Chapter 546 In an Emergency, Everyone Is Suffering (Seeking a Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 546 In an emergency, everyone is suffering (seeking a monthly ticket)

The time for Xinghai Group to hold a press conference is at two o'clock in the afternoon, which is very early in the morning in Ugly Country or Western Europe.

At this point in time, the U.S. intelligence agency, as well as the staff and boss of SPACEX, Musk, and the space agencies of various countries are staying up late to watch the live broadcast.

The press conference lasted for an hour and a half. This night, they didn't know how many cups of coffee they drank to refresh themselves, and they were holding back their urine for fear of missing key information.

As Zhou Chen said, the Xinghai Group really did not publicly confirm that the LEO carrying capacity of the Xingkong-1 rocket is 20 tons, and it was all speculation by the media.

Now, many people scolded that media: They missed me!

However, the appearance and size of Xingkong No. 1 are consistent, which is also the reason for the outside world to believe its data, thinking that the Xinghai Group has leaked data.

A certain newspaper in City H took the scapegoat "innocently", but they were very happy, because the reputation of this incident has greatly increased.

After the Xinghai Group press conference, these crooked people who watched the live broadcast did not feel that they could rest in peace.

The amount of information released by Zhou Chen was too much, and they were so full of thoughts on how to solve the problem that they still couldn't sleep while lying in bed.

At the same time, they were also thinking about whether Zhou Chen had fooled them, or whether he was up to some tricks or tricks.

They are afraid of being played by the Xinghai Group. Once bitten by a snake, they are afraid of well ropes for ten years.

Of course, these foreigners are not low in intelligence, but in terms of routines, they are nowhere compared to Mu Yang who dug a hole too early.

How many pits have they jumped into in recent years?

As for aerospace engines, it is a joke to restrict the engines of Shangfei Company. As soon as Xinghai Group was restricted, it announced that it had developed a new engine and supplied it to Shangfei Company, making Ugly Country’s restriction announcement a piece of waste paper;

Ugly Country's restrictions on Warwick's chips have been twisted and turned, making Ugly Country ashamed;

Now with the matter of Xingwang, this hole is actually a hole they dug themselves, thinking that they have taken advantage of all the benefits, but they never thought of making wedding dresses for others.

...

From Zhou Chen's answer, they still have a doubt: what is the actual carrying capacity of Xing Kong No. 1?

Zhou Chen's answer was more than 100 tons, so the exact figure has to be guessed, 120 tons? 150 tons? Or 200 tons? even higher?

It is too high for them to dare to guess, and it feels incredible. Most people guess that it is between 120 tons and 150 tons.

In fact, this carrying capacity will be exposed sooner or later, but Xinghai Group just doesn't want to expose it in advance, so that the enemy can't sleep well, and it will definitely delay it.

at the same time,

In BJ City, Hua Country, in a certain mysterious garden, several super bosses gathered to drink tea, and just finished watching Xinghai Group's press conference together.

The boss who knew the situation couldn't help laughing: "Mr. Mu has started digging holes again. Why does this young man like these heretics? As a scientist, he can't be addicted to it."

But to be honest, as a bystander, he watched it with great interest. Seeing foreigners eating turtles made them feel refreshed and refreshed, and felt a few years younger.

"I remember that Mr. Mu is quite honest. It should be his subordinates who gave him advice. He has a brains. He obviously planned 20,000, but fooled others into 50,000."

"Well, Second Boss, I still have to remind Mr. Mu that a good top scientist should not be misled by his subordinates."

"I think this is good, but I'm worried that Mr. Mu will be fooled by foreigners."

"Let's deal with it according to the Xinghai Group's plan, and try to delay the time until the Xinghai Group finishes launching the satellite. Mr. Mu originally planned to launch it in one month. It seems that he has the foresight and knows that the resistance of various countries is very strong. The ZF of the ugly country is too Shameless. If the other party really agrees to cut the quantity, it is best to fight for some resources."

"I still understand this. The Xinghai Group has won a rare opportunity for us, so let's not waste it."

