Cao Yang remembers that there was a picture of a rocket launch in a previous geography book.

Although it is only a picture, the scene makes people feel like they are in it.

Five, four, three, two, one!

Launch!

The countdown to the launch that comes to mind is exciting.

There was a loud roar, and the rocket rose from the ground.

The launch center in the picture is located between the mountains, and there is a loud roar, and the rocket rises from the ground.

The shock of the rocket tail flame combined with the huge roar makes people feel surging and their eyes moist.

The huge rocket was like a meteor, streaking across the sky, radiating ten thousand golden rays of light in space.

Since Daystar Technology Group regards the recyclable rocket as its "third bomb", it naturally wants to make a few renderings.

Then add the animated picture of the scene of the simulated rocket launch, and the visual impact will be very different.

After the relevant pictures were released, many employees of Nanshan Group naturally forwarded them one after another.

And when Cao Yang forwarded it, he simply wrote a sentence: [The high-thrust recyclable rocket Qixing 9 is coming!] 】

In less than ten minutes, Daystar No. 9 was on the hot search.

Not only did its popularity instantly rush to the top of the list on Weibo, but it was also among the best in Du Niang's hot words.

The black Daystar No. 9 gives people a different feeling, with a stronger sense of technology and more mystery.

"This rocket looks a little special, huh?"

"How can there be a black rocket? The editor is too perfunctory, right? ”

"Recyclable rockets? Mr. Cao's heart is too big, right? ”

"Mr. Cao, this is to learn from Musco, be careful that the steps are too big and the eggs are pulled!"

"When will there be any private enterprises in China that can produce rockets?"

"Are you sure this isn't an in-game picture? Why was I so surprised when I saw it? ”

"Just build a car well, what kind of rocket are you going to do, don't do your job!"

"Mr. Cao, there is no place to burn this money, so he actually went to make a recyclable rocket!"

"The polar bear has given up the technology back then, but I didn't expect Daystar to want to pick it up."

"How do I feel like a big ICBM for such a long guy?"

"The Nanshan Group has just been split, and it has started to make trouble."

……

All kinds of comments, some slanderous, some hostile, some nervous, all kinds of things.

For Chinese netizens, a private enterprise started to engage in rockets, or it seems to be a very difficult high-thrust recyclable rocket, which is unreliable no matter how you look at it.

"Mr. Cao, is this the rocket used by our Starlink satellite launch?"

"It looks very domineering, and it makes people's blood boil."

Li Su called Cao Yang as soon as possible.

Although Geely does not have a large stake in Daystar Aerospace, it is also one of the shareholders.

He must be very concerned about when the Starlink system can be officially established.

Such a great thing, he was able to participate in it, and Li Su was also honored.

"That's right, one of the main missions of Daystar 9 in the future will be to launch Starlink satellites."

"The rockets with greater thrust in the future will be considered for entering the moon and Mars, so that our footprints will be completely stepped into space."

Since Cao Yang is ready to make a big deal of rockets, he must do a good job of this thing.

Nanshan Group has been developing for more than ten years, and the technology accumulation in all aspects has been relatively profound.

Coupled with his own personal participation in it, under the same "guidance", the rocket development speed can definitely be faster than that of SpaceX.

Don't look at the sky, there is no end.

However, the airspace suitable for satellites is actually limited.

If Daystar Technology Group's Starlink system is really successful, then it can basically occupy all the airspace suitable for satellite stays above the earth.

That's when it gets interesting.

Are other countries going to launch satellites?

Will there be a collision with the Starlink satellite when the satellite is launched, or will there be a danger of collision if it is too close?

In fact, there are a lot of hands and feet and stories that can be played.

Why is Cao Yang in a hurry to try out the Daystar 9 this year and start the official launch next year, isn't it just to seize the opportunity?

Regardless of the fact that mankind has been engaged in satellite research for decades, the number of satellites that have actually lifted off is not very large.

If the Starlink system deploys more than 10,000 satellites, it will directly exceed the number of satellites in other countries in the world combined for so many years.

This meaning is definitely not ordinary.

"Mr. Cao, how long will it take for this Daystar No. 9 to be produced?"

Li Su is also a person who has a fantasy about space.

He can't wait to see the day when Daystar 9 will be launched.

"If it is soon, it will be ready for production in the second half of this year, and the preliminary design work has been completed, and the next step will be to start making parts soon."

"Once the samples are produced, there will be some assembly verification and testing, and finally a trial launch."

