Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 393: Nanmen Aerospace, born for advertising

In the live broadcast room of Nanmen Aerospace Corporation, where the video was jumping, a high-definition camera captured the No. 6 heavy rocket standing on the No. 3 launch tower of the Nanmen Aerospace Corporation's rocket launch base.

This Launch Tower No. 3 was built specifically for the No. 6 heavy rocket. It is larger and taller, and has more complete launch mission support.

Otherwise, the previous No. 1 and No. 2 launch towers would not be able to meet the launch mission of a behemoth like the No. 6 heavy rocket.

The host in the live broadcast room is introducing many situations before the launch to the audience.

Suddenly, she said, "Good news. The rocket has entered the last minute before launch. Friends in the live broadcast room, welcome to watch the fourth launch of the No. 6 heavy-lift rocket, which is the most technologically advanced, has the highest thrust-to-weight ratio, and has the best cost-effectiveness in human history."

"It will be equipped with the Tiangong-3 core module, which is independently developed in China, the most advanced technology, and the largest man-made spacecraft ever built in human history. The launch net weight reaches 60 tons, the total length reaches 27 meters, and the width reaches 6.3 meters!"

At this time, the actual number of viewers in the live broadcast room has reached tens of millions!"

The official live broadcast platform of Nanmen Aerospace Corporation, which is the jumping video platform, is just one of many domestic online live broadcast platforms that broadcast this launch event.

In fact, the official live broadcast signal of Nanmen Aerospace Company is broadcast simultaneously on many domestic and foreign network platforms, and a large number of people also watch the official live broadcast on other platforms.

At the same time, Nanmen Aerospace authorizes this type of launch activity free of charge, and all media or individuals can organize their own filming and live broadcast.

Therefore, among the many domestic video live streaming platforms, there are also many other media and even individual anchors who are broadcasting live or rebroadcasting.

At the same time, many overseas platforms are no exception.

Still on Doudong Video, this APP that has entered the markets of most countries in the world and become the world's number one short video platform, there are also a large number of live broadcast rooms broadcasting the launch of the Tiangong-3 core module.

Some institutions have analyzed that during the launch mission of the Tiangong-3 core module, at least more than 150 million people around the world watched it in real time through television, live broadcasts on the Internet, and other means.

The number of viewers who will subsequently watch the launch video clips and news is conservatively estimated to exceed 2 billion people...and it may even be a long-lasting phenomenon, with viewers continuing to watch for a long time.

For a space launch mission, this number of viewers is already extremely exaggerated.

This is also the reason why Nanmen Aerospace Company authorized the live broadcast for free, in order to increase the number of viewers and sell advertisements...

In all major live broadcast rooms, whether official or from other media, or even on TV... no matter from which angle you shoot, you can clearly capture the huge billboards around the launch tower and the advertising spaces on the rocket itself.

“Zhiyun, born for technology!”

"Mengniu milk, the milk designated by the aerospace industry!"

"The jumping video connects you, me and him."

"Google, users come first!"

"Coca-Cola, you deserve it!"

Then there are a lot of advertising slogans and billboards from major companies!
Domestic companies include Weiku Electronics, Huawei, OV, Hailan Automobile, BYD and other companies.

A number of American, European and even Japanese and Korean companies overseas...

Although this is just a space station launch mission of the Chinese, under the control of Nanmen Aerospace's marketing department, it has evolved into a huge advertising and marketing campaign that has affected the entire world.

The bidding for the advertisement had already started several months ago and the price was extremely expensive.

The largest advertiser is not the wealthy Zhiyun, but Yihai Technology owned by Xu Shenxue. They directly booked the entire advertising space on the first stage of the No. 6 heavy rocket, spending more than 12 million US dollars for it, and then painted the flagship product of Yihai Technology, the huge logo of the jumping video and the advertising slogan on it.

