Minke's black technology

Chapter 296 Sky-high Price Ticket
Pengcheng, the headquarters of Meow Star.

In the high-level secret meeting room, less than ten people participated in the meeting, but they were all responsible for the space program. Among them were Academician Ma, the chief designer of [Earth Cannon], and Zhou Lin, the president of Meow Star Group, and Meow Star Group. Star boss Li Maoye.

In the first few minutes, everyone did not get into the main topic, but was discussing the post-war commendation conference prepared by the military some time ago, which included content related to the Meow Star Laboratory.

"Want to give me a medal from above?"

Li Maoye didn't care about this, and he was not a medal holder, so he smiled at Zhou Lin: "I won't attend the meeting, let Assistant Xie help me to receive the award!"

In fact, the conflict on the border has ended long ago, but the relevant departments have been finishing the work, and it is only now that the relevant personnel are rewarded for their merits.

Li Maoye, as the most important developer of "Ghost Killer", of course also has his honor and merit. The personnel related to the Meow Star Laboratory have also been rewarded, and each of them even got a sum of money for it.

In addition to the R&D staff’s money, the laboratory has also received hundreds of millions of R&D funds, which can be regarded as additional funds for project R&D. This amount of money is basically a drop in the bucket for real R&D institutions, and I’m afraid they can’t even afford R&D materials.

The basic situation is like this. In addition to the additional funding for the drone carrier, there is still a lot of research and development funds originally given above. In total, there are more than one billion yuan on the books. How to deal with it in the end still needs to be discussed. .

"The UAV aircraft carrier is coming out soon, so let's use this money as a project bonus and distribute it to everyone! The relevant personnel of Cheng Fei and Shen Fei will be included, and the bonus will be determined according to their contribution!" Li Maoye said generously The use of the remaining funds was decided, and then everyone stopped talking about this topic and continued to chat about the Meow Space Program.

While discussing how to arrange the work plan, someone outside suddenly interrupted the meeting, saying that Musk came to the Meow Star headquarters alone to see President Zhou Lin, and handed over a note.

Zhou Lin saw the surprised expression on the back of the note, and immediately passed it to Li Maoye beside him, letting him decide how to deal with Musk's request.

Li Maoye opened the note and glanced at it, then said with a smile: "I'm afraid our meeting has to be suspended for a while, let's talk to Musk first."

Seeing the puzzled expressions of Academician Ma and others, he simply passed the note on to others. Anyway, the next thing will definitely spread.

After seeing it, everyone was delighted, "Is Musk going to sell himself? He is willing to sell the whole package of 'Starlink' to us?"

For such a situation, Li Maoye thinks it is normal. Although Musk is very arrogant, he has always paid attention to practical issues, especially technical issues. Once he finds that things cannot be done, he immediately makes a move to survive Come.

"Although the asking price is not specified, but if we admit defeat before our cat space program is announced, I am afraid he will not be able to ask for a too high price!"

"And he was worried that we would ignore him, and he specifically stated that SpaceX is also in the scope of the transaction!"

"The question is, do we need SpaceX, or do we need Starlink?"

The "Starlink" in Musk's hands is of course very valuable. Even though it is not as technologically as the space satellite communication system planned by the Meow Star Group, it has left others behind in terms of market operations and user experience. It will take years for cats to catch up.

Now Musk is very proud to package and sell it as a whole. Although he has not yet expressed his final intention, this approach is undoubtedly to completely withdraw from the space satellite communication market and give way to the Meow Star Group to take advantage of the opportunity to enter.

Everyone analyzed it a little bit, and felt that there would be no conclusions if this guess continued. Only face-to-face talks can figure out Musk's real purpose.

So Li Maoye asked the others to leave first, leaving only Zhou Lin and Academician Ma, and the three of them chatted with Musk to see what medicine he sold in his gourd!

Then I saw Musk walking in full of energy, not at all like someone who was on the verge of failure, let alone trying to sell the treasure in his hand to others.

If it were someone else, they would either be worried that "Starlink" would not be sold, or they would be aggrieved because they were about to lose years of hard work.

"Academician Li, I didn't expect you to be here!" Musk looked a little surprised. He thought that the person he was going to face was Zhou Lin, the president of Meow Star.

Li Maoye was not in the mood to talk nonsense with Musk, and said directly: "Give you 3 minutes, why should I buy Starlink!"

Musk is wearing the latest translation headset. Even though the two parties use their respective native languages, there is no obstacle in communication. Faced with only a few minutes to explain clearly, he did not ask for more time. The first sentence he spoke was :

"The reason is very simple, just because I love meow star black technology!"

"I want Starlink to be a boost to the Meow Star Group's space program, not a hindrance to competitors!"

In Musk’s view, it doesn’t matter who owns the “Starlink”, as long as it can help him land on Mars, which is a lofty goal he has set since he was a child.

Then he talked about how he was interested in science when he was a teenager, and that he had worked tirelessly for decades to realize his vision of landing on Mars. A glimmer of light has arrived.

"In order to speed up the development of Meow Star Group's space program, I am willing to offer Starlink with both hands!"

After listening to Musk's affectionate speech, Zhou Lin and Academician Ma looked at each other, and each saw the surprised expression from the other. They wondered if they could believe these words.

Only Li Maoye can clearly feel that Musk is speaking from the bottom of his heart.

At least at this moment, Musk is using real emotions to impress the audience. As for whether his acting skills are superb and he deceives himself, no one can be sure.

"Starlink" is the most valuable thing in the hands of SpaceX besides the Falcon rocket. If Musk is willing to give up to the Meow Star Group, it can indeed speed up the advancement of the Meow Star space program.

No matter how powerful the [Earth Cannon] and the "Star Engine" are, it will take at least half a year for the Meow Star Group to build the same satellite communication network system.

After all, it starts from scratch, and it takes a lot of time just to manufacture the satellite and the "star engine", and then launch it into space for debugging, etc., all need a lot of time and personnel to do it.

And Starlink itself is already in official operation. Even though the technical level is much lower than the requirements of Meow Star's plan, it is enough to prove its commercial value and stable performance.

With Musk's "Starlink" in hand, it can indeed save Meow Star Group a lot of time and effort. Even the level of satellite technology can be gradually replaced to solve the problem.

According to the original plan, Musk has to launch thousands of satellites every year to replace the old satellites. If the replacement is to have a "star engine" satellite, of course it doesn't need to be so troublesome.

"Then what about your conditions?" Li Maoye asked.

Musk stretched out a finger and said seriously: "I want a boat ticket!"

(End of this chapter)