Chapter 709: Launch cost 500 yuan per kilogram? That’s cheaper than an urn! Yunkun Technology!
The autumn breeze was blowing gently. In an antique box deep in the courtyard of Jingzhao Yin, through the carved wooden window, one could see Zhou Hongyi holding a bottle of wine and slowly filling Chen Yansen's glass.
As for Ma Wenteng and Lei Yijun, he skipped them directly.
What level?
Are you worthy enough for me, Old Zhou, to pour wine for you?
"Are you really going to build a rocket?"
Ma Wenteng leaned forward slightly, with a flash of surprise in his eyes.
"The business license is in hand." Chen Yansen nodded, picked up the wine glass and took a sip.
"One billion for 1% of the shares? Count me in on one share."
Zhang Chaoyang's eyes lit up and he took the initiative to propose.
Although his daily life now consists mostly of drinking, picking up girls, and sea fishing, as a physics PhD from MIT, his interest in the field of physics has never really disappeared.
The time I spent studying in my youth has become an unforgettable "white moonlight" in my heart after years of precipitation.
If you miss out on something as attractive as building rockets and launching satellites, you may never have another chance.
What's more, he heard from Chen Yansen that 13.4 billion of the 15 billion needed for the first phase of the project had been raised.
If you react a little slower, you won’t be able to eat hot shit.
"Mr. Chen, how is this private aerospace company supposed to make a profit?"
Lei Yijun asked curiously.
Logically speaking, given his cooperative relationship with Senlian Capital, it would not be difficult for him to come up with a 1 billion investment, but he really couldn't figure out how to make money in this aerospace business.
As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Wenteng, Zhou Hongyi and Zhang Chaoyang all turned their eyes to Chen Yansen.
“What if I could reduce the cost of launching a low-orbit satellite to 500 yuan per kilogram?”
Chen Yansen put down his wine glass and spoke slowly.
"That's impossible!"
Zhang Chaoyang frowned and shook his head.
He already had some understanding of the launch costs of rockets and satellites: usually the cost is around 30,000 yuan per kilogram, and the launch cost of some medium-sized rockets can even reach 300,000 yuan per kilogram.
What does 500 yuan mean?
When the aerospace industry was booming a few years ago, an airline launched a service to send urns into space.
In other words, 500 yuan is less than the price of buying an urn.
"As for the goal, I didn't say it can be achieved now."
Chen Yansen shrugged and said with a chuckle.
“Satellite launch orders from all scientific research institutions, universities, companies, and countries around the world will fall into your hands.”
Zhang Chaoyang thought for a moment and answered seriously.
It costs tens of millions or even hundreds of millions for others to send a satellite into space, but Chen Yansen only needs a few million. Then who the hell would work so 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 express delivery company?"
Lei Yijun thought about it and continued to ask.
“I guess so, but neither To G nor To B business will be the core of this company.
My idea is to launch communication equipment and network base stations into low-Earth orbit and build a global satellite network. This will significantly reduce the cost of building and operating base stations and fill market gaps in remote oceans, islands, and areas with limited communications.
Chen Yansen spoke eloquently.
"Space communications satellite network?"
Zhou Hongyi muttered softly and repeated it unconsciously.
He first looked at Ma Wenteng, then turned to look at Lei Yijun, and suddenly a thought popped up in his mind: Compared with Chen Yansen, these people are busy tinkering with assembling mobile phones, developing games, and being computer security managers all day long. Their vision is far behind.
"Mr. Chen, can I invest?" Zhou Hongyi asked tentatively.
"There is still a share of 600 million." Chen Yansen replied slowly.
"Mr. Chen, thank you. I'll pay for it." Zhou Hongyi said hurriedly, fearing that Lei Yijun would snatch it from him.
He thought clearly that even if the 600 million yuan did not bring back a penny of profit, it would be enough as long as he could please Chen Yansen.
As of the end of September, 360 Mobile shipped 31.492 million units in 2014, with revenue exceeding 30 billion yuan and gross profit of 3 billion yuan.
Profit is secondary. The key is to allow 360's applications to seize the traffic trend on the mobile terminal and stabilize its market share.
It’s just 600 million, what’s that!
"Okay." Chen Yansen responded calmly.
In just half a day, he raised 15 billion in start-up capital.
