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Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Launch Area 95A Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Test launch of Hyperbola-1 to test reliability after 3 successive failures in 2021-22.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • April 7, 2023, 4:30 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m.

April 7 launch date confirmed per NOTAMs.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 4, 2023, 1:18 p.m.

Reverting back to April TBD due to no update to NOTAMs and rumors of another delay.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 2, 2023, 4:39 a.m.

NET April 5 per NOTAMs.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 1, 2023, 4:50 p.m.

Launch apparently delayed with related NOTAMs cancelled and reported by insiders.


Hyperbola-1

Family:
Configuration: 1

i-Space's first orbital rocket.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    4
  • Length
    38.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.5 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Hyperbola-1
  • Family
  • Variant
    1
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Hyperbola-1
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    300.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

i-Space

i-Space

(i-Space)

Founded: 2016 Successes: 4 Failures: 4 Pending: 1

Agency Type:

i-Space is a Chinese private space launch company based in Beijing and founded in October 2016.

INFO WIKI

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Launch Area 95A


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Falcon 9
Success
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Falcon 9
Success
5 days, 12 hours ago
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Kinetica 1
Success
5 days, 17 hours ago
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Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
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Smart Dragon 3
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1 week, 1 day ago
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Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
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