"After improving the problems found in this process, we can officially mass produce, and then carry our Starlink satellite to officially launch the mission."

Compared with the development of rockets, the research of satellites is much easier.

After all, the technology in this area is relatively mature, and the satellite that Daystar Technology Group has engaged in this time is not very special.

Now the main thing is to see when the rocket is done.

Otherwise, it will be bad to launch satellites at that time as well as fireworks.

"So fast?"

Li Su was taken aback.

Although he knew that before the establishment of Daystar Technology Group, Nanshan Group was already recruiting people to develop aerospace-related products, but he still couldn't believe that there were results so quickly.

Since its establishment in 2002, it took eight years for SpaceX to successfully launch the Falcon 9.

This is still the Falcon 9 that does not have a recyclable function, and it is not an improved model from the future.

Now Daystar Technology Group is indeed more than twice as fast as others, and this year it will start to try to make Daystar No. 9.

It's a bit unbelievable.

Could it be that the technical strength of Nanshan Group has really reached this level?

A sense of powerlessness suddenly rose in Li Su's heart.

In the future, Geely Automobile no longer seems to have to compete with Nanshan Automobile Group.

Everyone's technical background is not a level of existence at all.

If you force you to compare, you will make yourself uncomfortable.

"It's not very fast, it took several years before and after, and so many technicians worked together, and this year's production of samples is normal."

"When the time comes, when Daystar 9 is launched, Mr. Li, you have to come to the scene to watch it together."

Cao Yang was in a very calm mood, and he was not worried at all that he would fail at that time.

Even if it fails unexpectedly the first time, as long as it is improved, it will definitely succeed in the end.

After all, this Daystar 9 itself borrows some designs from the mature Falcon 9 and optimizes it on its basis.

For example, the rocket shell ditched cheap stainless steel in favor of high-end carbon fiber.

This change alone has a very large effect on the weight reduction of the entire rocket.

The thrust of the Falcon 9 is less than 2,000 tons, but the Daystar 9 can do about 2,000 tons.

The difference is quite big.

Of course, this solution can also be used by Daystar Technology Group, and if it is placed on Space Exploration Technology Company, if a large number of T1100 carbon fiber is used, the cost of Falcon 9 is estimated to be directly doubled.

That was certainly not an acceptable outcome for Musco.

"I'll definitely go and watch it when the time comes!"

"Mr. Cao, if there is anything I can help with, please be sure not to be polite to me!"

Li Su really wanted to do something for Daystar, which would be more fulfilling.

Of course, Cao Yang will definitely not be polite to him later.

There is no harm in pulling some things together with Geely.

Anyway, it is difficult for Daystar Aerospace to make a profit in a short period of time, even if there is a twin-tailed scorpion business, it is more difficult for the entire group to make a profit.

As for the group's Nanshan equipment and Nanshan robots, their profitability has little to do with Daystar Aerospace.

……

"Lao Zhao, what kind of high-thrust recoverable rocket Qixing 9 is the project you will be responsible for after you go to Qixing Aerospace?"

As a leading enterprise in the field of aerospace in China, aerospace science and technology naturally paid attention to the hot search of Daystar 9 for the first time.

General Manager Qian Junfeng personally called Zhao Siyu to confirm the situation.

There is no way, the Daystar 9 announced by Cao Yang is really a bit groundbreaking, it is simply an atomic bomb dropped in the field of Chinese aerospace.

"The design of Daystar 9 was completed before I left the company, and I will be responsible for the trial production and testing of the first model first, and then I will be responsible for the design and development of other models of Daystar 9."

Cao Yang has released some information to the public, and Zhao Siyu and Qian Junfeng simply exchanged some content, so naturally there is no big problem.

Anyway, a rocket is so complicated, even if Zhao Siyu has the heart to tell Qian Junfeng all the technology, he doesn't know how to transmit information on the phone.

This kind of information cannot be transmitted over the phone.

Besides, Zhao Siyu doesn't have any thoughts about this.

The current R&D tasks on the aerospace science and technology side are also very heavy, and there are many models of products that need to be developed.

So there is definitely no manpower or material resources to develop a high-thrust recoverable rocket.

Especially when Daystar has already started to do it, it is even more impossible to develop it there.

"Such a bold and avant-garde design and concept that no country in the world has achieved at present."

"As early as 1959, in the polar bear's space movie, there were pictures of recovered rockets, sea landing platforms, and grasshopper leg landing gear."

