Global Monopoly of Technology

"NASA is very embarrassed now. It is estimated that they would never have expected the birth of Star Arrow International and its rapid rise to make subtle changes in the pattern of the world aerospace industry." At the meeting, Luo Sheng said with a smile.

At this moment in this internal high-level meeting, Luo Sheng is discussing some core confidential issues with the senior executives and the heads of major scientific research project departments.

An executive who attended the meeting said: "The key lies in the North American military-industrial system. Basically, companies that have supported NASA's decades of space development have participated. These companies are the core of North America's aerospace status, and NASA must do well. No matter from the perspective of demand, promoting technological progress, and supporting the most core military enterprises, although the location of the SLS project is awkward, it is of great significance, and the probability of being cut off is not estimated."

Luo Sheng couldn't help but nodded, apparently agreeing with this point of view.

The issue under discussion now is the discussion among the managers of Star Arrow International. Yang Jianan and other chief technical engineers are basically unable to intervene. This is not something they should consider, nor is it their strength.

The topic now should be management positions. Yang Jianan and others are technical positions, but they are all core figures of Star Arrow International, so of course you need to know something.

Luo Sheng said: "Although NASA is strongly supporting the commercialization of the aerospace industry, even if the support has been so strong that other countries are envious..."

It is indeed enviable. For example, SpaceX has received NASA's order support of up to 2.6 billion US dollars, and it has been handed over to SpaceX from research and development to multiple missions. Star Arrow International has not yet seen the meaning of the national aerospace order.

Because of the order, it is very likely that "national teams" such as Aerospace Science and Technology Group cannot survive, because the market size is so large.

Fortunately, Luo Sheng is rich, otherwise it is really possible that the operation will not continue, but the attitude of the state obviously also sees that Luo Sheng has money to transfuse blood to Star Arrow International. From another point of view, it is not bad for Luo Sheng to give more blood. Luo Sheng himself knew this, and he was very tacit.

Anyway, Star Arrow International has already decided on a super project - the space ladder.

With this project, I really eat the series for a lifetime, but I don't care about the other lists.

Luo Sheng went on to say: "...But the core of NASA is the traditional military giants. Boeing spent $4.2 billion on the StarLiner manned spacecraft, and at least $2 billion a year in projects such as SLS, Orion, and X37B. , This kills SpaceX, not to mention Lockheed Martin, the No. 1 military giant in North America.”

One of the executives at the meeting went on to say: "Yes,

From NASA's point of view, the commercial launch order for SpaceX is just to beat the black shops such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin not to ask for sky-high prices, which can save a lot of money for NASA, and save this money, only 2.6 billion US dollars to SpaceX It's just a small part of the reward, and at the same time, it also warns the other party not to quote sky-high prices at every turn. NASA has also raised SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Orbital Science to compete with you. "

In any case, these are NASA's means of SpaceX. After all, they are the winners from the last century and the hairy bear space race. Of course, there is something.

The technical leaders such as Academician Yang Jian'an who attended the meeting were stunned for a while. There were so many twists and turns, and they suddenly felt that participating in the company's management and competition was called a layman.

Thinking about this kind of big game and intrigue is exhausting. It's better not to participate in this aspect. I can honestly lead the team and do research. Anyway, if I lack funds, I just ask Luo Sheng to ask for it. He has money. Willing to spend money.

The meeting soon entered the next discussion topic, and one of the executives who attended the meeting immediately reported: "The major plan the company is implementing is to build our own private launch center. The current project has already started at the beginning of the year, and it is expected to be around 2020. Officially put into use, the first test flight of the 'Star Arrow 20S' super-heavy rocket used our own launch site."

The topic of interest to scientists such as Yang Jian'an came, and it was different when it came to technical issues. The previous topic was completely irrelevant.

"The location of the launch base is on a medium-scale isolated island in Yinmu's 'Linjia County' on the equator. We have already rented the dredgers 'Tian Kun' and 'Tian Jing' to expand the island artificially, within a year The island will triple in size."

While the company headquarters here is reporting, two dredgers, which are the envy of all Southeast Asian countries, are in full swing in the area of ​​Linjia County, near the equator in the southern sea area.

"Tian Kun" is equipped with four different types of reamers: general purpose, clay, rock digging and heavy rock digging. Compared with the big brother "Tian Whale", it can excavate rocks with higher hardness on the seabed, which can be described as cutting rocks like mud. Call it an excavator.

This kind of island-building artifact is not only forbidden to be exported, but also not rented to foreigners. Southeast Asian countries can only be envious. With this island-making artifact, a large island that can build an airport can be built within a year, and Boeing can take off and land. The kind of 747 aircraft.

And countries in Southeast Asia built a small island, starting in ten or twenty years. Can you not envy this gap.

If Eagle sauce comes to this sea area to catch the autumn wind, the rabbit will directly shoot a few islands on the spot and come out to suppress the shock.

