Chapter 544 Shocked, Mu Yang Is a Thief! (Seeking a Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 544 Shocked, Mu Yang is a thief! (seeking a monthly ticket)

Time flies, and soon it will be December 20, 2016.

It has been six months since the mass production of Xingdou-1 satellites began on June 8.

At present, 19,102 satellites have been produced, and a total of 18,756 satellites have been accepted.

Each satellite weighs about 350 kilograms and occupies an area of ​​about 0.9 cubic meters. It is conceivable how much cargo is close to 20,000 cubic meters, and in order to ensure safe storage, they cannot be piled together.

Already packed and scheduled to start shipping to the rocket base today.

The rocket base does not have such a large warehouse, so it can only transport part of it first, and then continue to transport after assembly and launch.

In the past few months, Mu Yang has paid attention to the progress of satellite production and rocket base every week.

This production is progressing very smoothly, and it may take a few days later than the previously planned 200-day completion task, but this does not affect the Star Network plan.

In order to ensure the quality, Mu Yang explained to the production manager that he would rather delay the delivery than let a satellite with quality problems be launched into the sky.

Now that the satellite has been inspected and accepted, no one can guarantee that there will be no problems with the satellite after launch. The employees in the production department and quality department in charge of Xingdou-1 are a little worried.

A few days later, Mu Yang received a report from Ye Fan, saying that everything was ready at the rocket base and the launch site was ready for launch at any time. In addition, in the assembly center, there were two rockets that had already assembled satellites.

There is only one launch site in the launch center, but there are three rocket assembly stations. After launching a rocket, the next rocket can be pushed to the launch site. The follow-up work such as fuel injection and re-inspection will take about a few hours, and then the launch can continue .

In one day, you can launch up to 3 times.

The recovered rocket body only needs simple maintenance, and then the satellite can be assembled and put into use.

To complete the launch of 20,000 satellites, each rocket can carry 340 satellites. It is planned to launch 59 times, and the launch will be completed in more than a month.

For more than a month, the employees of the space exploration project team have to work overtime, and it will be easy after a busy month.

On the afternoon of December 31, Mu Yang left City H by yacht, and his wife was with him.

Song Xuelu did not see the rocket launching the satellite with her own eyes. This time the satellite launch is very important to the Xinghai Group, and she wants to witness this moment.

The group has a holiday on New Year's Day, but on this day, all employees of the satellite project team have to work overtime.

Especially the employees in the satellite production workshop have been working overtime frequently recently.

At nine o'clock the next morning, Mu Yang came to the rocket launch base.

There is another important person arriving today, that is, the boss is also here.

He had already arrived in Ningcheng yesterday for an inspection, and he came over by boat early this morning to watch the Xingkong-1 rocket launch satellites together.

Starting today, fishing boats have been banned within 15 nautical miles around the rocket launch base to ensure that everything goes smoothly during the launch.

When the boss arrived, Mu Yang and Song Xuelu greeted him personally.

After the two parties greeted each other, they led the leaders to the control center.

On the way, the boss said: "Mr. Mu, I'm just a spectator, just follow the plan, and the launch plan cannot be changed just because of my arrival."

"Understood, I am also a spectator today, and all commands are carried out by subordinates." Mu Yang smiled.

After a while, everyone came to the control center.

The leader saw the Xingkong-1 rocket standing on the launch site from the electronic screen, and also saw the Xingdou-1 satellites stacked layer by layer in the fairing. Even if he knew that one shot had multiple satellites, he was still shocked when he saw the real thing. up.

"Mr. Mu, how many satellites can this launch carry?"

"340, with four stars on one floor, a total of 85 floors. After reaching the designated orbit, they will be released one by one." Mu Yang said.

"It's amazing, it's amazing, how many tons of load did it carry this time?"

"Only the total weight of the satellite is 119 tons, and other accessories are close to 123 tons. In fact, there are more than 70 tons of free load. The space is limited, which is impossible."

"Well, kind of wasted.

But it doesn't matter, your rocket can be recycled, and the cost per ton of launch is very low. The price of your peers is 10,000 dollars per kilogram, and yours is tens of thousands of dollars per ton. The gap is too big. "The leader praised, and laughed, it felt like using a submachine gun to deal with a group of enemies with knives and guns, and it was very cool to "puff puff" before getting close.

