- The Bitcoin billionaire Chun Wang finances the first manned mission of SpaceX and thus shows the growing role of crypto financing in space.
- Fram2 is a purely civil mission that combines science, space and blockchain ambitions.
SpaceX started his first manned mission space mission. The earth orbit runs over the North and South Pole. The mission named Fram2 took off on March 31, 2025 at 10 p.m. local time from the Kennedy Space Center of NASA in Florida. This groundbreaking flight is financed by Chun Wang, a Malta-based crypto entrepreneur and founder of the Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool, like that New York Post reported.
As Space.com announced in a tweet, FRAM2 is the first manned room flight to circles the earth exactly over its poles.
SpaceX launched the Fram2 astronaut mission today (March 31), the first-ever crewed spaceflight to orbit Earth over its poles. https://t.co/v2OMuVt4cc
— SPACE.com (@SPACEdotcom) April 1, 2025
The mission crew includes three people who got to know Wang in previous polar expeditions: Norwegian filmmaker Jannicke Mikkelsen acts as a commander, the German robotics researcher Rabea Rogge, as a pilot and the Australian doctor Eric Philips.
It is noteworthy that none of the crew members have space experience. This is the first purely civil mission of this kind without a licensed pilot or professional astronauts on board.
FRAM2 trajectory is designed in such a way that it reaches a tendency to the equator of 90 degrees so that the spacecraft can fly over both poles directly. While polar orbits are usually used by satellites for earth observation, this is the first time that a human crew withdraws such a route. The mission opens up new perspectives for scientific observation and data acquisition, which were previously unexplored by manned missions.
The crypto influence
The management of Chun Wang and the financial support of the mission underline the growing influence of the crypto industry on the research of border areas.
As the founder of F2Pool, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools worldwide, Wang’s investment in FRAM2 reflects a broader trend, in which Bitcoin entrepreneurs play an active role in moving the limits of innovation far beyond the financial markets.
At the time of the creation of this article, Bitcoin (BTC) is traded at approx. $ 83,024, which, according to Coinmarketcap, means an increase of 1.12% in the last 24 hours, but still reflects a decline of 4.28% last week.
The overlap of blockchain finance with space research is expanding and indicates a new border not only in orbit, but also in the influence of decentralized finances.
