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Chinese start-up to sell tickets for 2027 area tourism flights

Chinese startup Deep Blue Aerospace stated on Thursday it will sell its first two tickets for seats on a rocket that will take passengers to space in 2027, charging 1.5 million yuan ($ 211,000) for the experience.

Deep Blue Aerospace will put the tickets up for sale at 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) and plans to make more readily available next month. Passengers will be handled a suborbital flight, indicating the rocket will reach outer space however not get in orbit.

The commercial traveler flight industry remains in its nascent stages, with U.S. business such as Blue Origin and SpaceX taking an early lead.

Deep Blue Aerospace stated multiple-use rockets are important to decreasing high launch expenses that forbid large-scale commercialisation of space tourism. It said it prepares to recuperate a provider rocket from orbit in the very first quarter of 2025. Other Chinese companies have announced strategies to get in the area tourist sector. In May, state-backed CAS Area said it would launch space tourism flights by 2028.

(source: Reuters)