The goal has been determined.

Next, Levi asked Dark Technology Company to send several working groups to initiate a full acquisition request for the 12 private aerospace companies.

Everything went very smoothly.

Faced with Dark Technology, which was waving a lot of money, these private aerospace companies had almost no resistance, and those CEOs and founders almost all nodded in agreement to Dark Technology's acquisition.

It doesn't cost much to acquire these aerospace companies.

On the contrary, it is very cheap.

For example, Blue Arrow, the company with the highest level of industrial manufacturing, was valued at only 1 billion. Dark Technology offered 2 billion, doubling the price, but the other party's board of directors disagreed. So they raised the price to 3 billion, and if they didn't agree, they would just pull it over.

The other party quickly agreed to the deal.

Like Blue Arrow, Zero Billion Space is also a space company with a financing amount of 800 million and a valuation of about 1 billion. However, Levi does not think that the low-cost small rockets manufactured by the company have much value, so he only gave a quote of 2.5 billion. If he disagrees, forget it.

The other party nodded quickly.

The acquisition prices of the remaining aerospace companies, including Starry Sky Glory, Jiuzhou Space, Feixin Technology, Mengtian Technology, and Tengyun Aerospace, range from 200 million to 1.5 billion... none of the prices exceeded 2 billion.

Because they were cheap, Levi bought them easily as if he was buying vegetables at the market.

Some people may find it strange that several private aerospace companies in Xia Country have the ability to send satellites into space, so why are their valuations and acquisition prices so cheap?

For example, X-Space, a private aerospace company in the United States, has a market value of 35 billion Star Dollars, equivalent to more than 230 billion Xia coins.

The combined valuations of the 12 leading private aerospace companies in Xia Country that Levi has his eyes on are less than a fraction of X-Space's.

By the way, why is it so cheap?

Could it be that the aerospace industry has been devalued by the Xia people, and even the companies have become worthless?

This is not actually the case.

After some investigation, Levi discovered that the reason why Xia Country's private aerospace companies were in a difficult situation and had low value was mainly because they lacked market competitiveness.

Because the cost of launching satellites for these companies is still not cost-effective compared to Xia’s state-owned aerospace technology companies.

To launch a satellite, a private rocket would cost about 10 million, but a space technology company would only need 10 million, and the launch success rate would be higher and the reliability would be better.

Moreover, the Aerospace Science and Technology Company has a full range of rocket models, covering large, medium, small and micro levels of rockets according to their carrying capacity, and fully covering the high, medium and low orbits of Blue Mercury's outer space.

According to the rocket's engine, there are liquid rockets, solid rockets, clean energy rockets, reusable rockets... everything you can imagine is available.

Aerospace Technology Company is really awesome!

Even though the Xia government provided funding and policies to encourage and support private aerospace companies, they were still unable to compete with state-owned aerospace technology companies.

Even in the international satellite launch market, facing X-Space, a company known for its "cheapness", Aerospace Technology Company can provide lower-cost launch services, which is more honest and conscientious.

Therefore, it is difficult for them to survive in Xia Country, which is a nightmare for private aerospace.

There is no X-Space-like environment emerging yet.

However, in Levi's eyes, this situation should change in about three to five years after his Dark Space Company is established.

…

It was late August.

Dark Technology's acquisition of twelve private aerospace companies is basically coming to an end.

Of the twelve companies, eleven were acquired in full (for a total cost of less than 10 billion yuan) and mergers and integration began immediately.

Only Lingke Aerospace is left, which has not yet accepted the acquisition by Dark Technology and is still in a dilemma.

In fact, the 39-year-old Lingke founder Chu Longfei did not disagree with the acquisition. He was very tempted by Dark Technology's offer of 3 billion yuan. Other co-founders and shareholders unanimously asked him to nod and sign, but he still did not agree.

He agreed to sell the company.

But I don't want to sell the 15% stake I hold.

Dark Technology, however, wants to acquire 100% of the shares and has no intention of sharing any shares.

The biggest conflict lies here... Chu Longfei cannot completely give up the shares that have condensed all his energy and hard work.

Lingke Aerospace was established in 2015 and has been in operation for 7 years. During these seven years, the company has experienced countless personnel turmoil and survival crises.

At the worst time, the company had only 200,000 to 300,000 yuan in its account, which was not enough to pay the employees' salaries for the next month, and it also had to buy materials and equipment for rocket tests.

To raise money, he sold the family home, mortgaged his car, and argued with his family.

The thought of giving up has arisen in my mind more than once.

But he gritted his teeth and persevered through all these difficulties, leading the team through one difficulty after another.

Because he has a dream of space travel in his heart!

There is a grand desire to enter that sea of ​​stars and colonize other planets!

It was with this belief that in 2020, his team successfully developed the RLV-50 reusable rocket, which is at the same level of technology as X-Space's "Dragon" rocket, with higher reliability, better performance and lower cost.

As long as the RLV-50 rocket achieves a complete success in the next commercial launch, Link Aerospace will soon grow into Xia Country's X-Space company!

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