This incident did not stir up much turmoil within the two companies, and what should be done is still the same, and it has not been affected.

Such calmness lies in having confidence.

If it were other companies, I am afraid that at this time, it would have been like a great enemy, and the Cote d'Azur and Bluestar Technology did not treat this matter as the first priority at all.

However, the outside media took this matter very seriously, and many people were enthusiastic about Luo Sheng, and it was indispensable to discuss (si) and (bi).

"The biggest technology monopoly is probably the most commonplace thing in the Internet experience today, and this is due to the nature of the industry."

"Alphad browser is indeed a monopoly product, and under the existing Bluestar technology product attributes, it is difficult for you to say whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, as an ordinary user, in addition to expecting these monopoly giants not to do evil, have a conscience, really can't do anything else, very helpless, but this is a fact."

"But then again, we still have a lot of confidence in the archbishop, at least we can rest assured that Blue Star Technology and the Cote d'Azur are at the helm of the archbishop, and the archbishop is only in his early thirties, which means that this problem will be worry-free in forty or fifty years."

"Fighting for a truly open web? This is a high-sounding statement. ”

"So what should I do, competition can only be like this, and I have to be considerate of Google's difficulties."

"Also, what is the so-called monopoly investigation? It's all used to rectify opponents, so many companies in Silicon Valley have monopolized for decades, and I haven't seen them split up, and even the boiling Microsoft monopoly case back then was just a matter of Gates being dismissed. ”

"What are you kidding, in today's era, you don't expect small companies to take on this big responsibility in transnational competition, so even if you know that it is an absolute monopoly, you will not split your own company, a fool will do this, which is equivalent to abandoning your martial arts, and what will you do to compete with those multinational giants when the time comes? The result is one by one. ”

"It's just that after some companies become bigger, they forget the responsibility and mission they shoulder to become bigger, and the country wants you to be big because it wants you to PK with those multinational giants, but it turns out that it is a good hand in the nest, and it is not good for internal hardness, and it is not good for external softness."

"The Archbishop is the most reassuring thing to look at, and that's why we support him, and we've been on the front line. Without him in front, he absorbed almost all the firepower, and there were basically few who could fight behind him. ”

"So even if you don't support it, you must not denigrate it."

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Just when the outside world's vision was attracted by the scientific and technological community and the king of understanding, a big event happened in the aerospace industry, and it quickly attracted the attention of the media.

On January 29, a modified version of the Falcon 9 rocket successfully put a $189 million satellite from Google into orbit and achieved rocket recovery, further winning the market's confidence.

The news has also spread across the ocean to the mainland.

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Star Arrow International Headquarters.

"The cause has been identified, and it can be determined that the temperature of the rocket's liquid helium is out of control, which caused the explosion to occur before the launch platform was launched."

The person who spoke was a scientist from the Star Arrow International Rocket Recycling Technology Development Department, and at the moment seven or eight technical experts in the aerospace field were discussing the results of the investigation, and the chief scientist of the Rocket Recycling Technology Development Department was called Yang Jian'an, who was also the chief designer of the Star Arrow International Heavy Rocket "Star Arrow" series.

"The problem is summarized, all the reasons for the failure have been found, and the launch mission in March must be foolproof, if I fail again this time, I will not only have no face to ask Mr. Luo for money, but I will also not be able to be the chief division." Yang Jian'an looked at everyone and said very solemnly.

Everyone is under pressure, especially the news that SpaceX has just passed from across the ocean, which has made everyone in the "Star Arrow" project department even more stressed.

The failure of this launch experiment not only failed to launch the rocket, but also compensated a satellite worth up to $210 million from Bluestar Technology, with an overall loss of $330 million.

Since the launch of the "Star Arrow" series of heavy-duty rocket projects, 45.97 billion yuan has been burned, and this kind of investment has left the national aerospace far behind, and you must know that the national aerospace budget invested about 13 billion yuan last year.

Over the years, since the establishment of Star Arrow International, the lineup of its scientific research team has not been weaker than that of the national team, and sufficient R&D funds and high treatment have attracted a large number of aerospace talents to join Star Arrow International.

Up to today, Star Arrow International has not made a penny, and the word "profit" has never been thought of at all, such a high investment is completely the result of Luo Sheng's two group companies and family funds constantly transfusing blood, which makes Yang Jian'an and these scientists have the capital to blow up rockets in a fancy way.

And the "Star Arrow" series has come to this day on the road of research and development for so many years, every step is not easy, no one helps, can only rely on their own perseverance, little by little groping forward.

SpaceX has NASA's technical support behind it, and behind Star Arrow International, except for Luo Sheng, the gold owner's father, the China National Space Administration can't help much technically, because the entire China is lagging behind North America in the field of aerospace science and technology, and the team is also facing this gap.

Luo Sheng's specialty is in the field of artificial intelligence, and aerospace is not his strong point, so he can't help much technically, and he can't be busy, so he can only rely on "money ability" to pile up.

At the same time, we should increase the intensity of personnel training and encourage outstanding students to devote themselves to basic scientific research, rather than squeezing into economic management and finance.

Then it is necessary to improve the treatment of scientific researchers, fortunately, Luo Sheng has money, and he is willing to invest in Star Arrow International.

