Chapter 263 The Idea of Changing the World
Red Queen: "(Expression: Laughing but not speaking.)"
Skynet: "A programming error has been detected and I am going to fix it myself."
After speaking, it went offline, and the red queen said proudly: "This guy is still not as smart as me, I have evolved several times!"
Peter Parker finally interjected and said, "Big Red Queen, I always thought artificial intelligence was the same as you, until I saw Ultron and Skynet, and I found out that you are the weirdest!"
Red Queen: "(Expression: Murderous eyes.) x-on:Peter Parker, give you ten seconds to reorganize the language."
Peter Parker: "I mean the smartest!"
Red Queen: "(Expression: I put down the brick in my hand with relief.) Thank you for the compliment."
Mr. L: "Actually I think Peter is right... Slip away, slip away."
Lu Zixin also went offline, leaving behind a depressed red queen.
Lu Zixin extracted the information of the group space, sent a message to Su Zhirong so that she did not have to wait for her to eat, and then immediately rushed to the residence of RI-8901 and Tietouwa to study together.
An intelligent robot and a mechanical being read the data separately.
Tietouwa immediately said: "It's a boring gadget, this satellite is too small, right? The maximum side length does not exceed 4 meters, and the mass does not exceed 300 kilograms. This kind of gadget is not interesting even if it is sent to the sky. Or study the universe. The ship is interesting!"
"This is not for playing." Lu Zixin emphasized, "How can you make more advanced things without making money? How about the difficulty of its design?"
"Sprinkle water!" Tietouwa suddenly said in a dialect book, "Give me the materials, I can make this kind of thing in one day."
Lu Zixin asked RI-8901 again, "How much do you estimate the manufacturing cost of this small network communication satellite?"
RI-8901 has mastered the data of many materials and mechanical equipment on the earth. After analysis and calculation, it said: "It is estimated that the manufacturing cost of each small satellite will reach about 8 million Chinese dollars, and the cost of laying research bases, production line equipment and ground base stations is temporarily impossible. Calculated, but it is estimated that the cost is higher than that of small satellite satellites.”
"Eight million Huaxia coins!" Lu Zixin's eyes lit up, "Enough! It's only eight million, that is to say, hundreds of millions of dollars are needed to build other services, and the price/performance ratio is also excellent value for money!"
In 1996, Motorola of the United States had implemented the Iridium project, which was also a plan to use small satellites to establish a communication network.
They spent a total of 3.4 billion US dollars and launched 66 small satellites. According to the exchange rate at the time, it was equivalent to 28.2 billion Huaxia coins in 1996!
After so many years of inflation, the current Huaxia coins are far less valuable than they were at the time. You can imagine how much Motorola paid to complete the Iridium project at that time.
However, the most frustrating thing is that this plan has failed!
The iridium system had only 55,000 users at that time, and the profit generated was not enough to maintain the operation of the iridium system, let alone recover the cost. The iridium company established by Motorola and other capital declared bankruptcy.
The failure of the iridium system has many reasons such as market, technology, cost, management, etc., which will not be mentioned for the time being.
In fact, in addition to the Iridium project, other companies have proposed and implemented similar plans. For example, Maas, the current CEO of Tesla and Space Exploration, has submitted an application for the Starlink program to the Federal Communications Commission and has already begun implementation.
The Starlink plan also uses small satellites to deploy global communication and network services. According to ideal calculations, the services it provides can enable every corner of the world to enjoy unimpeded communication services and wireless network services comparable to optical fibers.
However, this plan is still in the process of research and development, and the cost is expected to exceed 10 billion US dollars.
In addition to him, there are many companies preparing to implement similar plans, but they only exist in the plan, and there are no specific projects.
In contrast, the performance of the small satellites given by Skynet is much more advanced, and the manufacturing cost is greatly reduced, which involves too many technical improvements, and Lu Zixin himself has not figured it out.
Lu Zixin continued to ask: "According to the power of such small satellites, how many do we need to form a global network?"
RI-8901 replied: "Master, the power of this small satellite is very powerful, only 48 satellites are needed to cover the world. But this can only provide services for about 80 million users or less. If the number of users increases, at the same time, Correspondingly increase the number of satellites and ground signal base stations.”
"48! Even a tenfold increase, there are only 480! The actual operation process definitely does not need 480." Lu Zi was overjoyed, you know, even if the manufacturing cost of a satellite with ground base stations and other equipment reaches 100 million, 48 coins are only 4.8 billion, and they are Huaxia coins, not US dollars.
As for the Starlink plan proposed by Maas, it was estimated that there would be 4,000 small satellites to be launched at the beginning. Later, it was calculated that 4,000 satellites were not enough, and about 12,000 satellites were needed to complete it!
The gap between the two is simply the gap between the big brother's mobile phone and the current Hongxin smartphone!
"If this small satellite global communication and network system is built, then users all over the world can use our satellite signals to use communication and network services..." Lu Zixin discovered the huge business opportunity just by simply thinking about it.
At that time, Hongxin will no longer be limited to telecom operators around the world, and will be able to provide telecom services to the world directly! Moreover, the network speed will also leap directly from the 4G and 5G eras to 6G network services. At that time, all intelligent services will not be limited by the network speed and achieve the highest performance ratio...
This will be a huge vision that may change the world's communications and network services industry! This change is equivalent to entering the wireless era from the wired era, and what Lu Zixin will do is to lead the world from the wireless era to the global super network era!
Thinking of these, Lu Zixin's blood boils. This is an epoch-making technology project. If it can be done, then the FCC will no longer be able to restrict red letters, unless they want the US communication service to fall behind the world level, then even if they agree, the American people will not agree!
The target market of this project is now the global telecom service market that exceeds two trillion US dollars every year!
It is a long way to imagine that it will become a reality. It is estimated that it will take a lot of money and effort to establish a research base and develop small satellites. This is just the beginning, and the follow-up work is more than a hundred times more.
No matter how complicated the work in the future is, Lu Zixin is now working with RI-8901 and Tietouwa to study the theoretical implementation of small satellites and the project.
All night, Lu Zixin was in a state of high spirits, not feeling tired at all, and even forgot the passage of time.