Chapter 225 Commercial Spaceflight Highland
"What does Mr. Samad intend to do with Alpha Technology?"

This is a question that the entire Malaysian upper echelons are curious about. It is somewhat hard to believe that they have huge amounts of money and are developing artificial intelligence.

Malaysia is chosen as a data center by various technology giants for many reasons, including cheap and stable water and electricity and its superior geographical location.

But no technology giant really believes that Malaysia can become the center of the artificial intelligence industry, and no one has placed its R&D center in Malaysia.

Silicon Valley's technology giants would choose Singapore, Shanghai, or even Mumbai to build their R&D centers rather than Kuala Lumpur, let alone Johor Bahru.

In terms of talent pool and attractiveness to talent, Malaysia is far inferior to Singapore, which is only separated by a shallow strait.

Alpha Technology wants to develop artificial intelligence, something that even Silicon Valley giants cannot do, and everyone thinks this is too unrealistic.

Then the real business direction of Samad or Alpha Technology becomes particularly important. In Amina's view, this will be her asset in the future. The business direction is related to the development prospects and the speed of asset appreciation.

Of course, Amina's question also contains another meaning, that is, whether Samad is Oraz.

Oraz smiled bitterly and said, “Princess Amina, I have the same question, what direction is Alpha Technology heading to.

However, I think no one in the whole world knows about it now except Mr. Samad.

Because of my trust in Mr. Samad, I believe he will lead Alpha Technology to a brilliant future.

Princess, I have only joined Alpha Technologies for less than half a year, and I have almost witnessed the process of Alpha Technologies from being an unknown company to becoming a world-renowned company.

We also witnessed that Mr. Samad sold the quantum computer he bought for 5 million RMB to Goldman Sachs at a premium of thirty times.

Not to mention Mr. Samad’s record on BTC, I just want to remind you that Mr. Samad has never failed.”

If Chen Yuanguang could hear this conversation, he would feel that being forced to sell his shares to Amina was a failure.

However, this is also a last resort. Since you have chosen to quickly accumulate initial wealth, you can't avoid being targeted by people with ulterior motives and making some exchanges of interests.

The world has always been like this. Wealth and power cannot be completely separated. Wealth can bring power, but power can also limit wealth.

After listening to this, Amina nodded silently, and a thoughtful look flashed across her thin face: "I understand, I will escort Alpha Technology's development in Johor.

Please convey my regards to Mr. Samad and also convey to Mr. Samad my hope to meet him."

After Alpha Technology was "incorporated", the batch of goods was quickly recovered, and the pawns who were responsible for this were either arrested or fired.

That's all.

For Alpha Technology, it ushered in a short and peaceful period of development.

Alpha Technology's data center in Nusajaya Park has the total computing power that four Silicon Valley technology giants, Microsoft, META, Oracle and Amazon, will purchase from Nvidia in 2023.

This is an exaggerated number, enough for Chen Yuanguang to build Alpha, an artificial intelligence with generational advantages.

"Is it true that we can't continue with our orbital reef plan?" asked George, head of Blue Origin's engineering department.

"We've already spent over $20 billion on this damn orbital reef, and it hasn't even gotten off the ground.

Not to mention that the boss has lost his patience, we have lost our patience too.

It will cost at least another $20 billion, which is enough for us to go to Light Armor Aerospace to customize a complete module without worrying about the risk of failure. " said Abrams, who is also an employee of Blue Origin and is the head of the commercial department.

"No, Ram, Guangjia Aerospace and the French Space Agency announced that the number is 50 billion US dollars," said George.

"But the French media has revealed that it only costs $20 billion. The Chinese only charged them $20 billion for this project," Abrams said.

"The French media may be throwing smokescreens. A complete cabin can be purchased for $20 billion. Even if it is Wright, I don't believe they can offer such a low price."

This price is almost the same as the starting cost of Blue Origin's "Orbital Reef" space station.

This is just a low-orbit space station.