...

a few hours later,

Ugly Country Dawn,

Those foreigners who watched the live broadcast all night went to work with emotions.

Many people didn't sleep well all night, with dark circles under their eyes, and when they encountered such a terrible thing, how could they be in a better mood, and they cursed at every turn.

Hawthorne, Nevada, where SpaceX is headquartered.

Musk stayed up late last night to watch the live broadcast, and he also didn't sleep well all night. At the age of forty-six, the muscles on his face were a little pulled down. In addition, his eyelids were always twitching at this time, his face was dry, and he was drowsy. Depressed, as if experiencing a serious illness.

When I drove the company car to the company, I almost got rear-ended.

If an accident does happen, and the owner of the car company drives his company's car and an accident occurs, it will definitely be another big news.

Since Xinghai Group's star network was exposed, the mental state of the company's employees has not been very good recently. He insisted on coming to the company. He must hold a meeting today to discuss the countermeasures and stabilize people's hearts.

When I came to the company, I saw the employees were downcast, listless, didn't say anything, just sighed inwardly, he himself was like this, so don't criticize the employees.

Looking at those Hua Country employees, I feel a little weird. Why are they all from Hua Country? The employees of Xinghai Group can create miracles, but they are far behind?

Most of the employees who graduated from Qinghua to Space X are core employees. Since this incident, they have already had the idea of ​​switching to Xinghai Group, but they don't know whether Xinghai Group will accept them or not.

They also know how to see the situation clearly. Space X's prospects are definitely not good, and it may be squeezed out of bankruptcy by the Xinghai Group one day.

Musk sat in his office in silence for a long time. After drinking two cups of coffee to refresh himself, he hurriedly called the company's management for a meeting.

After a while, the company's management gathered in the meeting room. No one spoke, and the atmosphere was depressed.

Musk glanced at his subordinates, and said with a heavy face: "Everyone should know about the Xinghai Group's launch of the Starnet satellite, which is very bad news for us.

The first point is that if the United Nations of L approves the proposal of the Xinghai Group, our Starlink project will be directly over. In other words, even if the United Nations of L does not approve the proposal of the Xinghai Group, the Xinghai Group will launch fifty thousand satellites, and the space has Without a suitable location for us, the Starlink project had to be terminated.

The second point is that if Xinghai Group enters the field of satellite launch competition, our revenue will be greatly affected, and we can only rely on orders from our own country and friendly orders from allies.

We have to admit that their technology is very advanced, and it has only been exposed until now. I suspect that the Xinghai Group is still conservative and has not announced its true strength.

Today's meeting is held to hope that everyone can speak freely and offer advice and suggestions. "

His space company has managed to make some progress. In the past year, it has completed three large orders, but Xinghai Group directly smashed their business.

In terms of aerospace strength, Musk feels powerless. No matter how he thinks about the concept of a hundred tons of LEO, he can't figure out how Xinghai Group does it, and how their engines are so good.

But he had to admit that Xinghai Group's aero-engines are very powerful, surpassing their peers by a large margin. Thinking about it this way, Xinghai Group's rocket technology strength is also normal.

Before, they basically mastered the first-level rocket recovery technology, which is a very big progress. It can be said that they pushed down the space agencies of various countries, thinking that they could make a big splash, but now the situation has changed suddenly and the situation has taken a turn for the worse.

His other company, Tesla, is not doing very well and is squeezed out by Huaguo's new energy vehicles.

At present, Tesla still uses the ternary lithium battery of Xinghai New Energy Company. If not, it can only use the ternary lithium battery of LG or Four Star, but the battery technology of these two companies is far inferior to that of Xinghai New Energy Company. , but also works.

In terms of price, Xinghai New Energy Company is still a bit cheaper. This is because this company occupies most of the raw material resources in the world, produces batteries in large quantities, and reduces the overall cost.

In the past few years, Xinghai New Energy’s battery price per kilowatt-hour was 1,500 yuan, but now it has dropped to 1,100 yuan. Seventy thousand yuan.

Generally speaking, the Xinghai Group eats meat, but their Tesla company can't even eat meat scraps, they can only eat soup.