"But then the polar bears themselves gave up this technical solution, and instead developed the winged fly-back technology."

"However, this scheme has high requirements for the overall design and return control technology of the rocket, and the winged flight back needs to add wings, landing gear and other structures for the rocket, and the weight of these structures will cause the rocket to lose about 40% of its carrying capacity."

"These are all ultimately proven to be unreliable."

Qian Junfeng naturally knows a lot about the history of rockets.

Now I can't help but complain to Zhao Siyu.

However, Zhao Siyu will definitely not give up his current job because of Qian Junfeng's complaints.

"One time, another time."

"The level of science and technology today is completely different from what it was a few decades ago."

"I believe that Daystar 9 can be successfully developed and bring a huge surprise to everyone, so that the domestic aerospace industry will enter a different stage."

Although Zhao Siyu has just joined Daystar Aerospace Technology, as the general manager of the company, he can watch all the technical materials, and he is naturally full of confidence in Daystar 9.

There is no way for him to tell Qian Junfeng about these things, otherwise it will be easy to leak secrets.

Although the management of leaks by private enterprises is not as exaggerated as that of aerospace technology, the long-term habit does not allow Zhao Siyu to take a little risk.

couldn't ask for more information, and Qian Junfeng could only say a few words of blessing insincerely, and then hung up the phone.

And the people who care about Daystar No. 9 in China are definitely not only Li Su and Qian Junfeng.

And certainly not everyone is full of curiosity and blessings about Daystar 9.

……

"Mr. Yang, I feel that after the split of Nanshan Group, Cao Yang's focus seems to be on a subsidiary of Daystar Technology Group."

"Glory mobile phone can have today's achievements, I think eighty percent of the credit is Cao Yang's contribution, I heard that even the shape design of the mobile phone is Cao Yang personally involved."

"Now Cao Yang's focus is not on Honor mobile phones, which is definitely a good thing for us."

Zhang Rongji, as the person in charge of Lenovo's mobile phone business, has also been under a lot of pressure in the past year.

Samsung, Honor and Warwick's mobile phone business is much more than Lenovo's, especially Honor mobile phone is completely the new leader of domestic independent brands.

This character used to be a Lenovo phone.

Therefore, Zhang Rongji has always been more hostile to Honor mobile phones, and once he can find an opportunity to slander the other party, he will never give up.

"Nanshan Group's turnover has exceeded the trillion mark, which is a very good foundation normally."

"If it were me, I would definitely continue to make the car and mobile phone business bigger and stronger."

"However, Mr. Cao is estimated to be a little floating, and he feels that his company is already very good."

"That's why I started working on ethereal, high-thrust recoverable rockets."

"This approach will certainly allow him to pull back a group of fans among young people, and it is said that the number of his Weibo fans has now exceeded 30 million."

"But for the development of the company, it is actually very harmful."

Yang Erqing obviously also felt that Cao Yang was not doing his job properly now and was tossing around.

So he couldn't get used to it.

Of course, the most important thing is that Yang Erqing felt a kind of neglect from Cao Yang's blind toss.

It's Cao Yang's attitude that I don't care about anything and can win against you, which makes Yang Erqing very aggrieved.

"Rockets are all developed by relying on the strength of the whole country, even so, there is still a big gap between the relevant rockets and the international community in terms of high-thrust rockets."

"Daystar No. 9 is going to break this situation as soon as it comes up, and I estimate that even if it burns tens of billions of yuan, there may not be any products in the end."

"If it drags on for a long time, the confidence of fans will be almost eroded, and then Cao Yang will start to taste the consequences."

Zhang Rongji imagined the future scene not without malice, and felt that Cao Yang would definitely be unlucky.

How can a private enterprise in China make any progress in high-thrust rockets?

If you look at the ranking of high-thrust rockets in the world, you will know how many pounds and taels you have.

The first-ranked Polar Bear N1 rocket is 105 meters high and has a maximum thrust of 4,620 tons, but due to the hasty death of the designer Polar Bear, the father of astronautics, Kromif, the N1 finally ended miserably with all four test launches.

The second-ranked Polar Bear Energy launch vehicle, with a thrust of about 4,000 tons, a maximum near-earth transport of 88 tons, and two successful launches.

The latter several high-thrust rockets are all products of NASA in the United States.

There is no high-thrust rocket that can be done by a single company.

In particular, the accumulation of private enterprises in China in this area is even weaker.