"Besides, the reason why our progress is much slower than expected is that Boeing always has problems with the space capsule design and node module design, which seriously leads to the lag of the entire progress." George said
Orbital Reef is a joint project of multiple companies, including Blue Origin, Sierra Space, Boeing and Redwire Space.

Therefore, at this time, the best way is to put the blame on the allies.

And there is nothing wrong with what George said, Boeing does deserve criticism.

Boeing can't even do its main business well, has been losing money for years, and the delivery of its core business passenger aircraft has been weak. The customer acceptance rate of Boeing's passenger aircraft delivered in recent years is less than 30%. It is precisely because of this that they have been losing money year after year.

Airbus, which was also affected by the virus epidemic, has long since recovered and is making huge profits, but Boeing has suffered huge losses. In its attempts to make a comeback in commercial space flight, its own manned spacecraft has been delayed repeatedly.

They can't even do their main business well, let alone a project like the space station.

“George, Boeing is not the reason for all our programs to be delayed.

The blame for the delay in the orbital reef can be put on Boeing, but the New Glenn rocket was independently developed by us, right? It was supposed to be launched at the end of 21 years. Now it’s 2025, why hasn’t it been launched yet?

This was delayed for four years.

I will apply to Bezos. We want to cooperate with the Chinese not only on the space station, but also on our reusable rockets.

Buying products and technology from China is much cheaper than operating it ourselves.

NASA will not purchase space cargo transportation services from Light Armor Aerospace, but will purchase them from us.

If possible, I think the lunar lander project can be handed over to the Chinese.

If we operate in this way, we will be able to turn losses into profits within three years, instead of facing continuous failures like we are doing now.

Technical delays are a problem for most companies, but at Blue Origin the severity and scale of the problem is incredible.

I think Bezos would be interested in working with the Chinese.”

"If we let the Chinese do everything for us, then there would be no need for our engineering department to exist," said George.

He knew that once the other party mentioned it to Bezos, Bezos would most likely agree.

For Bezos, catching up with SpaceX is his goal, and the method is not important.

George cursed the French media in his heart: If you hadn't reported the $20 billion order, they wouldn't have thought of cooperating with Guangjia Aerospace.

The French Space Agency and Guangjia Aerospace announced that the cooperation on the space station cost 50 billion US dollars, but the French media recently broke the news that it only cost 20 billion US dollars to purchase a complete space station module.

This kind of news not only made Blue Origin start to focus on light armor aerospace, but also made all walks of life in Japan fall into disarray. They spent more than 4 billion US dollars just to build a laboratory module on the International Space Station.

This was four billion dollars twenty years ago, and it was much more valuable than it is now. France only wants two billion, and anyone who comes will be defeated.

People in Japan are questioning whether there is serious corruption among officials and scientists in the aerospace industry, which leads to costs far exceeding those of their Chinese counterparts.

“It doesn’t matter, I think the top engineers at Blue Origin are tired of putting Band-Aids on problems,” Abrams said.

Cooperation with the Chinese enables us to do something more meaningful.

If it were possible to do joint R&D with Light Armor Aerospace instead of with damn Boeing, I think our engineers would learn a lot and be happier.”

The revelations by the French media have attracted a large number of potential cooperation intentions to Guangjia Aerospace.

The rise of Guangjia Aerospace is not just the rise of a company, it also represents the rise of China's commercial aerospace industry.

In the past two years, the entire Guangjia Aerospace has driven the output value of upstream and downstream industries to exceed 50 billion RMB.

China's commercial aerospace industry is booming unprecedentedly, giving rise to a number of small but beautiful startups.

Everyone has various connections with Guangjia Aerospace, and basically they are suppliers or suppliers of suppliers.

But this is still the rapid rise of China's entire commercial aerospace industry.

Therefore, the 10th Commercial Space Summit held in China this year was different from previous years when only government and business representatives from Asia, Africa and Latin America participated. This year, many representatives from developed countries came.

"Mr. Lin, please say hello to Dr. Wright for me. Blue Origin hopes to launch a series of cooperation with Light Armor Aerospace, just like the French Space Agency." said Dave Limp.

