What about spacex technology, Zhihu?

From pioneer to pioneer, from 2002, it lasted 18 years; From the first rocket flight to the first manned flight, it has been 14 years since 2006; It's been 10 years since 20 10, from a space rookie to a space elder brother to a space pioneer.

Space exploration technology company has developed from a pioneer company to the most innovative and subversive pioneer giant in the global space industry. Its span, difficulty, speed and iteration are daunting.

Space exploration technology company not only climbed to the peak in building rockets, but also created a miracle in IT technology, integrating cutting-edge IT into building rockets. For example, in the early days of the space exploration technology company, Musk actually completed this multi-billion-dollar project with only 26,000 RMB and hundreds of thousands of lines of C++ and Python code.

Why can space exploration technology companies achieve such a low cost? This depends partly on the recovery of the rocket and partly on the cost of the rocket itself.

With the cpu and c++ language with a unit price of more than 400 yuan, 90% of other rockets were defeated. They use ancient specific programming languages (specially designed for rockets), such as NASA. Although their technology is advanced, the cost is prohibitive. Now NASA has signed a long-term contract with Space Exploration Technologies.

Besides c++, the core code is js. It can be said that it is very shocking for the front-end students to build the operation panel of space exploration technology company by using electronics through node.js Usually, the general framework has been applied to rockets. Maybe one day you can build rockets instead of interviewing for them.

At present, Space Exploration Technology Company has 8,000 employees, with a market valuation of 50 billion US dollars, accounting for more than half of the number of launches in the United States and nearly half of the global launch load. It spans the entire aerospace industry chain, has the ability to reuse and recycle many times, has the strongest rocket in active service, operates the most satellites in orbit, is in charge of the world's only commercial manned spacecraft, lays out the world's largest giant constellation, develops the strongest spacecraft in the future, builds a trip to the moon, and aims at colonizing Mars ... To some extent, the space empire of Space Exploration Technology Company has begun to take shape.

Maybe one day we can follow Musk to live on Mars.

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