This star is going to the moon

Chapter 413 Global Space Fever, Avatar Re-released

"...At 6:29 a.m. this morning, my country's first Mars exploration mission, Tianwen-1, successfully performed its third Mars braking maneuver, entering a Mars parking orbit with a perigee of 280 kilometers, an apogee of 59,000 kilometers, and a period of 2 Martian days."

"Afterwards, Tianwen-1 will conduct a detailed assessment of multiple pre-selected landing sites in this orbit, and then land at an opportune time in May of this year..."

(Illustrative diagram)

On the morning of the second day after the "Wu Gang" 1 landed on the lunar south pole, CCTV's "Morning News" program broadcast the latest developments of Tianwen-1.

And after broadcasting the Mars news, they will broadcast the Moon news, to inform those who don't follow aerospace information but watch the news about the "Wu Gang" No. 1 probe.

"Wow, our country's space technology is really amazing now. We can go to the moon and Mars whenever we want, just like going out to buy groceries."

"Who says otherwise? You sound like you're buying groceries and cooking every day. Hey son, how does our country's space technology compare to the US's?"

"I don't know much about this. I just heard my colleagues talking about it at work. They said that we are still a bit behind in terms of technology for the moon and Mars. After all, the Americans have sent astronauts to the moon, while we have only sent machines. They have been to Mars several times, while this is our first time. However, we are much better than the Americans in terms of manned spaceflight. Even our boss bought a ticket for a space tourism flight. It seems that he will go to space the year after next."

"Wow, didn't you say your company wasn't making much money? Your boss is willing to spend 1000 million to go to space for five hours?"

"We have no choice but to go, because the boss of one of our company's competitors is going, so our boss has to fight a business war with him."

"Oh my, this business war is so expensive! No wonder business is so tough these days. But son, tell your mother more about space tourism, so I can outdo your Aunt Wang and Aunt Liu when I'm chatting with them..."

"Give me a break, a bunch of old women talking about space?"

"What, you guys are allowed to play chess and talk about international affairs, but we're not allowed to talk about things in space? Our country even has female astronauts!"

The son didn't stop his parents from chattering away again; he even talked about aerospace when his mother wanted to hear about it.

Because it's better than the two of them teaming up to pressure him to get married.

Although he is over thirty years old.

Perhaps it's because we've truly entered a new round of space race, but people are noticing an increasing number of space-related news reports.

The more space news there is, the more people pay attention, and the resulting huge traffic leads more traditional media and self-media to start reporting space news, making the "space snowball" grow bigger and bigger.

Putting aside everything else, the space-themed content creators on Bilibili are overjoyed.

They originally only had a few thousand or tens of thousands of followers, and each video would only get a few thousand or tens of thousands of views.

The only major content creator in the aerospace field has only accumulated over 200,000 followers over the years. As a result, due to his poor data, even the "Three Gods," who usually like to advertise to smaller content creators, stopped advertising for him.

As a result, in the past two years, the number of fans and views of these aerospace content creators have increased dramatically, and various brands have started to seek them out for advertising.

Some people who aren't picky accept any kind of advertising, while others with long-term plans and a clear self-positioning only accept advertisements for technology products.

In any case, the fact that even space-themed content creators on Bilibili can make a living from the space craze shows that the global space atmosphere is indeed very different from before.

In fact, this is indeed the case.

Just by looking at the development of global commercial spaceflight in recent years, one can get a sense of the situation.

Leaving aside the established American space companies that are considered "national teams in the space industry," a large number of new commercial space companies, led by SpaceX, have emerged.

The leading company among these companies is SpaceX, and the second most famous is Blue Origin.

Although Blue Origin has never launched a rocket into orbit, its suborbital tourism rockets, whose future is uncertain under the shadow of the "Wooden Kite" class space shuttle, continue to conduct unmanned test flights.

But who can blame them when their owner is the world's richest man? And Blue Origin's 7-meter diameter reusable rocket is indeed quite impressive.

Next up is Rocket Lab. Despite its Electron rocket having a takeoff mass of only 13 tons and a low Earth orbit payload capacity of only 300 kilograms, it is still impressive.

However, this does not prevent it from having market demand; it has been launched 18 times so far.

As for other commercial space companies, some have already launched rockets but failed, some are preparing to launch this year, and others are just in the research and development stage, but the total number is quite large.

The situation is similar on the Lao-Chinese side; Blue Star Aerospace is definitely the leader.

Ranked next in terms of strength is Deep Blue Arrow, whose Red Sparrow II reusable rocket has already completed its first-stage recovery and is currently developing the Red Sparrow III.

It was a large rocket that still used liquid oxygen and methane fuel, had a diameter of 4.5 meters, and a recovery payload capacity of 18 tons.

The development strategy of Deep Blue Arrow is very clear: the Red Sparrow II is two sizes smaller than the Wanhu rocket, and the Red Sparrow III is two sizes smaller than the Long March 10, specifically designed to carry payloads that "don't need such a large rocket".

Other emerging commercial space companies in China have adopted similar strategies to Rocket Lab in the United States, focusing on the smaller and more flexible space payload market.

There are simply different types of rockets: some are developing solid rockets, and some are developing liquid rockets.

There are even researchers developing electromagnetic catapults!
As for other countries, the situation is more complicated. For example, the US and China are engaged in a global space race.

The two companies on the peninsula next to China are engaged in a space race on the peninsula; they are both developing rockets with a low Earth orbit payload capacity of one or two tons.

Countries with some spacefaring capabilities, such as India and European countries, are also developing commercial space companies, and some of these companies even have plans for their first flight this year.

Who knows, we might even make a big splash!

However, there won't be a chance in February this year. The big news this month is destined to be about China and the United States, and the UAE's first Mars orbiting exploration is just an extra.

February 26th is the Lantern Festival in Laos and China. Today, the live-action and animated film "Tom and Jerry" is being released simultaneously in Laos and China.

(Still from the movie "Tom and Jerry")
"Tom and Jerry" is a childhood memory for many, but with live-action... many people shake their heads.

Even though the live-action female lead of the movie is Chloe Moretz, who played "Hit-Girl".

After the Long March 10 rocket and the "Wu Gang" No. 1 probe completed their phased missions, Lu Yun temporarily focused on filming "The Wandering Earth 2" and rarely appeared in public.

Of course, the public talks about him quite a lot.

On March 11, the World Intellectual Property Organization released a report stating that the number of international patent applications filed through the organization continued to grow last year, with Laos and China ranking first in the number of international patent applications.

The fact that Lu Yun and Blue Star Aerospace Company's names appeared at the top of the application list has once again sparked heated public discussion.

On the 12th, Avatar was re-released, and domestic cinemas gave it more than 15% of the screenings, comparable to blockbuster movies currently showing in theaters.

For example, the hugely popular Lunar New Year film "Hi, Mom" ​​which was released some time ago now has 21% of the screenings.

Its box office has now exceeded 55 billion yuan, and there are still many viewers who want to see it, so the more than 20% screening share should continue for some time.

The forecasting agency predicts that its final box office will be around 59 billion.

"A Writer's Odyssey" only has 11% of screenings left.

Fortunately, its box office has already approached 20 billion, and it should eventually reach 20 billion.

(End of this chapter)