Ceres-1

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Galactic Energy (GE)

Nov. 7, 2020

Description

Ceres-1 is the first solid propellant launch vehicle of Galactic Energy.

Specifications
  • Minimum Stage
    3
  • Max Stage
    4
  • Length
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  • Diameter
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  • Fairing Diameter
    1.28 m
  • Launch Mass
    ―
  • Thrust
    598.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Ceres-1
  • Family
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  • Variant
    Ceres-1
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    Ceres-1
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    ―
  • Low Earth Orbit
    350.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    ―
  • Direct Geostationary
    ―
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    230.0 kg

Galactic Energy

Commercial
None
GE 2018

Galactic Energy is a private aerospace company headquartered in Beijing, China. Established by senior engineers in 2018, Galactic Energy engages in low-cost commercial space launch business.

Previous Flights

flew on 15 previous launch(es).

Ceres-1 | Yunyao-1 43-48

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
March 21, 2025, 11:07 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

6 weather satellites performing atmospheric measurements using GNSS Radio Occultation for a Tianjin based company. Constellation is planned to have an eventual 90 satellites.

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Ceres-1 | 8 satellites

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
March 17, 2025, 8:07 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Carried 8 satellites to 535 km high SSO: * Yunyao-1 #55-60 * AIRSAT-06 & 07

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Ceres-1 | 5 satellites

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Jan. 20, 2025, 10:11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Carried 5 satellites to sun synchronous orbit: * Yunyao-1 37 to 40 * Jitianxing A-05

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Ceres-1 | 3 satellites

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
June 6, 2024, 5 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Carried 3 satellites to polar orbit, details TBD: * TEE-01B *Naxing-3A/B

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Ceres-1 | 5 satellites

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
May 30, 2024, 11:39 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Carried 5 satellites to orbit: * Jiguang 01 & 02, a pair of inter-satellite laser communication testing satellites * Yunyao-1-14/25/26 GNSS occultation weather satellites

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Ceres-1 | Tianyan-16 & Starpool-01A

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 4, 2023, 11:33 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

2 Earth observation and/or communication satellites for MinoSpace (Tianyan-16) & ELLISPACE (Starpool-01A).

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Ceres-1 | Jilin-1 High Resolution 04B

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Sept. 21, 2023, 4:59 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

New high resolution Earth observation satellite for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation.

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Ceres-1 | Jilin-1 Wideband-02A

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Aug. 25, 2023, 4:59 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Earth observation satellite for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation.

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Ceres-1 | 7 satellites

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Aug. 10, 2023, 4:03 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Seventh launch of the Ceres-1 rocket, a share-ride mission with 7 satellites. This launch carried Xiguang-1 (01), Star Pool-1B satellite, GeoSat Intelligent Emergency-1, and the Xi’an Hangtou -88, -96, -104 and -112 satellites.

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Ceres-1 | Qiankun-1 & Xingshidai‐16

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
July 22, 2023, 5:07 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Share ride launch of 2 satellites to SSO: * Qiankun-1 Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) technology demonstration satellite for CSpace * Xingshidai‐16 Earth observation satellite for ADASpace

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Ceres-1 | 5 satellites

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Jan. 9, 2023, 5:04 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

5 different satellites on a ride share launch mission, details TBD. The 5 satellites are: * Xiamen SciTech 1 * Tianqi 13 * Tianmu-1 01 & 02 * Nantong Zhongxue

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Ceres-1 | Jilin-1 High Resolution 03D-08, 51 to 54

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Nov. 16, 2022, 6:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

5 new Earth observation satellites for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation.

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Ceres-1 | Taijing-1-01 & 02

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Aug. 9, 2022, 4:11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Two commercial Earth observation satellites built by Minospace.

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Ceres-1 | Golden Bauhinia 1-03 & others

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 7, 2021, 4:12 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

This mission carried five commercial small satellites into orbit. These include: a remote sensing satellite Tianjin University-1, two remote sensing satellites for Golden Bauhinia 1 (also known as Jinzijing 1) constellation; and experimental satellites Lize-1 and Baoyun.

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Ceres-1 | Tianqi-11

Galactic Energy | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Nov. 7, 2020, 7:12 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Tianqi (also transcribed Tiange) is a series of small Chinese experimental LEO comsats by Guodian Gaoke for IoT (Internet of Things) communications, which are also carrying a camera for educational purposes. Guodian Gaoke plans to operate an IoT constellation. The "Apocalypse Constellation" provides users with much-needed data collection and transmission services for terrestrial network coverage blind areas, which are widely used in marine, environmental protection, meteorological, forestry, geological, emergency, rescue and smart city industries to enhance China's global data network coverage and application capabilities are of strategic importance.

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