Chinese Space Company, Deep Blue Aerospace, Promises Affordable Tickets to Space

Deep Blue Aerospace (DBASpace), a Chinese firm that develops and produces reusable rockets, is now selling tickets for its space tourism flight in 2027.

Details on the sale of the tickets were first uploaded to the firm’s official Weibo account, inviting interested individuals to pay a deposit to secure spots on the tickets’ sale.

Details on the Deep Blue Aerospace space tourism

The coming space tourism event will take place in 2027. Although there is no set date, the firm is already marketing tickets to potential buyers.

These tickets will cost 1.5 million yuan (~$211,000) and can be purchased if buyers pay an initial deposit of 50,000 yuan (~$7,021.38) as security.

The first two tickets will be sold via a live stream hosted by Huo Liang, the founder of Deep Blue Aerospace.

Buyers who purchase the tickets will get a first-hand experience of suborbital tourism, which is “much more than a brief weightlessness experience,” as the Chinese aerospace firm states.

This means that the spaceship which will embark on this tourism voyage will not go into space orbit but will reach the earth’s exosphere.

At the exosphere, tourists on the Deep Blue Aerospace space tourism ship will experience five minutes of zero gravity.

For the total 1.5 million yuan experience, Deep Blue Aerospace promises to give tourists an opportunity to “experience the vastness and mystery of the universe and witness the magnificent landscape beyond the Earth.”

Deep Blue Aerospace also promises tourists that “this will be an all-round, multisensory space journey that will be unforgettable for a lifetime.”

Details on Deep Blue Aerospace

Originally founded in November 2016, Deep Blue Aerospace has grown to become a leader in the burgeoning Chinese commercial space sector ahead of local competition.

The Nebula-1 is Deep Blue Aerospace’s first commercial liquid rocket capable of reaching orbit and being reused. In March 2024, this firm successfully completed the first substage testing of its three-engine state power system, the Nebula-1. However, the rocket encountered issues during landing. According to a statement from Deep Blue Aerospace, the mission was “not completely successful.”

With various achievements in the space sector under its belt, Deep Blue is now looking to venture into space tourism with its coming 2027 space voyage.

China plans more tourism flights like this for 2028 and a mission to the moon for 2030.