A senior executive who attended the meeting distributed the prepared paper documents to Yang Jian'an and others who attended the meeting, and said, "This is the basic layout plan of the launch base."

The name has long been determined, it is called "Xinggang Launch Center", and not far from the launch base is the "Xinggang Circular Transit Center", the world's largest intelligent unmanned cargo terminal, which is currently under construction. among.

The island has now been leased by Star Arrow International from India for 75 years, and has the priority to renew the contract. It took several months to reach a consensus. During the lease period, Star Arrow International has a high degree of autonomy on the island and has the right to renew the contract. Hire a security company to protect legal assets, in other words, Star Arrow International can establish its own area denial/anti-access force here to protect its legal assets.

This is a must-have. In the future, the final assembly, production, storage, and R\u0026D centers of rockets will be arranged here. There are many high-tech things that are all overseas. If you don't have a stick in your hand, Star Arrow International will also Don't dare to enter, the risk is too great.

With this right, it is different.

Yinni also saw the expansion of the island and the economic benefits, and finally signed the contract. The matter is actually very simple. Just collect the tax and rent, and the rent will be paid every fifteen years and delivered in installments.

The tax rate created by the output value of the island has also been agreed in the negotiation between the two parties. Everything is done according to the contract, and the other party cannot change the tax rate.

"Entering the launch site area, all kinds of trees are very tropical under the shade of coconut trees. The two roads in the launch site are connected in series with the take-off control command center, the rocket vertical assembly test workshop, the launch tower, the measurement and control center and other buildings. The roads in the factory area are ordinary three Class highway, but there are certain requirements for turning radius to meet the needs of special transportation."

At this time, Luo Sheng was also silently looking at the copy of the planning book in his hand.

The two rocket vertical assembly plants are the highest and core parts of the launch site. The test plant is 165.5 meters high, with 22 floors above the ground and a total construction area of ​​55,120 square meters. It has created many "world's highest": the world's largest steel gate , the world's highest single-storey workshop, the world's highest truss installation and so on.

The foreign company of this project could not accept the project order, because it is too difficult, only the infrastructure company in Huaguo can take over the job. Even if the foreign company has the strength to accept the order, Star Arrow International will not hand over the project to them. Something is confidential.

If you want to take over this list, you must gnaw on many "hard bones", such as: ultra-high formwork construction technology, ultra-high gate steel truss frame installation technology, ultra-high span steel roof installation technology, ultra-large volume steel structure prefab Embedded Kyoto control technology, special non-standard crane beams, and super-high rail installation technology, etc.

In addition, the aerospace-level strong and weak electricity, fire protection, electrical engineering, automatic control and many other majors must be coordinated with each other.

There is no doubt that only the infrastructure group of the national team can take over this project.

Due to the environmental factors of the geographical location, the construction of the launch site also faces the "three highs" and "three strong" factors, namely: high temperature, high humidity, high salt and strong typhoons, heavy rainfall, and strong thunderstorms. under difficult circumstances.

If you are in an empty rocket vertical assembly test plant, people will be very small here. The building more than 100 meters high is equipped with 22 floors of movable working platforms, and there must be a track on the ground to provide rocket transportation and transfer.

The average building uses 395 kilograms of steel bars per square meter, which is something that the project contractor has never encountered in his life. The densely packed steel bars and beam-column intersections must meet the requirements of the frame beam-column without weakening the strength of the steel structure. The construction team must Painful correction.

The launch tower at the launch site is about 3 kilometers away from the rocket vertical assembly test manufacturer and is connected by orbit.

In addition, six fixed rocket recovery landing platforms are to be built, four of which are for regular use and two for emergency use.

After reading the planning materials, Luo Sheng nodded with satisfaction, put down the materials and said, "Also, the company will recruit people as soon as possible, and the construction of a sea-based floating recycling port must be launched as soon as possible."

"clear."

Luo Sheng: "Is the company budget enough?"

"There is still 138.4 billion yuan, which is definitely enough to burn this year."

Luo Sheng: "Then let's inject capital at the end of the year."

The sea-based floating recovery port is an important part of the offshore recovery platform. The barge is still too small and not stable. The future Star Arrow 20S super-heavy rocket cannot meet the demand.

The newly recruited engineers will be responsible for the construction of the floating recovery port at sea, which will be deployed to the open sea according to the plan.

70% of the earth's area is oceans, and at least 70% of the oceans are open oceans, so half of the earth's surface should be open oceans.

Star Arrow International plans to build 20 sea-based floating recovery ports in the future. The branch will be located on the high seas of the world. The launch frequency of building space ladders in the future will definitely be quite high frequency. If there is not much preparation, it will definitely not be recovered in the future.

The space ladder itself is time-consuming. If it affects the progress of the project, the construction time of the ladder will continue to increase, which is unacceptable to Luo Sheng.

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