Maiden Flight

Maiden flight of China Rocket Co.'s solid-fueled Smart Dragon-1 (Jielong-1) light launcher from Jiuquan, orbiting three smallsats: the Qiansheng-1A remote-sensing satellite, the Tianqi-2 IoT data-relay satellite, and the Xingshidai-5 Earth-observation satellite.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

93 kg (est.)

Flight

1st

Only Smart Dragon 1 flight

Date and time

17 August 2019, 04:11 UTC

Rocket

Smart Dragon 1

Builder

China Rocket

Launch site

Launch Area 95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Test Flight

International designator

2019-052

Launches in 2019

57th of 102

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