江苏深蓝航天科技有限公司
Deep Blue Aerospace (Jiangsu Deep Blue Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd.), founded in 2016, is a Chinese private space launch company focused on developing reusable liquid-fueled rockets. Their primary products are the Nebula series launch vehicles (Nebula-I and Nebula-II) and the Thunder series of liquid rocket engines, like the Thunder-RS. The company aims to provide cost-effective commercial launch services and is also venturing into suborbital space tourism, with plans for commercial flights in 2027. Deep Blue Aerospace is headquartered in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, and has established multiple R&D and manufacturing facilities across China.
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Deep Blue Aerospace announced on September 30th that Nebula-1’s second-stage completed a static fire ahead of the rocket's debut flight.
Deep Blue Aerospace set mid-2025 as their target to launch Nebula-1 into orbit, likely from the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site’s Commercial Launch Pad 2.
Deep Blue Aerospace is working to upgrade Nebula-1 through a new variant while trying to perform its first launch.
Deep Blue Aerospace successfully fired up its Thunder-RS2 engine in a full-system test on September 16.
Twelve Thunder-RS engines will power Deep Blue Aerospace's Nebula-2 rocket, with its debut flight set for 2026.
Deep Blue Aerospace raised nearly ¥500M in funding during the first 4 months of 2025.
Deep Blue Aerospace's funding came from the city government of Taishan.
Deep Blue Aerospace completed a B4 funding round of nearly ¥500 million shortly after iSpace raised hundreds of millions of dollars.
Deep Blue Aerospace plans to launch the two-stage, 3.35-meter-diameter Nebula-1 in 2025 with the goal of recovering and reusing the rocket.
Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula-1 uses kerolox propellant, has a payload capacity of 1,000 kg to a 500 km sun-synchronous orbit and 2,000 kg to LEO, and has a first flight planned in late 2024.
Deep Blue Aerospace is selling two seats for 2027 suborbital flights, creating competition in China’s suborbital tourism market.
Deep Blue Aerospace’s full ticket price for suborbital flights is 1.5 million yuan ($210,000).
Deep Blue Aerospace targets providing suborbital tourism flights starting in 2027.
Deep Blue Aerospace plans dozens of test flights before starting commercial suborbital services in 2027.
Deep Blue Aerospace sold the first two suborbital tickets on presale in a Taobao live-streaming event on 2024-10-24 featuring chairman Huo Liang.
Deep Blue Aerospace plans a full orbital flight and recovery of Nebula-1 in 2025.
Deep Blue Aerospace plans multiple recovery and reuse tests of Nebula-1 in 2025 followed by dozens of crew spacecraft-rocket combination tests in 2026 to enable suborbital manned travel commercialization in 2027.
Deep Blue Aerospace’s suborbital vehicle will fly to an altitude between 100 and 150 km and provide up to 600 seconds of microgravity experience for passengers.
Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula-1 is a kerolox rocket with a payload capacity of 1,000 kg to 500 km SSO and 2,000 kg to LEO with a first flight planned in late 2024.
Deep Blue Aerospace announced a B-round funding round worth tens of millions of dollars 2024-05.