Chapter 717: 56,000 Galaxy Networks! Satellite Grid! The Reappearance of Super Dollars!
Yanjing, in a conference room on the second floor of the Yunkun Aerospace R&D Center.
"Welcome to Yunkun."
Chen Yansen slowly stood up, shook Simon Payne's right hand, and said with a smile.
Yesterday afternoon, after a day of careful consideration, Lin Maoye finally decided to stay at Yunkun Aerospace Technology Company.
Simon, the former president of the brand department of Inmarsat Aerospace, only talked with Chen Yansen for half an hour before he made a decisive decision to join the company.
To Simon, both Yunkun's planned network of 56,000 communication satellites and the idea of transmitting electrical energy through electromagnetic waves between the ground and the earth sound full of science fiction.
But through in-depth communication with Chen Yansen, he also clearly realized that the other party was not just talking nonsense, and Yun Kun had already mastered some of the technical foundations supporting this concept.
Although this grand space concept was not proposed by him, it is a proud thing for him to be able to personally participate in such a project.
Simon held Chen Yansen's hand, a look of admiration flashing in his eyes.
Although the man in front of him was an Asian businessman, he was already completely impressed by his precise business operations and keen judgment of market trends.
He released his hand, picked up a document from the side, and said with a smile, "This is the operations plan I prepared in advance. Although it may not completely adapt to Yunkun's current needs, the logical framework for public communication for aerospace companies in the plan may provide some reference for the company's satellite network project."
Chen Yansen took the folder and suddenly looked up and smiled. It was obvious that the other party was an impatient person.
He didn't refuse. He flipped open the document, quickly scanned a few pages, and then said, "We have to meet with the Space Association's technical assessment team at 2:00 PM. You should go and get settled first and be at the company before 1:30 PM. You can also take a look at the 'Galaxy Matrix' simulation system."
Milky Way?
Simon understood immediately.
Once this network is built, people will be able to connect to the Internet seamlessly and communicate with netizens around the world, whether in Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, at sea, or on deserted islands.
"Okay, boss!" Simon changed his tone readily.
In addition to Yunkun Aerospace's advanced ideas, Chen Yansen also offered him a good salary package, which was a 37% increase compared to his annual salary package at Inmarsat.
Faced with a wealthy and generous boss, he was happy to do things for him.
At 1:20 p.m., Simon arrived at the conference hall ten minutes early.
Several engineers were debugging equipment around a console, and a three-dimensional model of the earth was displayed on a huge circular screen.
Chen Yansen saw him coming and waved with a smile. "You've arrived just in time. Let Engineer Liao show you a simulation of the Galaxy Matrix. This is Lin Maoye, CEO of Yunkun Aerospace, and this is Liao Shizhe, Senior Chief Designer of the Power Department."
"Hello Mr. Eddie! Hello Mr. Liao!"
Hearing this, Simon greeted politely.
Eddie is Lin Maoye's French name. Simon has been working in the European aerospace field for many years and is no stranger to Lin Maoye.
He had met the other party more than once before, at industry exchanges, the headquarters of the European Space Association and other occasions.
"Hello, Simon!"
Lin Maoye smiled faintly.
He had heard of Simon, the president of Inmarsat's commercial department. He not only had extensive connections and a strong background, but his abilities were also not to be underestimated.
He attracted 40% of Inmarsat's private launch business and is a well-known sales expert in the industry.
What is even more rare is that this person was a professor at Cambridge University in his early years. His research areas cover materials science, nanotechnology and other fields. He understands both technology and business and is definitely a rare compound talent.
Thinking of this, Lin Maoye couldn't help but glance at Chen Yansen, and was secretly surprised: Such a top talent was actually poached by him?
But he had no idea that his position in the aerospace field was actually much higher than Simon's.
Since he himself chose to join Yunkun, it is not surprising that Simon would be attracted here.
After a brief greeting, Liao Shizhe dragged the mouse and clicked the screen. The model on the screen suddenly lit up with countless silver spots, like broken diamonds scattered on black velvet.
The light spots instantly connected into a three-dimensional network, covering every corner from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica.
He pointed to a patch of light in the sky above South America and said, "This is the satellite-intensive area above the equator we're planning. It will provide stable communications for the Amazon rainforest, meeting the network needs of local scientific expedition teams and indigenous people."
Simon leaned closer to the screen and his eyes fell on the light spots above the Sahara Desert in Africa.
He suddenly remembered that when he went to Kenya for an inspection last year, local herders were still using satellite phones to contact the outside world, and the call quality was sometimes good and sometimes bad.
"If the 'Galaxy Matrix' is built, how low can the network latency be reduced?" he couldn't help but ask.
"Currently, the simulation data is within 15 milliseconds," Chen Yansen continued, taking over the conversation. "Laser communication technology can achieve high-speed data transmission between satellites. Combined with the optimization of ground receiving stations, it can fully meet basic needs such as video calls and online office work. However, the specific parameters will have to wait until the actual product is produced to be determined.
Everyone should be aware that there is a huge gap between the parameters in the laboratory and the performance in the actual application stage."
