Chapter 114: Nothing is impossible to trade as long as the price is right

Once it is linked to scores, the Chinese people’s unique college entrance examination PTSD will set in.

No matter whether it is linked to performance or not, I will get a high score, and at the very least it cannot be a single digit score.

The consequence is that light armor aerospace has made great progress in this area.

And considering that most of the recruits of Guangjia Aerospace are fresh graduates, unmarried, and mostly single science and engineering students, they can enter Guangjia Aerospace directly after graduation, and it is seamless and easy to roll up. Isn't it the same intensity in the laboratory before? What's the difference?

The single guys are rolling, and those who have girlfriends and families have to follow suit. Many of those who have girlfriends are dumped after just one quarter because they can't stand such a boring life even though they are working.

Lin Tianmin was in the apartment rented for them by Guangjia Aerospace, watching the video of Chen Yuanguang, who was wearing a gray coat and talking freely.

He always felt that Chen Yuanguang was a bit socially anxious. He never talked about anything unrelated to work in front of them and never cared about your situation other than work.

When it comes to work, Chen Yuanguang is extremely meticulous. He can clearly tell what each person's specific job is and what the recent progress is.

Lin Tianmin was one of the first employees of Guangjia Aerospace. When he joined, there were less than a hundred employees. It was not surprising that Chen Yuanguang could do it. Now there are a thousand employees, and Chen Yuanguang can still do it.

Because sometimes each group reserves a meeting room for classes, Chen Yuanguang will come if he is interested in the course. After listening to the discussion and occasionally talking about work, Chen Yuanguang will comment and give some suggestions.

It is these details around him that make Lin Tianmin sigh that Chen Yuanguang’s success is due to his superhuman memory and physical strength.

“To be honest, I’m not sure we can succeed. We have been exploring since we started to attract investment from Guangjia Aerospace.

Our recent transformation into a learning organization is also part of this exploration.

Judging from the current results, the effect is quite good.

I think this is a process of dynamic adjustment, making a plan - completing the plan - adjusting the plan based on the results. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

Yes, I am patient.”

Chen Yuanguang's voice echoed throughout the room through the iPad, and Lin Tianmin had the illusion of being back in the company office.

However, compared to in the company, Chen Yuanguang appears more passionate in the video. In the company, Chen Yuanguang is too rational, so rational that he lacks any emotion.

After the interview, Lin Jia took her two best friends to Xintiandi for dinner, but Chen Yuanguang didn't want to run away.

I have a nanny at home and I don’t have to do anything myself. It would be so nice to stay at home. Forget about having dinner with three women.

"Xiyin, you are becoming more and more proficient in the role of host." Lin Jia said with emotion in the western restaurant.

Li Xiyin smiled and said: "It's all the result of practice. At the beginning, I took our colleagues as interviewees and basically had to read the script word by word from the flashcards.

At that time, it was the World Labor Conference, and I interviewed the big guys on behalf of our company. From that time, I came up with the idea of ​​making a similar channel.”

Lin Jia said: "So it is difficult for everyone to predict what they will do in the future. For example, after we graduated from high school, I would never have thought that you would choose computer science as your major.

I never expected that you, who was full of science and engineering temperament in college, would now transform into a self-media person. "

Zhou Yaqi followed up, "Yes, we all thought you would choose finance like us."

Li Xiyin: "I have always found computers very interesting, including when we were in school, my favorite class was information science because I could learn some programming knowledge.

I’m not that interested in finance.”

Lin Jia said: “As a result, most of the content you create for your own media is related to finance.

This is a round and round process that always involves these aspects.”

Li Xiyin didn't want to discuss this topic any further. She said, "What do you think of today's interview?"

Lin Jia said, "Very good, I rarely see Yuan Guang talk so much in front of people he doesn't know well.

It seems he needs to be shown in front of the camera more often.”

Seeing her two best friends dressed up carefully, and seeing Li Xiyin and Chen Yuanguang talking happily, Lin Jia felt a sense of crisis and deliberately reminded them.

