{"city":null,"name":"Deep Blue Aerospace","slug":"deep-blue-aerospace","facts":[{"date":"2026-01-01","type":"revenue_band","value":"[object Object]","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2026-01-01","type":"product_launch","value":"Orbital launch targeted for mid-2026","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2026-01-01","type":"funding_round","value":"New funding","source":"SpaceNews"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":null,"aliases":["深蓝航天"],"country":"China","domains":[{"why":"Deep Blue Aerospace is developing the Nebula-1A orbital launch vehicle, with an orbital launch targeted for mid-2026.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"prospect","layer":null,"total":39,"domain":"Space","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":4,"position":4,"progress":5,"firepower":4,"commercial":2,"deployment":2,"production":2,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-09-24","header":"Deep Blue Aerospace completes two rounds of financing totaling nearly 2 billion yuan","outlet":"36Kr newsflashes"},{"date":"2026-09-21","header":"Deep Blue Aerospace completes nearly 20 billion yuan financing with participation from listed companies Bocom Technology and Hongrun Construction","outlet":"Yicai"},{"date":"2026-01-05","header":"Chinese launch companies are targeting multiple first orbital flights in 2026.","outlet":"Payload"}],"website":"https://deepblueaerospace.com","category":"Space · Launch","categories":[{"name":"Small launch","domain":"Space","parent":"Space · Launch"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-24T10:00:36.901+00:00","facts_total":4,"positioning":"Deep Blue Aerospace is a Chinese small-launch company building the Nebula-1 kerolox VTVL small-lift rocket (~2t to LEO), with multiple low-altitude VTVL hop tests completed but its orbital debut still pending and no orbital-class recovery demonstrated as of August 2026. It is the hop-test pioneer that hasn't converted, its earliest-in-China VTVL lineage now passed by Landspace's orbital landing, with a suborbital-tourism side program. It is pre-revenue (crowdfunded tourism deposits plus VC).","sub_category":"Small launch","signals_total":3,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/deep-blue-aerospace","title":"Deep Blue Aerospace · space, China · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Deep Blue Aerospace is developing the Nebula-1A orbital launch vehicle, with an orbital launch targeted for mid-2026. Space prospect (score 39) 3 signals and 4 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}