The two sat in the chairs in front of the control center and chatted. Song Xuelu wandered around, which did not affect the chat between the two elders.

When it was almost ten o'clock in the morning, Ye Fan walked to Mu Yang and reported to him: "Leader, chairman, everything is ready."

"Let's start, execute according to the plan." Mu Yang replied easily.

When Ye Fan heard the chairman's order, he looked solemn, nodded to the leader and the chairman, and then shouted to the experimenters:

"Check the launch site!"

"Report, the inspection is complete, everything is normal."

"Check fuel condition, air pressure condition..."

...

Following orders one after another, Ye Fan watched and inspected the results, showing that the rocket system and launch site system were all normal and good.

Reporting that everything is normal, you can proceed to the next step, and solemnly shouted: "Start the countdown."

On the screen, a countdown starts to appear.

All kinds of tracking and measuring equipment on the field area were turned on, high-speed cameras, tape recorders and other recording equipment were started, and all the scientific research personnel in the control center immediately fell silent. Even the boss held his breath and stared at the starry sky on the launch pad. number rocket.

When "1" appeared, Ye Fan shouted: "Light it up!"

One order.

The operator on the launch console pressed the button calmly and decisively.

Immediately, there was a continuous and huge roar from the rocket launch site, and then, a huge white smoke came out from under the rocket.

At the same time, a huge rocket rose from the ground, rising slowly, with bright white flames spraying from its tail, pointing directly at the sky.

The rocket flew higher and higher, rising faster and faster, and soon moved away from the camera of the ground monitoring center.

In low-Earth orbit, there is a Xingdou-1 tracking the rocket launch, sending all the process and trajectory of the rocket launch back to the ground control center.

After entering space, the time feels a little long.

Mu Yang and the leader drank tea and waited for the rocket to enter orbit.

After rising for about 500 seconds, the reporter reported the progress: "Xingkong-1 rocket reached the predetermined orbit and successfully entered orbit."

"Start launching satellites!"

At this time, the fairing has been opened, and the satellites have begun to be put in.

The satellites are not launched all at once, but are launched one by one, from No. 1 to No. 340.

This time is a bit long, the Xingkong-1 rocket has been turned off, and it is only occasionally ignited to change the trajectory and launch satellites.

After some time, the reporter reported:

"After launching the satellite, close the fairing and prepare to land!"

"Start landing!"

After this order was issued, the Xingkong-1 rocket first flew to the preset orbit, and then the speed gradually dropped to zero before it began to fall freely.

The landing time is a bit long,

After about twenty minutes,

The Xingkong-1 rocket landed steadily on the landing platform, with an error of 0.18 meters east of the landing position.

After waiting for about three minutes, Ye Fan walked to Mu Yang with a smile on his face to report: "Chairman, everything is going well, the satellite successfully entered orbit, and the Xingkong-1 rocket landed safely."

"Okay, not bad, I will leave the follow-up work to you."

Mu Yang stood up and applauded, his solemn face finally relaxed and a smile appeared on his face.

"It's great. The Xinghai Group has created a new era. It's amazing and unbelievable." The leader stood up, with a surprised smile on his face, and applauded.

Next, the leader inspected the technology of Starnet, such as tracking technology, camera technology, communication performance and other functions.

"Mr. Mu, I never thought that the resolution is so high and the image is so clear that even adults and villains can be distinguished. This has very important strategic significance."

"Yes, leader, you already have certain tracking technology, and it's very easy to assist in catching criminals." Mu Yang said proudly that even the third-level function opened to the country does already have the human tracking function.

Through the comprehensive processing of radar satellites and optical satellites, the size of various human parts, approximate height and weight, and action habits can be analyzed and counted.

Then, the country's camera technology system also has this function. If it is combined with the Xinghai Group's satellite system, even if you go to a place without a camera, you will still be unable to escape the satellite above your head.

Too scary for criminals.

Of course, if this satellite system is used by criminals, it is also very dangerous.

"Oh, how accurate is tracking people?"

"There must be errors. It is not as good as the country's camera technology. After all, the ground camera takes pictures more clearly, and the operating cost of the satellite system is very high. If it is not a heinous criminal who escapes to a place where there is no camera, then really, hey." Mu Yang said with a little regret.

The final authority of Xingwang has been blocked by him, only he can use it, and Ye Fan must be authorized to use it.

