Chapter 474: I have all the launch resources of your SpaceX this year
"After leaving office, how much influence will you have on Coastline Group's strategy? Will you come back in the future? Are there any tasks that need to be started, completed or handed over?"
Near the end of the annual meeting, Ye Hua was caught by a reporter from Beijing News as he was about to leave and asked three questions in a row, fast and fluently.
Ye Hua nodded affirmatively and answered as he walked: "Of course, there is no doubt that I am still the director of Coastline Group. My current responsibility to the company is not to formulate the detailed operating plan, but to adhere to Coastline's original vision and mission.
, values, strategies. As long as these original intentions are not forgotten, the coastline will not be turbulent."
"Actually, when the news of my resignation came out, I noticed that some people 'predicted' that I would probably come back one day. But it turns out that I have rarely been involved in the company's operations and management throughout this year, and there is no problem with the company's development momentum.
, the company's entire operating mechanism and team mechanism are running very smoothly. In this year, He Hao is doing most of the work and business on the coastline. We will also take a few days every month to have a good communication. I fully believe that
He Hao and his future team will do better and better."
"Currently, I am still responsible for the operation of Life Ray, including the construction of the entire ecological system of the group company, the construction of corporate culture, and cross-regional trade coordination. In the next year, Life Ray will also need to be handed over to He.
Hao them."
After answering the reporter's questions, Ye Hua got into the car that had been parked beside him, entered the car and gradually drove away.
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With the successful conclusion of the New Year's Eve activities and the arrival of January 1, 2023, Coastline Company will have a three-day holiday. At most, it will be the Spring Festival holiday within less than three weeks of work.
Coastline Company will never work overtime on holidays. I will lose if I work overtime.
Next Tuesday, January 3, Elon Musk will fly to Yongzhen from North America.
Faced with Ye Hua's invitation, he readily agreed without saying a word, and canceled some of his original schedule to come over to meet him.
At around ten o'clock in the morning, Elon Musk, who arrived in Yongzhen, came to the sea by Shuangyue Bay and met Ye Hua in a luxurious business yacht.
The two sides exchanged greetings and greetings, and Ye Hua got straight to the point and said: "Mr. Musk, I would like to know how many launch resources your company SpaceX has for this year?"
Elon Musk couldn't help being stunned for a while. This time Ye Hua invited him over in his name. Musk believed that there should be more important business topics to discuss, most likely related to the pilot project in the East New Area and the field of autonomous driving.
I didn’t expect to talk about SpaceX’s launch resources. After a moment, Elon Musk answered frankly: “This year’s launch resources should be available for 14 launches at any time. Of course, if there are enough business orders, SpaceX can undertake 20 launches this year.”
Launch business, but it has only been two days this year. According to the existing launch business, we have undertaken the launch business of ESA's Galileo positioning system. There are mainly 9 launch businesses. This year, we will launch three times for ESA, including 6 satellites.
Send it into orbit.”
Ye Hua nodded, and then said with a smile: "Man, I plan to launch 86 wireless power transmission relay satellites into space this year. These are not small satellites. The average mass of each satellite is 1.75 tons. SpaceX's current launch resources are at most one
Arrow Double Star, how are you doing, are you interested in taking this order?"
"My God Mr.ye, you are going to launch 86 satellites this year?" Elon Musk looked at him in shock. Where could he get so many satellites in one year? Well, it has nothing to do with me.
After a while, my heart jumped up, and I said without hesitation on the spot: "Of course I am interested. It is our honor for SpaceX to provide launch services for your company."
Ye Hua didn't care about the polite words. Musk is also a shrewd person. He calculated the launch resources of SpaceX this year in his mind. I'm afraid he won't be able to win all of Coastline's launch business, but can only eat half of it.
, and it is the case of killing two stars with one stone.
The current commercial launch cost of SpaceX is about US$45 million per time. The recyclable rocket launch of Elon Musk's company is at least 70% cheaper than the traditional commercial launch cost. This is the main reason why SpaceX has strong competitiveness in the launch business.
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The European Space Agency can definitely launch its own rocket business, but it is too expensive. It costs almost 100 million euros to launch one time. How can you get so much money? Moreover, the requirements for the launch window are also very high.
This time Ye Hua disclosed a launch business worth US$2.2 billion, a super fat deal. After thinking for a moment, Elon Musk couldn't help but said: "Mr.ye, do we have to launch 86 satellites within this year?"
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Obviously, these words exposed the idea of "Iron Man" wanting to go it alone, but unfortunately SpaceX's launch resources are also limited, and exhausting the company's entire launch power can only fire 20 rounds a year.
Such frequent commercial launch missions have never happened before, and SpaceX will not foolishly build so many "second kickers".
"That's right!" Ye Hua nodded affirmatively and added: "Since SpaceX can only take half of the launch orders, the remaining half will be left to my country's traditional launchers. Of course, our country's launch resources will still be there.
If you can’t eat half of it, you have to ask the Russians for help.”
Elon Musk was heartbroken when he heard these words. The business orders of 2.2 billion US dollars shrank by half in an instant. He should have prepared more "second kicks" if he had known. He also heard it from Ye Hua's tone. Coastline
Satellite launches will not wait for SpaceX to expand production capacity.
"I have one more request." Ye Hua said suddenly.
"You said."
"Delay ESA's launch business, transfer the spare resources to my launch business, and give me priority to launch life rays." Ye Hua said.
"This..." Elon Musk immediately explained with an embarrassed look on his face: "Mr.ye, I'm afraid this won't work. SpaceX and ESA have signed an agreement, and we can't breach the contract..."
"I have read your agreement. It is said that the liquidated damages are as high as 450 million euros (500 million US dollars)." Ye Hua interrupted him, smiled and looked at Elon Musk and then said calmly: "I will help you spacex
I will advance the liquidated damages and increase the cost of each launch to 70 million US dollars. To put it simply, I will contract your spacex launch resources this year and give you a contract of 1.9 billion US dollars and a breach of contract of 500 million US dollars.
Gold is also included.”
Elon Musk was stunned and roared in his heart: If you have money, you can do whatever you want? Huh?
"only……"
Seeing his hesitant look, Ye Hua secretly cursed in his heart that this guy is really good at pretending. He opened a bottle of champagne and said calmly: "Mr. Musk, this is the price of friendship between you and me. Look,
How about it? For the sake of Tesla cooperating with me."
The last sentence made Elon Musk's heart skip a beat. When "Silicon Valley Iron Man" debuted and became famous all over the world, Ye Hua was still in junior high school. After all, he was a human being. He heard these words before he finished speaking.
