Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 313: Six hundred and twenty-five times lead.

At the press conference, the driverless vehicle took the stage, which has become a typical feature of Hailan Automobile's press conferences.

This is to demonstrate Hailan Automobile's advanced high-level automatic assisted driving technology.

Other car companies were envious and jealous when they saw this... Don't underestimate this scene. The actual technical content is very high. It cannot be achieved by simple L2 level assisted driving. At least L2+ level intelligent driving vehicles are required to do it.

Until now, even Tesla cannot replicate this classic scene from Hailan Automobile’s annual press conferences!

Because this level of intelligent driving requires the support of underlying chips and intelligent driving algorithms, and then you can talk about intelligent driving training and learning to allow the system to do this.

Intelligent algorithm driving and other things are actually not that bad, and Tesla can do it more or less if they put their brains together, but automotive-grade computing chips are not so easy to come by.

The automotive-grade computing chips currently on the market mainly come from Mobileye, which was acquired by Zhiyun Semiconductor in the early years and is now under the control of Zhiyun Group. Of course, like Nvidia, the company currently only has a sales department overseas, and its core product technology patents and research and development have long been transferred to the domestic research and development institutions of its parent company Zhiyun Semiconductor.

The company Mobileye provides integrated vision-based assisted driving solutions. Its main products currently on sale are EYEQ2 and EYEQ3 chips. However, it does not provide chips individually, but instead provides an integrated solution of "chip + vision algorithm + sensor".

The company currently occupies all assisted driving market in the world except Hailan Automobile, which is a real monopoly... If ordinary car companies don't use it, there will be no substitutes.

Tesla is currently using the company's EYEQ3 solution, which only provides 0.256TOPS of computing power.

However, starting this year, NVIDIA, a subsidiary of Zhiyun Semiconductor, has also launched the automotive-grade computing platform Drive PX, which provides greater and more open computing power... Mainly because Mobileye, a subsidiary of Zhiyun Semiconductor, is a closed system with a high degree of monopoly, which has been criticized by many car companies and even subject to antitrust investigations.

In this case, Zhiyun Semiconductor decided to launch a new automotive-grade computing power platform in another subsidiary, NVIDIA, to avoid antitrust investigations and allow some capable and ambitious car companies to have a more open automotive-grade computing power platform.

But in fact, this is just the left hand hitting the right hand... The two market-oriented automotive-grade computing platforms are both owned by Zhiyun Semiconductor.

As for Hailan Automobile's EYQ series automotive-grade computing power platform, it was directly provided by Zhiyun Group in the early days, but later Zhiyun Group used this intelligent driving system as capital to invest in Hailan Automobile and became a small shareholder of Hailan Automobile.

At present, this series of automotive-grade computing platforms are completely assets of Hailan Automobile and have nothing to do with Zhiyun Group.

Tesla is in communication with NVIDIA, a subsidiary of Zhiyun Semiconductor, and is preparing to use NVIDIA's Drive PX automotive-grade computing platform to build their next-generation assisted driving system.

But this takes time, and a long time!

It is unlikely that they will succeed for at least a year or two.

And even if it succeeds, NVIDIA's automotive-grade computing platform can only provide a maximum computing power of 12TOPS, which is not as powerful as the first-generation driverless computing power of Hailan Automobile!
In addition, NVIDIA only provides simple chips. As for algorithms, sensors, and the integration of the entire system, you need to do it yourself.

Unlike the EYEQ platform, it directly sells you the visual algorithm and sensor together.

Because they are all relatively powerful and ambitious car companies, such as Tesla, which is preparing to develop advanced assisted driving based on the NVIDIA platform.

Other ordinary car companies, especially traditional car companies and some newly emerging new forces car companies, are still using the EYEQ3 automotive-grade closed computing platform to play L2-level assisted driving, such as adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, assisted parking, etc.

Looking at the automotive-grade computing platforms around the world, one conclusion is that the only car company that can currently allow smart driving cars to drive themselves to the press conference booth and show them to the audience is HaiLian Automobile.

And this is not just a slight lead, but a lead of 625 times.

Comparison between 160TOPS and 0.256TOPS!
The gap between them is far greater than what ordinary people see on the surface!
It's not as simple as being far ahead, but a gap that makes people despair at first sight!
Of course, many car companies, especially Tesla, are not sitting idly by... They are now using the EYEQ3 platform while developing Nvidia's Drive PX platform.

