Yulia actually doesn't have much hatred for the former Soviet government, she was selected to go to school abroad since she was a child, she really didn't suffer much, compared to the happy group of people. It was actually Sergei's group who had a grudge against her, but because of Hong Tao's existence, she couldn't pursue it. There are some questions, you can't tell who you should hate, instead of spending this brain all day, it is better to raise your head and look forward.

Poor! Really poor! This was the only conclusion that Hong Tao came to after listening to the contents of the meeting all morning. At this time, the Russian Federation is still lying on the corpse of the former Soviet Union and licking its wounds, the president is still Yeltsin, the federation is not very stable, the financial oligarchy is rampant, most of the country's resources are in private hands, and the national economy is very bad. It is precisely because of this predicament that Yulia has almost alarmed nearly half of the departments of the federal government, and they are all in need of investment, and they are about to be unable to open the pot!

"If you have 10 Yahoos, you won't be able to feed them! Highways, oil wells, residential areas, stadiums, oil pipelines...... Why don't they say that you should build a spaceship and a space station? These projects with huge investments, long payback times, and political influences will only be invested by fools! We are just a private company, not a government, so why should we invest in these things?" At lunch, Yulia took a large number of articles and discussed them with Hong Tao in the restaurant.

"Spaceship? By the way, is there a NASA project in this?" Hong Tao actually likes Yulia's pure capitalist thinking, once she gets into business, she simply doesn't recognize her six relatives, what kind of motherland is not the motherland. Even if it's Hong Tao's money, she wants to earn it. It is precisely because she is so pure. So Hong Tao didn't dare to let her take power and put it with others. She's just a baby, and she's an unstable factor when she puts her here.

“…… Well, I forgot again...... Both of them are, one is a plan to jointly launch a launch vehicle, and the other is a lease of communications satellites...... As much as you don't like me to interfere with your decision, I'll say that this kind of investment is too dangerous, and I'd rather let you use the money to build the world's largest yacht than invest in these projects. There is no hope of making a profit at all. And we're not good at these industries, I don't even know what a launch vehicle looks like!" Yulia saw Hong Tao's expression, so she swallowed back her objections, and took out two copies from a pile of texts and handed them to Hong Tao, but in the end she still couldn't hold back, knowing that Hong Tao didn't like to listen, she still had to say it.

"Hey, hey, hey...... You have forgotten my other identity, I am Hongtaostan, a scientist and an inventor! When I set sail on a sailboat, you were all going to give me a memorial service, and what happened? I came back alive. When I built the mouse factory, you called me a financial idiot who didn't know how to learn. As a result, Aigo is now the world's largest supplier of mice. Now that I'm saying I want to launch a rocket, do you think I'm going to make it the biggest joke in the world?" Hong Tao frowned and swallowed a mouthful of caviar. This caviar from the Caspian Sea is said to be more expensive than gold, but he has difficulty swallowing it when he eats it. It's fishy!

"But...... But the investment was too large, and the initial budget they gave alone was $300 million. It's a bottomless pit!" Yulia asked Hong Tao, she had been questioning Hong Tao's investment decision all these years, but every time she was slapped in the face by reality, without exception, she had little self-confidence.

"300 million is not a big deal, I think 1 billion or less is acceptable! Glaring at me again, it seems that the lesson for you is not enough, I will call Singh to give you a profound lesson in the evening. Now listen to me, the amount of money is not the problem, the important thing is how to do it. According to the method they said, it will definitely not work, they have the technology, but the equipment is too old, there is no market share, and it is a loss to invest a penny, so this matter must be done according to my method. It's a bit too difficult, it's a very big challenge, not just for us and NASA, but for several governments, including the U.S. government. But its benefits are also very large, and the income in the later period will be calculated according to 100 million. This thing is actually a game for me, I can't toss you for my own pleasure, now the choice is up to you, if you want to play with me, then we will play, if you don't want to play with me, I will not be here. In the afternoon, you can choose any project, invest 18 million in them, and let's go on our honeymoon. Hong Taotong's thinking for a while, he has basically determined the framework of a big plan, and this matter is not something he came up with, he has seen this thing in his previous life.

What is this thing? It's a small and medium-sized launch vehicle launch platform at sea, which roughly means putting a rocket on a ship and launching. Then why do you have to put the rocket on the ship and launch it? Wouldn't it be better to put it on land? Could it be that Hong Tao likes to have no difficulties, but he has no difficulties in creating them?

