6/11/2023 0 Comments Commercial rental space pioneer![]() What progress has been made and how close to a launch the company is remains to be seen. It claims to have the only staged combustion engine among China’s private launch firms and to utilize 3D printing. The company initially began exploring monopropellant engines, and reported plans for hop tests with its Tansuo-1 test stage in November 2020. The Tianlong-3 rocket will be benchmarked against the Falcon 9, the firm says. ![]() ![]() The newly-secured funds will be used for the first flight of a reusable kerosene-liquid oxygen launch vehicle capable of carrying more than 3,000 kilograms to LEO named Tianlong, targeting a first launch in 2022. The quiet progress by Space Pioneer sees them join a series of contenders for launching China’s first private liquid launchers this year. A number of cities and provinces have since been looking to attract space startups to boost economies.ĭemonstrating an ability to reliably reach orbit will be the next step. The emergence of the two projects brings a level of certainty for both competitors and investors. Many of the companies noted above now state China’s national Satellite Internet project and associated planned megaconstellation and commercial cargo transport to the under-construction Chinese space station as clear opportunities. In the earlier years business plans were vague, making note only of growing commercial opportunities. The Chinese government opened the launch sector to private activity in 2014. While funding in China’s commercial space sector appeared to be lagging somewhat halfway through 2021, the recent new rounds continue the apparent trend of large investment concentrated in launch firms. Meanwhile Expace, a spinoff from state-owned giant CASIC and operator of Kuiazhou solid rockets, announced late January it is working towards B round funding.Īdditionally, Space Trek, which is developing both liquid suborbital rockets and supersonic target missiles, raised tens of millions of yuan (10 million yuan converts to $1.57 million) for development of its products. Jiuzhou Yunjian signed a deal with new startup Rocket Pi to supply engines to power the Darwin-1 reusable launch vehicle in October last year. Reusable methane-LOX rocket engine maker Jiuzhou Yunjian last month secured at least $15.7 million in new funding from Huaying Investment, Pufeng Venture Capital and prior investors Yunhe Capital and Zhongguancun Qihang Investment. Orienspace, founded in 2020, secured nearly $47 million in pre-A funding for its Gravity series of combined solid-liquid and later larger, reusable launchers. Its next move will be a kilometer-level, vertical takeoff, vertical landing test using the Nebula M1 test stage, following a successful 100-meter test in October. Galactic Energy will use these for upcoming launches of the Ceres-1 solid rocket and the larger, kerosene-liquid oxygen Pallas-1 launcher, set for a first launch in 2023.ĭeep Blue Aerospace, another company developing a reusable kerolox launcher, Nebula-1, secured nearly $31.5 million in funding announced Jan. The most notable is the $200 million announced by Galactic Energy in January, eclipsing the previous Chinese record funding rounds for launch companies. The undisclosed funding round followed at least six other Chinese launch-related companies announcing funding rounds. 8, led by state-owned investment vehicles and is targeting its first orbital launch this year. ![]() Space Pioneer, full name Beijing Tianbing Technology Co., Ltd., announced “major strategic funding” on Feb. HELSINKI - A number of China’s emerging rocket companies have secured major funding rounds in recent weeks as competition to reach orbit intensifies. ![]()
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