Yang Xing was considering choosing to cooperate with the country to launch the second generation of Iridium with the Long March Rocket. After all, many of the first generation of Iridium were successfully launched, and set several records such as orbital accuracy. But after inquiring, he found out that in 1999, the United States issued a "Cox Report" that strictly prohibited the Long March Rocket from launching satellites with American technology and parts produced by the United States. Iridium mainly comes from American design, so it can only find another way.

After searching around the world, Yang Xing realized that things were not as simple as he thought. Now his data transmission, television entertainment, map positioning and other services are linked to satellite technology, and many of the things he operates secretly also require safe and secure communication channels. He has experienced the ability of the American "echelon" organization to eavesdrop. Since such things cannot be put on the table, and even he has left some tricks to the country, Yang Xing is naturally worried that others will make communication satellites for him, so he can only choose to do it alone. This is also the purpose of his acquisition of bankrupt Iridium at the time.

But now that there are satellites, he is still not at ease to let others launch them. The international rocket market supply is narrow, and even the Japanese and Europeans are unreliable. Only Russia and Ukraine can barely take a look. Rockets are mainly produced by Russia and Ukraine. The maritime launch company, which is a product of cooperation between multiple countries, is undoubtedly his best target.

Yang Xing also had the idea of ​​taking the rocket launch capability into his own hands. Anyway, he is worth tens of billions of dollars now. After acquiring a commercial rocket launcher, he can achieve one-stop service for space activities, and even if the rocket loses money, he can earn back from the satellite. Yang Xing saw a report in his previous life. Although the maritime launcher launched more than 20 times and failed rockets, only three or four times, when the launch failed in 2007, the rocket itself exploded, not only destroying the launch satellite and losing a lot of money, but also causing damage to the launch platform. It took more than a year to repair it and suffered heavy losses.

In addition, the marine launch company has been on the verge of losing money and has not met investors' expectations. The main reason is that the company is proud of its low launch cost advantage, which has encountered considerable challenges. In 1999, the European Ariana-5 rocket was put into commercial use, marking that there was a strong competitor in the international large-thrust rocket market. After the Russian economy recovered, in order to make up for the gap in domestic aerospace fund allocation, it even lowered the price of rocket launch prices in the international aerospace launch market.

In order to open up the market, countries such as China and Japan have implemented a large number of subsidy measures to lower the price of rocket markets. They also provide aerospace engineering called "turnkey", that is, as long as customers make requests, satellite design, manufacturing and launching and after-sales services are all included in the country's aerospace agencies. In addition to the market, India, South Korea and other candidates have become major space powers who are eager to join. As a commercial rocket launcher, maritime launchers are inevitably unwilling to be in the face of national will and monopoly behavior.

After losing the most proud cost advantage, the maritime launcher also faced troubles with competitors that the company's technology was unsafe and the launch procedures were complicated. After all, the company's equity involves four or five countries. In order to keep it confidential, Russia and the United States have also fought against it. Although Boeing, the United States, is the company's major shareholder, due to its use of Russian and Ukrainian rocket technology, the US customs even prevented it from assembling in the United States on the grounds that it adopted intercontinental missile technology.

Later, after lobbying, although the United States relaxed restrictions on assembly of the rocket in the United States, according to US laws, the rocket was provided by Russia and Ukraine. The launch platform is produced in Norway and launched in international waters. It does not belong to the local rockets of the United States. The most profitable American satellite market, the maritime launching company, has no right to enter, and the maritime launching company has also made a lot of efforts to do this. It still hits walls everywhere, thus missing many large orders.

In 2007, the launch failed. Then it encountered a rare economic crisis in a century. The operation of the maritime launch company was in trouble. The president changed jobs and shareholders quarreled to withdraw funds. The international cooperation team was forced to break up. Boeing withdrew completely. In the end, it was taken over by another major shareholder, Russian Energy Rocket Aerospace, and then it took over by bankruptcy and reorganization. The maritime launch company became an authentic Russian company. Due to the competition from many domestic aerospace companies in Russia, its development prospects are still bleak.

In fact, the profits of the marine launch company are now below the cordon level. In addition, when the company was formed, the company received loans of up to 20 US dollars, half of which owed Boeing in the United States. The company was too optimistic about the commercial rocket market and did not consider the technical difficulty. The international commercial satellite launch price has not changed much in ten years, and inflation and other factors, the company is almost on the verge of bankruptcy. Even the company's president is not optimistic about the company's prospects and is preparing to switch to another private rocket company serving the NASA. Yang Xing believes that it is a good time to make an acquisition request now.

