Time will soon come to December, and we are about to enter the fourth year of the founding of Deep Space Technology.
During this period, Deep Space Technology has successively released a number of products. As various parts of the world began to adopt Deep Space Technology's quantum computer commercial standards, the manufacturing cost of quantum computers has plummeted.
Mars Intelligent Technology released news that the price of the new quantum computer will be reduced by more than 10,000 yuan!
This has further stimulated the confidence of the computer industry, and more and more companies have invested in related industries.
It is worth mentioning that Zhu Ping, the founder of the virtual construction company whom Meng Xiaobai met at the Deep Space Technology Global Quantum Computing Conference, received a total of three rounds of capital investment from Meng Xiaobai after the conference, totaling 3 billion. Meng Xiaobai
and Deep Space Technology together hold more than 50% of the shares.
Today, Virtual Construction has become the most popular startup company in the quantum information industry and is preparing to be listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in the United States in March next year.
Meng Xiaobai himself disappeared again after the press conference. The media was very interested in this young technology company founder, but no one asked him for an interview.
At a product launch conference in the second half of the year, Meng Xiaobai did not appear, and Pan Yu presided over the conference.
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Luzhou, Deep Space Exploration Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This is where Deep Space Exploration Technology Company develops rocket engines and thrusters.
"A total of sixteen Honghu rocket engines are installed in the first and second stage thrusters of the rocket. By then, the payload will be 25 tons!" Zhan, the head of the Jet Power Laboratory and a senior engineer from China Aerospace Science and Industry Group
Haoran introduced to Meng Xiaobai, "The preliminary test has been completed and passed."
"Twenty-five tons of payload? How much is the take-off mass?" Meng Xiaobai asked. The payload refers to the cargo-carrying mass of the launch vehicle after removing the weight of the rocket body.
"Eight hundred and ninety tons. The mass of the rocket body filled with fuel is 865 tons." Zhan Haoran knew these data well.
Meng Xiaobai stretched out his hand. He was wearing a brand new quantum projection watch with a superconducting quantum chip inside, and he also learned about the quantum information network.
In the mobile phone projection, a three-dimensional model of the rocket and various data appear.
"The payload is too low, twenty-five tons. Our quantum communication satellite has a mass of about 0.8 tons. With a payload of twenty-five tons, it can only send twenty-five to thirty-one quantum communications.
Satellites. In order to ensure launch safety, based on the calculation of 28 satellites, approximately 357 launch vehicles will be launched for 10,000 satellites."
"The design cost of the rocket is several billion, and the cost of each launch is about 700 million Chinese dollars. Calculated this way, it will take a launch cost of 250 billion to send all our micro-satellites into space! This is a one-time mistake.
Under the circumstances, in fact this is impossible, and it is difficult for a rocket launch to be 100% successful."
"Coupled with satellite manufacturing costs and other costs..." Meng Xiaobai shook his head with a wry smile, "Mr. Zhan, I can't bear this cost! This plan, pass!"
According to this plan, the cost of this project will exceed 300 billion. Even if all the sub-groups of Deep Space Technology support it together, they will not be able to come up with this much money!
What's more, in addition to the rocket project, they also have so many research projects to invest in.
Zhan Haoran frowned and said: "Mr. Meng, in fact, I have also calculated this account. In my opinion, the account cannot be calculated like this. Now our payload is twenty-five tons. If in three to five years, our technology will
When it matures, if the carrying capacity is doubled, the launch cost will plummet. Or if we make a breakthrough in rocket recovery technology, the cost will be further reduced."
"The payload of twenty-five tons is the best we can achieve. In the whole of China, there are only a handful of launch vehicles with a payload of twenty-five tons!"
"Too long!" Meng Xiaobai still shook his head. In fact, Zhan Haoran's idea was not wrong, because he regarded this project as a ten or twenty-year plan. He regarded space exploration as a technology that humans need to gradually progress over hundreds of years.
But Meng Xiaobai cannot allow such high launch costs and time. Eight or ten years from now, their quantum computers will no longer have the advantage. At that time, the global quantum communication network will no longer have the significance and role it does now, so he
Must improve.
Meng Xiaobai thought for several hours and reconvened the meeting.
"We must adjust the plan." Meng Xiaobai said, "Abandon the Honghu rocket engine, its thrust is too small!"
"What?" Hearing this, Zhan Haoran was the first to object. He emphasized: "The Honghu rocket engine is the best we can do at present. Even if it needs to be updated, we have to wait for the next generation of rocket engine to appear!
"
Zhan Haoran himself is one of the chief designers of the Honghu rocket engine. This is his proud work. Now that it is denied by Meng Xiaobai, he naturally objects.
"Mr. Zhan, please don't get excited yet." Meng Xiaobai said, "I want to give up the Honghu rocket engine. Of course I have my own reasons. I will come up with a new engine plan, tentatively designated as the 'Hercules' rocket engine. We will give details.
Talk to you later.”
Zhan Haoran held back. He had seen the project name of this "Hercules" engine, but hadn't it been stranded?
"Redesign the rocket body, or improve it! We need a stronger load capacity, at least four times the current one, more than one hundred tons!" Meng Xiaobai said.
"One hundred tons?"
"This is impossible!"
"This is simply nonsense!"
"Yes, the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle with the strongest carrying capacity in the world currently has a payload of only 63.8 tons. We have to reach 100 tons, which is absolutely impossible!" Even though there are top international talents in aerospace and aerospace technology present,
Everyone began to question Meng Xiaobai's decision-making.
"Everyone, please be patient. I will finish the plan first, and then we will discuss the feasibility." Meng Xiaobai reassured.
Thinking that Meng Xiaobai was the boss, everyone managed to restrain their temper, but in their hearts they did not agree that they could do it.
"In order to reduce the cost of rocket launches, we must recycle rocket parts. For example, expensive rocket orbiters, engines, and boosters. These parts can theoretically be used repeatedly, as long as we can safely recover them from space."
"If we can do this, it can reduce our launch costs by 80%!"
According to Meng Xiaobai's calculations, if he can take all these measures, the overall cost will be reduced by 200 billion! This is an astronomical figure. It is not only his goal, but also his only choice, because if he does not do this, the project will either
If the battle line drags on for decades, it will either drag deep space technology into a quagmire of debt.