The ability of the offshore launcher to achieve a sea rocket launch that most countries cannot complete is to adopt an extremely special mobile offshore platform "Odyssey". It was originally an abandoned Norwegian offshore oil drilling platform, which was carried out after the ingenuity of engineers such as the United States, Russia, and Norway. It can accommodate a 60-meter-high Zenith-3sl launcher on its rocket launcher and maintain a stable sway, which is itself an engineering miracle. For this reason, the famous National Geographic Channel also introduced it as an album of "The Great Engineering Tour", which was a free advertisement for the offshore launcher, and also allowed many companies willing to take risks to start cooperating with the offshore launcher.

The marine launcher used the Top-3sl launch vehicle to launch commercial payloads in equatorial waters with the "Ocean Odyssey". The rocket is a cooperative product of the two major aerospace powers of the United States and Russia. The rocket components come from many companies around the world. The Southern Design Bureau in Ukraine produces the first and second stages of the Zenith rocket; the Rocket Company in Russia produces the third stage, and Boeing in Seattle, USA produces the payload fairing and interstage structure.

Finally, the launch frame and arrow body (including payload) are assembled on the assembly command ship at the port of Long Beach, California. After completion, it is transferred to the "Ocean Odyssey" launch platform that can navigate by itself, and then sail to the waters near the Pacific equator with the assembly command ship serving as the command center to launch.

As for why sea launch companies choose to travel thousands of miles of oceans, they still have to risk the damage of ships crashing and strong winds and waves at sea to damage rockets, because this can save a lot of money than ordinary land launching rockets at high latitudes. In 1945, the famous British science fiction writer Arthur Clark proposed the concept of a geosynchronous orbit satellite, that is, if a satellite is placed at a height of about 36,000km from the earth, the direction of the satellite's running direction is the same as the direction of the earth's rotation, and the orbit is a circular orbit on the equatorial plane of the earth. The operation period is equal to the time of the earth's rotation, that is, 24 hours, the orbiting speed of the satellite in orbit is about equal to the angular velocity of the earth's rotation. As long as three communication satellites are arranged on the geosynchronous orbit, global communication can be achieved except for the two poles. This genius' idea was quickly realized.

As it turns out, this represents the beginning of the concept of global satellite communications. Satellite communication technology based on this has now penetrated into the lives of thousands of ordinary people around the world, with huge market potential. However, if satellites are to be launched into geosynchronous orbit, the best launch location should be on the equator, but look at the world map, you will know that most countries located at the equator are either poor countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, where rocket launch sites are built. There are a lot of political and economic issues, and security and logistics are difficult to guarantee.

Either countries with rocket launch capabilities are basically not located on the equator. Due to the limitation of rocket carrying capacity, these countries must divide satellites that are not on the launch vehicle on the equatorial launch site to the synchronous orbit into several stages. It is necessary to consume the precious fuel carried by the geosynchronous orbit satellites.

For satellite operators, this is expensive and their profits have greatly reduced. If they can directly locate the geosynchronous orbit from the equator, they can save a lot of satellite fuel and extend the life of the satellite. You should know that the life of a geosynchronous orbit satellite is 10-15 years. The life of a geosynchronous orbit satellite is generally 10-15 years. The fuel saved on-satellite fuel can extend the life of the satellite by at least about 3 years. This is a considerable amount for operators who often build a satellite for hundreds of millions of dollars. Therefore, although launching rockets at sea is a new thing and the risk is not small, the plan was well received by the industry as soon as it was proposed. With the strong support of the United States, Russia and other countries, the offshore launch company was soon established and received a lot of orders.

Yang Xing was able to watch this sea rocket launch at sea because the rocket was equipped with three second-generation Iridium satellites developed by his Iridium satellite company. As a major customer, he has the right to watch the launch of his own products. Since Zhongxing acquired the US Iridium Communications Company and officially entered the field of satellite communications, thanks to the outstanding performance of the new Iridium mobile phone in "911", it not only won a long-term order from the Pentagon, but also made users in more fields begin to favor Iridium calling technology.

At the World Conference in recent years, Zhongxing has launched a number of three-defense mobile phones with different shapes but all have satellite communication and positioning functions. These satellite phones have quickly become essential products for the international military, police, maritime, adventure and tourism, disaster relief and other industries. They have shown the powerful communication and rescue capabilities of Iridium mobile phones in many difficult and dangerous environments. The media praised it. Although each Iridium mobile phone sells for as high as 10,000 yuan, even exceeds the group's main phone, it is still in short supply and is the most profitable among the group's communication products. In order to continue the product's public opinion and money harvest, the group soon demanded the launch of the second generation Iridium plan.

