北京天兵科技有限公司
Space Pioneer (Beijing Tianbing Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese aerospace company established in 2019 that focuses on developing reusable orbital rocket technology, including launch vehicles and liquid rocket engines. They aim to provide low-cost space launch services and meet the launch demands for projects like the Chinese national satellite internet and resupply missions to the Tiangong space station. Space Pioneer's key products include the Tianlong series of rockets (TL-2 and TL-3), and their customers potentially include the CNSA and commercial satellite companies. The company is also developing rocket engines such as the Tianhuo series.
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Six firms—Galactic Energy, iSpace, Landspace, Space Pioneer, CAS Space, and Expace—reached orbit in 2023.
Space Pioneer (Tianlong-2) and Landspace (Zhuque-2) became the first Chinese commercial firms to reach orbit with liquid propellant rockets in 2023.
Chinese commercial launch companies Galactic Energy, iSpace, Space Pioneer, Landspace, CAS Space, and Expace had all reached orbit in 2023.
Commercial firms Galactic Energy, iSpace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace, and state-owned commercial spinoffs CAS Space and Expace, reached orbit in 2023.
Chinese commercial launch companies CAS Space, iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace reached orbit in 2023.
Space Pioneer and Landspace achieved first commercial liquid propellant launch successes in 2023.
iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace reached orbit in 2023, and Orienspace aimed to conduct its first launch with the Gravity-1 solid rocket in the second half of 2023.
Space Pioneer has multiple orders for Tianlong-2 launches and plans to launch the Falcon-9-class Tianlong-3 in the first half of 2024.
Landspace is the second private Chinese launch firm to reach orbit with a liquid-propellant rocket after Space Pioneer’s Tianlong-2 reached orbit in April 2023.
Beijing Tianbing Technology Co., Ltd operates under the trade name Space Pioneer.
Space Pioneer raised a total of three billion Chinese yuan across 11 funding rounds since its establishment in 2018.
Space Pioneer has signed 10 launch orders for its Tianlong-2 rocket.
Space Pioneer plans for Tianlong-3 to be capable of conducting up to 30 launches per year starting in 2025 if the vehicle is successful.
The Tianlong-2 rocket used 85-ton-thrust YF-102 gas-generator engines developed by CASC rather than Space Pioneer’s Tianhuo engines.
Space Pioneer states that Tianlong-3 can lift 17,000 kg to low Earth orbit or 14,000 kg to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.
Space Pioneer secured B+ and Pre-C strategic funding rounds and says it has raised nearly 3 billion yuan since its founding in 2018.
Space Pioneer is planning a Tianlong-3 test launch in May 2024.
Three YF-102 engines powered the first stage of the Tianlong-2 rocket developed by private company Space Pioneer.
Space Pioneer plans to ramp up to a planned cadence of more than 12 launches per year from 2025.
Space Pioneer became the first Chinese private launch firm to achieve orbit with a liquid propellant rocket on 2023-04-02.