Following.

At dusk, on the rooftop of the "U" shaped office building of the headquarters of Matrix Technology, Ren Hong took off by helicopter again and left the company's headquarters, and the destination of the flight was Wenchang City.

The reason why Ren Hong went to Wenchang City was because he received a notice of the first phase of satellite launches.

The major sectors of the "virtual world" project are performing their own duties and are moving forward smoothly step by step. In terms of content, Facebook and four top game developers and a studio are in full swing to enter the production stage, and the hardware is also not lagging behind, and everything is going according to plan.

Nearly half a year has passed since Zhang Han's trip to Canada in April, Ren Hong's trip to Seattle in May, after this year's Sino-US Entrepreneur Roundtable, Matrix Technology and the United States' space exploration technology company SpaceX, Laura Space Systems SS/L and the United States' Bell Labs reached a cooperation, and its first phase of satellite laying mission will be completed by the end of this year.

The first stage of laying the "virtual network" starts from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, and the first phase of the launch mission will be officially launched at about 21:00 this evening.

Ren Hong also attached great importance to this first stage of the launch, and when he received the news, he put down other affairs and came to the launch site in person. The "virtual world" project has invested too much effort in him, and the time, manpower, material and financial resources are unprecedented, and it is impossible not to pay attention to it.

"Deputy Director Kai! Hello. ”

"Mr. Ren, it's a pleasure! Fortunately! ”

At this moment, the eastern hemisphere has entered the moonlit night, but the Wenchang launch command center is brightly lit, all the staff are abiding by their posts, and there are still the last 30 minutes of time, the launch is about to begin, one by one tense nerves, this time the launch is too expensive, so expensive that no one can afford it, and there is no room for the slightest difference.

"The satellite launch is about to begin, let's go to the dome observation room." Deputy Director Kai said with a smile, and he was also very enthusiastic in the face of Ren Hong.

Matrix Technology is a very popular presence in the national aerospace field and even in global aerospace commercial activities. Nine of the world's top ten aerospace companies are full of envy and jealousy for "Laura Space Systems SS/L" to be able to take over a super fat order from Matrix Technology. Musk is even more hated by them, he was already squeezing the share of the launch market, and now he sees that SpaceX has obtained the launch order of Matrix Technology, in addition to drooling over those dollars that have nothing to do with him, he can only secretly hate his bad luck and not being favored by Matrix Technology.

Obviously, the order released by Matrix Technology is not ordinary fat, he wanted to hand over all the launch orders to the China National Space Administration, but he could only eat half of it.

But even if it is half, for the deputy director of Kai, it can only be a pity that the stomach is not less than all.

Ren Hong handed over nearly half of the orders to the China National Space Administration this time, and the order worth nearly 200 billion yuan is undoubtedly a stimulant, which greatly stimulates the commercialization of the entire China National Space Administration in the aerospace industry.

In the eyes of outsiders, the current matrix technology can be said to be where to go, where to throw the banknotes, which company or institution is not full of red light after contact with matrix technology, this is a proper real tyrant, God of Wealth!

Observation room.

Ren Hong and Deputy Director Kai stood side by side in front of the window glass, the launch site in the distance, a huge carrier rocket towering on the ground, in the dark night under the illumination of the lights is extremely eye-catching, and far away there are some local residents and even reporters in the outer areas to observe and take pictures.

The people living around are already very familiar with this situation, this situation shows that there is a rocket to be launched again, every time the Wenchang launch center carries out a rocket launch, it will be watched by the people, without him, for the local people, the rocket launch is like a spectacle that shakes the sky and the earth, every time you can't get tired of watching, what fireworks are not so good-looking.

"This is China's latest generation of carrier rockets" Long March-9 series A-class "carrier rockets, with a diameter of 9.7 meters, a height of 118 meters, a take-off mass of 2,890 tons, a carrying capacity of 170 tons in low-earth orbit, and a carrying capacity of 136 tons in high-altitude orbit, which can send objects up to 70 tons to geosynchronous orbit," said Deputy Director Kai. ”

Ren Hong nodded silently, and was very proud when Deputy Director Kai said this series of data, "The 'Long March-9 Series A-Class' carrier rocket has reached the world-class leading level, surpassing the famous American 'Saturn series' carrier rocket that has transported the 'Apollo spacecraft' in all aspects. ”

The "Long March-9 series A-class" carrier rocket is also proud of its achievements, among which the only super space station "Tianzhou" currently in orbit was launched with this series of carrier rockets, and there has been no accident so far, and it is recognized by the world as one of the safest launch vehicles in the world.

The Long March-9 A-class launch vehicle, which will be launched soon, will carry satellites up to 68 tons into a synchronous orbit at a distance of 36,000 kilometers from the Earth.

Strictly speaking, this large creature with an actual mass of 68 tons is not a real satellite, and this terrifying mass is already comparable to a spaceship or a small space station.

In fact, it has its own official name - "Tianqing System".

In the next half month, Tianqing-2 and Tianqing-3 will be sent to geosynchronous orbit one after another, so as to achieve a virtual network skeleton covering the world.

Every component on the "Tianqing System" is the world's top equipment and instruments, which contains the scientific and technological crystallization of more than 20 high-tech companies, including Matrix Technology, which is beyond doubt. If the world's first super quantum computer located at the headquarters of Matrix Technology is the matrix of the "virtual world", then the three "Tianqing systems" that will be sent into space are the descendants.

The reason why the "Tianqing system" has reached an astonishing mass of nearly 70 tons is that a quantum computer designed by D-Wave from Canada occupies nearly 40% of the mass and 55% of the main space. "Tianqing system" is responsible for connecting users and terminals around the world of the temporary data center of the transfer station and temporary storage, known as the "subbody", a quantum computer is one of the indispensable core, in addition, space signal remote sensing, photonic signal data and quantum data conversion, anti-EMP electromagnetic pulse defense system and so on and so on. "Tianqing System" contains more than 30 cutting-edge technologies of human beings, which can be described as a collection of cutting-edge technology essence.

The cost of the three "Tianqing systems" has reached 68 billion US dollars in the 500 billion US dollar budget of the entire "virtual world" project, which is almost twice the investment cost of more than 200 other satellites.

With such a high cost, it is necessary to use the world's safest and most stable and reliable launch vehicle, otherwise if the launch fails, even Ren Hong will be in pain to the point of bleeding.

"It's time for the last-minute countdown to launch." The deputy director of Kai, who accompanied Ren Hong on the tour in the observation room, said, his face was extremely solemn, and he didn't even look at Ren Hong when he said this, but stared intently at the incomparably huge carrier rocket on the launch site.

This time, the launch mission was personally commanded and led by the director, and the deputy director Kai also led many launch missions, and even once led the launch mission of the three-stage expansion of the "Tianzhou" space station.

(To be continued) (To be continued.) )