Deep Blue Aerospace Completes B3 Round Financing and Future Plans
TapTechNews August 13th news, Deep Blue Aerospace today announced the successful completion of the B3 round of strategic financing. This round is invested by Zheng Yue Investment Zhenghe Yunfan Fund, and also gets the support of Xiamen City and Jimei District.
After completing this round of financing, Deep Blue Aerospace will also establish an international business and service headquarters in Jimei District, Xiamen. The international headquarters of Deep Blue Aerospace will face overseas markets, especially the markets of countries along the "Belt and Road"; in terms of services, Deep Blue Aerospace will expand commercial rocket research, education, popular science and supply chain supporting, and aerospace electronics manufacturing and testing businesses in Xiamen.
After the completion of this financing, Deep Blue Aerospace will focus more on the breakthrough of core technologies and the commercial application of the "Nebula" series of recyclable reusable rockets. It is expected that at the end of August, Deep Blue Aerospace will carry out the high-altitude vertical recovery flight test of the first stage of the Nebula-1 recoverable launch vehicle in China.
According to the introduction, different from other rocket recovery tests in China, this test is not using a test rocket for technology verification, but the launch vehicle product of Deep Blue Aerospace that is about to carry out the first flight into orbit + recovery flight mission and is for commercial application. This means that the first stage of the Nebula-1 launch vehicle in this test is not only designed to meet the requirements of high-altitude vertical recovery flight tests, but also can perform orbital flight missions; not only to achieve the successful recovery of the rocket, but also can be reused multiple times after recovery.
TapTechNews noticed that on May 28 this year, Deep Blue Aerospace announced the successful completion of the B round and B1 round of financing, obtaining several hundred million yuan of funds injection.
In July this year, Deep Blue Aerospace completed the B2 round of financing and became a multi-round cornerstone investor, completing and locking up nearly 1 billion.
The Nebula-1 rocket is planned to make its first flight this year, and the first flight preparation work of the Nebula-1 rocket is now in full swing. The Nebula-2 rocket, which is planned to make its first flight at the end of 2025, will have a takeoff scale of 1,000 tons and also has the ability to be recovered and reused.
The Nebula-2 first flight rocket is also a 2-stage configuration, with a diameter of 5 meters and a near-earth orbit payload capacity increased to 20 tons, equipped with 10 Super Thunder liquid oxygen kerosene engines.
