This star is going to the moon

Chapter 371 Is it considered neglecting one's duties if the protagonist of a science fiction movie develops a large rocket while filming?
While the world was reporting on BlueStar Space's "cheap" $150 million per ticket commercial space tourism.

The Huawei Mate40 has finally been officially released in China.

Huayao is also riding this wave of space fever, since it can use satellite internet to send text messages, voice messages, and pictures.

Although Starlink announced the start of its trial last month, and StarDou also announced the start of its trial yesterday, this is just like a new product launch for mobile phones. New things are not immediately available for use after they are released; you have to wait at least two or three weeks.

So even though Starlink started accepting test registrations last month, you won't be able to buy the equipment until next month at the earliest.

"Xingdou" was only put into trial use yesterday.

Compared to their commercial trials, Huayao directly launched its official commercial use. Although it wasn't high-speed internet, it still earned the title of "world's first" with some prefixes.

Many people buy phones in physical stores and then head straight to remote, desolate areas, whether by car, high-speed rail, or airplane, just to try them out.

result……

"Damn, the infrastructure in China is amazing! Even in such a remote place, there's still cell phone signal!"

"No, I need to squeeze into even more nooks and crannies!"

Compared to driving into remote mountain areas or taking high-speed rail to the desert, people who fly are the first to experience the convenience of "space internet".

Wang Julong is a digital product review UP master with millions of followers on Bilibili. He boarded the plane with his newly arrived Huayao Mate40 phone and waited for the plane to enter the cruising phase.

Normally, a reviewer of his caliber would have gotten the new phone earlier, but Huayao was just targeted by the US, so the situation was special and he didn't get the phone in advance for this new release.

In the past, passengers were required to turn off their mobile phones when boarding commercial airliners because the aircraft communication systems at that time were relatively primitive and fragile.

Later, with the rapid development of technology, the communication system of airplanes became more secure, so it was only necessary to turn on the airplane mode of the mobile phone when the airplane took off and landed.

After all, the times when a plane takes off and lands are when the pilot communicates most frequently with the control tower.

Once the plane enters the cruising phase, it's basically no one to manage it anymore, since even if you turn off airplane mode, your phone won't receive a signal.

Since there are no messages or phone calls from anyone, how would anyone know if you had airplane mode on or off?

On the contrary, after turning off airplane mode, the phone will increase the antenna power and keep searching for base station signals, but it is impossible to find base station signals at the cruising altitude of the aircraft.

So that would only consume a lot of battery power and cause the phone to overheat.

The situation is different now. Wang Julong's Huayao Mate40 phone has airplane mode enabled. The phone has no signal, but a satellite icon representing a satellite network has appeared next to the airplane icon in airplane mode.

"The new era of mobile phones has truly arrived."

With a sigh, Wang Julong opened the satellite network communication app that came with the Huayao Mate40 and started contacting his colleagues in the studio.

I'm texting you from my plane right now, will you receive it?

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Wang Julong tried all three modes: text messaging, voice messaging, and image messaging. Text messaging was the fastest, and a green checkmark appeared immediately after sending a message, indicating that the message had been sent.

When the four-second voice message was sent, a small circle appeared at the bottom, and a green checkmark appeared about two seconds later.

The picture was taken by him directly from the porthole with his phone. When transferring the image, there were options: original image or compressed image.

Sending the original image will use a lot of bandwidth and take a long time.

Compressing images before sending will reduce the size of a 5MB photo to 500KB, consuming less bandwidth and sending faster, but the image quality will be slightly lower.

This is also a function of dedicated satellite network communication apps.

Wang Julong chose to try both, as he wasn't short of the "space data" fees.

The studio team had already downloaded the same app and were waiting for the message. When they received the message from their boss, they all exclaimed "Whoosh!"
"I actually received it! Awesome!"

At the same time, related information also increased online.

This phone is amazing! It really does have a signal even where there is none!

What do you mean by "with signal" or "without signal"?

[Huayao's new phone! I've switched to a new phone. See where I am? In the vast, uninhabited desert!]

Wow, you're fast! You've already reached the no-man's-land? Be careful!

[Don't worry, I didn't run very far. There was one bar of cell phone signal a few hundred meters away, but it disappeared here. The testing location I found is quite safe.]

[Image] I'm in a remote mountain valley. Last time I camped in this area, there was no signal at all. Now I'm not afraid of losing contact.

Wow, is this kind of satellite data plan expensive?

Those who can afford this new Huayao phone shouldn't be bothered by the small amount of data plan fees.

It’s hard to say.

