The Light of Domestic Products: The whole world begs me to sell

Chapter 284 The Small Satellite Era Begins

Hu Lai narrowed his eyes.

Good guy, the rent for one year is 2 million U.S. dollars, and 2 million U.S. dollars is 13 billion RMB!

You must know that the current production cost of commercial-grade remote sensing optical satellites is about 6 to 7 million yuan. Even if you add various transportation costs to the sky, it will never exceed 1 million RMB when it is finally merged into orbit and operates normally!

Damn, you really dare to speak, the cost has increased by more than 10 times!
Do you really think that I am being taken advantage of by leeks and cut them off as soon as I want?

"Which company are they?"

"Boss, it is the 'SPOT-7' remote sensing optical satellite of the commercial company of the French Space Agency."

"French Space Agency?!"

Er... that's all right.

The French Space Agency signed the "Artemis Agreement" with Ami a few months ago, and now they are wearing a pair of pants...

Hu Lai has also picked up some aerospace knowledge these days. The so-called "Artemis" is actually the moon landing plan proposed by Ami to return to the moon in 2024 and establish a permanent human base on the moon!
According to the Aramco space agency, this agreement aims to establish standards for "lunar exploration" and "lunar resource development" to avoid future conflicts.

But TM coincidentally invited all countries in the world to join in the joint development of the moon, but Britain, France, Australia, island countries, etc. have all joined, except Yan Guo and Mao Xiong are not allowed to join!
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that, to put it bluntly, it is pulling other countries to form a small group, directly excluding the Yan Kingdom, and setting the rules for the future distribution of lunar resources!
Countries like Britain and France that are unable to independently land on the moon will naturally lick Ami’s thigh. You must know that the moon is extremely rich in mineral resources. In addition to the extremely rich rare earth resources, a large amount of helium-3 has been discovered on the moon. !

What is helium-3? !

Helium-3 is a very safe and non-polluting material that is very easy to control nuclear fusion. It can be said that helium-3 is of great help to human beings in controlling nuclear fusion in the future and having pollution-free nuclear energy!
The most important thing is that the output of helium-30, which is estimated to be as high as 3 billion US dollars per ton, is only 0.5 tons on the earth!
but!

On the moon, the content is estimated at one million tons.

It is conceivable that once a country obtains a large amount of helium-3, it will be unimaginable to help the country's nuclear weapons and nuclear energy development!
Under such circumstances, the French Space Agency has just joined the "Artemis" program and is imagining holding Ami's thigh to gain some benefits in the future moon development. How can it offend Ami because of the "SPOT-7" remote sensing satellite?
estimate.

This time the French Space Agency quoted a rent of 2 million U.S. dollars, they were just kidding, they didn't want to rent at all!
Thinking of this, Hu Lai became a little angry.

We are begging to buy it with good intentions, but you are forced to not sell it under the threat of Ami, what's the point of making a mockery of asking the price?
After a while, he suppressed his unhappiness, looked at the engineer and asked:
"Then there is no other plan?!"

"Uh... gone."

The young engineer shook his head and said helplessly:
"Boss, you also know that the satellites with the best resolution of global satellite images are QuickBird, WorldView3 and SPOT-7."

"Among them, QuickBird and WorldView3 are Aramco's companies, and the last one is the satellite of the French Space Agency just mentioned."

"The commercial satellites of other companies are either unwilling to rent and sell data to us because of Aramco's pressure, or they cannot meet our requirements!"

"Now there is only the last way, to buy the 'Gaofen-[-]' satellite made by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation!"

Hu Lai sighed deeply. At this moment, he felt the same way Huawei was blocked overseas.

You don’t have the data, you don’t have satellites, you have to pay to be a grandson if you want to cooperate, the important thing is that you pay and others are not willing to sell you!

It's so humble, it's not easy!

Whenever a Yanguo enterprise wants to go overseas, once it reaches a certain scale, it will almost have to do everything by itself!

Hu Lai sighed again in his heart. It has to be said that there is still a huge gap between Yan Guo and A Mei in terms of overall strength!
In fact, Hu Lai was not so pessimistic when he first started paying attention to "remote sensing optical satellites". He always thought so.

Now our space station is in the sky, even Mars has our rover, an ordinary "optical remote sensing" satellite, how difficult is it to make an electronic map?

Is our Yanguo aerospace so weak? !

But after he focused on the research of "optical remote sensing satellites" these days, he discovered that our Yanguo aerospace is not weak, but our commercial aerospace is really not strong!

For a long time, our domestic aerospace industry has been led by national scientific research institutions, making every effort to ensure scientific research, military affairs, and people's livelihood research.