Now, according to the current situation, it is not bad for Musk to expect to be able to drink soup steadily.

If Musk knew that in his previous life he opened a Tesla factory in Shencheng, he was so amazing and had a lot of fun, but this life was forced by Mu Yang like a crushed straw, he would probably go crazy.

A senior executive said: "President, the incident happened suddenly. I thought about it all night, but there is no good solution. Maybe we are too worried.

First, the L United Kingdom has not yet held the Xinghai Group's star network matter, and the final direction has not been determined, and there may be other turning points;

Second, the Xinghai Group has a lot of money and wealth, so it doesn't necessarily value the orders for rocket launches and satellites; even if the Xinghai Group enters the field of satellite launches, it will not be able to grab all the orders, and we still have a turning point.

Of course, it is necessary to consider all possibilities in advance and make a strategy. "

Others have also spoken out, but there is no good solution.

Musk knocked on the table, cheered everyone up, and said seriously: "At present, we have three things to do.

First of all, we must recognize the situation and recognize our shortcomings;

Secondly, although the current situation is bad, the vice president is right. We are not so bad that we cannot continue to operate if we cannot get orders. We must encourage our subordinates to catch up with our competitors. the company is alive;

Finally, it is necessary for us to increase revenue and reduce expenditure to get through the difficult period.

Of course, everyone's salary and benefits will still be paid out. Even if we operate at a loss, ZF will support our operation.

I hope everyone can inspire our grassroots employees to tide over the difficulties together. "

When Musk and other high-level executives were worried about whether Xinghai Group would accept the satellite launch order, on the second day, on January 14, 2017, Xinghai Group’s official website announced a message.

[Due to inquiries from several national space agencies, Xinghai Group decided to:

The price of Xingkong-1 rocket launching the whole package to LEO is 100 million US dollars, and the weight limit is 100 tons. If it is not the whole package, the price per kilogram is 2000 US dollars;

Launched to GTO, the price is higher than LEO. For details, orders will be accepted from March 2017. 】

After the news was made public in the media, colleagues were shocked, and Musk was even more disheartened when he learned about it.

I really don't want to give them a way out!

They just had a meeting yesterday, and they fantasized that the Xinghai Group would not care about this amount of business, but within 24 hours, the Xinghai Group publicly accepted the business.

The Falcon 9 rocket costs US$62 million per launch, the maximum weight is only a dozen tons, and the price of a partial package is US$10,000 per kilogram;

Although Xinghai Group's quotation reached US$100 million, the price per kilogram is much lower.

At this price, even if Ugly Country wanted to launch a satellite, it would be a good idea to entrust the Xinghai Group to launch the satellite.

Musk is right when he thinks about it. The rocket launch market is not big, and it is not small.

From 2012 to 2016, the average number of global rocket launches per year was 85, more than half of which were commercial satellite launches, with a market size of about US$3 billion.

No matter how much money the Xinghai Group makes, it doesn't want to give up on this piece of meat, even if it makes more than one billion dollars a year, that's not a lot.

Now that the Xinghai Group has lowered the price, the global business will usher in a big growth, but this has nothing to do with SPACEX.

in the afternoon,

Musk got the news, saying that in the past 48 hours, Xinghai Group launched four more rockets, and the number of Starnet satellites is estimated to be close to 10,000.

When he was about to get off work, the vice president told him some bad news. The island country originally intended to hand over the Jcsat-16 communication satellite to SPACEX for launch, but now it has directly changed its intention.

It is self-evident who plans to hand over the launch.

Musk became angry and directly stated on Twitter: "Xinghai Group is maliciously competing and destroying the global rocket and satellite launch market."

This fire quickly spread to Huaguo's Internet, and a few hours later, the Xinghai Group's public relations department got the news.

Then, Xinghai Group replied directly on the official website: "The logic of SPACEX President Musk's statement that we maliciously compete for the rocket launch market is somewhat absurd.

Our low cost and large profit margins are not maliciously destroying the market, but contribute to the development of global space.

SPACEX once claimed to contribute to the development of human space. Why is the action completely inconsistent with the slogan?

