As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 266 Commercial Spaceflight
"What do you think of China's landing on the moon and its plan to build a base on the moon?"

“Thank you for the invitation, landing on the moon is not uncommon, this is not the first time.

The combined number of moon landings by America and China is almost in double digits.

The lunar base is a completely new thing in reality, and it has only existed in science fiction works before.

As early as 1904, China had a science fiction work - "The Lunar Colony Novel", which depicted the scenario of humans colonizing the moon.

The author at that time might not have imagined that more than a hundred years later, China would be the first to build a base on the moon, ushering in a true era of interstellar colonization.

Of course there is no life on the moon, which is different from the colonization of the last century.

Human beings have only just begun to truly move towards space, and from this moment on, human beings' investment in space can be converted into income.

The income here refers to bringing back resources from space, utilizing space in the universe, and so on.

Rather than the income brought by the civilianization of aerospace technology.

It was exciting to witness this historic event.

It is not easy for China's aerospace industry. With a budget far less than that of America, it has caught up with America in most areas, and even surpassed America in some areas.

There are many bloggers who study aerospace and have explained the technical matters in detail in other answers. As a non-industry insider, I will not explain them here.

I would like to talk about the significance of the lunar base from the perspective of commercial space travel.

First of all, we can see that Musk has posted on Twitter that he will reach a cooperation with CNSA in the future and SpaceX will launch a lunar tourism plan in the future.

Of course, there is a question mark as to whether CNSA will cooperate with him, but this incident shows that the future profit prospects of commercial aerospace are gradually becoming clearer.

In the past five years, the annual growth rate of SpaceX's space tourism project turnover has exceeded 3.5%, and nearly space station tourism tickets, each priced at RMB million, have been sold.

I don't know how many ordinary space shuttle tickets were sold.

Including Bezos' Blue Origin and Branson's Virgin Galactic, the turnover of the private aerospace sector has exceeded 10 billion RMB.

One of the profit directions of commercial space travel is tourism. The general environment where the rich get richer cannot be fundamentally changed, so private space travel with its high prices will only become more and more popular.

Especially in the current economic situation of stagflation and declining investment returns, the enthusiasm of the rich for investment is declining, and they hope to ensure that their principal slightly outperforms inflation.

Under this premise, wealthy people pay more attention to personal experience and feelings, which is also one of the important reasons why private space travel has become so popular in recent years.

China also has its own private aerospace companies, but most of these aerospace companies are middlemen, equivalent to travel agents.

There is currently no company that actually develops its own spacecraft and engages in private space travel based on the spacecraft it develops.

This is because most of China's aerospace technical personnel are concentrated in CNSA, and very few flow into the commercial aerospace field, making it impossible to form a complete force.

Domestic commercial aerospace companies are still mostly working on projects outsourced from CNSA, and mainly make a living as third-party technology suppliers.

There are very few private enterprises in the true sense.

Of course, there are still excellent commercial aerospace companies in China, and many of them are listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board.

The leading company there, Aerospace Ruite, has developed a route that is completely different from traditional vertical recycling and has won a large order from CNSA.

Chinese companies are more scattered in various segments of aerospace, and there is no company like SpaceX that integrates technologies together.

It can be said that the most important goal of domestic commercial aerospace companies is to serve CNSA well and get orders from CNSA.

Having said that, the success of China's lunar base will only stimulate countries to increase investment in the space sector.

Space mining will gradually become a reality in the future.

The blue star may gradually become a purely residential property, and other planets in the solar system will become the source of blue star material.

Space mining is not far away, and large-scale space mining is within our lifetime.

The abundance of resources in the future will bring about the next golden age.

In my opinion, the explosion of aerospace technology is an opportunity no less than the Internet revolution.

It is just in this area that China needs to improve its laws and regulations and clarify the entry conditions, behavioral codes, legal responsibilities and rights of market players.

And during the implementation process, we will continue to improve policies, laws and regulations.

The commercial space sector needs to stimulate the enthusiasm of private enterprises.

I have no opinion on CNSA or state-owned enterprises in the aerospace sector, but aerospace requires innovation and a certain degree of tolerance.

