Deep Blue Aerospace: next year, choose the opportunity to complete the first orbit launch and recovery mission of the "Nebula-1" carrier rocket.

CTOnews.com, November 21, Jiangsu Deep Blue Aerospace Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Deep Blue Aerospace") recently participated in the 25th China International High-tech Achievement Fair, and officials revealed the follow-up plans for the "Nebula-1" carrier rocket.

Deep Blue Aerospace said that in the next step, the company will carry out the vertical recovery flight verification of the "Nebula-1" carrier rocket as planned, and will select the aircraft to complete the first into-orbit launch-recovery mission of the "Nebula-1" carrier rocket in 2024.

According to the CTOnews.com query on the Deep Blue Aerospace official website, the Deep Blue Space "Nebula-1" carrier rocket has a diameter of 3.35m, a fairing length of 4m, and a carrying capacity of 1000 kg @ 500km, supporting rocket one-stage recovery and reuse technology and multi-engine parallel technology.

▲ Tu Yuan Deep Blue Aerospace official website the "Thunder-R1" liquid oxygen kerosene engine carried by this rocket is claimed to be "the first domestic needle bolt technology kerosene engine", with a vacuum thrust of 75-265kR. 85% of the weight of the engine is manufactured by 3D printing and swings behind the pump.

▲ Tuyuan Deep Blue Aerospace official website in October this year, "Thunder-R1" conducted its first long-range test run under rated operating conditions of 420 seconds, the test time covered more than twice the flight time of the first sub-stage of the recyclable rocket "Nebula-1", the engine started and shut down normally, and the whole process worked stably, and the test was a complete success, indicating that the "Thunder-R1" engine has entered a series of boundary, life and reliability test stages.