Chapter 3224 Satellite Plan

After locking down the Kansel oil field, the people in Northern Europe immediately worked out the subsequent division of labor.

Li Yalin's job is to continue training the Ai model, and at the same time let the Ai model screen industrial and mining enterprises throughout Africa according to his previous ideas.

Because Li Yalin had judged before that the headquarters of the Po Qing Society were most likely large-scale industrial and mining enterprises that were extremely large and relatively closed. Only in this way could they hide thousands of death warriors and their families.

There are many companies of this scale, so he has to use many other conditions to screen, such as star companies, companies with internationally renowned capital participation, companies that always have various accidents all day long, companies that frequently appear in the news because of positive or negative news or are paid attention to by local governments, basically these can be excluded first.

Now that we have more than a decade of satellite image data from Skyline, we can analyze suspicious clues based on changes in satellite images of target companies now and over the past decade or so. The chance of locking down other death squad locations has gone from almost zero to a great opportunity.

Lang Hongjun, who has deep expertise in communications-related technologies, began to sort out Skyline's existing business. Skyline was also of great help to the development of Wanlong Palace in the Middle East, as it could provide a panoramic view of the development of surrounding warlords and other forces. With the AI ​​model for high-definition restoration of images, even if the opponent had deployed a small mortar, it would be clearly visible.

As for Ye Chen, he would wait until the next base of the death squad was locked down before going there to catch the Qing Society off guard.

Before the death squad's base was located, he planned to take Lin Wan'er to northern Europe, because he had inquired about it before and wanted to take Lin Wan'er to see the aurora.

Although the territory of Northern Europe is not very large, the northern part is a narrow strip of land that stretches for thousands of kilometers like a tadpole's tail. Ye Chen and Lin Wan'er decided to go to one of the towns called Ling'en, which is very close to the Arctic Circle and is a good place to watch the aurora.

The distance from Osu City to northern Northern Europe is one thousand kilometers. Airplane is the best means of transportation, but Lin Wan'er does not seem to be interested in flying.

She suggested to Ye Chen that they drive there. The northern part of Northern Europe is sparsely populated and the road conditions are very smooth. It would only take more than a thousand kilometers to drive there in a dozen hours. Moreover, both of them have better physical fitness than ordinary people, so whether they drive or take a car, a dozen hours is no problem.

Although they did not have much time, the northern part of Northern Europe was sparsely populated and there were not many flights. Even if they arrived in a large city in the north, they would still have to rent a car to reach the small town where they could view the aurora. Overall, it would probably take longer than driving, so they decided to drive the SUV they had taken last time.

In order to save time, Ye Chen drove out after dinner. After a more than ten-hour drive, he was expected to arrive at noon the next day. Ling'en was close to the Arctic Circle. Although there was no polar night there yet, the daylight hours were so short that they were almost negligible. Therefore, the time did not matter, after all, most of the day was dark.

Before leaving, I went to meet Helena, told her about my itinerary for the next few days, and then asked her to take care of my second uncle as well as Li Yalin, Lang Hongjun and others.

Helena was somewhat surprised when she heard that Ye Chen was going to take Lin Wan'er to northern Europe to see the aurora. She really didn't understand why Ye Chen was so considerate to the seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl beside him, and why he would bring her with him even for very important matters.

I always felt that the relationship between the two seemed complicated, but when I thought that the other party was only seventeen or eighteen years old, I felt that I was thinking too much.

So, she said, "Don't worry, Mr. Ye. Mr. An and the others are here. I and other members of the royal family will take good care of them."

Then Helena said, "By the way, Mr. Ye, the Nordic royal family has a holiday home in Ling'en. It was built by my grandmother's father when she was young. It is the best place to see the aurora, and the area within dozens of kilometers is all royal territory. No one else will disturb you, and it has been maintained all these years. If you don't mind, you can take Miss Lin to live there. The house is very clean. If you feel cold, just light the fireplace."

Ye Chen didn't expect that the Nordic royal family had a holiday home in the town he was going to. It sounded like it would save a lot of trouble, so he said, "I'll ask Xiaowan what she thinks."

Helena nodded and said, "Mr. Ye, please wait a moment. I'll have someone get the key there. You can discuss it with Miss Lin on the way. If she's interested, you two can go directly there."

Ye Chen felt that Helena's proposal was very reasonable, so he didn't hesitate. Helena quickly asked the butler to bring a set of keys. The butler told him that the holiday home Helena was talking about was actually a manor located on a hill outside Lingen. The entire hill and the surrounding large tracts of land belonged to the Nordic royal family. In the early years, the Nordic royal family had greater power and a more relaxed economic situation, and the price of land in northern Europe was low. In order to make it easier for his daughter to see the aurora, the old emperor bought the land and built a Nordic-style holiday villa.

