Science.

But Star Arrow International has such a bold idea. There is always a dream. What if it comes true?

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

However, Luo Sheng was not in a hurry. The bosses had to be cleared one by one, and the levels had to be passed one by one.

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