CERES 1

Galactic Energy lost a Ceres-1 rocket and its payload on the 2023-09-21 launch.

The mobile rocket launch barge designated DE FU 15002 was used for the 2023-09-05 Ceres-1 launch.

The 2023-09-05 Ceres-1 launch carried four satellites for Guodian Gaoke.

Galactic Energy launched its first Ceres-1 solid rocket in November 2020.

The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off from a transport erector launcher on a mobile sea platform off the coast of Haiyang, Shandong province at 5:34 a.m. Eastern (0934 UTC) 2023-09-05.

Ceres-1 can deliver 400 kg to low Earth orbit or 300 kg to a 500-kilometer-altitude sun-synchronous orbit.

Ceres-1 has a mass at take-off of about 33,000 kg and uses a liquid propellant upper stage.

China’s Eastern sea launch spaceport in Haiyang facilitated the 2023-09-05 Ceres-1 launch.

Ceres-1 can deliver 400 kg to low Earth orbit or 300 kg to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.

Guodian Gaoke’s Tianqi-13 satellite launched to orbit on a Ceres-1 in January 2023.

Thursday’s Ceres-1 launch carried satellites named Xiguang-1 (01), Star Pool-1B, GeoSat Intelligent Emergency-1, and Xi’an Hangtou -88, -96, -104, and -112.

The seventh Ceres-1 launch used a transporter erector launcher at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

The seventh Ceres-1 rocket launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 12:03 a.m. Eastern, 2023-08-10 (0403 UTC).

Chinese commercial firm C-Space launched the Qiankun-1 VLEO satellite on 2023-07-22 on a Galactic Energy Ceres-1 solid rocket.

The Ceres-1 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 1:07 a.m. Eastern (05:07 UTC) on 2023-07-22.

Ceres-1 can deliver 400 kg to low Earth orbit or 300 kg to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.

The 2023-07-22 launch used the third vehicle from a batch of 10 mass-produced Ceres-1 rockets.

Galactic Energy launched two satellites into orbit on 2023-07-22 using a Ceres-1 four-stage solid rocket.