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Chapter 511 Space Launch Center
After finishing Tianxia's work, Lin Rui was about to go back when the Space Exploration Research Institute under the Starry Sky Research Institute and the Deep Blue Space Exploration Company suddenly jointly issued an application to Lin Rui.

I want to build a space launch center on an artificial island on the Tianxia equator line.

Although, this artificial island located on the equator is currently just a coral reef out of the water, and has not yet been filled.

Its unique geographical location still made them unable to bear the temptation, and they were so excited that they sent an application to Lin Rui.

As we all know, the equator is the longest circular line in the orbit generated by the rotation of the earth.

Its north is the northern hemisphere, and its south is the southern hemisphere. The latitude of the equator is 0°, which is the longest latitude line on the earth.

At the same time, the equator is where the acceleration of gravity on Earth is the smallest.

The largest circumference and the smallest gravitational acceleration are extremely beneficial to the launch of spacecraft, and the vicinity of the equator is also the most suitable place to build a space center.

Currently, the world's closest space launch center to the equator is the Kourou Space Center.

Kourou is located at 5°3' north latitude. It is currently the only launch site close to the equator in the world. Many heavy-duty geostationary orbit satellites in Europe and the United States are launched from here, and larger and heavier spacecraft can be launched to the moon and beyond. far away space.

As for why Europe has a vast territory and does not launch rockets nearby, but sets the launch site in South America?

In fact, the earth revolves from west to east, and most launch vehicles are launched to the east, south or southeast.

There are many small European countries with dense populations. It is very dangerous where the rocket wreckage falls. If the launch fails and falls to the ground, it explodes and catches fire, which is even more unimaginable.

To the east of the Kourou Space Center is the vast Atlantic Ocean, more than 4000 kilometers away from the west coast of Africa, so there is no need to worry about the rocket residue hitting the flowers and plants.

This is also the reason why my country's aerospace centers are far away from human habitation.

In fact, in terms of being closer to the equator, there is also a land in China that is closer to the equator than the Kulu Space Center.

这就是我国领土的最南端“曾母暗沙”其主礁地理坐标为北纬3°58′20″N，东经112°16′53″，比库鲁更靠近赤道，遗憾的是这里目前并不能建成航天发射场。

More than 100 kilometers to the east is the state of Sarawak in Malaysia, and more than 200 kilometers to the southwest is Indonesia. Many countries in Southeast Asia are in this area, and there is too much resistance to building a space center.

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These problems are not a problem at all in Tianxia.

What's more, the island reef that has been spotted is completely on the equator line, and in terms of conditions, it is better than Kulu and Zengmu Shoal.

Naturally, Lin Rui has no reason to refuse this kind of thing. He has always been very supportive of the aerospace industry, and allocates a large amount of research and development funds every year.

Originally, the reclamation work of this island reef was relatively late, and it was one of the 99 small islands. After completion, the area only reached 2.1 square kilometers.

After Lin Rui sent people to survey again, he decided to increase the area of ​​the artificial island to 3.6 square kilometers, and everything was in accordance with the standards of the space launch base.

At the same time, the reclamation work of this artificial island has been assigned to the first batch, and it is expected that the land reclamation project will be completed in more than a year.

Immediately afterwards, the construction task of the space launch center can be carried out.

The aim is to turn the island into one of the largest and most advanced space launch centers in the world.

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When he returned to Los Angeles, Lin Rui paid more attention to Tianxia's affairs, took back more energy, and used the time of enlightenment to meditate.

The powerful effect of enlightenment time made Lin Rui's cultivation speed increase by leaps and bounds again, his background became thicker and his foundation became more and more solid.

All for the moment of breakthrough.

……

Of course, he has not let go of his career. Recently, he is promoting two things.

The first is the diversification of Xingkong Technology Group. With the increasing scale of Xingkong Technology Group, the total number of employees exceeds 300 million, coupled with strong cash flow, it is inevitable to start horizontal development and carry out the process of diversification.

In the past, Lin Rui put more business in the direction of science and technology, and took advantage of the strong technical support of the Xingkong Research Institute to make rapid progress in various fields of science and technology.

Over the years, Xingkong Technology Group has made breakthroughs in the entire industrial chain of the technology industry, except for a few sensitive industries and heavy industries, almost all of them are involved.

Next, if you want to expand the scale, you can only develop in a new business direction.

Lin Rui set three major directions for the next expansion of Xingkong Technology Group.

One is heavy industry: all kinds of heavy machinery, large engineering equipment, high-precision machine tools, iron and steel industry, metallurgy, etc.

To this end, he specially established "Xingkong Heavy Industry" with a registered capital of 500 billion U.S. dollars. With the support of Xingkong Research Institute, he will enter the heavy industry on a large scale through acquisitions and independent research and development.

Now that the economic situation in Europe is not very good, Lin Rui plans to register this subsidiary directly in Tianxia.

Then, use Xingkong Heavy Industries to acquire related factories and enterprises in Europe, and integrate Xingkong Heavy Industries into a world-class large-scale heavy industry enterprise in the fastest way.

The second direction is minerals. Although countries around the world are clamoring to reduce production capacity these years, it seems that mineral resources such as steel are in excess and cannot be used up.

The reality is that with the development of science and technology, human's demand for mineral resources is almost endless, but the mineral resources on the earth are limited.

Planning in advance is necessary.

Subsequently, a company called "Xingkong Minerals" was quietly registered, with a registered capital of 3000 billion yuan.

In the future, Xingkong Technology Group will rely on Xingkong Minerals to deploy various mineral resources around the world, whether it is rare metals or various mines, they are all within the scope of the layout.

As long as it develops smoothly and achieves the set goals, Lin Rui will invest another 10 to 1000 billion US dollars in the next 1500 years, and finally make Xingkong Mining the world's largest mining giant.

The third direction of expansion is traditional consumption and service industries, such as hotels, catering, tourism, aviation...

Lin Rui originally had a lot of plans in this area, such as Starry Sky Theater, Starry Sky Sports Club, Pingshan Tourism Company...

Next, he plans to continue to deepen his layout in this direction, acquiring one or two international hotels, and one or two international airlines...

There are already plans for hotels, and the biggest target is the IHG Intercontinental Hotel.

InterContinental Group has a long history. Founded in 1777, it is a global hotel group operating more than 100 hotels in more than 4400 countries and regions around the world.

It owns many internationally renowned hotel brands such as Intercontinental, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn.

It is more in line with Lin Rui's requirements.

Affected by the epidemic, the current market value of the InterContinental Hotel is just over US$100 billion. Last year, the net profit for the whole year just exceeded US$5 million. The outlook is not optimistic.

Within 160 billion US dollars, it should be able to win.

(End of this chapter)