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Volume 3 Chapter 73 Satellite

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    December 9, Houston, Hilton Hotel.  "Mr. Shen, are you up?" "You're up." Shen Chong opened the door and let Qiu Siyu in sportswear. He pointed to the sofa and said, "Sit for a while, and I'll wash my face." Last year  After a group fight in Beijing during the Spring Festival, Li Kaiyuan forced Shen Chong to exercise for at least an hour every day. She would personally supervise him at home and his secretary outside. Therefore, no matter where he was on a business trip, someone would come to urge him to go for a morning run every morning.  ¡ª¡ªShen Chong is too busy and only has time to exercise in the morning, and he is a lazy and lazy guy who is unwilling to move without supervision.  Before entering the bathroom, Shen Chong turned on the TV in the suite with the remote control. The moment the screen turned on, a piece of news reached his ears.  "At around 10:49 last night, John Lennon was shot five times by a fan at the entrance of the Duckett Building in Manhattan, New York. Two of them hit the back, two hit the shoulder, and one shot missed"  I go!  What was supposed to happen happened Shen Chong felt a sense of regret and helpless frustration. This was the second heavyweight cultural superstar to fall after Zhao Dan, and there was nothing he could do about the death of these two.  Zhao Dan was suffering from cancer and could not be saved by human beings. Lennon was shot and could not be stopped by outsiders John Lennon and Yoko Ono also lived in Manhattan. As a time traveler who likes to be arty, Shen Chong  I once made a special trip to visit him, but in his previous life, he paid more attention to movies than music and didn¡¯t know much about the knowledge and gossip of the Western music circle. He only knew that Lennon was shot dead, but he didn¡¯t know when it happened or what happened.  He didn't know who the murderer was, so he couldn't prevent the tragedy from happening - Lennon was a world-famous international superstar. As a stranger, Shen Chong couldn't keep him in a safe house for a long time, nor could he send someone around the clock on his own initiative.  For protection, there is really no other way to think of except to advise him to pay more attention to safety.  "Vivian must be very sad now. Lennon is her favorite singer." Shen Chong nodded silently. His two secretaries were very different from each other. Qiu Siyu came from the bottom of society. She grew up in Hong Kong and was interested in European and American pop music.  She has no sense of culture, and Gu Liwei comes from a middle-class family. She studied abroad since she was a child. She loves European and American pop culture, especially the Beatles. When she heard that Shen Chong was going to visit Lennon, she flew from Hong Kong to New York to be a follower.  After getting Lennon's autographed photo, he was as excited as a seven or eight-year-old child, completely different from his usual rational and intellectual image.  "Mr. Shen, it was said on TV that this person is a Lennon fan. Why would he do this?" "Who knows, maybe he is mentally ill." Shen Chong sighed and watched the song "Letitbe" played on the TV.  Images of Lennon's life flashed through his mind, including several celebrities who had died before he traveled through time. He couldn't help but mutter to himself: "I'll have to be more proactive in the future to nip problems in the bud." "What?" "Nothing."  " Shen Chong waved his hand and went to the bathroom to calm down. When he came out, he saw Qiu Siyu standing in front of the phone talking to someone. Her tone sounded comforting, so she asked softly.  : "Is it Vivian?" Qiu Siyu shook her head, said a few polite words, then put down the microphone and reported: "It was called by Hughes Company. They said that the engineers in the laboratory are all fans of the Beatles.  I¡¯m not in the mood to work today, and I want us to change the date of the visit to tomorrow.¡± ¡°Okay, you go tell Professor Wang and the others.¡± The Hughes company Qiu Siyu mentioned refers to a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft Company.  The company is Hughes Aerospace and Communications Company. Before 2000, 40% of the world's artificial satellites were manufactured by this company, and Shen Chong came to Houston to inspect communications satellites.  After the Soviet Union launched the first artificial earth satellite on October 4, 1957, countries around the world successively developed satellites for various purposes. In December 1958, NASA launched the "Skoll" broadcast test satellite, which became the world's first satellite.  The first communications satellite was launched, but it could only transmit tape recordings. In November 1962, Radio Corporation of America launched the "Relay 1" low-orbit communications satellite, which enabled trans-Pacific television broadcasts between the United States and Japan for the first time. However, this  Low-orbit satellites will rotate around the earth at a speed of several hours. When they go to the other side of the earth, the signal will be interrupted, so they are not suitable for television. In July 1963, NASA launched "Xinkan 2"  "High-orbit communication satellite. This kind of satellite orbits the earth at the same speed as the earth rotates around the equator. Therefore, it is called a geosynchronous satellite. With this kind of satellite, stable long-distance communication becomes possible, 1964  It was used for global broadcast of the 2016 Tokyo Olympics.  