Li Xinyin naturally understood Lin Jia's subtext. She felt that Chen Yuanguang was very charming, and strength was part of his charm.

But Chen Yuanguang already has a boyfriend, and he is her best friend's boyfriend. She won't compete with him for him. She has the confidence and bottom line.

But she still wanted to tease Lin Jia: "It seems that I need to interact more with the God of Light and listen to more lessons from top entrepreneurs in the future."

Lin Jia's face changed slightly: "Yuan Guang is too busy. He will return to Pengcheng the day after tomorrow. Senior officials from the European Space Agency will come to Pengcheng the day after tomorrow. They will meet for the first time that evening."

Zhou Yaqi didn't mind snatching Chen Yuanguang from Lin Jia, but seeing that Lin Jia was so vigilant, she felt that she had no chance.

Seeing Lin Jia's big reaction, Li Xiyin quickly said, "I was just joking. I won't contact Chen Yuanguang without going through you."

"Speaking of the cooperation between Guangjia Aerospace and the European Space Agency, does this need to be kept confidential? Can it be broadcast on Bilibili?" Li Xinyin changed the subject.

Lin Jia's expression eased a little: "Okay, it's just an intention at the moment, and Guangjia Technology is the only company in the world that can provide human hibernation technology, so even if the news is announced, no other organization can snatch the order from us.

Our business department has recruited a lot of people from Huawei overseas, and they are now exploring the markets in South America and Southeast Asia. Many governments in these two places are willing to give us rocket launch orders.

We are still negotiating the price.

The advantage of Light Armor Aerospace is that it is cheap. Our price is one-third lower than that of SpaceX, which is still very attractive to some small countries. "

Li Xiyin then asked: "Can Guangjia Aerospace really reach a cooperation with the European Space Agency?
Compared with small countries, I think it’s hard to negotiate.”

Lin Jia said calmly, “It’s difficult to discuss, but the European Space Agency is very willing.

The people who came to Pengcheng to look for Yuanguang this time were Frank and Ulf, Frank Wenner and Ulf Merbold. "

Li Xiyin and Zhou Yaqi looked at each other, neither of them had heard of these two names.

Lin Jia didn't find it strange. It would be strange if they had heard of this name before. She also knew this person before the other party came:
“They are the former and current heads of the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Centre.

Wolf is a German. When he was young, he was an astronaut and the first West German to go into space.

Because he went into space when there was still East Germany.”

The Chinese are very sensitive about rank. Li Xiyin and Zhou Yaqi quickly calculated in their minds what rank of official the director of the Astronaut Center would be in China.

"It should be at the department level." Zhou Yaqi thought.

Lin Jia continued, "And Frank is the current head of the Astronaut Center, a Belgian."

Pengcheng, the distance from Cologne, Germany to Pengcheng, China is 1.6 kilometers. Frank and Wolf walked out of the plane, accompanied by two staff members.

"Oh, I heard that this is only their third largest city. China is very different from before." The white old man with gray hair started shouting as he entered the center of Pengcheng.

The old man was amazing.

"China has developed very quickly in recent years, including in the field of aerospace. I still remember when I was an astronaut on the International Space Station, our Galileo project was going to cooperate with China.

Later we did not cooperate, Galileo was not yet deployed, and the Chinese developed Beidou themselves, is that the name?

It has been running for several years." Frank, who has light hair and is not bald but has a little less hair, said with emotion.

He was also an astronaut before retiring from the army, or rather, a considerable number of staff members at the European Space Agency's Astronaut Center were former astronauts.

Because the Astronaut Center will take on the main responsibility for astronaut training.

Wolfe lived through the Cold War era and he also had deep feelings: "Yes, back then China was just an inconspicuous member of the big family, but now it has grown to the point where we have no choice but to cooperate with them."

Frank didn't discuss this topic too much: "We have to go to the hotel and prepare the materials. We will negotiate with Wright tonight."

