Not long ago, the China Aerospace Group "penetrated the bottom" and made it clear:In terms of development concepts, scientific research and production models, key core technologies, quality and efficiency, etc., there are obvious gaps and deficiencies with the SpaceX rocket launch company founded by Musk, and the company as a whole is "big but not strong"!
Big but not strong", it should be said that AVIC's self-evaluation is indeed very to the point. You must know that in terms of personnel scale, AVIC has exceeded 150,000, and it still receives a large amount of national capital subsidies every year, but at the technical level, it has been surpassed by the new dark horse SpaceX company, which is really undeserved.
You must know that before the birth of SpaceX, the countries in the world with independent space technology, that is, China, Russia, and the United States. It stands to reason that in terms of technical reserves, the three countries have more advantages than all latecomers, but the reality is that SpaceX, the dark horse, has successfully completed the last.
According to public information,SpaceX has become the world's strongest commercial space service provider, undertaking many important manned space missions of the National Space Administration, including the transportation of cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station. In addition, SpaceX also has advanced achievements in the aerospace field such as rocket technology, low-orbit Internet constellation, and "Starship".
It can be said that at this stage, SpaceX's space technology has become one of the best in the world, and even the National Space Administration of the United States is difficult to compete with at the technical level. Position factors aside, as a private company, Musk's SpaceX company has managed to compete with a country's space power and achieve an overwhelming advantage, which is indeed a remarkable achievement.
What's even more amazing is that SpaceX, which has achieved such great results, currently has only about 6,000 employees. How exaggerated is this number?Taking our country's AVIC Group as an example, in 2021, the total number of employees in AVIC will reach 150,000, which has not been disclosed in the past two years, but it is definitely only a lot more. A team of 6,000 people, and it is also a rising star in the aerospace field, but it has caught up with a super team of 150,000 people, everyone says this is outrageous?
Then again, why is SpaceX, which has just over 6,000 employees, so strong?I think there are a few main reasons. First of all, the United States does not impose too many restrictions on the space field and does not exclude private enterprises from entering the space field.
The second is that SpaceX is an American company, which means that it will not be treated unequally, and will not be arbitrarily suppressed like Huawei.
Of course, the real core reason is the corporate values. There are not too many rules and restrictions within SpaceX, and there is no identity barrier between employees and management, even small employees can boldly put forward their own ideas and opinions, and it is this open environment that provides soil for technological innovation again and again.
Finally, I would like to say that a team of 6,000 people has achieved results that surpass that of a team of more than 100,000 people, and I think this is what we really need to reflect on. I have always believed that in an environment that always emphasizes "respect and inferiority", always emphasizes "superiors and subordinates", and the management always wants to seize the "fruits of labor" created by the bottom employees, it is difficult to have really big technological innovation. Lao Tie, who agrees with my point of view, please give it a thumbs up!