In mid-March this year, the Star Arrow Heavy rocket was successfully launched for the first time and successfully recovered the core first stage and the booster second-hand rocket, making the space launch once again in the headlines of global news websites after many years.

Star Arrow International has also received countless admiration and praise, the research and development process took only five years and was completely independent, achieving a carrying capacity surpassing the Falcon 9 heavy rocket to become the world's first in service.

The successful launch of the "Star Arrow 1703" and the global swipe screen not only made the Falcon 9 rocket and SapceX company lose face when they competed together but failed to launch, but also embarrassed NASA's own son SLS, but also made the old space companies in the United States, Europe, Japan, Russia and other countries under great pressure, you know, the "Arian 6" rocket being developed by the Europeans cost more than 5 billion US dollars, and the research and development efficiency of Star Arrow International did shock them.

And as commercial space becomes more and more successful, the most embarrassing thing is NASA's SLS, SLS is a product of the space shuttle era, the goal is a new generation of magnesium country heavy rocket system, NASA hopes that it will surpass the legendary "Saturn 5" with another super money-burning Orion spacecraft to become a new generation of magnesium country lunar exploration, fire exploration and deep space exploration of the new generation of big killers.

The SLS project was approved in 2011 and has been attracting about $2 billion a year since then.

The cost of a heavy rocket of Star Arrow International is about 110 million US dollars, and the second-hand one can now be discounted by 6%, if the ultimate version of the "Star Arrow 17E" heavy rocket is successfully tested for the first time, the launch cost will be further reduced, and the days of SLS will be even more difficult, because its launch cost is conservatively estimated to be about 10 billion, can it not be embarrassing.

The news of Star Arrow International began to spread, and the domestic media were all writing reports in big books, especially from the media, which had all kinds of exaggerated headlines.

Melon-eating netizens also like to compare SpaceX's overturn and Star Arrow International's history-making, and this time Star Arrow International is finally in the headlines.

The domestic media are all reporting in big books, and the people who eat melons in the mainland are also indescribably proud, and they used to be sour SpaceX, but now it is finally their turn to be sour.

Some people are happy and some are worried, the articles in the foreign media are quite sour and vinegar, this round of competition ended with the victory of Star Arrow International, and the lively mood for them has greatly reduced the experience.

Now the pressure has shifted to Elon Musk and SpaceX, after all, it was established early, with the technical support of NASA, and it advertises itself as a leader in the industry, and the result is such a situation, which is both stressful and embarrassing.

After all, it has been fifteen years since SpaceX was founded, and Star Arrow International has only gone through five or six years since its establishment, and the gap between the current technical level and SpaceX is getting smaller and smaller, or even slightly ahead.

This means that the progress rate of Star Arrow International is much higher than that of SpaceX, and at this rate, in another five years, it will not be a comprehensive leader in all its peers?

And the person behind Star Arrow International is called Luo Sheng, a man who is good at constantly creating miracles, and such a person is really competing head-to-head, SpaceX overturned this launch experiment, and the jackpot was robbed by Star Arrow International, Elon Musk is now under pressure to imagine how much.

What's worse is that now it is not only competing with Luo Sheng in the field of private space exploration, but also rivals in the field of electric vehicles, Luo Sheng's Azure pure electric vehicle company is now worth more than 1 trillion US dollars, the market value is the first in the automotive industry, the second in the world.

On the other hand, the market value of Tesla, now in its seventh year of listing, is less than a fraction of the market value of Azure pure electric car company.

The inability to mass-produce is the biggest pain of Tesla's electric vehicles, and if it weren't for the money borrowed from SpaceX's $2.6 billion order contract from NASA and misappropriated to Tesla, I'm afraid that the pure electric car company would have gone bankrupt now.

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The Star Arrow heavy rocket launch plan ended successfully, and Luo Sheng did not stay in Qiongzhou for too long, and returned to Sioux City the next day, and the focus of his work was temporarily placed on Star Arrow International.

"Although there were some hiccups in the process of this launch plan, the result was a great success, winning the jackpot for the company, and finally having an honor to get it." In the internal meeting of the headquarters of Star Arrow International, Luo Sheng smiled at several executives and technical experts such as Yang Jian'an.

Everyone is also quite happy, they have been pressed by SpaceX before, and the days are not a taste, seeing the Falcon rocket overturned the day before yesterday, and the success of the star and arrow yesterday formed a stark contrast, of course, it is a refreshing thing.

At this time, Luo Sheng added: "There is an occasional lead, but the gap still has to be faced, the honor and achievements of Star Arrow International is one-sided, it is an indisputable fact that China's basic technology level is weak in materials and technology, and recyclable rocket technology still needs astronauts to continue to struggle, Star Arrow International is currently completely 100% domestic research and development technology has come over, I don't want to face the same as the Cote d'Azur in the key basic technology this piece of stuck neck by foreigners." ”

When everyone heard that Luo Sheng, the head of the house, was so calm, they were not too complacent, and let everyone put aside the joy of success for the time being and return to reality.

Luo Sheng spoke again: "A little ahead of SpaceX does not mean anything, Star Arrow International's total investment in space exploration is as high as $16.2 billion per year, second only to NASA's $19.3 billion, and the total R&D investment of the 'Star Arrow' project alone is more than $6 billion, benchmarking SpaceX? No, we're going to target NASA. ”

If someone else said this, they might think they were wishful thinking, but the person who said this is the richest man in the contemporary world, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and even more so in his hands.

Benchmarking NASA, at least in terms of budget, it is absolutely true, and I also know that Luo Sheng is willing to spend his money.

Luo Sheng continued: "The heavy-duty rocket 'Star Arrow 17E' is designed to allow us to gain a foothold in the field of space exploration, and what really makes us proud of the world is the super heavy rocket 'Star Arrow 20S'. ”

The so-called "Star Arrow 20S", the number "20" represents that it is expected to be finalized in 2020, and the low earth orbit carrying capacity of this rocket will reach 160 tons, which is unprecedented data, not only surpassing the "Saturn 5" 127 tons of low earth orbit capacity, but also surpassing the current NASA SLS, SLS three versions (Block I, IB, II) low earth orbit capacity ranging from 95 tons to 140 tons.

"At present, although NASA's SLS has not yet officially made its first flight, in terms of technological leadership and capabilities, 2 billion US dollars per year is also larger than the investment of Star Arrow, which is basically the world's second, and only our 'Star Arrow 20S' can suppress it, so we are not worthy of pride."

Everyone nodded silently.

But then again, in fact, this is already worth the pride, NASA is behind the current world hegemon, behind Star Arrow International is the world's richest man today, except for Star Arrow International, no private space company dares to benchmark with NASA.

But it is precisely because of this that the astronauts of Star Arrow International are full of fighting spirit.

In fact, Luo Sheng's current competitors SpaceX, Blue Origin, or Sierra Nevada, Orbital Science, and other private aerospace companies are just small bosses at the halfway level, and they should win them, these little bosses are the little brothers raised by NASA, and NASA is the big boss.

The ultimate boss is the North American military industrial system, which is the major ace enterprises, Boeing, Norge, and Lockheed Martin.

The outside world has benchmarked private space companies such as Star and Arrow International with SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Orbital Science, and has not thought about NASA or the North American military industrial system at all, because individuals feel that this is unreliable.

But Star Arrow International has such a bold idea, the dream must always be there, what if it comes true?

Otherwise, can it be worth the annual budget of more than $16 billion?

However, Luo Sheng is not in a hurry, the bosses have to be brushed one by one, and the levels have to be passed one by one.

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(End of chapter)