{"id":132039,"date":"2021-12-09T03:29:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/chinas-galactic-energy-launches-second-ceres-1-rocket-successfully"},"modified":"2021-12-09T03:29:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:29:26","slug":"chinas-galactic-energy-launches-second-ceres-1-rocket-successfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/chinas-galactic-energy-launches-second-ceres-1-rocket-successfully","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Galactic Energy launches second Ceres-1 rocket successfully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-galactic-energy-launches-second-ceres-1-rocket-successfully.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese private spaceflight company Galactic Energy has made the second flight of its Ceres-1 rocket, carrying five satellites into orbit, including a satellite known as Golden Bauhinia-1\u201303. The launch took place at 04:12 UTC on Tuesday, December 7th (12:12 Beijing time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Ceres-1 is a four-stage rocket, using three solid-fueled stages with a hydrazine-fueled fourth stage to complete orbital insertion and refinement. Ceres-1 is capable of launching a payload of up 400 kilograms to low Earth orbit, or up to 230 kilograms into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 700 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as Gushenxing-1, Ceres-1 was developed by Galactic Energy, one of several Chinese companies currently fielding or testing small solid-fueled satellite launchers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2020\/11\/introducing-chinas-new-commercial-rocket-ceres-1\/\">The first Ceres-1 launch was conducted successfully on November 7, 2020<\/a>, making Galactic Energy the second private Chinese company to launch a satellite into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese private spaceflight company Galactic Energy has made the second flight of its Ceres-1 rocket, carrying five satellites into orbit, including a satellite known as Golden Bauhinia-1\u201303. The launch took place at 04:12 UTC on Tuesday, December 7th (12:12 Beijing time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Ceres-1 is a four-stage rocket, using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}