China’s private space company Deep Blue Aerospace is planning to launch paying customers to space in 2027. According to the company, each ticket will cost about $2,10,000 or approximately Rs 1.8 crore and it will sell the first two tickets today.
Explaining what the passengers are in for, Deep Blue said, “They will experience the vastness and mystery of the universe and witness the magnificent landscape beyond the Earth.”
“This will be an all-round, multi-sensory space journey that will be unforgettable for a lifetime,” it further said per Space.com which cited a translated official statement.
The company also unveiled the design of its rocket and spacecraft system which resembles SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to some extent. Its rocket also appears similar to the Falcon 9 launch vehicles of SpaceX.
As for the flight profile, it will reportedly be similar to Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, which takes six passengers on a sub-orbital flight and brings them back after a few minutes of weightlessness. Deep Blue’s missions are likely to be similar as they might also last 10-12 minutes from launch to landing.
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Interestingly, the Chinese company is making reusable rockets like the Falcon 9 but hasn’t had much success lately. It’s recent test flight failed recently when the rocket exploded while attempting to land on the launch pad.
Deep Blue representatives have reportedly said that they will conduct dozens of tests of their spacecraft-rocket combination in 2026 to ensure they are safe and reliable.
Apart from Deep Blue, CAS Space which is a spinoff from the Chinese Academy of Sciences that will be entering the space tourism market and launch its first mission later this decade.
Meanwhile in the U.S., several companies other than Blue Origin such as Virgin Galactic and Space Perspective are developing technologies to take paying customers to orbit.
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(Image: Deep Blue Aerospace)
