super zombie factory

Chapter 918 Swarming
This year, Musk's Space Exploration Technology Company has become the world's largest rocket launcher, with revenue exceeding US$20 billion.

In second place is United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Northrop Grumman, Arianespace in Europe, Khrunichev in Russia, ISRO in India and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan.

The most competitive companies in the world are basically here.

Washington hotel.

The press conference of Baichuan Guihai Space Company is at three o'clock in the afternoon, and it is three o'clock in the morning in North America.

Musk slept soundly, and had a rare good sleep, but this good sleep was disturbed, and a hasty phone call came in.

People with their status and status will have several numbers.

Many people know that ordinary numbers will choose to shut down when they are resting.A small number of one or two numbers will be turned on 24 hours a day, and those who know are the most capable confidantes, or the most important partners, or close relatives.

Although he was disturbed, after opening his eyes, Musk was not angry. Instead, he rubbed his face to recover a little energy before answering the call.

"I'm Musk."

On the other end of the phone, an assistant's voice came: "President, Baichuan Guihai Space Company has just announced that they will sell a series of rocket-related businesses, including the world's largest launch center. In addition, their rocket performance far exceeds ours. 50% of the rocket technology in hand."

A simple sentence shocked Musk's spirit.

He has been spending a lot of effort on the space company, and he is very familiar with the global rocket launch. He is also very familiar with the Baichuan Guihai Space Company, and he also knows some inside stories.

The strength of Baichuan Guihai Space Company is extremely abnormal. It launched more than [-] heavy-duty launch vehicles at one time, and at the same time built the space-based weapons of Baichuan Guihai Group Company.

This kind of news, people at his level naturally know it.

After learning about the technology of Baichuanguihai Space Company, Musk once felt tremendous pressure.

But now, Baichuan Guihai Space Company actually sold off the rocket manufacturing and rocket launch business?

Just stunned for a second, Musk's first thought was to take down this piece of fat.If it gets the rocket manufacturing and rocket launch business, it will definitely be a qualitative leap for Space Exploration Technologies.

"Immediately help me book a ticket to China, and at the same time form a team of experts. I need to evaluate all of this."

Without any hesitation, Musk made a decision.

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At the same time, the United Launch Alliance also received this information immediately.

The United Launch Alliance, a joint venture established by the two giants, has a strong political background. It has been approved by the Ministry of National Defense and has been undertaking launch tasks from government departments and the Ministry of Defense.

Although Space Exploration Technology Corporation has become the world's number one in terms of revenue, it is naturally not enough to compare with United Launch Alliance in terms of technological strength.

They were still a bit slow to respond to the piece of fat that Baichuan Guihai Space Company suddenly threw out. After all, Baichuan Guihai Space Company is too strong, and with a parent company with a valuation of tens of trillions of dollars, it is definitely rich and powerful. ,No one can beat it.

In terms of technology, the rocket manufacturing and launch technology of Baichuan Guihai Space Company should be the most cutting-edge in the world. On the surface, they don't admit it, but in their hearts, they still acquiesce in Baichuan Guihai Space Company's status as the number one in the industry.

For a long time, United Launch Alliance has not regarded Baichuan Guihai Space Company as a competitor. After all, the nature and scope of their businesses are different, and there is no competition.

It should be said that there is no intersection between them.

but……

Now it seems that it is obviously different. Baichuan Guihai Space Company, which wants to sell the rocket business, has given them some new ideas.For example, in terms of the performance they said, if it really surpasses so much, if it can win these technologies, the influence it will produce will be difficult to estimate.

"Werner, I hope to win the business they sold." Immediately, the vice president of Boeing called Werner, the president of the alliance company.

"Not only me, but also Lockheed Martin. This is not just rocket technology. Think about it, what fields can it affect?" The vice president hinted.

Werner replied immediately: "I will let the experts certify immediately."

"No, the Minister of Defense has called just now. He hopes that you can send a team of experts to confirm the other party's technology as soon as possible." The Arianespace companies have already taken action."

Werner frowned. Competition means that the value is absolutely high.

But thinking of this task, it seems that it has been separated from commercial business and brought some political factors.It also means that no matter how high the price is, I am afraid that these technologies will have to be obtained.

"I'll do it right away," Werner replied.

At dawn, United Launch Alliance called its engineers together to conduct research on the data released by Baichuan Guihai Space Company.

