Chapter 1103 (1/2)
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.