"Jarvis" is here, when will the Chinese version of Iron Man soar into the sky?

The US Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has once again become famous.

This time, it is because the company, which has been showing its ambition in the aerospace industry, recently announced that it will launch a commercial space tourism project at the end of next year, and two space tourists will fly around the moon. If successful, this will be another milestone and the first manned trip to the moon in 45 years since the end of the Apollo moon landing program.

SpaceX has once again unsurprisingly put its founder, Elon Musk, in the headlines. In addition to posting scathing comments on social networks, living a Hollywood blockbuster lifestyle, and repeating over and over again, "I'm afraid of artificial intelligence," the business legend created by this founder is the key to always keeping the spotlight on him. Like Jobs, Musk is also known as the "tech maniac who changed the world." Obviously, his dreams are even crazier. He respects technology, is obsessed with innovation, and is determined to change the world. He dreams of solving problems such as transportation and global warming through technology.

We can draw a picture of this "madman" from Ashley Vance's biography of Musk: He plunged into the Internet boom in 1995 and founded a company called Zip2 right after graduating from college. His first entrepreneurial venture was a great success. Compaq acquired Zip2 for $307 million in 1999, and Musk made $22 million from the deal, and then invested almost all of the money in his next startup, which gradually evolved into today's PayPal. In 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion, and as PayPal's largest shareholder, Musk became very rich. Then, Musk turned to SpaceX, investing $100 million and $70 million in Tesla...

Whether it is his struggle in Tesla, his adventure in SpaceX, his determination in SolarCity, or his radicalism in Hyperloop, he is trying to convey a concept - the real legendary success is to realize his vision of the future through business and leave a mark on mankind. And he finally relied on this trait to make everyone yearn for his madness, and expressed their crazy support for him with the affectionate title of "Silicon Valley Iron Man".

Today, as China begins to have more and more successful entrepreneurs and more and more technology and Internet upstarts begin to try to enter the private aerospace field, his story does have some special significance. More and more Chinese technology companies are also trying to "copy" SpaceX's aerospace legend.

On January 14 this year, Beijing Blue Arrow Space Technology Co., Ltd. and Denmark's Gomspace signed a rocket launch service agreement. This is the first order of commercial rocket launch services in the international market undertaken by a domestic private commercial aerospace enterprise. In 2012, relying on self-raised funds, four post-90s college students in Guangzhou developed the first civilian rocket in China. However, due to the limitation of funds and test conditions, the first real rocket launch experiment of the four college students failed.

It turns out that whether it is the "Iron Man" on the screen or the "Iron Man" in reality, they all need their own "Jarvis" to help them exert their powerful strength. Even Musk himself is not as simple as "these companies start from scratch as much as possible" as described in the book "The Adventures of Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley Iron Man" - you cannot ignore the more powerful "Jarvis" behind the scenes with technology, capital, and cloud computing.

Take cloud computing as an example (it has become an essential skill for rockets to go to the sky). In this huge aerospace project, a large amount of data will be generated in each link, and under the iron law of high precision, the analysis and calculation of data need to be very accurate. To complete such a data analysis and calculation task, it is necessary to rely on powerful cloud computing technology. It can be seen that cloud computing is playing an increasingly important role in NASA's space exploration journey. AWS cloud computing is present in almost every NASA space exploration mission. To this end, NASA and AWS began to work together to try to carry out a project called OpenNEX to provide researchers with an easier and more efficient way to access and process earth science data.

Musk's legend also seems to prove that if all the "Jarvis" are assembled, the story of "Iron Man" can also be replicated.

In August 2015, the private commercial aerospace company OneSpace became the first private enterprise in China to have "launch vehicles and other spacecraft" written on its business license. The overall plan of its flagship product, the "Messenger-1" small commercial launch vehicle, passed the technical review in July last year. If everything goes according to plan, it will make its first flight in 2018 and become the "Chinese version of SpaceX" in the eyes of the public. Like Musk's SpaceX, OneSpace has also found a "Jarvis" for itself. While obtaining financial support from big capitals such as Chunxiao, Lu Shi, and Lenovo Star, as well as a professional technical team, they announced a partnership with professional cloud computing service provider UCloud to achieve large-scale data storage and fast computing for rockets through cloud computing. This "Jarvis" will also provide strong resource support for it, completing the tedious work from massive data storage to elastic data computing, from image processing to big data analysis. This enables researchers who previously had difficulty accessing this data due to its dynamic nature and huge size (tens of TB) to quickly process data, and to efficiently analyze and process the huge amount of data produced by aerospace products at low cost, and provide it to scientific research, education users and scientists through UCloud's cloud platform, so that people can easily obtain and use a large number of data analysis services through UCloud, quickly acquire knowledge and open source tools and benefit from them. Behind this cooperation is the open source collaboration in the two fields of rockets and cloud computing, and it is also another manifestation of UCloud's practice of the concept of "using is more valuable than owning". Now UCloud, which is in the top three of China's cloud computing industry, attempts to achieve technological innovation-driven enterprise upgrades through the application of cloud computing in the aerospace field.

Just like "Jarvis" in "Iron Man" who can think independently, help Tony deal with various affairs, and calculate various information, although the development of Iron Man's mecha and the update of the Ark reactor cannot be separated from its assistance, you still cannot see or touch this "intelligent system". As a company that provides technical services from the upgrade of Internet companies to the transformation of traditional companies, although UCloud meets the diverse needs of enterprises with a stable, efficient and customized style, and becomes the intelligent brain of "Iron Man" in various industries through a comprehensive service chain, and becomes the "Jarvis" standing behind, it is also hidden behind, invisible but contains powerful power.

The entry of private capital OneSpace, coupled with the support of UCloud's cloud computing, can be said to be a "spring herald" in the private aerospace field. While "Iron Men" are emerging in endlessly, the emergence of more "Jarvis" is also urgently needed. After all, the entry of UCloud is fragrant, but "a hundred flowers bloom" can make the garden full of spring. We have reason to believe that the east wind has come, and the Chinese version of "Iron Man" will also soar into the sky and usher in the "spring" after "breaking the ice".

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.