At the same time, analysis was made on the [-] rocket salvos fired from the previous Somalia launch center.

The Somalia launch center, they have a lot of information in their hands, after all, the Somalia launch center has been opened.Among these materials, as experts, they were the most shocked by this kind of technical power.

Somalia's geographical location does not have the conditions to establish a launch center.

However, Baichuan Guihai Space Company built the world's largest launch center here.This also shows that the technology of Baichuan Guihai Space Company in this field is already ahead of the world.

If these technologies are broken through, it means that launch centers can be built anywhere in the world.

That alone makes these technologies invaluable.

As the top engineers of space companies, they still know about space-based weapons in space.The salvo of [-] heavy carrier rockets completed the construction of this huge space-based weapon within a few hours, which means that the bearing capacity of these carrier rockets is very good and excellent.

In particular, they calculated the speed of these rockets, and found that the rocket still exceeded the speed of any rocket by more than 30% under full load.

Don't underestimate this 30%, it may take ten years, and there is no way to get such a high improvement.

Moreover, the rocket of Baichuan Guihai Space Company has a stronger carrying capacity. The specific data is not known, but it is not difficult to find out from the modules of space-based weapons that the opponent's carrying capacity is very amazing.

The entire meeting lasted a full day.

A lot of speculation has also been made regarding the performance of the rocket and why Baichuan Guihai Space Company sold off its rocket launch business.

There are several conjectured results. For example, Baichuan Guihai Space Company has a more reliable delivery method.But through analysis, it seems unlikely that humans cannot replace the position of rockets at present.

With the current technology, it will be very difficult within a hundred years.

So, why did Baichuan Guihai Space Company sell this business?
Regarding these, it is impossible to guess.

The next day, the Ministry of National Defense once again passed a secret message requesting to take over the technologies of Baichuan Guihai Space Company, and the funds will be secretly funded by the Ministry of National Defense.

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Among the representatives who heard the news, at least the vice president led the team.

They led a team to appear in Handong City, and immediately put forward a request for identification technology to Baichuan Guihai Space Company.No matter how bragging Baichuan Guihai Space Company is, they still need to test the technology to see if it is the same as the published results.

Baichuan Guihai Space Company responded immediately, directly arranging that they will take a special plane to the Somali launch center on the same day for testing.

The company headquarters in Handong City is just an office. Both the rocket and the launch center are in Somalia.

Many companies, including Musk, waited for three days before boarding a special plane to Somalia.Baichuan Guihai Group Company used some privileges to allow this plane to go directly to Somalia.

Ten hours later, the special plane arrived in Somalia.

Somalia, which does not have any air defense, will naturally not do anything to this special plane. In addition, the area around the launch center is in the hands of the Baichuan Guihai Group Company, so there is no need to worry about the safety of the special plane.

When they arrived at the sky above the launch center, even though they had seen the launch center in the pictures, Musk and the others were also shocked in their hearts.

Thirty huge launchers stand here, almost covering the ground.

The straight passages are wide and long, and their main function is to facilitate the movement of the rocket transport vehicle.

The special plane lands on these passages, which are no less than the runways of the airport, allowing the special plane to take off and land easily.

Among the representatives who came this time, there were representatives from Europe, polar bears, island countries, and even Ah San.And the rich and powerful local tyrants in the Middle East have also sent representatives. What they lack is not money, but technology. In the past, these technologies were not sold by rich people. Now they have the opportunity, of course they will not let it go.

In fact, they all knew or knew each other to some extent. When they got off the special plane, they all looked at each other, and they could see the shock from each other.

Who would have thought that Baichuan Guihai Space Company would build such a huge launch center here without anyone noticing it?
When a group of people came down, the convoy here had been waiting for a long time.

"Your first stop will be the rocket manufacturing plant underground in the launch center. You will experience for yourself in the laboratory how good the rocket technology we have mastered."

"The second stop is at the command tower of the launch center, as well as the launch pad."

Li Yinghua, who was the team leader this time, gave an explanation.

Among the people who came this time, apart from the presidents and vice presidents of each company, they were engineers.They are all real experts, so Li Yinghua needs no introduction, they will test it themselves.

This sale was an order from the head office, even if Li Yinghua couldn't figure it out, he still had to execute it.

The only thing that makes Li Yinghua feel pity is that this launch center, which is named the world's largest launch center, is no longer the pride of the Chinese people.

(End of this chapter)