Global Monopoly of Technology

This incident did not cause too many waves within the two companies, and what should be done remains the same, and it has not been affected.

It's so calm and confident.

If other companies, I am afraid that this time is already facing the enemy, and Azure Coast and Bluestar Technology did not take this matter as the first priority to deal with.

However, the outside media took this matter very seriously, and many people were enthusiastically worried about Luo Sheng, and there was no shortage of discussions (si) and (bi).

"The biggest tech monopoly is probably the most commonplace thing in the internet experience these days, because of the nature of the industry."

"Alfade browser is indeed a monopolistic product, and under the existing Bluestar technology product attributes, it is difficult for you to tell whether it is a good or a bad thing. As an ordinary user, in addition to expecting these monopoly giants not to do evil and have I really can't do anything other than my conscience, I'm helpless, but it's a fact."

"But having said that, we still have great confidence in the Archbishop. At least when Bluestar Technology and Cote d'Azur are at the helm of the Archbishop, we can rest assured, and the Archbishop is only in his early thirties, which means that this problem will be worry-free in forty or fifty years. ."

"Fighting for a truly open Web? That's a real sounding word."

"Then what should we do? The competition can only be like this. We need to understand the difficulties of Google."

"Also, what are the so-called monopoly investigations? They are all used to rectify opponents. So many companies in Silicon Valley have been monopolized for decades, and I have never seen them split up. In the case, Gates was dismissed from get out of class."

"What a joke, in today's era, you don't expect a small company to take on such a big responsibility in cross-border competition, so even if you know it's an absolute monopoly, you won't split your own company. Only a fool would do this, which is equivalent to abandoning his martial arts. , after the split, what will you use to compete with those multinational giants? The result is to defeat them one by one.”

"It's just that after some companies become big, they forget the responsibilities and missions they shoulder to become big. The country wants you to become big because it wants you to compete with those multinational giants, but in the end, they are a good player. Not being tough, not being soft on the outside.”

"Looking at it, only the Archbishop is the most reassuring. That's why we support him and have been fighting on the front line. Without him, he absorbed almost all the firepower in front of him, and there were basically few who could fight behind him. ."

"So even if you don't support it, you can never slander it."

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Just when the vision of the outside world was attracted by the scientific and technological world and Wang Xing,

Something big happened in the aerospace world, and it quickly caught the attention of the media.

On January 29, an improved version of the "Falcon 9" rocket successfully sent a $189 million satellite from Google to the scheduled orbit, and the rocket was recovered. SpaceX's success this time has further won. market confidence.

The news has also crossed the ocean and spread to the mainland.

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Star Arrow International Headquarters.

"The reason has been found out, and it can be determined that the explosion occurred on the launch platform before it was launched due to the runaway temperature of the rocket's liquid helium."

The speaker is a scientist from the Star Arrow International Rocket Recovery Technology Development Department. At the moment, seven or eight technical experts in the aerospace field are discussing the findings. The chief scientist of the Rocket Recovery Technology Development Department is Yang Jian'an, who is also the Star Arrow International Heavy Rocket " The chief designer of the "Star Arrow" series.

"The problem has been summed up, and all the reasons for the failure have been found out. The next launch mission in March must be guaranteed to be foolproof. If I fail again this time, I will not only have no face to ask Mr. Luo for money, but also I will not be able to be the chief engineer. That's it." Yang Jianan said solemnly looking at the crowd.

Everyone is feeling the pressure, especially the news that SpaceX on the other side of the ocean has just sent, which makes everyone in the "Star Arrow" project department under a lot of pressure.

The failure of this launch experiment not only failed to launch the rocket, but also lost a satellite of Bluestar Technology worth up to 210 million US dollars, and the overall loss was as high as 330 million US dollars.

Since the launch of the "Star Arrow" series of heavy rocket projects, 45.97 billion yuan has been burned into it. Such investment has far left the national aerospace industry behind. You must know that the national aerospace budget invested about 13 billion yuan last year. about.

After so many years, Star Arrow International has been established since its establishment, and its scientific research team is no weaker than the national team. Sufficient research and development funds and high treatment have attracted a large number of aerospace talents to join Star Arrow International.

So far, Star Arrow International has not made a single penny, and the word "profit" has never been thought of. Such a high investment is entirely the result of Luo Sheng's two group companies and family funds. The result of blood transfusion gave scientists like Yang Jian'an the money to blow up rockets fancyly.

The "Star Arrow" series has come to this day on the road of research and development for so many years, and every step is very difficult. Without help, we can only rely on ourselves to persevere and explore little by little.

There is technical support from NASA behind SpaceX, and behind Star Arrow International, apart from Luo Sheng, the gold owner father, technically the National Space Administration can't help much, because the entire country of China is behind North America in the field of aerospace technology. This gap is also addressed within the team.

Luo Sheng's major is in the field of artificial intelligence. Aerospace is not his forte, so he can't help too much technically, and he can't do it, so he can only rely on "money ability" to pile up.

We will continue to burn money on a large scale, and at the same time increase the strength of talent training, and encourage outstanding students to devote themselves to basic scientific research, instead of trying to squeeze in economic management and finance.

Then we must improve the treatment of scientific researchers. Fortunately, Luo Sheng has money and is willing to invest in Star Arrow International. Excellent talents in colleges and universities, people with lofty ideals are not forced to choose a more "money way" for the sake of three buckets of rice. "professional.

