The launch mission of Ceres-1 remote five carrier rocket will be carried out on January 9.

CTOnews.com news on January 4, news that Xinghe Power Aerospace will choose the plane on January 9 to implement the "Ceres I (remote five)" commercial carrier rocket launch mission, the mission code is "GIVE ME FIVE".

▲ Ceres 1 (distant five) mission badge | Picture Source: Xinghe Power Aerospace Public data shows 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.

CTOnews.com learned that the Ceres-1 Yao 4 carrier rocket was successfully launched from China's Jiuquan Satellite launch Center 14:20 on November 16, 2022, and the five Jilin-1 high-score 03D satellites were successfully put into orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success, mainly used to provide commercial remote sensing services.