In addition to telecommunications, he also brought on board the country's most powerful Internet companies and banking institutions.
"It's theoretically possible, but it's very difficult. Ground-based base stations use radio waves as data carriers, but they have high latency, weak anti-interference capabilities, and high propagation losses. If they're placed on satellites, it's unlikely they'll be able to adapt to high-speed, precise docking, and low-interference scenarios."
Zhang Chaoyang pondered for a moment and said suddenly.
Although everyone present was a top student, most of the knowledge they had learned in the past had long been forgotten and returned to the teacher.
Therefore, when they saw that Zhang Chaoyang could accurately consider the shortcomings of the satellite communication network, Ma Wenteng and others immediately admired him.
"Lao Zhang, I just acquired a university. Are you interested in coming here as a visiting professor?"
Chen Yansen joked with a smile.
"It's too far, I don't want to bother." Zhang Chaoyang grinned and waved his hand.
"Okay, I'll buy 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-band and Ka-band are closer to the near-infrared 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; whereas Ku- 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 is transmitted between satellites using laser beams, and data is transmitted between satellites and ground fixed base stations using radio waves.
Of course, this is just Chen Yansen’s initial idea. When the project is promoted, the specific technical route will need to be flexibly adjusted and finally decided based on actual conditions.
After listening for a while, Ma Wenteng understood Chen Yansen’s technical ideas.
To put it simply, satellites in low-Earth orbit are equivalent to mobile signal towers that use lasers to communicate with each other.
Fixed base stations on the ground are responsible for connecting mobile signal towers to the global Internet.
The user terminal is an intelligent antenna that can automatically and accurately lock and track these mobile signal towers.
For example, using this technology to send messages to friends via WeChat, its operating chain is: mobile phone → user terminal (forming a laser beam) → satellite A → satellite B → ground station (the area where the friend is located) → ground station (access to the Internet) → message delivery.
But what Xiao Ma Ge didn't know was that Chen Yansen was not telling the truth.
What he really wants to do is not some crappy satellite network.
After they finished discussing their business, they started chatting casually.
After three rounds of drinks, the sky outside the carved wooden window had already turned into thick ink. The palace lanterns in the courtyard lit up one after another, and the warm yellow light shone through the window lattice, casting fine light and shadows on the mahogany table.
The two bottles of wine on the table were almost empty.
Zhang Chaoyang's face flushed and he wanted to ask his assistant to open another bottle of wine, but was stopped by Chen Yansen.
"Don't want to drink anymore? Then go fishing! Sohu Entertainment recently signed a few more artists."
Old Zhang raised his eyebrows and said to Chen Yansen.
at the same time.
"Lost in Thailand" was a huge hit at the box office, with the cumulative box office exceeding 1.2 billion, successfully topping the box office champion of Chinese-language films.
As the investor and producer of the film, Orange Interactive Entertainment took this opportunity to reap huge profits and made a fortune.
In addition, the first generation girl group of "Produce 101" also earned 500 to 600 million yuan in revenue after completing a one-month national tour, which is an impressive result.
Having tasted the sweetness, Fang Xiang ordered the planning department to immediately launch Orange Interactive Entertainment's second online variety show - "Extreme Challenge", and officially started the investment promotion phase.
Finally, Pinbei successfully won the naming rights of the program with a bid of 80 million yuan.
In the eyes of netizens, this is a hype by Senlian Capital.
But in the eyes of other advertisers, this shows that Orange Interactive Entertainment is extremely optimistic about this variety show.
After all, during the broadcast period of "Creation 101", the popularity of the program continued to rise, with a cumulative number of views reaching 4.8 billion.
On the two major short video platforms, Douyin and Kuaishou, the number of views of the program highlights exceeded 18 billion, making it the first phenomenal online variety show in China.
Most of the advertisers who sponsored the show at the time received a lot 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 the investment.
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The next morning, Amazon announced that it would officially enter 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. It's not because its competitors are too weak, but because Pinbei, Yaomao and Yidong are too strong.
But objectively speaking, Amazon's supply chain management level is still worthy of recognition. Now that it has reached a cooperation with Pinbei, it is likely to cause a lot of trouble for Yaomao, thus causing considerable trouble.
After a moment's thought, Ma Liyun decided that he could not delay any longer.
