Chapter 935 (1/2)

Jiang Chen was slightly surprised by Musk's proposal to lease the port.

In the discussion on the profit plan of space elevator within star ring trade, there are pre selection schemes for port leasing and berth leasing of star ring city.

After all, the scale of one person's market is limited after all. Instead of enjoying a piece of cake alone, it's better to unite all the people to make the cake bigger and then cut the cake. Only when everyone joins in this huge market, can the benefits of star ring trade be maximized. At the same time, many unnecessary disputes can be avoided.

Imagine that the development of the world's outer space resources has to go through the space elevator in the new country. Cargo ships from all countries will travel to and from the sea base station under the space elevator. All the resources from outer space must be transported to the world market through the ports of the new country. What does this mean for the economy, currency and international status of the new country, there will be competition.

However, if we can't compete with SpaceX, planetary resources and deep space industrial companies with a century's leading technology, the staff of star ring trade might as well find a piece of tofu to kill them.

however, to Jiang Chen's surprise, the space elevator has just been completed, and even the star ring city is just a prototype. Before the United Nations Summit on outer space development was held, musk had already considered such a distant place, which really surprised Jiang Chen.

”How interested?” Musk asked in a serious tone.

”Very interested, rather than surprised.” Jiang Chen said strangely.

”Oh, I don't know where I offended”

”no, you misunderstood me.” Jiang Chen shook his head, fingered the holographic communication window from the left side to the right side, and then said, ”we do have the intention of leasing the port, but the relevant plans are still in the written documents. Now we can't give you an answer, but since you have proposed it, we will contact you as soon as possible after we have worked out a reasonable cooperation plan after the United Nations Summit on outer space is over. ”

His face was beaming with joy, musk said.

”Then please”

”is there anything else?” Jiang Chen asked.

”One more thing, of course,” Musk said with a smile. ”We were due to launch the Falcon 9 rocket in early February, carrying 450 kilograms of supplies to the international space station. But now it seems that we don't need to waste 60 million dollars ”

” you plan to outsource Na's project to us. ”Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow and said with great interest.

There was a snap on the other end of the phone, musk replied.

”It is.”

There are differences in the cost of upward and downward transportation. According to the different types of goods, there will be certain differences in the carriage and acceleration scheme used, and the quotation will naturally be different. However, the transportation cost of space elevator is definitely lower than that of rocket.

The standard quotation for Falcon 9 is US $60 million. Even if the successful recovery of the first stage rocket can save 80% of the launch cost, there is still as much as 12 million US dollars. Compared with 450 kg of goods, the transportation cost per kg of materials is also as high as 26000 US dollars.

The price of star ring trade is that 450 kg of supplies, including the Dragon spaceship, will be sent to synchronous orbit, and only S $2 million will be charged. According to the current exchange rate, if converted into U.S. dollars, it will start at $2.15 million.

According to the U.S. subsidy policy for the aerospace industry, npacex pays about $61 million. If it is outsourced to star ring trade, the profit will be almost 60 times of that.