This year, Musk's SpaceX has become the world's largest rocket launcher, with revenues of more than $2 billion.

In second place is the Joint Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Northrop Grumman, Ariane Space in Europe, Khrunichev in Russia, ISRO in India and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan.

The most competitive companies in the world are basically here.

Washington Hotel.

The press conference was held at 3 p.m. and 3 a.m. in North America.

Musk slept soundly, a rare good night's sleep, but this good sleep was disturbed, and a hurried phone call came in.

People of their status will have several numbers.

Many people know that ordinary numbers will choose to turn off when they are resting. A small number of one or two numbers will be turned on 24 hours a day, and the people who know are the most powerful cronies, or the most important partners, or close relatives.

Although he was disturbed, Musk did not get angry after opening his eyes, but rubbed his face to recover a little bit of energy before taking the phone.

"I'm Musk."

On the other end of the phone, an assistant's voice came: "President, Baichuan Guihai Space Company has just announced that they will sell a series of rocket-related businesses, including the world's largest launch center. In addition, their rocket performance far exceeds the rocket technology in our hands by 50%. ”

A simple sentence, but it shocked Musk's spirit.

He has been spending a lot of effort on space companies, and he can be said to be familiar with the global rocket launch, and he is also very familiar with Baichuan Guihai Space Company, and he also knows some insiders.

The strength of Baichuan Guihai Space Company is very perverted, launching more than 30 heavy carrier rockets at one time, and at the same time building the space-based weapons of Baichuan Guihai Group Company.

This kind of news, people of his level, naturally know.

When he first learned about the technology of Baichuan Guihai Space Company, Musk once felt extremely pressured.

But now, Baichuan Guihai Space Company is actually selling off the rocket manufacturing and rocket launch business?

was only stunned for a second, and Musk's first thought was the idea of taking this piece of fat off. If it gets the rocket manufacturing and rocket launch business, it will definitely be a qualitative leap for SpaceX.

"Immediately help me book a ticket to Huaxia and form a team of experts, I need to evaluate all this."

Without a hint of hesitation, Musk made a decision.

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At the same time, the United Launch Alliance also received this information as soon as possible.

The Joint Launch Alliance, a joint venture between the two giants, has a strong political background, and it has been responsible for the launch tasks of government departments and the Ministry of Defense with the approval of the Ministry of National Defense.

Although SpaceX has become the world's largest company in terms of revenue, it is naturally not enough to compare with the United Launch Alliance in terms of technological strength.

They still didn't react a little untimely to the piece of fat that Baichuan Guihai Space Company suddenly threw out, after all, Baichuan Guihai Space Company's strength is too strong, with a parent company with a valuation of tens of trillions of dollars, it is definitely rich and unmatched.

In terms of technology, the rocket manufacturing and launch technology of Baichuan Guihai Space Company should be the most cutting-edge in the world, on the surface they do not admit it, but in their hearts, they still acquiesce to the industry's No. 1 identity of Baichuan Guihai Space Company.

For a long time, the United Launch Alliance has not regarded Baichuan Guihai Space Company as a competitor, after all, the nature and scope of each other's business are different, and there is no competition.

It should be said that there will be no intersection between each other.

But......

Now it seems that it is obviously different, and Baichuan Guihai Space Company, who wants to sell the rocket business, has given them some new ideas. For example, in terms of performance, if they really surpass so much, if they can win these technologies, the impact will be difficult to estimate.

"Werner, I hope to take the business they sold off." At the first time, the vice president of Boeing called Werner, the president of the alliance.

"It's not just me, it's Lockheed Martin as well. It's not just rocket technology, think about it, what areas can be influenced? The vice president hinted.

Werner immediately replied, "I'll have the experts certify it right now." ”

"No, the Minister of Defense has just called, and he hopes that you can send a team of experts to confirm the other party's technology as soon as possible." The vice president of Boeing woke up: "There is news that SpaceX, as well as Ariane Space in Europe, have already taken action. ”

Werner frowned, competition means that the value is definitely high.

However, thinking about this mission, it seems that it has been separated from commercial business and brought some political elements. This means that it is possible that no matter how high the cost, I am afraid that these technologies will have to be mastered.

"I'll do it right away." Werner replied.

At dawn, the United Launch Alliance gathered its engineers together to study the data released by Baichuan Guihai Space Company.

