Chapter 495 Satellite Bumper Car (6K)
As if in response to the beautiful country's space race, the next day Jieke Group issued an announcement to launch satellite launch services for all countries and companies around the world, except beautiful countries.
The satellites launched range from small private satellites to large detection satellites, all of which are within the scope of contracting by Jieke Group.
Regarding the quotation, Jieke Group gave an extremely favorable price, with a launch price of US$1,999 per kilogram.
The payload of the Kunpeng rocket is 850 tons, and the price of a Kunpeng rocket launch is US$1.7 billion.
If it were launched alone at this price, no one would agree.
However, the Jieke Group, which has mastered the technology of multiple satellites with one arrow, can carry a large number of satellites and spacecrafts at one time. It is like forming a group to fight for orders. Everyone shares the expenses and costs.
As soon as the offer from Jieko Group came out, the global commercial satellite launch market was shaken like an earthquake.
This price is really great, compared with satellite launch quotes from other countries.
The US space shuttle has a payload of 22.7 tons, a single launch price of US$450 million, and a payload of up to US$19,824 per kilogram.
The European Space Agency's Ariane 5 rocket has a payload of 16 tons, a single launch price of US$165 million, and a payload of US$10,313 per kilogram.
The Mao Xiong Soyuz-FG rocket has a payload of 6.9 tons, a single launch price of US$50 million, and a payload of US$7,246 per kilogram.
The Asan polar-orbiting satellite launch vehicle has a payload of 3.8 tons, a single launch price of US$15 million, and a payload of US$3,947 per kilogram.
The world's most successful commercial rocket launch, the Space Exploration Technology Company, which masters rocket recovery technology, has its Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 22.8 tons, a single launch price of US$62 million, and a payload of US$2,719 per kilogram.
In the past, space exploration technology companies monopolized most of the global satellite launch market because of their cheap prices and efficient reuse and recovery mechanisms.
Therefore, when the Kunpeng rocket of Jieke Group came out, it took the initiative to reduce the cost of launching the rocket payload to less than 2,000 US dollars, which immediately attracted commercial satellite partners around the world. This is much cheaper than the Falcon 9 of the Space Exploration Company.
Although the Kunpeng rocket has just made its first successful flight, a large number of countries and companies still chose the Kunpeng rocket because of the price and handed the launch contract to the Jieke Group to take the lead.
And Jieke Group lived up to expectations. 20 days later, the Kunpeng rocket that successfully made its first flight was inspected and mounted on commercial satellites from all over the world. It soared into the sky at the Chiyang Rocket Launch Site and inserted into the sky.
Whether it's entering space, rocket separation, satellite launch, or rocket recovery, there are no mistakes in the entire process.
With each satellite operating in a predetermined orbit and establishing an effective connection with the ground, the first commercial launch of the Kunpeng rocket was a great success.
In an instant, Jieke Group became the new darling of the commercial satellite market.
A large number of commercial satellite launch orders poured into Jieke Group from all directions.
Many of these are commercial satellites for companies within the United States.
Capitalists serve interests. Since the price quoted by Jieke Group is lower and its safety has been proven, they will certainly not choose to use expensive ones.
After all, launching a satellite often costs tens of millions or hundreds of millions, so this saves a lot of money.
With the production of the second and third Kunpeng rockets of Jieke Group, the Kunpeng rockets were launched five times in succession.
Every time it launches, in addition to its own satellites, it will also free up space to carry commercial satellites from other countries and forces, allowing them to take a ride and send them into space together.
A large number of commercial satellite orders have also made Jieke Group a lot of money.
The cost of Kunpeng rockets that can be recycled and reused is effectively controlled. The more times they are reused, the lower the average cost. The profit earned from each launch is calculated in units of hundreds of millions.
Now, the Space Exploration Technology Company, which originally monopolized the global commercial satellite market, is in a hurry.
In order to compete with Jieke Group for satellite launch orders, the price was reduced to US$1,888 per kilogram.
