In the middle of the night, Yang Jie sat in the VIP hall of the command hall with Zeng Jiabao, Zhang Kelong, Crown Prince Caliph and others at this time, and the huge LeD screen in the hall displayed the images of the launch tower and various sensor data on the rocket.

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At this time, the rocket stands quietly next to the launch tower, and the fuel has been filled, waiting to be launched.

"Brother Yang Jie, I see that you are not very worried about the launch!"

The crown prince of the caliph said to Yang Jie.

"At this time, it is useless for me to worry about it, it is better to go with the flow, we have done everything we need to do, and leave this matter to God now. ”

Yang Jie said.

"I think your God is still very kind to you. ”

Caliph said.

After a while, the staff in the hall began the countdown before the launch.

“10…… 9…… 8…… 0, launch!"

At this time, the engine at the bottom of the rocket standing on the big screen spewed out huge smoke and fire, and the entire launch site was illuminated by strong firelight.

The rocket then roared and slowly took off into the air, the speed became faster and faster, and in the blink of an eye, the huge rocket had flown into the air, and it was still climbing.

When the rocket climbed to an altitude of several hundred meters, the radar and optical instruments of the ground tracking and control station had already captured the attitude of the rocket, and at the same time, the data from various sensors on the rocket were continuously transmitted to the command hall at this time.

Listening to the reports of various work stations in the command hall constantly reporting the reports of various tracking stations, this rocket has maintained a very stable posture for a few minutes after it was launched, and everything went very smoothly.

It takes more than ten minutes for the rocket to be launched into low-earth orbit, and the separation of this rocket from the first and second stages of the rocket is very smooth.

Every time the separation was successful, there was a round of applause in the command hall.

Yang Jie saw that Zhang Kelong was also clenching his fists and was a little nervous at this time, and he was also a little nervous and looking forward to it.

Ten minutes later, an upper-stage intelligent distributor carrying five Starlink satellites began to successfully release the first satellite.

A few minutes later, after the first satellite received the activation command from the ground control station, the solar sail was smoothly deployed, and at the same time, various data on the satellite began to be transmitted to the ground base station of Huaxia Satellite Communications Company in Xi'an.

The ground base station transmits the current status parameters of the satellite to the launch base here, because the satellite is equipped with a high-definition camera, so it is very clear to see the scene of the satellite solar sail plate being opened smoothly, and you can also see the blue earth and sunlight below.

After seeing this scene, the command hall suddenly burst into warm applause!

The crown prince of the caliph also happily shook hands with Yang Jie at this time and said, "Congratulations!"

He knew that these images were taken in real time by the cameras on the satellite, and then transmitted to the ground control station through the satellite, and then sent the signal here, which also proved that the communication satellite had been successfully activated.

"Thank you!"

Yang Jie smiled and shook hands with the Crown Prince of the Caliphate, and then shook hands with Zeng Jiabao and Zhang Kelong.

At this time, a big stone in his heart also fell to the ground.

This time, the Long March-2C carrying six satellites is the Long March-2C of the previous Iridium launch program, this rocket, which has successfully launched Iridium and its simulated satellites for 7 consecutive times, is also the first model in China to be awarded the "Gold Medal Rocket", and the launch success rate is still very high.

This type of rocket has now been upgraded, the low-earth orbit load capacity has been increased to more than 4 tons, and the weight of the Starlink No. 1 satellite is 600 kilograms each, this time in order to successfully release the five satellites, the aerospace group company has also improved the previous intelligent distributor, creatively using the layout of the support cabin plus multi-star distributor to ensure that the satellite separation speed and direction are different, to ensure the safety of separation.

In the 80s of the last century, the China Aerospace Group Corporation achieved the launch of "one arrow and three stars", and the follow-up Long March series carrier rockets have also carried out many domestic and international launch missions of "one arrow and multiple satellites", and there is still a lot of experience in this regard.

Yang Jie also asked to carry as many satellites as possible on the upper stage to reduce the launch cost, and this time five satellites of more than 600 kilograms were stuffed into the support compartment and distributor at one time, and the aerospace group company also racked its brains.

Such a big financier has to launch at least hundreds of satellites and at least forty or fifty rockets in the past few years, and the cost of rocket launch alone will cost $3 billion.

If you add the R&D, design, production and manufacturing of 300 satellites, plus the construction of ground control stations, the cost will be more than one billion US dollars.

Such a project will cost at least more than $6 billion to operate, and it will cost so much real money!

However, now Yang Jie is really not short of money, last year's dividends to his personal account were as high as more than 10 billion US dollars, these dividends are his personal wealth, will not have any impact on Huaxing Group at all, and his personal investment is still constantly bringing him profits, it can be said that he can mobilize tens of billions of US dollars in cash without using the capital of Guanghua Bank.

This is the confidence of Yang Jie to continue to lay out in some high-end industries, which really responds to that sentence: rich and capricious!

This money is Yang Jie's own money, he can spend it as he wants, and he has smashed all this money on some high-end industries, and the central government firmly supports this.

The state has so many mouths that this department has to tighten its belts if it gives more openings, so it can only adopt the same method of sprinkling pepper noodles in research and development, and the annual R&D funds allocated to the aerospace corporation are only more than one billion US dollars.

However, Yang Jie has to spend more than 6 billion US dollars at one time to develop the Starlink program in recent years, which can be said to be the largest space project in history.

The central government also gave the green light to this, after all, not any company can be as rich as Yang Jie personally.

The Asia-Pacific Satellite Company, which is controlled by Huaxia Yutong Company, is very profitable in operating communication satellites, but basically it also borrows money from banks to manufacture and launch high-orbit communication satellites, and this is also the practice of this communication satellite operating company.

The Asia-Pacific Satellite Corporation is now making a lot of money every year by providing radio and television, mobile cellular backhaul and other services to television stations in the Asia-Pacific region, with revenue exceeding more than $16 billion last year, but it can't do it if the company wants to spend billions of dollars all at once.

Moreover, the business content of Huaxia Satellite Communications Company basically does not overlap with the Asia-Pacific Satellite Company, and the Starlink network focuses on high-speed satellite broadband services, and will not directly compete with the Asia-Pacific Satellite Company, and the Asia-Pacific Satellite Company is also one of the shareholders of Hughesnet.

The original Huaxia Yutong and Telecom, Mobile, Unicom, Netcom, Tietong are the six major basic telecommunications operators, in the Huaxing Group and the Aerospace Group Corporation together, Huaxia Satellite Communications Company has also obtained the first type of basic telecommunications business license, can operate satellite mobile communication business, satellite fixed communication business nationwide, become the seventh largest operator.

At that time, Huaxia Yutong Company also filed a lawsuit with the Aerospace Group Corporation and Huaxing Group Company for this reason, but Huaxia Satellite Communications Company still obtained a satellite license, but the company's business and the business of Yutong Group Company could not overlap.

Huaxia Yutong's Asia-Pacific Satellite now has three high-orbit communication satellites, but these satellites are communication satellites imported from Lockheed Martin and Alenia Space, and even the communication satellites designed and manufactured by themselves rely on the import of some core components.

The core components of Huaxing Group in the Starlink satellite are all independently developed, especially the W-band UHF communication technology, which is not even available to the top satellite manufacturers in Western countries, which has also greatly boosted the confidence of the central government.