Under no choice, Musk, the founder and chairman of Space Exploration Technology Company, had to step forward and call out to the Jieke Group.
He even secretly contacted the Jieke Group, hoping to form a pricing alliance with them, to work together on the pricing of rocket launches and to stop the price war.
"I think it's only when there's a single titan left that an industry can truly thrive," said Liu Yingying in response to a media interview, giving a bold answer as a retort to Musk's olive branch, ready to fight to the finish.
Faced with Jieke Group's aggression, Space Exploration Technology Company, in order to maintain market share, had no choice but to launch with tears and at a loss, while taking on a large number of NASA's launch missions.
Space Exploration Technology Company's commercial launches had dropped to just 15 million US dollars each, but NASA paid much more for its missions, effectively subsidizing Space Exploration Technology Company to prevent it from collapsing under Jieke Group's assault.
Facing the onslaught from Jieke Group, officials from the Beautiful Country finally entered the fray.
NASA's director, Burton, declared that no satellite belonging to the Beautiful Country would be launched on the Kunpeng Rocket, even if just one screw was made in the Beautiful Country, they were not allowed to piggyback on Jieke Group's ride.
Many satellites around the world are manufactured in the Beautiful Country, and this move could also be seen as a form of trade protectionism.
Without this restriction, capitalists within the Beautiful Country wouldn't consider national sentiment; they would queue up to launch satellites with Jieke Group.
Despite sanctions from the Beautiful Country on its satellites, Jieke Group continued to launch Kunpeng Rockets as scheduled, without reducing the number of rocket launches due to fewer commercial satellites.
Almost every month, Jieke Group produced a new Kunpeng Rocket.
And every week, they would launch a Kunpeng Rocket.
Although Jieke Group was the overlord of Southeast Asia, these countries lacked satellites.
Jieke Group needed to rapidly increase their satellite numbers, including communication, remote sensing, navigation, military, and a whole series of satellites.
Many of these satellites carried optical observation equipment, enabling 24-hour uninterrupted optical monitoring and analysis, significantly enhancing Jieke Group's ability to monitor ground movement and space targets.
You should know, including those small satellites, the Beautiful Country has more than ten thousand satellites in orbit, most of which belong to Space Exploration Technology Company.
For Jieke Group to close the gap with the Beautiful Country, it had to launch satellites frequently and rapidly to make up the difference.
As more Kunpeng Rockets were launched into the sky, more satellites were scattered into orbit.
Besides those costly large satellites, Jieke Group launched more small satellites, which were cheaper and more numerous, forming a satellite network.
In this way, once a launch war began, if an enemy wanted to destroy your satellite system but you had thousands of small satellites zipping around in space, they would find it hard to strike.
This is also the strategy currently being implemented by the Beautiful Country, with Jieke Group following in their footsteps.
Each Kunpeng Rocket launch could carry several hundred of these small satellites. Jieke Group launched three times a month, regularizing rocket launches so that thousands of satellites entered orbit each month.
This terrifying launch efficiency forced the Beautiful Country to keep up with the production capacity.
A substantial infusion of funds from the Beautiful Country's military and NASA into Space Exploration Technology Company led to an increase in the quantity and frequency of Falcon 9 launches.
The large launch vehicle project of Space Exploration Technology Company, known as the Starship program, received strong support, with almost monthly experimental launches. This rocket, with a takeoff mass of five thousand tons, was the Beautiful Country's hope to counter Jieke Group's Kunpeng Rockets.
In just a year's time, the space race between Jieke Group and the Beautiful Country had reached a fever pitch.
Both sides had a large number of satellites blanketing Blue Star's orbital space, almost as if laying claim to territories in space.
Satellites were scattered at different altitudes of 300 kilometers, 500 kilometers, 1000 kilometers, and so on, looking down from space, it almost seemed as if they were enshrouding Blue Star.
With the powerful performance of Kunpeng Rockets, Jieke Group ensured a steady number and replacement of satellites, while the Beautiful Country's satellites lacked such heavy-lifting capacity. To compete with Jieke Group, they made up for it with the number of rocket launches, resulting in almost daily launches from the Beautiful Country.
As the intense competition continued, Jieke Group gradually increased its satellite count to thousands. Once it reached a sizable number, Jieke Group began targeting its competitors.
Inside NASA's ground satellite monitoring room.
Clare Hegg, holding flowers and a diamond ring, offered them to his beloved, Mireyu.
"Mireyu, I love you, marry me."
Both were employees at NASA and had begun an office romance, having progressed to talks of marriage.
The colleagues gathered around, hooting and cheering boisterously.
Mireyu, overcome with joy, covered her mouth. Just as she was about to speak, a sharp alarm interrupted her.
For a brief two seconds, everyone present was slightly stunned, then they hurried back to their posts, only to see the instrument that monitored space debris flashing a red alert.
Due to human space activities, a lot of space debris had accumulated in space.
To prevent collisions from damaging satellites, major spacefaring nations had established corresponding early warning systems. These systems conducted real-time monitoring through ground control centers, space stations, and launched probes, allowing for timely orbital adjustments of satellites to avoid the debris.