{"city":"Beijing","name":"Space Pioneer (Tianbing)","slug":"space-pioneer-tianbing","facts":[{"date":"2026-09-01","type":"setback","value":"Completed a failure-review process, identified and reproduced the failure mechanism, validated corrective measures and began replanning a subsequent Tianlong-3 flight; no successful recovery flight had yet been verified","source":"jiemian.com"},{"date":"2026-04-01","type":"setback","value":"Tianlong-3 failed on its maiden orbital flight from Jiuquan after an in-flight anomaly approximately 33 seconds after liftoff; the planned 36-satellite mission was not achieved","source":"investing.com"},{"date":"2026-04-01","type":"product_launch","value":"Tianlong-3 flight campaign entries on 2026 manifests","source":"spacelaunching/nextspaceflight"},{"date":"2025-10-01","type":"partnership","value":"Guoyu Gaohua, Jigang Group, China Orient Asset Management, Shenwan Investment, Bank of China Asset Management and other institutional investors","source":"spacepioneer.cc"},{"date":"2025-10-01","type":"funding_round","value":"Nearly RMB 2.5 billion in new Pre-D and D financing","source":"spacepioneer.cc"},{"date":"2024-06-01","type":"revenue_band","value":"<25m USD disclosed external propulsion revenue","source":"record"}],"peers":[],"stage":"Public","state":"Beijing","aliases":["天兵科技"],"country":"China","domains":[{"why":"Space Pioneer develops and markets Tianlong orbital launch services for satellite customers, including the Tianlong-2 and Tianlong-3 vehicles.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":57,"domain":"Space","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":4,"position":6,"progress":4,"firepower":8,"commercial":2,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[],"website":"https://spacepioneer.cc","category":"Space · Launch","categories":[{"name":"Heavy & medium","domain":"Space","parent":"Space · Launch"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-25T23:19:36.455605+00:00","facts_total":12,"positioning":"Space Pioneer, also known as Beijing Tianbing Technology or Tianbing Technology, is a Chinese private launch developer building medium-to-heavy liquid-fueled rockets and in-house kerosene-liquid-oxygen engines for commercial and national satellite-internet launch demand. It reached orbit with Tianlong-2 in Apr-23, raised nearly RMB 2.5 billion in new Pre-D and D financing in Oct-25, completed a Tianlong-3 sea-level propulsion-system test in Sep-25, and then failed Tianlong-3's maiden orbital flight on Apr-03-26 after the 2024 static-test accident. Its ecosystem reach includes Chinese state-linked and institutional investors, Zhangjiagang, Jiuquan and Haiyang launch infrastructure, and planned national satellite-constellation demand, but no independently verified recurring launch revenue or successful post-failure recovery flight is public.","sub_category":"Launch services","signals_total":0,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/space-pioneer-tianbing","title":"Space Pioneer (Tianbing) · space, Beijing, Beijing, China · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Space Pioneer develops and markets Tianlong orbital launch services for satellite customers, including the Tianlong-2 and Tianlong-3 vehicles. Space watchlist (score 57)","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."}