Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant

Chapter 371 The Choice of Galaxy Power

As the Spring Festival approaches, Qu Li, Chen Danlin and their children go to Hainan for vacation, along with the Chen family. Hainan in winter is more suitable for life.

In Hainan, the country has provided many supportive policies. Logically speaking, the business environment should not be so bad, but the actual situation is like this, and it cannot be said that it is good. Therefore, Yinghe Real Estate does not have much property in Hainan, so Chen Danlin bought villas in Sanya, Wenchang and other places that can be used for vacation.

The price of Hainan vegetables does not affect Qu Li's life. They occasionally cook by themselves. Although this skill has been abandoned for many years, picking it up is still as easy as instinct. I have never heard of anyone who learns how to cook and then forgets it after riding a bicycle.

Hainan may be suitable for Shijiumei to do e-commerce retail, but it is really not suitable for high-tech. Without this foundation and soil, the local area does not have the courage. Whether it is a self-built rocket launch center or satellite Internet, it cannot be given to Qu Li. Any help.

Xiangjiang can set up a satellite company that integrates design and manufacturing to help Qu Li develop the low-orbit Internet satellite he wants, but there is nothing clear about the establishment of a satellite Internet company.

Domestic business in this area adopts an approval system, which requires a license, but how it is issued is not transparent at all. If you apply directly, the application materials will probably be moldy after a year and no one will deal with it.

Of course Qu Li wanted to find someone, but the aerospace department had great objections to him. Qu Li publicly clamored to surpass the Long March rocket. Although he failed, people were under great pressure. Many leaders were concerned about whether the Long March 5 would be surpassed. Called to inquire about this.

Naturally, what Qu Li knew couldn't be a big secret. The pressure also gave Xinghe motivation. Let's see if Qu Li is bragging, and see how big the gap between Suzaku and Falcon 9 is...

In the eyes of outsiders, Qu Li, who has almost never failed, can basically succeed in whatever he wants to do, but it only takes a short time. Neither the aerospace nor telecommunications departments want Qu Li to participate in industries with "strategic" value. , even if they don’t do it themselves.

This issue will not be discussed. Large companies may have similar problems, otherwise they would not decline due to declining innovation.

It can be said that Galaxy Power, which is being vaguely targeted, or it is difficult for Qu Li to establish a satellite Internet company in China. Even if it is established in Singapore, it can only target overseas markets such as Southeast Asia. The problem arises. Starlink can survive only by relying on The market is the United States. Without the Chinese market, Qu Li doesn’t think that much can be achieved by relying on the Southeast Asian market.

To put it bluntly, a successful multinational enterprise must have an unshakable foundation. As long as its position in the domestic market remains unshakable, it can adjust after ten or eight failures overseas. Once it loses the domestic market, it will be like a floating tree with no roots. , difficult to last long.

So Qu Li is still not having an easy time during this period, but he just didn’t say it. There are many more domestic companies investing in space exploration than at the same time in history. Maybe Qu Li’s Galaxy Power has a strong demonstration effect. He would rather start from the two worlds. Is it not important for Fortune 500 companies to do good things when they retire?

After the short vacation, they left Hainan and sent their children to Chengdu. The two of them returned to Yangcheng to work. One went to Fenghua International and the other to Galaxy Power.

Musk is an engineer and can lead the technical direction of SpaceX; Qu Li does not understand technology and can only rely on management systems and ideals and beliefs. A group of ambitious engineers gathered in Nansha, Yangcheng, to establish a working environment more suitable for them. As for the technical direction, they relied on the technical committee.

In fact, after supporting the development of Galaxy Power for so many years, Qu Li really regretted it. He could start from the user experience of cars, but he simply didn't know anything about rocket launches and didn't take the time to learn, so he had to rely on others for everything.

The problem of trust has been a big problem since ancient times. No one has ever been able to solve it well, and human nature is the least able to withstand the test. Therefore, Qu Li has been struggling to make Galaxy Power a social enterprise, and want to become an independent commercial company. Each of these two models has its own advantages and disadvantages.

"No matter what you choose, you have to wait until our Falcon 9 is successfully launched, so that you will have more initiative..." Qu Li took the initiative to confess his worries to Liu Baiqi and others. Social enterprises are equivalent to private enterprises. State-owned enterprises.

If most of them want to be social enterprises and a small number of people want to be commercial companies, then they will definitely be divided, maybe one in two, and attract venture capital to establish a new company. If they don’t want to start a business, they can also join other companies.

Qu Li has always been generous, and he still has this reputation. He can even share some patents and technologies at that time, but the prerequisite is to keep the technology confidential. There are only a few nails left to break the ship, so they only have this little technology left that is valuable.

Suzaku-3 is a rocket with 6 Spark engines. Don’t think that this combination is weird. Only 9 engines is the way to go. That’s nonsense.

The Russian "Yenisei" heavy rocket consists of six boosters equipped with RD-171 liquid oxygen/kerosene engines and an RD-180 liquid oxygen/kerosene engine core stage.

In addition, the starship has 6 Raptor engines, three of which are Raptor vacuum engines. Therefore, Galaxy Power's evolution along the lines of 3~6~9 engines may seem time-consuming and laborious, but it is actually accumulating technology. The biggest difference from state-owned enterprises is that they dare to try new technologies, dare to take risks, and dare to set off "fireworks" .

Also developed at the same time is the liquid oxygen methane engine, which uses a staged combustion cycle mode similar to the Raptor: the fuel agent or oxidant is pre-combusted in the precombustion chamber for a rich combustion (a large amount of fuel and a small amount of oxidizer) or an oxygen-rich combustion (a large amount of oxidant) Combustion with a small amount of fuel), the combustion generates heat to drive the turbine to drive the pump structure to transport fuel or oxidizer, and then the exhaust gas generated by pre-combustion is sent into the main combustion chamber for final combustion to generate thrust.

This mode can not only improve performance but also reduce costs and extend engine life. However, the Raptor uses a full-flow staged combustion cycle mode with two pre-combustion chambers, which is the most difficult and efficient and requires strong intelligent control capabilities.

Based on practical considerations, both Galaxy Power and Blue Origin (BE-4) chose the oxygen-rich combustion mode, because the rich combustion mode is not suitable for the two fuels of kerosene and methane and can only be abandoned.

Later, a domestic private rocket company became the first company in the world to successfully launch a liquid oxygen methane rocket into a predetermined orbit. However, they are simpler open cycle models with low development difficulty, high cost and limited potential.

This rocket of Galaxy Power is closely focused on the Raptor. The design requirements are very high. For example, the thrust at sea level exceeds the 200 tons of the Raptor. The BE-4 later achieved 240 tons. Qu Li only asked for more than 200 tons, which is already very kind. In addition, It's a matter of reusability.

Qu Li left after watching the Zhuque-3 ignition experiment in Yangcheng. The results are worth looking forward to.