Ling passenger space: China's "SpaceX" of the airline founded

The founder has been all over the major industries, various fields. But did you know that a student entrepreneur founded China's first private rocket company? Think it's impossible? Take a look at the case below! China's first private rocket company was born in Beijing. Its founder, Hu Zhenyu, 21 years old, is a newly graduated college student this June. The baby face, less than 1.7-meter, with freckles on his face, was ambitious, and in his business plan he even referred to the idea of a high-speed intercontinental manned transportation, a 11150KM distance from Hong Kong to California, which could be reached within 40 minutes by flying a manned rocket. This is only a small part of his ambition, his goal is to break through the domestic closed, monopolistic space market. Don't think he's delusional, he's got his first order this month. In January this year, he founded the company named Ling Ke Aerospace, the English name linker, which means connecting space and Earth, with the aim of launching tiny commercial satellites and orbital space travel. Hu Zhenyu is not trained. His junior high school began to take part in chemistry training, learn to do explosives, high school partial more serious, a large number of flowers in chemistry. In the end, he was playing tennis well, as a sports specialty identity Tate into the South China University of Technology Business Management department. University four years, Hu Zhenyu depressed to learn management, the heart is still on the chemical, aerospace, rocket interest. In 2011, he read the Big Two o'clock, launched the first in the country by the university students of the folk rocket enthusiasts team of NASA. The base of the research and development of Hu Zhenyu is based on the research and development of NASA. In 2013, Hu Zhenyu, a fan of the Forum, successfully launched his own research sounding rocket (YT-4) in Inner Mongolia, where he was responsible for the overall layout of the rockets as well as the design and manufacture of arrows, fuel rods and engines. However, due to the idea of incompatibility, Hu Zhenyu finally left the amateur group, decided to set up a company, commercial operation of the project. Hu Zhenyu to find a partner Shing is a Hong Kong people, graduated from the University of Michigan Aerospace Science Major, is now Tsinghua University Aerospace doctor. Shing Love space since childhood, but because Hong Kong people's identity into the United States and China's core space system opportunities are extremely slim. After arriving at Tsinghua, he has asked Donald Tsang, Mr Leung Chun-ying for help, looking for a graduate to enter the domestic space enterprise job opportunities, but Ling Ke space to let him see a career development of another possibility. Ling Guest Core Founding team another member Wu Xiaofei is a liquid engine engineer who has extensive experience in the design of liquid rocket motors from theoretical to product manufacturing. Their entry point is sounding rockets. Sounding rockets, a rocket that carries out exploration and scientific experiments in near-Earth space, is an effective detection tool at a height of 30-200 kilometres, flying lower than an air ball that flies higher than a low orbit. Compared with the launch vehicle, the sounding rocket is smaller, usually no more than 10 m in length, and the arrow body diameter is not more than 300 mm in the near-Earth space for exploration and scientific testing of rockets. The main advantages of the product will be in price/performance. The main user groups of sounding rockets will mainlyFrom scientific research institutes, institutions of higher learning, communications enterprises, in the country, because of technology closures and industry monopolies, leading to a weak sense of service, although the University and Research Institute has a large demand, the current can be sounding services only the space science and Technology group under the Fourth Institute, but its high prices so that the large number of scientific research institutions Domestic existing Products Eagle Third (TY-3) flight altitude of KM, effective load of kg, the market a single price of 3 million yuan, and Hu Zhenyu hope that within three years of the launch of the Ling customer will be the price of pressure to the market a single sale price to 2.16 million yuan/piece, the use of cost reduced to 100 yuan/kg/km. Research and development focus on the engine and fuel. Ling Guest has completed the 600N attitude Control liquid engine and 3KN variable Thrust liquid rocket engine research and development, in the planning of Hu Zhenyu, the company 2014 to achieve the variable thrust LOX-ETOH prototype experimental machine development, and in 2017 to implement a new sounding rocket launch, launched a 3.35-metre-diameter launch vehicle in 2020. The longer-term goal is to develop a new launch vehicle engine and run a commercial delivery platform--meaning that the model will be space x+ Virgin Air, and that the service object will be transformed from a research institute into a general public, and that in Hu Zhenyu's imagination, it would be as easy as flying a plane. How hard can this be? Baoin Hexi, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Tsinghua University, said: "The external space technology is very mysterious, in fact, I do not worry about the technical research and development." The real threat to their development is the availability of investment, a capital-intensive industry that requires huge sums of money to support. "Hu Zhenyu on the company's valuation of 100 million, he hopes to finance 16 million, for three years of equipment development, technology introduction, testing, personnel and other expenditures." In addition to funding, Professor Baoin Hexi that the biggest risk lies in policy constraints. In China, space technology is still firmly in the hands of the government, there is no clear domestic regulation of sounding rockets, Hu Zhenyu launch sounding rocket only to the air traffic control department and the Air Force to submit applications, booking routes, but when it seeks to enter the broader space, the policy can spared? Hu Zhenyu is optimistic. Just as Alipay initially played a policy ball, who knows what will happen when we can grow strong enough? The Government's current attitude towards private space development is unclear, and only the State Council's press office, published three years ago in the 2011 China Aerospace White Paper, "encourages all sectors of society to participate in space activities and" to create a policy and regulatory environment conducive to the development of aerospace industry. This is a vast and untapped virgin land. According to the report of the U.S. Space Foundation Research Institute, the 2012 global aerospace sector-related market size reached $304 billion trillion. In the United States, there are already a number of private companies represented by the commercial delivery platform space X and Virgin Airlines, which provide ATV travel products, but there are no private airlines in China. This teenager can hit a monopolyThe space market? Last year, before the launch of the rocket, Hu Zhenyu has been haunted by nightmares, the dream he alone to the desert, 3, 2, 1, ignition ... "a loud bang, the rockets did not fly, only debris." He awoke from his dream, and continued to work in the rented town of Guangzhou. Now he has a lot of confidence. I don't think I will fail. Hu Zhenyu said with certainty.