[News-Oxcart Network]
Recently, a photo of Xiaopeng Automobile's "Senior Ballistic Design Engineer" recruitment has been widely circulated on the Internet and shows that it is very urgently needed. This has caused netizens to speculate that Xiaopeng Automobile is also going to enter the field of private rockets and is ready to build rockets.
Specifically, the position will be responsible for the overall program design of small rockets, numerical calculation of ballistic performance; responsible for the landing area and safety analysis of small rockets; and cooperate with flight tests and test data analysis to put forward optimization suggestions.
The position requires a master's degree or above, major in aircraft design and ballistic design, proficient in flight mechanics, orbital mechanics, missile flight mechanics and other knowledge, with 3 years or more of rocket ballistic related post work experience is preferred.
As one of the three major new car-making forces, Xiaopeng actually has a flying car, intelligent machine horses and other scientific and technological products in the research and development test stage in addition to the car-making business.
In particular, flying cars, a highly futuristic product, are regarded by more and more automobile companies as the next outlet in the field of mobility. He Xiaopeng also made a bold statement of "mass production of flying cars in 2024" at 1024 Technology Dayteam this year. It is threatened not only to mass-produce in 2024, but also to achieve the price of the next generation of flying cars within 1 million yuan. It can be seen that Xiaopeng Automobile has revealed great ambitions in the field of travel technology.
From a foreign point of view, Tesla, which is also a new energy vehicle company, already has a very good launch rocket case Space X. Musk's SpaceX has dominated the new commercial space industry at an alarming rate, from starting its first industry company to putting a rocket into orbit in just 13 years.
In early October this year, Space X also "grabbed the order" boeing company, so that the two astronauts who were scheduled to fly on the Boeing spacecraft would fly to space instead on SpaceX's spacecraft.
Even in China, Geely has also stepped into the field of private rockets after developing satellites, and at the beginning of this year, it also recruited more than 40 positions such as rocket chief engineer, power engineer, rocket structure engineer, and rocket chief craftsman with high salaries. On December 15, Geely's two commercial satellites attempted to launch for the first time, but failed miserably.
From car building to rockets, there is actually an intrinsic connection. Intelligent networking and automatic driving are the development trends of future automobiles and the hot spots of global enterprise competition. The rocket launch business is closely related to the layout of low-orbit satellites, and in the future, it can provide systematic and accurate positioning services for higher-level intelligent driving.
In short, "People are sitting in cars, cars are running on the road, satellites are watching from the sky." For smart technology travel enterprises, by building rockets, launching satellites, building navigation, and building a "space-space integration" technology ecosystem involving the space field, they will be able to provide systematic positioning services for higher-level intelligent driving in the future, so as to maintain a leading position in the field of fiercely competitive intelligent driving.
Regarding the follow-up development of this matter, Oxcart Network will also continue to pay attention.