Chapter 718: Sky City!

The crown prince of the caliph is also very aware that the Huaxing Group is not short of money at all, and now so many subsidiaries of the Huaxing Group can earn hundreds of billions of dollars every year, which is almost equivalent to the combined income of several of the world's top 500 group companies, which has exceeded the total income of a whole country like Saudi Arabia.

These days, the crown prince of the caliph has also seen the strong technical strength of Huaxing Group in semiconductors, information and communication, new energy, mechanical and electrical engineering, and aerospace.

When he saw the prototype product being developed and trial-produced by Huaxing Group, the crown prince of the caliph still had a bright eye.

However, he knows that Huaxing Group will not sell these core technologies, but he is naturally very happy if he can participate in some specific industrial chain projects.

Now Huaxia's wafer factory capacity is still in a state of shortage because of the outbreak of the domestic chip industry, and now Huaxia has become the largest wafer foundry foundry base, and these IC design companies from Europe and the United States have basically transferred orders to Huaxia.

At present, the domestic wafer foundry competition in Huaxia is also quite fierce, and large chip manufacturers such as Singapore Licensed Semiconductor, Wanwan, South Korea, Japan, and the United States have all established wafer factories in Huaxia.

But even so, now Huaxia's domestic chip production capacity is still not available, and now the number of chips exported by Huaxia has exceeded 200 billion chips, and the domestic production capacity can only meet more than half of the production capacity, that is to say, the number of imported chips exceeds 40%, and the import value exceeds more than 60 billion US dollars.

So when Yang Jie said that he would build five wafer factories and two LCD screen production lines, the crown prince of the caliph also agreed to invest.

The arrival of the crown prince of the caliphate brought tens of billions of dollars in investment at once, and such a large investment project was the largest foreign investment in recent years, which naturally made Li Kaiyuan and other provincial party committee leaders very happy.

A few days later, Yang Jie accompanied His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Caliph to visit the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

The crown prince of the caliph is also visiting this famous space city of China for the first time, and he is also very excited.

After getting off the plane at Jiuquan Military Airport, the person in charge of the space city and a group of technical experts also warmly welcomed him and the Crown Prince of the Caliphate.

Through two years of research and development, Huaxia Satellite Communications Company's high-speed communication satellite has completed a variety of ground tests, this set of ground test system is established with the help of Motorola satellite department engineers, which can be numerically controlled noise loading, to achieve the simulation of wireless signal deep space noise environment, programmable Doppler frequency shift generator, can simulate the satellite deep space high-speed operation of wireless signal spectrum changes, these equipment are basically Huaxing Group of equipment company developed with the help of Motorola engineers.

These equipment simulates deep space ranging to achieve the random error of ranging accuracy is less than 5ns, and the random error of speed measurement accuracy is less than 5cm/s.

Moreover, in the process of development, Motorola also helped Huaxia Satellite Communications Company to establish a new set of research and development mode, project-oriented, from the time node control, technical force support, cost control and other aspects of the project in the communication mechanism, close planning, reasonable arrangement and deployment, to ensure the seamless connection of all links, reasonable use of internal and external resource advantages, multi-party technical demonstration, and deployment of scientific research resources.

This R&D model has also greatly improved the R&D efficiency of satellites, and the development of satellites has been completed three months ahead of schedule.

In order to carry out various technical verifications of high-speed satellite communications as soon as possible, the military attaches great importance to this, and has long prepared a rocket for the simultaneous launch of four satellites, and at the same time frees up time for the launch of these four satellites.

Yang Jie sat in the conference room and listened to the experts in the space city talking about the detailed preparations for the rocket launch, and he also listened carefully.

The orbits of the four high-speed communication satellites of the Huaxia Satellite Communications Company are very close to the orbits of the Dongfanghong communication satellites decades ago, with a perigee altitude of 385 kilometers and an apogee of 2,036 kilometers, which is an elliptical orbit that takes 110 minutes to circle once.

Compared with the previous Dongfanghong No. 1 communication satellite, this time Huaxia Satellite Communications Company has used too much new technology on the satellite weighing more than 600 kilograms.

Moreover, in order to reduce space junk, the satellites developed by Huaxia Satellite Communications Company are also equipped with ion thrusters, and after the working life of the satellites expires, these satellites will use ion thrusters to change orbits, and finally enter the atmosphere under the action of gravity and burn out.

This is also the first time that Huaxia's satellite has used ion thruster technology.

When Yang Jie mentioned this technology to Crown Prince Caliph, the latter was also quite surprised, "As far as I know, the United States has now begun to prohibit domestic companies from exporting satellite technology to Huaxia, right? How did you get such advanced ion thruster technology?"

Yang Jie smiled: "Of course, we did the research and development ourselves." In fact, our country began to research electric propulsion technology in the seventies, and successfully developed 80 mm mercury ion electric propulsion products in the eighties, but it was not used on satellites, and this scientific research team has been conducting research and development in this area, and our satellite products are equipped with 200 mm xenon ion thrusters developed by this research institute. ”

In fact, in the 80s, the technical level of domestic ion thruster products was not weaker than that of the United States, which has been engaged in research in this area since the 50s.

However, due to the technical constraints of solar cell power supply in China, ion thrusters have not been able to be applied for 80 years, and the state has also terminated the research of ion thrusters.

However, the 510 Research Institute, which undertook the research and development of ion thrusters, was optimistic about the future development of this technology, and did not disband this scientific research team, but maintained this scientific research team through self-financing, and successfully developed a 90 mm xenon ion thruster from 1988 to 1993.

In 97, the United States applied ion thrusters for the first time on the "Pan Am" 5 satellite, which caused a sensation in the world's aerospace circles, and this news made the central government restart research on ion electric thrusters.

With the previous silent technology accumulation, the 510 Institute developed a 200mm ion thruster engineering prototype in 2002.

After the establishment of Huaxia Satellite Communication Company, the use of gallium nitride solar cell technology has finally completely solved the power problem, and the 501 Institute has developed a 100 mm ion propulsion system specifically for high-speed communication satellites, which has also passed the identification test of space environmental conditions in the past two years.

Hearing such news, the crown prince of the caliph was also quite emotional: it is really remarkable that Huaxia has been able to independently develop these high-tech products and technologies under the strict technological blockade of foreign countries, and it can persist for decades!