MTL - Back To 1995-Chapter 1048 Wealth touches people's hearts

  Chapter 1048 Money touches people's hearts

Space exploration is very expensive, especially private space exploration, the cost is even higher. This industry is similar to the Internet industry. It is a crazy concept. There is no direction for profit, but it makes people feel that the future is bright. , exactly in response to that sentence, the more beautiful the more dangerous...

Apollo Space Exploration Company is not the first private space exploration company in America, but it is the most hyped and well-known company. In the first phase, Song Yang claimed to have invested 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. Costs, including the purchase of RD180 rocket engine production line from Lao Maozi, the cost of poaching people from Boeing, McDonald, TRW, etc., the cost of building the headquarters and launch base of Apollo Space Exploration Corporation, and the cost of cooperation with NASA, etc. , all of which are counted.

It was Marcus who had been in touch with the Apollo Space Exploration Company before. Even though Marcus controlled the spending speed of Apollo Space Exploration, up to now, he has spent seven to eighty-eight, one and a half billion dollars in real money. Knife, there are less than a few hundred million left!

  Song Yang can accept that Apollo Space Exploration Company spends money like water, but he can't accept that the money is spent without even letting out a fart. Song Yang can't tolerate it.

  In the future, the cost of Apollo Space Exploration Company will be even greater. Song Yang needs to package it up. Whether it is sending it to the market or attracting other big investors, it must have a brilliant performance.

  Gwen Shotwell was very calm, without any panic, "Before June this year, the Apollo Space Exploration Company was able to launch the first rocket to transport satellites into low-Earth orbit as expected!"

Song Yang looked at Gwen Shotwell, who didn't dodge anything, and looked straight into Song Yang's eyes, but Apollo's chief technical officer Tom Muller, as well as Thompson, Busa and other technical personnel, seemed to be Some have no bottom.

  Song Yang smiled and nodded, "At that time, I will come to the launch center in person to witness that scene!"

   Entering the Houston Space Center, the office belonging to the Apollo Space Exploration Company, countless people are busy.

  As soon as he sat down, Tom Muller couldn't help but said to Song Yang, "Song, no one has ever done the recycling of rockets and repeated launches before, not even NASA. The risk is too high!"

According to what Song Yang boasted when he established the Apollo Space Exploration Company, the Apollo Space Exploration Company will become a leader in the space express industry. In the future, it will not only undertake the business of sending satellites to space from all over the world, but also develop space tourism. Send the rich and adventurous old money to travel in space.

And to do all this, you must master the rocket recovery technology. Being able to recover the rocket with the highest cost can basically reduce the launch cost and time cost by more than 20%. When launching hundreds of times a year, the gap is almost visible to the naked eye.

"What NASA didn't do, doesn't mean it's impossible. Apollo Space Exploration Corporation will invest enough funds to let Professor Muller and everyone help Apollo Space Exploration to send satellites into orbit, recover rockets, and Technology such as the delivery of cargo on the International Space Station, space tourism, and even the construction of colonies on Mars, history will remember everything that Professor Tom Muller and you have done!"

Listening to Song Yang's words, he knew that Song Yang's words contained a lot of chicken soup, but Tom Muller, Busa and others couldn't help it. If they could do this, even if they were not in NASA, they would Will be remembered by the aerospace community.

Of course, Song Yang is not fooling them. In the future, Song Yang is indeed planning to raise a lot of money for Apollo Space Exploration Company, but it is impossible for Song Yang to invest all of them. He must let other venture capital institutions, Just burn the money together...

When Tom Muller and others left, Gwen Shotwell said straight to Song Yang, "Apollo Space Exploration Corporation is now spending a lot of money, and it will be impossible to achieve it in a short period of time, or even for a long time in the future profit!"

Gwen Shotwell is reminding Song Yang that if he expects to get back the capital from Apollo Space Exploration Company, then don’t expect it now. Whether he can get back the money in the future is still a matter of opinion. The fear is that Song Yang suddenly doesn't want to invest any more money for Apollo Space Exploration Company after getting half of it, and what will be left will be a big mess.

