Chapter 437: The Dilemma of the Civil Aerospace Industry
Musk's passionate speech completely ignited the heat of the whole M aerospace concept stocks.
At the same time, on the day he held his press conference, stocks including Space-X, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Bigelow, and even OneWeb instantly skyrocketed.
Smart people have realized their desire to double their assets by taking advantage of this shareholder wind, while most people who follow the trend can only become leeks in the stock market and be harvested by others (the stock market is risky, and you need to be cautious when entering the industry).
The key is that the market value of Musk's own Space-X has risen, after all, people have announced that they will study new spaceships and prepare to open the era of the national universe, but the latter companies have nothing to do with Musk, and they have taken advantage of the east wind of the new spacecraft to harvest a lot of market value.
The madness of capital is really visible.
What's even crazier is that the first four aerospace companies are just private enterprises that build rockets and space capsules, while OneWeb is just an information company that is mainly engaged in satellite networks and plans to launch more than 600 small satellites to low orbit and create a high-speed telecommunications network covering the world!
Investors are crazy, they don't recognize it, as long as it is related to the word space, they can get their favor.
For this kind of person, they are basically the life of being cut leeks, and of course, they deserve to be cut leeks......
However, for our Liu Feng and Liu Da capitalists, he will never be like Musk to show off his propaganda everywhere, nor will he unscrupulously go to the stock market to harvest a bunch of leeks.
Whether it is himself or his aerospace company under Fenghua Group, they are doing their technical work with peace of mind!
Want to make money?
Don't be too easy!
After all, for a dynamite award bigwig, as long as he releases a word, there will always be people rushing over to give him money.
What's more, Professor Liu, who has unknowingly become the richest man in China, still lacks a little copper plate in the stock market?
Therefore, Liu Feng did not know that under the impetus of well-intentioned people, his papers not only successfully attracted the attention of the White House, but also staged a national aerospace madness in the country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
At this moment, he is leisurely adding fragrance to his red sleeves, hiding in the power research institute and developing his own antimatter engine with his young sister!
However, he is leisurely, and the private aerospace capital in China wants to find him out, and he has the mind to peel and cramp.
Because, for domestic private capital, the so-called pulse energy engine is not an opportunity to open the national aerospace, but rather a one-handed talisman!
Beijing, Zero Two Space Technology Co., Ltd.
In the conference room, there was smoke, and from time to time someone could hear the sound of coughing from a cigarette.
A group of young people who are determined to build a Chinese Space-X company are frowning, watching Musk's speech on the podium and the papers written by Liu Feng.
To be honest, it is really not easy for them to get to this point.
From the CEO of the company to the most ordinary researchers, a group of young people with an average age of less than 30 years old have gathered together from all over the world - some from domestic first-class related universities such as Shuimu, Beijing Aerospace, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Western University of Technology, and some are from Sheffield in Y country, Pittsburgh in M country, Mosco Bowman and other famous foreign universities;
It is able to develop a newly established and unknown small technology company step by step from scratch to the number one of the nominal Huaguo private rocket company, and even more famous than the Xinghai Aerospace Company established by Fang Jifan!
You can imagine how many difficulties have been experienced.
And unlike Xinghai Aerospace backed by the wealth of Fenghua Group, and unlike Xinghai Aerospace with the banner of Professor Liu Feng and Professor Liu Da, at the beginning, they did not have much capital, and there were not many cattle willing to join their company.
Country M has the famous Space-X, why can't China do without?
Musk can work on rockets, why can't they?
As their leader Shu Chang said, they are willing to become the pioneers or martyrs of China's private aerospace!
Therefore, at the first time when Huaguo had just opened the threshold for private capital to participate in the aerospace industry, a group of young men with dreams took out their savings and got together, successfully took the first step, and rose rapidly in only one year, successfully raising two rounds of financing.
In the first round, Zero Two Space received more than 10 million yuan of angel round financing led by Chunxiao Capital and jointly invested by Lenovo Star and Harbin Institute of Technology Robot Group, and subsequently, it completed more than 100 million yuan in Series A financing, and the introduced institutional shareholders included Harbin Institute of Technology Robot Group, Zhengxuan Investment, Chunxiao Capital, Lushi Investment and Legend Star.
The two rounds of financing not only received financial support, but also obtained the manpower and material resources of these institutions.
From the establishment of the project to the smooth development of the rocket research and development, it only took one year to build their OS-X series rocket flight test platform!
This flight test platform, which is committed to serving the needs of global small satellites and related business needs, and can provide customers with efficient and reliable rapid launch services, has attracted the attention of all parties as soon as it succeeded.
With the advantage of low cost, they have even obtained satellite launch missions from many commercial companies in the next few years, and only after the third round of financing negotiations is successful, they will be able to show their strength and create the first private commercial aerospace intelligent manufacturing base in China, becoming the world's most famous private aerospace company in addition to Space-X!
A bright future beckons to them, but now, the so-called pulsed energy engine has given them a slap in the face.
Once this kind of space engine, which is known as a low-cost, high-thrust, and multi-platform usable space engine, is successfully developed, all traditional rockets will become obsolete and garbage in an instant!
The point is that, according to Musk, they were able to get this thing out within 10 years, and they also came up with the paper of the famous Professor Liu Feng and Liu Da as proof!
No one will doubt the strength of Musk and Professor Liu, and even if they do, they will not doubt the official aerospace dynamics of China and country M, so from the feedback from all sides, it is certain that this pulse energy engine has been hammered!
For Space Zero, which has just started, this is a bolt from the blue.
After all, what does this mean, it means that almost all of their previous investment has been wasted!
And, even more seriously, the investors of the third round of funding that they are negotiating are already hesitating!