To put it bluntly, the main scientific research direction of our aerospace industry before was to serve the national key projects, and we didn't care about the cost of profit!

It can be said that the strength of our Yanguo Aerospace lies in the grand strategy and general direction at the national level, and our commercial aerospace did not have some commercial enterprises until the commercial aerospace projects were gradually liberalized in the past few years. The entire Yanguo business Aerospace is still in its infancy!
Take the "remote sensing optical satellite" used for surveying and mapping as an example. Although the domestic "Gaofen-3" satellite cannot achieve the accuracy of 0.3M that the WorldView-0.7 satellite can achieve, it can also achieve sub-meter spatial resolution. [-]M accuracy!
It stands to reason that it is completely sufficient for mapping maps!

but!
"Gaofen-[-]" is not a purely commercial satellite, it was launched by Yanguo Aerospace Science and Technology Group, and it also undertakes work in land survey, environmental protection, emergency relief, resource development, etc...

That is to say, the tasks of "High Score [-]" are basically full. Even if Aerospace Science and Technology Group is willing to conduct commercial shooting for Phoenix Map, the efficiency and degree of freedom certainly cannot meet the requirements of Phoenix Map.

What Phoenix Map needs is a "high-precision remote sensing optical satellite" that can be independently controlled by Phoenix Map, like Google satellites, and can take pictures all over the world.

Thinking of this, Hu Lai could only nod his head and said:

"Since this is the case, we can only contact the Aerospace Corporation to purchase 'Gaofen-[-]' and launch it independently."

"Have you contacted the Aerospace Group? How is the situation?!"

The engineer looked distressed, obviously some problems had not been resolved.

"They agreed to sell it, and the price was initially set at 6700 million, but it took too long."

"According to their estimates, they don't have finished satellites. It will take about seven months from receiving the order to delivery. We estimated that the delivery must be checked and accepted, and the time window for launch will be found, and finally it will be merged into orbit and send back images."

"This series of operations will take about ten months at the earliest."

Hu Lai frowned suddenly, and directly refused in a irritated mood.

ten months? !

Logically speaking, it is not too slow. If there is no such thing as the export of Phoenix mobile phones to Maoxiong Country, it will not matter if it takes more than ten months to deploy the map satellite.

However, the current situation is that the bear version of the Phoenix mobile phone has been confirmed and is ready to be put into production, and it will enter the bear market one after another at most one month.

Although the electronic map is not a big problem, and now I can barely use the Yandex map for a while, but...

It's been too long to start updating after ten months!

If it is really taken advantage of by someone with a heart, it is very likely that the Phoenix mobile phone will have a huge word-of-mouth problem when it first entered the Maoxiong market. This is very worrying for Hu Lai!
"In terms of time, can you hurry up?"

"There should be no way!"

Seeing Hu Lai's anxious expression, the engineer had no choice but to explain:

"Boss, 'Gaofen-[-]' is a medium-sized satellite with many internal parts and various functions on the satellite. Overall, the production is difficult and involves many production processes."

"Moreover, considering the operational safety of a satellite, a series of stability tests must be carried out, and it is definitely difficult to save time."

"Medium satellites are not like small satellites. Small satellites are low in cost and simple in structure, and the time can be greatly reduced..."

Hu Lai froze for a moment, as if thinking of something.

His eyes lit up, and he asked urgently:
"Then, can 'Gaofen-[-]' be made into a small satellite?"

"We don't need other functions, our main purpose is to take satellite pictures, is this okay?"

The engineer obviously didn't expect Hu Lai to ask such a question, and was stunned for a moment.

But anyway, he can be regarded as a professional figure, and he immediately reacted.

"Boss, theoretically speaking, it can be done. After all, the original function of 'Gaofen No. [-]' was not only used to take electronic satellite maps, but also other application functions."

"If you follow the current production speed of small satellites, the approximate production cycle of a small satellite is about a few days!"

"but!"

"Manufacturing a satellite is not as simple as it sounds. Once the 'Gaofen-[-]' is made into a small satellite, it will be a brand new and independent small satellite project. The addition and subtraction of various components need to be verified. After a period of time, I am afraid The research and development of the project will inevitably take a year and a half!"

How many days? !
What the hell!

It takes half a year for a large satellite, but only a few days for a small satellite? !
Hu Lai's heart suddenly became hot. Indeed, as the engineer said, the normal development of a small satellite may indeed take a year and a half to verify.

but.

It doesn't take so long for Hu Lai!
He has the light system of domestic products!

Just like the previous chip drawings, if you can buy a design drawing of a "remote sensing optical small satellite" in the system, prepare various spare parts and directly send them to the satellite production company for production.

Wouldn't all the problems be solved? !