During the period before the rocket launch, countless cameras filmed the rocket, and then transmitted the huge LOGO of the jumping video to the eyes of audiences around the world. In the future, anyone who watches this launch mission will inevitably see the huge LOGO of the jumping video.

Nanmen Aerospace is also very serious about selling advertisements...

Through this space launch mission, South Gate Aerospace Company earned more than 80 million US dollars in advertising revenue... This item alone has actually recovered most of the launch costs.

This is why Nanmen Aerospace is actively conducting live broadcasts and providing live broadcast and rebroadcast authorizations free of charge... This is a big advertising show, and the advertisers hope that more people will see this advertisement.

Just looking at the large number of people and the good long-tail effect, the group that only sees the advertisements generally belongs to the middle- and high-income groups or potential middle- and high-income groups with relatively good consumption power... The lower-class people actually don’t care much about Nanmen Aerospace and the space station. They are exhausted all day long just to make 3,000 yuan, so how can they pay attention to these things?

This is also the reason why Nanmen Aerospace’s advertising business is getting better year by year.

Among a large number of advertisements, the No. 04 heavy-duty rocket numbered CL also began the countdown to launch.

Thirty seconds!
Ten seconds, nine seconds...five seconds, until the last second.

As the command center issued the final "ignition" order, flames began to emerge from the bottom of the No. 6 heavy rocket, which was covered with advertisements and carried more than a dozen different corporate logos, followed by a large amount of water vapor.

The high-temperature, high-speed airflow ejected from twenty-one rocket engines came into contact with the huge water pool at the bottom used for cooling, causing the water in the pool to evaporate instantly, forming a huge water mist.

Fire and water mist instantly enveloped the entire rocket, making it look like a huge cloud of dust... In fact, it was not smoke, but just water mist.

With the huge thrust generated by twenty-one C-type Suzaku engines, the CL04 rocket began to slowly leave the ground.

The enormous thrust generated by the three bundled first-stage rockets made the launch site of this rocket look extremely exaggerated... enough to make everyone watching the launch hold their breath and be shocked by the grandeur of this human space technology.

This is a huge behemoth with a maximum take-off weight of 1,600 tons!
The visual effect is very shocking, and the huge roar emitted by the rocket engine on site also makes people feel excited.

The many spectators below watched the rocket take off intently, afraid of missing every detail.

Many media reporters, space enthusiasts and even ordinary tourists were frantically taking pictures of the rocket with various photographic equipment.

At the beginning, the CL04's No. heavy shoulder guard rose slowly, and it took the rocket a while to completely exceed the height of the launch tower. However, as the fuel in the rocket continued to be consumed and the weight of the rocket was reduced, the speed of the rocket became faster and faster.

With huge flames and roars, the Type 6 heavy rocket rose straight into the sky, passing a height of 500 meters, 1,000 meters, and then 10,000 meters.

Soon, it became difficult for people at the scene to see the details of the rocket with the naked eye.

Only by using a high-definition, high-magnification camera for tracking shooting can you capture relatively clear images.

At this time, the official live broadcast room of Nanmen Aerospace also inserted the footage from the tracking camera and the monitoring footage on the rocket.

In the tracking high-definition camera, we can only see a huge light spot and a relatively blurry rocket.

However, the real-time monitoring footage transmitted back from the rocket was very clear. You could see the three first-stage rockets below the rocket continuing to work, emitting huge tail flames, and below the tail flames was a wide expanse of ground.

While many viewers outside were watching these scenes, many staff members at the space observation center were working hard and observing the rocket.

They use radar and optoelectronic observation equipment to track and observe rockets.

Not only are there multiple space observation centers in the country, but many ocean-going space observation ships in the ocean are also working intensively.

The only exception is the offshore recovery platform of South Gate Aerospace Corporation located deep in the Pacific Ocean. It is currently not doing any work and is resting and watching the live broadcast at a rest base on a nearby island country... This time, the launch mission of the No. 6 heavy rocket is a one-time launch and does not require any recovery, so they have no recovery mission.

