Golden Bauhinia 1-03 & others

Galactic Energy's second Ceres-1 flight delivered five commercial satellites to a 500 km sun-synchronous orbit from Jiuquan: Tianjin University-1, Lize-1, Baoyun, and two Golden Bauhinia remote-sensing satellites. It made Galactic Energy the first Chinese private firm to reach orbit twice.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

330 kg (est.)

Flight

2nd

of 17 Ceres-1 flights

Date and time

7 December 2021, 04:12 UTC

Rocket

Ceres-1

Builder

Galactic Energy

Launch site

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

Payload

Dedicated Rideshare

International designator

2021-117

Launches in 2021

126th of 146

See it in orbit

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