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Chapter 709 Launch cost of 500 yuan per kilogram? That's cheaper than an urn! Yunkun Technology!

A gentle autumn breeze blew through the antique-style private room deep within the courtyard of the Jingzhao Yin. Through the carved wooden window, one could see Zhou Hongyi carrying a bottle of wine, slowly filling Chen Yansen's glass.

As for Ma Wenteng and Lei Yijun, he skipped them directly.

What grade?
You think you're worthy of having me, Old Zhou, pour you drinks?

"Are you really going to build rockets?"

Ma Wenteng leaned forward slightly, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

"We've got the business licenses in hand." Chen Yansen nodded, picked up his wine glass, and took a small sip.

"1 billion for 10% of the shares? Count me in."

Zhang Chaoyang's eyes lit up, and he took the initiative to make the suggestion.

Although his daily life now consists mainly of drinking, chasing girls, and deep-sea fishing, as a physics PhD from MIT, his interest in the field of physics has never truly disappeared.

The school days of my youth, after years of reflection, have become an unforgettable "white moonlight" in my heart.

Building rockets and launching satellites are such attractive things that once you miss the chance, you may never have another opportunity.

Moreover, he heard from Chen Yansen that 134 billion of the 150 billion yuan needed for the first phase of the project had already been raised.

If you react even a second slower, you won't even be able to eat shit while it's still hot.

"Mr. Chen, how can this private aerospace company make a profit?"

Lei Yijun asked with curiosity.

Logically speaking, given his cooperative relationship with Senlian Capital, investing 10 billion yuan shouldn't be difficult. However, he simply couldn't understand how to make money in the aerospace industry.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Wenteng, Zhou Hongyi, and Zhang Chaoyang all turned their gazes to Chen Yansen.

"What if I could reduce the cost of launching low-Earth orbit satellites to 500 yuan per kilogram?"

Chen Yansen put down his wine glass and said slowly.

"This is impossible!"

Zhang Chaoyang frowned and shook his head.

He already had some understanding of the launch costs of rockets and satellites: the cost is usually around 3 yuan per kilogram, and the launch cost of some medium-sized rockets can even reach 30 yuan per kilogram.

What does 500 yuan mean?
A few years ago, when the aerospace industry was booming, some airlines launched services to send urns containing ashes into space.

In other words, 500 yuan is less than the price of an urn.

"As for the goal, I didn't say it could be achieved right now."

Chen Yansen shrugged and said with a light laugh.

"The satellite launch contracts from all research institutions, universities, companies, and countries around the world will fall into your hands."

Zhang Chaoyang pondered for a moment and answered seriously.

Others need tens or even hundreds of millions to send a satellite into space, but Chen Yansen only needs a few million. So who would bother to work hard on rocket technology?

"Mr. Chen, so your idea is to monopolize the satellite launch business through a low-price strategy and start a space delivery company?"

Lei Yijun thought for a moment, then pressed for more information.

"I guess so, but neither To G nor To B business will be the core of this company."

My idea is to send communication equipment and network base stations into low Earth orbit to build a global satellite network. This would significantly reduce the construction and operation costs of base stations and fill market gaps in remote ocean areas, islands, and other regions with weak communication infrastructure.

Chen Yansen spoke eloquently.

"Space-based communication satellite networks?"

Zhou Hongyi muttered to himself, unconsciously repeating it to himself.

He first looked at Ma Wenteng, then turned to look at Lei Yijun, and a thought suddenly popped into his mind: Compared with Chen Yansen, these people are busy tinkering with assembling mobile phones, developing games, and making computer security managers all day long. Their vision is far inferior.

"Mr. Chen, may I invest?" Zhou Hongyi asked tentatively.

“There’s still a 6 million share left,” Chen Yansen replied calmly.

"Mr. Chen, thank you. I'll cover the difference," Zhou Hongyi said quickly, afraid that Lei Yijun would try to take it from him.

He understood perfectly well that even if the 6 million yuan didn't bring in a single penny of profit, as long as it pleased Chen Yansen, that was enough.

截止9月底，360手机在2014年的出货量是3149.2万台，营收超过了300亿，毛利多达30亿华元。

Profits were secondary; the key was to enable 360's apps to seize the traffic boom on mobile devices and stabilize its market share.

6 million is nothing!
“Okay,” Chen Yansen replied calmly.

In just half a day, he raised 150 billion yuan in start-up capital.

Besides telecommunications companies, he also brought on board a group of the most powerful internet companies and banking institutions in China.

