On December 9, Houston, Hilton Hotel.

"Mr. Chen, have you got up?"

"Get up." Chen Chong opened the door and let Qiu Siyu, who was wearing sportswear, come in. He pointed to the sofa and said, "You sit for a while, I'll go wash your face."

After a group fight in Beijing during the Spring Festival last year, Li Kaiyuan forced Chen Chong to exercise for at least an hour a day. She was supervised by her at home and by her secretary outside. Therefore, no matter where she was on a business trip, someone came to urge him to go for a morning jog every morning. Chen Chong was too busy and only had time to exercise in the morning. He was a lazy guy, and he was unwilling to move without anyone supervising him.

Before entering the bathroom, Chen Chong turned on the TV in the suite with the remote control. The moment the screen lighted up, a piece of news reached his ears.

"At around 10:49 last night, at the entrance of Dakot Building in Manhattan, New York, John Lennon was shot five times by a fan, two of which hit the back, two shots in the shoulder, and one shot in the air..."

I'll go!

What should have happened still happened...

Chen Chong felt a sense of frustration that was both regretful and helpless in his heart. This was the second heavyweight cultural superstar who fell after Zhao Dan. He had no choice but to die. Zhao Dan was not saved by cancer, and Lennon was shot and could not be stopped by outsiders...

John Lennon and Yoko Ono also live in Manhattan. As a time travel party who likes art, Chen Chong made a special trip. However, he paid much attention to movies than music in his previous life. He didn't know much about the knowledge and gossip of the Western music circle. He only knew that Lennon was shot dead, but he didn't know when it happened, nor who the murderer was, so he could not stop the tragedy. Lennon is an international superstar that has attracted worldwide attention. As a stranger, Chen Chong couldn't keep him in a safe house for a long time, nor could he take his own initiative to send people to protect him for 24 hours a day. Apart from suggesting that he pay more attention to safety, there is really no other way to imagine.

"Vivian must be very sad now, Lennon is her favorite singer."

Chen Chong nodded silently. His two secretaries were clearly distinguished. Qiu Siyu came from the bottom of society. He grew up in Hong Kong and had no feelings about European and American pop culture. Gu Liwei came from a middle-class family. She studied abroad since she was a child. She loved European and American pop culture and especially loved the Beatles. When she heard that Chen Chong was going to visit Lennon, she flew from Hong Kong to New York to be a young follower. After getting Lennon's signature photo, she was so excited that she looked like a seven or eight year old child, who was completely different from her usual rational and intellectual image.

"Mr. Chen, it is said on TV that this person is a Lennon fan. Why did he do this?"

"Who knows, maybe he is a mental illness." Chen Chong sighed, looking at the images of Lennon's life playing with the song of "letitbe" on the TV, several celebrities who had passed away before he traveled through time flashed through his mind, and couldn't help but say to himself: "We must be more proactive in the future and prevent problems before they happen."

"What?"

"Nothing." Chen Chong waved his hand and went to the bathroom to calm down with the help of washing. When he walked out again, he saw Qiu Siyu standing in front of the phone talking to someone. He heard that he was comforting people, so he asked softly: "Is it Vivian?"

Qiu Siyu shook her head, said a few polite words and put down the microphone, and reported: "It was from Hughes. They said that the engineers in the laboratory are all fans of the Beatles. They are not in the mood to work today and want us to change the visit date to tomorrow."

"Okay, go and talk to Professor Wang and the others."

Qiu Siyu refers to Houston Aerospace and Communications Corporation, a subsidiary of Houston Aircraft Corporation. Before 2000, 40% of the world's artificial satellites were manufactured by this company, and Shen Chong came to Houston to inspect communications satellites.

After the Soviet Union launched the first artificial Earth satellite on October 4, 1957, countries around the world successively developed satellites of various uses. In December 1958, NASA launched the "Skoll" broadcast test satellite, becoming the world's first communication satellite, but it can only transmit tape recordings. In November 1962, the American Radio Company launched the "Relay One" low-orbit communication satellite, which realized the first transPacific television broadcast between the United States and Japan. However, this low-orbit satellite It will rotate around the earth at a speed of several hours. When it goes to the other side of the earth, the signal will be interrupted, so it is not suitable for television. In July 1963, NASA launched the "Xinkang 2" high-orbit communication satellite. This satellite circles the earth over the equator at the same time as the speed of the earth's autobiography. Therefore, it is a geosynchronous satellite. With this satellite, stable long-distance communication is possible. The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were used for global broadcasting.

