Elon Musk had no hesitation and no reason to refuse.
Simply looking at this business, it is a breach of contract with the European Space Agency. The Europeans can only earn about 40 million or even less than 40 million US dollars in profit from this launch business, while the Coastline Company's order can only earn about 40 million U.S. dollars a year.
It can earn a profit of US$700 million for SpaceX, and it will help advance the liquidated damages. There is no need to say that it is sincere.
The key point is that Elon Musk is now worried that if he doesn't agree to Ye Hua, the boat of this friendship may capsize, and Tesla will probably cool down quickly from its current hot state.
This young Chinese man is easy to say anything when he is easy to talk to, but when he is not easy to talk to, the boat of friendship can capsize easily.
No matter how you look at it, you have to agree.
The words he just said made "Iron Man" tense up.
Moreover, Elon Musk does not panic at all about the European Space Agency. He knows that the Europeans don’t have much money now. If they postpone it, they will still have to come over to discuss it in the end. By relying on SpaceX to launch, both parties will make a lot of money.
As for whether Europeans will be so angry that they vomit blood, "Iron Man" said that it has nothing to do with me, an American businessman.
“A pleasure to work with!”
The two parties happily clinked glasses and reached a preliminary consensus.
"I would like to ask, can your company complete the manufacturing of 86 satellites within this year?" Elon Musk took a sip of champagne and couldn't help but asked curiously.
"We started large-scale manufacturing three months ago. We use money to pave the way and buy time." Ye Hua smiled confidently. He had money and was willful. He glanced at him and added: "You don't have to worry about not having satellite launches. The required
The launch satellite will definitely be delivered before your launch window arrives, but don’t blow up my satellite. Frankly speaking, it’s 220 million US dollars more expensive for one satellite, and 420 million US dollars for one bombing. I can accept one bombing.
I can bear it twice, but I can’t bear it three times.”
All right……
Elon Musk smiled awkwardly and politely when he said this, because last year he took over a launch business from Google, the satellite needed for Google Maps, but it exploded when it reached the stratosphere during the launch. The cost of the Google satellite
It reached 185 million US dollars, and even the Falcon rocket was wasted. Google was also very depressed.
Generally speaking, SpaceX's launch business is mature and reliable. After all, no rocket launch can guarantee 100% success. Just ensure that the success rate is within a controllable range.
However, with Ye Hua's guarantee, he felt relieved and believed it. China's speed was obvious to all the world. It built more than 80 satellites within a year. If it were anyone else, Musk would never believe it, but if it were China,
He wouldn't be too suspicious of people, and since he was a wealthy owner like Ye Hua, he must have spent more money to improve production efficiency.
They all admitted that money opened the way.
In fact, this is indeed the case. In order to speed up the progress and keep up with the launch window, a space-based wireless power transmission relay satellite originally only cost 170 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to an extra 50 million U.S. dollars to buy time costs.
Only owners like Coastline Group who are not short of money can do this in exchange for large sums of money.
If you have money, you can really do whatever you want, and it makes your friends and businessmen very angry. RMB players can't afford to offend them.
This time, Coastline Group’s total investment in the space-based power transmission system is US$28.8 billion, which is a very large investment of nearly RMB200 billion.
In the second half of last year, thanks to the recovery of global business, the group's total revenue reached 272.3 billion U.S. dollars, and the total profit was 48.7 billion U.S. dollars. This year, 28.8 billion U.S. dollars will be spent here, which is an increase in the company's R&D investment budget compared with last year.
over 10 billion US dollars.
There is also the construction of ground radio towers, with State Grid providing the bulk and Coastline Corporation providing the small part, but the small part is not small either.
There is also investment in Dolphin International Water, plus investment in Dolphin Travel.
A rough calculation shows that not only will all the profits earned last year be spent this year, but a lot of capital may also need to be eaten up.
However, Ye Hua is not distressed. If these funds are invested on a large scale, they will receive excess returns on an unimaginable scale in the future.
Elon Musk came and returned quickly. He didn't even have jet lag when he flew from North America to Yongzhen and came to meet Ye Hua. After reaching a consensus on cooperation, he quickly rushed to North America.