On Qiongzhou Island, in the Nanmen Space Launch Command Center, the launch command technical team of Nanmen Aerospace Company is working intensively. Dozens of staff members continue to collect and organize data from multiple rocket monitoring and test platforms.

Unlike the normal and peaceful scene seen by a large number of people outside, many people in the command center were actually feeling a little nervous.

"Qiongzhou Optical Monitoring Center reports that the optoelectronic tracking equipment is normal and the image is clear!"

"The third test of the remote sensing signal was normal."

"The intelligent system in the core module of Tiangong-3 reports that the components of the space station are normal and have withstood the acceleration impact of the initial launch of the rocket!"

"Nanmen Yuanyang No. 04 reports that the radar equipment has captured the CL rocket and has begun relay tracking!"

"Nanmen Oceangoing No. 2 is ready and is expected to start relay tracking in 63 seconds!"

"Intelligent launch system feedback, all data is currently normal!"

"Level 3 alert, intelligent launch system feedback, engine No. 17 experienced a slight decrease in thrust at 83 seconds, the thrust is 85% of the normal thrust, and it continues to decrease. It is suspected that there is an error in the fuel transfer system. The system has adjusted the thrust of other engines to maintain the thrust balance!"

"The intelligent launch system plans to shut down engine number 17 in five seconds and increase the thrust of the other engines!"

"Five seconds, three seconds, one second. The intelligent launch system has shut down engine number 17. The other engines have increased their thrust. The overall thrust continues to maintain normal!"

"Nanmen Ocean No. 04 reports that CL has been monitored. The monitoring data shows that the external attitude is normal, the speed is normal, and the angle is normal."

"Intelligent launch system reports that due to the impact of engine No. 17, the fuel consumption in the first stage rocket is greater than expected by 1.35%. The launch system has entered energy-saving mode and changed the flight plan. The time for the space station to enter orbit is expected to be delayed by one minute and thirty-eight seconds."

Xu Shenxue, who was standing by, looked a little nervous.

Xu Shenxue was like this, and some experts from the space agency who were watching the launch were even more nervous.

It doesn’t matter if Nanmen Aerospace’s rocket explodes…they explode all the time anyway.

But the Tiangong-3 core module is very expensive. If one of it explodes, even if the aerospace insurance company under Nanmen Aerospace will compensate for it, there is no backup for it, and it will take a lot of time to build a second core module.

On the other hand, the person in charge of Nanmen Aerospace looked relaxed: "This is normal. We use multiple engines in parallel. The hardware structure and control system are very complex. It is normal for one or two engines to fail occasionally. Our intelligent launch system has perfect corresponding plans for this. At the same time, our rockets have already taken these issues into consideration when they were designed. It is normal for one or two engines to fail!"

Sure enough, just as the people from Nanmen Aerospace said, although the CL04 rocket had some minor problems, it still did not affect the continued climb of the entire CL rocket.

Many viewers outside who were watching the live broadcast saw that everything was going smoothly and had no idea that some minor problems had occurred in the middle.

As the CL04 rocket continued to climb, according to previous launch missions, at this point in time, the two booster first-stage rockets would often separate first and then return, leaving only the main rocket to continue climbing.

But now, in order to send the sixty-ton giant into low-Earth orbit, the three first-stage rockets are in disposable mode, so they continue to climb!
After dozens of seconds, the two first-stage booster rockets, which had exhausted their fuel first, separated from the main rocket with greater power.

"Booster rocket number one and booster rocket number two separate. 3, 2, 1, separate!"

"The booster rocket separated successfully, and the main rocket continues to climb!"

"The booster rocket adjusted its course and reentered the atmosphere to burn up. It is scheduled to fall in the South Pacific!"

Soon after, the personnel at the command center said again: "The fairing has separated successfully!"

At this time, the rocket is already in space where the air is very thin, and the space station no longer needs the protection of the fairing, so it will jettison the fairing in time to reduce the weight.