In August 1964, 11 countries established the Commercial Satellite Provisional Organization, which was reorganized into the International Satellite Communications Organization in 1973, marking the development of communications satellite technology.Beginning to mature, it also marks the possibility of using satellites to transmit television signals. The Intelsat series satellites launched by the International Satellite Communications Organization have the function of relaying television signals, but they are very weak. The most advanced Intelsat V satellites in the early 1980s can only relay television signals.  The two color TV channels are completely incomparable to the hundreds of channels in later generations.  Satellite TV covers a large area, has long transmission distance, and is not affected by terrain and environment. Three synchronous satellites can cover the whole world without the need for relay stations. The signal quality is high, the distortion is small, and the anti-interference ability is strong. It can be said to be an ideal TV broadcast tool.  , but until 1984, no TV company in the world was trying to develop satellite TV. The reasons were nothing more than the following three concerns: One is that the cost is too high. Satellites are high-tech among high-tech, and the cost is extremely expensive, and launching them  The rockets are also high-tech and expensive.  ¡°One is that the risk is too great. Satellites are operating in space and cannot be repaired. Once a malfunction occurs, everything will be lost.  One is that the revenue is too low. Satellites can only transmit two channels. Audiences may not be willing to buy receivers for such a small number of channels. It is very troublesome to promote. If the number of users does not increase, losses are inevitable. After all, the life of satellites is very short.  It will be useless after staying in the sky for more than ten years.  But for the wealthy Shen Chong, the above three concerns are nothing to worry about, because money is not money at all, influence is what he needs. The signal of a geostationary satellite can cover the entire China, and private ownership is absolutely not allowed in the mainland.  TV stations, but the mainland may allow the signals of overseas private TV stations to be broadcast in the country. You must know that the previous administrative order prohibiting domestic people from purchasing satellite TV receivers only appeared in 1993, and it was caused by a certain prodigal  ¡­ In short, if operated properly, satellite is the only magic weapon for Jiayi TV to enter the mainland. It must be prepared and planned in advance After Shen Chong finished exercising in the gym attached to the hotel, he went back to the house, took a shower, changed clothes and was about to go out.  While having breakfast, four old men in Chinese tunic suits broke in - they were aerospace experts sent from the mainland to the United States for exchange and study.  "Hey, Xiao Shen, I heard that a singer died in the United States and everyone at Hughes Company stopped working. What's going on?" After decades of hard struggle in China, there is no soil for pop culture to survive. In the past few years,  Both men were in their fifties and sixties, and they were majoring in science and engineering. It was normal for them not to understand. Shen Chong spent a lot of time introducing Lennon's status and influence in European and American pop culture.  Seeing that they still couldn't understand, he used an inappropriate analogy to forcefully explain: "After Qu Yuan passed away, the people of Chu spontaneously commemorated him. Lennon is like Qu Yuan to Westerners, so Americans have no intention of going to work today."  "I see, I thought he was just an ordinary singer." "Fortunately, Xiao Shen is here, otherwise Lao Wang would make an international joke again. He just kept shouting that the Americans deliberately made excuses to prevent us from visiting in order to block technology.  , and said he was going to protest." Shen Chong smiled and said nothing.  In the past two years since he traveled through time, he has spent money all over the mainland, worked hard, and made a lot of friends. Using the various information provided by these friends, combined with the past life memories in his mind, he can make many plans that seem crazy but are actually reasonable.  .  For example, satellite TV was inspired by the information provided by *** Wu Ziming. The Wu family is very influential in the aerospace system. He told Shen Chong that aerospace technology is very expensive and the country has no money to burn it now, but  This thing is related to national defense, and it has to burn money, so the mainland established a Great Wall Company in October, specializing in the foreign economic and foreign trade business of space technology services and other aerospace products, using business to support scientific research - aerospace technology is one of the few in the country  With the many high value-added products available, the profit from launching a rocket may be more than exporting tens of millions of pairs of socks.  As a time traveler, Shen Chong knew that this idea was a good one, but the reality was cruel. Great Wall Company failed to get any jobs throughout the 1980s. In the mid-1980s, U.S. Secretary of Defense Weinberg visited China, and Great Wall Company became ill.  Indiscriminately seeking medical treatment, we simply opened the Xichang Satellite Launch Center to him and asked for help in advertising and promotion in the United States. This shows the embarrassing situation at that time. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????? If we could provide timely assistance and provide a contract for launching satellites at the most difficult time in the early 1980s, then it would not be a big problem to add some additional conditions to the contract
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