Geely constellation satellite and Geely automobile _ which is better, Geely constellation satellite or Geely automobile?

Why do car companies develop satellites?

Text |? Dr. Teng Martin

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After taking a stake in Daimler and merging Volvo, Li Shufu will launch a satellite again?

On March 3, Taizhou Geely Satellite Project officially started, and the commercial satellite field was fully laid out. Two LEO satellites will be launched during the year, and the commercial verification of the world's first LEO navigation enhanced satellite system will be fully launched.

This means that Geely has become the first auto company in China to independently develop low-orbit satellites.

▌ Transformation to "New Geely in Science and Technology"

What is the origin of Taizhou Geely Satellite Project?

According to the relevant person in charge of Geely Holding, Taizhou Geely Satellite Project is a part of the whole industrial chain of Geely's satellite layout. As the first auto company in China to independently develop LEO satellites, Geely strategically invested in the space-time fishway of aerospace science and technology company on 20 18, and began to lay out an integrated travel ecology between heaven and earth.

According to the inquiry, Time Fish Road (Zhejiang Time Fish Road Technology Co., Ltd.) is a strategic investment company of Geely. Founded on 20 18 10, Li Shufu is the chairman and Xu Zhihao is the CEO of Geely Science and Technology Group.

Geely Science and Technology Group has once again entered people's field of vision.

Just in June 5438+10 this year, Li Shufu talked about the company's achievements in his New Year speech.

"In 20 19, various innovative businesses of Geely Science and Technology Group began to show results, and the technology and online layout became stronger and stronger, and the three-dimensional smart travel ecology of heaven and earth was steadily advanced. Cao Cao traveled to 5 1 city in China, ranking first in B2C market share, and started the pace of internationalization in Paris. Yaolv, a joint venture with Daimler, has been launched to position the high-end travel market, and Hangzhou has started in Kaesong; Air travel services are also increasingly diversified. Volocopter, jointly invested by Daimler, successfully conducted manned flight tests in Singapore. The satellite research and development of Time and Space Yudao Technology Co., Ltd. went smoothly, initially laying the direction of integration of heaven and earth. "

Technology has become the core label of Geely Automobile, and the R&D investment of "100 billion in ten years" has achieved initial results.

In 20 19, Geely automobile made continuous breakthroughs in "new four modernizations", and the L2-class automatic driving configuration rate and market share of new production models reached the first place in China. GKUI Jike intelligent ecosystem leads China intelligent networked car into a new era of "super brain"; The sales volume of high-end pure electric brands has steadily increased geometrically, becoming another dark horse in the new energy market.

So, what is another measure to launch a satellite?

At that time, ▌' s low earth orbit satellite was running.

What Geely plans to launch this time is called "low orbit satellite".

In short, LEO satellites are located between terrestrial communication networks and high-orbit satellites, but they have special advantages:

First of all, compared with high-orbit satellites, low-orbit satellite communication can provide efficient and cost-effective data distribution services for user terminals because of its lower height, shorter transmission delay and smaller path loss.

Secondly, compared with the ground communication network, LEO satellite communication can achieve wide-area coverage and provide network services for remote areas, planes, ships, etc. that the ground network cannot reach;

At the same time, the constellation networking mode composed of multiple satellites can enhance the stability of the 5G large-scale Internet of Things and provide uninterrupted services in mobile environments such as airplanes, ships, trains and automobiles.

In short, LEO satellites are cheaper than high-orbit satellite networks and more comprehensive than terrestrial communication networks.

Thanks to the dual advantages of technology and cost, low-orbit satellites have also ushered in the sky.

After the opening of A-shares in the Year of the Rat, the market of LEO satellite concept stocks was hot. There are mainly two "pushers" behind this. First, Tesla founder Musk began to build a space communication network consisting of tens of thousands of satellites.

In 20 15, Tesla founder Musk launched the "Star Chain Project". According to Musk's plan, the Star Chain project aims to rebuild the space Internet. 65438+20201October 7, space? X successfully put the third batch of satellite chains into orbit and completed the launch mission. Subsequently, Tesla's market value soared, even surpassing the auto giants Volkswagen and GM, becoming the car company second only to Toyota.

Correspondingly, on June 65438+1October 65438+June 6, China's first low-orbit broadband communication satellite with a communication capacity of 10Gbps was successfully launched, marking a substantial step for the domestic satellite internet.

According to industry analysts, with the increasing number of LEO communication satellites launched, its industrial chain market will gradually open up, with unlimited business opportunities.

The tourism ecology of the integration of heaven and earth

In 20 14, the Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Innovating Investment and Financing Mechanisms in Key Areas to Encourage Social Investment was officially released, proposing to encourage private capital to develop, launch and operate commercial remote sensing satellites and provide market-oriented and professional services. With the gradual liberalization of policies, China's private space industry has ushered in the spring of development.

According to Morgan Stanley's forecast, the scale of aerospace industry will increase from $350 billion in 20 16 to more than $ 1. 1 trillion in 2040, and half of this growth will come from new internet satellites.

An important application of LEO satellite is centimeter-level high-precision positioning. As we know, high-precision maps are the foundation of the revolution in the field of autonomous driving. High-precision map+inertial navigation +GPS, known as the three weapons of automatic driving.

Closely related to advanced autonomous driving is shared travel. As mentioned in Li Shufu's New Year speech above, Geely's layout in the field of travel is becoming more and more comprehensive, and "integration of heaven and earth" travel is the goal of the next stage.

It is predicted that by 2030, the market value of shared travel in the United States, Europe and China will reach $65,438+0.5 trillion, with a compound annual growth rate (2065,438+07-2030) of about 24%. By then, 60% of the self-driving cars in China market will realize the unmanned shared travel mode.

Although Tesla, Amazon and Google have already been deployed in the field of LEO satellites before, in China, a major advantage lies in the breakthrough of 5G. When 5G continuously explores faster speed and higher bandwidth, the "networked conquest" of complex environments such as oceans, deserts and snow-capped mountains becomes within reach, and LEO satellites are rapidly integrated, and satellite orbit will be the most precious space resource for all countries in the future after land, sea and air.

An important significance is that Geely's deployment of LEO satellites this time will help China seize the satellite band orbit and promote the development of China's commercial space field.

As Li Shufu said: "The global automobile industry is facing great opportunities for innovation. Geely Holding actively welcomes changes, leads development with innovation, creates new advantages of online and offline integration, unites global partners, and creates value for users and promotes changes in the field of travel through collaboration and sharing the commanding heights of technology. "

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.