Chapter 1112 - Envy!
"Damn, this time let Huaxing Group Sabotage our plan again!"
In the office of Boeing's headquarters in Gotham, the current chairman of the board of directors of Boeing, Chairman James McNair, heard Stan Dell, who is in charge of the Asia-Pacific business, report to him that Bombardier had acquired its regional airliner and turboprop airliner business, and couldn't help but be angry.
"Boss, according to the information we have received, Huaxing Group will establish a new brand after acquiring the aircraft business of Bombardier Group. ”
James McNair was stunned: "They didn't merge these businesses into China Fokker?"
Stan Dale shrugged: "We don't know what they really think yet, but I guess the owner behind Huaxing doesn't want to rely too much on the Dutch." ”
"It's a little less stressful for us at Boeing. ”
James McNair thought for a while and said: "Now that Huaxing Group has acquired the regional airliner business of Bombardier Group, the regional airliner market cannot be found to be occupied by them to occupy a large market share, and we cannot lose this market, and we must speed up the progress of acquiring Samba Aviation Industry Group's regional airliner." ”
He said to himself, then looked at Stan Dyer and said, "What stage has the F200 series of passenger aircraft developed by China Fokker Company reached?"
"In this regard, Zhonghua Fokker is still in the stage of secrecy, but we suspect that it may have entered the production stage of the prototype, because some of the designers of the Ilyushin Aviation Group have returned to their own country, and our people confirm that the work in the development and design stage has been completed. ”
James McNair frowned and said, "Damn, they must not be recognized by our domestic airworthiness certificate!"
"Boss, if we do this, our Boeing airliners will also be restricted from entering the rabbit country......"
"It's okay to delay them for a few years......"
James McNair mused.
When Stan Dyer left, Roger Robert, the head of the satellite business unit, knocked on the door and entered James McNair's office.
"Boss, are you looking for me?"
The 50-something, who has been with Boeing for 30 years, is the head of Boeing's overall defense and space operations.
"Robert, what is the likelihood that Congress will approve the Future Image Structure project this time?"
The project James McNair is talking about is actually a highly classified spy satellite manufacturing project, which is being developed by Boeing.
This project has been developed by Boeing for many years, and Boeing has received at least nearly $30 billion in revenue through this project over the years.
Of course, Boeing and the military officials in charge of this project also filled their own pockets, and they also made the spy satellite developed by Boeing very expensive, greatly exceeding the budget, and naturally it was also attacked by the Eagle Air Force and Congress.
The cost of Robert's spy satellite project has long been controversial, especially in the past two years when members of Congress and Boeing have been at loggerheads over the budget for the project.
In recent years, Boeing has actually received only 5 new orders for commercial satellites in the satellite business due to the decline in quality control and in-orbit defects in previous years, and Boeing's orders for commercial satellites have only received 5 new orders this year.
The income of the civil satellite project accounts for one-third of Boeing's entire satellite business, and now the income of civil satellites is not good, and the spy satellite project has encountered great trouble, and the Loma company is also constantly grabbing food for military satellites, and it is also destined that Boeing's satellite business will have a hard time this year.
"Robert, you tell me the truth, if we develop low-orbit ultra-high frequency communication satellites, can we reach the level of the Starlink network in China?"
James McNair asked.
"Boss, we have insufficient technical reserves in W-band microwave communication technology, and we can still do it in V-band microwave communication technology at this stage. ”
Robert spoke.
"Now SES, along with Google and Microsoft, are working together to build a low-orbit, high-throughput constellation, and they have approached me, and we have to win orders for this company's small satellites. ”
James McNair said.
As a giant in the aerospace industry, Boeing certainly will not be blind to the fresh cake of low-orbit high-throughput communication satellites.
In the past few years, China Satellite Communications Corporation has frantically launched low-orbit high-throughput satellites into space, and has now built low-orbit high-throughput communication satellites, and Huaxing Group has continuously expanded various satellite high-speed broadband services around this satellite platform in recent years, which has brought a steady stream of commercial benefits to Huaxing Group.
This has also made many high-tech companies in China move their hearts again, and have launched a number of low-orbit and high-throughput satellite projects, which also makes Boeing, whose satellite business has been in trouble in recent years, also a good news.
Huaxing Group's successful low-orbit high-throughput communication giant satellite constellation has once again made the aerospace industry that has been dormant for many years become boiling, and these high-tech companies have set their sights on the development of giant satellite constellations and small lightweight satellites, and now this field has become a new market blue ocean.
Traditional satellites are usually oversized, overweight and expensive, often five or six tons of large artificial satellites.
However, Huaxing Group Co., Ltd. uses the assembly line production method to produce this kind of high-throughput satellites of less than one ton and about 2 tons of geostationary orbit relay satellites, which greatly reduces the production cost of satellites, and at the same time develops its own rockets to launch in low orbit to reduce the launch cost, and uses various technical means to reduce the cost of forming a satellite network to a very low level year by year.
From a technical point of view, Boeing is more advanced than the current China Satellite Communications Corporation as a whole, but the current China Satellite Communications Company will not lag much behind in satellite research and development strength, but has been ahead in some aspects, especially in microwave communication technology, which is not a star and a half.
Moreover, after so many years of research and development, the overall strength of China Satellite Communications Corporation has also quickly caught up, and now the Starlink network has brought nearly 20 billion US dollars of revenue to China Satellite Communications Corporation every year, which makes the holding Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation and senior management very happy.
Similarly, such achievements are also the envy of overseas high-tech companies, including Boeing.