Two Realms: Don't call me evil!

Chapter 495 Satellite Bumper Cars (6K)
As if in response to the space race in the United States, the next day, the Jetco Group issued an announcement that it would launch satellite launch business for all countries and companies in the world, except the United States.

The satellites launched range from small private satellites to large exploration satellites, all of which are within the scope of contracting of the JEC Group.

In response to the quotation, the Jeko Group offered an extremely favorable price, a launch price of US$1999 per kilogram.

The Kunpeng rocket has a payload of 850 tons, and the price of a Kunpeng rocket launch is US$17 billion.

If this price is for a single launch, no one would agree to it.

However, the Jeco Group, which has mastered the technology of launching multiple satellites with one rocket, can carry a large number of satellites and spacecraft at one time, just like a group order, where everyone shares the expenses and costs.

As soon as the offer from the JEC Group came out, it immediately caused an earthquake in the global commercial satellite launch market.

This price is really good compared to satellite launch quotes from other countries.

The U.S. space shuttle has a payload of 22.7 tons, and the price of a single launch is $4.5 million, with each kilogram of payload costing as much as $19824.

The European Space Agency's Ariane 5 rocket has a payload of 16 tons and a single launch price of US$1.65 million, or US$10313 per kilogram of payload.

The Russian Soyuz-FG rocket has a payload of 6.9 tons, a single launch price of US$5000 million, and a payload of US$7246 per kilogram.

The Arsenal polar satellite launch vehicle has a payload of 3.8 tons, a single launch price of US$1500 million, and a payload price of US$3947 per kilogram.

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, the world's most successful commercial rocket launcher and the company that masters rocket recovery technology, has a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 22.8 tons, a single launch price of US$6200 million, and a price of US$2719 per kilogram of payload.

In the past, SpaceX monopolized most of the global satellite launch market by relying on its low prices and efficient reuse and recovery mechanisms.

Therefore, when the Kunpeng rocket of the Jeco Group came out, it proactively reduced the launch cost of rocket payloads to less than US$2000, and immediately attracted commercial satellite partners around the world. This is much cheaper than the Falcon 9 of the SpaceX.

Although the Kunpeng rocket has just successfully completed its maiden flight, a large number of countries and companies have chosen the Kunpeng rocket because of its price and have awarded the launch contract to the Jeko Group to be the first to try it out.

And the Jeko Group lived up to expectations. 20 days later, the Kunpeng rocket that had successfully completed its maiden flight was overhauled and then mounted on commercial satellites from all over the world. It soared into the sky from the Chiyang Rocket Launch Center.

Whether it was entering space, rocket separation, satellite launch, or rocket recovery, there were no errors throughout the entire process.

As each satellite was deployed in its predetermined orbit and established an effective connection with the ground, the first commercial launch of the Kunpeng rocket was a great success.

Suddenly, the JEC Group became the new darling of the commercial satellite market.

Massive commercial satellite launch orders poured into the JEC Group from all directions.

Among these, many are commercial satellites of companies within the United States.

Capitalists serve for their own interests. Since the price quoted by the Jieke Group is lower in cost and its safety has been proven, they will certainly not choose the more expensive one.
After all, launching a satellite costs tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, so this saves a lot of money.

With the production of the second and third Kunpeng rockets by the Jeko Group, the Kunpeng rocket was launched five times in succession.

In addition to its own satellites, each launch will also make room for commercial satellites from other countries and forces, allowing them to hitch a ride into space.

The large number of commercial satellite orders also made the JEC Group earn a lot of money.

The Kunpeng rocket can be recovered and reused, and the cost is effectively controlled. The more times it is reused, the lower the average cost. The profit earned from each launch is calculated in billions.

Now, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, which once monopolized the global commercial satellite market, is getting anxious.

In order to compete with the Jeko Group for satellite launch orders, the price was reduced to US$1888 per kilogram.