At the same time, they are also developing their own automotive-grade computing chips. Only by relying on self-developed automotive-grade chips can they truly obtain sufficiently advanced chips and catch up with Shanghai Blue Automobile.

Otherwise, forget it in this life!

Because Zhiyun Semiconductor is influenced by HaiLian Automobile, it will never supply advanced automotive-grade chips to the outside world, but only automotive-grade chips that are one or even two generations behind.

Breaking Zhiyun’s monopoly and advantage in the field of automotive-grade computing chips is Tesla’s most important core task at present.

A similar situation actually occurs in the high-end computing power cards required in the field of AI training...and this aspect is even more difficult.

Zhiyun Semiconductor has APO series graphics cards in one hand and NVIDIA computing power cards in the other. It has been fighting each other with both hands, and at the same time, relying on a mature and free AI development software ecosystem, it has completely dominated the chip market in the field of AI training.

It swallowed up everything from high-end to low-end, leaving no room for survival for other chip companies.

Even ATI under AMD, the GPU department under Intel, and the GPU department under Qualcomm are all at a loss when it comes to the field of AI chips, and it is very difficult to deal with it.

As for pure chips, they can actually make them. It's just a GPU core, they can make one with some tinkering. At most, it will be a little worse and have less computing power, but there won't be any essential difference.

Who doesn’t know how to design a high-performance GPU? It’s not difficult as long as you have hands.

The problem is that there is no AI development ecosystem to support their GPUs!
Zhiyun's free AI development software ecosystem has become an almost unified AI development software ecosystem in the world. Even the newly opened AI-related majors in universities around the world are taught by schools and learned by students based on Zhiyun's AI development software ecosystem.

All AI development engineers use Zhiyun's free AI development software...

In this case, if other competitors want to force their way in, they will need to re-cultivate the entire ecological chain, which will require a huge investment and a very long time.

This is why Xu Shenxue released all AI development software for free very early on, allowing anyone and any organization to download and use it for free!

It doesn't cost you a penny, it's provided to you for free, and it's a complete set of design and development software. The software is also updated regularly, and major updates will be released every three months to half a year to further promote AI development.

If you use my free ecosystem, then you have to buy my AI computing power card.

Moreover, Zhiyun's computing power cards are actually not too expensive. The top-level APO2000 is only 1500 yuan, and the second-rate APO is just over yuan. Nvidia's computing power cards are even cheaper.

On the one hand, we are blocking the ecosystem, and on the other hand, we are lowering the price of computing power cards. With both hands at the same time, what can you use to compete with me?

The purpose of this combination of punches is not to support others in developing AI, but to continue to suppress other chip manufacturers in developing AI chips.

If you dare to do this, I will make you lose everything!
In the field of computing power cards, Zhiyun Group is the only one in the world. Looking around the world, there is no rival that can compete with it.

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On this basis, HaiLian Automobile, supported by Zhiyun Group, has an advantage over other automobile manufacturers in the field of intelligent driving.

The underlying core advantage is that it has a huge advantage in the automotive-grade computing power platform!
Of course, in addition to this, the AI ​​driving core algorithm of the Intelligent Research Institute under Zhiyun Group is also a core advantage.

This set of core algorithms for autonomous driving cannot be created by simply writing code. Once you have the algorithm, you still have to use an AI training array composed of a large number of AI chips, and then continuously feed it data to finally train it.

At present, the only chip that can train this kind of AI is the top-secret AI chip within Zhiyun Group. As for the APO2000 graphics card supplied by Zhiyun Group to the outside world, it is far inferior in AI training efficiency!

It’s not that it can’t be done, but the computing cost will be extremely high!
Today, companies like Google and Tesla use this inefficient model to train AI, and then suffer from it.

A lot of money was poured into it, but the results were very few.

AI is the result of the combination of software and hardware, and Hailan Automobile's advanced automatic assisted driving technology is a typical embodiment of current AI technology.

That’s why HaiLan Automobile would boast about itself: What I drive are never ordinary electric cars, but smart electric cars!
Today, the newly released Hailan SLMC sedan is also a model of current intelligent driving!

A simple unmanned driving demonstration on the booth, followed by a 360-degree on-the-spot turn, and some other small functions demonstrated by Xu Shenxue all showcased the car's advanced unmanned driving capabilities.

Of course, as a car, some of its other functions also need to be mentioned.