After being connected to the Internet in the future, Mu Yang can use the supercomputing center at home, and log in to the satellite system of the star network to control these satellites.

If he uses the highest authority to track someone, the accuracy is very high, and there is no need for the ground camera system to cooperate.

"Well, it's a pity. It's better than nothing. I'm more optimistic about its wartime strategic significance."

"The leader is right."

Next, test the communication function of the satellite system.

The just-launched satellite is just overhead, within the radiation range of the satellite.

Ye Fan brought the satellite phone and took the leader and Mu Yang to a special room. If the mobile signal is used, there is only one signal in this room.

But the satellite phone signal is very strong, indicating that the signal penetration is very strong.

Toilets and underground parking lots with poor network quality in the past are widely covered by good satellite networks.

A large number of sensors can be deployed to monitor the environment, air quality, even landform changes, and earthquakes, which is very valuable.

If it is a field battle, it is very important to our personnel.

In general, low-earth orbit satellites have low latency, low power consumption, wide coverage, and deep coverage.

Especially the time delay, if the distance between the satellite and the signal receiving point is 500 kilometers, the time delay is 3.3 milliseconds (500 kilometers/300,000 kilometers per second).

This delay is barely acceptable for unmanned driving and industrial automation. If it is a car with a speed of 140 kilometers per hour, it takes 3.3 milliseconds to rush out 0.12 meters.

But if it is a geosynchronous communication satellite, the transmission delay reaches 0.24 seconds, and it has already rushed out 9.3 meters, which is definitely unacceptable.

In terms of delay, even low-Earth orbit satellite communications are still inferior to ground 5G base stations.

Ye Fan said excitedly: "If you cooperate with the ground base station to strengthen the signal, the effect will be even better.

The current performance level already has the function of wireless WIFI Internet access, and it can shine in the area of ​​civilian artificial intelligence. "

Starnet has two major functions, one is reconnaissance and the other is communication.

After the leader listened, he praised the Xingwang satellite system very much.

After two hours of on-the-spot investigation, he has already understood the huge role of the star network, which can be said to be a sharp weapon in future wars.

It can be said that with the Star Network, the strength of the monarchy of the country has risen to a large level. If it is used well, it can even surpass the Ugly Country.

After the leader's inspection was almost over, Mu Yang asked the employees to gather for a while and asked the leader to speak.

The leader was disrespectful, standing in front of everyone, with a gentle smile on his face, clapping his hands and saying:

"The Xinghai Group is doing well. I never expected that in my lifetime, I would see the great rise of the country's private aerospace industry. It not only surpassed the national aerospace technology level, but also far surpassed the developed countries in the West. I was very pleasantly surprised..."

When the leader finished speaking, everyone applauded enthusiastically.

It's almost time. The leader had lunch at the rocket launch base, and then explained some things to Mu Yang, and then left the base. He was going back to BJ for a meeting to discuss the matter of Xingwang again.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the second Xingkong-1 rocket continued to launch, and the second round of 340 Xingdou-1 satellites successfully entered orbit.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Mu Yang left the rocket launch base.

After a while, he will replace all his family's mobile phones with satellite mobile phones, and give the child a positioning bracelet, so that no matter where the child is, he can quickly find out.

After another three days of calm, Mu Yang was waiting, he was a little curious about what would happen if Chouguo found out, and what kind of expression he would have.

Xinghai Group has carried out its sixth rocket launch, and 2045 Xingdou-1 satellites have been deployed in space. The star network has already taken shape, and it is already ready for preliminary global reconnaissance.

Taking advantage of this time, the satellites on the star network try their best to detect the information on the ground.

Like the monarch ships of various countries, they have been scouted by the star network.

The important bases of the Xinghai Group have a 24-hour surveillance network. If any spies enter, they will be discovered immediately.

In space, Starnet satellites try to avoid U.S. observation satellites as much as possible.

It has not been discovered yet. One is that the Xingdou-1 satellite is not big, and the other is that there are many satellites in space, so no one pays special attention to it.

But as there are more and more satellites in space, if the satellites of other countries observe carefully, they will definitely be able to find them.

After another three days of calm, Xinghai Group launched 6 rockets again, and more than 4,000 Xingdou-1s were deployed in space.

In the vast space, these thousands of satellites are like dust, not many.

12 launches, even if a rocket launch is detected, it is estimated to be an ordinary launch.

