Chapter 720: Rocket Launch!

Huaxia Satellite Communications and Motorola have formed a joint venture in Hong Kong called Hughesnet, which is still building a ground control station and has not yet officially started business, but the company has advertised to many companies and customers that it can form a high-speed wireless LAN with an antenna and modem to provide high-speed Internet access to customers on ships and airplanes by advertising to cruise lines and airlines.

The company's main business customers are mainly these corporate companies, and they have not yet been launched to ordinary consumers, although they do not know the specific price of these devices, but the crown prince of the caliph has also seen the appearance of several antennas and modulation mediators, which are very exquisite.

He didn't have much experience when he first saw these antenna receiving devices, and after several experts in his team made specific technical analysis of these receiving devices, he knew the incomparably advanced nature of this Starlink network!

The satellites of this Starlink network use a signal transceiver technology scheme similar to that of phased array radar, which can intelligently realize beam scanning in a large airspace, accurately track and identify the receiving terminals within the coverage area, and can track the dynamics of multiple receiving terminals at the same time, feedback information, conduct computer analysis, and accurately send and receive signals to these moving receiving terminals.

This technology can accurately track and locate high-speed passenger planes, trains, and automobiles to ensure that these carrier targets equipped with mobile receiving terminals will not lose signals.

Each antenna element of these satellites uses an independent T/R module, and the components in these modules are prepared with gallium nitride, and each component can use a small amount of electrical energy to send and generate high-frequency electromagnetic energy of more than 140 GHz.

As long as this system is slightly improved, it can be directly transferred to the military, and it is the most advanced military technology, and even the United States has no products in this area at this stage!

And the antennas launched by Huaxia Satellite Communications Company are very exquisite, all of them are small adaptive array antennas, the largest antenna is only more than ten kilograms, about the same size as a football, such a large antenna plus a wireless router can meet the needs of thousands of people for high-speed Internet access.

The antenna the size of a mobile phone antenna can achieve a data transmission rate of up to 2m uplink and 8m downlink, and the handheld device can be about the same size as an ordinary mobile phone.

The use of shark fin on-board antennas allows cars to enjoy tens of megabits of high-speed broadband.

At present, Huaxia Satellite Communications Company and other companies have developed many antenna products, and have made product technical preparations for the deployment of Starlink network in advance.

The crown prince of the caliph knew that the Starlink project was led by Huaxing Group Company, and Huaxing Group Company came up with such high-precision product technology, so the military of Huaxia State must also use these technologies.

From the composition of the shares of the Huaxia Satellite Communications Company, it is clear that this company has a military background, and several subsidiaries of the Huaxing Group Company are qualified to produce military products.

This surprised the Crown Prince, because in the past, the military market of Huaxia was rarely open to private companies, but now it is very rare for Huaxing Group to enter such a high-tech product and technology field.

However, he has learned about this Starlink network project these days, and has communicated with Yang Jie for a long time in this regard, and he is very excited about this project.

Satellite communication has great market potential, Yang Jie never thought of selling equipment to obtain huge profits, through this satellite network to provide a variety of services is what he wants to do.

As long as the data traffic of this satellite network platform is mastered, it can bring a steady stream of income to the company, and as long as the monthly use cost is reduced to less than 100 yuan, the civilian market will be completely opened and there will be explosive growth.

After the Crown Prince Caliph communicated with Yang Jie, he knew that there was no problem at all in achieving profitability in this Starlink network, and even if there was a problem in the middle of the project, it would be no problem to continue to support the project with the current size of Huaxing Group.

So when he knew that the four satellites of the Starlink network were about to be launched, he also proposed to observe the rocket launch.

The launch of the satellite was carried out in the middle of the night, when it was still daytime, and there was still time before the launch, and the personnel of the base took the initiative to invite the crown prince of the caliphate to visit the actual launch tower.

Now that the rocket and spacecraft have been assembled, they can take off just by waiting for the launch command, and the Caliph Crown Prince is itching to hear it, he has only seen the rocket launch on TV before, but now he can visit it up close under the explanation of the technician, and he is so excited that he doesn't even want to delay the time to sleep with jet lag.

Yang Jie heard that the military wanted to talk to him secretly and wanted to get rid of irrelevant people, so he didn't break it, and let a bus pull the caliph and the crown prince and others away, and in the end, only Yang Jie and military representatives and scientific researchers were left to start the topic.

Both sides are old friends who have cooperated many times, and they know each other well, and they are not polite and immediately get to the point. The military congratulated the Huaxia Satellite Communications Company on its successful completion of the satellite ground test with the help of the Huaxing Group Corporation, and also hoped that the Huaxia Satellite Communications Company would transfer the satellite platform technology to the Aerospace Group Corporation.

For example, in terms of satellite manufacturing, Motorola provided the satellite platform to the Huaxia Satellite Communications Company to inspect and evaluate the value, and the results were very unexpected, the original Iridium design life was only 5 years, but after the inspection, it was found that the life of the Iridium could be extended to more than 10 years after technical treatment.

In fact, Yang Jie knew that this was only a conservative estimate, he remembered that before his rebirth, an Iridium star collided with a scrapped Russian communications satellite, which was launched in 97 and has actually been in service for 12 years, and if it does not collide, it can work for more than several years.

This is also enough to prove that Motorola is very advanced in satellite design and production control management.

On the other hand, domestically developed satellites only have a design life of 3 to 5 years, and the in-orbit time is too short, which means that satellites need to be continuously launched to fill the gap, which is not economically cost-effective and wastes resources.

In this regard, both China and the former Soviet Union are shortcomings, and they can only adopt the method of frequently launching satellites to make up for the gap in quality with quantity.

In the past two years, Motorola's engineers have also helped Huaxia Satellite Communications Company to raise the level of satellite design and production by a large margin.