Chapter 1286 Satellite Market Status

It's not that Feng Yu has never considered buying satellites in Huaxia, but Huaxia's communication satellites have only reached the third generation of Dongfanghong, which is the international advanced level in the early 1990s.

And compared with the advanced satellites in the world at this time, how big is the gap?

Simply speaking from an economic point of view, the service life of Dongfanghong's third-generation satellites is eight years, while the service life of international advanced satellites is 15 years.

One is that one investment can be used for fifteen years, and the other is that one investment can only be used for eight years. Although the price difference is nearly doubled, the cost of a satellite is not only the cost of the satellite, but also the launch cost?

If others launch once, you have to launch twice, and the price of launching satellites is very high now. Why does China intervene in this field and launch satellites for some foreign countries? Because the lowest profit of launching satellites at this time is more than 20%, and some can even be as high as 50% or more!

In addition to the United States, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, island countries, India and other countries are all vying for this market, and the leading one is still the United States.

The second is Russia and Ukraine, because after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine have inherited many former Soviet intercontinental missiles, which can be used as rockets to launch satellites with a little modification.

Originally, these intercontinental missiles were strategic weapons that were reduced according to the US-Soviet agreement and could only be placed in the warehouse, but this time they turned waste into treasure.

Not to mention zero cost, but it also makes their cost drop rapidly. This is the same in the United States.

With the rise of China, India and other countries, coupled with the technological progress of some European countries, this market is not enough. The United States thought about it, and it was not worthwhile to attack Russia. It is poor now, not afraid of war, and it is indeed relatively strong, so it found a way to start sanctioning countries in Europe and Asia.

The first to bear the brunt is Huaxia, which is rising the fastest.

At that time, Huaxia had just experienced a wave of layoffs and was in labor pains, and seeing that the labor pains were about to pass, and Huaxia's economy was about to develop at a high speed, Miguo thought of a trick.

First, a missile went crooked and bombed an embassy in China. Then a report was concocted, saying that the rockets used by Huaxia to launch satellites are intercontinental missiles. At that time, Huaxia used the Yixing rocket with multiple satellites in order to save costs. In terms of economy, there is still a big gap between Huaxia and the United States.

This Yixing rocket is an intercontinental missile with multiple warheads. All of China's commercial satellite launches are to cover up the development of military aerospace and intercontinental missiles.

So the United States does not allow China to launch American satellites,

Let Huaxia not receive orders to launch satellites. Later, I saw that there were still other orders, so it got worse. Any satellites with American satellite components were not allowed to launch in Huaxia, because they suspected that Huaxia had stolen American satellite technology!

The United States has listed a series of unwarranted charges against China, not only saying that China has stolen their satellite and other technologies, but also that China has stolen their nuclear weapons technology, intercontinental missile technology, submarine technology and so on.

Not to mention that if these technologies are really so easy to steal, then the security protection of the United States is too bad. Even if it is placed in some weak countries, it is not so easy to steal, and so many have been stolen.

Simply put, they completely negated China's scientific research technology and the contributions made by Chinese scientists. Of course, at that time, there were indeed many people working in the research institute in the United States, and they kept returning to China. But is it wrong for others to return to their own country?

According to the Americans, every scientific and technological progress made by any other country in the world is stolen from the United States. If this technology is better than that of the United States, it is only achieved by stealing other technologies of the United States!

Of course, the representative of the United States who insisted on these remarks later was rendered speechless by Huaxia's refutation. But in any case, the United States has also imposed certain economic sanctions on China, especially seriously hindering the development of China's aerospace technology.

To put it bluntly, it is because China's military strength has grown too fast in those years, and its aerospace technology has grown rapidly, and it feels threatened.

Another one is that they are also afraid that China will unite with Russia, so the detached status of the United States will inevitably be challenged.

And this result prompted Huaxia to think of another way, which is to cooperate with Europe. The influence of the United States on Europe is getting weaker and weaker, especially the United States wants to sanction Europe at every turn. Think about the island countries that relied on the United States at the beginning. When the economy of the United States had problems, the island countries were miserable. This reminded many European countries.

So now Huaxia has purchased some satellites produced by the European company Cigna, including the first and second generations, in preparation for upgrading its own technology.

At the very least, the life of the satellite must reach fifteen years.

There are more than a dozen transponders on a communication satellite, and the annual rent for a transponder is close to 100 million US dollars. A satellite, including the launch cost, is only a few hundred million dollars. If a satellite is launched, if it can be used normally for fifteen years, the profit will be at least ten times, or even higher!

If this aspect can be monopolized by the United States, what a huge profit it will be.

Fortunately, in Feng Yu's memory, in the future, Huaxia's satellite technology will continue to catch up with the international advanced level, and even surpass it in some aspects.

Although the profit is still not as good as that of several big companies in Europe and the United States, they are already able to be self-sufficient, and even make money from sales.

Even at this time, Huaxia's long-bundled and other rockets can borrow a lot of orders from Asia, because they are the cheapest. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to launch a satellite in Europe and the United States, while China only needs 70 million dollars. The price difference of 30 million US dollars is not a small amount.

But now, China's satellite technology is still a lot worse, and even Russia is not good at commercial satellites. What Russia is best at is selling launch vehicle engines, even selling them to the United States.

The profit in this area is obviously not as high as that of the entire satellite industry, and it can even be said to be at the bottom. After seeing this, Huaxia planned to start a new business. It must not follow the old path of Russia and become a wage earner for large European and American companies.

Huaxia will also compete with Europe and the United States in the future. Don't you want to monopolize this market? Huaxia provides packaged services, a complete set of satellite systems, including launch, operation, ground station construction, personnel training, etc., which has attracted many Asian and African countries.

This is a sale, not a rental service like those companies in Europe and the United States. Being able to have autonomy is of course more cost-effective than leasing.

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Two days later, both Ralph and Kirilenko fed back the news to Feng Yu. Among them, Kirilenko said that Russia's commercial satellites are not better than China's, and the price will not be cheap. And Ralph told Feng Yu that the companies he contacted were only willing to lease Feng Yu's satellites, not sell them.

Feng Yu thought about it and decided to ask his superiors for help.

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