This move allowed SpaceX to obtain some commercial satellite orders again, but then, Jetco immediately responded by lowering its satellite launch quotation to US$1650 per kilogram.

Then both sides started to argue, you quoted 1590 and I quoted 1499.

You said 1200 per kilogram, I will lower the price to 1100.

In just half a year, the Jeco Group and SpaceX reduced the cost of satellite launch from nearly three thousand US dollars to less than one thousand US dollars.

The global rocket launch market is in chaos. The price of launching commercial satellites has been slashed to rock-bottom prices by Jetco and SpaceX, almost a global reshuffle. Competition from other rockets has become meaningless.

As Jetco and SpaceX competed, other commercial rocket companies suffered heavy casualties.

The eldest and the second oldest were fighting, but the third oldest was the first to be beaten.

In other words, many aerospace companies are state-owned and cannot go bankrupt. Otherwise, no force can compete with the Jeko Group and SpaceX.

In the increasingly fierce price war, the Kunpeng rocket's super-large payload has demonstrated its cost advantage.

Even Space Exploration Technologies Corporation can't bear it. Although it has rocket recovery technology, it is not a truly free launch.

The current price is such that SpaceX is losing money on every rocket launch.

"We are willing to put aside our prejudices with the Jeko Group and jointly operate the global rocket launch market. This industry can accommodate two giants."

Faced with serious losses, SpaceX founder and chairman Muska had no choice but to stand up and speak to the Jeko Group.

They even secretly contacted the Jeko Group, wanting to form a price alliance with the Jeko Group and work together on the price of external rocket launches. They should stop involutionary competition, as the only countries and companies that launch commercial satellites will get the cheap ones.

"I think that only when there is only one giant left can an industry develop healthily and rely on technological monopoly, that's called ability."

When facing interviews from reporters and the media, Liu Yingying gave an arrogant answer, which was also a response to Muska's request for peace, and she planned to continue fighting.

Faced with the aggressiveness of the Jeco Group, in order to maintain its market share, SpaceX had no choice but to launch at a loss while taking on a large number of launch missions from NASA.

The cost of SpaceX's commercial launches has been reduced to just US$1500 million per launch, but when carrying out NASA's launch missions, the price NASA gives is much higher. This is equivalent to NASA subsidizing SpaceX to prevent it from being destroyed by the Jetco Group.

Seeing the aggressive advances of the Jeko Group, the United States finally took action.

NASA Administrator Burton made a public statement that no satellite belonging to the United States would be allowed to be launched on the Kunpeng rocket. Even if only one screw was made in the United States, it would not be allowed to hitchhike the Jeko Group.

Satellites of many countries around the world are manufactured in the United States. This overbearing behavior is of course criticized.

After all, as a merchant, you have sold things to customers, but you still have to restrict how they use them.

But the United States still forced its way through, and many other countries were unable to launch satellites produced by the United States at a low price.

Even the capital within the United States has criticized it a lot, but the United States continues to do its own thing.

Without this restriction, the capitalists within the United States would not care about their patriotism and would go to the Jeko Group in droves to launch satellites, and all the money would go to the Jeko Group.

Jeco Group's Kunpeng rocket is still being launched on schedule, and the number of rocket launches has not been reduced due to satellite orders.

Almost every month, the Jeco Group produces a Kunpeng rocket.

At the same time, the JEC Group launches the Kunpeng rocket every week.

Although the Jeko Group is the overlord of the Indochina Peninsula, its foundation in the past was too poor, so these countries had no satellites.

The JEC Group needs to rapidly increase the number of satellites, including communications, remote sensing, reconnaissance, meteorology and other satellites.

The main types of satellites are reconnaissance satellites and communication satellites. Many of these satellites are equipped with optical observation equipment, which can realize 24-hour uninterrupted optical monitoring and analysis, greatly enhancing the JEC Group's monitoring capabilities of ground moving objects and space targets.

