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Galactic Energy
Galactic Energy
Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Time: 4:11 AM UTC (UTC +0)

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to space

White is the New Black (Taijing-1 1 & 2)

The 'White is the New Black' mission marks the beginning of Galaxy Aerospace's large-scale commercial launches and deliveries. This launch will contain two Earth observation satellites developed by Minostar and Beijing Weina Star Technology: the Taijing-1 1 & 2.

On this

rocket

Ceres-1

Ceres-1 is China's newest entry to the small satellite launch market. Developed by Chinese company Galactic Energy (or Beijing Xinghe Dongli Space Technology Co. Ltd.). Named after the first asteroid discovered by humans. Ceres is the goddess of agriculture and harvest in Roman mythology.

Stats

Height: 19 m (62 ft)

Diameter: 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in)

Payload capacity: 400 kg (880 lb) to low Earth orbit or 300 kg (660 lb) to 500 km Sun-synchronous orbit.

Ceres-1 is a four-stage rocket, the first three stages use solid-propellant rocket motors and the final stage uses a hydrazine propulsion system.

Ceres-1 first launched on November 7th, 2020, taking the Tianqi 11 satellite to a sun-synchronous orbit making Galactic Energy the second private Chinese firm, after iSpace, to reach orbit.

Credit: Galactic Energy

From this

launch site

Site 95 -- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
August 9, 2022

The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is a Chinese spaceport located in the Gobi desert, about 1,600 km from Beijing. It is part of the Dongfeng Aerospace City.

Image: VCG

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