Secretary Huang and the people from the Ministry of Aviation Industry and the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense have been away for a long time, and the two sides have barely reached an intentional cooperation framework in the aerospace program.

The digital transmission of agricultural census satellites and the Skylink system, the investment in the entire project is quite an astonishing figure. Although the state can come up with this money, the space system will undoubtedly occupy a considerable part of the budget in the coming years, so that other projects will inevitably be affected.

If we want to not be too affected in the field of space development, we need to bring in other sources of funding and find ways to make the results of space systems marketable.

When it comes to market transformation, it is obvious that there is no more reliable authority in China than Hu Wenhai.

After some "consultations" in the reception room, Aerospace Systems and Secretary Huang and other people left with apprehension or admiration. For the problem of market transformation, the solution proposed by Hu Wenhai is really unique.

Taking the satellite images obtained by the agricultural census satellite as an example, in the normal way of thinking, except for military use and decision-making support of government departments, it seems that there is no possibility that it can be put on the market and converted into civilian use, right?

Hu Wenhai's plan for this is dumbfounded.

Who said that marketization is to transform the civilian use? Don't just stare at the one-third of an acre of land in China. How many countries in the world are able to launch satellites into the sky? How many countries are so extravagant that they can update their satellite image databases every once in a while?

The vast majority of countries do not need satellite data, but they cannot afford it!

In the application field of satellite imagery, in addition to military use, such as land and resource exploration, environmental monitoring and protection, urban planning, crop yield estimation, disaster prevention and mitigation, and other government public fields are actually in great demand.

But for the governments of the vast majority of countries, it is too cost-effective to climb the aerospace technology tree for the sake of the jobs that can be replaced by these ground projects.

But what if China's space system can build up this market? As far as satellite imagery is concerned, the cost of satellites is almost always sunk cost, and someone buys data to make money. No one buys data, and satellites in the sky won't be able to run a few batteries less because of this......

That being the case, it is a fair purchase to provide satellite imagery services to other governments at a price that they can afford. Compared with the data obtained by expensive surveying and mapping on the ground, the price of satellite imagery can be stuck at a level that everyone is very satisfied with.

And this business can not only be done once, it is not impossible to sell a piece of data twice, three times, or even a few more times.

Secretary Huang and others were amazed by this, how can this satellite image be sold except that countries have demand for their own land?

Hu Wenhai sneered at this, turned his head and asked back.

Will the Soviet Union need satellite images of the United States? Will the Americans buy satellite images of the Soviet Union? Well, even if the United States and the Soviet Union do not lack this resource, there will never be a shortage of hot spots in the international community.

For example, do you want to buy satellite images of Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, and Iraq? Do the above-mentioned countries want to buy Israeli satellite images? Conversely, Israel wants to know which specific areas of Israel the above-mentioned countries have bought? It is not surprising that the images of this part of the Middle East alone have been sold four or five times!

Furthermore, if there is another Falklands War or the Gulf War in the world, will the warring sides have no demand for satellite images? The British must want images of Argentina? If Argentina does not want its own satellite images to be leaked, it will spend a lot of money to buy out the data in our hands. This price is definitely more than the normal data transaction price.

And if there is another Gulf War, the Americans do not want to deploy and leak their own and want to silence China, what price will they have to come up with?

Hu Wenhai didn't say it, but obviously this business will be very profitable in the future. The British are finished, and the Second Falklands War may be far away. However, the time is right for the Americans to bomb the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and it may not be impossible to strike a hammer at that time.

Even in a country like Israel, why don't we offer a data preservation package? After you buy it, we guarantee that we will not provide any third party with satellite images of the designated area, how much do you think the price of this package is appropriate?

Basically, satellite images of other countries are "hostages" in the hands of satellite data service companies. Otherwise, the way to get rich is written in the criminal law. If ordinary people want to do this, they can only sit in prison. If the state is to do this kind of thing, it will suddenly become taller.

