Chapter 495 Satellite Bumper Car (6K)

As if responding to the space race in the United States, the next day, the Jeco Group issued an announcement to launch satellite launch business for all countries and companies in the world, except the United States.

The satellites launched range from small private satellites to large exploration satellites, all of which are within the scope of the contract of the Jeco Group.

In response to the quotation, the Jeco Group gave an extremely favorable price, a launch price of US$1,999 per kilogram.

The Kunpeng rocket has a payload of 850 tons, and the launch price of a Kunpeng rocket is US$1.7 billion.

If this price is launched alone, no one will agree.

However, the Jeco Group, which has mastered the technology of launching multiple satellites with one rocket, can carry a large number of satellites and spacecraft at one time, just like a group order, everyone shares the cost and shares the cost.

As soon as the offer of the Jeco Group came out, it immediately caused an earthquake in the global commercial satellite launch market.

This price is really too good, compared with the satellite launch quotes of other countries.

The payload of the United States space shuttle is 22.7 tons, and the price of a single launch is US$450 million, with a payload of up to US$19,824 per kilogram.

The Ariane 5 rocket of the European Space Agency has a payload of 16 tons, a single launch price of US$165 million, and a payload of US$10,313 per kilogram.

The Soyuz-FG rocket of the Russian bear has a payload of 6.9 tons, a single launch price of US$50 million, and a payload of US$7,246 per kilogram.

The A3 polar satellite launch vehicle has a payload of 3.8 tons, a single launch price of US$15 million, and a payload of US$3,947 per kilogram.

The most successful commercial rocket launch in the world, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, which has mastered rocket recovery technology, has a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 22.8 tons, a single launch price of US$62 million, and a payload of US$2,719 per kilogram.

In the past, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation monopolized most of the global satellite launch market because of its low price and efficient reuse and recovery mechanism.

Therefore, when the Kunpeng rocket of the Jeco Group came out, it took the initiative to reduce the launch cost of rocket payloads to less than US$2,000, which immediately attracted commercial satellite partners from all over the world. This is much cheaper than the Falcon 9 of Space Exploration Company.

Although the Kunpeng rocket has just successfully completed its first flight, there are still a large number of countries and companies that choose the Kunpeng rocket because of the price and give the launch contract to the Jeco Group to be the first to try it out.

And the Jeco Group did not disappoint everyone. 20 days later, the Kunpeng rocket that successfully completed its first flight was overhauled and then carried on commercial satellites from all over the world. It soared into the sky at the Chiyang Rocket Launch Site and inserted into the clouds.

Whether it was entering space, rocket separation, satellite launch, or rocket recovery, there were no mistakes throughout the process.

As satellites were launched one by one in the predetermined orbit and established effective connections with the ground, the first commercial launch of the Kunpeng rocket was a great success.

In an instant, the Jeco Group became the new darling of the commercial satellite market.

A large number of commercial satellite launch orders poured into the Jeco Group from all directions.

Among them, many are commercial satellites of companies and enterprises in the United States.

Capitalists serve for profit. Since the cost of the offer from the JECO Group is lower and its safety has been proven, they will certainly not choose to use the expensive one.

After all, launching a satellite costs tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, which saves a lot of money.

With the production of the second and third Kunpeng rockets of the JECO Group, the Kunpeng rocket was launched five times in succession.

In addition to its own satellites, each launch will also make room for commercial satellites from other countries and forces, allowing them to ride into space together.

And a large number of commercial satellite orders have also made the JECO Group a lot of money.

The cost of the Kunpeng rocket that can be recycled and reused is effectively controlled. The more times it is reused, the lower the average cost, and the profit earned from each launch is calculated in units of 100 million.

This time, Space Exploration Technologies, which originally monopolized the global commercial satellite market, became anxious.

In order to compete with the JECO Group for satellite launch orders, the price was reduced to US$1,888 per kilogram.

This move allowed SpaceX to obtain some commercial satellite orders again, but then, JEC also responded immediately, lowering the price of satellite launch to $1,650 per kilogram.

Then the two sides began to fight, you quoted 1,590, I quoted 1,499.

You said 1,200 per kilogram, I lowered the price to 1,100.

In just half a year, JEC Group and SpaceX reduced the cost of satellite launch from nearly 3,000 US dollars to less than 1,000 US dollars.

The global rocket launch market was in chaos, and the price of launching commercial satellites was reduced to cabbage prices by JEC and SpaceX, which was almost a global reshuffle. The competition of other rockets was meaningless.

When JEC Group and SpaceX competed, other commercial rocket companies suffered casualties and wailing.

The boss and the second fought, but the third was the first to lose.

In other words, many aerospace companies are state-owned and cannot go bankrupt, otherwise no force can compete with JEC Group and SpaceX.