Among them, Dave Limp, senior vice president of Blue Origin, is a typical example of a company in a developed country.

Before, Blue Origin only had SpaceX in its eyes and would never come to China to attend any forum.

Now they have to beg for cooperation with China.

In Lin Jia's eyes, there were four words written on Dave's face: Come quickly if you have lots of money.

“We are of course happy to work with partners around the world.

But we have many cooperation models with France, such as technology transfer, space logistics and transportation, technical cooperation and research and development, etc. I don’t quite understand which cooperation model you are referring to?" Lin Jia asked.

Dave Limp said: "We hope to purchase the reusable rocket technology of Light Armor Aerospace.

There is no need for the second generation, only the first generation, which is the Pioneer 1 that you sold to France."

Lin Jia thought about it. The Chinese government did not restrict the export of this technology. Since it was one generation behind, it could be sold:

"Okay, I just have two questions, price and whether the person in the White House now will allow this deal to exist."

Dave said: "Don't worry about that, just leave it to Blue Origin.

As for the price, this is a series of collaborations and we hope to give you a quote together.

The second point is that we hope to buy a module from Guangjia Space, just like the French Space Agency, and buy a complete module in the space station launched by Guangjia Space. "

Lin Jia asked doubtfully, “The International Space Station is still in the sky.

Unlike France, which has no say in the International Space Station, NASA has its say, and you can launch another module on the International Space Station."

Lin Jia knew what the other party was talking about. Blue Origin has always wanted to engage in space tourism, and sending people to the International Space Station is the most promising project.

Therefore, Blue Origin has always wanted to build a space station or a module of its own.

Dave touched his nose helplessly, and then said: "The International Space Station will soon be out of service, and it is not cost-effective for us to add more modules.

We were originally going to launch a low-Earth orbit space station in the second half of 20, which was jointly developed and launched by us, Sierra Space, Boeing and Redwire Space.

However, due to the pandemic and various objective reasons, the entire project was shelved.

When we restarted, we found that there were many real difficulties, and Nanolake, Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin also had similar plans.

We hope to launch before them.”

This is the time difference. There is a big difference between the first commercial space tourism project and the second one.

Lin Jia figured it out. Among the companies Dave mentioned, the main ones must be Blue Origin and Boeing, and the other companies are auxiliary. Everyone has been working on them for several years and found that they can't figure it out.

The cost, construction period and progress are all out of control. At this time, a company suddenly emerges on the market and offers to sell you a space station and help you solve all your troubles. The cost is much cheaper than building it yourself.

"There is no problem with this in principle," said Lin Jia.

This is a product that is sold to the sky. Even if America wants to reverse engineer it, it cannot be done.

Dave continued: “The last collaborative project is the lunar lander.

We hope that Guangjia Aerospace can help us design a device for lunar landing.

It would have to include not only engines, cryogenic fluid propulsion systems, and electronics, but also downlink communications and precision landing capabilities.

For this final project, we hope to conduct joint research and development, and Guangjia Aerospace only needs to provide assistance on some key technical difficulties.”

Lin Jia quickly found out what project the other party was talking about. Blue Origin had received a huge order worth $34 billion from NASA, which was this lunar lander.

“Lunar landers are something we haven’t done before.

We need to conduct internal research to determine whether we have this capability.

But I think it shouldn’t be a big problem.”

NASA originally gave the order directly to SpaceX in 21 without any public bidding. As a result, Blue Origin was very dissatisfied and directly sued NASA.

Later, the project went around and fell back into the hands of Blue Origin.

For a project like this, has Blue Origin already resorted to any means to make a profit? Has it even started looking for Chinese companies to cooperate with? Lin Jia wondered.

This is the information Lin Jia knew. What she didn't know was that Blue Origin was the general contractor for this project, and there were some subcontractors under it, including Boeing.

Blue Origin has been scared by Boeing in past cooperation, and delays in progress have become the new normal. This time they would rather do it all by themselves and find a Chinese company to replace Boeing.

(End of this chapter)