Chapter 1097: 1103

Domay point manor, early morning restaurant.

Janet finally came in, ran to her aunt, put her arms around Veronica's shoulder, gave her a kiss on the face, then turned to Simon with a smile, gave a kiss on the man's head, and finally sat down next to the man.

The little guys at the table don't know, so opposite to her, who has a big stomach and has to take care of her two children, Jennifer can't help rolling her eyes. Veronica droops her head slightly and pretends to help Melbourne share the meal.

Janet picked up the cutlery, drove away the maid who was helping, and then asked Simon, "what's going on on on the east coast?"

Knowing what the woman was asking, Simon shook his head regretfully: "I just received the news that skef has turned off the Pittsburgh Tribune."

"It's a pity that the Mellon family gave way so simply this time that we can't carry out some of our follow-up plans."

"Yes, there is an idiom in China called..."

"When the rabbit dies, the fox is sad."

"Oh, you are now at least CET-8 in Chinese," Simon praised, and then said, "anyway, the Mellon family suddenly retreated so thoroughly, we can't do anything more, otherwise other old money families in the Federation will be more afraid and vigilant, and they can't offend everyone at one time."

Simon's original consideration was to take advantage of the opportunity of the Mellon financial group incident to attack the interests of the Mellon family in other industries, so as to weaken the Mellon family to the greatest extent.

Simon was caught off guard by the sudden and complete abandonment of Mellon finance by the Mellon family at the weekend.

After all, the Mellon family is not groundless in Washington and wall street. If they push too hard for a while, it is inevitable that other old money families will die and even share the same hatred.

We have to stop.

Simon gave up, and the Mellon family chose to give in. They just started an investigation into the Mellon family's loan fraud, and they will probably settle soon.

Don't know what happened behind the scenes, Simon can only feel the decisiveness of the hundred year old Qian family.

With this in mind, Simon added: "in fact, the most regrettable thing is the stock market. Last week, Mellon financial led Chevron, Alcoa and other companies to plummet for three consecutive days, but they failed to pull down the Na index. At first, I thought it was a good opportunity."

Opposite, Jennifer said, "Mellon finance is on the New York Stock Exchange, not NASDAQ."

Simon shrugged: "almost. After all, it's the federal stock market."

Janet took a sip of the milk? She thought the milk was not good today. She poured some milk to Seattle, and half of it to her man. She asked with a smile, "are you worried?"

"Of course, urgency? Time is money?" Simon also replied with a smile: "no matter how high the market value of igritts is, it's just a number now, and it doesn't have more significance. And the high level of the whole NASDAQ has had a negative impact on the layout of westrow system in the new technology field? At present, whether it is its own expansion or external M & A, the cost has increased significantly, leading to many of our plans can only be postponed. "

"If you're in a hurry, why don't we just poke it out? Just sell a lot of stock? We can cash in," Janet said

"Continue to put pressure on the Mellon family? It's only the old money class that is stimulated. If we reduce our holdings of technology stocks now, the whole world will be offended. "

Janet waved her fork gently. "It's a hassle."

"We'd better do nothing anyway."

Opposite, Jennifer listened to the conversation and asked, "when will Soros start?"

"May?" Simon said, nodding his head and saying, "this is another opportunity. Soros is short of Southeast Asia, and the influence will surely spread to North America. If the NASDAQ can survive then, it will be a miracle."

In my memory? The Thai baht fell in July? But in fact, international speculators have been short selling since May.

On the other hand, in the original time and space, the first circuit breaker in the US stock market after the circuit breaker mechanism was set up was in October 1997, when the Dow Jones plummeted due to the impact of the Southeast Asian financial crisis.

The NASDAQ index was not crazy in 1997.

This time, the impact of the Southeast Asian financial crisis will come. It should not be Dow Jones, but Nasdaq, that will be the first to be impacted. It may be much earlier than October, the most serious month of the Southeast Asian financial crisis.

In any case, Simon had to be patient.

However, according to the recent growth rate of the Nasdaq, even if the average monthly growth rate is 5%, it is estimated that it will reach more than 7500 points if it lasts for another three months. At that time, igrit, as the leader, will certainly break the trillion yuan. Even if it is unable to obtain too much direct benefits from these market values for a while, it is also stimulating to think about it.

