Mohavi: Private Space "Holy Land" in the Desert

Mojave is a remote town in the east of Los Angeles, located in the western desert, surrounded by desert red cliff.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States has encountered setbacks in developing the space shuttle. The original goal was to take off and land every day like Boeing 747, but I didn't expect to take off and land only once a year. And every time you take off and land five times, you will crash again.

NASA was forced to stop the space shuttle program and decided to liberalize the space industry, and the private space industry began to rise. Those familiar aerospace companies have a history of more than ten years.

When the American space industry opened up, Mojave, close to the "Silicon Valley", began to gather a large number of private space companies and became a major town in the private space industry. Even in many people's minds, it is the capital of private space in the United States and even the world.

Private space companies we are familiar with today are all located here, including Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technology Company, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, the owner of Amazon, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and so on.

Elon musk's dream is to immigrate to Mars, and it is a large number of immigrants, rather than staying there alone like in "Mars Rescue".

Suppose that there are 65438+ million immigrants who launch rockets every day. If they can't be recycled, it's too expensive for anyone to afford. So the goal of space exploration technology company is to develop reusable rockets. At present, great progress has been made, and it may not be so far away to realize cheap space travel in the future.

Plan to realize space travel. 20 15, 165438 10, the blue origin rocket was launched and recovered. The company successfully launched the "New Shepard" to an altitude of 100 km, and then the rocket body landed intact at the predetermined ground position.

The goal is also to send people into space, but we chose another way, the space shuttle.

Virgin Galactic has successfully launched several commercial launches and successfully recovered them.

At present, we are trying to carry out a suborbital space trip. The carrier is called the Virgin Ship (VSS), and the first one is called the VSS Enterprise to commemorate the Enterprise in Star Trek.

XCOR, founded in 1999, is one of the only two private companies in the world to study the space shuttle.

The founder of XCOR is not rich, and it is also one of the few private space companies in the world without tycoons.

Founded by Bigelow, the owner of the famous American hotel chain Best Western, he was not satisfied with just opening a hotel on the ground. His eyes have been projected into space, hoping to expand his career in the orbit of earth's space.

In fact, as early as ten years ago, it launched two capsule space stations and successfully docked with traditional space stations.

The two space capsule stations were purchased by NASA and launched into space.

The news of the vertical landing of the space exploration technology company that shocked the world not long ago actually covered up another heavy news that was no less than this. In fact, the rocket launched another capsule space station made by Bigelow Space Company for NASA.

How many satellites are in orbit at present? According to the data of National Radio Monitoring Center, as of August 20 12, the number of satellites in orbit in the world has exceeded 1000, reaching10/6.

Imagine what it would be like if there were only 1000 cars running in the world.

Space is too empty, so these space pioneers need to develop more better and cheaper space transportation tools, launch more space equipment into space, and add some vitality to the lonely space.