Taijing 3/4, Jilin-1
2/27/2022
The Chaohu-1 SAR satellite has a mass of 325 kg and builds on the Hisea-1 SAR satellite launched on the previous Long March 8 flight.
Spacety tested a xenon Hall thruster provided by China Electronics Technology Group on its Chaohu-1 synthetic aperture radar satellite.
Spacety launched the Chaohu-1 satellite, the first of the planned Tianxian SAR constellation developed in cooperation with the China Electronics Technology Group (CETC).
Spacety has launched two small C-band SAR imagery satellites: Hisea-1 in December 2020 and Chaohu-1 in February 2022, with Chaohu-1 launched for the Tianxian project.