"Iron Man" is very satisfied with this trip. It can be said that he returned home with a full load, but he did not take it lightly. Although SpaceX can make a lot of money this time, doing business with Ye Hua, a partner, is enjoyable, but the pressure is also huge.
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Chinese people hate working partners who are slow to work, and Coastline Group will not wait for SpaceX, only SpaceX will cooperate with Coastline.
As for Ye Hua, he has focused more on the development of the holographic bracelet PHM, investing nearly 30 billion US dollars to build a global space-based power transmission system, largely to provide wireless energy for holographic bracelets and other wireless power transmission systems.
The product creates a favorable market environment. The space-based power transmission system is the infrastructure energy supply platform, and the holographic bracelet is the final consumer port.
We look at each other from beginning to end, but the intermediate link depends on semiconductor supply chain partners. It can be said that if Coastline Company develops a product, it will support an unknown number of companies and indirectly create an unknown number of high-quality jobs.
Not to mention that after the completion of the space-based power transmission system, major electronic product manufacturers will inevitably join in, such as air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, microwave ovens, etc.
The era of wireless energy is a major trend in the future.
It can be seen from this that Coastline Group is increasingly developing in the direction of being too big to fail.
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ESA Headquarters.
"What did you say? Elon Musk announced that he would cancel the three launches of Galileo this year?"
In an office, Jacques Doldin, Director of the European Space Agency, looked at his subordinates who came to report with a shocked look, and immediately said: "Impossible, spacex will pay a painful price of 450 million euros for this, why should he?"
Dare to terminate cooperation? Reason?"
The Galileo project is regarded by Europeans as a symbol of the success of European integration. EU Industry Commissioner Bienkovska said that no European country can complete the Galileo system alone.
"The day before yesterday, Elon Musk hurried to China for a brief meeting with Ye Hua, the founder of Coastline Group. Shortly after returning to North America, SpaceX announced the unilateral termination of its launch cooperation with our European Space Agency the next day, and announced at the same time
A US$1.9 billion contract has been reached with Coastline Group Liferay, and it is reported that SpaceX’s launch resources for the entire year have been booked by Liferay.”
After his subordinate reported this, Jacques Doldin seemed to understand, and suddenly shouted angrily: "The damn Chinese are trying to interfere again. This is obviously targeting the Galileo system. The US$1.9 billion contract must be cruel to SpaceX."
I made a lot of profits, enough to bear the high liquidated damages, damn Americans, damn Chinese people!!!"
The angry Jacques Doldin soon woke up from a dream. The Chinese stepped in and took over all the launch resources of SpaceX. What is this?
Regardless of what you are doing, now that Galileo's launch resources have been robbed, it also means that satellite orbit resources will also be robbed.
The original satellite orbit resources of the Galileo system were completely "ransacked" by the Chinese Beidou Navigation. For this reason, it had to re-plan newer orbital resources. Now that Coastline Company is doing this, wouldn't even the newer orbital resources have to be robbed?
In the end, "looting" can only use more inferior orbital resources?
"No, if this continues, the Galileo system will be finished. If we want to seize the orbital resources before the Chinese, we can only rely on the Russian's 'Alliance' rockets." Jacques Dordan muttered to himself.
What comforted him was that SpaceX had to pay 450 million euros in liquidated damages for this unilateral breach of contract, which was enough to place an order with Russia. It would only be an advantage for the old man, but it was better than losing even the orbital resources to the Chinese.
Good going.
But at this moment, the subordinate who heard him talking to himself said weakly: "Mr. Jacques, I have to tell you with regret that Russia's Alliance rocket launch resources have also been taken away by the Chinese. According to reliable information, Russia
Director of the Federal Space Agency Dmitry Rogozin has arrived in Huaxiayong Town to discuss launch business with Coastline Group. If he wants to impress the Russians, he can only offer more money, but... we can't compete with Coastline in terms of funds, he
Much richer than us."
"What did you say?" Hearing these words, Jacques Dordan was almost so angry that he burst into tears.
