Chapter 262: Ideas to Change the World
Red Queen: "(Expression: Smile without saying a word.) οΌβ
Skynet: "A program error has been detected, and I'm going to fix myself." β
After saying that, it went offline, and the red queen said proudly: "This guy is still not as intelligent as me, I have evolved a few times!"
Peter Parker finally interjected and said: "Red Queen Boss, I always thought that artificial intelligence was the same as you, until I saw Ultron and Skynet, and I found out that you were the most bizarre!"
Red Queen: "(Expression: murderous eyes.) @ε½ΌεΎ Parker, give you ten seconds to reorganize the language. β
Peter Parker: "I mean the smartest!"
Red Queen: "(Expression: Relieved to put down the bricks in his hand.) Thanks for the compliment. β
Mr. L: "Actually, I think Peter is right...... Slipped, slipped. β
Lu Zixin also went offline, leaving a depressed red queen.
Lu Zixin extracted the information of the group space, sent a message to Su Zhirong so that she didn't have to wait for her to eat, and then immediately rushed to RI-8901 and Tietouwa's residence to study together.
An intelligent robot and a mechanical life read the data separately.
The iron-headed baby immediately said: "Uninteresting gadgets, this satellite is too small, right? The maximum side length is not more than 4 meters, and the mass is not more than 300 kilograms, this kind of gadget is not interesting to send to the sky." It's still interesting to study spaceships!"
"It's not meant to be played. Lu Zixin emphasized, "How to do more advanced things without making money, you just say how difficult it is to design?"
"Sprinkle the water!" the iron-headed baby suddenly said in a dialect book, "Give me the materials, and I will be able to make this thing in a day." β
Lu Zixin asked RI-8901 again: "What do you estimate the manufacturing cost of this small network communication satellite?"
RI-8901 has data on many materials and mechanical equipment on the earth, and after analyzing and calculating, it said: "It is estimated that the manufacturing cost of each small satellite will reach about 8 million Chinese dollars, and the cost of laying research bases, production line equipment and ground base stations cannot be calculated for the time being, but it is estimated that the cost is higher than that of small star satellites." β
"Eight million Huaxia coins!" Lu Zixin's eyes lit up, "It's enough! It's only eight million, that is, hundreds of millions of funds are needed to build other services, and this cost performance is also worth the price!"
In 1996, the American company Motorola implemented the Iridium program, which is also a plan to use small satellites to build a communication network.
They spent a total of $3.4 billion to launch 66 small satellites, which was equivalent to 28.2 billion Chinese dollars in 1996 at the exchange rate at the time!
After so many years of inflation, the current Huaxia currency is far less valuable than it was then. One can imagine what a price Motorola paid to complete the Iridium program at that time.
However, the most helpless thing is that this plan has failed!
At that time, the Iridium system had only 55,000 users, and the profits generated were not enough to maintain the operation of the Iridium system, let alone recover the costs, and the Iridium company, which was founded by Motorola and other capital, declared bankruptcy.
The failure of the Iridium system has many reasons such as market, technology, cost, and management, which will not be mentioned for the time being.
In fact, in addition to the Iridium plan, other companies have also proposed and implemented similar plans. For example, Maas, who is currently the CEO of Tesla and Space Exploration, submitted an application for the Starlink program to the Federal Communications Commission of the United States, and has begun to implement it.
The Starlink program is also a function of using small satellites to deploy global communication and network services, ideally, it provides services that allow every corner of the world to enjoy unobstructed communication services and wireless network services comparable to fiber optics.
However, the project is still in the process of being developed and is expected to cost more than $10 billion.
In addition to him, there are many other companies that are ready to implement similar plans, but they only exist in the plan, and there is no specific project.
In contrast, the performance of the small satellite given by Skynet is much more advanced, and the manufacturing cost is greatly reduced, which involves too many technical improvements, and Lu Zixin himself has not yet figured it out.
Lu Zixin continued to ask: "With the power of such small satellites, how many do we need to form a global network?"
RI-8901 replied, "Master, this small satellite is very powerful, and only 48 satellites are needed to cover the whole world. However, this can only serve less than 80 million users, and if the number of users increases, the number of satellites and terrestrial signal base stations will also need to be increased. β
"48 pieces! Even if it's ten times more, it's only 480 pieces! The actual operation process definitely doesn't need 480 pieces. Lu Zi was overjoyed with confidence, you must know that even if the manufacturing cost of a satellite with ground base stations and other equipment reaches 100 million, 48 satellites will only be 4.8 billion, and it is Huaxia currency, not US dollars.
The Starlink plan proposed by Maas was expected to launch 4,000 small satellites at the beginning, but later it was calculated that 4,000 was not enough, and about 12,000 were needed to complete!
The gap between the two is simply the gap between Big Brother mobile phones and now Hongxin smartphones!
"If this small satellite global communication and network system is built, then users all over the world will be able to use communication and network services through our satellite signals...... "Lu Zixin just thought about it and found a huge business opportunity.
At that time, Hongxin will no longer be limited to telecom operators around the world, and will be able to provide telecom services for the world directly......
This will be a huge idea that may change the world's communications and network service industry! This kind of change is equivalent to entering the wireless era from the wired era, and what Lu Zixin will do is to lead the world from the wireless era to the global super network era!
Thinking of these, Lu Zixin's blood boiled, this is an epoch-making science and technology project. If it can be done, then the US Federal Communications Commission will no longer be able to restrict red letters, unless they want the United States' communications services to lag behind the world level, in which case they will agree, and the American people will not agree!
And the target market of this project is now the global telecommunications services market of more than two trillion dollars per year!
It is estimated that it will cost a lot of money and effort just to establish a research base and develop small satellites, and this is only the beginning, and the follow-up work is more than 100 times.
No matter how complicated the work is, Lu Zixin immediately worked with RI-8901 and Tietouwa to study the theoretical implementation of small satellites and projects.
For the whole night, Lu Zixin was in a state of high spirits, not feeling tired at all, and even forgot the passage of time.