"Hmm, very good. It looks like we'll soon be able to use our own country's positioning and navigation system after 2000!!!" Zhao Ye nodded with a smile, quite satisfied.
"Yes!" Chu Peng said with a smile.
"How much does it cost to launch a satellite?" Zhao Ye asked.
"The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System consists of a hybrid constellation of 5 Geo satellites, 3 IGS0 satellites, and 27 MEO satellites. The cost of each satellite varies, ranging from 250 million RMB to 700 million RMB. Adding the cost of rocket launch, the average cost of launching one satellite is about 500 million RMB!" Chu Peng explained.
"It's still a bit expensive... By the way, how's the rocket launch and recovery technology development going? Rocket launch costs are very high. If we can recover and reuse them, we can save a lot of money on rocket launch costs!" Zhao Ye asked.
Chu Peng shook his head and said, "Currently, rocket launch and recovery technology is not mature enough, and we dare not conduct experiments. If we mess it up, we will lose hundreds of millions of RMB."
Zhao Ye frowned and said, "As the saying goes, 'failure is the mother of success.' Once everything is ready, we should boldly conduct rocket tests. How can we collect data, summarize experiences and lessons learned without a few explosions?"
In my previous life, SpaceX rockets frequently exploded, and through these explosions, their technology improved.
Chu Peng nodded with a wry smile. Although Zhao Ye's words made a lot of sense, all the necessary preparations and precautions had to be taken to ensure that the rocket test would not go wrong, otherwise the losses would be enormous.
"By the way, Mr. Chu, how is Motorola's Iridium project progressing?" Zhao Ye asked. He remembered that Motorola chose to cooperate with Galaxy Technologies because Galaxy Technologies' rocket launch costs were relatively low.
The Iridium project is a global satellite mobile communication system consisting of 66 satellites, built over 12 years at a cost of more than $5 billion.
The investment in the Iridium project far exceeds that of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.
"Based on the information we've gathered, Motorola plans to begin test launches in 1996 and enter service in 1998!" Chu Peng replied.
"No way, the Iridium project will launch 66 satellites, which means Motorola will launch an average of more than 20 satellites per year..." Zhao Ye knew about the Iridium project in his previous life, but he didn't realize that Motorola only started test launches in 1996.
Zhao Ye had thought that Galaxy Technology's investment in the Beidou Navigation System was already a significant step forward, but compared to Motorola's Iridium project, it was nothing.
Zhao Ye couldn't help but wonder if the launch plan for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System was too conservative.
However, after careful consideration, Zhao Ye still felt that it was best to proceed step by step.
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After lunch, Chu Peng took Zhao Ye to inspect the work of various departments of Galaxy Technology Company.
Zhao Ye deliberately went to the aero-engine and passenger aircraft R&D department to learn about the development progress.
Unfortunately, although the research and development progress is very fast, it will still take some time to manufacture a large passenger aircraft. However, it will be soon. Galaxy Technology has spent more than five years developing a large passenger aircraft codenamed "Kunpeng".
The Soviet Union's aerospace technology surpassed that of the United States in many aspects. Galaxy Technology inherited the Soviet Union's aerospace technology, digested and innovated it, and aimed to develop a large passenger aircraft that could surpass Boeing and Airbus.
In fact, if Galaxy Technologies had wanted to directly produce large commercial airliners, it could have done so from the beginning.
Zhao Ye had already secretly purchased the blueprints for several large Soviet civil airliners, including the Yak-40, Yak-42, Sukhoi Superjet 100, Tu-124, Tu-204, and Il-96-300 airliners.
Of course, if Galaxy Technologies does this, Russia might cause trouble for them.
Therefore, Zhao Ye persisted in absorbing and digesting these technologies and blueprints, and then innovating on his own to develop more advanced civil aviation passenger aircraft.
Furthermore, these large passenger planes are now somewhat outdated and cannot compete with Boeing and Airbus.
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Galaxy Technologies invests no less than $12.5 billion in R&D every year! In 1994, NASA's budget was $14.55 billion. Even NASA's investment was not much more than Galaxy Technologies'. It should be noted that the United States' various expenditures are higher than China's. The actual value of the $14.55 billion was less than that of China's $12.5 billion.
After years of research, Galaxy Technology has developed many cutting-edge basic technologies, covering fields such as mechanics, thermodynamics, materials science, medicine, electronics, optoelectronics, automatic control, jet propulsion, computers, vacuum technology, cryogenic technology, semiconductor technology, and manufacturing processes, which have greatly promoted the progress of science and technology in China.
Today, Galaxy Technologies has over 71,000 researchers, making it the world's largest producer of high-end talent!
NASA has only about 20,000 employees across the United States. Of course, many other companies in the US also provide services to NASA, including Boeing and Raytheon.
Galaxy Technology Corporation, however, is a combination of their operations, so its scale is naturally quite large. Moreover, as a private company, Galaxy Technology Corporation also needs to make a profit.
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