17 January 2026, 04:08 UTC
Demo Flight
Maiden flight of Galactic Energy's Ceres-2 solid-fuel rocket from Jiuquan ended in failure when a cracked first-stage motor nozzle caused loss of control; about six satellites were lost, including the Lilac-3 ultra-flat demonstrator.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Ceres-2 flight
- Date and time
- 17 January 2026, 04:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Ceres-2
- Builder
- Galactic Energy
- Launch site
- Launch Area 95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2026
- 13th of 243