You should know that the United States has more than 10,000 satellites in orbit, including small satellites, most of which are satellites of SpaceX.

If the Jeko Group wants to catch up with the United States, it must launch satellites multiple times to make up for the gap.

With the repeated launch of the Kunpeng rocket, satellites are scattered in space orbit.

In addition to those expensive large satellites, the Jeko Group launches more small satellites, which are lower in cost and more numerous, to form a satellite network.

In this way, once a war is launched, if the enemy wants to destroy the satellite system, it will be difficult for the enemy to do so because you have thousands of small satellites running around in the sky.

This is also the strategy that the United States is currently implementing. The Jeko Group is crossing the river by feeling the way forward for the United States.

Every time the Kunpeng rocket is launched, it can carry hundreds of such small satellites. The Jeko Group launches three to four times a month, turning rocket launches into shuttles, with thousands of satellites launched into orbit every month.

This terrifying launch efficiency forces the United States to keep up with its production capacity.

With funds from the U.S. military and NASA injected into SpaceX, the number and launch frequency of its Falcon 9 rockets have continued to rise.

The Starship program, a large-scale launch vehicle project under Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, has received strong support, with tests conducted almost every month.

The United States has high hopes for this rocket with a takeoff mass of 5,000 tons, hoping that it can become the Kunpeng rocket to counter the Jeko Group.

In less than a year, the space race between the Jeko Group and the United States has reached a fever pitch.

A large number of satellites from both sides are spread across the space orbit of the Blue Planet, ranging from 300 kilometers, 500 kilometers, to 1,000 kilometers. Satellites are scattered in orbits of different altitudes. Looking down from space, it seems as if they are going to wrap up the Blue Planet, like a space enclosure.

The Jeco Group relies on the powerful performance of the Kunpeng rocket to ensure the number and replacement of satellites. The satellites of the United States do not have such a large carrying capacity. In order to compete with the Jeco Group, it makes up for it by launching more rockets. There are rocket launches from the United States almost every day.

In this fierce competition, the number of satellites of the JEC Group continued to increase rapidly. When the number of satellites increased, the JEC Group's targeting also began.

NASA, in a ground satellite monitoring room, a man and a woman stand opposite each other.

Clare Heigl half-knelt on the ground, holding flowers in his hand, and presented the diamond ring to his sweetheart, Mireille.

"Mireille, I love you, marry me."

Both of them are NASA employees, and they have developed an office romance, and are already discussing marriage.

Colleagues around gathered together and made a noise, the noise was deafening.

Mireyu cried with joy, covered her mouth, and was about to speak when she was suddenly interrupted by a shrill alarm.

Everyone present was stunned for two seconds, then quickly ran back to their posts and saw that the instrument that was originally used to monitor space debris was emitting a red light alarm.

In space, due to frequent human space activities, a large amount of space debris has been created.

In order to prevent space debris from colliding and causing damage to satellites, major aerospace powers have established corresponding early warning systems, which conduct real-time monitoring through ground command centers, space stations and launched probes, and make timely adjustments to satellite orbits to avoid damage.

"This is a warning from the reconnaissance satellite numbered 2020-TBK93. There is space debris about to hit. Perform emergency collision avoidance immediately."

Klar is responsible for monitoring space debris, and he originally thought this was a misunderstanding.

But he soon discovered that something was wrong, because just as he had adjusted the satellite's orbit, the space debris floating over also changed its orbit and headed straight for NASA's satellite.

It takes time for the engine to start and change trajectory, and the space debris was moving at an extremely fast speed, so they soon collided with each other.

The next second, the ground command center lost contact with the NASA reconnaissance satellite.

Realizing it belatedly, Klar hurriedly checked the situation of the space debris. The action of changing direction and accelerating just now proved that it was most likely not space debris.

Because the speed and direction of space debris are basically fixed, the collision just now did not look like space debris at all.

