Chapter 1095

The failure of Kunpeng 1 did not cause much waves in long Jianhua's heart.

The goal is clear. That is, we must break through the first cosmic speed and go outside the earth for a few days.

The process is guaranteed. There is no shortage of money. There is one of the best research teams in the world, with one mind and high enthusiasm.

Therefore, in summing up the experience of this failure, Kunpeng 2 took off on March 20, 2008 and successfully landed at the scheduled location seven days later, which truly achieved a safe landing and laid a foundation for the manufacture of reusable spacecraft.

At the celebration dinner for the successful launch, Qin Wenbo came to long Jianhua with a wine glass. "President long, I think I can publicly start the next plan."

Long Jianhua nodded, "it's up to you."

Liu Zhifei looked at them inexplicably, "what's the next plan? Hidden, Jianghu slang? "

Long Jianhua said with a smile, "in fact, this is only one of our process products. Our ultimate goal is recyclable rockets."

Qin Wenbo added with a smile, "the two of us have named the recyclable rocket 'Canglong'. The launch cost of the space shuttle is too high, and the flight cost exceeds $500 million. If we use recyclable rockets, the cost will be greatly reduced. "

"When we studied this product, we were actually accumulating and demonstrating recyclable rocket technology. According to the current forecast, the cost of manufacturing "Canglong" will not exceed US $100 million. Even if it only flies five times, the cost will only be US $20 million; There will be testing and renovation costs, but it will not exceed $5 million. In this way, only five percent of the cost of such a spacecraft. "

Liu Zhifei stagnated for two seconds, and then smiled, "your heart is really big. Isn't there a company in the United States also studying this? It's been nearly six years, and we haven't seen any results that can be taken out. "

Qin Wenbo said with a smile, "they are them and we are us. Just because they can't, doesn't mean we can't. The success of suborbital and spacecraft are the basis for our next step. "

"In terms of financial security, they are far inferior to us; In terms of personnel, they now have only 260 people, not as good as us. Although they have the support of the American government, we have a complete set of technical foundation. "

"It can be said that in any way, he can't compare with rebirth. He has solar energy, and Chongshi products are more powerful than him, accounting for 45% of the world market; He has an electric car, but it is far from that of Chongshi group, otherwise he can't honestly follow, and the market share is less than half of Chongshi; Not to mention software, the world's top software accounts for 80% of the world's total. "

Liu Zhifei chuckled, "people have online shopping websites, but they don't have one."

Qin Wenbo shook his head, "that's the dragon. He doesn't want to make that money, otherwise he has his share? Regardless of technology, big data, websites, let alone logistics, as long as the world trade office has a platform like that and surpasses him every minute. "

That's the truth. Long Jianhua doesn't want to build such a platform. He just doesn't want to compete for profits with the common people. It seems that the pattern is too low.

Such a shopping platform makes little contribution to the society in general. It just brings the work of the common people into its own flag to let them converge more money. Moreover, with their efforts, the living standards of more middle-class people have declined, and it is more difficult for low-income people to make money.

That company, long Jianhua and others saw its establishment and development and never regarded it as an opponent in the aerospace field.

But it has to be said that its founder has great financial talent and can draw a sum of money; He also has a unique vision in the direction of scientific and technological development. He can take entering space - and exploring space at a low cost as his goal, but his opponent is long Jianhua, a management master, a twice Nobel laureate and a very rich man. So in the competition, the guy is always at a disadvantage.

The vast majority of people naturally believe in the latter when a winner from a software background and a winner from a product background come to study such products. Therefore, even if the institute only announces its future goals, most of the relevant talents in the society are attracted by the Institute. At present, there are more than 3000 scientific researchers in the aircraft research institute, and more than 900 full-time researchers in aerospace.

This is the natural attraction, not comparable to money, not to mention that Chongshi Research Institute has never been short of money

On April 15, Chongshi group announced that the space tourism business will break through the first cosmic speed and expand to flying around the earth to meet people's taste of the perfect weightlessness state for three days. At the same time, the price will be set at $10 million per tourist.

A reporter immediately asked: this spacecraft can take 100 people. Sub orbital flight only costs 600000 US dollars, while flying around the earth requires 10 million US dollars. Why is the price difference so large.

The host responded to him: from the current operating cost, even if the attendance rate reaches half of $10 million per person, the company will lose money, because each operating cost will exceed $500 million. The reason for doing so is to satisfy some consumers to experience the feeling of weightlessness in the sky. The second is to provide short-term scientific experiment opportunities for relevant scientists. The third and most important thing is to arouse people's curiosity to explore space, let more people study space and make contributions to mankind's future stepping out of space.

At the same time, he added that if the number of passengers in a country reaches 50, the tourism company will give five children under the age of 15 a free chance to take the Kunpeng.

This response, especially the third point and the supplementary point, has aroused enthusiastic response from world public opinion, and they have praised Chongshi group for its indelible role in human exploration.

When asked whether the Kunpeng had only weightlessness experience and sleeping in the sky for two nights, the host smiled and responded, "it can not only play badminton, tennis and basketball, but also prepare some simple scientific experimental projects for passengers to participate."

This response, let reporters brain fill a lot of scenes.

A reporter asked, "when the Kunpeng test flight, it revolved around the earth for seven days. Why is the tourism schedule only arranged for three days?"

The host said with a smile, "safety first. In addition, there is an old Chinese saying that "eat less and taste more". You can't do too much. "

Hearing what he said, the meeting hall burst into friendly laughter.

Originally, Kunpeng 2 was designed to fly around the earth for seven days, but long Jianhua thought that seven days was too long: when we got to outer space, we didn't see much of the scenery, only the distant stars, the earth, the sun and the moon. Watching more would be boring, but it would make the latecomers feel less famous than real; This trip is actually for curiosity and experience weightlessness different from suborbital. As long as the ability of seven days is brought into play for three days, there should be more guarantees in terms of safety performance.

It is better to shorten the time and make more in the pattern, so that those who want to go will go in the future.