Wulf nodded: "Okay."

"Hello, Dr. Wright, I'm Frank." Frank had a serious expression. "Ulf Merbold, Dr. Wright, thank you for your contribution during the epidemic." When Ulf mentioned his contribution, he smiled, and then quickly became serious again.

Chen Yuanguang felt that the atmosphere was very formal, but considering that the European Space Agency had even brought Wolf on board, it was normal to be formal.

Why do I say that? Because Wolf is already 80 years old, and this retired old man has been asked to make contributions by the European Space Agency.

"Hello, both of you. We are very willing to cooperate with the European Space Agency. However, in terms of this cooperation method, we hope that Guangjia Aerospace can provide transportation services."

"Although the more tests the better, and the test data from the International Space Station is very important to Light Armor Technology and Light Armor Aerospace, China also has its own space station." Chen Yuanguang went straight to the point.

It's good to have a big tree to lean on. If it were India, there would be no way for it to be so confident in saying that its country also has a space station.

But it can be said that it is nothing more than bragging and saying that we will have a space station within three years.

"Dr. Wright, I believe you also know that this is not something we can decide. We can only decide whether the European Space Agency should use human hibernation equipment in space.

As for the specific cargo transportation, NASA and RKA are in charge.”

RKA is Russia's space agency.

Chen Yuanguang nodded: "Yes, I know that NASA is the one that conducts the public bidding for cargo transportation to the International Space Station every year.

But it doesn't mean that only NASA can do this. The English Space Agency has also made its own tender for cargo transportation to the International Space Station.

This is the 2017 bidding notice." Chen Yuanguang handed the document to the other party.

The European Space Agency is a federation, and each European country also has its own space agency.

Although England has left the EU, it is still a member of the European Space Agency.

The information that Chen Yuanguang presented made Frank and Wolfe a little unsure about what to do with it.

I originally thought that negotiation was about discussing conditions. If I say no, then it’s no, and you have to find a way to give me bargaining chips so that I can do it.

The reason why the European side specifically asked Wolf to come all the way to China at the age of 80 was because of the training he received at NASA when he was an astronaut. Because of his identity as a physicist, he often gave lectures when he worked at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Many of his students at that time have become senior executives of NASA.

What Frank couldn't do, Wolfe could do, or knew how to do.

As a result, Chen Yuanguang did not play by the rules. *** had done the same thing before, so why can't you do the same?
Neither of them had seen this document before.

Frank and Ulf looked at each other and said, “We’ll look into it.

Also, just because you could do it in 2017 doesn’t mean you can do it today.

Dr. Wright, you need to understand that the logic of doing things in Europe has changed since 2022, and many previous rules may not apply today. "Frank reminded implicitly.

Chen Yuanguang nodded: "Mr. Frank, I understand what you mean. Geopolitics has a profound impact on international space cooperation.

But there is a lot of basis for cooperation between China and Europe.

We can totally work together.

Seeing that SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 have won most of the transportation orders to the International Space Station, doesn't the European Space Agency want to get a piece of the pie?
Don’t European commercial space companies want to be involved in this kind of business?”

Chen Yuanguang then bewitched: "The International Space Station is not only an American space station, it should also be a European space station."

Frank felt that what Chen Yuanguang said made sense. He had also heard this statement from many European Space Agency officials when he went to Paris for a meeting, including the Director General of the European Space Agency, Joseph Aschbach.

The problem is that this is not something that can be decided by the two of them, they are the heads of the Astronaut Center, not the ESA.

Even if Joseph Aschbach wanted to compete with NASA, it would not be easy to do.

"So what do you mean?"

Chen Yuanguang said: "We can cooperate, and Guangjia Aerospace's reusable rocket technology can be sold to the European Space Agency through technology transactions.

We need half of ESA’s space transport orders over the next decade.”

Seeing that Frank was unable to control the situation, Wolfe came to the rescue and said, “The content of this cooperation is beyond our scope of decision.