His remarks made Secretary Huang and a group of technical officials listen to it a little subversive. In general, it's not that everyone doesn't have this imagination, but just a few years after the reform and opening up, everyone's lower limit of discipline is not so low.

Mr. Hu personally demonstrated what is called "the festival of capitalists".

As for applying GPS positioning technology to cars, mobile phones, and even bicycles? As for the last idea, no matter how much they trusted Hu Wenhai, everyone present at the time said that they could not imagine it at all.

For the hundreds of billions of dollars market that Hu Wenhai claimed, no one regarded the space system as a thing. Director Qian and Secretary Huang hastily boasted about Haikou, and simply gave up this "100 billion US dollars" market to the ST Group. And the space system just laughed at his idea of a "satellite data service company".

After dividing their respective territories in this way, Hu Wenhai and Secretary Huang agreed. In the next ten years, by the 21st century, the space system will launch at least three Skylink satellites to achieve a Beidou satellite network covering the entire East Asia. By 2010, the second phase of the project will launch 40 Beidou satellites in the earth's mid-orbit, expand the coverage to the whole world, and increase the longitude of navigation to within the error level of 10 meters.

Originally, Hu Wenhai's request was that within this year and next year, he hoped to launch three Skylink satellites. However, after the tireless popularization of science by Director Qian of the Ministry of Aviation Industry, he realized that this is basically an impossible task. No matter how fast you hurry, you can't even think of going to the sky if you are a satellite in the first three years. This is a geosynchronous orbit satellite, and it is not a job that can be done by pulling it out and painting it with a lot of money.

In addition, how can it be so easy to develop a positioning system, algorithms, encryption, and atomic clocks with sufficient accuracy all need to be developed from scratch. Moreover, after some calculations by Director Qian and others, the three Skylink satellites are not enough for global networking, and can only meet the needs of China's local networking.

It turns out that Hu Wenhai is not omnipotent, and there are always some problems that he will make mistakes that he takes for granted. However, unlike those leaders who pat their heads to make decisions, Hu always has a good thing, that is, he will never ignore the laws of science for the sake of saving face. Realizing his mistake, he immediately made adjustments and willingly admitted his mistake.

The three Tianlian satellites in the early stage plus the technical development of the Beidou system should have a budget of 5 billion yuan. ST Group pays 300 million yuan per year to the aerospace system, and obtains the production authorization of civil positioning chips for Tianlian satellites at a total price of 3 billion yuan in 10 years.

The two sides reached an agreement, and Hu Wenhai sent away the satisfied Secretary Huang and his party.

When everyone was gone, Hu Wenhai turned around and grabbed the phone, and called the mobile phone of Ni Guangnan, president of the Institute of Electronics of the New Academy of Sciences.

He took two deep breaths, and then confirmed to Ni Guangnan with some trembling that the Xinke Optoelectronics National Laboratory had indeed been approved.

On the phone, Ni Guangnan's voice couldn't hide his excitement, but he still gave Hu Wenhai a preventive shot: "The situation is not so exaggerated, Changchun and Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics are not combined with us, but only as a common support unit." It's the same with Jiangguang General Factory, we can use their technical strength, but we can't manage them deeply. ”

"I understand!" Hu Wenhai laughed and interrupted Ni Guangnan's explanation: "What is the status of the two optical machine institutes in China?

Okay, this is all popping out of the pidgin demon talk!

"It is enough to mobilize the technical strength of the two optical and mechanical institutes and the Jiangguang General Factory. The development of the next generation of lithography machines and measurement gratings, I don't think I need to talk about these projects. Sub-pixel area array CCD technology, this is definitely also a key project, and I am not worried about this. ”

Hu Wenhai held the phone, circled excitedly in the office, thought about it, suppressed the thumping heartbeat in his chest, and then said.