"Our Hailan SLMC has four independent motor drives, an active body stability control system, a vehicle chassis height adjustment system and a series of other configurations, allowing the vehicle to easily handle high-speed and low-speed driving and even complex muddy road conditions."

"The large enough body also brings a spacious parking space. Whether it is the front row or the back row, there is ample space, providing the most comfortable riding space for you and your family!"

"The front seats have two 12-inch screens, and the rear seats also have their own touch screens that can independently play a variety of video content."

"At the same time, the car is equipped with our new generation of intelligent voice assistant Xiaolan, which can easily perform various operations through voice commands, such as adjusting the air conditioning in the car, opening and closing the windows, turning on and off the interior ambient light, turning on the navigation and even directly starting the assisted driving!"

"The new generation of voice assistant has been upgraded at the underlying core, making it smarter, more responsive, and more accurate in command recognition!"

Xu Shenxue’s introduction to some of the routine functions of the car itself did not last long. Instead, he focused on introducing some intelligent things, such as advanced automatic assisted driving, a new generation of smart voice assistants, and so on.

After a brief introduction, Xu Shenxue, as usual, once again ordered the Hailan SLMC driverless vehicle behind him to leave the platform and go to the test site outside.

Then, in front of a large group of media cameras, the driverless Hailan SLMC began to perform various driving maneuvers in the test site, flexibly and at high speed through the narrow S-shaped road, simulating automatic braking or emergency avoidance systems when pedestrians suddenly ran out from the roadside.

Simulate driving under complex road conditions with a large number of motor vehicles on the road.

In addition, a very interesting demonstration today was that when conducting a complex road condition demonstration, in addition to one Hailan SLMC, there were other Hailan cars on the road, such as the Hailan SEC coupe, the Hailan SEV large SUV, and the Hailan SLC large luxury sedan.

And these vehicles are all driverless!
Therefore, the media reporters at the scene saw more than a dozen driverless sea-blue cars of various types conducting road tests in the test field and then avoiding each other.

The whole scene was in order, without any sense of clutter at all!
The most impressive thing is that these test vehicles are very fast.

Xu Shenxue, standing in front of the open space of the test field, said to the many reporters in front: "If all the vehicles on the road are our Hailan cars with unmanned driving... then these Hailan cars will never collide with each other."

"Because under the powerful control of the advanced automatic assisted driving system, the system can accurately control the vehicle's actions every millisecond, thereby avoiding any accidents!"

This was of course Xu Shenxue bragging. If there were no car accidents, that would be under ideal circumstances, but the road is always full of accidents.

But the reporters present were stunned at first when they saw the scene in front of them, and then they opened their eyes wide, because they had already seen the news headlines.

This scene is much more spectacular than testing a sea-blue car on a field, and it can also give people more imagination.

For example, Xu Shenxue has been bragging about the intelligent unmanned transportation system from time to time for many years. What he boasts about is a large number of unmanned vehicles controlled by AI that run efficiently and stably in every corner of the city.

The current scene is certainly far from smart city transportation, but the prototype can already be seen.

This was what the reporters thought, while many representatives of other car companies sighed when they saw this scene!

I can’t keep up. I absolutely can’t keep up!

If HaiLan Automobile is one step ahead, they still have the motivation and ambition to catch up.

But now Hailan Automobile is obviously several or even more than ten steps ahead... What is the difference between this scene and a science fiction movie?

A large number of driverless vehicles are speeding around the test site, avoiding each other, and even queuing up and crossing each other to pass through one after another... and the whole process is done at an extremely fast speed.

In this case, if you let them make traditional vehicles, or at best, the car companies that are currently developing low-level assisted driving, what will happen?
They couldn't even imagine how this technology was done!
Then, they had a feeling that they were seriously behind the times!

After the press conference, some media reporters also took the opportunity to interview CEOs of other car companies, trying to get more information and make big news.

Unfortunately, a group of traditional car manufacturers did not give reporters any chance and they left as soon as the press conference ended.

At this time, a photographer took a photo.

Several people in suits were walking away with their backs to each other, while on one side, Xu Shenxue was surrounded by reporters and was being interviewed!
After simple photo editing and rendering, the reporter posted the photo on his Twitter, with the caption: The alternation of the old and new eras!
This photo was widely cited by many media outlets and circulated.

Then someone also raised a question: "Are they walking too slowly, or is Xu Shenxue walking too fast?"

