The first question from the space bureau made Jing Jian cry and laugh: "Mr. Jing, you just said that most of them are domestic funds. We just want to ask, are you paying in dollars or in yuan?"

In this period, foreign exchange earning is the most important thing, and the attractiveness of the renminbi is far less than it is today.

However, such a question is not a problem for Jing Jian at all: "What you are asking is - it is better to pay in foreign exchange, right?"

"Yes, that's right. ”

"It is possible to use foreign exchange. But do you have anything to say?"

"We have internal regulations that require at least 50% foreign exchange payments. If you use foreign currency in full, you can also get a discount. ”

"Then let's get the full amount of foreign exchange!" Jing Jian didn't want to worry too much about these details. At present, those astronauts are doing a miserable life, so let's earn them more bonuses!

But how much money do these people have? That's pretty pitiful. Just a few years ago, the Long March-2E Yao-2 rocket failed to launch the Aoxing B1, which was the emergency shutdown of the launch platform and the on-site rescue, and then pursued responsibility and was ready to deduct the bonuses of the main staff. But in the past, the prize money for successful launches was only a few dozen yuan? You read that right, it was only a few dozen yuan, and now it is the money for a few takeaway lunches! So how can we deduct it? In the end, we can only deduct a small amount symbolically.

Even the leaders can't bear to do it. The income of these astronauts is simply too low.

Immediately afterwards, Jing Jian began to inquire about the details: "Do you have a model that you can recommend? I don't need to be very detailed, because I don't know much about satellite technology, and the technical indicators definitely need the approval of experts from both sides." It's an approximate range, mainly for budgetary reasons. As you should be able to understand, this is not a small amount of money, and it still needs to be raised. ”

Lu Jie and the others nodded, and he introduced Jing Jian and said, "This is Liu Gaogong and Li Gaogong, they are all technical experts. This Yuan is the person in charge of our foreign business department, and he is familiar with the price. ”

So these few began to introduce in detail. And there are other staff members to complement it. The specific technical details will not be repeated here, and even Jing Jian knows a little about it. And in the end, Jing Jian summed up what he cared about:

Such communication relay satellites can also be produced in China, but the space agency mainly promotes the model produced in the United States, or in other words, the artificial satellite produced by the famous Hughes company.

Mr. Hughes is a legend. He is a well-known entrepreneur, inventor, film director and ...... Playboy. Having slept among the flowers all his life, the most famous little story is to propose to Elizabeth Taylor, the kind of playboy who jokingly proposed to give an engagement of $1 million.

$1 million was a lot of money back then. So when Elizabeth Taylor's mother heard this, she blurted out a rhetorical question: "Before tax or after tax?"

And the later "The Aviator" is a biopic of Mr. Hughes, the one starring Leonardo. He's been a legend all his life anyway. In his later years, he even bought all the bar licenses for the undressed dancing ladies in Las Vegas. Frightened, someone else applied for a court order prohibiting him from doing this absurd behavior. Of course, in his later years, he was already a little nervously abnormal.

Because of this, Jing Jian has a nickname in the United States - China's Hughes. It's because the experiences of the two are very similar. All are rich people, directors and ...... Playboy.

In the end, Mr. Hughes had no descendants to inherit the estate, so the entire estate was the Hughes company, and the rest of the money was donated to the medical center. And the Hughes company is also an important military enterprise in the United States, and what it is best at is aerospace technology, which occupies a large share of the world's artificial satellite market.

Because of this, Hughes's artificial satellites are quite advanced, while domestic production is lagging behind.

Let's compare it like this. Although the price of domestic satellites is only seven or eighty percent of Hughes, the performance can only reach one-third of Hughes, and the service life is only barely two-thirds.

In other words, compared with the same period last year, one Hughes satellite is equal to 4.5 domestic satellites. Even with some other aspects, the gap will be widened!

Look at such a cost performance, as long as the head is not caught by the door, then it must be Hughes Company. So those astronauts are helpless, it's not that they don't want to recommend domestic satellites, but they don't have a choice at all. Technical issues must not be fake. If you can't do it, you can't do it. It's in space, and there's no way to launch it.

Therefore, after the introduction, Lu Jie and the others waited for Jing Jian to make a decision. And Jing Jian thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "Then consider domestic satellites!"

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Everyone on the other side was confused. What is the situation? Could it be that this Mr. Jing has really had his head caught by the door?

Actually, the reason is not complicated. Of course, Jing Jian is willing to use cost-effective satellites, but he can't choose them at all?

Because Jing Jian happened to understand this history. In the 90s, China and the United States cooperated to launch satellites, but later it ended in failure. It is not a political factor, but a technological blockade.

And in the next few years, it will be the miserable years for Chinese astronauts. In addition to the previously mentioned failure of the launch of the Australian Star, there will also be the failure of the Long March 2E launch of Apstar-2, the failure of the Long March 3B launch of Intelsat-708, and the failure of the Long March 3 launch of the Zhongxing-7. Among them, the Zhongxing VII was also purchased from Hughes.

With such a high failure rate, the final analysis of the reason is inconclusive. It's just a press release: "After a joint investigation by experts, it is not the cause of the Chinese side or the US side......"

This becomes a joke. didn't become the reason, could it be that the egg hurt star people did it?

According to the gossip that has been circulated, it is speculated that the Chinese rocket control system and the US satellite control system interfere with each other. But due to the U.S. technology blockade on China, they refuse to provide these critical data.

Therefore, Jing Jian is also very helpless!

No matter how cost-effective it is, it must be launched to the sky, right? If the launch fails all the time, although there are insurance companies, you can say that this kind of thing is obscure? How can you advertise?

On the contrary, it is a domestic satellite, so there is no such signal compatibility problem. As long as it can be successfully launched, it will be more expensive!

Now Jing Jian doesn't think much about that little money. As long as this business plan is viable, it is nothing more than a matter of earning more and earning less. Therefore, his choice, in the eyes of people at the time, seemed particularly incredible.