The "Star Arrow" project began to enter the experimental stage in July 2012. It took nearly a year to conduct 10 experiments to verify whether the code-named "YF-127" engine could meet the recovery requirements in terms of thrust adjustment function and landing support. condition.

In July 2013, the first soft landing attempt was made. Although the rocket successfully completed the ignition and deceleration during the recovery process, it eventually exploded because the rocket's attitude was not controlled properly. A pile of scrap copper and rotten iron was recovered. The first attempt failed. end.

After learning the lessons of this failure, time flickered to March 2014 and started the second soft landing attempt. This time, the spacecraft with the rocket attitude control was perfect and achieved a series of actions such as the scheduled U-turn, entering the atmosphere, and soft landing. .

Then, taking advantage of this momentum, it tested twice in July and September, further improving the accuracy of the soft landing, which laid the foundation for the subsequent recovery plan.

At the beginning of 2015, after Yang Jian'an's team confirmed that they had accumulated a certain amount of experience, "Star Arrow" finally began to try to recover the rocket on the offshore platform, but because the rocket did not control the speed before landing, it was directly smashed when it was recovered for the first time. Explosion on barge at sea.

What makes the team more gratified is that the SpaceX company next door is also carrying out the launch experiment of the recovery rocket on the offshore platform during this time. Seeing that they also failed, I felt a lot of balance.

In April, the second experiment was launched. This time, a pair of scrap copper was harvested again because the landing attitude was not controlled properly.

Fortunately, rockets are much cheaper than traditional rockets. There are several traditional rockets that can be blasted on top of one. Luo Sheng said that he can accept it. Brother has the money to blast them for you.

After two consecutive failures, Yang Jian'an's team improved and optimized the rocket's connection device, and the third experiment was launched as scheduled in July 2015.

The third launch attempt, which was supposed to make history, disappeared because the rocket unexpectedly exploded in less than three minutes of launch. This time, it directly lost more than 78 million US dollars.

The three consecutive failures made Luo Sheng very depressed, and Yang Jian'an's team was also demoralized, and they had to be comforted and encouraged.

After experiencing consecutive failures, Yang Jian'an's team did not immediately carry out the fourth experiment, but issued a death order. The cause of the explosion must be thoroughly investigated, and no launch experiment plan will be carried out until the cause is clear. This also leads to Subsequent launch plans have all been shelved.

First, you can’t bring problems to the sky. Second, Chief Master Yang Jian’an is also very distressed about the funds. Although Luo Sheng in Star Arrow International guarantees that they have money to burn, one bombing is a direct loss of several hundred million, not counting other sinking. cost and time cost.

During the half-year-long accident investigation, there was good news from colleagues. Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos, announced in November 2015 that it had successfully recovered its own "New Shepard" rocket on an offshore platform. The video footage was released to the public.

This feat directly surpassed Luo Sheng's Star Arrow International and Elon Musk's SapceX Company, and the bald Bezos took the lead in becoming the first person to recover rockets.

This is something that no one expected. I thought it was SpaceX who got this title, but Bezos made a big news quietly.

At the same time, it is conceivable that the Yang Jian'an team in charge of the "Star Arrow" project is under great pressure, including SpaceX, which also feels the pressure from Blue Origin.

However, during this half-year investigation period, Star Arrow International did not sit idle.

In response to the problems exposed in the explosion, Yang Jian'an's team comprehensively improved the "Star Arrow" heavy rocket, greatly improving the rocket's reasoning, and made a series of external devices required for recovery as the standard configuration of the new rocket. The new version of "Star Arrow" finally achieved land recovery again at the end of December 2015.

However, this is just a starting point. Being able to recycle on land does not mean that it can be recycled in unstable seas, but being able to recycle at sea has a greater meaning.

After the team regrouped again, Yang Jianan decided to continue to try to recover the rocket on the offshore platform. This hurdle could not be avoided anyway.

However, it was ill-fated and experienced two failures in the following 2016, and good news has come from the SpaceX company next door, which made Yang Jian'an's team feel pressured to even breathe.

In the second half of the year, Star Arrow International finally crossed this hurdle and finally realized the first recovery of rockets at sea.

Although the rocket was successfully recovered at sea this time, it does not mean that the technology has matured.

At the same time, SpaceX also completed its own launch mission, and this private space race has intensified. Star Arrow International, Blue Origin, and SpaceX are all trying their best to catch up with their opponents, or keep ahead of their opponents.

In January of this year, just after the successful launch of SpaceX, Elon Musk once again announced to the world that SpaceX is the king of this field.

The next 2017 will be the real highlight, with both Starship International and SpaceX vying for an important "first" title in "human rocket launch history" in March.

That is, using a "second-hand rocket" to launch again, and to successfully recover it again.

The previous rocket recovery was successful, but not reused, this time is completely different.

The launch mission of Star Arrow International in the next March is to reuse the rocket recovered from the sea last year. It has undergone nine months of refurbishment, inspection and testing and passed these procedures. Next It will launch again in March.

And if the launch mission of Star Arrow International in the next March is successful, it will be the ninth successful recovery in the 16th rocket recovery plan since the company's establishment so far. If the launch is successful one step ahead of SpaceX, it means that For the first time in the history of human rocket launches, a second-hand rocket was successfully recovered.

This is not just a matter of winning the lottery. The meaning behind it is to compete for talents. The more honors a company has, the more talents it can attract.

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