If it's the American side or the polar bears, he still thinks there's a chance of success.

"If they want to toss, let them toss."

"Anyway, we're just working the computer and the phone."

"When the time comes, it will be a few years of tossing, and the time will be wasted, and when Cao Yang thinks about going back to cars and mobile phones, he will probably regret it."

In Yang Erqing's view, if the new groups of Nanshan Group are not led by Cao Yang, there will definitely be problems.

Or maybe deep down in his heart, he wished that there was a problem with the Nanshan Group, so he thought so.

However, Cao Yang didn't know about their idea.

Even if you know, it doesn't matter.

Because it doesn't take a long time for Daystar Aerospace to teach everyone how to behave.

Of course, not everyone is like Yang Erqing and Zhang Rongji, who think that Daystar No. 9 is a joke.

Far away in the Space Exploration Technology Company on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Musco and the others looked at the pictures sent by Cao Yang, but their mood was a little heavy.

"Dears, do you think there is a possibility of mass production of Daystar 9?"

Musco clasped his hands to his chest, wore a T-shirt and jeans, and looked at the picture projected on the projector without any smile on his face.

"Judging from the current information, the layout of the Daystar 9 and our Falcon 9 in terms of power is relatively similar, both use 9 engines, and then only have a first-stage structure."

"But the other party said that the Qixing 9 is a recyclable rocket, which is difficult to see from the pictures."

"As for the black appearance, it is likely that the other party uses carbon fiber as the shell of the rocket."

"After all, Nanshan's carbon fiber technology is also world-leading, and they have the confidence to use carbon fiber to produce rocket shells."

As the person in charge of the research and development of the Falcon 9, Dears's professional level is naturally very good.

He was a senior technologist at NASA and was responsible for the development of Falcon 9 when he joined SpaceX.

Now that he sees that there is a similar rocket under development on the Huaxia side, his mood is a little complicated.

Although a large number of the technologies on the Falcon 9 are not patented, the Daystar 9 does not infringe on their patented technology.

But the appearance of the two is still very similar, which makes Diers feel like a fish in the throat.

The most critical thing is that if Daystar 9 really achieves a recyclable launch earlier than Falcon 9, it will be even more a slap in the face.

"We don't deal with Nanshan Group for a day, and even their future cars still have a certain competitive relationship with my Tesla."

"And their Nanshan equipment is a large die-casting machine for Tesla."

"This company is not quite the same as ordinary Chinese companies, and I think it is very likely that Daystar No. 9 can really be successfully developed."

Musco made a bold judgment.

Of course, he was also a little nervous.

SpaceX has already burned a lot of money, and if the recyclable rocket is developed by Daystar Aerospace in the future, it will definitely be a huge blow to the valuation of SpaceX.

"I'll arrange for someone to inquire about each other's information further."

"However, the development of our recyclable Falcon 9 also needs to be accelerated."

After Dils said this, his eyes looked directly at Musco.

"I'll arrange for someone to transfer a new amount of money in as soon as possible."

Musco naturally knew what the other party meant.

If you want to speed up development, you will definitely need more people and more money.

For Musco at the beginning of 2012, the financial pressure was actually quite large.

After all, at this time, he did not have Tesla, a new energy giant, to give him a blood transfusion.

……

"John, that high-thrust rocket from Daystar Aerospace is an advanced ballistic missile with just a slight change, and I think this could be a dangerous sign."

As a Boeing person, David looks at the problem from a different perspective than ordinary people.

Many people have the impression that Boeing produces passenger aircraft, but in fact, they produce a series of missiles and satellites, including various cruise missiles and GPS satellites.

"Not really, right?"

"I feel like they're just as innovative as SpaceX."

John was a little uncertain.

As a representative of the Five/Corner/Building, he has been dealing with Boeing, Nopu and other companies for many years, and has some understanding of various military products.

Although in terms of size, the Daystar 9 has a fight with the Minuteman ballistic missile produced by Boeing, but some things can't be compared so simply, right?

"It's hard to say, if the average Chinese company releases such a few pictures, I don't bother to bother with it at all."

"But Daystar is a former Nanshan Group company, and this company is very different from ordinary Chinese enterprises."

"We can't speculate about them with common sense."

When David said this, John couldn't help but nod his head.

In his career for so many years, he has really never encountered a more special existence than Nanshan Group.

However, it is too early to draw conclusions because of David's words.

So he just said that he would pay attention to this matter, and then put it aside for the time being.

(End of chapter)