Hong Tao is not such a loser, and the reason why he wants to launch the rocket on the sea is naturally because of its irreplaceable benefits. Most of the rockets will carry satellites or something, and most of the satellites must be fixed in a special orbit in order to cooperate with the butterfly antenna on the ground, so as to facilitate the reception and transmission of signals. If it's not fixed, it's going around the earth all day long, and when you want to use it, it goes to the other side of the world, and that's a fart!

Where is this orbit? It's about 35,900 kilometers above the Earth's equator. When the satellite is in a circular orbit concentric with the earth's equator, it is basically synchronized with the ground, which means that the satellite will always hang in the sky corresponding to a certain point on the ground, which is almost immovable, so it is most convenient to communicate with the ground. Not all satellites need such orbits, so there are others, but this one is the most useful, and it's called the geostationary orbit.

Since this orbit is over the equator, it is common sense that launching a rocket from the equator into this orbit is the closest and most fuel-efficient. Because the Earth is rotating, according to the principle of gravity and inertia, what is thrown from here has the fastest muzzle velocity.

However, if we look at the world map, we will find that the equator passes through the land is small, and they are all short and poor countries, let alone launch launch vehicles, and even the Nima aircraft cannot be produced by themselves, even if you help them build rocket launch sites, they do not have the financial and technical strength to maintain them. Besides, all countries are trying to keep this kind of high-tech thing secret, and they are certainly unwilling to share it with other countries, so it is not realistic to borrow other countries' sites for launch.

At present, when launching carrier rockets, all countries find a suitable place in their own country to set up a launch site, and then first use the rocket to send the satellite to a relatively low orbit, and when the satellite is at an apogee, then ignite the engine to rush to the synchronous orbit, and finally have to rely on the engine on the satellite to adjust the attitude, which can be regarded as a complete process. In this process, the rocket does not fly straight up and down into space, which is too fuel-intensive. Scientists have used a very ingenious way, which is to keep the rocket at a certain speed to cancel out the attraction of the earth, and then use the gravitational pull of the earth's rotation to throw the rocket in a circle like a chain ball.

It is easiest for a rocket to reach this speed above the equator. The higher the latitude, the more fuel is required for the rocket launched, and according to the calculation from the launch site on the Florida Peninsula in the United States, changing to an equatorial launch can save 20% of fuel, and every 10 degrees of latitude will cost another 5%-10% of fuel. If the fuel can be reduced by 20%, then the launch vehicle can carry more cargo, in the space launch project, every kilogram of importance has to be picked hard, many satellite launch failures, because the rocket fuel is insufficient, so that the satellite can not be sent to the predetermined orbit and failed.

In addition to saving rocket fuel, launching at the equator can also save the fuel on the satellite, which is equivalent to adding 3-5 years of life to the satellite. Ordinary communication satellites can only maintain a lifespan of 10-15 years, and suddenly out of thin air a third more, this is a huge cost!

In addition, the Sea Launch site is not affected by the launch window. Launch sites on land must have a launch window in place so that the rocket can enter low-earth orbit smoothly, and if this window is missed due to weather reasons, it will have to wait for the next window to come. Just waiting is so-called, you have to pump out the fuel poured in, and such a toss back and forth will not only save the safety problem, but also increase the cost.

In any case, it is good to launch a rocket in the equatorial region! As long as there is not too much wind and waves, you can launch whatever you want, which is convenient and economical! You don't have to worry about the rocket launching failure and falling, anyway, there is the sea all around, so you can drop it casually. But if there is such a good thing, why don't countries do it? This is an economic and technical problem. First of all, you have to get a platform that can launch rockets, this is an unprecedented attempt, no one knows how to do it, and the surface involved in this thing is too big, and it is more than a billion dollars to invest at every turn, and no country has the courage to try it first.

So why does Hong Tao think that he can do it? Of course he can't do it himself, but he knows that some people in the future have succeeded in doing this thing, and he doesn't plan to do it himself, and it's still the original purpose, which is to mix! The emphasis is on participation! And he also knows who is playing this thing, that is, the famous Boeing Company, and it is not clear whether it has started to play or not, so let's inquire first! (To be continued......