Five stars with one stone! The Kuaizhou-1A rocket was successfully launched and the German-3 Amure satellite

CTOnews.com, August 14, according to a CCTV news report, today, China used the Kuaizhou 1A carrier rocket at the Xichang Satellite launch Center to launch five satellites, including the Hede-3 Atoll satellite. The satellite was successfully launched into the scheduled orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success.

According to CTOnews.com, the Amure satellite Hede-3 (Jiaotong 6-10) is the networking star of the transportation VDES satellite system, which is mainly used for the integrated transportation security system of "land, sea, air and space".

Traffic VDES satellite system is the basic guarantee of marine intelligent shipping communication, marine situation awareness and intelligent ocean detection, and can provide global satellite Internet of things communication services and aircraft supervision services in the field of navigation. It will become an important part of the Global Maritime distress and Safety system (GMDSS).

The Kuaizhou-1A rocket carrying out this launch mission is a small solid carrier rocket launched by Aerospace Sanjiang Aerospace Science and Technology Rocket Technology Co., Ltd., which belongs to China Aerospace Science and Technology Industry. It mainly provides launch services for 300 kg low-orbit small satellites, and has the characteristics of high flight reliability, high orbit accuracy, short preparation period, low support requirements, low launch cost, and so on.

This mission is the 22nd launch of the Clipper 1A solid carrier rocket.