Car companies enter the era of satellite Internet competition
Editor’s note: This article comes from WeChat public account EO-AUTO) .
Author 丨 Qian Yi
Edit 丨 Hao Qiuhui
The sky battle between car companies is being matured by “new infrastructure” and “reverse globalization”.
On April 22, local time in the United States, the Falcon 9 launch vehicle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, successfully sending SpaceX ’s seventh batch of 60 satellites into space. Musk said on Twitter excitedly: Star Chain Project There are already 420 satellites in operation. This is getting closer and closer to his dream of 42,000 “Star Sea”.
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In China, on April 20, the National Development and Reform Commission included satellite Internet for the first time in the current “new infrastructure”. Geely, who soon entered the satellite business, bluntly said that he will enter the first echelon of China’s commercial aerospace industry in 2020.
Unlike Musk, who makes rockets, Geely only makes satellites. On April 17, Geely’s wholly-owned time and space Daoyu released a recruitment for “Rocket Engineer”, and Geely Automobile Vice President Yang Xueliang responded on Weibo: “Rocket is bought, satellite is made by ourselves. We recruit rocket The chief engineer is for the fusion of stars and arrows, not for making rockets by himself. “In a word, he distinguished Li Shufu from Musk.
The world under the epidemic is accelerating changes. Taking advantage of the policy, car companies have to join the “sky battle.”