Saturday, September 26th.
Star Capital issued an announcement this morning, announcing the establishment of China’s first private commercial aerospace company, Kyushu Blue Arrow.
Jiuzhou Blue Arrow's core business is positioned as technology research and development and application of rocket recycling, as well as the research and development and application of manned transport spacecraft.
According to the announcement, Qunxing Capital’s first-phase investment in Jiuzhou Blue Arrow is RMB 2 billion.
As soon as the news came out, it caused a sensation in the investment and technology circles.
People in the investment circle say they can’t understand the operation of Qunxing Capital. Is this because there is too much money to spend in a hurry?
But then again, few people in the industry can understand the layout of Qunxing Capital. They can't understand the previous behavior of "throwing money" in film and television network copyrights. The most depressing thing is that Qunxing Capital just makes money.
Not only people in the investment circle can't understand it, but Hua Yu and others within Star Capital also don't understand it. However, not understanding the big boss's decision-making does not prevent him from executing it well.
The technology circle was shocked, especially those in the aerospace field, who initially thought it was fake news.
For this reason, even the leaders of the space agency were alarmed.
After confirming that the news was true, I was very surprised. Suddenly, private capital entered this field in a large scale. You must know that there was no precedent before.
The key is that the intensity is huge, and it will cost 2 billion to suppress it.
It is still the scale of investment in the first phase, which means that there will be second, third, and fourth phases later...
Follow-up investment is the key.
Relevant parties are also conducting research and discussions on this matter. After all, this involves cutting-edge industries. The aerospace industry is often highly related to national defense. Rockets can deliver aerospace and satellites, as well as bombs and even mushroom eggs.
In the current era, relatively speaking, military-civilian integration has not been vigorously promoted. No private sector has ever attempted to enter this field before, but there is no explicit provision prohibiting private participation in the aerospace industry.
Therefore, as soon as Kyushu Blue Arrow came out, relevant parties began to discuss it.
Netizens who are fans of the aerospace field are very supportive, because domestic investment in the aerospace field is too little. In fact, mainstream voices basically support it as long as it invests in the field of scientific research.
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"What do you think of the Kyushu Blue Arrow incident?" the top leader who presided over the meeting started chatting. Today is the weekend, and the leaders of the aerospace-related departments held a meeting to discuss the large-scale entry of private capital into the aerospace field.
At this time, the leader sitting next to the top leader said in an orderly manner: "On December 23 last year, an American aerospace company called SpaceX announced that it had won a commercial supply service contract worth US$1.6 billion from NASA to guarantee the space shuttle. Resupply mission to the International Space Station after it is decommissioned next year. Some say this is a sign of the coming era of private spaceflight."
After a moment of pause, he continued: "The rise of American private rocket companies is because the United States was bullied by the high price monopoly of Lockheed Martin and Boeing's United Launch Alliance, and instead cultivated companies such as Blue Origin and SpaceX."
The leader turned to look at other people present and further said: "I believe that the emergence of rocket companies like SpaceX is accelerating the occupation of U.S. satellites in low-altitude orbits. In the future, there will be hundreds or thousands of satellites staring at you in the sky above our country." , whether it’s taking pictures, detecting, or monitoring. From a national level, space resources are first come, first served. At present, relying only on a few central enterprises such as the national team’s aerospace science and technology, aviation science and technology, the pace is obviously not up to par. Go American.”
At the end, the leader who attended the meeting added in conclusion: "The emergence of the commercial rocket industry and what lies behind it are ultimately still a strategic contest between great powers."
Another leader who attended the meeting agreed with this and said: "Yes, veteran astronauts generally expect the entry of powerful private enterprises to bring new positive changes to the rocket industry, and there is a large demand for launches internationally. But the national team cannot be satisfied. Foreign commercial aerospace is developing rapidly, and we are still working in the old model. How can we face the global competition in commercial aerospace? This is a problem."
After a while, another participant said with a smile: "I have read the announcement of the Kyushu Blue Arrow released by Qunxing. They described using a rapid iteration method to make rocket products and using mature manufacturing capabilities to assemble the rocket. It’s very interesting to use final assembly and reuse to reduce rocket costs. Rocket recycling and reuse is the core goal of Kyushu Blue Arrow.”