In the increasingly fierce price war, the Kunpeng rocket's super-large payload has shown its cost advantage.

Even SpaceX can't afford it. Although it has rocket recovery technology, it is not a truly free launch.

The current price has made SpaceX lose money every time it launches a rocket.

"We are willing to put aside our prejudices with the Jeco Group and jointly operate the global rocket launch market. This industry can accommodate two giants."

Under severe losses, Space Exploration Technologies' founder and chairman Muska had to choose to stand up and shout to the Jeco Group.

He even secretly contacted the Jeco Group in private, wanting to form a price alliance with the Jeco Group and work together on the price of external rocket launches. Don't roll inward anymore. Only those countries and companies that launch commercial satellites are cheap.

"I think that only one giant left is the healthy development of an industry. Relying on technology monopoly is called ability."

In the face of interviews with reporters and media, Liu Yingying gave an arrogant answer, which was also a response to Muska's request for peace, and planned to continue to fight.

In the face of the aggressiveness of the Jeco Group, in order to maintain its market share, Space Exploration Technologies can only launch at a loss while accepting a large number of NASA launch missions.

SpaceX's commercial launches have been reduced to only $15 million per launch, but when carrying out NASA's launch missions, NASA's price is much higher, which is equivalent to NASA subsidizing SpaceX to prevent SpaceX from being ruined by the Jeco Group.

Seeing the aggressive Jeco Group, the United States finally officially came to an end.

NASA Director Burton made a speech to the public, not allowing any satellite belonging to the United States to take the Kunpeng rocket to the sky, even if only one screw is made in the United States, it is not allowed to take the Jeco Group's ride.

Satellites in many countries around the world are made in the United States. This overbearing behavior is of course criticized.

After all, you, the merchant, have sold the goods to the customers, and you still have to restrict how the customers use them.

But the United States still forced it to come out, and many other countries cannot launch satellites produced by the United States under orders.

Even the capital in the United States has been scolded, but the United States still goes its own way.

Without this restriction, capitalists in the United States would not care about their patriotism, and would ask the Jeco Group to launch satellites in batches, and the money would go to the Jeco Group.

The Jeco Group's Kunpeng rocket is still launched on schedule, and the number of rocket launches has not been reduced due to satellite orders.

Almost every month, the Jeco Group has Kunpeng rockets manufactured.

At the same time, every week, the Jeco Group will launch Kunpeng rockets.

Although the Jeco Group is the overlord of the Indochina Peninsula, its foundation was too poor in the past, and these countries had no satellites.

The Jeco Group needs to quickly increase the number of satellites, including communications, remote sensing, reconnaissance, meteorology and other satellites.

Mainly reconnaissance satellites and communication satellites, many of these satellites are equipped with optical observation equipment, which can achieve 24-hour uninterrupted optical monitoring and analysis, greatly improving the Jeco Group's monitoring capabilities of ground moving objects and space targets.

You must know that the United States has more than 10,000 satellites in orbit, including those small satellites, most of which are satellites of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation.

If the Jeco Group wants to catch up with the United States, it must launch satellites many times to make up for this gap.

With the multiple launches of Kunpeng rockets, satellites are scattered in the space orbit.

In addition to those expensive large satellites, the Jeko Group launches more small satellites, which are cheaper and more numerous, forming a satellite network.

In this way, once a war is launched, if the enemy wants to destroy the satellite system, but you have thousands of small satellites running around in the sky, the enemy will find it difficult to start.

This is also the strategy currently implemented by the United States. The Jeko Group is crossing the river by feeling the United States.

Every time the Kunpeng rocket is launched, it can carry hundreds of such small satellites. The Jeko Group launches three to four times a month, making rocket launches shuttles, and thousands of satellites are launched into orbit every month.

This terrifying launch efficiency forces the United States to keep up with production capacity.

Funds from the United States military and NASA are injected into Space Exploration Technology Corporation, and the number and launch frequency of its Falcon 9 rockets are rising steadily.

The Starship Project, a large launch vehicle project under Space Exploration Technology Corporation, has received strong support and is tested almost every month.

This rocket with a takeoff mass of 5,000 tons is highly expected by the United States, hoping that it can become the Kunpeng rocket to fight against the Jeko Group.

In less than a year, the space race between the Jeko Group and the United States has already reached a fever pitch.

A large number of satellites of both sides are scattered in the space orbit of the Blue Star, from 300 kilometers, 500 kilometers, and 1,000 kilometers. Satellites are scattered in orbits of different altitudes. Looking down from space, it seems to wrap up the Blue Star, like a space enclosure.

The Jeko Group relies on the powerful performance of the Kunpeng rocket to ensure the number and replacement of satellites, while the United States' satellites do not have such a large carrying capacity. In order to compete with the Jeko Group, it makes up for it by launching rockets. There are rockets launched by the United States almost every day.

