On September 28, 2026, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, issued an EPC general contracting tender announcement for a high-end intelligent manufacturing super dark factory project (Gansu Economic Information Network, public tender). The tenderer is Interstellar Exploration (Gansu) Aerospace Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The project has a total investment of 3.55 billion yuan and a total construction area of 181,518.02 square meters. It is located in the New Energy Comprehensive Utilization Industrial Park, Dongdong Town, Suzhou District, Jiuquan City, and is laid out as '1 R&D base + 4 production centers': Rocket Final Assembly, Testing and Delivery Center; Rocket Engine Production and Test Center (equipped with 3D printing equipment, precision machining, assembly lines, and test stands); Rocket Reuse Inspection Center; and Intelligent Manufacturing Center. It focuses on the full-process unmanned and intelligent manufacturing of reusable rockets, creating a 'super dark factory' to achieve 'building rockets like cars.' Equipment investment accounts for 1.871 billion yuan. The total construction period is 395 days, with a planned start in November 2026. This is another heavyweight EPC tender for commercial aerospace reusable rocket manufacturing, following the 'Commercial Aerospace High-End Intelligent Manufacturing Factory' in the same park (3 billion yuan, including a 6,300-ton-per-year metal powder center). Value for powder buyers: The rocket engine production center explicitly includes 3D printing equipment. Metal additive manufacturing of reusable rocket engines (thrust chambers/combustion chambers) will directly consume titanium alloy, superalloy, and copper alloy powders. Together with the 6,300-ton powder center, this forms a 'powder production-printing' closed loop, accelerating the realization of commercial aerospace powder consumable demand.