"Mr. Wang, when can we see the first communication satellite produced by the company?"
Accompanied by Chief Scientist Huang Decheng and General Manager Wang Jingguo, Sun Jian and others visited Star Commercial Satellite Company with great interest.
In September last year, after 17 months of construction, the first phase of the Xingchen Commercial Satellite Company Park in Mentgou Industrial Park was completed. The complex building, Chadwick Satellite Design Institute, satellite components manufacturing workshop, satellite assembly workshop, Satellite environmental testing building, satellite comprehensive testing building, warehouses, staff dormitories and single dormitories are all available. The original 116 management and ordinary employees were all assigned a set of 70 to 140 square meters of finely decorated housing with central heating.
Through negotiation, the former Satellite Research Institute of the Aeronautical University was merged into the Chadwick Satellite Design Institute worth US$1.8 million, becoming a research institute under the Star Aeronautical University Commercial Satellite Company.
Employees of the former Chadwick Satellite Design Company hold 10% of the company's shares. Through conversion, they hold 2.3% of the shares of Star Commercial Satellite Company.
Chadwick Satellite Design is based in Silicon Valley and has a US branch, and is also part of Star Commercial Satellite Company.
The registered capital of Star Commercial Satellite Company has increased by US$1.96 million, equivalent to an increase of 16 million yuan, and the total share capital has increased by 16 million shares. Star Commercial Satellite Company holds 44.5 million shares, accounting for 67.4% of the shares; Beijing Airlines holds 2,000 shares million shares, accounting for 30.3% of the shares; Chadwick Employees Union holds 1.5 million shares, accounting for 2.3% of the shares.
Jinghang University is a 985 university, a vice-ministerial level unit, a joint venture company, with clear equity, which will reduce legal disputes in the future.
"Mr. Sun, according to the current production speed, the first communication satellite will be available in September this year."
Xingchen Commercial Satellite Company became a member of Taobao Holdings in January 1996. Sun Jian treated everyone equally. The wages and benefits of management and ordinary employees were re-assessed according to their existing positions. The monthly wages they received were 40% higher than the original ones. A Spring Festival benefit of 200 yuan was also given. The company plans to invest 80 million yuan to build a modern satellite R&D, manufacturing and testing factory in the Mentgou New Park. All current employees will be allocated a set of finely decorated housing, and everyone immediately felt at ease. Come on, do your job well.
The management and ordinary employees all moved into well-decorated houses with central heating before the Chinese New Year. They are full of expectations for the company's future. General Manager Wang Jingguo is also much more relaxed.
Sun Jian was lucky. In May 1997, Xingchen Commercial Satellite Company invested US$21 million and participated in the launch of "Hangway 3", which was a complete success.
It has invested US$26 million and continues to participate in the more powerful "Hangway 4" investment plan to be launched in the second half of 1998. Once successful, a communication satellite network system composed of four high-power synchronous satellites will be able to connect every corner of the world. , carry out live radio and television broadcasts and instant messaging to form a global village.
Russia, Southeast European countries, and Southeast Asian countries and regions will become key service targets.
Due to the relationship between communication security and competition, access will not be allowed in China at that time.
Sun Jian does not need to worry about these things. As one of the investors, Xingchen Commercial Satellite Company collects investment income in accordance with the contract.
Based on the fact that Star Commercial Satellite Company holds 42% of the shares of "Heading 3" and the satellite's design life is 15 years, it can harvest 10,000 US dollars in rent, with an average annual rent of 8.4 million US dollars.
Including the rental income of Heading 1 and Heading 2, Xingchen Commercial Satellite Company can obtain an investment income of US$13.44 million per year, equivalent to more than 110 million yuan. Without taking into account the depreciation of buildings and equipment investment, it can protect the two Salaries and benefits for the company’s 267 management and rank-and-file employees.
Xingchen Commercial Satellite Company currently has 187 management and ordinary employees. Although it is a joint venture company, the treatment is similar to that of Xingchen Commercial Satellite Company, but it has independent accounting and is responsible for its own profits and losses.
Nowadays, the conditions for recruitment of professional and technical personnel by Xingchen Commercial Satellite Company and Xingchen Hangda Commercial Satellite Company are PhDs and masters in corresponding fields, except for special talents.
"Mr. Wang, I will come to attend the unveiling ceremony of the new satellite."
Sun Jian was very pleased.
All beginnings are hard!
As long as the first satellite test is successful, subsequent satellites can be mass-produced.
Seventy percent of the components required for satellite production are purchased from outside, of which 50% are purchased from Sugon Communications Group, Guozhi Semiconductor Group, Sugon Automation Group, Chaoyang New Energy Technology Company, Sugon Seiko LCD Company, Zeiss Sugon Optical Instruments Co., Ltd., etc. .
Kunpeng Software Group is responsible for the satellite’s software control system.
"Welcome Mr. Sun to come to the unveiling!"
Wang Jingguo immediately felt the great responsibility.
The satellite communication system consists of three parts: satellite terminal, ground terminal and user terminal.
The main equipment of the satellite includes eight major systems: mechanical structure; propulsion system; thermal control system; power supply system; telemetry, tracking and command system; attitude and orbit control system; payload system and antenna system.
The development, manufacturing, launch and management of a communications satellite is a systematic and complex project. In addition to huge investments, it also requires a large number of relevant professionals. Today, in China, only the state can organize it to complete it.
A layman's scalp will go numb when he hears it. Since Mou Dazhong has not backed down, Huang Decheng is optimistic about the symmetric plan and suggests starting with the development and manufacturing of small low-orbit satellites and handing over satellite launches to others. As a second-generation man, Sun Jian will not back down. As long as A problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.
In the past life, due to liberalization of policies, several private companies in China mass-produced small communication satellites and even launched satellites themselves.
George Chadwick is known as the "Father of American Satellites" and the design of small low-orbit communication satellites has been developed.
The overall design of the Star Commercial Satellite Park is based on the design of George Chadwick and a modern satellite production base built with reference to the production base of Hughes Satellite Company. The second phase of the project will build a factory for the production of satellite components.
The production, final assembly and testing of satellites are left to Huang Decheng, Wang Jingguo, Zhang Junming, Wang Weiji and Li Guotao. They need money and people. There is no such thing in China. They are recruited in Silicon Valley and prestigious American universities with high salaries.
The former Aeronautical University Satellite Research Institute and the school-run factory did not have the technical strength to independently develop and manufacture a small low-orbit communication satellite. They mainly developed and manufactured satellite antennas and solar panels for supply to the Beijing Satellite Manufacturing Factory.
When he took over Nande Commercial Satellite Company and Nande Commercial Satellite Operation Company, he wanted to help Mou Dazhong establish Xingchen Commercial Satellite Company. Sun Jian also wanted to develop the long-term mobile communication business of Sugon Communication Group and was not short of money. He would rather invest these The technicians who develop and operate communication satellites are trained and trained hard. Once the policy is relaxed, they will make great achievements.
