Free Web NovelChapter 1397: Chapter 664: Spaceship is the Main Business_2
Additionally, there is the issue of opening up space routes to other national agencies.
Although we’re only preparing for individual negotiations at the moment and even if we do have orders, they’re very few, Yixing Company must be ready.
Opening space routes for market operation is very advantageous for Yixing Company because the Z-wave satellites are manufactured by Yixing, and even though they are owned by the nation, not the Aerospace Bureau, they share equal rights with the Bureau.
For instance, if an agency pays one hundred million yuan to use a space route, Yixing Company could receive at least forty million yuan or more.
This money is essentially free because the Z-wave satellites that hang in space maintain their consumption of transmitting solar energy whether they’re used or not.
From Yixing Company’s perspective, they would definitely hope to thoroughly open the space routes and enter market operation, which could also increase the company’s influence.
"In the future, space routes will be very important,"
the head of the satellite department, Liang Lihua, summarized, "The procurement cost of the navigation satellites we’re launching now is around two billion yuan, and if you add the launch cost, patents, and the consumption of transmitting solar energy, the total cost is around three billion yuan."
"Theoretically, these satellites can be used more than five hundred times and serve for over thirty years. Yet, our frequency of use is very low. Up to now, they’ve only been used twice. You could say it’s a direct loss."
"If we can open the space routes, other agencies will use them and pay the related fees. Each usage will bring in fees of at least three hundred million yuan or even more, and we could earn at least one hundred million yuan from each one." frёewebnoѵēl.com
"As long as other agencies use it more than twenty times, we could recoup our costs."
"Therefore, I believe that under the current trend, we need to plan other launch programs, particularly the orbits around Earth, where we must have at least three navigation satellites,"
Liang Lihua offered her suggestion, prompting other meeting participants to start their discussion.
Zhao Yi didn’t make any targeted comments. Strategic issues like this within the company are always discussed together, unless there’s the emergence of new technology, in which case he would take the initiative in decision-making.
Obviously,
the planning of the navigation satellite launches is to monopolize the routes from Earth to the outside world, looking ahead to the future.
If there are three high-powered Z-wave satellites hanging in space, all belonging to Yixing Company, it’s obvious that neither the national level nor other domestic agencies would launch new satellites.
Other agencies would have no choice but to use Yixing’s satellites.
This is equivalent to a monopoly.
However, monopolizing their own cutting-edge technology for some time is not an issue, and there’s no need to worry about it.
Furthermore, satellite ownership belongs to the nation, and Yixing Company is also a state-owned company, which to a certain extent is equivalent to creating benefits for the nation and driving economic development.
In the future competition of space domains, Yixing Company holds the initiative, and the space routes are indeed a new market.
To understand the benefits of these routes is actually quite easy; space routes are like roads, and Yixing has built these roads, so it’s only natural to charge for their use.
If only Yixing’s vehicles travel these roads, then the roads are directly at a loss. It’s only when other vehicles use them that economic benefits are created.
After discussing the future strategy, Zhao Yi shared his thoughts, "After we complete the Mars exploration mission, we need to continue advancing in the field of space exploration. The direction, as everyone knows, is that we will certainly go further."
"What is the next step? I believe our focus should be on the wider universe."
The others sat up straight, knowing that an important point was coming.
"With our current Z-wave technology, we can’t conduct safe detection at very long distances, and the distances within the universe are measured in light-years."
"We don’t need to send astronauts to other star systems for the time being, but with our technology, we can send probes to other star systems, even if they encounter dangers halfway."
"This is certainly a massive project, and the first issue to resolve is the power of the space route satellites. I’ve done some rough calculations; to send probes to neighboring star systems, we need to increase the power of the satellites by at least thirty-fold or more."
"Clearly, Earth’s orbit doesn’t meet this requirement."
Zhao Yi paused after finishing.
The R&D manager, Zhang Kai, immediately caught on, "You mean—" he pointed up at the sky, surprised, "the Moon!"
"Exactly!"
Zhao Yi gave him an approving look and said with a smile, "I think building a base on the Moon is an excellent choice. The only concern is the investment fund."
This huge project requires a lot of capital, conservatively estimated to exceed a hundred billion yuan, but compared to building a Lunar Base, even a hundred billion doesn’t seem like much.
Yixing Unlimited Power Company’s profit for the next year is projected to be at least one hundred billion yuan, and constructing a Lunar Base is only a plan. Before actually building the base, it will undoubtedly take a long time to overcome various technical challenges.
The current dilemma is that Yixing Technology has no profit point.
Yixing Unlimited Power also belongs to ’Yixing Group’, a company that branched off from Yixing Technology, but as Yixing Technology is focused on aerospace research and development, it must also generate revenue rather than continue massive, never-ending investments.
