Space Pioneer has announced new funding & will soon attempt to become China’s first privately-funded company to reach orbit with a liquid-propellant rocket. The company has raised nearly 3 billion yuan ($438 million) in funding since its founding in 2018. Space Pioneer’s Tianlong-2 rocket is nearing its first launch & is set to lift off before the end of March. Another company, Landspace, almost achieved this late last year with its methane-liquid oxygen Ziuque 2 rocket. Tinalong 2 is designed to lift 3,300lbs (1,500kgs) into a 310-mile-high (500kms) sun-synchronous orbit. Space Pioneer is also developing a larger Tinalong 3 rocket … Continue reading China’s Space Industry Expands with Space Pioneer’s Funding and New Liquid-Propellant Rocket