"The world's largest communication satellite will be launched with a 'Super Qinglong' rocket"

"The third largest rocket in China's private aerospace is about to make its first flight, and Blue Sword Aerospace will become the second in substance."

“……”

On June 2, the "Zhongxing-100" communication satellite, the world's largest commercial communication satellite in synchronous orbit, officially announced that it had been shipped from Jingu and sent to Qiongzhou for launch.

It is a super satellite that weighs 12 tons, has a communication capacity of more than 600 Gbps, and is nearly 55 meters long when the solar panels are deployed, making it the most powerful commercial communication satellite to date.

It is a product stimulated by the 'Jingwei' satellite network, and during the development period, it weighs about 7 tons, and is intended to be launched into a synchronous transfer orbit of 29,000 kilometers with the Long March 7A, and then ascended to a synchronous orbit of 36,000 kilometers by itself.

However, the Qinglong No. 2 rocket of Blue Sword Aerospace provides another solution, that is, the "Super Qinglong" in the CBC configuration, with a recovery LEO capacity of 65 tons (the central core stage is not recycled), and a capacity of more than 20 tons directly into the GTO orbit.

Out of demand and support for private aerospace, the launch task of "Zhongxing 100" was handed over to "Super Qinglong".

The data of the "Super Green Dragon" is basically against the heavy Falcon, this is its first launch, and the blue sword has carefully painted it with a beautiful paint, ready for the launch around the 10th.

From now on, Qiongzhou has entered the typhoon season.

Typhoon No. 2 "Miaobai" is expected to make landfall in southern Fujian after June 12, and then from that time to August, typhoons No. 3 to No. 12 will form one after another, although not all typhoons will make landfall in Qiongzhou, but the impact cannot be ignored.

However, the good news is that after Xinyuan decided to add a launch site in Jiuquan, the space agency also decided to build a new commercial space launch site there simultaneously, and most medium-sized rockets can be launched, although there will be a loss of capacity, but it is acceptable, at least lower than the Baikonur latitude of the pit father.

"Super Qinglong" is the strongest rocket in domestic private aerospace except for Xinyuan, but the strongest technology may be Lingxi space communication technology.

The latter is now in the limelight, they have received Xinyuan's investment and technical support, and the first batch of 20 satellites has been won by another private aerospace "hyperbola-three" rocket, which is intended to be launched in September.

Due to the large-scale sale of engines and control technology by Xinyuan and the Space Agency, these companies have not taken the route of starting with small solid rockets like the original world line, and can get on the recyclable small and medium-sized rockets as soon as they come, and receive orders for the launch of various small satellites.

"All of this is thanks to Chairman Lin's strong support!"

In Beijing, the leaders of private aerospace enterprises named by the Aviation Development Commission organized an exchange dinner together, and Lin Ju happened to be waiting here to welcome the Storm and also participated.

Storm has now begun to accelerate and will return directly to Earth's atmosphere, arriving in just 14 hours, and will be able to land in the grasslands around tomorrow afternoon.

Lin Ju is looking forward to what kind of reward the system can give, such an important event, it's not too much to have a little nuclear fusion technology, right?

While thinking about the rewards of the system, Lin Ju also dealt with the leaders of the various families who kept coming forward, and it was obvious that he had become the center of the dinner.

These companies are sincerely grateful to Xinyuan, which almost took the initiative to launch the small and medium-sized satellite launch market, and the vast majority of orders are self-produced and sold, otherwise how can they survive: SpecaX has almost monopolized the Aramco launch market with the Falcon 9, which is easier for Xinyuan to achieve.

After getting to know almost everyone, Lin Ju had to say something under the expectations of everyone, and he decided to draw a cake.

"Xinyuan is already actively developing the moon, and you must have heard of it."

The people around nodded vigorously, not just hearing about it, and seeing how many explorers there were on the moon!

Lin Ju continued: "We don't just want to achieve the goal of sending people to the moon, I can tell you responsibly that Xinyuan will spare no effort to mine, smelt and transport a series of projects for the rare earth deposits on the moon, which is a huge to trillion-scale plan, and this plan will be open to everyone without threshold."

In the next five years, rare earth deposits from the Moon will exceed those mined from Earth. ”

"Trillions?" "I'm going to ship it back!" "More than Earth, that's ......"

“……”

This big cake immediately made the crowd lively like a vegetable market, and they exchanged heads and heated discussions, but Lin Ju, who was at the center of the topic, patiently waited for everyone to calm down, and then ignored the various emotions in their eyes and continued to paint:

"Transporting minerals from the moon is not a fantasy, such as our Storm, which can carry more than 50 tons of refined rare metals into the atmosphere from the moon, or the future SSTO, small space shuttle, etc., although the amount may only be about a few tons at a time, but if it is iridium, osmium, rhenium and other metals, a few shipments can reach the global demand for the next year.

More ore creates more markets, and the Moon's resource input could expand this market tenfold, which is definitely promising. ”

Lunar mining and transportation is a huge industrial chain, Lin Ju from the early construction to the later profit, this is a plan that the base has long had, and there is no question point at all for a while, so that the eyes of everyone present are brighter and brighter.

At the end, he paused and released a king bomb:

"There is a detail of the Chang'e-4 exploration mission that everyone should remember that according to the comprehensive assessment of satellites and probes, the Aitken Basin has more than 2,100 trillion tons of metal deposits, of which 2.2 million tons are rare metals, and according to foreign research, the Krip Rock in the Storm Ocean Area has up to 45 billion tons of rare earth reserves."

The others nodded, it was all public content, but it was of little value.

The total amount of rare earth elements on the earth is no more than 130 million tons, and at first glance the moon is extremely rich, but in the case of rare earth deposits in the Aitken Basin, it is buried at a depth of 300 kilometers underground.

Obviously, there is no possibility of exploitation at this depth, just take a look.

"Then I would say that according to the continuous exploration of our probes for a year, a huge surface metal mass buried at a depth of no more than 1,000 meters has been found in the Aitken Basin area, and 13 rare elements have been proven, with an estimated reserve of more than 60,000 tons.

The specific location is not open for the time being, but I can responsibly tell you that the value of these mineral deposits alone is more than 10 trillion yuan, and these are all mineral deposits that can be mined!

1000 meters is deep, but not out of reach, Xinyuan is already planning development work. ”

(End of chapter)