To be honest, Hu Wenhai is nominally the richest man in the world, and apparently he must be a business genius from the outside world. But in fact, in his heart, he prefers to see himself as an engineer.

The so-called legendary businessman and financial emperor, these are just standing in such a position, and then naturally he has the power to control the world in his hands, and at the same time has the information gathered from all aspects, even from the future, it is not so miraculous to be able to do this.

For him, only the technical transformation of the wafer factory, IGCT and IGBT, as well as the Panda fighter and CDMA baseband chips, these are the things that are truly created by him out of history, and they are the things that really belong to him.

From beginning to end, Hu Wenhai has adhered to his own positioning and trajectory without forgetting his original intention.

That is to say, technology to solve problems is always his first choice.

The market for instrumentation is very large, so big that no one company can bear it. But for Hu Wenhai and COMAC, there is no need to completely eat the entire industry. Solving the problem of aviation instrumentation is equivalent to mastering the high-end market of instrumentation, and the remaining low-end market is not a matter of course?

And since the aviation system alone cannot completely solve the problem of instrumentation today, then expand the front and pull more forces into this project. With a larger, higher-priority, and more talent-engaged project, wouldn't it be nice to solve this problem?

And how to "solve this problem by the way", Hu Wenhai immediately thought of the available projects.

After all, both aviation and aerospace carry the word "aviation".

Because Hu Wenhai came up with the technology of CCD chips early on, the agricultural census satellite using a long-line array CCD can stay in a low-altitude orbit for a long time to monitor and survey the global climate, agriculture, and oceans.

Since '86, the design of such optical satellites has been carried out inside the space system. In addition to the use of long-line array CCD chips, this kind of agricultural census satellite is actually not simple. First of all, the census mission of this kind of satellite will inevitably not be fixed, so it needs to have a good orbit change ability, and secondly, in order to reduce costs, it must have a long in-orbit service time. In addition, there are complex communication capabilities, abundant energy power and power management systems, and finally the core analog signal processing capabilities for photoelectric conversion.

The new technology fab is responsible for providing the CCD chips for the long array, but not much is known about this kind of key and confidential project.

However, at the beginning, the Ministry of Aerospace was persuaded to rely on the data transmission satellite to engage in Samsung positioning, and in the past two years, Xinke has really thrown a lot of money into the fields of orbit positioning calculation and terminal chips.

Fortunately, not to mention China, the level of mathematics is still very high, and the talent team and echelon are sufficient. Tens of millions of RMB have been thrown in, and the cooperative Xi'an Jiaotong University has made a lot of achievements.

However, the problem is that these three satellites were originally designed to be synchronous satellites for the agricultural census satellite as a communication relay, so they have become a project that is not open to the public. At present, the actual progress of the space agency's work has become a secret.

Of course, with Hu Wenhai's level of secrecy, it is obvious that he can access confidential information.

It's just that Hu Wenhai has caused trouble everywhere over the years, and there is too much information that he needs to know, and he has long been submerged in the ocean of information. If he doesn't take the initiative to understand, he will often be in a predicament where he should know but is not actually clear.

The instrumentation technology required in aerospace is obviously only possible for aviation to exceed the standard. Starting a project that combines the needs of aviation and aerospace is arguably the most familiar approach to solving problems.

In that case, why shouldn't it?

After his request, the Secretariat quickly compiled what Hu Wenhai could know.

And after getting the exact situation, Hu Wenhai realized that the world was still moving forward outside of his sight.

In fact, the agricultural census satellite using the long-line array CCD has been successfully developed a long time ago, and it has even been launched more than once!

Due to the promising prospects of the long-line array CCD survey satellite project, the country has increased its investment in the aerospace field since the nineties - mainly the petrodollar in the Persian Gulf, and many domestic projects have been revived.

In 1992, Changsanjia made its first flight, which launched a communication relay satellite Dongfanghong 3 into a geostationary orbit.

The successful first flight of Changsanjia also means that China has a stable synchronous orbit launch capability. So in 1993, the space agency released three Fengyun-2 satellites with basically mature technology in one go.

Needless to say, the Fengyun-2 agricultural meteorological satellite has been networked at this time, and this year it will provide agricultural census and meteorological remote sensing services to all countries in the world.

According to relevant reports, the business launched by the space agency has received an enthusiastic response in the international market.

