A Chinese company launches this Thursday the sale of two tickets for a commercial space flight scheduled for 2027. The tickets offered by the company Deep Blue Aerospace cost 1.5 million yuan (195,000 euros) each, a trip during which passengers They will live five minutes of weightlessness.
Tickets will go on sale this Thursday at 6:00 p.m. local time (10:00 GMT) during a live online event, the company announced this week on the WeChat social network.
International space tourism competition
Deep Blue Aerospace is one of China’s leaders in the burgeoning commercial space sector. The authorities encourage the development of this type of company, which will likely catch up with foreign rivals, such as Elon Musk’s US company SpaceX.
A total of 26 launches were carried out by commercial companies in China in 2023, according to official media. Among them is the Zhuque-2, designed by the private company LandSpace and the first rocket in the world to reach orbit with liquid methane engines, a promising technology that allows, in particular, to reduce costs.
The tourist trip put on sale on Thursday will be suborbital, that is, passengers will reach space, where they will stay for 12 minutes, but will not be placed in orbit, the company said.
Many Chinese companies have entered the commercial space sector in recent years. In May, the company CAS Space announced that it will offer space tourism flights in China in 2028.
China has an ambitious official space program. In particular, it plans to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030 and build a lunar base.
Source: BFM TV