No one wants to invest in something that has become garbage before it has been developed.
"Let's talk about it, what should we do, do we continue to grit our teeth and run our OS-X rocket, or do we start from scratch and develop the so-called pulsed energy rocket?"
In the silence of the audience, CEO Shu Chang finally took the lead in breaking the silence.
"I think we should continue to run the OS-X rocket," a technical partner gritted his teeth and said firmly, "After all, this is something that we have worked hard to develop, and it is all our hard work, and many people have even lost their fortunes for this, how can we say that we will give up! What's more, the so-called pulsed energy engine is still just a concept, who knows if it can be successfully researched!"
"Yes, I agree with Mr. Zhang's opinion!" another partner stood up, clenched his fists and said, "According to Musk's point of view, it will take about 10 years for this new engine to mature; I strongly support the continuation of our OS-X rocket!"
"But our official and even the official of country M have already determined the route of this new engine!" Another person stood up and expressed clear opposition, "It is conceivable that in the future, only pulsed energy engines will be the development trend of aerospace, and the more we invest in the OS-X rocket, the greater the losses will be at that time! I think we should also develop in this direction, instead of continuing to study the OS-X rocket!"
"What's more, if we insist on going our own way, the investors will definitely not continue to raise additional funds......
"Are they going to continue to finance us now?"
The partner just now smiled bitterly,
"This new engine, except for the power of the country or the support of local tyrants like Musk, no one can afford its research and development. I'm afraid that billions of dollars of investment can only make a splash, and it can really be developed, without hundreds or even hundreds of billions of yuan, don't even think about it!"
"What's more, we still don't know anything about the technology of this pulsed energy engine......"
Hearing the analysis of this partner, all the friends present were silent.
It's okay to talk about technology, after all, they are still young, and as long as they are willing to learn, they can always be independent, but the problem of funding is ...... None of the people present are Principal Wang, where can such capital afford to play!
As for investors, being able to invest hundreds of millions or 10 billions of dollars in rockets is already burning incense, with hundreds of billions of capital, what is wrong with investing in something, do you have to engage in this thing that I don't know when I will see a return?
Therefore, either the national capital is invested in it, or it has to have the strength to afford to play like Musk, and they have zero room and are obviously not among them......
"So, let's take one step at a time, find a way to continue to build our OS-X rocket, maybe ten years later, we have the opportunity to grow to the point where Space-X is, and then invest in the development of pulsed energy engines, it's not ......too late," the partner surnamed Zhang shook his head helplessly and suggested.
Not too late?
Is it really not too late?
Everyone was muttering in their hearts, but even the most optimistic people didn't have much hope for it.
Now it seems that in fact, it is not surprising that the financiers do not want to continue, after all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the continued development of OS-X rockets in Zero II Space is just drinking to quench thirst, even if there can be some profits in a short period of time, it is absolutely impossible to support the research and development of new rockets in the future, and when this thing is really successfully researched by others, it is their "dead date".
Is there really nothing we can do?
The young hot-blooded seems to have experienced the end of a movie "The Day After Tomorrow".
It can be seen that some people present have become disappointed in the future of Zero Space, and many people even did not say a word throughout the whole process.
Seeing this scene, as the helmsman of Zero Second Space, Shu Chang was secretly anxious.
I have to say that this is the biggest crisis that Zero II Space has encountered since its establishment, and if you are not careful, their rocket company will really die before you can get started.
It's just that, at this moment, what else can he do?
"Boss, the people from Jiangzhou Liangjiang Aviation Industry Investment Group are here, listening to their tone, they should want to give up their financing plans for us......
Just when everyone was secretly anxious, the office door suddenly pushed open, and the staff brought a message that almost made everyone desperate.
Jiangzhou Liangjiang Aviation Industry Investment Group, is the third round of financing that Zero Two Space is negotiating, if there is no such thing, they will get about 300 million funds, settled in Jiangzhou Liangjiang New Area, to create their own aerospace intelligent manufacturing base!
And now......
The ashes on his face flashed, and Shu Chang raised his head and asked, "Where is the person here?"
"It's in our reception room. The staff responded.
"Bring him to my office, I'm going to meet him in person!"
Standing up resolutely, the CEO is ready to make a final struggle.
Zero two space, it can't just fall into his hands!
"Brothers, did you just give up?"
Facing the partner who had lost confidence in the conference room, after a pause, he encouraged in a low voice,
"Do you still remember our original intention of establishing Zero Space? We are willing to become a pioneer or martyr of China's private aerospace industry!"
A firm and powerful gaze swept over the faces of everyone present, and at this moment, it could be seen why he was able to become the head of the zero space.
"We have succeeded in becoming pioneers, as for the martyrs, our people are still here, the company is still here, until the last moment, how can we say that we are finished?"
"Xiao Zhang, when Zero Two Space couldn't even afford to rent an office, and many people were about to give up, do you remember how you solved it? You said that if there is no office, we can go to the countryside to rent a farmhouse, or if it's a big deal, we can go to the bridge and go to the office under the bridge......
"Xiao Wang, before the first round of financing, when we couldn't even afford to eat a boxed lunch, do you remember how we spent it......"
"Xiao Li ......"
A must-have skill for a CEO – inspiring!
The passionate voice, Shu Chang recalled the prosperous years when the people present started a business together, and summed it up in one sentence - wash away the lead and show a plain posture, thousands of rivers and mountains are just waiting for leisure!
With his encouragement, in an instant, the strength of the friends recovered a lot, and they were full of energy, but they did not have the completely desperate look just now.
However, the comfort that ignited the mood of the whole venue could not ignite the sorrow in his heart.
The future of zero-space space,
Where is it?