"It's not space junk. It's a satellite of the Jeko Group, with the international number 2027-341N."

Soon, Klar's face changed. The ITU registered satellites of various countries, which allowed him to find out the problem immediately.

After receiving this information, everyone at the scene immediately became nervous, thinking that this was probably not an accident.

"Report to Chief Burton immediately. The Jake Group is here with ill intentions!"

As soon as Klar finished speaking, the alarm in the ground command center sounded again, and this time it was a multiple alarm.

Klar's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he said angrily: "Number 2022 - 73HS satellite, number 2015 - GPV6 satellite, number 2024 - 35LN5 satellite collision warning, immediately execute orbit change to avoid, the Jeko Group is crazy, they want to hit our satellite."

But no matter how they make emergency evasive attempts, there will always be satellites that fail to dodge in time and collide with each other, turning both into garbage fragments.

One!
Two!

Three!

As one satellite after another turned into space junk, all NASA staff on the scene felt overwhelmed and could only urgently report the situation to their director and request instructions.

On Valentine's Day, February 2, multiple satellite collisions occurred in space on the blue planet.

A total of eight satellites were destroyed in the collision. These satellites all belonged to the Jeko Group and the United States.

“This is a heinous crime. The Jeko Group is using its space hegemony to turn satellites into space weapons and carry out targeted terrorist attacks on our satellites.

The Jeko Group is attempting to control the orbit of the Blue Planet and dominate the space of all mankind. Their crazy ambition is fully exposed.

As a beacon of human freedom and democracy, we must seek justice from the Jeko Group and never allow such ambitious people to occupy space, which would be a nightmare for the entire human society."

The next day, NASA Administrator Burton held a press conference and cursed the Jeco Group directly at the meeting, accusing the Jeco Group of maliciously hitting its own satellite and demanding that the Jeco Group immediately apologize and compensate, otherwise they would never let it go.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately dominated the global hot searches. The two companies went from a mild space launch competition to a space bumper car competition, shocking the world's onlookers.

Facing the accusations from the United States, the JEC Group simply responded with technical errors, impact of solar flares, and no comment.

This excuse is too perfunctory. Even the onlookers know that the Jeko Group deliberately damaged the U.S. satellite.

For a while, the JEC Group received a lot of criticism.

But the Jieke Group doesn't care, and Su Jie doesn't care either. Aren't there enough people in the world who curse the United States? It doesn't affect the United States being the overlord of the Blue Planet.

NASA was furious. They were always the ones bullying others. When would it be their turn to be bullied?

Seeing that a new space army from the Jeko Group dared to challenge them, they immediately responded.

Two days later, several satellites under the beautiful flag suffered technical errors, changed their orbits and collided with satellites belonging to the Jeko Group.

At the end of the day, several more satellites became space junk.

The Jeko Group retaliated decisively by using more small satellites to collide with the United States' large and medium-sized satellites, exchanging cheap goods for the other party's expensive products.

The United States also deployed small Starlink satellites. In addition to destroying each other, the small satellites were also looking for collisions with large satellites of the Jeko Group.

The originally quiet space has become a billiard table for the Jeko Group and the United States.

You hit me today, I hit you tomorrow, and several satellites become victims every day.

The war aroused anger and the consumption of satellites forced both sides to produce more satellites and rockets and launch more batches of rockets into space.

The funds invested by both sides have increased from tens of billions of US dollars to hundreds of billions of US dollars. When it came to the satellite billiard table, at the most intense time, two to three hundred billion US dollars were thrown into the space field every month.

Satellites have become weapons for both sides, and a new round of space military expansion and preparation is taking place between the Jeko Group and the United States.

In addition to the satellite collision, in order to save face, the United States also announced after the satellite collision that the Kuril Islands Strategic Alliance would hold a large-scale military exercise code-named "Bug Catching" in the Amanda Sea.