After flying for more than a hundred seconds, the first and second rockets finally separated. "The main rocket separated successfully!"

"Second-stage rocket ignited successfully, continue to climb!"

"The main rocket adjusted its direction and reentered the atmosphere to burn up. It is scheduled to fall in the South Pacific!"

At this time, the second-stage rocket and the Tiangong-3 core module on board were already very high from the ground.

At this time, the exhaust flow from the vacuum engine on the second-stage rocket is obviously different from the exhaust flame from the atmospheric engine on the first-stage rocket, because the nozzle diameter of the vacuum engine is larger.

The main reason for this difference is the density of the atmosphere. The air density in the atmosphere is very high, and there is atmospheric pressure, so it will compress the tail flame ejected by the rocket engine.

At high altitudes, because the air is very thin, there is not enough atmospheric pressure to compress the tail flame of the rocket engine.

The air density directly leads to the need to use different types of rocket engines for the first stage, second stage, and even third stage of rocket design.

Therefore, when watching the news, you can see that rocket engines are divided into conventional rocket engines and vacuum version rocket engines.

As the vacuum plate engine of the second-stage rocket ignites, the rocket, which is already at a speed of more than 10,000 kilometers per hour, continues to accelerate, and then continues to climb towards the low-Earth orbit of the designated space station...about 400 kilometers from the ground.

The second-stage rocket continued to work for hundreds of meters and seconds, pausing the operation of the rocket engine, and the rocket entered a gliding phase to adjust the angle and heading and save fuel.

Hundreds of seconds later, the vacuum engine on the second-stage rocket ignited for the second time, continuing to push the rocket to climb.

The vacuum engine on the second-stage rocket continued to work for hundreds of seconds before its fuel was almost exhausted.

At this time, a voice came from the command center: "Second-stage rocket engine shut down!"

"Shutdown successful, rocket and space station begin separation procedure!"

"Three, two, one, separation successful!"

After separation, the second-stage rocket will use the last bit of remaining fuel to adjust its course and angle, enter the atmosphere, and then burn up in the atmosphere. The very small amount of remaining debris will fall into the vast and uninhabited South Pacific.

However, obviously, no one cares about the fate of the second-stage rocket that has completed its mission. Everyone is paying attention to the core module of Tiangong-3.

At this time, after many technicians at the launch center carefully analyzed a lot of data, the person in charge of the command center finally said loudly: "I declare that the core module of Tiangong-3 has successfully entered orbit!"

"The Tiangong-3 core module's intelligent system is undergoing self-inspection!"

"System self-check completed, all subsystems of the Tiangong-3 core module are functioning intact, the attitude is good, and the speed and altitude are as expected!"

"The system is deploying the solar panels as planned, and the station's built-in electric propulsion system is continuously adjusting the station's attitude."

After about ten minutes, the 60-ton Tiangong-3 core module finally entered orbit successfully.

The news was soon announced.

"The core module of Tiangong-3 has successfully entered orbit. The launch mission was a complete success!"

"The Tiangong-3 core module will carry out various tests and scientific experiments as planned!"

Also announced were some other news, including follow-up plans.

This also attracted a lot of real-time coverage from the media.

"The space agency announced that in half a month, the first cargo ship will be launched and docked with the space station."

"In a month, the manned spacecraft will also be launched and docked with the space station!"

"Three months later, the Tiangong-4 experimental module, an important component of the space station, will continue to be launched by the No. 6 heavy rocket and dock with the Tiangong-3 experimental module!"

"In half a year, the Tiangong-5 experimental module will be launched and docked. By then, the Tiangong space station will have reached its initial completion, consisting of three core modules. The space station will have a net weight of 180 tons and can support ten astronauts at the same time!"