The nature of state-owned enterprises makes them naturally tend to be conservative. If we are just conservative, we can only repeat the path taken by America in the field of technology.

In this case, it is better to let private enterprises that can tolerate failure and accept risks take on the responsibility of exploring the frontiers of technology.

If you want to take the lead in the future aerospace field, you can't do it just by catching up.

Although there are various criticisms on the Chinese Internet, Musk's SpaceX has indeed pushed the technological integration of commercial aerospace to an extremely exaggerated level.

In the field of rocket launches, SpaceX has occupied more than 80 percent of the market.

The Russian space industry, which previously relied on its low-cost advantage to obtain a large number of commercial orders, now has a market share of less than 10 percent.

You have to know that fifteen years ago, Russia's market share of commercial launch orders exceeded 50 percent.

Relying on continuous iterations, SpaceX has transformed the structurally backward Merlin engine into an engine with an incredible thrust-to-weight ratio and throttling capability.

Combined with rocket vertical recovery technology, SpaceX's unit price for low-Earth orbit launches has been reduced to 1000 yuan per kilogram.

According to official data, the Long March 5 has a carrying capacity of 25 tons and a cost of around 10 billion RMB, which means the unit price per kilogram is RMB, more than five times the price of SpaceX.

We wanted state-owned enterprises in the aerospace sector to develop reusable rockets, but when they failed every few days in the early days, the project was terminated and a problem analysis report was written.

We need private enterprises that are able to afford failure, repeated failures, to enter the commercial space sector.

We want to encourage this behavior.

The successful construction of China's lunar base is a good opportunity to arouse private capital's interest in space exploration.

We should have complete incentives to guide private capital into the commercial space sector.”

Innovation requires the ability to accept failure. Only when you can accept failure calmly and start over, can you start talking about innovation.

China's private enterprises do not lack the courage and enthusiasm to innovate.

At that time, Ali invested massive resources in the public cloud, but still persisted even though no progress was seen.

HiSilicon Kirin chips, including Huawei, were initially ridiculed by digital bloggers, but they persisted and waited for the day when HiSilicon would bear fruit.

These are the success stories, and after Rice’s pine cone chips failed, they were half-abandoned.

There are also many cases of failure.

However, compared with state-owned enterprises that cannot accept failure, private enterprises have much better innovative spirit.

There are still some problems with what the blogger said above. China is no longer using the Long March 5 rocket. China has transitioned from the Long March 5 to the Long March 6.

But this news has not been disclosed to the public yet.

The Long March 21 uses a brand-new launch vehicle model and is powered by engines.

It uses a modified YF-100 series liquid oxygen-kerosene engine, which has a significant improvement in performance and is a multi-concurrent configuration. It is a brand new type with a capacity of more than tons and a cost of RMB per kilogram.

At the same time, if Aerospace Ruitech's recyclable technology is successfully tested on the Long March 6, the cost can be further reduced.

In addition, reusable manned spacecraft are used for transportation between China's Blue Planet and the lunar space station.

The spacecraft can be reused more than ten times.

"The project we are working on with CNSA will be taken to the moon during the next lunar landing."

Li Miaomiao and Zheng Li were also discussing China's moon landing plan in private.

But it does have something to do with them.

"Our VR helmets and the robots controlled by them will all enter China's lunar base."

Li Miaomiao is quite proud that her company's products can enter the lunar base.

Kechuang Bio is also one of CNSA's suppliers.

CNSA realized the benefits of brain-computer interface technology when it planned to build a lunar base.

Especially after brain-computer VR was updated to the second generation, and domestic companies began to engage in industrial VR.

After CNSA actually tested the new generation of brain-computer connection technology, it decided to apply the technology to the lunar base.

“It is said that the robot was originally going to be brought up this time, but the weight of the robot exceeds the limit, so the astronauts will not be able to do many external activities.

Their most important goal this time is to build a lunar base. The next time they are involved in external tasks, they may use robots. "

China's main consideration is to control robots outside through brain-computer connection.

Save astronauts' physical energy as much as possible.