As a result, a large group of people answered his question and presented various evidences to explain, but the conclusions were all similar: it was not that they walked too slowly, but that Xu Shenxue walked too fast... No, Xu Shenxue didn't even walk, but ran forward!

In fact, major automobile manufacturers are also trying hard to transform and enter the field of intelligent driving. Many automobile manufacturers have chosen the EYEQ3 computing platform under Zhiyun Semiconductor and have successively launched various assisted driving functions in their own cars.

At the same time, many are also developing electric vehicle platforms and launching so-called smart electric vehicles.

In the electric car market these days, there are not only Hailan, Tesla and BYD. In fact, other traditional car manufacturers are more or less involved and have launched their own electric cars.

Unfortunately, due to various problems, such as high prices, short battery life, poor interior decoration, serious reductions in configuration, and almost zero assisted driving, the electric vehicles launched by traditional car manufacturers have inherent defects.

For example, the I13 electric car launched by BMW in 3 is a typical example. The sales price of this car in most overseas markets is more than US dollars, and more than units of this car were sold last year.

The price of the Hailan SEC and Hailan SEV is even higher, with the average sales price reaching US$100,000 in most overseas regions. A total of more than 600,000 units of the two models have been sold worldwide.

By the way, in most overseas markets, Hailan cars are high-end models, while BMW I3 is only a mid-range model. Even so, the sales volume of BMW I3 is not even a fraction of that of Hailan cars.

The various electric vehicles of traditional car companies seem as powerless as children in front of Hailan Automobile.

Even though both of them look like cars, they are actually not from the same era... Not to mention their uses, they just don't look like cars from the same era.

In the eyes of most consumers, the BMW I3 is just an electric version of BMW. It has no intelligence at all. Even the electric car itself is not very good and the battery life is very poor!

But it’s different for HaiLan Car. Nowadays, few people regard HaiLan Car as a pure car. Most people regard it as a high-tech smart product and want to experience the sense of technology.

Hailan Automobile promotes the "smart electric vehicles" and other car companies' "electric vehicles" every day.

The two are completely different concepts!
At present, the only one that can compete with Hailan Automobile in the field of smart electric vehicles is Tesla... As for traditional car companies, they are already in their sunset years and are powerless to turn things around.

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With the new release of Hailan's annual product launch conference, Hailan SLMC, which starts at 400,000 yuan in China and 80,000 US dollars in most overseas regions, has officially been launched in China and many overseas countries. Due to the influence of foreign tariffs, Hailan cars have always been priced higher abroad than in China.

The sea-blue SLMC, positioned as a mid-size luxury sedan, has also won the favor of many users.

In the past, most of Hailan’s smart electric vehicles did not target the conventional family market. They were coupes, large SUCs and large luxury cars. They were also quite expensive and had nothing to do with ordinary middle-class families.

Among them, the most suitable one for family use is the Hailan SEV. The average sales price of this large SUV in China is more than 650,000 yuan, and the high-end version even costs 700,000 or 800,000 yuan.

This car type is unaffordable for most high-income families!

Nowadays, the starting price of a mid-size sedan is 400,000 yuan. After adding the advanced automatic assisted driving function, it can be purchased for just over 500,000 yuan. For Hailan Automobile, this price is already a typical conscience price, so that many high-income families can afford it.

At the same time, mid-size luxury sedans are more suitable as family cars, as the second car or even the first car for high-income families.

Moreover, as a new energy vehicle, this Hailan car can enjoy the support of obtaining a license without drawing lots in two large cities such as Shenzhen and Shanghai where it is difficult to obtain a license.

After all, HaiLan Automobile’s headquarters is in Shenzhen... and the second large-scale production base under construction is in Shanghai!
These two cities are also the first cities to propose support for new energy vehicles. Not only Hailan has benefited, but BYD and some other domestic electric vehicle companies have also benefited.

China is now vigorously promoting the development of the electric vehicle sector in an all-round way, and the support is quite strong... not only for the market, but also for the construction of charging piles.

Based on the current market environment, Hailan SLMC has attracted the attention of a large number of potential consumers, and some impatient ones even placed orders on the spot.

In the first week after the launch of HaiLan SLMC, HaiLan Automobile officially announced that it has received more than 30,000 orders worldwide and will officially start global deliveries after July!
HaiLian Automobile, once again, relied on its own series of high-tech attributes to make its new models a huge success, which made other automobile manufacturers sigh.