"Nanmen Aerospace Corporation officially announced that it has received a mission order to transport supplies to the Tiangong Space Station. In the next five years, it will use its Qinglong cargo spacecraft and launch it with the No. 5 rocket to transport various supplies to the Tiangong Space Station!"

"It is reported that the price of cargo transportation provided by Nanmen Aerospace Company for the space station is much lower than the price of material supply to the International Space Station. Industry experts have analyzed that by utilizing the huge low-cost advantage brought by Nanmen Aerospace Company's repeatable rocket technology, the cost of my country's cargo transportation to the Tiangong Space Station is only about 20% of the cost of cargo to the International Space Station!"

"Nanmen Aerospace Corporation officially announced the next generation of space shuttle 'White Dragon Space Shuttle'. It is reported that the White Dragon Space Shuttle is a new generation of space shuttle that integrates many modern scientific and technological technologies, with lower transportation costs and better safety."

With the successful launch of the Tiangong-3 core module, a large number of various space-related news appeared in major media in an instant.

Among them, Nanmen Aerospace, which is responsible for the launch of the three core modules of the space station and the subsequent cargo supply spacecraft mission, has once again become a global aerospace company.

Many people in China read the news about the Tiangong-3 core module and other related space news in the afternoon and evening of that day.

Short video platforms like Jump Video are full of videos of the launch of the Tiangong-3 core module.

The same is true overseas...

In the industry, NASA of the United States published a congratulatory message on its official website: Congratulations to China for successfully sending the space station into space. We look forward to more space exploration in the future!
Musk, the boss of Space Exploration Company, tweeted on the social networking site: Congratulations to South Gate Aerospace on another success, they have a very good team of rocket experts!

Relevant space agencies in Europe, Japan, South Korea, and even India have expressed congratulations through various channels... In terms of space exploration, the space agencies in various countries are actually doing well on the surface, and on weekdays, you congratulate me and I congratulate you.

After all, space exploration often represents the entire human race, not just a certain country.

Most of those who are interested in space exploration are idealists, and the academic atmosphere is stronger.

Take Xu Shenxue himself for example. He spent so much money and put so much effort into aerospace, but it was not for making money... This thing doesn't make money at all, instead he has to lose a lot of money.

Even though Nanmen Aerospace is currently the world's largest commercial aerospace company, with annual revenue of several billion US dollars, Xu Shenxue still has to subsidize it with a lot of money every year.

However, the subsidy method is not to directly throw money at it as in the past, but to provide indirect subsidies through the construction of the satellite network of Zhiyun Satellite and the launch orders given to Nanmen Aerospace!
The reason why Zhiyun Satellite, a subsidiary of Zhiyun Group, launches a large number of various satellites into the sky every few days and even develops satellite Internet business is largely to provide continuous blood transfusion to Nanmen Aerospace Company.

Otherwise, if Nanmen Aerospace relied solely on external orders, its revenue would be even worse and its losses would be even greater.

Xu Shenxue's continuous investment is also one of the reasons why the aerospace agency supports Xu Shenxue in aerospace. Not only does it provide policies, but it also provides various technical support and talent support... Why? Borrowing chickens to lay eggs!
A large group of domestic aerospace experts have rushed to work at Nanmen Aerospace. Outsiders may think that they came for the high salaries at Nanmen Aerospace?

But in fact, they all come with various R&D tasks...Job-hopping is fake, laying eggs by borrowing chickens is real.

As soon as they started working, they let go of themselves and started to do all kinds of things.

Various projects that we didn’t dare to undertake or couldn’t undertake in the past because they were too expensive are now being pursued with full confidence.

Anyway, with the richest man Xu paying for it, you can go ahead with research and development with confidence!
Besides, it would be a waste if we don’t spend Mr. Xu’s money…

As for the fact that the patents for the research results belong to Nanmen Aerospace, that is not a big deal. Domestic aerospace companies are all highly integrated anyway, so there is no point in dividing them between you and me.