The space agency, which tasted the sweetness on Fengyun-2, is in full swing to promote the Beidou satellite project at this time. After the orbital computing and terminal application chips have been completed, the launch of the Beidou system itself is imminent. 020 reading

The first star of the Beidou is really imminent, because after learning the news of China's Beidou system, the EU's Galileo system has also been officially submitted to the European Parliament. In this way, whoever can launch the first positioning satellite in China and Europe first will be able to occupy the key frequencies. To know the value of satellite frequency, it is much more precious than one or two satellites.

Maybe by 1996, China's first Beidou experimental star will be able to lift off.

Against such a backdrop, the aerospace alliance obviously has broad prospects.

"Money Bureau, we haven't seen each other for a long time!"

After Hu Wenhai learned about the situation, he immediately and decisively contacted the space agency. The year before last, the Ministry of Aerospace reformed the Bureau, and although the Money Bureau was still a Money Bureau, it was a solid step forward and became a deputy director of the Space Bureau.

To allow such a deputy director with real power to meet Hu Wenhai shows the importance of the space bureau.

"Thanks to Mr. Hu for showing us a clear way before, otherwise the space bureau wouldn't know where to ask for food today!"

The money bureau seems to be really in good spirits on happy occasions, and when he comes to the door, his face is full of red light, and he just holds Hu Wenhai's hand and shakes it for a long time.

It is not surprising that the census remote sensing business is now the cash cow of the space agency, and NASA has become a customer of the Chinese space agency, buying exclusive access to remote sensing and monitoring information in the United States. One can imagine how much attention will be paid to a department like the space agency, which eats the financial meal, to have its own income item, and it is also a foreign exchange income item.

And the money bureau was the party who took back the project from Hu Wenhai back then, and it can be said that it is natural to go further.

When the money bureau sat down, Hu Wenhai pointed to the side and began to introduce: "This is Chang Chang, the general manager of COMAC, and the money bureau is mainly responsible for earth observation projects in the space bureau. ”

"The money bureau is in our aerospace system, and now it is like thunder!"

The money bureau waved his hand again and again, crying and laughing: "I'm afraid it means that my bamboo pole is ringing!"

Chang Chang, Qian Ju and Hu Wenhai, you look at me, I look at you, and the reception room was suddenly filled with a joyful atmosphere.

"Money Bureau, Beidou is only the first step in our use of space, and our space technology is still far from Europe, the United States and Russia. ”

After Hu Wenhai laughed for a while, he restrained his smile and suddenly became serious: "The business of selling health films is what can be done in the past two years." When other people's technology catches up, or other countries' anti-satellite deployments are completed, I am afraid that the money will not be so easy to make. What really allows us to stand up straight and make money is the technology in our hands. ”

"This ...... What Mr. Hu said is. ”

Qian Ju nodded, worried: "If we want to give our business the impetus for sustainable development, it is impossible to count on such small means." ”

"So I have an idea. ”

Hu Wenhai glanced at Chang Chang, then turned to the money bureau and said: "The year before last, the country released a manned space program, this money bureau should know about it, right? Based on this plan, I have an idea. ”

"Manned spaceflight refers to the 921 project, I know this. "Although the Qian Bureau is the deputy director of the Earth Observation Project, manned spaceflight is really a big event, and of course it is impossible not to have heard of it. In fact, not only did he hear about it, but he was even a member of the leading group of the entire manned space program.

The first step in manned spaceflight is a manned spacecraft, and the space agency's plan is to achieve this within ten years.

"That's right, it's Project 921. Hu Wenhai nodded and said: "The Soviet Union once used the An-225 to carry the Buran space shuttle, and in 1993 the United States launched a satellite with a B-52, which shows that large aircraft are fully capable of rocket launches at high altitudes." If we assume that there is an aircraft that is larger and has a higher payload than the An-225, can we launch rockets in the air to help low-earth orbit satellites lift off? For example, if the low-earth orbit satellite of Beidou is launched in the air, can we reduce the launch cost? If we go further, can we return the rocket launched in the air to the ground and reuse it?"

Of course, this is entirely a vision for the future, and perhaps very far-sighted. ”

"So how about a more achievable near-range scenario?"

"ST Group has a wealth of access to the former Soviet Union and a 'good' relationship with Russia. Can we advance China's space station program on the basis of the Mir space station and the Soviet rocket engine technology?"

Hu Wenhai took a deep breath and blushed.

"I mean, can we get our station's core module into space before 2009?"