I can’t compare to her, I really can’t compare to her!

Especially in the field of intelligent driving, it is impossible to compete with Hailan Automobile.

But BYD has its own ideas and is not going to follow HaiLan Automobile in playing with smart driving.

HaiLan Automobile is like a mountain pressing down on other car companies in the field of intelligent driving. Other car companies simply cannot compete with it, so they will not forcefully challenge HaiLan Automobile's absolute advantage in this field.

What are they playing?
They are producing mid- and low-end electric vehicles, with the main focus on saving fuel, and are rushing into the taxi market and the online car-hailing market, with quite good results.

There are only two reliable companies in the domestic electric vehicle market today, namely HaiLan Auto and BYD.

Hailan's electric car is definitely good in many ways, but the problem is that it is expensive and ordinary people simply can't afford it!

At the same time, the current domestic electric vehicle market is extremely hot and highly discussed. Coupled with various policy supports, the electric vehicle market has great potential.

At this time, those people with average income look around and find that Hai Lan wants one but cannot afford it, but also wants an electric car. What should they do?
Buy a BYD electric car!
In the domestic market, it is recognized as a low-end alternative to the HaiLan Automobile. After price subsidies, you can get a pretty good BYD pure electric model for around 200,000 yuan.

It can be used for daily home use, and when you have nothing to do, you can also drive an online taxi to make money.

At present, it is very profitable to use low- and mid-end electric vehicles to drive online ride-hailing cars. If a person is diligent, he can easily make a turnover of more than 20,000 yuan in a big city. After deducting various costs, he can earn back the money for the car in a year.

After all, 'Kuaipao Travel', which is the merger of several online ride-hailing platforms under Xu Shenxue, and other online ride-hailing platforms on the market will not increase fares just because the driver's car is a gasoline car, nor will they reduce fares just because the driver's car is an electric car.

In this way, it becomes very cost-effective to use electric vehicles for online ride-hailing, which further stimulates the domestic mid- and low-end electric vehicle market.

Therefore, BYD's electric vehicle sales have been rising steadily in the past two years and are selling quite well.

Now that we have entered 15, the electric vehicle market is on the eve of a large-scale explosion!
The only thing that limits the large-scale explosion of electric vehicles is actually the cost of electric vehicles, especially the cost of power batteries and assisted driving, which are too high and difficult to reduce significantly. However, this cost will continue to decline over time, which will inevitably further reduce the selling price of electric vehicles and further popularize them.

In fact, even now, the cost of electric cars is much cheaper than when Hailan first started making electric cars.

The first generation of Hailan SEC of Hailan Automobile, the top-end version with a range of 400 kilometers and advanced automatic assisted driving function, does not include other options and costs 650,000 yuan.

Although the price of the current Hailan SEC is still so expensive, the pure electric range of the top-end model has been increased to 480 kilometers, and the auxiliary driving system has also been greatly upgraded...

This actually means increasing the quantity without increasing the price!
This behavior can actually be considered a price reduction, and the price reduction is quite significant.

The starting price of the Hailan SLMC that is currently on sale is only 400,000 yuan. If you choose an advanced automatic assisted driving function, the price will be 500,000 yuan. It can be said that the price has dropped a lot.

As the cost of power batteries and other costs continue to decline, sooner or later electric vehicles will enter the price range of more than 100,000 yuan and become cars that ordinary people can afford and use.

According to Xu Shenxue's prediction, this time point will not be too long, at most just over a year.

Because next year, Hailan Automobile will release the so-called low-priced models, which are actually mid-range models, directly entering the 300,000 yuan price range, starting ultra-large-scale mass production, and striving for annual sales of one million vehicles.

Other domestic automobile manufacturers are estimated to be able to lower their car prices to over 100,000 yuan.

By then, people will usher in the true era of electric vehicles.

But this era does not belong to traditional car manufacturers!

Especially traditional foreign car manufacturers!

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In late May, the electric car market became abuzz with excitement as HaiLan Automobile released its new generation of mid-size luxury sedan, HaiLan SLMC.

Xu Shenxue has temporarily put aside his electric vehicle affairs and gone to Nanmen Aerospace, which is his most personal interest.

This time he went there because Nanmen Aerospace was about to launch a rather special rocket, which was the first manned space launch.