This move allowed Space Exploration Technology Company to obtain some commercial satellite orders, but immediately afterwards, Jieke Company responded immediately and lowered the satellite launch quotation, lowering the price to US$1,650 per kilogram.
Then the two sides started to get involved. You reported 1590, and I reported 1499.
If you say 1,200 per kilogram, I will lower the price to 1,100.
In just half a year, Jieco Group and Space Exploration Technology Company reduced the cost of satellite launch from nearly 3,000 US dollars to less than 1,000 US dollars.
The global rocket launch market is in turmoil. The price of launching commercial satellites has been reduced to cabbage prices by Jieco and Space Exploration Technology. It is close to a global reshuffle. Competition from other rockets has no meaning.
When the Jieke Group competed with the Space Technology Exploration Company, other commercial rocket companies suffered heavy losses and suffered heavy losses.
The eldest and the second child fight, but the third child is the first to play ball.
That is to say, many aerospace companies are owned by the state and cannot go bankrupt. Otherwise, no force can compete with Jieke Group and Space Exploration Technology Company.
In the increasingly fierce price war, the Kunpeng rocket's ultra-large payload reflects its cost advantage.
Even the Space Exploration Technology Company cannot bear it. Although there is rocket recovery technology, this is not a truly free launch.
The current price is already causing Space Exploration Technology Company to lose money every time it launches a rocket.
"We are willing to put aside our prejudices with Jieke Group and operate the global rocket launch market with each other. This industry can accommodate two giants."
Facing serious losses, Muska, the founder and chairman of Space Exploration Technology Company, had no choice but to stand up and speak out to Jieco Group.
He even secretly contacted the Jieko Group in private, hoping to form a price alliance with the Jieko Group and work hand in hand to improve the price of external rocket launches. Stop getting involved. Only countries and companies that launch commercial satellites can be so cheap.
"I think it is a healthy development for an industry to have only one giant left. Relying on technological monopoly is called skill."
When Liu Yingying was interviewed by reporters and media, she gave an arrogant answer, which could be regarded as a response to Maska's request for peace, and she planned to continue fighting.
Faced with the aggressiveness of Jieke Group, in order to maintain its market share, Space Exploration Technology Company could only launch in tears and lose money while undertaking a large number of NASA launch missions.
Space Exploration Technology's external commercial launches have been reduced to only 15 million US dollars per time. However, when executing NASA's launch missions, NASA's price is much higher. It is equivalent to NASA subsidizing Space Exploration Technology, so that Space Exploration Technology does not Was defeated by Jieke Group.
Seeing the menacing attack of the Jieco Group, Beautiful Country has finally officially come to an end.
NASA Director Burton said in a speech that no satellite belonging to the United States will be allowed to fly to the sky on the Kunpeng rocket. Even if there is only one screw made in the United States, it will not be allowed to ride on the Jieke Group.
The satellites of many countries around the world are made by beautiful countries. This overbearing behavior is of course criticized.
After all, your business has sold things to customers, and you still have to restrict how customers can use them.
But the beautiful country is still forcing the introduction, and many satellites ordered and produced by other countries in the beautiful country cannot be launched cheaply.
Even the beautiful country’s own domestic capital has been criticizing it, but the beautiful country still goes its own way.
Without this restriction, the capitalists in the beautiful country would not take into account the feelings of their family and country. They approached the Jieco Group to launch satellites in batches, and all the money was made by the Jieco Group.
The Kunpeng rocket of Jieke Group is still launching as scheduled, and the number of rocket launches has not been reduced due to satellite orders.
Almost every month, Jieke Group produces Kunpeng rockets.
At the same time, every week, Jieke Group will conduct Kunpeng rocket launches.
Although Jieke Group is the overlord of Indochina, its foundation was too poor in the past, and these countries did not have satellites.
Jieko Group needs to rapidly increase the number of satellites, including a series of satellites for communications, remote sensing, reconnaissance, meteorology, etc.
