Galactic Energy’s Ceres-1 launch vehicle has succeeded on 21 of 23 launch attempts since November 2020.
Guodian Gaoke is moving its Tianqi constellation away from the small satellites previously flown on Ceres-1 toward larger satellites that are about seven times heavier.
Guodian Gaoke’s Tianqi Internet-of-Things connectivity constellation used seven Ceres-1 flights.
Guodian Gaoke has bought at least six Ceres-1 launches from Galactic Energy.
Ceres-1 has not flown since the Ceres-2 failure.
Some of the listed orbits and fairing sizes align with Galactic Energy’s Ceres-1.
Galactic Energy launched TEE-01B on a Ceres-1 rocket in June 2024.
Ceres-1 carried three Earth observation satellites into sun-synchronous orbit on the Love On Top mission.
The concrete pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center last hosted a Ceres-1 rocket 6 days earlier.
Ceres-1 launched successfully at 05:00 UTC on the mission named Love On Top.
Weibo has previously sponsored a launch of Galactic Energy’s Ceres-1.
Ceres 1 lifted off at 4:10 am local time from a mobile barge in the Yellow Sea off the coast of Shandong province, sending four commercial satellites into low Earth orbit.
Ceres 1 first reached orbit in November 2020 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, becoming the second privately developed Chinese orbital launcher after i Spaces SQX 1.
Ceres 1 can carry a single 300-kilogram spacecraft or a cluster of satellites totaling 300 kilograms to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit, or a 350-kilogram payload to a 200-kilometer low Earth orbit.
Ceres 1 is a solid-fuel rocket about 20 meters tall with a diameter of 1.4 meters and a liftoff mass of 33 metric tons.
Ceres 1 has flown 23 times, placing 89 commercial satellites into orbit, with 21 of those launches reported as successful.
The Ceres 1 family has deployed a total of 89 commercial satellites for a range of domestic and international customers.
Ceres 1 can transport payloads of around 350 kilograms to circular low Earth orbits at an altitude near 200 kilometers.
In its standard configuration, Ceres 1 can deliver up to 300 kilograms to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit either as a single spacecraft or as a cluster of small satellites.
The latest Ceres 1 lifted off at 4:10 a.m. local time from a mobile offshore platform positioned in the Yellow Sea off Shandong province in eastern China.