Xinghe Power: in the near future, it will choose an opportunity to carry out the launch mission of Ceres-1 (Yaowu) commercial carrier rocket.

Thank CTOnews.com netizens for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, December 26 (Xinhua)-- Xinghe Power Aerospace announced today that it will choose an aircraft to launch the "Ceres-1 (remote five)" commercial carrier rocket in the near future, codenamed "GIVE ME FIVE".

▲ Ceres 1 (distant five) mission badge | Source: Xinghe Power Aerospace CTOnews.com learned that Xinghe Power Company, founded in February 2018, is a domestic commercial aerospace technology company. Up to now, Xinghe Power Aerospace has achieved four consecutive successful launch missions, providing launch services to 7 satellite customers and a total of 14 satellites.

Among them, the Ceres-1 carrier rocket is a four-stage light commercial carrier rocket independently developed by Xinghe Power Aerospace. The first, second and third stages use solid power, and the fourth stage adopts integrated liquid power of orbit control and attitude control. The rocket has a diameter of 1.4 meters, a total length of about 20 meters, a takeoff weight of about 33 tons, and a maximum capacity of 300 kilograms in a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.

Prior to this, Xinghe Power successfully launched Ceres-1 (Yao-3) Xingguang Yicai carrier rocket from Jiuquan Satellite launch Center on August 9 this year, successfully sending Taijing-02, Ping'an-3 and Donghai-1 satellites into 500km sunsynchronous orbit.