At the same time, thirty rocket salvos from the previous Somali launch center were analyzed, and so on.

Somalia launch center, they have a lot of information in their hands, after all, the Somali launch center is already open. And among these materials, they, as insiders, are the most shocked by this kind of technical power.

The geographical location of Somalia does not allow for the establishment of a launch centre.

However, Baichuan Guihai Space Company has built the world's largest launch center here. This also shows that Baichuan Guihai Space Company has led the world in science and technology in this regard.

If these technologies are made breakthroughs, it means that launch centers can be built anywhere in the world.

That alone makes these technologies invaluable.

Space-based weapons in space, as top engineers of space companies, still know. The salvo of thirty heavy launch vehicles completed the construction of this huge space-based weapon in a few hours. The load-bearing capacity is very good and excellent.

In particular, they calculated the speed of these rockets, and found that the rockets still exceeded the speed of any rocket by more than 30% in the full load.

Don't underestimate this 30%, it is possible that in ten years, there is no way to get such a high improvement.

Moreover, the rocket of Baichuan Guihai Space Company has a stronger carrying capacity, and the specific data is not known, but it is not difficult to find from the module of the space-based weapon that the carrying capacity of the other party is very amazing.

The whole meeting lasted a full day.

There has also been a lot of speculation about the performance of the rocket, as well as why Baichuan Guihai Space Company would sell off the rocket launch business.

There are several conjecture results, such as Baichuan Guihai Space Company has a more reliable way of transportation. But through analysis, it seems unlikely, and at the moment humans are not able to replace the position of rockets.

With current technology, it's going to be hard for a hundred years.

In this way, why did Baichuan Guihai Space Company sell this business?

For these, I can't guess what happened.

The next day, the Ministry of National Defense once again sent a secret telegram requesting that the technology of the Baichuan Guihai Space Company be taken down, and the funds would be secretly funded by the Ministry of National Defense.

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The representatives who heard the sound were at least led by the vice president.

They led a team to appear in Handong City, and immediately put forward a request for identification technology to Baichuan Guihai Space Company. No matter how much the company brags, they still need to test the technology to see if it is the same as the published results.

Baichuan Guihai Space Company responded as soon as possible, and directly arranged for them to take a special plane to the Somali launch center on the same day for testing.

The company's headquarters in Handong City is just an office location, whether it is a rocket or a launch center, it is in Somalia.

Many companies, including Musk, waited three days before boarding a special plane to Somalia. Baichuan Guihai Group used some privileges to allow this plane to go directly to Somalia.

A dozen hours later, the plane arrived in Somalia.

Somalia, which does not have any air defense, naturally will not do anything to this special plane, plus the area around the launch center, all of which are in the hands of the Baichuan Guihai Group Company, so there is no need to worry about the safety of the special plane.

When they arrived at the sky above the launch center, although they had seen the launch center on the pictures, Musk's hearts were also shocked.

Thirty huge launchers towered over the ground, almost covering the ground.

Straight passages, wide and long, its main function is actually to facilitate the movement of rocket transporters.

Special planes land on these aisles, which are no less than the runways of airports, allowing special planes to take off and land easily.

Among the delegates who came this time were Europeans, polar bears, island nations, and even representatives sent by Ah San. And the wealthy Middle Eastern tyrants have also sent representatives, they are not short of money, what they lack is technology, in the past, these technologies were not sold by rich people, but now that they have the opportunity, of course they will not let go.

In fact, they all know or know each other, and when they get off the special plane, they all look at each other, and they can see the shock from each other.

Who would have thought that the Baichuan Guihai Space Company would silently and hide from the world to build such a huge launch center here?

The group came down, and the convoy here was already waiting.

"Your first stop will be the rocket factory under the launch center, where you will be in the laboratory to experience first-hand how great the rocket technology we have at our disposal."

"The second stop is in the launch center control tower, and there are also launch pads."

As the leader of the team, Li Yinghua gave an explanation.

In addition to the presidents and vice presidents of each company, the people who arrived this time were engineers. They are all real connoisseurs, so Lai Yinghua doesn't need much introduction, they will test it themselves.

This sale is an order from the head office, and even if Li Yinghua can't figure it out, it must be implemented.

The only thing that makes Li Yinghua feel pity is that this launch center, which is named the world's largest launch center, is no longer the pride of Chinese people.