Chinese company's rocket launches 3 satellites into orbit
Images shared on social media demonstrate that the Jiaquan Satellite Launch Center's launch of Galactic Energy of China was successful.
That makes a Chinese rocket firm perfect thus far.
According to posts on social media, Galactic Energy of China launched a Ceres-1 solid rocket into orbit on Tuesday, August 9, from the Jiaquan Satellite Launch Center.
The third successful launch for Galactic Energy was verified by Chinese official media at 12:11 a.m. EDT (04:11 GMT or 12:11 p.m. local time). The Global Times reported(opens in new tab) on Twitter that "Galactic Energy launched the Ceres-1 carrier rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 12:11pm Tue, successfully delivering three commercial satellites into a solar synchronous orbit of 500 km [310 miles]."
Two Taijing-1 spacecraft and a Donghai-1 satellite were on board; China has not disclosed information regarding the upcoming missions of these three little satellites.
One of the Chinese businesses vying to carry out activities in Earth orbit is Galactic Energy. Examples include Landspace, which is getting ready to launch its Zhuque 2 rocket in the near future, and iSpace, which is planning fresh launches of its Hyperbola 1 and Hyperbola 2 rockets.
Orienspace, Deep Blue Aerospace, Space Pioneer, Space Transportation, and Linkspace are further Chinese space enterprises. These different enterprises are competing for business contracts with state-owned organizations including Expace, CAS Space, and China Rocket.
Long March is a family of rockets that is operated by the China National Space Administration. After the most recent launch, a Long March 5B, successfully deployed a portion of the Tiangong space station, which is still under construction and presently houses three taikonauts, 25 tons of debris crashed to Earth in the Pacific Ocean.
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