In this fierce competition, the number of Jeko Group's satellites has continued to increase. When the number of satellites increases, the targeting of the Jeko Group also begins.

In the ground satellite monitoring room of NASA, a man and a woman stand opposite each other.

Clare Hager half-knelt on the ground with flowers in his hands, holding a diamond ring and offering it to his sweetheart, Mireille.

"Mireille, I love you, marry me."

Both of them are NASA employees, and they have started an office romance, and they are already at the stage of discussing marriage.

Oh oh oh oh!

Colleagues gathered around and made a noise.

Mireyou cried with joy, covered her mouth, and was about to speak when she was interrupted by a piercing alarm.

Everyone was stunned for two seconds, then ran back to their posts quickly and saw that the instrument that originally monitored space debris was emitting a red light alarm.

In space, due to the frequent space activities of humans, a large amount of space debris has been created.

In order to prevent space debris from colliding and causing damage to satellites, major aerospace powers have established corresponding early warning systems, which conduct real-time monitoring through ground command centers, space stations and launched detectors, and adjust satellite orbit changes in time to avoid.

"It is a reconnaissance satellite warning numbered 2020-TBK93. There is space debris about to hit, and emergency collision avoidance is carried out immediately."

Kral is responsible for monitoring space debris. He originally thought it was a misunderstanding.

But soon he found that something was wrong, because he had just adjusted the satellite orbit change, and the floating space debris actually changed its orbit and headed straight for NASA's satellite.

It takes time to start the engine and change the orbit. The space junk was very fast and soon collided with each other.

The next second, the ground command center lost contact with the NASA reconnaissance satellite.

After realizing it, Klar hurriedly checked the situation of the space junk. The action of changing direction and accelerating just now proved that it was very likely not space junk.

Because the speed and direction of space junk are basically fixed, the collision behavior just now does not look like space junk at all.

"It's not space junk, this is a satellite of the Jeko Group, with an international number of 2027-341N."

Soon, Klar's face changed. In the ITU filing, there are satellite filings of various countries, which allowed him to find out the problem at once.

After this information was obtained, everyone on the scene immediately became nervous. This might not be an accident.

"Report to Director Burton immediately. The Jeko Group is here with bad intentions!"

As soon as Klar finished speaking, the alarm of the ground command center sounded again, and this time it was multiple alarms.

Klar's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he said angrily: "No. 2022-73HS satellite, No. 2015-GPV6 satellite, No. 2024-35LN5 satellite collision warning, immediately execute orbit change to avoid, the Jeko Group is crazy, they want to hit our satellite."

But no matter how they make emergency avoidance, there will always be satellites that will not have time to dodge, collide with each other, and both become garbage fragments.

One!

Two!

Three!

As one satellite after another turned into space junk, all NASA staff on the scene felt their heads were big, and they could only urgently report the situation to their own director and ask for instructions.

On Valentine's Day, February 14, there were multiple satellite collision accidents in the space of Blue Star.

A full eight satellites were damaged in the collision, and these satellites were all satellites belonging to the Jeko Group and the United States.

"It is a heinous crime. The Jeco Group is using its space hegemony to turn satellites into space weapons and carry out targeted terrorist attacks on our satellites.

The Jeco Group is trying to control the orbit of the blue planet and dominate the space of all mankind. Their crazy ambition is exposed.

As a beacon of human freedom and democracy, we must seek justice from the Jeco Group. We must not let such ambitious people occupy space. That would be a nightmare for the entire human society."

The next day, NASA Director Burton held a press conference and cursed the Jeco Group directly at the meeting, accusing the Jeco Group of maliciously hitting its own satellites and demanding that the Jeco Group apologize and compensate immediately, otherwise they would never give up.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately swept the global hot search. The two companies went from a mild space launch competition to a space bumper car, shocking the global audience.

Faced with the accusations of the United States, the Jeco Group only made a simple response of technical errors, being affected by solar flares, and having no comment, etc.

This excuse is too perfunctory. Even the spectators know that the Jake Group deliberately hit the satellite of the United States.

For a while, the Jake Group was criticized a lot.

However, the Jake Group did not care, and Su Jie did not care. Are there not enough people in the world who scold the United States? It does not affect the United States as the overlord of the blue planet.

NASA was furious. They have always been the ones to bully others. When will it be their turn to be bullied?

Seeing that the Jake Group, a new space army, dared to provoke them, they immediately responded.

Two days later, several satellites under the United States flag had technical errors and changed their orbits to hit the satellites belonging to the Jake Group.

At the end of the day, several satellites became space junk.