Take lithium-sulfur batteries for example. Battery research and development laboratories in Europe and the United States can achieve a battery energy density of 400 watt-hours per kilogram under ideal conditions such as fixed temperature.
However, in actual application scenarios, the energy density can only reach 300 watt-hours at most, and the cycle life is only more than 200 times.
It seems that there is not much difference from the first generation of deep blue batteries, but in fact there is a huge difference.
In other words, the gap between laboratory data and real-world applications is often much larger than imagined.
Another example is Huaxin International, which announced two years ago that it could manufacture 28-nanometer chips, but later fell silent when the issue of mass production was mentioned.
"Boss, you're right! I've participated in low-orbit satellite projects at the European Space Agency, and I understand firsthand the gap between ideal parameters and actual applications.
For example, the satellite attitude control system can maintain positioning accuracy within 0.1 degrees in the laboratory, but considering solar radiation and impacts from space debris, the actual on-orbit accuracy may need to be relaxed to 0.5 degrees, and redundant design must be reserved.
Lin Maoye nodded.
Chen Yansen added, "So what we need to do now is to incorporate these gaps into our planning in advance. Take the space-to-ground energy transmission system, for example. Forget it, let's just call it a satellite power grid, it sounds more convenient.
The electromagnetic coupling efficiency measured in the laboratory can reach 45%, but in our simulation system, we deliberately designed the network coverage based on a lower limit of 38% to prepare for real-world problems such as atmospheric disturbances and cloud and rain obstructions.
Galaxy Network and Satellite Power Grid are the core intentions of Chen Yansen to establish Yunkun Aerospace.
The former is responsible for building and controlling global communication networks, while the latter focuses on enabling long-distance power transmission.
But for now, he only has a set of seemingly feasible plans, and there is still great uncertainty as to whether it can be successfully implemented in the end.
However, using this plan to attract talents such as Lin Maoye and Simon to join has a very significant effect.
Among them, he made the planning of the Galaxy Network public.
However, the concept of the satellite power grid is a core secret, and currently only key figures such as Han Jinheng, Lin Maoye, Simon and Liao Shizhe know about it.
Because satellite power grid technology is directly related to the energy industry, as long as key technical links are broken through, intercontinental power transmission business can be carried out.
Its core principle is not complicated: first deploy multiple energy hub satellites in low-Earth orbit, use microwave generators to convert electrical energy into microwaves of a specific frequency, transmit the energy to the power grid satellite, and then forward it to the ground by the power grid satellite.
The entire process takes a very short time, enough to cover a spatial range of thousands of kilometers.
It is equivalent to a global wireless energy matrix, which can realize power transmission between any two points through the satellite network.
Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine that if the outside world knew about the satellite power grid technology solution, Yunkun Aerospace would inevitably face unimaginable suppression.
After all, electricity is an industry with an annual output value of more than 10 trillion yuan. Even if you have some involvement in it, you can make a fortune.
However, the vested interests currently lingering in the electricity market will not allow Chen Yansen to jump out and disrupt the situation and redistribute the cake.
at the same time.
The latest episode of "Face to Face" attracted a lot of attention after it was broadcast.
In the camera, Chen Yansen was sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and talking.
What shocked netizens the most was that he publicly proposed to send base stations into space to create a communication system called "Galaxy Network" to connect the world!
Less than an hour after the program was aired, topics such as "space base station" and "galaxy network" seemed to be accelerated and quickly rushed to the hot search lists of major social platforms.
On Weibo, the number of readings of the related topic exceeded 50 million in just two hours, and the number of discussions exceeded 2 million.
On Douyin and Kuaishou, the number of views of related videos quickly exceeded 100 million.
However, netizens' opinions in the comment section are polarized.
Some people blindly support it, while others question it: "56,000 satellites, how much will it cost? The launch and maintenance costs are astronomical. Does Yunkun Aerospace have the ability to do this?"
But in the eyes of most netizens, low-Earth orbit resources are extremely scarce, and Chen Yansen’s founding of Yunkun Aerospace and proposal of the “Galaxy Network” plan are more like a cover.
They believe that Yunkun Aerospace is actually the white glove of the Central Command, and its real core goal is to compete for limited low-Earth orbit resources.
Interestingly, the European and American countries that received the news had the same idea.
They immediately lodged a protest, accusing Yunkun Aerospace of planning to deploy satellites in low-Earth orbit, which is tantamount to releasing 56,000 pieces of space junk and will have a serious impact on the space security of all mankind.
But Sun Huajun, the head of the Foreign Affairs Association, ignored these people!
At the same time.
On the other side of the ocean, in the beacon country, in a bank in New York, employee Wesley was holding a few hundred-dollar bills, and a strange feeling inexplicably surged in his heart.
These banknotes were checked one by one, from watermarks to security threads, microtext to ink, and no problems were found.
But his hands have been counting banknotes for more than 20 years, and he has already developed an instinctive sensitivity to the touch and texture of banknotes. He always feels that there is something wrong with the money in front of him.
"Can you hurry up? Don't waste my time!"
Outside the window, a bald middle-aged man suddenly slammed the table, his tone filled with impatient urging.
Wesley frowned, but finally accepted the stack of US dollars as usual and handled the remittance business for the other party.
(End of this chapter)
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