This star is going to the moon

Chapter 549 Year-End Aerospace Summary: The Era Belongs to Lu Yun!

On December 31, with the successful launch of a small solid rocket from a private aerospace company in Laos and China, the 2022 space launch mission came to a complete end.

A few minutes later, those real-time news reports that only present statistics and don't include any emotional commentary can be uploaded online.

Various space enthusiast groups also have their own statistics, and they release the data they have accumulated this year the moment the rocket launch is successful.

[Summary of global rocket launches in 2022!]

[The number of rocket launches worldwide this year has indeed exceeded 300! Haha, my estimate was correct!]

This data is growing too fast!

[The main problem is the sheer number of rocket launches by China and Laos; their own country alone has launched over 150 rockets!]

[Among them, Blue Star Aerospace alone has carried out over 100 rocket launches! The official aerospace authorities have carried out 30! Other domestic aerospace companies have carried out 20!]

[Wow, I remember that global rocket launches first reached 100 per year in the 1990s. After Benjamin Butler died, space launches cooled down until a few years ago when Lu Yun's Blue Star Space Company emerged and broke the 100-launch-per-year mark again. I never imagined that in just a few years it would skyrocket to more than 300 launches a year!]

[The fact that over 300 rockets are launched a year now certainly owes a great deal to Lu Shen!]

[In particular, this year, commercial space companies from major countries around the world have successfully developed several commercial rockets using Lu Shen's 'large-scale technology integration theory,' and their participation has also increased the number of launches per year.]

This is only because they have just developed new rockets. Once their reusable rocket technology matures further in the next two years, the number of rocket launches per year will definitely increase dramatically!

[Lu Yun's contributions to the global aerospace industry are truly remarkable; many countries owe their aerospace development to Lu Yun's open-source approach!]

[This doesn't just affect the space launch field; it also involves many issues of national sovereignty. If a country can manufacture and launch its own rockets, it won't have to rely on the US in certain areas.]

As space enthusiasts, they get very excited when they talk about any rocket launch.

They originally thought Ma Yilong was invincible, but they didn't expect Lu Yun to be even more valiant than Ma Yilong!

After all, it used to be the domain of the "national aerospace team." Although the United States has been engaged in aerospace cooperation between the state and private companies since the Apollo manned moon landing in the last century, it is basically no different from a national team.

In particular, the emergence of Elon Musk directly made those "established aerospace companies" in the US look like "old-fashioned aerospace companies".

Although it's called a commercial space company, it's actually similar to several aerospace technology groups in China and Laos.

Elon Musk's Space Fork is the "new spaceflight" and the true private spaceflight model.

With Elon Musk's influence, private aerospace companies sprang up all over the world.

Then they discovered that one of the "bamboo shoots" was growing very rapidly and quickly became a bamboo.

And it uses the reusable rocket pioneered by Elon Musk!
If things continue to develop in this way, Lu Yun will simply be a follower of Ma Yilong.

Even Ma Yilong said the same thing, saying that Lu Yun was his follower.

But unsurprisingly, an accident soon occurred. Lu Yun's Blue Star Aerospace "bamboo shoot" grew faster and taller than any bamboo!
It took only a short time to surpass Elon Musk's SpaceX Aerospace.

It has become a behemoth!
This is absolutely amazing!

Looking back now, these past years have felt like a dream.

What's even more incredible is that these 300+ rocket launches this year don't represent all the space launches this year, because the number of orbital flights of the Space Shuttle hasn't even been counted yet!

[This is just the rocket launch. Our previous discussion about counting the orbital flights of the space shuttle separately was correct, because the combined orbital flights of the several Kite-class space shuttles this year have exceeded 100!]

[Indeed! The "Lingji Yidong" spacecraft alone has completed 53 commercial space tourism flights, accounting for half of all flights!] [Blue Star Aerospace's "Muyuan" has also flown over 20 times with internal tickets, and the official Chinese space agency "Xiancha" has flown 20 times. The UAE's "Magic Flying Carpet," which only entered service in July and is a luxury space tourism service, has only flown 10 times.]

That's pretty crazy. Who would have dared to dream of a space shuttle before? After all, launching a hundred rockets a year is already quite an achievement worldwide.

Therefore, it must be said that this era belongs to the legendary figures of the Road God. When future generations talk about this era, they will mention Newton and Einstein just as they will mention previous eras!

Indeed, after all, Lu Yun is only 29 years old now, and will only be 30 next year! He will definitely come up with even more amazing new things in the future!

[Haha, I'm the same age as Lu Shen! I feel like I'll see one of those solar system spaceships from near-future sci-fi movies in my lifetime!]

Is it a spaceship like the one in The Martian?

That's roughly it, but the story was still too ahead of its time; it was set three to five years in the future.

Three to five years from now, humanity will probably still be struggling with the first manned mission to Mars, while other countries already have Mars bases planned.

Who knows? I used to think so too, but with Lu Shen, I feel like anything is possible...

People who feel this way are no longer limited to the aerospace field; people from many fields share this feeling.

After all, at the end of the year, various companies and organizations released their achievements and rankings for 2022.

Needless to say, they are film and television stars.

Rowoon has had few activities this year, with only two movies and one TV series being released.

He played the male lead in the movie "The Wandering Earth 2: The Ladder Crisis".

He only made a cameo appearance in the movie "The Lone Ranger".

However, "God of Gamblers 2" grossed over 147 billion yuan, and "Moon" grossed over 50 billion yuan, bringing the total to nearly 200 billion yuan.

Even if some people don't consider Rowon's cameo appearance in "Moon" as part of his film box office performance, the more than 10 billion yuan box office of "God of War 2" is still more than the combined box office of many stars who have acted in more than a dozen films.

Moreover, the creators of "Moon" will fight anyone who doesn't believe that "Moon" is related to Lu Yun!
The creators of "Moon": "Our movie is related to Rowoon!!"

Then, Lu Yun's period drama "Meng Hua Lu" which aired this year was also a huge hit. Not only did it have high ratings and made him a fortune, it also boosted a lot of consumption in tea culture, clothing and tourism.

Of course, as everyone knows, film and television are just Rowoon's "side business".

His main job is even more impressive!
After years of development, Bluestar Aerospace's valuation exceeded one trillion RMB in November!
By the end of the year, its valuation had exceeded $1500 billion!
This valuation makes Bluestar Aerospace the world's third-largest unicorn company, after ByteDance and Ant Group.

In the commercial space sector, it is undoubtedly number one.

Second is Elon Musk's SpaceX Aerospace, which is valued at just over $1000 billion.

Third is Bezos' Blue Origin space company, valued at only $200 billion.

This valuation is only because Bezos invests $10 billion in the company every year and has also secured some government contracts.

Otherwise, Blue Origin is supposed to be a space company, but right now the company only has that very impressive suborbital tourism rocket.

That 7-meter diameter reusable rocket has not yet made its maiden flight.

This comparison of valuations for commercial space companies has led netizens to discover something quite interesting…

(End of this chapter)