The Jake Group decisively retaliated, using more small satellites to collide with the large and medium-sized satellites of the United States, exchanging cheap goods for the other party's expensive goods.

The United States also called on small Starlink satellites. In addition to the small satellites that perished together, they also looked for large satellites of the Jake Group to collide everywhere.

The originally quiet space has become a billiard table for the Jeko Group and the United States.

Today you hit me, tomorrow I hit you, and several satellites become victims every day.

The fight has aroused anger, and the consumption of satellites has forced both sides to produce more satellites and rockets and launch more batches of rockets into space.

The funds invested by both sides have risen from tens of billions of dollars to hundreds of billions of dollars. When it comes to the satellite billiard table, at the most intense time, two or three billion dollars are thrown into the space field every month.

Satellites have become weapons for both sides, and a new round of space expansion and preparation is taking place between the Jeko Group and the United States.

In addition to the satellite collision, in order to save face, the United States announced after the satellite collision that the Kuril Strategic Alliance will hold a military exercise code-named "Catching Insects" in the Amanda Sea, with a large scale.

For this military exercise, the United States dispatched an aircraft carrier battle group, and also took two younger brothers from the Sakura Country and the Korean Country, and set off in a swagger.

The captain of the aircraft carrier said to the media with a serious face: "This exercise is aimed at testing the ability of the Kuril Strategic Alliance forces to implement amphibious landings, seize ports, and mobilize ground forces."

It is self-evident who this exercise is aimed at.

The Jeko Group responded tit for tat and simultaneously held a military exercise codenamed "Eagle Capture" at the border of Johor. The 1st Mech Combat Brigade, the 2nd Mech Combat Brigade, and the 4th Mech Combat Brigade, a total of three mech combat brigades, all arrived.

Hundreds of Magic Bird fighters were also ready to go in the rear to participate in this massive military exercise.

The Jeko Group also brought in the armies of several younger brothers in Zhenla, Lancang, Siam, and Annan, plus its own troops, totaling 200,000 troops.

The gunpowder smell between the Jeko Group and the United States was very strong, and even the time of the military exercise was the same.

However, the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance supported by the United States suddenly had someone pull the plug at the critical moment of this military exercise.

At the critical moment, several member states of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance, including Johor, Java, and Temasek, stated that they could not participate in the military exercise on schedule with various excuses.

Because these member states of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance have noticed that the Jeko Group is likely to really start a war this time.

With the examples of Siam and Annan, everyone is worried about what to do if the war really breaks out and the United States sells out its teammates again.

If the United States pats its butt and runs away, leaving itself to face the front of the Jeko Group, won't everyone be finished?

Therefore, at the juncture of the military exercise, except for South Korea and Sakura Country, two loyal dogs, many members of the Kuril Strategic Alliance broke their promises and were unwilling to be involved in this powder keg.

Seeing this situation, the United States was furious, but it couldn't put a knife on the necks of these countries and ask them to send warships to the military exercise.

Unless the United States itself goes down and fights the Jeko Group head-on.

Otherwise, those Kuril Strategic Alliance members who have seen the true face of the United States will not fight back until they see the rabbit, and don't want to rush to the front.

As for whether to go to war with the Jeko Group now, the United States is also hesitating.

Because this year is an election year, their president is about to reach the critical election period.

If the war starts at this time, unless the Jeko Group is resolved quickly, it will be a protracted war. The losses caused by the war will definitely cause the president's approval rating to continue to decline, and he will not be able to be re-elected smoothly.

With the strong combat power of the Jeko Group, it is very difficult to resolve the Jeko Group in a short period of time, at least not with an aircraft carrier battle group.

This also shows the attitude of the United States, which does not want to engage in a war with the Jeko Group now.

If a war really starts, there must be more than one aircraft carrier battle group.

During the Haiwan War, the United States sent several aircraft carriers at the beginning, which was the real preparation for the war of annihilation.

The strength of the Jeko Group is definitely much stronger than Ikla.

Relying on an aircraft carrier battle group to resolve the Jeko Group, as long as the commander is not stupid, he will not do such a stupid thing.

The member states of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance saw that the United States was not sincere, so they did not follow foolishly.

They can pretend to be powerful with the United States, but they dare not really think of themselves as tigers. When they are beaten by the Jeko Group, they will have no place to cry.

Finally, the United States' own aircraft carrier did not go deep into the Amanda Sea and the Gulf of Siam in the hinterland of the Jeko Group. It just cruised outside the Indian Ocean and made some moves with the warships of the Sakura Country and the Korean Country. Without enough participating countries, the military exercise ended hastily.

In space, the space bumper cars of both sides also gradually ended because there was too much space debris.

This also restricted the rockets and satellites of the United States and the Jeko Group. Coupled with the condemnation of countries around the world, this satellite table tennis game had to stop.