Chapter 1526: Beidou Rising

This is really a difficult decision.
Although China is engaged in such a large national project, the costs in all aspects will be much cheaper than that of the Americans, but no matter how you save it, this must be a costly project, at least tens of billions of yuan in advance. Investment is indispensable, and because Huaxia lags behind the United States in many basic areas involved in the system, and the current international environment determines that it is difficult for Huaxia to get enough help from the outside, which determines that Huaxia must learn from the most basic theories. It is possible to finally complete the construction of this system after starting from various aspects such as materials, components, sub-systems, etc., and comprehensively improve its own level. This will be a span of more than ten years or even decades. Long-term projects, and project builders are more likely to span several generations!
"I have a request and a suggestion." Tan Zhenhua said solemnly: "I request that at the beginning of China's global satellite positioning system, a framework for the parallel development of military and civilian lines should be determined, and the system should be defined as China's civilian use. The statutory standards of the navigation system are operated by a specially established company, so that huge investments can be turned into a source of future profits."
Minister Zhang hesitated and replied: "Dr. Tan, this point coincides with our idea. Judging from the actual operation results of the US GPS system, both the economic and social benefits are huge, and After internal discussions, our Aerospace Department believes that in addition to investing capital, we need to mobilize many of your companies to participate in this project in various fields such as microelectronics, carbon fiber, photoelectric conversion, and precision processing. The combination of these factors is the fundamental reason why we invited you to participate in this seminar today, so we have discussed and hope to form this company with you. Our Aerospace Department and you each hold 50% of the equity, you see how is it?"
Tan Zhenhua thought for a while and asked: "What about the registered capital?"
"3 billion yuan, but our aerospace department can't come up with 1.5 billion in cash, so we can only convert the space, personnel and infrastructure into a part of the equity investment."
When Minister Zhang said this, he seemed a little lacking in confidence.
Tan Zhenhua nodded and smiled and said:
It’s okay. I invested 1.5 billion yuan in cash. Subordinate companies will also fully support the scientific research work of all subsystems and parts required for this project. If the money is not enough, I will Low-interest loans continue to provide financing assistance to this company. Of course, I also request that after the success of the project, the intellectual property rights of the civilian part of our global satellite positioning system of China Xia will belong to this joint venture company and follow the principles of marketization. To distribute future benefits."
As soon as he said this, Minister Zhang was obviously relieved. After all, this is a project that requires others to spend 1.5 billion yuan in real money. Although I heard that Dr. Tan is very willing to invest in the development of China’s high-tech, he really wants others With so much money out in one go, he was still beating in his heart.
Now that the general direction is certain, a big rock in Minister Zhang's heart finally fell to the ground, and the whole person inevitably relaxed a lot, even with some smiles on his face, no longer the seriousness he was just now, he thought about it and asked, "Tan The doctor’s request is considered approved by us, so what about the suggestions you just mentioned?"
"I would like to suggest that our global satellite navigation system of China should be named Beidou."
"Beidou?"
Minister Mo only thought slightly and was the first to praise: "Good name, I agree!"
"I agree!"
"I agree!"
Chen Fangyun stood up a little excitedly and said, "With Dr. Tan's participation, I believe that our Beidou system will definitely become a beautiful constellation in the sky that guides us!"
Tan Zhenhua also stood up and said, "Minister Zhang, Minister Mo, and Old Chen, please rest assured, I will definitely work hard with everyone."
"We all believe in you." Minister Zhang sighed, and then turned to Chen Fangyun: "Academician Chen, now that the problem of project development and funding needs has been solved, then you will tell Dr. Tan that we will The main technical difficulties we are facing, we will work together to take advantage of this rare opportunity today to set the development outline of the project."
"Okay!" Chen Fangyun replied nonchalantly: "Next, let me introduce the composition of the entire system and the key technical difficulties that need to be broken through. Well, let's start with the most difficult and most complex ones. In the GPS system, the most important point is time consistency, because all position information needs to be solved by time coefficients, and to ensure the consistency of this time, we need a special timing system with minimal error— -Atomic clocks. At present, cesium atomic clocks are commonly used in advanced countries in the world, and their error can reach 20 million years and an error of 1 second..."
The meeting has entered the stage of special technical plan discussion and has been open for a long time. Among the key technologies identified, the enterprises under Tan Zhenhua are specifically responsible for tackling key issues: manufacturing equipment for high-precision mechanical parts for satellites, and high modulus. The development of carbon fiber for satellites, the development of high-efficiency and space environment adaptability solar panels, the development of chip-level civilian-level satellite signal receiving devices and related algorithms, and many other topics. The meeting also determined a time schedule. In this table The above clearly stated that the first set of system verification "Double Star System" and "Beidou One Constellation" will be put into testing within 5 years!
Tan Zhenhua clearly remembers that in his previous life, the first and second satellites of China’s
Beidou
system were launched in 2000, but it was not until 2003 that the third satellite was launched and completed the
2+ 1" The network of two working stars + one backup star officially started the verification of system engineering. Later, it was greatly fooled by the European
Galileo
project, which wasted 230 million euros and Nearly 4 years. The first star of the "Beidou II Constellation" that can truly provide commercial services is already in 2007.
The progress of participating in the European "Galileo" project can be described by the term "big pit"-the EU first flicked China into their "Galileo" project in 2003, and China temporarily suspended the domestic "Beidou" for this reason. The project, wholeheartedly joined the European project, and in accordance with the contract, paid 230 million euros in time for the project’s apportionment of funds, but as soon as the money was received, the Europeans immediately turned their faces and declared that the plan would be "privately" in nature and nationalized In fact, Huaxia was excluded from the core plan of the project. In 2006, the EU finally tore up the agreement completely, completely ruling out the possibility of Huaxia continuing to participate in the plan. Huaxia’s previous investment did not receive any return at all!
As a last resort, at that time, China had to restart the "Beidou" and launched a "life and death" time race with the EU!