02 April 2020
Have you ever thought it would be possible to buy a 40-million-yuan or 5.6-million-U.S.-dollar commercial rocket in an e-commerce platform? Well, that happened on April 1. China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) joined Taobao, China's largest e-commerce platform, and successfully sold out its Kuaizhou-1A or KZ-1A carrier rocket. At 20:45 Wednesday night, Taobao live streamer Viya started to sell the KZ-1 rocket launch service for about 40 million yuan. Just around five minutes later, over 800 people have placed 500,000 yuan down payment.
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Also compare reporting about this event by Blaine Curcio of Orbital Gateway Consulting on his LinkedIn accountÂ