In addition, Yang Xing also has an idea, which is to use this method to improve the domestic satellite manufacturing and rocket launch capabilities. Although my country's aerospace industry is a typical example of independent development, Lao Guan was unable to keep up with the trend of the times after all. After the reform, the exchange opportunities of my country and Russia, Europe and the United States increased greatly, which was of great help to expand the horizons of aerospace personnel and improve their technical level. China's aerospace industry has also integrated into the world market and become a new player in the international rocket launch market.

That period was the honeymoon period of Sino-US aerospace cooperation. Although according to the US Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990-1991, Chinese rockets were not allowed to launch American satellites. However, there was another one attached, unless the president was exempted on the grounds of national interests. In business practice, from President Reagan's approval of cooperative launches, Presidents Bush and Clinton both approved the export of several US-made satellites launched by China's Long March rockets on the grounds of national interests.

Since the United States accounted for more than 75% of the world satellite market at that time, this cooperation provided great help for China to quickly understand the international market's demand for satellite and rocket launches. It successfully launched American satellites many times, especially when launching the first generation of Iridium, the orbit accuracy records created by the Long March rocket also made good advertising for China's aerospace industry.

However, in 1999, Sino-US relations took a sharp turn for the worse after the attack on the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Due to Yang Xing's appearance in this life, he also took the opportunity to set up an ambush and shoot down the US ace stealth bomber B-2 with high-tech microwave weapons, which made the US side fear the judgment of China's factual strength. However, in the investigation, how to improve the industrial technology quickly, the US side did not find the reason for the Soviet secrets, but instead thought that the Chinese stole the secrets of the US affairs, which would make the military technology leap.

The river of history has once again flowed into the same river. The (Cox Report) written by a far-right US congressman caused a sensation between the US Senate and the House of Representatives. This report slandered China's self-reliance and independent development of cutting-edge defense technologies and major science and technology related to the development of the national economy as stealing or illegally obtaining them from the United States. It specifically talked about the progress of China's nuclear weapons and aerospace industry that stole confidential proceeds from the United States.

As a result, Li Wenhe, a Chinese scientist working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States, was wrongly imprisoned. In the same year, the United States passed the National Defense Authorization Act for the 1999 Fiscal Year, including satellites and related parts on the US product list and added more restrictions to the president's exemption. Although the president's exemption channels remain, the United States has not issued a new export license for commercial satellites and their parts to China for 14 years.

This has resulted in the fact that any satellite has almost a screw produced by the United States that cannot be launched with Chinese rockets. This practice has caused both sides to lose both countries. American satellites have lost the advantage of using low-cost Chinese rocket launches, and have also closed the door for Chinese companies to purchase American satellites. Although China is locked outside the gate of international commercial rocket launches, its arrogant approach to locking the country has also caused the US satellite market share to shrink sharply, and now it only accounts for about 25%.

China also suffered a lot of losses. From 2000 to 2005 in its previous life, the Long March Rockets were actually excluded from the international market. After all, the United States has the most developed aerospace technology, and international commercial satellites do not use American parts at all. Fortunately, Europe and Russia seized the opportunity and launched a large number of new satellites with their own technology, which allowed the Long March Rockets to return to the international market, but the order quantity is still much worse than before.

Yang Xing considers that the second generation of Iridium uses a large amount of American technology, so he will definitely not be able to launch it with the Long March rocket. After acquiring the maritime launch company, he can not only learn about the latest rocket technologies of the United States and Russia, but also legitimately use the maritime launch company rockets to access some confidential information about today's satellite technology in the future. Moreover, the maritime rocket launch platform itself is the crystallization of high-tech technology, and a lot of valuable technical data can be obtained from this.

For example, a large offshore floating platform that can erect a 60-meter rocket was originally a Norwegian offshore oil drilling platform that could achieve unmanned operation. Yang Xing's rocket explosion in his previous life did not have any casualties, and it could be reused after a little repair. Yang Xing's company is developing a platform for exploiting oil in the deep seas such as the South China Sea and the East China Sea. This is a good engineering example and data source.

In addition, it is necessary to transport the Russian rockets from thousands of miles to the United States to assemble, and to ensure the successful launch. The logistics and transportation arrangements, overall planning and safety protection involved in this process can be used as reference for manufacturing in Tianjin in the future and transporting them to Wenchang, Hainan to launch the Long March 5 rocket by sea. The most important thing is that if Yang Xing acquires the marine launch company, it can also add to the image of Zhongxing's brand. At that time, the group will be a high-tech enterprise that can capture the moon in the top and catch turtles in the bottom and five oceans!

Thanks to Feng Ling for her reward and Yi Lan and Xinglei’s evaluation tickets. Each ticket is an encouragement to me!
Chapter completed!