23 January 2024, 04:03 UTC
Flight 3
Carried five Taijing-series remote-sensing satellites built by MinoSpace to sun-synchronous orbit from Jiuquan, including optical imagers and a Ku-band synthetic-aperture radar spacecraft. Marked the third consecutive success for CAS Space's solid-fuel Kinetica 1.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 860 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 16 Kinetica 1 flights
- Date and time
- 23 January 2024, 04:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Kinetica 1
- Builder
- CAS Space
- Launch site
- Launch Area 130, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2024-016
- Launches in 2024
- 16th of 263
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