Riding the wind of rebirth

"It's a pity we didn't have the chance today," Elder Long laughed. "Otherwise, I would really have to ask you for some advice on the 'Nine Transformations.' It really protected us and created a divine artifact!"

Zhou Zhi really put a lot of effort into this system, starting with the earliest quality system and later process control. It played a huge role in the development of Hanwen large font library. Later, based on this system, combined with Qiyan Group's management system, and then embedding ISO international standards into the workflow, the enterprise process management system used by Clover Group was developed.

After visiting Samsung Group, Zhou Zhi obtained outdated versions of Samsung and Sony's enterprise management systems and upgraded his own company's process management system.

After visiting the base, in order to address the pain points in the aerospace industry and expedite the development of the space-ground network system, the satellite base began to engage with the Clover Group's process management system. Discovering its powerful capabilities, the base commissioned the Clover Group to streamline its existing internal systems and processes and develop a process management system suitable for the aerospace industry.

This process also led to the development of smart terminals and the COSTS server-terminal operating system. After passing acceptance tests, it even prompted several major supercomputing centers in China to upgrade their systems, transforming the original supercomputing command interface into a graphical terminal operating system. This is equivalent to completing a transformation similar to the transition of personal computers from DOS to Windows.

These new inventions have brought considerable profits to the Clover Group. Many of the difficult challenges in these inventions were overcome with the help of experts within the aerospace system. Therefore, Zhou Zhi's statement that the two sides are actually mutually beneficial is absolutely correct.

Unfortunately, everyone was very busy today, and there wasn't much time left for everyone to chat. It was already a great honor that the bigwigs were able to take the time to chat with Zhou Zhi and his group at the restaurant.

After lunch, Luo Yujuan asked whether they should go to the guesthouse to rest or to the observation hall. Zhou Zhi looked at his excited friends and knew that they were unlikely to be able to take a good nap, so he asked to go to the observation hall first, on the condition that it would not disturb the base's arrangements.

Luo Yujuan smiled and agreed, then told everyone that they could also rest in the observation hall, but it was on a sofa, not as comfortable as the guesthouse.

The observation hall is located on the second floor of the base command center. The entire command center is a circular building with a stage and a huge monitoring screen at the front, and various engineering personnel's workstations at the back.

On the second floor of the circular outer wall, there are many observation halls. The side of the observation hall facing the command center has a huge curtain wall glass. The glass is one-way transparent, so you can see the situation inside the command center from the observation hall, but you cannot see into the observation hall from the workstations in the command center.

"It feels a bit like a VIP box in a big stadium abroad." Yan Xiao sat on the old-fashioned sofa in the front row, tapping his feet on the ground to try to feel the thickness of the carpet. "Thank you, Third Brother. Without you, we wouldn't have had this opportunity."

"Why thank me? If it weren't for Elbow, we wouldn't be able to get involved in these things. In the eyes of the big shots, our Li family is just a bunch of merchants." Li Laosan smiled and imitated Yan Xiao's manner: "Thank you, Elbow. If it weren't for you, our Li family wouldn't have had such an opportunity."

"Third Brother, stop messing around!" Zhou Zhi placed the two bags of fruit and snacks he got from Luo Yujuan on the coffee table: "Everyone must not have eaten enough today. The way you ate is completely different from how you ate in Lianhe Township a few days ago. Have something to eat later."

"It really was just a basic level," Yan Xiao said with a bitter face. "It was terrifying. The entire cafeteria was full of scientists, or at least engineers, and I was the only illiterate one!"

“Don’t be afraid of Salt Rat, at least my husband and I will keep you company,” Feng Xueshan said with a smile. “Especially those old men chatting with Xiao Miao, they don’t dare to breathe too loudly in front of them.” “Grandpa Yu and the others are quite kind,” Mai Xiaomiao said, finding everyone’s attitude strange. “Outside of their academic background, they are just ordinary old people in their daily lives, just like Grandpa Gu, Zhouzi’s master. Brother Honghui, didn’t you even teach him Tai Chi sword?”

“How can that be the same? I met Grandpa Gu in the park, so of course I could be at ease. But where are we here? It’s a constant reminder of our status as big shots,” Yan Xiao said. “But it’s also our good fortune. I can brag about this at the handball team’s annual party. Wait, I think I forgot what those guys did.”

"Academician Yu is an expert in aerospace system design, and Academician Zhang is the leader of the Institute of Aerospace Computing. They are the chief designers of the entire launch plan, including the precise selection and calculation of the vehicle and orbit, etc."

"Professor Wu and Chief Engineer Luo are academicians and experts from the Communications Research Institute of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. They are responsible for designing the ground-to-ground fiber optic switch, the satellite-to-ground analog data switch, and the laser communication switch for inter-satellite communication."

"And Academician Long was the designer in charge of designing the rocket."

"If you're going to brag, you'd better remember these things."

"Tell us about your satellite, Zhouzi." He Shiqing took the bread Yan Xiao had quietly picked up and handed him an apple. "So the satellite was actually designed by Elder Wu and Chief Engineer Luo?"

"Uh, actually, that's not the case," Zhou Zhi said. "The satellite we're launching is actually intended to establish a satellite communication network that can be used worldwide."

"This satellite is divided into two parts. One part is the ground communication part, which is actually the network base station that everyone is using now. We will establish satellite communication nodes in fifty cities in China. If necessary, these fifty nodes will collect communication information from the ground network base stations and send it to the satellite nodes for inter-satellite communication. Then, other satellites will connect with the ground to send the signal back to Earth."

"The space portion is actually divided into two layers. The first layer consists of ten satellites that are relatively close to the Earth, which will be distributed in orbit around 20,000 kilometers from the Earth."

“The satellites in the geostationary orbit cannot be fixed; they are actually in relative motion around the Earth. In order to achieve better communication results, we will launch five satellites in higher orbits. These five satellites will operate in geostationary orbit, remaining relatively stationary with respect to the ground, at an altitude of 35,000 kilometers.”

"In this way, we have actually built a two-layer satellite and one-layer ground station air-ground combined communication network. Of course, this network can also function in places without ground stations, such as at sea. This is our 'Sky-Star-Ground Network Project', and the space mission part of the project is called the 'Star Engine' project."

"Just now, Shiqing asked if Mr. Wu and Chief Engineer Luo were the designers of the satellite. Actually, no, they were only responsible for the design of the communication module," Zhou Zhi said. "The satellite itself is a very complex system. We can think of it as a warship. Mr. Wu and Chief Engineer Luo designed the gun and cannon parts, while the ship that carries the gun and cannon, namely the satellite platform, was designed by someone else."

"This satellite platform is called Dongfanghong-3B, which is the general-purpose platform for the Dongfanghong-3B satellite." (End of Chapter)