Although Nanmen Aerospace is a commercial aerospace company and Xu Shenxue's industry, the aerospace agency actually still holds more than 40% of Nanmen Aerospace's shares.

Otherwise, how could Nanmen Aerospace Company undertake the space station launch mission and subsequent cargo missions?
Many foreigners say that Nanmen Aerospace Company is a commercial aerospace company, but in fact it is just a white glove company launched by the Chinese aerospace agency... Many of the technical experts in it are from companies or research institutes under the aerospace agency if you look at their resumes.

This is also true... Many technical experts in Nanmen Aerospace basically come from various research institutes and enterprises under the aerospace agencies.

Otherwise, there is no other place to find so many experts in the aerospace field!

The emergence of Nanmen Aerospace Company is because people see that Xu Shenxue is capable of doing things, has a very strong record in the past, and is successful in everything he does... He also has money and is willing to invest it in the aerospace industry, which has little return.

To put it bluntly, Xu Shenxue's approach is actually no different from directly donating hundreds of billions to the aerospace industry... In this case, we naturally have to support it.

Therefore, Nanmen Aerospace Company was able to obtain relevant approvals, explore the commercial aerospace field, and achieve many results, which also stimulated a wave of development in the domestic commercial aerospace field.

In recent years, other commercial aerospace companies with capital investment have been established to develop reusable rockets or other aerospace technologies. However, most of the technologies are still relatively primitive and have not yet achieved significant success.

There are quite a few startups that have entered Nanmen Aerospace's supply chain by developing some subsystems and parts in the aerospace industry and then achieved entrepreneurial success.

The success of Nanmen Aerospace is not only its own success, but also has driven the rapid development of the entire domestic aerospace industry chain, which in turn has further promoted the rapid technological advancement of Nanmen Aerospace.

Xu Shenxue felt very gratified about this.

After years of continuous investment, we have completed the initial layout today. What follows is to continue to invest resources step by step and then wait for the results to come to fruition.

He is looking forward to traveling to Mars in the future to see the scenery there.

The successful launch of the Tiangong-3 core module and a large number of ongoing space-related news have flooded various news platforms in the past week.

As for Xu Shenxue himself, he did not pay much attention to the launch after its success, but continued his vacation with his family at a seaside resort on Qiongzhou Island.

A week after the successful launch, Xu Shenxue took his family back to Shenzhen on a special plane to start a new round of work.

In the next period of time, Xu Shenxue will continue to focus on the mass production and stocking of the S17 series of mobile phones, as well as subsequent press conferences and market launch work.

Although various other black technologies are good, it is still the S series of mobile phones that can truly bring huge revenue and profits to Zhiyun Group and even the entire Xu Shenxue industrial chain.

A super industrial product with annual revenue exceeding US$200 billion can bring tens of billions of dollars in net profit to Zhiyun Group, and at the same time forcibly drive the entire domestic smart terminal industry chain and even the semiconductor industry chain.

Given the importance of the S series mobile phones, Xu Shenxue pays close attention to the relevant situation of the S series mobile phones at this time every year.

Of course, paying close attention to the S series of mobile phones is one thing, but it does not mean that Xu Shenxue will not do other things.

Before officially holding the launch conference for the S17 mobile phone, Xu Shenxue also planned to hold a special launch conference in early July to release new models of entry-level robots with prices as low as yuan, as well as high-end robots.

The attempt is to lower the price of robots in order to lower the purchasing threshold for consumers, further expand robot sales, and thereby drive the development of the entire robot industry chain.

However, this press conference is not exclusive to Zhiyun Group. It will not only release robot products, but also Xiaojiang Technology’s large drone X14 project.

At this press conference, Xu Shenxue will introduce to the world the new combination of AI drones and AI robots and the tremendous changes it will bring to life and production.

He not only wants to announce to the world that the age of robots has arrived and is unstoppable.

We must also announce to the world that the era of low-altitude economy has arrived and is equally unstoppable!
(End of this chapter)