After breakfast, Veronica sent Melbourne to school in person, while Jennifer continued to raise her baby at home. Simon and his wife took a helicopter from Cape Dumay to head straight across the bay to the headquarters of SpaceX in playa vista, south of Santa Monica.There will be a public rocket engine test here today.

After a year of intense research and development spurred by Simon, SpaceX team officially launched the first rocket engine, named merlin-1.

Simon's name was publicly solicited from the SpaceX team. Of course, he did a little bit of a trick by specifying the name provided by a guy named Elon Musk.

At first glance, it seems that the name "Merlin" doesn't match the names of "Falcon" and "Raptor" in SpaceX. In fact, Merlin is a transliteration of "Merlin", which means "grey backed Falcon" in English. They are all raptors.

However, the new Merlin engine is completely different from the original SpaceX Merlin.

Once upon a time, SpaceX's Merlin engine was a public engine architecture from NASA, which was similar to the concept of arm public architecture used by many manufacturers in the chip field. With the improvement of SpaceX team, it eventually became the famous Merlin series.

This time, the new Merlin engine is based on the famous RD-170 rocket engine from the former Soviet Union.

In the past, the thrust of the first generation Merlin was only over 30 tons, but the RD-170 was a big Mac with a thrust of more than 700 tons. The difference between the early ARM chip and the Pentium x86 processor is that the value of the first generation Merlin 45 is much lower than that of the RD-170's 75, even if it is a "push to weight ratio" that can better reflect the balanced performance.

Interesting to say.

In Simon's little professional memory of this, the later Merlin series is more and more like RD-170, and it is self-evident what happened.

Simon's "one step at a time.".

In fact, a lot of things have happened around this private aerospace company in one year since the SpaceX team was established at the beginning of last year.

Mr. and Mrs. Simon got off the helicopter at SpaceX headquarters in preyavista. The group of people who came to greet them can best reflect what happened around SpaceX in the past year.

Among these people, in addition to the SpaceX team, there are NASA officials, Lockheed Martin executives, representatives of the Ukrainian National Space Agency, and so on.

It still starts from Simon's private acquisition of a large number of space and nuclear energy materials from Ukraine.

In space, since SpaceX has decided to adopt RD-170 technology, although it is difficult to have any patent in the space field because of its particularity, it is better to have some justifications. Simon simply pulled the Ukrainian authorities in.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, although Ukraine has retained a full set of RD-170 engine technical data, it has lost the ability to produce the engine independently without the assistance of the Russian industrial chain. Coupled with the close relationship between the vistro system and the Ukrainian government, as well as the real interests, Kiev readily agreed to the relevant cooperation.

It's not just RD-170. Under the operation of the westero system, the Ukrainian side has taken out almost all the assets that can be transferred.

All the conditions for technology transfer are only a mere US $25 million in cash and a 20% share of a shell company set up by both sides outside SpaceX to sell rocket engines to the outside world, which is equivalent to the 20% profit share of SpaceX when it sells engines to the outside world.

In addition, the Ukrainian side can no longer participate in the profit sharing of SpaceX production engine for its own use and other businesses in the future.

Whether it's the development goal of SpaceX or the big profit, it's actually its own business in the future. You should know that providing a full range of launch services is not the same as selling only engines.

Moreover, while acquiring a large number of Soviet space technology, Simon once again received a large number of experts in related fields.

The new merlin-1 could be born within a year, thanks to these former Soviet experts.

However, the biggest progress of Merlin 1 this time is not the improvement based on RD-170, but the smooth use of 3D printing technology, which involves the complex public relations and technology integration in the past year.

Simon acquired a 3D printing company named 3D miracle last year, and then began to tackle key technical problems in 3D printing of rocket engines the following year.

Because it involves software, materials and other aspects, it is not enough to rely on 3D miracle team.

In terms of software, 3D miracle cooperated with OTEC, an industrial design software company heavily held by Westeros.