After arriving at Nanmen Aerospace, the people from Nanmen Aerospace introduced to Xu Shenxue the new generation of manned spacecraft "Black Dragon" developed jointly by Nanmen Aerospace and several scientific research institutions.

This Black Dragon manned spacecraft is actually a manned version of the Qinglong cargo spacecraft developed by Nanmen Aerospace itself. It was designed and improved based on the Qinglong cargo spacecraft, and then a manned spacecraft with a launch weight of 11 tons was created.

It has undergone several tests before, and this is its first manned flight.

This is also the first purely commercial manned space flight in human history... Nanmen Aerospace is making preliminary technical preparations for its own commercial space station plan.

"Our Black Dragon spacecraft will be launched by the Type 5B rocket. After reaching the predetermined orbital location, it will perform a series of extravehicular and other test missions. Two astronauts are expected to board the Black Dragon spacecraft and return to Earth after staying in space for three days!"

"In preparation for this manned flight, we have also developed a new generation of space suits, life support systems and many other subsystems. We have also conducted numerous tests before, and some subsystems have also been technically verified in the launch mission of the National Space Laboratory!"

"Technically, we have made sufficient preparations to ensure that nothing goes wrong!"

Xu Shenxue is relatively confident about Nanmen Aerospace's technical preparations.

Nanmen Aerospace has developed rapidly in recent years, and it is a company that Xu Shenxue has less to worry about.

The Type 5B rocket has already undertaken a large number of commercial launch missions, as well as the launch mission of an experimental space station. Using a one-time consumption model, it has sent a 21-ton experimental module into space, starting the second phase of the space station test mission.

At the same time, the Qinglong cargo spacecraft also carried out two missions to transport supplies to the experimental space station.

The Type 5B rocket can even be said to be the most technologically mature and safest rocket at present. It has been launched nearly a hundred times, and every launch has been successful with a zero accident rate.

In the early days, people often saw the No. 5 rocket explode. That was always during the recovery phase. Especially the No. 5A rocket, which often conducted various tests during the recovery phase at that time, so people could see the No. 5 rocket explode from time to time.

But... during the launch phase, the No. 5 rocket has never exploded, and every time it successfully transports the payload to the predetermined orbit.

By the time of the Type 5B rocket, except for one explosion during an offshore recovery test, all other recoveries were successful, and even the recovery explosion was not shown to the public.

But don't worry about it not exploding... The new generation engine developed by Nanmen Aerospace, the Suzaku C engine, is being frequently tested using the No. 4 rocket... and Nanmen Aerospace's various tests are almost all aimed at various extreme tests, so rockets often explode.

In the words of Nanmen Aerospace engineers: Without extreme testing, how do you know when it will explode? How do you know when it is safe?
Therefore, Nanmen Aerospace still explodes a test rocket from time to time to allow tourists from afar to watch the big fireworks!
But experiments are experiments. If it is a serious commercial launch, then Nanmen Aerospace will be much more stable and conservative... After all, a rocket costs tens of millions of dollars, and the cost of blowing it up casually is too high.

Therefore, all tests and experiments conducted by Nanmen Aerospace are carried out with low-cost small test rockets. They are designed to test out as many problems as possible and then solve them. Once they are confirmed to be problem-free, they are used on large rockets.

Of course, even so, Nanmen Aerospace is often accused of being a prodigal son...

Even if you have money, you can't spend it like this!
Other aerospace companies or agencies would be heartbroken for a long time if a test rocket exploded, and then they would ground the flight to find the problem. They couldn't expect the next round of tests without a year or two, or even several years.

As for Nanmen Aerospace, after the test rocket exploded, they came back for another test ten days or half a month, and after a few tests, it would definitely explode again...

In fact, this pattern has also been seen by outsiders: Nanmen Aerospace is aiming to blow up rockets, so it will engage in all kinds of extreme tests.

Because small test rockets are often only equipped with one Suzaku C engine, and the current Suzaku C engine only costs more than 500,000 US dollars per unit, which is very cheap.

Xu Shenxue said: Even if there are bombs every day, there won’t be much money!

Improve while bombing. The more you bomb, the faster you progress. This is Nanmen Aerospace's research and development idea!

Everyone in the industry knows it, but few can follow suit...

Traditional aerospace agencies would never play like them. If you dare to blow up something, what awaits you is resignation and the end of your career. Therefore, astronauts in aerospace agencies are extremely conservative and take avoiding problems as the first principle.

