Therefore, Yixing’s space exploration program could also be regarded as a dostic endeavor, where all technology and mission processes were fully disclosed to the higher-ups, with the distinction being that Yixing operated on market-driven chanisms.
This had significant advantages.
Companies working under the market-driven chanisms funded their projects with their own money, allowing dostic entities not to spend a penny while still completing highly challenging aerospace missions.
By contrast, every mission undertaken by the Aerospace Bureau required substantial expenditure, all of which was funded by taxpayers’ money.
One entailed no expenses and even yielded certain tax revenues.
The other, massive spending with no financial return whatsoever.
Choosing blindly between the two, one knew which option to pick, and precisely for that reason, Yixing’s space exploration program faced no restrictions and even received absolute support.
Now, Zhao Yi spoke of the ’Lunar Base’ plan, implying that the next step for Yixing would be to focus on the ’Lunar Base’ project.
Support for this, of course!
In ti, would there be an expansion of national territory? On the Moon!
"Would this be considered expanding territory?" Leaders pondered carefully, starting to look forward to it.
anwhile.
The Mars-1 spacecraft was still orbiting Mars, about to enter the Z-wave satellite trajectory.
With the command from the ground control, the orbiting Z-wave satellite opened its trajectory, and two seconds later, the Mars-1 spacecraft smoothly entered the space corridor, reaching Earth’s orbit seven seconds afterward.
When the Mars-1 spacecraft appeared on Earth’s orbit and got successfully detected by the radar of the dostic space station, cheers erupted in the command center of the Aerospace Bureau.
"Successful return!"
"The spacecraft has now re-entered the orbit and has been captured by the space station’s radar."
"Prepare to link up!"
"Communication link successful!"
The Aerospace Bureau’s command center established a connection with Mars-1 spacecraft’s control cabin, where astronauts wore excited smiles, as from the portholes, they could already see Earth.
This transit was highly anticipated, especially for the engineer Lin Sheng, whose space travel to Mars was t with prolonged screams of terror, but this ti, as their surroundings turned pitch-black, his heart even felt a surge of excitent.
Because there was a high probability that signified the shuttle had begun, and they were about to return to Earth.
Although still in space, being able to see Earth with their own eyes, rather than the orange planet, was a completely different sensory experience.
They could now start looking forward to returning to the ground.
The Aerospace Bureau imdiately released updates on the return of the Mars-1 spacecraft.
This announcent had a significant impact; Mars-1’s arrival back to Earth’s orbit ant that the journey ho was just a matter of planned ti. Even if they weren’t in a rush to return or if the spacecraft experienced minor issues, it could dock with the dostic space station, and the astronauts could enter the station, to then be picked up and brought back to Earth by an anti-gravity spacecraft.
In short, the astronauts were now safe.
This Mars exploration mission showcased the aerospace capabilities of the dostic Aerospace Bureau and Yixing Company to the international community.
Previously, many countries and institutions were unwilling to acknowledge the gap in aerospace technology with the dostic front, consistently rejecting any cooperation talks. Of course, the result was that dostic players were not bothering with negotiations either.
For the dostic side, international cooperation was at most a way to reduce costs and did not represent a technological complent; thus, it was not essential.
Now, all countries and institutions had to acknowledge the gap with the dostic capabilities, and so had changed their perspective, believing that it was important to proactively seek space exploration cooperation with the dostic front to prevent a potentially insurmountable gap in the future.
At the sa ti, the strength of Yixing Company was on full display.
So countries and institutions were also starting to consider extending an olive branch to Yixing Company to strengthen bilateral relations—within just twelve hours of the Aerospace Bureau’s latest updates, six countries quickly completed the import approvals for the Unlimited Power Automobile.
With the relevant import approvals, Yixing could begin selling the Unlimited Power Automobile in these countries’ markets.
Of course.
There were issues still.
The primary reason many countries had been wary of approving the Unlimited Power Automobile was their concern over technological monopoly; the space function transmission technology was undoubtedly monopolistic, and other companies didn’t have it.
Therefore, dostic automobile manufacturers in these countries couldn’t compete with Yixing Company in the ’Solar Power Car’ sphere.
This was considered unfair competition.
Now that they had approved the import of the Unlimited Power Automobile, they imposed very high tariffs on each imported car, citing ’monopoly’ and the protection of local automobile enterprises.
Upon learning of the approvals, Yixing Company imdiately set pricing for the various exporting countries.
The Unlimited Power Automobile was bound for mass export; selling cars in countries of different longitudes wouldn’t occupy too much transmission energy, significantly increasing production capacity.
In pricing, of course, this was directly linked to the tariffs.
Indeed, the Unlimited Power Automobile had a ’technological monopoly,’ and due to this exclusive technology, production was limited, and there were no concerns about sales. Thus, the pressure from tariffs could easily be transferred to consurs in each country.
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