Chapter 101 Pioneer One
Lin Jia has understood a truth very early on, the better you are, the more opportunities you will get.
The same is true for people, and the same is true for enterprises.
You will have a lot of choices, each of which looks good, with considerable benefits and controllable risks.
It’s just making money while lying down.
In fact, these opportunities can only bring you tactical victory. These tactical victories bring beautiful numbers on the company's statements, but these numbers cannot help the company achieve substantial growth.
Just like Yahoo, before Google substantially threatened them, their financial statements were very good, with very good revenue, profits, and user numbers. A large number of mergers and acquisitions showed no sign of bringing them down.
Until a certain year, the situation took a turn for the worse and there was no room for turning back.
So Lin Jia just thinks that the convertible bonds mentioned by Qian Jing can be done. It is better to turn a small part of the idle funds on the book into convertible bonds than to buy structured deposits in the bank. .
But she doesn’t think this is a long-term solution, nor does she feel much sense of accomplishment because of this profit.
This kind of money earned by relying on resources and relationships is just a number. It cannot leverage more social resources and cannot exert a leverage effect.
After Qian Jing left, LONGi Green Energy’s executives in charge of capital operations also came to the door and said that LONGi also wanted to issue convertible bonds and asked them if they were willing.
These major photovoltaic manufacturers have begun to build new perovskite production lines, starting with a scale of tens of billions, and are opening up financing channels.
For them, issuing convertible bonds is based on cost considerations on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is to attract corresponding partners.
For example, if JinkoSolar plans to build a new perovskite production line in Shanxi Province, their tens of billions of bond issuance will allocate a considerable share to the state-owned capital of Shanxi Province.
As major photovoltaic manufacturers such as Jinko, LONGi and JA Solar came to visit one after another, Lin Jia realized that it was too early to agree to Jinko. Guangjia Aerospace did not have that much cash flow and could only spend a small part of it. to buy bonds.
And the share they are willing to give is too much.
This is also a sweet trouble to a certain extent.
Gan Province, Jiuquan, Satellite Launch Center, Guangjia Aerospace’s first recyclable rocket is being launched here.
Before, the media and the outside world were unfamiliar with Guangjia Aerospace, which made Chen Yuanguang realize that they should increase their publicity efforts to let as many users as possible understand what Guangjia Aerospace is, what it does, and what it has vision.
In particular, asteroid mining is a plan that can last for decades and has established a good image in the minds of the Chinese people, which will have an important positive impact on recruiting talents in the future.
Children who grew up watching Guangjia Aerospace’s various documentaries joined Guangjia Aerospace after further studies. The loyalty of such talents will be directly attracted.
“I never thought I would have the opportunity to interview the God of Light. Hey, Tim, what kind of image does the God of Light look like in your mind?” asked the cameraman Xiao Li.
As the head Up owner of Station B, Tim is also a rare super-large team operator. He has been invited by Light Armor Aerospace this time and will be a special guest to participate in the rocket launch in Jiuquan, Gan Province.
“I never thought that when Station B officially informed me, I was shocked, because everyone knows that Guangshen rarely accepts interviews from the outside world.
The materials of Guangshen's interviews currently accumulated on major social media can be traced back to the release of "Once Upon a Time in Kuala Lumpur", when Guangshen participated in the film roadshow.
After that, Guangshen rarely appeared in public, let alone accepted interviews. Most of the time I got news about him from the financial channel or technology channel, and learned about his recent breakthroughs. "Tim said.
"My impression of him is that he is awesome. There is nothing else but awesome.
The more I know about it, the more awesome I feel. This kind of person published in Nature during college, won a gold medal for writing a novel, and adapted the novel into a movie with a box office of over 1 billion. During his Ph.D. at MIT, he made outstanding contributions to the end of the virus epidemic and returned to China. In entrepreneurship, he also founded two companies worth hundreds of billions.
Just looking at the resume, I can’t think of any other adjectives except awesome. Not everyone can do any of them.
So we have to set off quickly this time, go to Gansu Province in advance, seize every opportunity, and come back with more material. ”
Tim feels that this video will definitely be a hit. It has Chen Yuanguang, stars and sea, and domestic rockets. It is full of elements that the audience is interested in.
More importantly, this will help They have established a better external image. They are the only channel that can directly face Chen Yuanguang. This channel is not as good as Yangma.
On the other hand, the launch time is December 5, and Chen Yuanguang is half a month ahead of schedule. They have already arrived in Jiuquan, preparing for the final rocket launch.
Chen Yuanguang is a little nervous. The sea of stars is a romantic thing for every man, and he hopes to do it as well as possible. >
"Although this time, the rocket we launched is only experimental, and our requirement for it is just to verify whether our design is correct."