Mainly based on reconnaissance satellites and communication satellites, many of these satellites are equipped with optical observation equipment, which can achieve 24-hour uninterrupted optical monitoring and analysis, greatly improving the Jieke Group's monitoring capabilities of ground moving objects and space targets.
You know, the number of satellites in orbit of the beautiful country, including those small satellites, is more than 10,000, and most of them are satellites of the Space Exploration Technology Company.
If the Jieco Group wants to catch up with the beautiful country, it must launch satellites multiple times to make up for this gap.
With the multiple launches of Kunpeng rockets, satellites are also scattered in space orbit.
In addition to those expensive large satellites, Jieko Group launches more small satellites with lower costs and larger quantities to form a satellite network.
In this way, once a war is launched, if the enemy wants to destroy the satellite system, but you have thousands of small satellites running around in the sky, it will be difficult for the enemy to do so.
This is also the strategy that Beautiful Country is currently implementing. Jieke Group is trying to cross the river by touching Beautiful Country.
Every time the Kunpeng rocket is launched, it can carry hundreds of these small satellites. Jieke Group launches three to four times a month, turning the rocket launch into a shuttle. Thousands of satellites are launched into orbit every month.
This terrifying launch efficiency forces the beautiful country to keep up with its production capacity.
Funds from the U.S. military and NASA have been injected into the Space Technology Exploration Company, and the number and launch times of its Falcon 9 rockets have been increasing.
The Starship program, a large-scale launch vehicle project under the Space Exploration Technology Company, has received strong support, and tests are conducted almost every month.
This kind of rocket with a take-off mass of 5,000 tons has high hopes from the beautiful country, hoping that it can become the Kunpeng rocket against the Jieke Group.
In less than a year, the space race between Jieko Group and Beautiful Country has become intense.
A large number of satellites from both sides are scattered in the Blue Star space orbit. From three hundred kilometers, five hundred kilometers, and one thousand kilometers all the way, the satellites are scattered in orbits at different altitudes. Looking down from space, they seem to wrap up the Blue Star. , like a space enclosure.
Jieko Group relies on the powerful performance of Kunpeng rockets to ensure the quantity and replacement of satellites. However, Meiliguo’s satellites do not have such a large carrying capacity. In order to compete with Jieko Group, they make up for it by launching rockets more times. Meiliguo has satellites launched almost every day. rocket launch.
In this fierce competition, the number of Jieko Group's satellites continues to increase. When the number of satellites increases, Jieko Group's targeting also begins.
NASA, a man and a woman stand facing each other in the ground satellite monitoring room.
Clar Hagrid held flowers in his hands, half-knelt on the ground, holding a diamond ring, and presented it to his sweetheart Mireyu.
"Mireyou, I love you, marry me."
Both were employees of NASA, and they started an office romance, which has reached the point where they are talking about marriage. Oh oh oh oh!
Colleagues around him gathered around and started making noises.
Mireyou cried with joy, covered her mouth, and was about to speak when she was suddenly interrupted by a piercing siren.
Everyone present was stunned for two seconds, and then quickly ran back to their posts. They saw that the instrument that originally monitored space debris was emitting a red light alarm.
In space, due to frequent human space activities, a large amount of space debris has been caused.
In order to prevent satellites from being damaged by the impact of space debris, major aerospace powers have established corresponding early warning systems to conduct real-time monitoring through ground command centers, space stations and launched detectors, and timely adjust satellites to avoid orbit changes.
"This is the reconnaissance satellite number 2020 - TBK93 warning. There is space debris about to hit. Emergency collision avoidance is carried out immediately."
Krall is responsible for monitoring space junk. He originally thought it was an own incident.
But he soon discovered that something was wrong, because he had just adjusted the orbit of the satellite, and the floating space debris also changed its orbit, heading straight for the satellite belonging to NASA.
It also takes time for the engine to start and change orbit. The space junk is extremely fast and collides with each other very quickly.
The next second, the ground command center lost contact with the NASA reconnaissance satellite.
Without realizing it, Krall quickly checked the situation of the space junk. The change of direction and acceleration just now proved that it was probably not space junk.