Commercial space agencies, on the other hand, are much more unrestrained and dare to bomb, but they cannot afford it... After all, not every boss of a commercial space company is as rich as Xu Shenxue, and is willing to spend money on this.

The only company that can barely keep up with South Gate Aerospace in this field is Musk's Space Exploration Company, and their rockets are also exploded very frequently.

But Musk doesn't have much money of his own, and even with the support of various wealthy people, the funds are limited, so the explosion is not wild enough.

Therefore, their research and development progress has always lagged behind Nanmen Aerospace.

As for commercial space travel, when everyone's basic technology is similar, the competition is about who spends more money and is faster!
When it comes to spending money, Nanmen Aerospace's money-spending technology is unique in the world!
There is no opponent at all!

This commercial manned space flight is also a money-burning activity, with expenses also amounting to tens of millions of dollars, and this is when the first-stage rocket can be recovered.

At one o'clock in the afternoon of that day, Xu Shenxue saw the three astronauts who were going to carry out this flight mission at the launch preparation site.

These three astronauts are all retired astronauts. They were selected when they were young, and then underwent various trainings, waiting for manned launches. However, the competition for astronauts in China is actually very fierce.

There are many candidate astronauts, but only a few can be finally selected to carry out the mission.

Many astronauts trained for more than ten years but were ultimately unable to carry out flight missions and eventually retired in disgrace to work behind the scenes.

After Nanmen Aerospace decided to develop its own commercial space station plan, it recruited more than a dozen retired or active astronauts who were ranked lower than others but could not compete with others.

This is a huge opportunity for retired astronauts or astronaut candidates who have dreams of going to space, and their superiors are very supportive... Nanmen Aerospace is also its own aerospace company, and even the experimental space station was launched by Nanmen Aerospace's Type 5B rocket.

The formal space station under design and development is planned to be launched by Nanmen Aerospace's No. 6 heavy rocket... By then, the several core modules of this formal space station will be huge ones weighing more than 50 tons.

With Nanmen Aerospace's Heavy-Duty Rocket No. 6, the designers of this space laboratory have become very ambitious and have greatly improved the design indicators.

After all, the Type 6 heavy rocket has a takeoff mass of more than 1,500 tons and is capable of sending a 60-ton payload into low-Earth orbit!

To be honest, it would be a bit of a waste of the huge carrying capacity of the Type 6 heavy rocket if you don't build a core cabin of 50 to 60 tons.

As for the 20-ton class ones, they have all been turned into experimental cabins... and were sent into space at the beginning of this year by the Type 5B rocket in a one-time consumable state.

Nanmen Aerospace's commercial space station is also expected to use a 55-ton core module, but the number of modules will not be too many at that time.

Nanmen Aerospace is responsible for the core launch mission of the space station. It is not a big deal to support some astronauts to engage in commercial space flight. On the contrary, it can help accumulate more experience.

So, in the end, these dozen astronauts appeared in Nanmen Aerospace and continued to pursue their space dreams!
And today, three astronauts will go into space!

Although this was just a commercial flight organized by a commercial space company, the three astronauts were still very much looking forward to it and even excited.

After Xu Shenxue met the three people, they kissed the national emblem on their clothes, and then put on Hailan's self-developed space suits with the assistance of staff, and then carried out final preparations.

After the preparations were completed, the three astronauts officially entered the spacecraft on top of the rocket.

However, we cannot take off immediately as various final inspections are still needed.

After the final inspection was completed and confirmed to be free of any problems, the rocket was ordered to officially ignite and take off!

At 3:23 in the afternoon, the Type 5B rocket ignited, then rose straight into the sky, and finally carried the Black Dragon manned spacecraft and the three astronauts on board into space.

Not long after the rocket was launched into space, its first-stage rocket separated and embarked on a journey back to Earth alone. Not long after, it landed at a land recovery site, completing the 87th successful recovery of the Type B rocket!
The second-stage rocket continues to push the spacecraft to accelerate and increase its altitude.

After rising to the predetermined orbit, the second-stage rocket and the Black Dragon spacecraft separated, the second-stage rocket began to lower its altitude, and then burned in the atmosphere under the control of a predetermined program, and finally some debris fell into the Pacific Ocean.

The Black Dragon spacecraft was now floating alone in the space at an altitude of hundreds of kilometers!
Soon, the news that Nanmen Aerospace completed the first commercial manned space flight in human history spread around the world!

(End of this chapter)