At this time, another participant said: "If we open the door to the civilianization of technology, and the talents within the system begin to flow to private rocket companies, how can the engineers and technicians who come out of the system develop the technology in private companies without knowledge?" What about property rights disputes? This is also a problem."
As time went by, the participants continued to discuss and exchange opinions.
At the end, the leader who hosted the seminar smiled and said: "It seems that everyone is more supportive overall. The new global competitive situation of commercial aerospace is a new challenge that we have to face. That sentence is right. Behind the commercial rocket industry, In the final analysis, it is still a strategic contest between great powers.”
Leaders obviously have a positive attitude towards the entry of private capital into the aerospace field. After all, this also indirectly increases the scale of the country’s investment in the aerospace field. This kind of difficult-to-grab high-precision technology field is often not accessible to private capital. A place to catch a cold.
Now a company called Qunxing Capital suddenly appeared, and it was so big at first, and it was not afraid of losing all its money, which surprised the relevant leaders.
And another more important factor is that the commercial aerospace industry is also engaged in the United States. Blue Origin was established in 2000, and SpaceX was established in 2002.
The first private aerospace company in China was only announced yesterday. It can be said that it started nearly ten years late.
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Fang Hong didn't know that leaders of relevant departments had paid attention to the Kyushu Blue Arrow situation and held an impromptu seminar.
However, the relevant leaders currently have no attitude towards the establishment of Kyushu Blue Arrow.
No attitude is itself an attitude.
Then let's talk about it after it's done. Anyway, there's no such thing as saying we're not allowed to do it, and there's no explicit law that stipulates that private companies can't enter the aerospace field.
But precisely because there is no clear document guidance, the relevant leaders are currently unable to give an attitude. This depends on Jiuzhou Blue Arrow or Fang Hong's understanding and decisiveness.
Obviously, Fang Hong has no problem with his understanding and decisiveness.
The most important thing is that he knows that the country will open up in the future, and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense will also open up the door to the civilian use of military technology, and relevant guidance documents will be released around 2016.
Following the historical trajectory, if nothing unexpected happens, around May 2016, relevant national authorities will issue a guidance document on the Implementation of a Major Project Package for Upgrading and Transformation of the Manufacturing Industry, listing the "Commercial Aerospace Product Development Project" as a key project, including Development and production lines for commercial remote sensing satellites, communication satellites and launch vehicles.
At the end of December 2016, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense released the "Special Action Plan for Military-Civil Integration of the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense in 2016". This guidance document includes: promoting the transformation of military technology into the civilian field, demonstrating support for a group of military industries to engage in technology industries chemical projects...actively promote the establishment of a national defense science and technology industry military-civilian integration industry investment fund.
Fang Hong is certain that these two documents will be released by then, because this is a general trend.
Because of this, we should just start it now. If we really wait for the documents to come out before we start it, the day lily will be cold.
In fact, Fang Hong is not worried that his efforts will be in vain. His plan for Jiuzhou Blue Arrow is to introduce the two major national team aerospace groups as soon as possible, which means that the aerospace giants of these two national teams will become shareholders of Jiuzhou Blue Arrow.
Let’s get it started first. By the time the documents are released, Kyushu Blue Arrow has accumulated sufficient technical reserves.
If we really wait until the documents are released, not to mention that the day lily is cold, it will be more difficult to catch up with foreigners. Although the gap with old American companies such as SpaceX is there, it is not that exaggerated.
It is worth mentioning that with the public announcement of the establishment of Jiuzhou Blue Arrow, Stars Capital finally came into the sight of some special departments of "America". The reason is that Lao Mei discovered that Stars Capital was actually bringing a large amount of funds into Frontier High. Sophisticated areas.
It's not like playing financial capital operations, but really using real money to support high technology. Just use sewing machines to make clothes and engage in OEM. Are you allowed to play with high technology? It's okay if you don't know how to play. If you can't play with me, how can I, America, still play der?
These operations of Qunxing Capital made Laomei feel a little uncomfortable, and at the same time, the index of attention to Qunxing Capital gradually increased.
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