In terms of materials, this is also one of the biggest difficulties for 3D printing rocket engines, because the printing alloy of engine materials needs to be ground into uniform particles of less than 500 microns, and it also needs to be carried out in an oxygen free environment. Simon personally intervened and consulted the accumulation of several national laboratories in the United States, and then successfully found the relevant technology and team.

Otherwise, although it's only a matter of time, it can't be done in a year.Finally, the most direct result of the capture of 3D printing technology for rocket engine is that the manufacturing cycle of rocket engine which can only be completed in six months by traditional casting method is shortened to one month. Moreover, due to 3D printing, many parts of the engine that once required hundreds of parts to be assembled can be formed at one time, and the stability of Merlin 1 engine is also greatly improved.

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The most important thing, of course, is cost.

According to the estimation of SpaceX team, with the further maturity of technology, the cost of 3D printing engine will drop by more than 70% compared with traditional engine after entering mass production. If SpaceX can recycle and reuse rockets in the future, the cost will be reduced to a terrible level.

Although Simon has his own ambition to set up SpaceX, from the very beginning, the company's development goal is very down-to-earth. SpaceX must achieve commercial self-reliance rather than work hard for the future of mankind.

Just like 3D printing, in the eyes of ordinary people in this era, this technology is a bit similar to science fiction level, but in fact, all aspects have accumulated technology for many years, just because of the lack of practical application of all kinds of buried research and development. Even if science fiction level technological progress is achieved, it will eventually be buried in the pile of old paper.

This is what Simon regrets most about the explosion of human technology for decades. Building a car behind closed doors and remaining complacent lead to the waste of a lot of social resources and the development of advanced technology can not be applied in practice. Lack of practical application, the actual also lost further opportunities.

Therefore, both SpaceX and fusiontimes and SolarCity, which are progressing smoothly, are focusing on "integration" in their early development strategies.

Whether using normal means or stealing and abducting, we should first integrate the breakthrough technologies that our predecessors have made, and realize the maximum practical application, and then consider further.

Of course, Simon is also standing and talking without backache.

With the development of science and technology, he is certainly far from alone in thinking of this, but few people have enough strength to achieve this.

Simon, under the premise of strong financial support from the westero system, also happens to encounter the best time when the world confrontation disappears temporarily and the globalization process accelerates, enabling the smooth flow of technology and talents. Without any of these conditions, the difficulty of doing this will increase greatly.

SpaceX headquarters.

Simon and his wife greet each other one by one, and then come to a hall on the upper floor of the newly completed SpaceX FRP headquarters building. From here, we can see a large area of open space along the Barona River to the seaside. Originally, more than 300 hectares of barren land was bought by Simon last year and used as a test site for SpaceX equipment.

At this time, from the hall, a two-story test bench was built on the finished flat land on the Bank of Barona River 500 meters away.

One prototype of the first two merlin-1 engines has been installed on the test bench.

In fact, today's public test is just a passing show. The SpaceX team has conducted several tests in private.

The purpose of today's public test involves a big deal.

Let's start from the beginning.

Since last year, the new generation of cosmos launch vehicle headed by lohma under the leadership of NASA has been looking for the manufacturer of the first stage engine.

In the past, Loma finally signed a long-term supply agreement with Russia, and the related engine was RD-170.

This time, since SpaceX is going to be put into commercial operation, Simon certainly will not miss this opportunity. Through lobbying and even putting pressure on the White House, Congress, NASA, Loma and other aspects, he finally put SpaceX on the list of candidates and delayed the bidding period from last year to now.

Moreover, because of the great significance of "home-made", and the fact that Meilin 1 is based on RD-170 and has better parameters, SpaceX will basically win this big order as long as there is no accident on the spot in today's test.

It's really a big order.

According to the private agreement, NASA and Loma will sign a 20-year supply agreement with the supplier, with a total supply of 100 units. Moreover, compared with the Russian RD-170's offer of US $10 million, the 3D printing technology's blessing leads to lower costs. Because the preliminary test data is better, SpaceX's offer is still US $10 million.

All in all, it's a billion dollar bill.

Even if it's divided into 20 years, it's only 50 million yuan a year. Considering the gross profit margin of SpaceX, it's a big start for the company.

And, after all, it's just a SpaceX business.

