Geely can also build rockets, and Li Shufu will become China Iron Man?

Recently, a recruitment inspiration from Geely caused a sensation on the Internet.

Yes, Geely Automobile, Zhejiang Geely Automobile, has bought Volvo's Geely Automobile and is recruiting rocket research and development personnel.

From the recruitment revelation, we can see that Yudao Space-Time Company is recruiting people, including the chief engineer of the rocket and the engineers of each subsystem. However, in the subsequent recruitment revelation, the position of rocket chief engineer has been revoked, while the position of satellite remains unchanged.

Space-time fishway is a first-class emerging strategic subsidiary of Geely Science and Technology Group, referred to as Geely Satellite. The company is mainly responsible for the establishment, operation and maintenance of Geely's global future travel constellation system, with its own satellite constellation as the core, and the layout of heaven and earth integration solutions to serve the future travel ecology of mankind.

Geely officially announced that the first two low-orbit satellites independently designed by Yudao Space-Time have passed various appraisal tests and tests, and are expected to be launched in 2020. The layout of LEO satellite will provide high-precision positioning service for high-level intelligent driving, and comprehensively enhance users' intelligent travel experience. At the same time, it is planned to start the verification of the world's first commercial LEO navigation enhancement system in 2020. All the core technologies of the space segment, the ground segment and the application segment of this commercial system are completely autonomous and controllable.

In addition to Tesla of American Iron Man Musk, there will be a company that makes both cars and satellites.

On 20 15, Space Exploration Technology Company, a space exploration company in Musk, USA, formally proposed the Star Chain Constellation Plan. The so-called star chain project is a constellation composed of satellites that can be linked to each other in space, providing 5G-level high-speed Internet services for the whole world.

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Space exploration technology company's star chain plan is divided into three stages:

Step 1: Complete the initial coverage with 1600 satellites.

Step 2: Complete the global networking with 2825 satellites.

Step 3: Use 75 18 satellites to form a more radical Leo constellation.

After the completion of the three-step satellite chain plan, two huge satellite constellations will be formed in low earth orbit. The inner layer 75 18 satellite with an orbital height of 340 kilometers and the outer layer 4425 satellite with an orbital height of 1 1943 satellite will be formed.

2065438+On February 22nd, 2008, the first two satellites of the Star Chain Project were launched.

In addition to satellites, space exploration technology companies have their own rockets. In 2002, Space Exploration Technology Company launched the Falcon rocket program. After four years' efforts and a cost of 90 million US dollars, on March 24th, 2006, Falcon 1 launched a satellite of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency into the sky. Although the first launch ended in failure, space exploration technology company broke the monopoly of the United Launch Alliance on the US military space launch mission and obtained a large number of launch orders.

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2065438+On May 24th, 2009, Space Exploration Technology Company used its Falcon 9 rocket to launch 60 satellites planned by the Star Chain at a time.

Since its establishment, Space Exploration Technology Company has become an important contractor of American military space launch, and the Star Chain project is also in full swing. As for Tesla, another company of Iron Man, it is closely related to China people. Tesla mode of Shanghai super factory? Now booking a car has been scheduled for May. It is said that the domestic Model3 may further reduce the price to 220,000, which is the rhythm that makes autonomous pure electric vehicles have no way to go.

The valuation of Rocket+Automobile and Space Exploration Technology Company has exceeded $36 billion, and the market value of Tesla has reached $65.438+037387 billion.

It can be said that the American Iron Man has run very far.

Back to China Geely, the current market value of Geely Automobile is HK$ 65.438+003.679 billion. In the past 20 19 years, Geely Automobile sold a total of 1362000 vehicles. Geely, Link and Geometry have developed at the same frequency, while cars, SUVs and MPVs go hand in hand. Among them, the sales volume of Geely brand terminals was basically the same as last year, and it remained the first brand in China for three consecutive years; Link brand has achieved success, with terminal sales increasing by 29% year-on-year.

In the past five years, Geely Automobile has achieved a compound growth rate of 30%, becoming the first brand in China and the first camp in the automobile industry. In 2020, the cumulative sales of Geely Automobile1-February ranked third, with a market share of 7.3%, reaching the highest level in history.

Geely has made great achievements in the automotive field and has also begun to enter the aerospace field. With the support of its huge car users, Geely's first step into the space industry is to provide navigation services in combination with its own car products. Li Shufu once said that in the world of the Internet of Everything, the future means of transportation must be a smart space mobile terminal with high integration of online and offline. Geely will gradually realize the transformation to the future travel technology group through satellite communication network, satellite data application and high-precision space-time service.

Online navigation is only the first step, and driverless driving is the application scenario that Geely values. In addition to unmanned driving, the country's opening to commercial aerospace has also brought huge market demand.

20 14 "Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Innovating Investment and Financing Mechanisms in Key Areas to Encourage Social Investment" puts forward: "Encourage private capital to develop, launch and operate commercial remote sensing satellites and provide market-oriented and professional services". China's private space industry started.

Morgan Stanley predicts that the scale of aerospace industry will increase from $350 billion in 20 16 to more than $ 1. 1 trillion in 2040, and half of this growth will come from new internet satellites. According to the aerospace report 20 19, commercial aerospace products and services created a value of $229,654,387 billion in 20 18, while related infrastructure and supporting industries created a revenue of $99.69 billion.

Geely's recruitment not only laid out satellite navigation, but also saw the layout of launch vehicles from the fleeting position of rocket chief engineer. It can be said that Li Shufu's ambition in the future is not only to provide navigation services for automobiles or other commercial applications, but also to become an all-round commercial launch and application provider like Musk and the Iron Man in China.

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