The failure of Ceres-1 will affect other missions set to fly this year and may delay the vehicle's next flight until 2026.
The Ceres-1 launch vehicle has a payload capacity of 420 kilograms to low Earth orbit, 300 kilograms to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit, and 270 kilograms to a 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.
GalacticEnergy's Ceres-1 Y19 rocket failed to reach orbit due to an anomaly during the final stage of flight.
Galactic Energy attempted to launch its Ceres-1 vehicle into sun-synchronous orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 12:02 pm China Standard Time on November 10.
The Ceres-1 Y 19 mission failed.
The first three stages of the Ceres-1 launch vehicle performed normally, but the fourth stage experienced an abnormal shutdown 510 seconds into flight.
GALACTIC-ENERGY launched CERES-1 Y19 from Jiuquan at 04:02 UTC on November 10.
Ceres-1 and KZ-11 with the Dier capsule may launch in October.
China has executed 18 sea-based missions using four rocket families: Long March 11, Smart Dragon 3, Ceres 1, and Gravity 1.
The fourth stage of Ceres-1 can be replaced by Galactic Energy’s Eros orbital test platform.
Galactic Energy’s Ceres-1 launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on September 5 at 19:39 China Standard Time (11:39 UTC) into sun-synchronous orbit.
Galactic Energy’s blog reports that Ceres-1 has flown into orbit 20 times carrying a total of 85 satellites.
Ceres-1 second-stage solid rocket motor produces 28 tons of thrust.
The first stage of Ceres-1 produces 60 tons of thrust using an undisclosed solid propellant.
Ceres-1 first-stage solid rocket motor produces 60 tons of thrust.
Ceres-1 has a payload capacity of 270 kilograms to a 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.
The Ceres-1 fourth stage can be replaced with Galactic Energy’s Eros orbital test platform.
The second stage of Ceres-1 produces 28 tons of thrust using an undisclosed solid propellant.
Galactic Energy’s Ceres-1 launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on September 5 at 19:39 China Standard Time (11:39 Universal Coordinated Time) into a sun-synchronous orbit.
Galactic Energy’s Eros orbital test platform replaced the Ceres-1 fourth stage for the second time to carry out in-space experiments and technology verifications for an undisclosed customer.