In particular, the robot's physical strength is completely dependent on the amount of energy it has. Under the premise that its body is covered with photoelectric conversion devices, the robot's physical strength and endurance are far superior to those of humans.

Zheng Li nodded and said, "Very good."

Among the seeds that China brought to the moon this time, a few were replaced by Zheng Li.

He wanted to see how the magical plant seeds he cultivated would perform when grown in space.

Zheng Li cannot go to the moon by himself for the time being, so he can only rely on Chinese astronauts to help him complete this experiment.

Anyway, as long as the data is saved in the data storage device at the lunar base, he will be able to obtain the growth data of these seeds when he brings the brain-computer interface VR device to the moon next time.

This is also the reason why when CNSA asked Zheng Li to come to Ke Chuang Biotechnology, he was very active in helping them with technical integration.

He also has his goals to achieve.

As his research deepened, Zheng Li gained new understanding of bio-cloud technology and the construction of a global biological network.

Especially in the process of building the magic network in England, Zheng Li gained new insights into the nature of magic and biological networks.

The magic network has a long history in the Mage Alliance, but Zheng Li only knew about this thing when he was in the Mage Alliance, but had never built it himself.

It's like you know you have a router at home, but you have never set up a network yourself and only know how to use it.

Tasks like establishing a magic network are done specifically by mages who are responsible for outward expansion.

Zheng Li is a research-type mage.

Most of the mages with functional positioning are nearing the end of their lives, and it is difficult for them to make new breakthroughs in science.

Zheng Li was far from that point back then.

He had always believed that the magic network was a backward mechanism. After building it himself, Zheng Li realized that the magic network was not backward, but was not suitable for the environment of the Mage Alliance.

The magic world constructed by the magic network is suitable for use. Magic can make the life of intelligent life more convenient.

The magic of the magic network system can be used for fighting, living, and working, but it is not conducive to research.

Research requires accuracy and very high precision, which the magic network cannot meet.

The magic of the magic network is obviously very crude and is a customized product.

But this gave Zheng Li a new understanding of the nature of magic.

The essence of magic achieved by the magic net and the magic brain is the same, it’s just that the medium is integrated with your body or relies on external forces.

The magic brain is a collection of great power. It will deeply integrate with you and become an integral part of your body's functions.

Zheng Li has now recovered 70% of his abilities from when he was in the Mage Alliance.

At least on Blue Star, there is nothing that can threaten him anymore.

First of all, the Blue Star civilization must confirm his true identity. It is almost impossible to find his true identity in Kuala Lumpur.

In addition, it is necessary to completely block the artificial intelligence detection controlled by Zheng Li in communication.

Because as long as Blue Star finds any clues about Zheng Li's true identity and there is a personnel transfer, Zheng Li can escape at any time.

Once he hid in the sea, no one could find him.

It was not until today that Zheng Li felt some sense of security and was able to do things as he wished.

"In addition, a group of mid-level managers were recently found to have engaged in corruption, including some of the people who had followed us since the start of Kechuang Biotechnology.

I suddenly felt that I could only know a person’s face but not his heart.

I feel very tired.”

Zheng Li comforted him: "All intelligent life forms are like this.

As long as you have thoughts, you will have desires.

Even if humans go into space, you cannot change their desires.

Unless everyone's desires are satisfied, it will take a lot of effort to achieve that goal."

Speaking of this, Zheng Lixiang's idea of ​​the Mage Alliance also went through countless storms before it reached its later stable state.

Zheng Li thought for a moment and said, "Do you want to become a mage?"

“I recently got another magic coin.”

"If you want, the magic brain corresponding to this magic coin will be given to you."

Zheng Li will now be more arbitrary and let Li Miaomiao become a mage just to act according to his own ideas.

In fact, when he founded Ke Chuang Biotechnology, he wanted Li Miaomiao to become a mage.

Because Li Miaomiao's ability cannot match that of a principal manager of a large enterprise.

At that time, Zheng Li wanted to give Li Miaomiao an injection of magic brain to speed up her growth.

At that time, since he did not have much ability to protect himself, and Cheng Gang did a good job, Zheng Li did not put his idea into practice.

(End of this chapter)