The first question from the Space Administration made Jing Jian laugh and cry: "Mr. Jing, you just said that most of it is domestic funds. We want to ask, are you paying US dollars or RMB?"

During this period, foreign exchange investment is the most important thing, and the attractiveness of the RMB is far less than that of today.

However, such a question is not a problem for Jing Jian at all: "What you are asking is - it is best to pay by foreign exchange, right?"

"Yes, that's it."

"Forex is available. But do you have any explanation?"

"We have internal regulations that at least 50% of foreign exchange payments are required. If the foreign exchange is used in full, then there is a discount."

"Then let's get the full foreign exchange!" Jing Jian didn't want to worry about these details. At present, those astronauts are living a very miserable life, so just earn more bonuses for them!

But how much bonus do these people have? That's quite pitiful. Just a few years ago, the Long March 2 E Yao Er Arrow failed to launch the Ao Star B1, which was an emergency shutdown and on-site rescue on the launch platform. Later, they pursued responsibility and prepared to deduct the bonuses of the main staff. But their previous bonuses for successful launches were only a few dozen yuan? You read that right, only a few dozen yuan, and now it's a few packs of takeout lunches! How can I deduct it? In the end, I can only deduct a little bit of it symbolically.

Even the leaders couldn't bear to start. The income of these astronauts was too low.

Immediately afterwards, Jing Jian began to ask about the details: "Do you have any models that you can recommend? It doesn't need very detailed ones, because I don't know much about satellite technology. Technical indicators must require the recognition of experts from both sides. They are just a general scope, mainly for budget considerations. You should be able to understand that this is not a small amount of funds, but still needs to be raised."

Lu Jie and the others nodded, and then introduced to Jing Jian: "This is Liu Gaogong and Li Gaogong. They are all technical experts. Director Yuan is the person in charge of our foreign business department, and he is more familiar with the price."

So these people began to introduce in detail. There were other staff members to add. I won’t go into details about the specific technical details here, even Jing Jian could only understand it. In the end, Jing Jian summarized what he was concerned about:

Such communication relay satellites can also be produced in China, but the Space Administration mainly recommends models produced in the United States, or artificial satellites produced by the famous Hughes Company.

Mr. Hughes is a legend. He is a famous entrepreneur, inventor, film director and... Playboy. He sleeps in the flowers all his life. The most famous story is to propose to Elizabeth Taylor. The kind of playboy who jokes about giving $1 million in engagement money.

At that time, $1 million was a huge amount of money. So when Elizabeth Taylor's mother heard this, she blurted out and asked, "Before or after tax?"

Later, "The Flyer" was a biopic of Mr. Hughes, the movie starring Leonardo. Anyway, he was a legend all his life. In his later years, he even bought all the bar license plates of the young lady dancing in Las Vegas without clothes. He was so scared that he applied for a court order to prohibit his absurd behavior. Of course, in his later years, his nerves were already a little abnormal.

Because of this, Jing Jian has a nickname in the United States - Hughes of China. It is because the two of them have similar experiences. They are both rich people, directors and... playboys.

In the end, Mr. Hughes had no descendants to inherit the inheritance, so all the inheritance was the Hughes company, and all other money was donated to the medical center. The Hughes company is also an important military-industrial enterprise in the United States. Its best practice is aerospace technology, and it has a large share in the world's artificial satellite market.

Because of this, Hughes's artificial satellites are quite advanced, while domestically produced ones can be lagging behind.

Let’s compare it like this. Although the domestic satellite price is only 70% or 80% of that of Hughes, its performance can only reach one-third of that of Hughes, and its service life is only barely two-thirds.

In other words, a Hughes satellite is equivalent to 4.5 domestic satellites. Even with other aspects, the gap will be even wider!

Look at such cost-effectiveness. As long as your head is not clamped by a door, you will definitely choose Hughes. So those astronauts are helpless. It’s not that they don’t want to recommend domestic satellites, but that they have no choice at all. There is no need to be a little fake when they come up with technical problems. If it’s OK, it’s OK, but if it’s not OK, it’s not OK. But this thing is in space and there’s no way to launch it.

Therefore, after the introduction, Lu Jie and the others waited for Jing Jian to make a decision. Jing Jian thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "Then consider domestic satellites!"

“???”

Everyone on the other side was confused. What was the situation? Did Mr. Jing really get his head clamped by the door?

In fact, the reason is not complicated. Of course, Jing Jian is willing to use cost-effective satellites, but he can't choose them at all?

Because Jing Jian happened to understand this history. In the 1990s, Sino-US cooperation in launching satellites became a failure. It was not a political factor, but a technical blockade problem.

In the next few years, it will be the miserable years for Chinese astronauts. In addition to the failed Australian Star launch, there will be also happening--the failure of the Long March 2E launch of Apstar-2; the failure of the Long March 3B launch of Intelsat-708; and the failure of the Long March 3 launch of Zhongxing 7. Among them, Zhongxing 7 was also purchased from Hughes.

With such a high failure rate, the final analysis of the reason was left unresolved. It was just a news announcement: "After joint investigation by experts, it was not the reason of China or the United States..."

This has become a joke. It has not become a cause. Was it the painless people who did it?

According to the rumor that has been circulating, it is speculated that it is the mutual interference between China's rocket control system and the US satellite control system. However, due to the United States' technology blockade of China, they refuse to provide these key data.

So, Jing Jian was also helpless!

No matter how cost-effective it is, it must be launched into the sky, right? If the launch fails all the time, although there are insurance companies, do you think this kind of thing is bad? How can you advertise?

On the contrary, domestic satellites do not have such signal compatibility problems. As long as they can be successfully launched, it will be more expensive!

Jing Jian no longer considers that little money now. As long as this business plan is feasible, it is nothing more than a matter of how much money it makes. So his choice, in the eyes of people at that time, seemed particularly incredible.
Chapter completed!