In August 1964, 11 countries formed a temporary commercial satellite organization and was reorganized into the International Satellite Communications Organization in 1973, marking the maturity of communication satellite technology and also marking the possibility of using satellites to spread TV signals. The Intelsat series satellites launched by the International Satellite Communications Organization have the function of relaying TV signals, but they are very weak. The most advanced Intelsat V-type satellite in the early 1980s could only broadcast 2 color TV channels, which was completely incomparable to the hundreds of channels in later generations.

Satellite TV has a large coverage area, a long transmission distance, and is not affected by the terrain environment. Three synchronous satellites can cover the world, and there is no need for relay station forwarding. The signal quality is high, the distortion is small, and the anti-interference ability is strong. It is an ideal TV communication tool. However, until 1984, there was no TV company in the world to tinker with satellite TV. The reason is nothing more than the following three concerns:

One is that the cost is too high. Satellites are high-tech among high-tech and are extremely expensive. The rockets that launch them are also high-tech and are expensive.

One is that the risk is too great, the satellite is operating in space and cannot be repaired, and once there is a malfunction, it will be lost.

One is that the revenue is too low, and the satellite can only forward two channels. The audience may not be willing to buy receivers for such a few channels. It is very troublesome to promote it. If the number of users cannot increase, losses will inevitably be avoided. After all, the lifespan of the satellite is very short, and it will be scrapped if it stays in the sky for more than ten years.

But for the great tycoon Chen Chong, the above three concerns are nothing, because money is not money at all, influence is what he needs. A synchronous satellite signal can cover the entire China. The mainland will definitely not allow private television stations to be owned, but the mainland may allow signals from overseas private television stations to be spread in China. You should know that the administrative order banning domestic people from purchasing satellite TV receivers in the past appeared in 1993, and it was caused by a prodigal son's mess...

In short, if operated properly, satellites are the only magic weapon for Jiayi TV to enter the mainland. You must prepare for the future and make arrangements in advance...

After Shen Chong finished exercising in the gym affiliated to the hotel, he went back to the house to take a shower, changed his clothes and was about to go out for breakfast, when four old men in Zhongshan suits broke in - they were aerospace experts sent to the United States to exchange and study.

"Hey, Xiao Shen, I heard that a singer died in the United States and the people in Hughes Company were no longer at work. What's going on?"

The country has been struggling for decades, and there is no soil for popular culture to survive. These people are all old men in their fifties and sixties, and they are in science and engineering. It is normal for Shen Chong to not understand it. It took a lot of verbal talk to introduce Lennon's status and influence in European and American popular culture. Seeing that they still couldn't understand it, they used an inappropriate analogy to force it: "After Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu spontaneously commemorated him. Lennon was like Qu Yuan of the Westerners, so Americans were unwilling to go to work today."

"So that's it, I thought I was just an ordinary singer."

"Fortunately, Xiao Shen is here, otherwise Lao Wang would make an international joke again. He just kept yelling that Americans deliberately created excuses to prevent us from visiting in order to block technology, and even said they would go to protest."

Chen Chong laughed without saying a word.

In the past two years after traveling through time, he spent money everywhere in the mainland, and made a lot of friends. He used the various information provided by these friends and combined with the memories of his past lives in his mind to make many seemingly crazy but actually reasonable plans.

For example, satellite TV is inspired by the information provided by ******* Wu Ziming. The Wu family is very influential in the aerospace system. He told Chen Chong that aerospace technology is very expensive. The country has no money to burn now, but this thing is related to national defense and cannot be unstoppable. So the mainland established a Great Wall Company in October, specializing in space technology services and other aerospace products foreign trade business, and uses business to support scientific research. Aerospace technology is one of the few high-value-added products in China that can be used to launch rockets. The profit of launching a rocket may be more profitable than exporting tens of millions of pairs of socks.

As a time travel party, Chen Chong knew that this idea was very good, but the reality was cruel. Great Wall Company did not take on the job in the entire 1980s. In the mid-1980s, US Secretary of Defense Weinberg visited China. Great Wall Company went to the disease and went to the hospital for medical treatment. He simply opened the Xichang Satellite Launch Center to him and asked others to help advertise and promote promotions in the United States. This shows the embarrassment of the situation at that time.
Chapter completed!