22 July 2023, 05:07 UTC
Qiankun-1 & Xingshidai‐16
Galactic Energy's Ceres-1 solid rocket (the 'Lemon Tree' mission) placed the Qiankun-1 and Tian'an-1 (StarTimes-16) satellites into orbit from Jiuquan; Qiankun-1 was China's first very-low-Earth-orbit technology-test satellite. It was the sixth consecutive Ceres-1 success.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 225 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 17 Ceres-1 flights
- Date and time
- 22 July 2023, 05:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Ceres-1
- Builder
- Galactic Energy
- Launch site
- Launch Area 95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2023-103
- Launches in 2023
- 110th of 223
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