Because the speed and direction of space debris are basically fixed, the impact just now does not look like space debris.
"This is not space junk, this is a satellite of Jieke Group, international number 2027-341N."
Soon, Krall's expression changed. Among the ITU registrations, there were satellite registrations from various countries, which allowed him to immediately find out the problem.
Based on this information, everyone at the scene immediately became nervous. This was probably not an accident.
"Report to Director Burton immediately, the Jieko Group has bad intentions!"
As soon as Krall finished saying this, the alarm in the ground command center sounded again, and this time it was multiple alarms.
Cold sweat broke out on Krall's forehead, and he said angrily: "Satellite No. 2022 - 73HS, No. 2015 - GPV6 Satellite, No. 2024 - Satellite 35LN5. Collision warning. Immediately execute orbit change and avoidance. Jieke Group is crazy, they are going to collide. Our satellite.”
But no matter how they tried to evade, there would always be satellites that were too late to get out of the way and collided with each other, turning them into pieces of garbage.
One!
Two!
Three!
As satellites turned into space junk one after another, all NASA staff on site felt their heads were spinning, and they could only urgently report the situation to their own directors and request instructions.
On Valentine's Day, February 14, multiple satellite collisions occurred in Blue Star space.
A total of eight satellites were damaged in the impact. These satellites were all satellites owned by Jieko Group and Beautiful Country.
"It is a heinous act. The Jieko Group is using its space hegemony to turn satellites into space weapons and carry out purposeful terrorist attacks on our satellites.
The Jieko Group is trying to control the orbit of the Blue Star and dominate all human space. Their crazy ambitions have been exposed.
As a beacon of human freedom and democracy, we must seek justice from the Jieco Group. We must not allow such careerists to occupy space. It would be a nightmare for the entire human society. ”
The next day, NASA Administrator Burton held a press conference and directly cursed Jieco Group at the meeting, accusing Jieko Group of maliciously colliding with its own satellites, and demanded Jieko Group to immediately apologize and compensate, otherwise they would never give up.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately hit the global hot search screen. The two companies turned from a modest space launch competition into a space bumper car, shocking the eyes of people around the world.
Faced with the accusations from Beautiful Country, Jieco Group simply responded with technical errors, being affected by solar flares, and having no comment.
This kind of excuse is too perfunctory. Even the people who eat melon know that Jieke Group deliberately touched the Chinese satellite.
For a time, Jieke Group received a lot of criticism.
But Jieke Group doesn’t care, and Su Jie doesn’t care either. Are there not many people in the world who criticize the beautiful country? It does not affect the fact that Beautiful Country is the overlord of Blue Star.
NASA is furious. They are the only ones who bully others. When will it be their turn to be bullied?
Seeing that a new space force from the Jieko Group dared to provoke them, they responded immediately.
Two days later, several satellites under the beautiful national flag experienced technical errors and changed their orbits and collided with satellites belonging to the Jieko Group.
At the end of the day, several satellites turned into space junk.
The Jieko Group retaliated decisively, using more small satellites to collide with the large and medium-sized satellites of the beautiful country, and exchanged cheap goods for the other party's expensive goods.
The beautiful country also uses small Starlink satellites. In addition to the small satellites dying together, it also looks for large satellites from the Jieko Group to collide with each other.
The originally peaceful space has become a billiards table for Jieco Group and Beautiful Country.
Today you bump into me, and tomorrow I bump into you. Several satellites become victims every day.
As a result of the anger and consumption of satellites, both parties had to produce more satellites and rockets, and launch more batches of rockets into space.
The funds invested by both parties have increased from tens of billions of dollars to hundreds of billions of dollars. When it came to the satellite billiard table, at the most intense time, two to three billion dollars were being thrown into the space field every month.
Satellites have become weapons for both sides, and a new round of space arms expansion and preparations for war are taking place between the Jieko Group and the Beautiful Country.
In addition to the satellite collision, in order to regain face, the beautiful country also announced after the satellite collision that the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance would hold a military exercise codenamed "Insect Catching" in the waters of Amanda. The battle was huge.
