I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

“The world’s largest communications satellite will be launched on board the ‘Super Blue Dragon’ rocket”

"The third largest rocket in my country's private aerospace industry is about to make its first flight, and Blue Sword Aerospace will become the de facto second."

"..."

On June 2, the "ChinaSat 100" communication satellite, the world's largest geosynchronous orbit commercial communication satellite, officially announced that it would depart from Jingu and be sent to Qiongzhou for launch.

This is a super satellite with a weight of 12 tons and a communication capacity of more than 600Gbps. The length of the solar panel is nearly 55 meters after unfolding. It is the most powerful commercial communication satellite to date.

It is a product stimulated by the "Jingwei" satellite network. During the development period, it weighed about 7 tons and was intended to be launched into a synchronous transfer orbit of 29,000 kilometers using the Long March 7A, and then raised to a synchronous orbit of 36,000 kilometers on its own.

However, Lanjian Aerospace's Qinglong 2 rocket provides another solution, that is, the CBC configuration of the "Super Qinglong". The recycling LEO transportation capacity (the central core stage is not recycled) reaches 65 tons, and the transportation capacity directly to the GTO orbit exceeds 20 tons,

Due to demand and the consideration of supporting private aerospace, the launch mission of "ChinaSat 100" was handed over to "Super Blue Dragon".

The data of "Super Blue Dragon" basically matched the Falcon Heavy. This was its first launch. Lan Jian carefully painted it with a beautiful paint in preparation for the launch around the 10th.

From now on, Qiongzhou has entered the typhoon season.

Typhoon No. 2 "Miaobai" is expected to land in southern Fujian after June 12, and from that time to August, typhoons No. 3 to 12 will gradually form. Although not all typhoons will land in Qiongzhou, the impact will be It cannot be ignored either.

But the good news is that after Xinyuan decided to add a launch site in Jiuquan, the space agency also decided to build a new commercial space launch site there simultaneously. Most medium-sized rockets can be launched. Although there will be a loss in transportation capacity, it is acceptable, at least It has a lower latitude than the crappy Baikonur.

"Super Blue Dragon" is the most powerful rocket in domestic private aerospace besides Xinyuan, but the most powerful rocket may be Lingxi space communication technology.

The latter is now in the spotlight. They have received investment and technical support from Xinyuan. The first batch of 20 satellites has been awarded the bid by another private aerospace company's "Hyperbolic III" rocket and plans to launch in September.

Due to the large-scale sales of engines and control technologies by Xinyuan and the Space Administration, these companies no longer started out as small solid rockets like the original World Line. They were able to launch recyclable small and medium-sized rockets and receive various small satellite launch orders. Now that the money is soft, two companies are expected to get rid of the situation of relying entirely on investment and enter the profit stage.

“All this is thanks to Chairman Lin’s strong support!”

In Beijing, leaders of private aerospace companies named by the Aerospace Development Commission organized a communication dinner together. Lin Ju happened to be here waiting to welcome the Storm and also participated.

The Storm has now begun to accelerate and will return directly to the Earth's atmosphere. It will only take 14 hours to arrive and will land on the grassland around tomorrow afternoon.

Lin Ju is looking forward to what kind of rewards the system can give. For such an important event, a little nuclear fusion technology is not too much, right?

While thinking about the system's rewards, Lin Ju also dealt with the leaders of various companies who kept coming forward. It was obvious that he had become the center of the dinner.

These companies are sincerely grateful to Xinyuan, which has almost taken the initiative to launch the small and medium-sized satellite launch market. Most of the orders are self-produced and sold. Otherwise, there would be no way for them to survive: SpecaX has almost a monopoly with Falcon 9. Aramco launches the market, which is easier for Xinyuan to achieve.

After getting to know almost everyone, Lin Ju had to say something under the spotlight, so he decided to draw a pie.

"Xinyuan is already actively developing the moon, and I believe you have heard about it."

The people around me nodded vigorously, not only hearing it, but also seeing how many explorers there are on the moon!

Lin Ju continued: "We are not just simply achieving the goal of sending people to the moon. I can tell you responsibly that Xinyuan will spare no effort to carry out a series of projects to mine, smelt and transport lunar rare earth minerals. This is a trillion-dollar plan, and it will be open to everyone without any barriers.

Within the next five years, rare earth mineral deposits will be harvested from the moon to exceed those mined on Earth. "

"Trillions?" "It still needs to be shipped back!" "More than the earth. This is really..."

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This piece of pie immediately made the crowd lively like a vegetable market. They were whispering to each other and discussing intensely. Lin Ju, who was at the center of the topic, patiently waited for everyone to quiet down, then ignored the various emotions in their eyes and continued to draw:

"Transporting minerals from the moon is not a fantasy. For example, our Storm can carry more than 50 tons of refined rare metals from the moon into the atmosphere, or future SSTO, small space shuttles, etc., although the quantity at one time may only be It’s about a few tons, but if it’s iridium, osmium, rhenium and other metals, a few shipments can reach the global demand for the current year.

More ores can create more markets, and the input of resources from the moon may expand this market tenfold, which is definitely promising. "

Lunar mining and transportation is a huge industrial chain. Lin Ju talked about it from the early stage of construction to the later stage of profit. This was the base's long-awaited plan. For a while, there was no doubt at all, and the eyes of everyone present became brighter and brighter.

At the last moment, he paused and released a king bomb:

"There is one detail of the Chang'e-4 exploration mission that everyone should remember. According to the comprehensive assessment of satellites and detectors, the Aitken Basin has more than 2100 trillion tons of metal mineral deposits, of which 2.2 million tons are rare metals, and according to foreign Research shows that there are up to 45 billion tons of rare earth reserves at Krip Rock in the Oceanus Procellarum."

Others nodded, this was all public information, but of little value.

The total amount of rare earth elements on the earth does not exceed 130 million tons. At first glance, it seems that the moon is extremely rich, but taking the rare earth mineral deposits in the Aitken Basin as an example, its burial depth is - 300 kilometers underground.

Obviously, there is no possibility of utilization at this depth, just take a look.

"Then I would like to say that based on the continuous exploration of our detectors over the past year, a huge metal mass on the surface buried no more than a thousand meters deep has been discovered in the Aitken Basin area. 13 rare elements have been detected and it is expected that The reserves exceed 60,000 tons.

The specific location cannot be made public for the time being, but I can tell you responsibly that the value of these mineral deposits alone exceeds 10 trillion yuan. These are all mineral deposits that can be mined!

1,000 meters is deep, but not out of reach, and Xinyuan is already planning development work. "