"Theoretically, it is possible, but it is very difficult. Ground base stations use radio waves as data carriers, but they have high latency, weak anti-interference capabilities, and high propagation loss. Placing them on satellites would probably be difficult to adapt to high-speed, precise docking, and low-interference usage scenarios."

After a moment of contemplation, Zhang Chaoyang suddenly spoke.

Although everyone present was a top student, they had long forgotten most of the knowledge they had learned in the past and had returned it to their teachers.

Therefore, when they saw that Zhang Chaoyang could accurately consider the shortcomings of satellite communication networks, Ma Wenteng and others were immediately impressed by him.

"Old Zhang, I just acquired a university. Would you be interested in becoming a visiting professor here?"

Chen Yansen joked with a smile.

"It's too far, I don't want the hassle," Zhang Chaoyang grinned and waved his hand.

"Okay, I'll acquire another university in Yanjing later."

Chen Yansen nodded slightly, then changed the subject and returned to the main topic: "I didn't say we should use radio waves. In the visible light of the electromagnetic spectrum, the Ku and Ka bands are closer to the near-infrared frequency band. Compared with radio waves, they have higher transmission efficiency and can accommodate greater bandwidth and speed."

Essentially, radio waves trade breadth for speed, sacrificing bandwidth and interference resistance to achieve wide coverage and flexible deployment; while Ku-band and Ka-band laser beams trade precision for speed, sacrificing coverage and flexibility to achieve ultra-high-speed, low-interference, and low-loss transmission.

Simply put, data transmission between satellites uses laser beams, while data transmission between satellites and ground-based fixed base stations uses radio waves.

Of course, this is just Chen Yansen's initial idea. When the project is being advanced, the specific technical route to take will need to be flexibly adjusted and ultimately decided based on the actual situation.

After listening for a while, Ma Wenteng understood Chen Yansen's technical concept.

To put it simply, satellites in low Earth orbit are like mobile signal towers that communicate with each other using lasers.

The fixed base station on the ground is responsible for connecting mobile signal towers to the global Internet.

The user terminal is a smart antenna that can automatically and accurately lock onto and track these mobile signal towers. For example, using this technology to send a message to a friend via WeChat, the operational chain is as follows: mobile phone → user terminal (forming a laser beam) → satellite A → satellite B → ground station (the friend's location) → ground station (accessing the Internet) → message delivery.

But what Little Ma didn't know was that Chen Yansen wasn't telling the truth.

What he really wants to do is not some bullshit satellite network.

After finishing their business, the group chatted casually.

After several rounds of drinks, the sky outside the carved wooden window had already turned a deep, dark black. The palace lanterns in the courtyard lit up one after another, and the warm yellow light shone through the window lattices, casting dappled shadows on the mahogany table.

The two bottles of liquor on the table were empty.

Zhang Chaoyang's face flushed red. He wanted his assistant to open another bottle of wine, but Chen Yansen stopped him.

"Not drinking anymore? Then let's go fishing at sea! Sohu Entertainment recently signed a few more artists."

Old Zhang raised an eyebrow and said to Chen Yansen.

at the same time.

"Breakup Buddies" has become a box office hit, with its cumulative box office exceeding 12 billion yuan, successfully becoming the highest-grossing Chinese film.

As the investor and producer of the film, Orange Interactive Entertainment reaped substantial profits from this opportunity, making a fortune.

In addition, the original girl group from "Produce 101" earned 500 to 600 million yuan after completing a month-long national tour, a remarkable achievement.

Having tasted success, Fang Xiang immediately had the planning department launch Orange Interactive Entertainment's second online variety show, "Go Fighting!", and officially began the investment promotion process.

Finally, Pinbei successfully secured the title sponsorship rights for the program with a bid of 8000 million yuan.

Netizens believe this is a publicity stunt by Senlian Capital.

However, other advertisers saw it as Orange Entertainment's strong belief in the show's potential.

After all, "Produce 101" enjoyed soaring popularity during its broadcast, accumulating a total of 48 billion views.

On the two major short video platforms, Douyin and Kuaishou, the show's behind-the-scenes footage has garnered over 180 billion views, making it China's first phenomenal online variety show.

Most of the advertisers who sponsored the show at the time gained a significant amount of exposure.

Therefore, as soon as "Go Fighting!" was launched, a bunch of big clients came to negotiate cooperation and actively wanted to participate in investment.

……

……

The following morning, Amazon announced that it would officially launch on Pinbei on October 18.

When the news came out, Ma Liyun was stunned.

