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#294 - Deploy delivery drones and launch Starlink satellites!

After all, the material itself is a gamble. Many companies may spend billions of dollars on researching a material without any results.

But some companies, due to luck, choose the right direction and may only need a few million dollars in research funding to succeed.

Faced with this situation, who can those unlucky companies complain to?

However, after Gao Nian's material science skill reached the Grandmaster level, he gained a special skill: 'Material Intuition'.

Under the subtle assistance of intuition, he can know which research direction is correct, which naturally avoids many detours.

The form it takes is that materials that might have cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars to develop can now be successfully developed with only a few million dollars.

So this is a super artifact, and it is also Gao Nian's second most satisfying skill after obtaining the special skill 'Mathematical Intuition' last time.

Of course, in addition to 'Material Intuition', Gao Nian is also very satisfied with the special skill 'Mechanical Intuition' obtained after his mechanical design skill reached the Grandmaster level.

The function of this 'Mechanical Intuition' is to assist Gao Nian in designing mechanical products, allowing him to perceive any shortcomings in the mechanical drawings designed by others or his own, thereby improving and optimizing them.

Of course, these special skills obtained are all instinctive intuition-type skills. While they can speed up the research and development progress, it is still somewhat extravagant to expect to complete the research and development in a short period.

After all, Gao Nian is also human, and it takes time to develop a technology.

However, the United States just wouldn't give Gao Nian time. While Gao Nian was working hard to build up a big move, the United States made another move.

On June 10, 2014, they officially released the Starlink program, announcing that the first batch of Starlink satellites would be officially launched and networked in half a year.

Obviously, this Starlink program is a super program targeting China's StarNet program.

Because according to the latest news they released, this Starlink program also plans to quickly launch 13,000 satellites in the early stage and 29,000 satellites in the mid-to-late stage.

In this situation, how can the United States' Starlink program not be targeting Geek Technology's StarNet program?

Moreover, what's even worse is that Space Exploration Company has mastered the first-stage rocket recovery technology, and the Falcon 9 launch only costs 60 million US dollars.

Finally, coupled with the fact that Starlink satellites are small satellites, theoretically, a maximum of 60 satellites can be launched simultaneously, which is naturally quite bad news for China.

After all, China has not mastered the recoverable rocket technology, and the cost of launching a rocket is quite high.

Therefore, before Geek Technology's Starship rocket is developed, the United States' Starlink program undoubtedly has a huge advantage.

It can be said that if Geek Technology now learns from them and launches a large number of StarNet satellites simultaneously in half a year,

Then it will undoubtedly be dragged down by severe financial pressure!

Of course, these are all future events.

The current Geek Technology, let alone the Starship using recoverable rocket technology, has not even completed the development of StarNet satellites.

Therefore, at present, neither recoverable rocket technology nor StarNet satellites, or even autonomous driving technology and 5G mobile communication technology,

have reached a mature and usable level, and even engineering experimental products have not appeared.

However, facing the aggressive United States, Geek Technology is not without any reaction.

This reaction is that Geek Technology has once again been injected with chicken blood, and many people have begun to increase their determination to work hard on research and development.

Many people even eat and live in Geek Technology's research and development department or cooperative research institutions. It can be said that everyone is doing their best.

In response, the only thing Geek Technology can give them is generous overtime pay and many delicacies, so that they can concentrate on research and development.

Of course, there was also a happy event during this period.

This happy event is that Geek Technology and DJI Drone Company have reached a strategic cooperation.

This strategic cooperation is that Geek Technology will cooperate with DJI Drone Company to establish a company called 'Geek Drone'.

The main purpose of this Geek Drone company is to develop a delivery drone and a drone delivery system. Originally, DJI Drone Company didn't really want to cooperate with Geek Technology.

But when Geek Technology stated that if DJI Drone Company did not cooperate, Geek Technology would develop its own drones and enter the drone field.

Faced with the huge threat from Geek Technology, DJI Drone Company still chose to bow its head and share the profits with Geek Technology.

Instead of pushing Geek Technology to the opposite side and becoming a strong competitor to DJI Drone Company, the joint venture company of both parties, Geek Drone Company, was formally established.

The company mainly responsible for funding is naturally Geek Technology. DJI Drone Company is responsible for providing technical patent authorization and providing relevant core R\u0026D talents.

As for the profit share, Geek Technology is responsible for the bulk of the funding, and the research and development funding is mainly provided by Geek Technology.

Therefore, Geek Technology's shareholding ratio is very high, reaching absolute control, with a shareholding ratio of 70%.

As for whether DJI Drone Company has any opinions, they naturally have no opinions.

After all, compared to fighting with Geek Technology, it is better to cooperate with Geek Technology to jointly divide the profits of the global drone market.

Therefore, DJI Drone Company finally cooperated with Geek Technology, and Geek Delivery Drone officially entered the research and development stage.

And time passed slowly like this, and in the blink of an eye, the lively year of 2014 passed, and time quietly came to 2015.

When time came to March 15, 2015, a rather bad event happened to Geek Technology and even China.

This event is that Musk's Space Exploration Company officially announced to the public that it will officially launch the first batch of 50 Starlink satellites on March 20, 2015!

Among them, according to the news released by Space Exploration Company, these Starlink satellites are small satellites with a lifespan of 5 to 7 years.

It weighs 260 kilograms and has two solar panels. After unfolding, the total area of the satellite is 4 meters long and 1.8 meters wide.

Also, because the weight is very low, the number of Starlink satellites to be launched this time is quite large, reaching an astonishing 50!