The failure of Kunpeng No. 1 did not cause much trouble in Long Jianhua's mind.

The goal is clear. That is, you must break through the first cosmic speed and go outside the earth to move for a few days.

The process is guaranteed. It is not short of money. It has one of the world's best research teams, united and enthusiastic.

Therefore, in summarizing the experience of this failure, Kunpeng 2 was launched on March 20, 2008 and successfully landed at the scheduled location 7 days later, truly achieving a safe landing, laying the foundation for the manufacturing of spacecraft that can be used multiple times.

At the celebration dinner where the launch was successful, Qin Wenbo came to Long Jianhua with a glass of wine, "Mr. Long, I think I can openly launch the next plan."

Long Jianhua nodded, "It depends on you."

Liu Zhifei looked at the two of them for no reason, "What's the next plan to be revealed? It's a slander of the world?"

Long Jianhua laughed and said, "Actually, this is just one of our process products. Our ultimate goal is to recycle rockets."

Qin Wenbo added with a smile, "We two have named the recyclable rocket "Canglong". The launch cost of the space shuttle is too high, with flight costs exceeding 500 million US dollars. If we switch to recyclable rockets, the cost will be greatly reduced."

"When we were studying this product, we were actually accumulating and demonstrating recyclable rocket technology. According to current forecasts, the cost of manufacturing the "Canglong" will not exceed US$100 million. Even if we only fly 5 times, the cost of such a spacecraft will only be RMB20 million. There will be inspection and renovation costs in the middle, but it will not exceed US$5 million. In this way, the cost of such a spacecraft will be only 5%."

Liu Zhifei was stunned for two seconds before laughing, "Your heart is really big. Isn't there a company in the United States also studying this? It's been almost six years, and I haven't seen any results that can be achieved."

Qin Wenbo laughed and said, "They are them, we are us. If they don't do it, it doesn't mean we can't do it. The success of suborbitals and the success of spacecraft are all the basis for our next step."

"In terms of financial security, they are far inferior to us; in terms of personnel, they only have 260 people, which is even worse than us. Although they have the support of the US government, we have a complete set of technical foundations."

"It can be said that no matter what aspect, he can't compare to Chongshi. He has solar energy, Chongshi products are better than him, occupying 40% of the world's market; he has electric vehicles, but he is far inferior to Chongshi Group, otherwise he can't follow him honestly, and his market share is less than half of Chongshi's; let alone software, Chongshi's largest software, Chongshi accounts for 80%."

Liu Zhifei smiled pursed her lips, "They have an online shopping website, but I haven't."

Qin Wenbo shook his head, "That's why Mr. Long doesn't want to make that money, otherwise he will have his share? Whether it's technology, big data, websites, not to mention logistics, just start a platform like that and surpass him in minutes."

This is the truth. Long Jianhua doesn’t want to run such a platform, but he just doesn’t want to compete with the common people for profit, and the situation seems too low.

Such a shopping platform has little contribution to the society in general, but it only incorporates the work of ordinary people into their own business, so that they can conquer more money. Moreover, after they do this, it will make more middle-class living standards decline and making money for low-income people more difficult.

That company, Long Jianhua and others saw its establishment and development, and never regarded it as an opponent in the aerospace field.

But it has to be said that its founder is very financially talented and can attract a lot of money; he also has his unique vision in the direction of technological development, and can make entering space - and exploring space at a low cost. However, his opponent is Long Jianhua, a management master, a two-time Nobel Prize winner, and a very rich person. So in the competition, that guy is always at a disadvantage.

When a software-based award-winning winner studies such a product, most people naturally believe in the latter. Therefore, even if the Chongshi Research Institute only announces its future goals to use rockets many times, most of the relevant talents in society are attracted by the Chongshi Research Institute. Now there are more than 3,000 scientific researchers in the Flight Industry Research Institute, while more than 900 people are dedicated to aerospace research.

This is the natural attraction, not comparable to money, not to mention that Chongshi Institute has never lacked money...

On April 15, Chongshi Group announced that its space tourism business will break through the first cosmic speed and expand to orbiting the ground, satisfying people's experience of the perfect weightlessness of 3 days, and at the same time set the price to $10 million per tourist.

A reporter immediately asked: This spacecraft can take 100 people, and it only costs 600,000 US dollars to fly in suborbitals, while it costs 10 million US dollars to fly around the ground. Why is the price difference so big?

The host responded to him: From the current operating costs, even if each person has a occupancy rate of 10 million US dollars and the attendance rate reaches half, the company is losing money, because the operating costs exceed 500 million US dollars. The reason for doing this is to satisfy some consumers' sense of weightlessness in the sky, and to provide relevant scientists with short-term scientific experiment opportunities. The third and most important is to arouse people's curiosity in exploring space, allowing more people to study space, and contribute to human beings' future out of space.

At the same time, he added that if the number of people riding in a country reaches 50, the tourism company will give the country five children under the age of 15 to ride the Kunpeng for free.

This response - especially the third point and the high level of the supplement, made the world public opinion enthusiastically respond, and praised the indelible role of Chongshi Group in its practice for human exploration.

When asked whether Kunpeng had only weightless experience and two nights of sleep in the sky, the host smiled and responded, "Not only can you play badminton, tennis, basketball, the Chongshi Institute will also prepare some simple scientific experimental projects for passengers to participate."

This response made the reporters imagine a lot of scenes.

A reporter asked, "When the Kunpeng test flight, it circled around the earth for 7 days. Why is the travel schedule only 3 days?"

The host laughed and said, "Safety is the first. Also, there is an old Chinese saying that "eat less and have more flavor". You can't do anything too much."

After hearing what he said, the venue burst into laughter with kindness.

Originally, Kunpeng 2 designed to fly around the earth for 7 days, but Long Jianhua believes that 7 days are too long: when you arrive in outer space, there is not much view of the scenery, only the starry sky and the earth, the sun and the moon in the distance will be boring, and it will give the latecomers a feeling that they are not worthy of their reputation. This trip is actually to hunt for curiosity and experience weightlessness different from the suborbital. As long as the ability of seven days is exerted for three days, there must be more guarantees in terms of safety performance.
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