"The state wants to develop optical remote sensing satellites, and you must know this situation. Of course, CCD and measurement gratings are the most important technologies, and the optoelectronic laboratory should go all out to tackle key problems. However, the energy of the Electronics Research Institute should not only be focused on this, I have a new project, and I need you to be able to produce results as soon as possible. ”

"Oh, Mr. Hu, you say. ”

The sound of Ni Guangnan flipping the pen and paper came from the phone, and Hu Wenhai said in a deep voice: "These are two compression algorithms, the first is an image algorithm based on DCT transformation, which uses stroke length coding and Hoffman coding for compression. The second is the file compression algorithm, which uses variable large dictionary technology to achieve a compression ratio of 30% to 70% for image files. ”

"Is this going to be applied to optical remote sensing satellites?" Ni Guangnan quickly realized the purpose of Hu Wenhai's development of these two technologies.

"Yes, when satellite imagery is compressed, the transmission pressure can be reduced to one-fifth or even one-tenth of the source file. However, this is not the ultimate goal, after mastering the image compression technology, the Institute of Electronics will continue to advance, our goal is video compression technology, and the video decoding chip developed based on this technology. ”

It is said that every penny invested in aerospace technology can bring a hundredfold return, and Hu Wenhai does not know about other projects, but every penny invested in the technological development of this "agricultural census satellite" project is obviously more than a hundredfold return.

Not to mention the digital camera developed by CCD technology, D decoding chip, future DVD video, Blu-ray encoding standard, this should be regarded as a market that he ignored before.

Hu Wenhai had so many things to pay attention to that he didn't think about video coding until then. Whether it is VCD, DVD, or Blu-ray, these technologies are not too difficult for him. At the end of the day, it's all about the material of the semiconductor laser.

VCD is 780 nm, DVD is 650 nm, and Blu-ray is 405 nm. The future application range of these semiconductor lasers is quite broad, optical storage, optical communication, optical gyroscope and optical printing, there will be a demand for semiconductor lasers, and even in lithography machines.

Like the gallium arsenide-gallium aluminum arsenic distributed feedback laser used in the blue semiconductor laser, as long as the processing process keeps up, Hu Wenhai has no pressure to come up with this technology at all. On the other hand, Suo Zhengtian's huge investment in Blu-ray technology may only be a situation in which the audio-visual market and the optical disc storage market can only be handed away.

No, or should it be said, in the field of optical disc storage, there is no possibility of being able to stick to the Blu-ray technology stage at all.

Digital cameras, VCD players, optical discs, image compression and video compression, as well as file compression, optical communication. The market and profit of these technologies invested in optical satellites alone far exceed the imagination of the Ministry of Aviation Engineering compared with the cost.

With the technical support of the two optical and mechanical institutes, not only the lithography machine technology of Xinke has been continued, but also means that a new market that has not yet been discovered has opened its arms to Hu Wenhai.

The investment in aerospace technology is the real profit.

After arranging the matter of technology development, Hu Wenhai was about to hang up the phone. Ni Guangnan suddenly hesitated and stopped him.

"Mr. Hu, are you in the magic capital? Secretary Niu has encountered something recently, you can call him if it is convenient. ”

Hu Wenhai was slightly stunned, and snorted: "I know." ”

Then he hung up.

The old governor of Bohai Province has taken a step forward this year, and Niu Jinbao did not take up his post in the Netherlands as he did in history, but succeeded the secretary and became the leader of Bohai Province.

He wanted to find Hu Wenhai, but in fact, Hu Wenhai knew about it. He has also been a little hesitant to make this call recently.

The national technology census proposed by Hu Wenhai is underway, and its power is already being felt.

In fact, not only Hu Wenhai is hesitating, I am afraid that the entire leadership above is facing these problems, and they are also a little numb.

If we say that the national economic census is to clean up the roots, it has laid a good foundation for the take-off of reform and opening up.

Then the technology census is to climb high and look into the distance, which determines how far China can go and what kind of height it can reach in the future.

But if the young eagle wants to spread its wings and fly high in the future, it must first have the courage to smash the eggshell......