"The structure we designed, the entire command structure design, including the AI we used Whether technology can help it accurately recover to the predetermined point, the variable thrust engine, the algorithm during the entire launch process, and the data accumulated by the rocket-borne computer during the launch process?
So this. Our requirements for the first round are very low, just don't explode in mid-air, it can enter the predetermined orbit, it is best if it can free fall to the predetermined area after launch, and it can be retrieved if it cannot reach the predetermined area.
In short, please relax, our requirements are not high," Chen Yuanguang said.
Guangjia Aerospace rented an office in Jiuquan. The office here is of a mobile nature, so you only come here when you have something to do.
Because this was their first launch, all the R&D personnel from the entire Light Armor Aerospace who were slightly involved in rocket launches came, and the entire office was packed.
After Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, Lin Tianmin, as the person in charge of this project, stood up and said:
“This round we have equipped a large number of sensors on the Pioneer One. Even if it fails, We can also use the data recovered by the sensor to analyze the cause of the failure and troubleshoot it.
Boss, it will not explode in mid-air.
We did not adopt a radical design strategy.”
The experts at the Aerospace Research Institute are still in the desensitization period and can only watch their live broadcast remotely.
The launch time is 7:33 in the morning
At five o'clock that morning, at the Jiuquan Launch Center, Tim and the camera crew met Chen Yuanguang. Chen Yuanguang was wearing a plush hat and was well-dressed. If it wasn't introduced by the staff, Tim would not have recognized him. He came.
"Hello Guangshen, the staff of our channel all admire you. When I heard that I could come to interview you and visit the first rocket launch of Guangjia Aerospace, everyone was vying for it. Coming.
We also conducted an internal lottery, and only those who were drawn had the chance to come. "Tim was also very well dressed, with a microphone pinned to the collar of his clothes.
While he was talking, the staff of Guangjia Aerospace helped Chen Yuanguang pin a microphone to his clothes.
"Haha, right? It's an honor. We have about half an hour to talk today. We will enter the launch base in half an hour. It will not be convenient to be interviewed at that time. You can shoot at that time, but you need to keep it as quiet as possible.
So if you have any questions now, I will try my best to answer them. "Chen Yuanguang said.
Tim nodded: "Understood. After finishing speaking, he faced the camera: "I reiterate that we have no script for this interview."
We will be as free as possible while respecting the guests. "
The lack of a script means that the problem has not been communicated to Chen Yuanguang in advance. They will definitely discuss the problem internally before finalizing it.
"Guangshen, let's start directly. I I did a lot of preparation work before coming here, and I know that in the past few years, domestic companies have been making recyclable rockets.
Because of the success of SpaceX, everyone is trying. What is the difference between Guangjia Aerospace’s rocket launches and those of other companies? "
Chen Yuanguang: "The solid rockets launched by China before were not bundled. This is China's first bundled commercial rocket. Among global commercial aerospace companies, only Musk’s Falcon 9 is a solid bundled rocket. We are equivalent to second.
Long March 5 and Long March 7 are bundled rockets, but there have never been bundled rockets in commercial rockets before.
Bundled type is relatively more difficult.
Because after the solid rocket is ignited, high pressure will be generated throughout the interior. This high pressure will cause the entire rocket and booster to be elongated. It requires that all connections must be flexible, which also leads to related mechanical Structural design, such as aerodynamic design, is very difficult. "
Tim: "Guangshen's lectures are very down-to-earth. Even though I am a liberal arts major, I can understand its technical difficulties.
Guangshen just mentioned Musk, how about the Trailblazer 1 that Light Armor Space will launch this time compared to Musk's Falcon? ”
This is a relatively broad proposition, giving Chen Yuanguang ample room for independent development.
Chen Yuanguang was blunt about the gap: "Technically, it is definitely not as good as SpaceX. After all, their development history is much longer than ours.
Like the launch cost, the Falcon's launch cost is only US$1,700 per kilogram. , while the cost of domestic commercial aerospace companies is ten times that.
Our average launch cost is estimated at 3,000 US dollars per kilogram, which is based on the premise of successful launch and recovery.
If this round of Guangjia Aerospace’s rocket launch goes well, then I expect that we will be able to catch up with SpaceX in terms of cost next year
Because they are large rockets, the Falcon's carrying capacity of up to 22.8 tons allows them to spread the cost thin enough. Before Guangjia Aerospace, the carrying capacity of domestic commercial rockets was only about two to three hundred kilograms, and the better ones were only 1.5 tons. This carrying capacity determined that their costs were not cheap.
Our carrying capacity this year is 7 tons, and next year we will increase this number to about 20 tons, which will equal SpaceX in terms of cost. ”
(End of this chapter)