Of course he was happy that Iridium was resurrected in Yang Xing's hands. But his ambition was not only to exert Iridium's global blind spot voice communication capabilities. He was busy early on becoming the overlord of the global information industry. Satellite communication is only an indispensable part of the industrial chain. After all, there are many places in the world that cannot be laid with optical cables and wires. The development of the Internet has made the voice business share smaller and smaller in network transmission, and the market's demand for large-capacity data transmission such as video, audio and pictures is getting higher and higher. Yang Xing promoted his views so strongly at the domestic information strategy seminar in order to seize the market's initiative.

He has always believed that the basic data transmission in the future information industry must be centered on wireless transmission, such as wireless charging, ultra-high-speed wireless networking data transmission technology, etc., have begun to leave the laboratory and enter the industrialization stage. The industry has no doubts about the future of consumer electronic products cutting off all annoying lines, so Yang Xing attaches great importance to 4g technology so much. As a supplement to traditional mobile communication technology, although satellite communication has disadvantages such as expensive and poor signal, and has not been able to replace mobile digital telephones, it is still the only effective wireless transmission method in some specific occasions and will be the best backup for 4g mobile data transmission technology.

The Pentagon originally provided timely assistance when Iridium was about to go bankrupt and signed an order of tens of millions of dollars. It was not to be a living Lei Feng, but to find that Iridium equipment can enable voice and text transmission services in many places where mobile communication base stations cannot be set up. For example, in the fierce battles of Afghanistan and the Iraqi desert, you can't expect a mobile company to set up a mobile communication network for the war zone at the risk of gunfire. Satellite mobile phones represented by Iridium have become the favorite of front-line war zone commanders. In order to talk to relatives behind when they are free, soldiers would rather exchange their duty allowance for a few minutes of call time than to do so. Iridium has made a lot of war money in these two battlefields.

Faced with this market demand, the Iridium designed in the 1990s could only meet the simple voice calls and could no longer keep up with the times. Yang Xing, who was familiar with historical changes, proposed a plan to develop the second generation of Iridium since the acquisition of Iridium, which greatly enhanced the data transmission capabilities of the new Iridium, which was in line with the spleen and stomach of the US military. Therefore, the two hit it off and jointly developed the new Iridium satellite system. It is precisely for this reason that the Pentagon made an exception to designate Zhongxing Group as a supplier of the US military.

The second-generation Iridium satellite launched by the Maritime Launch Company this time is very different from the first generation. With the development of the information industry, it no longer needs to rely on the networking of 66 satellites to achieve global communication. It only takes about 30 satellites to achieve the same effect, and 4-5 of them still exist as backups. In addition to meeting the most common voice communication, the biggest feature of the second-generation Iridium is that it can provide up to GB of communication bandwidth. The Pentagon is eager to use its huge bandwidth as one of the auxiliary means of war zone communication.

At the same time, relying on satellite ground receiving base stations can also solve the problem of the problem of the use of Wimax4g communication standard for Nebula Electronics to poor mobile signals. It should be noted that the CDMA standard widely adopted by 3g is now. Although the LTE mode developed in the next generation of 4g has only started, the signal stability and ability to receive data during high-speed movement are very strong. In comparison, Wimax is closer to Wimax and belongs to the wireless data transmission mode, and has shortcomings in mobile stability.

Traditional mobile operators use ground-mounted large number of signal tower base stations to solve the signal stability problem. Although Yang Xing is rich, he cannot compete with the traditional mobile signal base stations with hundreds of operators all over the world. If you want to take the lead in the 4g standard, you have to find another way. Experts from Xingdu Research Institute and Nebula Electronics thought of Li's way to make up for the insufficient number of Wimax base stations using Iridium ground communication base stations. At the same time, Xingdou Research Institute is still working hard to integrate the next generation of baseband chips with more than 4g standards. In the 2g era, Nebula Electronics has launched three-mode mobile phones with g**, cdma and Iridium standards. It is always impossible to walk one more leg.

Since the second generation of Iridium carried Yang Xing's dream of deploying 4G communications in advance and gaining the dream of a high-speed wireless communication network, he spared no expense to ask for the launch of satellites to form a network as soon as possible. However, as a commercial satellite company, Iridium also had to calculate the cost. After some investigation, it chose a maritime launch company and several rocket launch companies such as Europe and Russia to cooperate.

Yang Xing ran to the scene to observe the rocket launch of the maritime launch company and had a deeper intention, that is, he wanted to see if he could acquire the maritime launch company and have his own rocket launch device. Internationally, rocket launch and satellite manufacturing are generally separate, but satellite manufacturing is relatively difficult. The top 20 countries in the world economy can build satellites themselves. Even if other countries cannot make them, they can still buy satellites on the market. However, it is different to have rocket launch capabilities, because this thing is only separated from a piece of paper from a missile, and the United States is very strict in this regard.
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