Since that holiday villa carries many childhood memories of the old queen, even though the Nordic royal family has fallen into decline in the following decades, they have always maintained the holiday villa well, and Helena would occasionally go there with her family when she was young.

Ye Chen took the key, and he and Lin Wan'er simply took a few sets of clothes and drove away from the palace. The data center happened to be in the north of Osu City. An Kaifeng, Li Yalin and Lang Hongjun were all there, so Ye Chen and Lin Wan'er went there.

Ye Chen greeted a few people and asked them to contact Helena for small matters and to contact him for big matters.

Before leaving, Lang Hongjun found Ye Chen and said to him, "Mr. Ye, I have something to discuss with you."

Ye Chen asked him: "What's wrong, brother?"

Lang Hongjun said: "In the past two days, I have roughly reviewed the software, hardware and database of Skyline, and found that since Musk's SpaceX began to undertake commercial satellite launch business, Skyline has always entrusted its remote sensing satellites to SpaceX for launch. It can be regarded as SpaceX's earliest customer and the most supportive customer. They have always had a close cooperative relationship with SpaceX, so I would like to ask you if you can say hello to Skyline and register the communication satellite of Wanlong Hall under the name of Skyline, and then through the deep cooperative relationship between Skyline and Musk's SpaceX, let SpaceX help launch our communication satellite into space orbit."

Lang Hongjun added: "Satellite launch is, after all, a field with strict control, and the threshold for launch is very high. There are no less than 10,000 companies in the world that can build various satellites, but there are only ten companies that provide satellite launch services to third parties and launch satellites into orbit. There are also many requirements for satellite-owning companies, and a series of qualifications must be reviewed. If there is no suitable affiliated company, Wanlongdian's satellite will have to find a new shell company to be affiliated with in the future, and the new company will have to re-establish its cooperative relationship with companies like SpaceX. It is definitely not as convenient as directly being affiliated with Skyline."

After listening to his description, Ye Chen nodded slightly and said, "This should be no problem. I will communicate with the person in charge. Do you have any other needs, brother?"

Lang Hongjun thought for a moment and said, "If the launch problem is simplified, I want to increase the number of satellites to more than 30. Today's communication satellites are very small and relatively cheap. Even SpaceX's Starlink satellites only cost a few hundred thousand dollars each. In the future, the total number of Starlink satellites will be more than 10,000 or even 30,000 or 40,000. However, it faces global users. If we want to solve Wanlong Hall's own global communication and Internet access problems, dozens of low-Earth satellites will be enough."

Ye Chen nodded and said, "Since I got the data from Skyline, my expectations for the satellite have indeed been further raised. As long as we can achieve the expected effect, let alone launching dozens of satellites, even if we need to launch 10,000 satellites in the future, it is not a problem. Brother, just go ahead and do it. If you need money, I will give it to you; if you need people, I will pay for them and you can recruit them yourself; if you need connections, I will help you find them. We will strive to launch our satellite next year."

Lang Hongjun said excitedly: "If we can jump the queue for launch, our satellite will be able to enter orbit in the first quarter of next year. Communication satellites themselves do not have too high technical content. Just like buying a computer and assembling hardware, the supply chain can solve it. The difficulty lies in the launch, the use after launch, and the adaptation of the software. These are my majors, and I am confident that I can do them well. In addition, I have contacted some former classmates in the United States. They are about the same age as me and are facing layoffs and salary cuts. I have sounded out their opinions and they are willing to start over if the salary and benefits are right. When everything is almost sorted out, I want to build a R&D and online team in the United States to be responsible for the development of my own communication system and the subsequent work after the satellite enters orbit."

Seeing that he had made a very comprehensive analysis, Ye Chen must have had a plan in mind, so he said, "Brother, go ahead and do these things. I can set up a venture capital fund in the United States at any time. When the time comes, you can set up a start-up company and I will invest in the angel round for you. In this way, you can recruit all your former colleagues to work together."

Lang Hongjun hurriedly said, "Mr. Ye, my previous financial situation was very bad. The FBI and the tax department can check it very clearly. Not long after leaving the United States, I suddenly got an angel investment, which is bound to arouse suspicion. My old colleagues will definitely not understand. Why don't you open a satellite communication business directly within Skyline, and then let me be the person in charge of the business. In this way, not only outsiders will not suspect, my former colleagues will not suspect either, and the most important thing is that SpaceX will not suspect either!"