In the past few days, Musk is celebrating the Chinese New Year and the company is on a long holiday.

Last month, the Falcon 9 successfully launched the CRS-8 space station cargo spacecraft and successfully recovered it at sea for the first time, which made him very happy and proud.

That night, he came home, popped champagne to celebrate, drank too much, and danced.

Some time ago, Mu Yang threw away Tesla's shares, which made him panic for a while.

Later, Tesla's shares rebounded a bit, and there was no follow-up impact, which made him feel at ease.

Now, unbeknownst to him, space has changed.

January 7, 2017

On the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean, the intelligence agencies of the ugly country.

The supervisor Thomas just came to work, and the group leader Smith ran into his office without knocking on the door with a panicked face.

Thomas got up in the morning a little sluggish, and just about to criticize him, Smith spoke first: "Head, a very scary news, it's over!"

"Smith, in a panic, tell me clearly, who is finished!?" Thomas sat down slowly and drank coffee to refresh himself.

"Our personnel just used satellites for daily reconnaissance and found that there are many more satellites in low-earth orbit. Judging from the satellite LOGO, it is the LOGO of Xinghai Group."

"It's not normal for Xinghai Group to launch satellites, what's the fuss about!"

"Normal fart, we have detected more than 500 satellites of the Xinghai Group! There are still statistics, and it is estimated that there are no less than a thousand!"

Thomas sipped the coffee in his mouth, was shocked like lightning, his eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, and he was speechless for a while.

After a while, he shook his head and said, "Is this true?

I do not believe!

Why did they launch so many satellites? Is your observation wrong?

Smith, this joke isn't funny, and you're trying to cheer me up, and that's not it. "

"Head, who has the time to joke with you!"

When Smith first got the news, he was so horrified that his eyes almost fell out of their sockets, and his face was pale. How long has passed since Xinghai Group launched so many satellites!

What the hell are they trying to do?

Why are so many satellites being launched?

Thomas stared at him, feeling that it was not a joke, put down his glass, stood up and said solemnly: "Smith, I hope you are joking!

If not, we may be doomed. "

The two came to the satellite reconnaissance center. The intelligence personnel in charge of statistics saw the two, their faces were heavy, and they reported: "The news is very bad. 601 satellites of Xinghai Group have been counted."

"Show me the detected satellite photos!"

Thomas said nervously.

The subordinate pointed to a few photos on the computer screen and explained: "The satellite is not big, it is estimated to be a small satellite. What puzzles us is that it is a combination of an optical satellite and a radar satellite."

"The Xinghai Group has already launched 5 Xingdou-1s before, why didn't you find out this important information until now, what are you doing?" Thomas was very angry when he heard about it, and directly criticized it.

"..." The subordinates had nothing to say, it's not their fault.

It is difficult for humans to observe satellites in the sky with naked eyes on the ground. Only satellites that are large enough and low enough can barely be seen after being reflected by sunlight.

However, due to the extremely fast speed of low-earth orbit satellites compared with the earth, the angle of view per second is very large, and under normal circumstances, they are invisible to the naked eye.

Using an astronomical telescope, if you are lucky, you can indeed capture it, but only if the weather is good and there is just reflection from the sun.

The best way to observe is of course to use satellites to shoot, but who is so boring and has nothing to do to spy on satellites in space.

"Head, it's useless to lose your temper now. Let's figure out why Xinghai Group launches so many satellites, and they are in low-Earth orbit. Optical satellites plus radar satellites, what are they doing? Launching so quietly, what is there?" What conspiracy?" Smith was very puzzled.

"Can you detect the Xinghai Group's launch base now?"

"Not now, it will take a few hours to get radiated."

"F*K! Keep counting, I have to report this situation to my superiors." Thomas panicked and said to Smith before leaving the reconnaissance center, "If we don't understand, we all have to get out!

Smith, I think you should understand the seriousness of the matter. "

After seeing Thomas leave, Smith couldn't help cursing again: "Thief!

Mu Yang is a despicable and shameless thief. When we were on vacation, he stole our space! "

After scolding, he had a headache. It is estimated that the leaders above will also have a headache with him after they know the news.

F*K Xinghai Group, it's okay to toss about these things!

What worries him now is whether the Xinghai Group will continue to launch satellites, and what exactly do they want to do?

All kinds of worries, the more I think about it, the more frightened I am.

Chapter 541 is still blocked