For this test flight, Infinite Future Company neither publicly publicized nor invited any media. This is also related to the purpose of this test flight: the main thing is to show strength and enhance confidence to all parties in the military and government, competent departments, etc.

After all, the company is planning to toss in a sensitive industry, and many things are groundbreaking for the first time, although there is the approval of the above, but whether it is implemented in the end, how to implement it, and whether it is implemented seriously, it must be implemented to the specific business unit after all. It's not that these units are sincere and want to go against the law, the key is that there is no precedent for many things to be done!

It is easy to see that it is difficult to overstate the difficulty of pushing things that have no precedent in doing things. Of course, everyone is happy if they do well, but if they don't do well, they have to take the blame, and if they don't do well, even the hat seat will be gone. If you don't have much courage, you just don't do it, anyway, it's not good. As the saying goes, it is normal for people to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages.

On the other hand, if you really want to make this unit in the system move in the direction you envision, several conditions are essential: first, it must conform to the wind direction or trend above; second, it was forced by the reality to the point that it was impossible not to react; The third is to let all potential allies find that what you do has a high probability of a good result, and at the same time let everyone share the benefits in the process.

I won't talk about the first point, just check it and pass.

The second point is a bit more complicated because the subjectivity and randomness are a bit stronger. Just like when the original online car-hailing was just emerging, it revitalized the black car resources in many cities, and also lured the regular taxi to join, but also caused many vulnerable groups such as the elderly to take a taxi.

Now, Infinite Future Company has the ability to create this necessary momentum with the name of the representative of high-tech enterprises in the country and even the world in the past three years.

The third point is the main reason for this test flight and the subsequent talks. At this time, in order to avoid extraneous branches, the media is naturally not used. However, a few well-established big media vaguely heard some rumors, but the interview applications sent were all politely rejected.

Despite this, the test flight still became a hot topic on the second day of the successful return, but this time the source of public opinion came from foreign social platforms. On a social platform that cannot be accessed by the domestic network, the account with the authentication information of the International Space Station astronaut Jimmy Lie has more than 700,000 followers, which can be regarded as a small Internet celebrity, and often shares some pictures overlooking the earth in space, and there will be amusing selfies of astronauts after work, and the activity of fans is relatively high. On this day, the account posted another set of photos, but this time the subject was different from the usual space scenery map:

In the background of the outline of the blue planet, two droplet-shaped vehicles occupy an ever-increasing area in the photograph from far to near, dragging their dazzling tailflames higher up. The caption reads: "Two new guys rubbed shoulders with us, guess where they came from?" ", with a detailed time of the shooting.

The power of netizens is powerful, and the power of idle and bored netizens is unlimited. When most people were still discussing whether it was the new secret weapon of the United States, less than an hour after the photo was released, there was already a mathematical touch to calculate the location of the space station at that time according to the shooting time, and according to the position of the observation window and the change in the trajectory of the aircraft, it was estimated that the take-off point of the aircraft was likely to come from China.

Two hours later, when this set of photos spread more hotly on the Internet, another image master enlarged and re-optimized the pictures to get the spray pattern on the fuselage of one of the aircraft, which was slightly blurry, but it was quickly recognized - this is the logo of Infinite Future! Although the unlimited series of drones has been banned by the United States, they are selling very well in Europe, and each drone has the same logo of this company. If you think a little more about the 8,000 (US dollars) of space tourism that has been overwhelming before, the facts are revealed.

Countless netizens from various countries asked in the comment section of this post, "Was the test flight successful?" Is it really only eight thousand? Where can I sign up? ”

At the same time, at the NASA (NASA) space station ground control base, there is a person in charge who is angrily scolding, "Which bastard sent these photos out?!" Let that bastard get out of here right now. ”

For the International Space Station, which is more than 400 kilometers above the ground, most of the accounts for its astronauts to publish information on a daily basis are hosted by ground personnel. Although the space station can be connected to the Internet and has a lot of bandwidth, the latency is high because it needs to be transferred by synchronous satellites.

To what extent, it is probably someone on the earth who sends a "are you there" to the people on the space station through the Internet, and then you can take a slow bath, and when the bathing and changing clothes are all completed, the word "are you there" may just pop up on the computer screen of the space station.

A few years ago, the United States had planned to use laser communication technology to allow the space station to access the Internet normally, but in the end, it was not known whether the cost was too high or the technology was immature.

Not to mention the Ku-band used by the space station to connect to the Internet, which is often occupied by ground command bases to transmit work data. Therefore, the graphics and texts that the space station astronauts want to send are generally packaged and transmitted back to the ground base at a fixed time, and then processed by the custodians.

Because the astronauts' popular science social accounts are not highly sensitive, the review has always been not strict, and sometimes the review supervisor is busy, so he delegates power to specific operators. As a result, this time I met a nervous person, and I sent it out directly without thinking about it. When the Internet boom hits, it's not appropriate to delete it.

NASA's information is much more accurate and rich than civilian deductions, and in fact they have obtained a video from the military. The military has arranged for a fixed monitoring satellite to be responsible for the Yidong area, and this time the aircraft was photographed in its orbit after flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters. Of course, in order to shoot the process, this satellite used reserve energy to change orbit many times, and the service life was reduced by at least five years.

NASA immediately organized experts to analyze the video, and the preliminary results were shocking: many of the technologies used did not surpass those of the United States, but this was the first demonstration by China, indicating that China has mastered these technologies and narrowed the gap between the two countries' space technology.

At this time, the official account was also used to advertise the Chinese for free, no wonder the person in charge was so angry.

After the foreign public opinion boom lasted for half a day, it also began to spread to the country, which is largely due to the emergence of small card translation software, which has greatly lowered the threshold for the flow of people in different languages. Domestic netizens no longer need to rely on professional translations, and they can pull a lot of news back.

For a time, the homepages of major domestic news websites were replaced with the news of the space shuttle test flight. The hot words on social platforms also soon had keywords such as test flight, space tourism, and infinite future.

At the cusp of the storm, an announcement suddenly released on the official website of Infinite Future Company triggered various conjectures: the prize activity carried out by the two major platforms of Neck and Q Space was successfully completed a year ago, and the names of the people with the first number of likes on the two platforms are as follows.

Their prize is well known: a free space tour once!