Amazon's market share in China has been declining year by year, not because its competitors are too weak, but because Pinduoduo, Tmall, and JD.com are too strong.

Objectively speaking, however, Amazon's supply chain management is still commendable. Its partnership with Pinduoduo is likely to cause considerable trouble for Tmall.

After a moment's thought, Ma Liyun decided that they couldn't delay any longer.

With Alibaba's successful IPO, the company's accounts were now fully cash-rich, making it the perfect time to push forward with the deal with Suning and bring it into Tmall Appliances City.

Immediately afterwards, an even more significant piece of news spread like wildfire.

"Senlian Capital's New Blueprint – Space Express Delivery Business!"

"It is understood that Senlian Capital has obtained the first business license for a private aerospace company in China, and Chen Yansen intends to connect Earth with outer space!"

Private aerospace company?

Rockets and satellites?
What's this kid up to?!
Ma Liyun stared at the computer screen, lost in thought.

Logically speaking, Chen Yansen's actions were nothing short of absurd and nonsensical.

Looking back at his past experiences, it becomes clear that his seemingly outrageous decisions often brought huge market benefits to the group six months or a year later.

But then Ma Liyun thought about it again and realized: Isn't this looking down on people?
With the Double Eleven shopping festival just around the corner, why is Chen Yansen still thinking about starting a new company and planning new projects? Why isn't he going all out to meet the challenge from Ali?

In fact, Chen Yansen's attention to and investment in the e-commerce business has been gradually decreasing, and the daily operation and management work has long been handed over to Huang Zheng and Song Yuncheng to handle.

An hour later, Orange's official Weibo account posted an update: "To celebrate Orange Technology's upcoming IPO and to thank users for their support, from 12:10 on October 11th to 24:11 on November 11th, the price of the Orange D3 will be adjusted to 799 yuan, and the Orange D2 SE will be reduced to 499 yuan."

This is the first time Orange Technology has held a long-term, large-scale price reduction event since its establishment.

Although the Orange and Shine Orange series are not included in this promotion, the Green Orange D3 alone is enough.

5英寸大屏、搭载天工 C100处理器、2GB+8GB的内存配置，只卖799元，还要什么自行车？

On the day of the promotion, 560 million units of the Qingcheng D3 were sold, which was even higher than the sales on the first day of release!
Chen Yansen's move serves three purposes: first, to boost total shipments in 2014; second, to accelerate the increase in the market share of Aurora Future OS; and third, to cultivate potential users for the Orange and Yaocheng series.

Remember, users evolve!
Users who were using the Qingcheng system three years ago are likely to switch to the Orange series or even the Yaocheng series when their income increases and they have more financial resources.

Moreover, users must be educated from a young age when it comes to mobile operating systems.

Just like people who are used to the nine-key Pinyin input method often find it difficult to adapt to full keyboard operation.

This inertia of use is actually a rather formidable technological barrier.

the other side.

Orange Supermarket's fourth batch of stores officially opened in Nanjing, Hangzhou, Luzhou and other places. Including the previous stores, there are a total of 26 large supermarkets and 93 community supermarkets, totaling 119 stores.

With a total of over 5000 employees and daily revenue easily exceeding 8 million yuan, it has become the most popular comprehensive supermarket in East China.

The landscape of the supermarket market in East China has been completely rewritten due to the aggressive expansion of Orange Supermarket.

Established shopping malls that were originally located in core business districts such as Jinling Xinjiekou and Hangzhou Wulin Square have seen a visibly sharp decline in customer traffic, with daily revenue dropping by as much as 30%.

Some supermarket managers tried to win back customers by lowering prices and promoting sales, but when they saw that imported milk of the same quality was two yuan cheaper than their own on the shelves of Orange Supermarket, and fresh cherries were priced nearly ten yuan lower per kilogram, they realized that the competition was not on the same level from the beginning.

Orange Supermarket leverages Senlian Capital's mature supply chain system, enabling it to source goods at costs 15% lower than the industry average.

More importantly, all products can be shipped simultaneously through two major channels: Kuaipao Flash Sale and Pinbei Product Power.

With increased sales, the purchase price can naturally be lowered, creating a virtuous cycle.

In addition, Chen Yansen has accompanied business delegations to Europe and North America on several occasions and established direct cooperative relationships with local agricultural associations, further enriching the sources and channels of the supply chain.

With its meticulous service and comprehensive after-sales system, it's no wonder that Orange Supermarket became so popular.

Two days later, Yunkun Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd. was registered in Yanjing and officially established.

(End of this chapter)