In this military exercise, Beautiful Country dispatched an aircraft carrier battle group, and also brought two younger brothers from Sakura Country and Bangzi Country, and set off in a swaggering manner.
The aircraft carrier captain faced the media and said with a serious face: "This exercise is designed to test the ability of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance forces to conduct amphibious landings, seize ports, and mobilize ground forces."
It is obvious who this exercise is aimed at.
The Jieke Group responded tit-for-tat and simultaneously held a military exercise codenamed "Eagle Capture" at the Johor border. The 1st Mecha Combat Brigade, the 2nd Mecha Combat Brigade, and the 4th Mecha Combat Brigade, a total of three mechas All combat brigades were present.
Hundreds of Magic Bird fighter jets are also gearing up behind the scenes to participate in this massive military exercise.
By the way, the Jieke Group also attracted the armies of Chenla, Lancang, Siam, and Annan, plus its own troops, totaling 200,000 troops.
The smell of gunpowder between the Jieko Group and the Beautiful Country is very strong, and even the military exercises are held at the same time.
However, the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance supported by the beautiful country suddenly got in trouble at the juncture of this military exercise.
Johor, Java, and Temasek, several members of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance, used various excuses at critical moments to express their inability to participate in the military exercises as scheduled.
Because these members of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance have noticed that the Jieko Group is likely to really start a war this time.
With the examples of Siam and Annan, everyone is worried about what will happen if the beautiful country betrays its teammates again.
When the time comes, the beautiful country pats its butt and runs away, leaving itself to face the soldiers of the Jieke Group. Wouldn't it be over for everyone?
Therefore, at the juncture of the military exercise, except for the two loyal dogs of South Korea and Sakura Country, many members of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance broke the agreement and did not want to get involved in this powder keg.
Looking at this situation, the beautiful country is furious, but it cannot put a knife on the necks of these countries and ask them to send warships for military exercises.
Unless the Beautiful Country comes to an end and starts a head-on war with the Jieco Group.
Otherwise, those members of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance who have clearly seen the face of this beautiful country will not be willing to take the lead and do not want to take the lead.
As for whether to start a war with the Jieco Group now, Beautiful Country is also hesitant.
Because this year is an election year, their president is about to enter a critical election period.
At this time, the war starts. Unless the Jieko Group is resolved quickly, it will fall into a protracted war. The losses caused by the war will definitely continue to lower the president's approval rating, and he will not be able to be re-elected smoothly.
With the strong combat effectiveness of the Jieco Group, it is very difficult to defeat the Jieco Group in a short time. At least it cannot be solved by an aircraft carrier battle group.
This also shows the attitude of the beautiful country, which does not want to start a war with the Jieke Group now.
If a war is to begin, there will definitely be more than one aircraft carrier battle group.
During the Haiwan War, the beautiful country sent several aircraft carriers. That was the real preparation for the war to destroy the country.
The strength of Jieko Group is definitely much stronger than that of Iqra.
Relying on an aircraft carrier battle group to defeat the Jieko Group, as long as the commander's brain is not flooded, it is impossible to do such a stupid thing.
The members of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance just saw that the beautiful country was not sincere, so they did not follow it stupidly.
They can pretend to be a tiger with the beautiful national fox, but they dare not really think of themselves as a tiger. When the time comes, they will be beaten violently by the Jieke Group and there will be no place to cry.
Finally, the beautiful country's own aircraft carrier did not penetrate deep into the Amanda Sea and the Gulf of Siam in the hinterland waters of the Jieko Group, that is, it cruised outside the Indian Ocean and made moves with the warships of the Sakura Country and the Bangzi Country. It lacked enough For participating countries, the military exercise ended hastily.
In space, the space bumper cars of both sides are gradually coming to an end because too much space junk is produced.
This also restricted the rockets and satellites of Beautiful Country and Jieco Group. Coupled with the rebuke from countries around the world, this satellite billiards game had to stop.
(End of chapter)