  Song Yang didn't know if it was possible, but asked, "How about NASA's brand authorization?"

In order to cooperate with NASA, Apollo Space Exploration Company spent a lot of cooperation fees, but it also obtained NASA's brand authorization agent and Internet media operation rights, both of which are good things. The former can use NASA's brand to make money Extra money, the latter can be used to cheat tigers.

  Hearing Song Yang mention this, Gwen Shotwell couldn't help showing a little smile on his face. Although the Apollo Space Exploration Company spent a lot of money, it was not without income.

"Apollo Space Exploration Company has licensed NASA's brand to more than 31 companies including Nike, Adidas, Puma, and Coca-Cola, and launched NASA's co-branded products. This year, NASA's brand licensing fee is expected to be . With more than 170 million US dollars, next year, NASA will double the scale of brand authorization, start to cooperate with overseas companies, and the authorization fee will also increase significantly!"

NASA's brand is still very popular, especially in sports brands, sports drinks, clothing, electronic digital and other industries. They are all keen to launch joint models with NASA. Improve Bigger, let people hear it, send it to NASA, which has landed on the moon, and even launched a joint model with this brand, which sounds taller, isn’t it better than working with some stars? Bigger? !

   "Gwen, in the future, Apollo Space Exploration Company will be able to achieve profitability and be listed on NASDAQ!"

  Song Yang told Gwen Shotwell, don’t worry, he suddenly ran away halfway, and in the future, Song Yang still counted on the Apollo Space Exploration Company to make a fortune.

"As long as the Apollo Space Exploration Company has a breakthrough in technology, it will be able to undertake orders from NASA and other overseas space agencies. In addition, when the Apollo Space Exploration Company's rocket is launched, it can conduct a global live broadcast and accept advertisements on the rocket,... "

It’s not shabby to make money. As for the rocket launch process being broadcast live on platforms such as ICNC, NBC, CNN, and ICQ, it is not impossible to print the advertisement of the sponsor’s company on the rocket so that audiences all over the world can see this advertisement. , as long as the money is enough, Apollo Space Exploration Company can arrange it.

   "In addition, when the demand for mobile phone networks increases in the future and enters the era of 5G or even 6G networks, Apollo Space Company can launch the Starlink project to provide satellite network services to users in any region of the world through satellites!"

  Gwen Shotwell was slightly taken aback. Hearing Song Yang's words, he couldn't help but think of a company that is now being pitted by satellites. "Motorola's Iridium Project?!"

  Gwen Shotwell couldn't figure out how far the future mobile phones will have in terms of network demand, and satellites will be needed to provide the network.

But as a practitioner, she can figure out that if she really wants to reach the level required by Song Yang, the Apollo Space Exploration Company is afraid that the launch base will be smoked, and tens of thousands of satellites will be launched into space. To provide that level of satellite network, this plan is much crazier than Motorola's Iridium project, and the cost may be much higher.

Hearing Gwen Shotwell mention the Iridium project, Song Yang coughed, "Time will make people forget some unfriendly memories, Apollo Space Exploration Company's Starlink satellite network project, and Motorola's Iridium project completely different!

  Nasdaq will like the plan of Apollo Space Exploration Company, Wall Street institutions, investment banks, banks and countless investors will like such a plan! "

Motorola is too impatient and too inept. The gimmick of the satellite phone is really not enough to watch. Twenty years later, as long as this concept is connected with the fiery 5G communication concept, it will instantly become A plan to hit the world.

Although it sounds ridiculous, Gwen Shotwell can also hear that Song Yang does not need to abandon Apollo Space Exploration Company to run away. On the contrary, he will send Apollo Space Company to be listed on NASDAQ As for whether to cut leeks, Gwen Shotwell can't control it. She is an expert in the aerospace and rocket industry, not an expert in Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

   But then, Song Yang's words moved Gwen Shotwell.

"When the Apollo Space Exploration Company's business stabilizes, it will seek to be listed on Nasdaq, and then all employees will be rewarded with equity. Gwen Shotwell, you can also get the corresponding equity reward from Apollo Space Corporation! "

  (end of this chapter)