The "Star Arrow" project began to enter the experimental stage in July 2012, and it took nearly a year to conduct 10 experiments to verify whether the engine codenamed "YF-127" can meet the recovery conditions in terms of thrust adjustment function and landing support.

In July 2013, the first soft landing attempt was made, and although the rocket successfully completed the ignition deceleration during the recovery process, it failed to control the attitude of the rocket and finally exploded, recovering a pile of scrap copper and iron, and the first attempt ended in failure.

After learning the lessons of this failure, the second soft landing attempt began in March 2014, this time the rocket attitude control spacecraft was perfect, achieving a series of maneuvers such as a predetermined U-turn, entering the atmosphere, and soft landing.

This momentum was then tested twice in July and September, further improving the accuracy of the soft landing, which laid the foundation for the recovery program that followed.

At the beginning of 2015, after Yang Jian'an's team confirmed that it had accumulated a certain amount of experience, the "Star Arrow" finally began to try to recover the rocket on the offshore platform, but because the rocket did not control the speed before landing, it was directly smashed on the barge at sea and exploded during the first recovery.

What makes the team more relieved is that the SpaceX company next door is also conducting launch experiments on offshore platform recovery rockets during this time, and seeing that they also failed, my heart suddenly balanced.

In April, the second experiment was carried out, and this time a pair of scrap copper and rotten iron were harvested again because the landing attitude was not well controlled.

Fortunately, rockets are much cheaper than traditional rockets, and there are several traditional rockets on the top of the bomb, Luo Sheng said that he can accept it, and my brother has the money to blow it up for you.

After two consecutive failures, Yang Jian'an's team improved and optimized the connection device of the rocket, and the third experiment was carried out as scheduled in July 2015.

What was supposed to be a history-making third launch attempt was wiped out when the rocket accidentally exploded less than three minutes after launch, this time with a direct loss of more than $78 million.

The three successive failures made Luo Sheng feel depressed, and Yang Jian'an's team was also demoralized, so they had to be appeased and encouraged.

After a series of failures, Yang Jian'an's team did not immediately carry out the fourth experiment, but gave a dead order, it was necessary to thoroughly investigate the cause of the explosion accident, and no more launch experiment plans would be carried out without understanding the reason, which also led to the subsequent launch plans were all shelved.

First, it is impossible to take the problem to the sky, and secondly, Chief Yang Jian'an himself is also very distressed about the funds, although Luo Sheng in Star Arrow International guarantees that they have money to burn, but a bomb is a direct loss of hundreds of millions, not counting other sunk costs and time costs.

During the six-month-long investigation of the accident, there was good news from peers, Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos, announced in November 2015 that it had successfully recovered its own "NewShepard" rocket on an offshore platform, and released the video footage to the public.

This feat directly surpassed Luo Sheng's Star Arrow International and Elon Musk's SapceX company, and the bald Bezos took the lead in becoming the first person to recover rockets.

This is something that no one expected, I thought it was SpaceX that won the title, but Bezos quietly made a big news.

At the same time, the pressure on Yang Jian'an's team in charge of the "Star Arrow" project can be imagined, including SpaceX, which also feels the pressure brought by Blue Origin.

However, during this half-year-long investigation, Star Arrow International was not idle.

In view of the problems exposed in the explosion, Yang Jian'an's team made a comprehensive improvement to the "Star Arrow" heavy rocket, greatly improved the reasoning of the rocket, and took a series of external devices required for recovery as the standard configuration of the new rocket, and the new version of the "Star Arrow" was finally recovered on land again at the end of December 2015.

However, this is just a starting point, and being able to recycle on land does not mean that it can be recycled in an uneven sea, but being able to recycle at sea has a greater significance.

After the team regrouped again, Yang Jian'an decided to continue trying to recover the rocket on the offshore platform, a hurdle that could not be avoided no matter what.

However, as fate would have it, in the following 2016, it experienced two more failures, and the good news from the SpaceX company next door had already arrived, which made Yang Jian'an's team feel pressured to breathe.

In the second half of the year, Star Arrow International finally crossed this hurdle and finally realized the first recovery of rockets at sea.

Although the successful recovery of the rocket at sea this time does not mean that the technology has matured.

At the same time, SpaceX also completed its own launch mission, and this private space race intensified, with Star Arrow International, Blue Origin and SpaceX all desperately trying to catch up with their opponents or continue to lead their opponents.

And in January this year, shortly after the successful launch of SpaceX, Elon Musk once again announced to the world that SpaceX is the king of this field.

The real highlight is 2017, when Starship International and SpaceX compete for an important "first" title in the history of human rocket launches.

That is, to launch again with a "used rocket" and to successfully recover it again.

The previous rocket was successfully recovered, but not reused, and this time it was completely different.

Star Arrow International's launch mission in the next March is to reuse the rocket recovered at sea last year, and it has undergone nine months of refurbishment, inspection and testing and passed these procedures, and will be launched again in the following March.

If Star Arrow International's launch mission in the next 3 months is successful, it will be the 9th successful recovery of the 16th rocket recovery program since the establishment of the company, and if it is successfully launched one step ahead of SpaceX, it means that it is the first time in the history of human rocket launch that a second-hand rocket has been successfully recovered.

This is not just a matter of competing for the jackpot, the meaning behind it is to compete for talents, the more the company's honor is a manifestation of strength, the more talents can be attracted.

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