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 completed B and B1 funding rounds that raised hundreds of millions of yuan.
Deep Blue Aerospace is developing a larger Nebula-2 rocket capable of sending 20,000 kg of payload to low Earth orbit.
Deep Blue Aerospace performed a successful kilometer-level rocket launch and landing test in May 2022.
Deep Blue Aerospace plans to attempt to land the Nebula-1 first stage using retropropulsion and landing legs.
Deep Blue Aerospace lists Nebula-1 payload capacity as 1,000 kg to a 500 km sun-synchronous orbit and plans its first flight in late 2024.
Deep Blue Aerospace plans to launch its first Nebula-1 rocket from a new commercial spaceport at Wenchang, Hainan island, before the end of the year.
Deep Blue Aerospace plans to launch the light-lift Nebula-1 kerosene-liquid oxygen reusable rocket in the second half of 2024.
Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula-1 has a stated payload capacity of 1,000 kg to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit with a first flight planned in late 2024.
Deep Blue Aerospace plans to attempt its first orbital launch and recovery with the Nebula-1 rocket in late 2024.
Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula-1 is a kerolox reusable rocket with a payload capacity of 1,000 kg to a 500 km sun-synchronous orbit and its first flight is planned in late 2024.
Deep Blue Aerospace is developing the Nebula-1 kerolox reusable rocket with a payload capacity of 1,000 kg to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit and a first flight planned in late 2024.
Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula-1 is a kerolox reusable launcher with a payload capacity of 1,000 kg to 500 km SSO and a first flight planned in late 2024.
Multiple Chinese companies are developing reusable rockets, including iSpace’s Hyperbola-3, Landspace’s Zhuque-3, Galactic Energy’s Pallas-1, CAS Space’s Kinetica 2, Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula-1, and Space Pioneer’s Tianlong-3.
Deep Blue Aerospace conducted kilometer-level hop tests in 2022 using smaller engines.
Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula-1 is a kerosene-liquid oxygen reusable launcher with a payload capacity of 1,000 kg to a 500 km sun-synchronous orbit and a first flight planned in late 2024.
Deep Blue Aerospace aims to launch its first Nebula-1 reusable rocket from the Hainan Commercial Launch Site pad in late 2024.
Deep Blue Aerospace conducted a kilometer-level hop test in May 2022 that did not use a rocket engine intended for orbital flights.
Deep Blue Aerospace plans the first flight of its Nebula-1 kerolox rocket in late 2024 from commercial launch facilities near the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan island.
Deep Blue Aerospace completed a successful kilometer-level rocket launch and landing test in 2022.
Subsidiaries of CASC, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, commercial launch company iSpace, and Deep Blue Aerospace have signed contracts to establish a presence in Wenchang International Aerospace City.