[I never expected Huayao to have such a breakthrough strategy, first with foldable screen phones, then with satellite internet. This is much better than other phone manufacturers who rely on past successes and incremental upgrades.]

Are these mobile phone manufacturers just like donkeys, only learning to move forward and innovate after being punished?

[Aren't Lu Yun and An Fangfei at a disadvantage? After all, the foldable phone they endorsed doesn't have satellite internet functionality...]

No loss.

Because Huayao already has the second-generation foldable phone Mate X2, which is more powerful than the 1.5-generation foldable phone Mate Xs released in February this year.

For example, if a mini satellite dish is installed, satellite internet functionality can be used.

Although it will not be released until February next year, it has already been given to Lu Yun and An Fangfei for internal testing.

Yesterday, Mr. Ren, the founder of Huayao, called Lu Yun, also about going to space tourism.

When the two companies were discussing cooperation, they talked about space tourism. Although the Muyuan spacecraft had not yet made its maiden flight at that time, Mr. Ren had already booked two space tourism flights.

Of course, at that time everyone was just talking about it. After all, Lu Yun was confident that the Wooden Kite could make a successful maiden flight, but the others were not so sure.

Delays are common in aerospace engineering projects.

Now, Bluestar Aerospace has sold hundreds of space tourism flights in just half a day. If two of these flights were to be added to the regular commercial flights for Huayao's staff, the other passengers would definitely complain.

This is not the usual queue for breakfast.

People usually get angry over cutting in line for breakfast that costs a few dollars, let alone space tourism worth 1000 million dollars.

It was Boss Ren's phone call with Lu Yuntong yesterday that made him decide to find more work for the "Wooden Kite".

There's no way around it, there are just too many people with connections!

Fortunately, they were all honest people who paid money, and they were genuine business partners. Ordinary people wouldn't qualify as the "connected individuals" that Lu Yun referred to.

For example, Guo Fan also wants to go to space for a trip and will film the whole process with a camera.

Of course, there are also free space tourism flight missions.

For example, Lu Yun's lottery users and the space trip he promised his sisters for their college entrance exams. Boss Ren's plan is to send company employees on space tourism in batches.

The initial statement that "two flights were booked" meant ten people, so they would go in ten separate trips instead of all going on the same two flights at once.

Although the initial tests proved that the "Wooden Kite" was very safe, there's always a chance of something going wrong.

Even if the "Wooden Kite" malfunctions, it won't necessarily lead to "total annihilation".

Of course, as the company's founder, Mr. Ren wanted to be the first person from the company to go to space.

As for his age of over 70...

The 91-year-old man has passed away; he was in his 70s, the prime of his life!
The 16th was also the last day of the three-day professional days of the Zhuhai Airshow. On this day, various aerospace companies held press conferences of all sizes, and the space agency also held its last press conference.

This means that the latest news about the Tianwen-1 Mars probe has been released.

It has been in orbit for 115 days, with a flight distance exceeding 3 million kilometers, and is about 6380 million kilometers away from Earth.

The detector's attitude is stable, its energy is balanced, some subsystems have completed self-tests, and all systems are functioning normally.

Next February, the Tianwen-1 Mars probe will perform its final orbital correction to ensure it accurately enters Mars orbit.

In less than three months, China will officially begin its exploration of Mars!

The 16th was not only an important day for China to release information about its Mars probe, but also for the United States, when the Crew Dragon spacecraft carried out its second manned flight mission.

Compared to the Crew Dragon's first manned flight, which had a testing aspect, the second manned flight is an official mission.

This means the number of passengers will increase from two to four, and the time spent on the International Space Station will increase from two months to more than five months.

However, compared to the time from the end of May when the Crew Dragon spacecraft made its maiden manned flight to November now, the history of manned spaceflight has undergone tremendous changes.

Viewers who watched the live broadcast of the Crew Dragon's second manned flight were full of admiration.

Time flies so fast! It feels like only five or six months have passed, but it feels like five or six years!

[It's all happened so fast. It feels like just yesterday that the Muyuan spacecraft made its maiden unmanned flight at the end of May, and then just three days later, the Crew Dragon made its first manned flight. I never imagined that the landscape of human spaceflight would change so drastically in just six months.]

Yes, the Crew Dragon spacecraft was already quite impressive; even without the Muyuan spacecraft, it could have changed the landscape of human spaceflight.

It's alright. The Space Shuttle, which appeared in the 1970s and 80s, was what truly changed the landscape of manned spaceflight. The current Crew Dragon spacecraft is just a continuation of that legacy.