For this military exercise, the United States dispatched an aircraft carrier battle group of its own, and also brought along its two younger brothers from the Sakura Country and the South Korean Country, and set off in a swagger.

The captain of the aircraft carrier said to the media with a serious face: "This exercise is aimed at testing the ability of the Kuril Islands Strategic Alliance forces to conduct amphibious landings, seize ports, and mobilize ground forces."

It goes without saying who this exercise is aimed at.

In response, the Jeko Group held a military exercise codenamed "Capture the Eagle" at the Johor border. The 1st Mechanized Combat Brigade, the 2nd Mechanized Combat Brigade, and the 4th Mechanized Combat Brigade, a total of three mechanized combat brigades, were all present.

Hundreds of Magic Bird fighter jets are also ready in the rear to participate in this massive military exercise.

The Jeko Group also brought in the armies of several of its younger brothers, including Zhenla, Lan Xang, Siam, and Annan, plus its own troops, totaling a force of 200,000.

There is a strong sense of tension between the Jeko Group and the United States, and even the time of their military exercises is the same.

However, the Kuril Islands Strategic Alliance supported by the United States was suddenly disrupted at the critical moment of this military exercise.

At the critical moment, several member states of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance, including Johor, Java and Temasek, used various excuses to say that they could not participate in the military exercise as scheduled.

Because all the member states of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance have noticed that the Jeko Group is likely to really start a war this time.

With the examples of Siam and Annan, everyone is worried about what to do if a real war breaks out and the United States sells out its teammates again.

By then, the United States will just run away, leaving us all to face the attack of the Jeko Group. Wouldn't that be the end of us all?

Therefore, at the critical juncture of the military exercise, except for South Korea and the Sakura Country, two loyal dogs, many member states of the Kuril Islands Strategic Alliance broke their promises and were unwilling to be involved in this powder keg.

Seeing this situation, the United States was extremely furious, but it could not put a knife on the necks of these countries and ask them to send warships to conduct military exercises.

Unless the United States itself takes action and goes into direct war with the Jeko Group.

Otherwise, those member states of the Kuril Islands Strategic Alliance who have seen the true face of the United States will not take the lead until they see the rabbit.

The United States is also hesitating about whether to go to war with the Jeko Group now.

Because this year is an election year, their president is about to enter a critical election period.

If the war is started at this time, unless the Jeko Group is quickly resolved, it will be a protracted war. Due to the losses caused by the war, the president's approval rating will definitely continue to decline, and he will have no chance of being re-elected.

Given the powerful combat capability of the Jeko Group, it would be very difficult to eliminate the Jeko Group in a short period of time. At least it cannot be solved by an aircraft carrier battle group.

This also shows the attitude of the United States, which does not want to start a war with the Jeko Group now.

If a war really breaks out, there will definitely be more than one aircraft carrier battle group.

During the Gulf War, the United States sent out several aircraft carriers, which was a real preparation for starting a war of annihilation.

The strength of the Jeko Group is definitely much stronger than that of Iqra.

Relying on an aircraft carrier battle group to deal with the Jeko Group, as long as the commander is not crazy, he will not do such a stupid thing.

The member states of the Kuril Islands Strategic Alliance saw that the United States was not sincere, so they did not follow suit foolishly.

They can act like a bully to the United States, but they dare not really think of themselves as tigers. If they are beaten up by the Jacko Group, they will have no place to cry.

Finally, the United States' own aircraft carrier did not go deep into the Amman Sea and the Gulf of Siam, the hinterland of the Jeko Group. It just cruised outside the Indian Ocean and made some moves with the warships of the Sakura Country and the South Korean Country. Due to the lack of sufficient participating countries, the military exercise ended hastily.

In space, the space bumper cars of both sides are gradually coming to an end because too much space debris is generated.

This also restricted the rockets and satellites of the United States and the Jeko Group. Coupled with the condemnation of countries around the world, this satellite table tennis game was forced to stop.

(End of this chapter)