We will discuss this with Joseph when we return. We must first confirm whether Light Armor Technology is willing to sell us the latest generation of human hibernation equipment."

Chen Yuanguang said directly: "No problem, the condition is that Guangjia Aerospace will be responsible for space transportation."

Frank said, "What if it doesn't work?"

Chen Yuanguang said decisively: "Then we can only sell this set of equipment currently on the market."

Compared with the equipment on the market and the latest technology of Light Armor Technology, it is impossible to wake up the hibernator, and the only thing left is to wait for the hibernator to wake up on his own.

Frank didn't say anything. Compared to the hibernation equipment that was everywhere on the market, they were obviously more interested in the reusable rocket technology that Chen Yuanguang had just mentioned.

As technical bureaucrats, it is not an easy task for them to make a trip to Pengcheng. They have made sufficient preparations before and on the way.

We have a very clear understanding of the reusable rocket technology in the hands of Guangjia Aerospace. This technology is far inferior to that of SpaceX, but it is much better than the reusable rocket technology developed by Europe itself.

The Europeans' own reusable rocket has not even had its prototype launched into space. Spain's PLA Space company has previously attempted to launch a reusable rocket twice, but both attempts were aborted before launch because unsolvable problems were discovered.

Compared with Europe, where the space industry is stagnant, Light Armor Aerospace's technology is quite attractive.

Frank returned to the previous topic: "What if we give the space transportation order to Guangjia Aerospace?"

The first time he heard the name Light Armor Aerospace was during a meeting in Paris, when a Virgin Orbit executive who came to introduce the company mentioned some of the world's famous commercial airlines.

When the other party introduced Guangjia, he said that because of the founder, Wright Chen, this company is worth looking forward to.

Frank thought the name was so strange at the time. Is it just armor made of light?

Later, just as the other party expected, Guangjia Aerospace completed the research and development and launch of reusable rockets in just one year. Although the carrying capacity is still relatively small, at least the problem of whether or not it is available has been solved.

In contrast, Europe's space launch capability is in a sharp decline. With the retirement of the Ariane 5 launch vehicle, the failure of Virgin Orbit's Vega-C launch vehicle, and the cancellation of PLD Space's Miura 1 rocket launch, Europe is almost losing its space launch capability.

Against this backdrop, the success of our peers stands out.

Whenever Joseph went to Brussels for a meeting, he had to face questions from other politicians, asking why the budget was getting worse every year despite the huge amount of it.

In this context, being able to buy technology seems particularly attractive.

We all know that self-research is good, and it reflects all-round capabilities. Before the launch of Ariane 5, the Prime Minister of Spain emphasized on Facebook that this is a reusable rocket that uses 100% Spanish technology.

However, when there is no progress in self-research and bottlenecks are encountered one after another, purchasing technology is also a solution.

Chen Yuanguang said: "If the European Space Agency is willing to entrust the transportation to Guangjia Aerospace, we will first open the latest human hibernation equipment to the European Space Agency.

Secondly, we can adopt a technology exchange model and give the technology used by Pioneer 1 to the European Space Agency."

Frank asked, "Is it the current technology, or the technology that has been optimized after the large number of launches this year?"

Chen Yuanguang looked at Frank with a higher opinion. The other party had indeed done his homework. He knew that they would launch rockets intensively this year and optimized Pioneer 1 to increase its carrying capacity and launch altitude.

Being able to obtain this information already makes you qualified as a technocrat.

“This is a different price point, it depends on the price offered by Europe.

You should know that our biggest shortcoming at present is rocket engines. If you can sell us the Vulcan engine technology, I think the latest technology will also be no problem."

Frank wanted to refuse, but Wolfe said for him: "I'm sorry, Dr. Wright, the Vulcan engine is included in the catalog of the Wassenaar Arrangement. Even if we are willing to trade, we can't circumvent the Wassenaar Arrangement."

　Try to continue tomorrow!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)