NASA and Loma have no restrictions on SpaceX's own use of the Merlin series, so in the future, it will still focus on autonomous launch.

In the hall of SpaceX's office building, everyone sits down. Gwen schotteville, President of SpaceX, confirms that everyone is here and asks Simon for instructions. Then he turns to the staff sitting behind the computer and starts the test.A moment later, with the fire and smoke from the remote test platform, the powerful power of Merlin 1 made everyone feel the tremor.

At the same time, a series of parameter reports from NASA supervisors came from the loudspeaker.

"Sea level thrust: 81773kn."

"Sea level specific impulse: 353s."

"Combustion chamber pressure, wow, 27.3mpa, are you sure? OK。”

"Weight ratio Weight ratio 96, too strong. "

“……”

In the hall, listening to the voices in my ears and the gradual commotion of the staff who came to watch the test, even the NASA officials sitting next to Simon could not calm down and looked at Simon repeatedly. Although we have got some data ahead of time, we heard on the spot that the same professional NASA official still had some doubts.

Simon ignored it.

After carefully reading a lot of data in advance, we can probably expect the shock of these data on NASA, Loma and other representatives. Only Janet around her looks like she is listening to the book of heaven.

Just about to explain a few words to Janet, the plump and fair Ukrainian female representative sitting on the other side of her chatted with the obviously confused Janet in standard English, probably explaining the meaning of the relevant data, but the woman mentioned it in a soft voice, as if trying to attract other people's attention.

The test lasted for more than half an hour. For the first time, NASA and Loma's team were skeptical, so they went to the test bench to check, and then conducted the second test.

Naturally, there is no problem.

In private, there was sufficient communication. NASA had no objection to the two tests in a row. Then, under the witness of all parties, SpaceX and Loma executives, as both sides of the transaction, signed the agreement on the spot and held a celebration ceremony to open the champagne.

In the bustling hall.

Simon and the guests simply socialized, found Gwen schotteville and other SpaceX backbones, and began to pour cold water and wave the whip.

"This is just the beginning, Gwen, and everyone. The most important thing for you next is to build SpaceX's own launch vehicle. What's more, I've set a goal for a long time. SpaceX has to work hard for reusable rockets. Oh, is there anyone who told me that it's impossible this time Good. Today is such a beautiful day. It's not good for someone to be fired... "

After pouring cold water, of course, do not forget sweet dates.

After announcing a $15 million reward on the spot, Simon turned to look for Janet and saw her walking with a Slavic looking woman.

"Simon, this is Natasha. She speaks English very well. I can't see she's Ukrainian at all. I'm going to invite her to go shopping downtown."

After listening to Janet's introduction with a smile, Simon gave her a look of "you don't look like white sweet at all." then he shook hands with the woman in front of him casually: "Hello, Natasha. Oh, I like this typical Slavic name very much."

A close look shows that the Slavic woman, about 175cm in height, is about 30 years old. She is wearing a black suit. Whether she is just right full or fair with a bit of charming face, she is quite emotional. After she opens her mouth, her voice is so soft that she doesn't know whether she is deliberately made cute or not.

"Oh, Mr. westlow, it's a pleasure to meet you today. You can call me Nata."

"Yes, nata."

Janet continued to be silly: "Simon, you see Nata's skin is so white. I really don't know how to maintain it. I must ask later."

"It's natural, but Jennie, you look better. I'm a little too white."

"No, Simon likes white." Janet said, "are you going to leave?"

"Yes, there will be a meeting soon. I won't go home at noon. Shall I take you downtown first?"

"Good," Janet said, looking to her side. "Nata, is there a problem separating you from the others?"

The woman shook her head and looked honored: "of course not."

Simon didn't bother to pay attention to Janet. Suddenly, he was so interested that he took leave of everyone and left SpaceX headquarters with them.

First fly to Beverly Hills to put down the two girls, and then rush to Malibu studio.

"American Pie", which started shooting at the end of last year, was released in mid February, and rough cutting was recently completed. Because it's a project that Simon has followed up in person and arranged his work schedule in advance, Simon is going to watch the sample film with you today and put forward the follow-up production suggestions.

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