[That's not quite right. The reusability of the Space Shuttle was relatively low. It jettisoned its large 10-meter diameter fuel tank and two massive solid rocket boosters, making it the only space shuttle to be recovered and reused. In contrast, the Crew Dragon spacecraft only jettisoned a small service module, and the Falcon 9 rocket that launched it only jettisoned a small second-stage rocket. Combined, their recovery and reuse rate is quite high.]

That's true, but unfortunately it encountered a fully reusable Kite-class space shuttle.

[Haha, there's nothing we can do about it; the Wooden Kite-class space shuttle is just terrifyingly powerful!]

[Who can argue with that? The Crew Dragon can conduct two manned flights within six months, while the Muyuan can conduct three unmanned flights and seven manned flights, and even launch commercial space tourism, selling 1000 tickets!]

[That's really impressive. I went to watch the seventh manned test flight a week ago, and it was full of commercial astronauts from Blue Star Space. I guess they're going to start commercial space tourism, so the trainees all have to go to space to practice...]

While most people were focused on aerospace information, a video suddenly went viral on a short video platform.

A young man named Dingzhen became an internet sensation because of his innocent smile.

Wow, she's so innocent! I love it!

Sister, I need his contact information!!!

His smile and eyes are so pure, untouched by worldly corruption!

[You can tell he's a good guy just by looking at his smile and eyes, unlike the men around me who smoke, drink, and give the middle finger.]

Hello, congratulations on your marriage!

He's cleaner than 99% of men!

The overwhelming public opinion left the male netizen stunned. How could this have involved him?
When male netizens watched his video and found it to be "just so-so," they were immediately criticized, accused of being jealous.

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Regardless of online opinions, Dingzhen's hometown seized the opportunity and directly signed an agreement with him, making him the local tourism ambassador.

They also hired a professional team to promote him and get him to film a promotional video featuring the beautiful scenery of his hometown as quickly as possible.

At the same time, the department also used its official status to connect him with various resources, such as participating in the Sichuan TV New Year's Concert on January 1st.

They asked CCTV to film a feature program about him.

We also want him to participate in the online Spring Festival Gala as a performing guest.

In addition, we need to write songs for him, let him publish songs in ethnic languages, and also let him appear in the fashion magazine "Men's Health" for a photo shoot.

This setup clearly indicates they're trying to create a god-like figure.

Lu Yun was stunned when he saw the overwhelming news, and then he remembered who this person was.

This person was still forced out in this lifetime.

Sometimes, the authorities don't investigate the background in detail when creating a god; sometimes they just act on the whim, and then replace him with someone else when the deity falls from grace.

Or, in the grand scheme of things, ordinary people are simply swept along.

Whether the outcome is good or bad depends entirely on luck.

However, this matter has little to do with Lu Yun. He is no longer a nobody; it is now his turn to control the direction of the situation.

"Brother Guo, could you please adjust the scenes I'm filming in three days?"

After filming a day's worth of scenes for "The Wandering Earth 2", Lu Yun casually said to Guo Fan, "I need to ask for leave that day. I have to attend a test report meeting for the Long March 10 rocket."

When director Guo Fan heard actor Lu Yun casually utter such unprofessional remarks on set, he readily agreed: "No problem!"

Not doing your job properly?

No, let's get back to work!
The fact that the lead actor of a sci-fi movie attends a conference that sounds like pure science fiction is simply the best publicity for sci-fi movies!
With Lu Yun confirming at the Zhuhai Airshow that the maiden flight of the Long March 10 rocket was only two or three months away, he took more and more leave during the filming of "The Wandering Earth 2".

After all, as the chief designer of the rocket, he needs to understand the rocket's condition even more at times like these.

However, Guo Fan did not stop him at all; on the contrary, he was very happy.

Firstly, Rowoon's filming efficiency is indeed very high, so taking leave won't cause any problems.

Secondly, every time Lu Yun takes leave to attend a meeting about the Long March 10 rocket, "The Wandering Earth 2" trends on social media.

Unfortunately, as the sequel to the domestic sci-fi blockbuster "The Wandering Earth," "The Wandering Earth 2" received a lot of attention during its filming, and every move it made was reported by reporters who were stationed there.

Not to mention Rowoon, the male lead who was already a huge hot topic.

Especially after launching commercial space travel and confirming the maiden flight date of the Long March 10 rocket, every move of Lu Yun has become a hot topic.

If we extend this further to the space race and the competition of national power between China and the United States, it becomes even more extraordinary.

It was like a supernova explosion!

(End of this chapter)