With Alibaba's successful listing, the company's account has become completely abundant with funds. Now is the best time to advance the transaction with Suning and absorb it into Yaomao Electric City.
Immediately afterwards, an even more shocking piece of news spread like wildfire.
"Senlian Capital's new blueprint - space express business!"
"It's reported that Senlian Capital has obtained the first business license for a private aerospace company in China. Chen Yansen is interested in connecting Earth and outer space!"
Private aerospace company?
Rockets and satellites?
What does this kid want to do!
Ma Liyun stared at the computer screen and fell into deep thought.
Logically speaking, Chen Yansen's behavior is nothing but nonsense.
But looking back at past experiences, we can find that his seemingly outrageous decisions often bring huge market benefits to the group six months or a year later.
But Ma Liyun changed his mind and thought: Isn't this looking down on people?
With the Double Eleven shopping festival just around the corner, Chen Yansen is still thinking about starting a new company and planning new projects. Why doesn't he go all out to meet Ali's challenge?
In fact, Chen Yansen's attention and investment in e-commerce business are gradually decreasing, and the daily operation and management work has long been completely handed over to Huang Zheng and Song Yuncheng.
An hour later, Orange's official Weibo account posted a message: "To celebrate Orange Technology's upcoming listing and to give back to users for their support, from 12:00 on October 11th to midnight on November 11th, the price of the Qingcheng D3 will be adjusted to 799 yuan, and the Qingcheng D2 SE will be reduced to 499 yuan."
This is the first time that Orange Technology has held a long-term and large-scale price reduction campaign since its establishment.
Although the Orange and Yaocheng series are not participating in this promotion, only one Qingcheng D3 is enough.
A 5-inch large screen, equipped with a Tiangong C100 processor, 2GB+8GB of memory configuration, only priced at 799 yuan, what else do you want?
On the day of the promotion, 5.6 million units of Qingcheng D3 alone were sold, and the sales volume was even higher than the first day of release!
Chen Yansen's move was, firstly, to boost the total shipment volume in 2014; secondly, to accelerate the increase in the market share of Aurora Future OS; and thirdly, to cultivate potential users of the Orange and Yaocheng series.
Remember, users will grow!
Users who were still using the Qingcheng system three years ago will easily switch to the Orange series or even the Yaocheng series when their income increases and their finances become more affluent.
Moreover, for mobile phone operating systems, users must be trained from a young age.
Just like people who are used to the nine-key pinyin input often find it difficult to adapt to full keyboard operation.
This kind of usage inertia is actually a very scary technical barrier.
The other side.
The fourth batch of Orange Supermarket stores officially opened in Jinling, Hangzhou, Luzhou and other places. Including the previous number of stores, there are a total of 26 large supermarkets and 93 community life supermarkets, totaling 119 stores.
The total number of employees reached more than 5,000, and the daily revenue easily exceeded 800 million, making it the most popular comprehensive supermarket in East China.
The landscape of the supermarket market in East China has been completely rewritten due to the strong expansion of Orange Supermarket.
The old supermarkets that were originally located in core business districts such as Jinling Xinjiekou and Hangzhou Wulin Square have seen a visibly sharp drop in customer flow, with daily revenue falling by as much as 30%.
Some supermarket managers tried to win back customers by reducing prices and promoting sales, but when they saw that on the shelves of Orange Supermarket, imported milk of the same specifications was two yuan cheaper than their own, and that freshly picked cherries were priced nearly ten yuan lower per kilogram, they realized that this competition was not on the same dimension from the beginning.
Relying on Senlian Capital's mature supply chain system, Orange Supermarket's procurement costs are 15% lower than the industry average.
More importantly, all products can be shipped simultaneously through the two major channels of Kuaipao Flash Purchase and Pinbei Product Power.
As sales increase, the purchase price can naturally be lowered, forming a virtuous circle.
In addition, Chen Yansen has also accompanied business delegations on many visits to Europe and North America, and established direct cooperative relationships with local agricultural associations, further enriching the supply chain's sources and channels.
Coupled with meticulous service and a complete after-sales system, it is only natural that Orange Supermarket has become popular.
Two days later, Yunkun Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd. completed its registration in Yanjing and was declared established.
(End of this chapter)
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