Spacex should find ways to improve its technical level instead of focusing on quotations.

In response to such companies that act inconsistently under the slogan of contributing to mankind, Xinghai Group's new energy company has decided to terminate its partnership with Tesla after one month's contract expires! "

The two sides directly tore their skins apart, and even Xinghai Group unilaterally terminated the new energy battery and motor cooperation relationship with Tesla. After the contract expires, it will not sell it for money.

As soon as the news was announced, Tesla stock fell 9.5% that day.

When Musk saw the falling stock price, he regretted making a statement blindly. If he couldn't hold back others, he would be honest.

When you are not strong enough, you have to endure and not be impulsive. Now seeing Xinghai Group's decision, I couldn't help but swear, "F*K!"

Mu Yang knows that it is very difficult to beat Musk's company to death. It has the support of the ugly country's ZF, but it is okay to destroy the other party. After a few years, Tesla and Spacex will not be a thing.

The Xinghai Group's quotation is great news for the public. There are a lot of voices against Xingwang satellites, and it can relieve some pressure on the future international negotiations of the country's government.

The ugly country has proposed to the United Nations to reconvene the rule-making on space resources.

Most of the countries agreed to re-enact it, and the country of Hua had no choice but to delay it for a few days.

Ultimately obeying the masses, it was decided to hold a new meeting on January 20, 2017.

In fact, at this point in time, Xinghai Group has already launched two-thirds of the satellites.

It may take another few days for the meeting, discussion, and wrangling, and it will take another seven or eight days until it is actually implemented.

As far as Ugly is concerned, Xinghai Group cannot be allowed to launch 50,000 satellites.

These 50,000 satellites are also estimated by the U.S. Space Agency, which can perfectly deploy space resources.

But what they don't know is that Xingdou-1 satellite of Xinghai Group is much more advanced, and only 20,000 satellites are enough.

Therefore, Huaguo ZF and Xinghai Group hope that the new rules will be implemented, so that no country or company can launch so many satellites in the future.

As for how to distribute it, that is a matter of debate.

It's not that no country agrees with the country of Hua. For example, the country of Hua said that space resources will be allocated according to the population, and the three countries of Ah agree very much.

The ugly country is saying that in terms of economic strength, other economically weak countries will definitely disagree.

In fact, everyone knows such rules, and the rules are useless to powerful countries. For example, if I launch, what can you do to me? You have the ability to shoot me down.

The rules are only for our advantage.

time passed day by day,

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon on January 15th, Xinghai Group successfully launched its 30th Xingkong-1 rocket;

On January 18, Xinghai Group’s 37th Xingkong-1 rocket was successfully launched, with a total of 12,585 satellites in the star network, and the climate has been completed.

Ugly country sees more and more Xingdou-1 satellites in space, and it becomes more and more troubled and worse.

But very helplessly, the launch cost of Xinghai Group is too low, and it is not worthwhile to bomb anything.

The time soon came to January 20, Xinghai Group has successfully launched 40 Xingkong-1 rockets, launching a total of 13,605 satellites.

And on this day, the L United Nations discussed the rules for space satellite resources.

It was also on this day that the Xinghai Group held its annual meeting, and it will be a holiday tomorrow.

The employees of the satellite project department are not allowed to take vacations for the time being, the production department continues to produce, and the employees of the control center of the rocket base continue to work.

Now at a critical juncture, the employees all understand that many employees of the group have signed up to stay and work overtime, and plan to spend this critical period together.

All employees know that the company needs everyone.

Zhou Chen agreed that some employees would stay and work overtime, but most of the positions would not be needed, and they had to be familiar with the work process, and the production department had actually completed the task, so they just stayed to assist the quality department in inspections.

The next day, the boss called Mu Yang and told him to complete the launch mission as soon as possible, and they tried their best to delay it for a few more days.

The launch was originally planned to be completed on January 30, and Mu Yang knew that the higher ups were working hard to help the Xinghai Group.

Order to go on, ask to work overtime in the last few days, and start working hard!

Be sure to complete the task before the new rules of the L United Nations Conference come down!