Thinking of this, Hu Lai didn't care about being in the Fenghuang map office hall in Fenghuang Industrial Park at this time, so he quickly found an excuse to return to the parking lot.

As soon as I got in the car, I quickly entered the domestic light system.

"Dear host, welcome to the Light of Domestic Products system."

Hu Lai didn't delay, quickly clicked on the aerospace category, and found the satellite column.

As soon as it opened, several types of satellites appeared.

[Communication satellites], [Navigation and positioning satellites], [Weather satellites], [Remote sensing satellites], [Scientific satellites], [Military satellites].

Hu Lai quickly chose "remote sensing satellite".

In the remote sensing satellite, just click to distinguish according to the weight of the satellite, and the whole sort becomes:
Large satellite (4200KG), medium satellite (1200-4200KG), small satellite, small satellite, micro satellite, nano satellite, chip satellite.

Hu Lai did not hesitate, and ordered the "small satellite" according to the idea just now.

After entering the "Small Satellite" column, more choices appeared. Hu Lai didn't delay, and looked through all of them from top to bottom, and found the design blueprint of "Small Satellite".

After clicking in with ease, the entire "small satellite" design interface becomes almost the same as the original chip design.

"Dear host, you have chosen 'Small Remote Sensing Optical Satellite', please select the key specific application, and the system will automatically adjust the relevant design according to the application and performance you choose."

A warm reminder appeared in front of his eyes. As soon as Hu Lai finished reading it, several options appeared next to the transparent light curtain.

【Land census】, 【Oil exploration】, 【Ocean and coast surveying and mapping】, 【Map surveying and mapping】, 【Earthquake forecasting】...

"Map mapping!"

"You've selected Maps, you can add a primary app, a secondary app."

"Of course, you can also click the submit button and not choose other applications, which can reduce the number of relevant optical instruments carried and the payload of small satellites."

Hu Lai thought for a while and immediately understood.

The difference between a large satellite and a small satellite lies in the different functions that can be realized. The more functions on a satellite, the more instruments it will carry.

The more instruments are carried, the more space is naturally required, and the propulsion power unit and solar panels also need to be larger.

Similarly, the more simple the function on a small satellite, the fewer instruments and equipment are needed, and the simpler the weight and design drawings are.

What Hu Lai now requires is only a single map surveying and mapping, and other functions are not available, and he has not chosen other functions.

"determine."

"You only choose the function of 'mapping', because it is a single function, the payload and space of the small satellite will become abundant, and you can choose a higher-precision panchromatic multispectral camera."

The system prompt flashed, and Hu Lai immediately selected "high-precision panchromatic multispectral camera".

This was followed by a series of related parameter settings. Fortunately, Hu Lai had figured out some industry terms these days, and all of them were selected in a short while.

Seeing that a small satellite involved in Hu Lai's selection had appeared on the right side of the light curtain, Hu Lai finally let out a sigh of relief.

The first line that comes into view is the weight: 520KG!

harm.

The "Gaofen 7" satellite weighs 2800KG. Unexpectedly, the small satellite designed in the system only needs 520KG!

Without much exclamation, Hu Lai quickly clicked the buy button, and a flashing prompt appeared.

"Are you sure to purchase 'customized small satellite design drawings', this customized drawing will deduct 150 million points."

"At the same time, because the technology you purchased belongs to the 'Aerospace' exploration technology, you will officially activate the mission [The Stars and Stars] after purchasing. Are you sure to buy?"

Hu Lai was stunned for a moment.

"The vastness of the stars" mission? !

After a while, Hu Lai bought it directly, only to see a yellow light flash, and the system deducted 150 million points.

At the same time, a task appeared in front of him.

"Congratulations on successfully activating the [Vast Stars] mission, your first mission, exploring the moon!"

"Mission accomplished: the successful landing of the lander on the moon is considered a successful mission. Timeliness: two years."

"Mission Reward: The industry-wide orange technology draw reward once!"

Orange technology? !
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Some time ago, I missed about 2 chapters. I just feel that I can’t write anything, and I don’t know what to write.

I have written a paragraph about a collision with Ami. I feel that the writing is not good, and I don’t feel much about the writing. I will return to the normal style in the follow-up, and I will still focus on product development. Maybe the first few writings are a bit dull. I am sorry for the payment My brothers who read my novel say sorry.

Next, I will bring you a more refreshing and straightforward plot, and thank you for your continued support.

The current plot is about satellites and launch vehicles. You may not know much about satellites and launch vehicles. Most of what I write is current realistic data, and it can also be regarded as simple science popularization. Anyone can comment on it.

Finally, it would be nice to ask for a few monthly tickets.

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