On China, People’s Republic of China commercial space industry gets off to a good start in 2025 At 18:11 on January 20, 2025, China successfully launched Yunyao-1 37 to 40 satellites using the Ceres-1 (Yao 16) carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Inner Mongolia, China, People’s Republic of China.. The satellites entered the planned orbit smoothly and the launch mission was a complete success. The mission also carried and launched the Jitianxing A-05 satellite.
At 18:11 Beijing time on January 20, 2025, Galaxy Power Aerospace successfully launched Ceres-1 (Yao 16) carrier rocket (mission code: On Your Shoulders) at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, successfully sending 5 satellites, including Yunyao-1 37-40 and Jitianxing A-05, into a 535km sun-synchronous orbit.
The four satellites, Weibo Member Satellite (Yunyao-1 37), Kaiwu Constellation Jinding Test Satellite (Yunyao-1 38), Huaqing Haifeng Satellite (Yunyao-1 39), and Yunyao-1 40, have the same technical status and are all equipped with GNSS occultation payloads. The atmospheric temperature, humidity, pressure, and ionospheric electron density products can be obtained by inverting GNSS occultation data. They have broad application prospects and application value in meteorological observation, Kaiwu Interstellar Mine Network Demonstration Scenario Verification, and AIGE Future Mine Provides Comprehensive Data Support and Technical Services.
Jitianxing A-05 is equipped with a hyperspectral camera payload to obtain remote sensing images, which can be applied to ecological environment, industrial emissions, gas leaks, agricultural monitoring, mineral exploration, environmental monitoring, forest management, urban planning and other fields.
As of today, Ceres-1 has successfully completed 16 launches, sending 63 satellites into the predetermined orbit. It is the commercial launch vehicle with the most launches and the highest success rate in the private sector. The Ceres-1 (Yao 16) carrier rocket launched this time is the first carrier rocket manufactured and assembled by Galaxy Aerospace’s new generation solid aircraft research and development and production base in Ziyang, Sichuan. It is also the first “Sichuan-made” private commercial carrier rocket. At present, the base has completed the final assembly and testing of the subsequent three Ceres series rockets. This
mission also carried SPACE MOLLY 100%, an explorer of parallel universes designed by Galaxy Power and POP MART, a leading domestic trendy culture and entertainment brand. Through the deep integration of science and technology and art, the two parties demonstrated mankind’s awe of the universe and the courage and innovative spirit to explore the unknown world.
This launch was also strongly supported by functional film production supplier Aerospace Shanyou, Weibo members, and In Space Aerospace Technology Research Institute.
星河动力空间科技有限公司 Galactic Energy- Galaxy Power (Beijing) Space Technology Co., Ltd.Located in Block D, Aviation Technology Plaza, E-Town, and Beijing – Beijing – China – People’s Republic of China ….Galaxy Aerospace is the first private aerospace company in China to achieve successful continuous launches, the first to send commercial networked satellites into a 500km sun-synchronous orbit, and the first to master the ability to launch multiple satellites with one carrier rocket
At 18:18 Beijing time on December 19, 2024, Galaxy Power Aerospace successfully launched the Apocalypse Constellation 04 Group (33-36 satellites) from the offshore launch platform near Rizhao using the Ceres-1 Haiyao-4 carrier rocket. This launch is the 249th space launch in the world in 2024, the 66th in China, the 7th this month, the 5th for Galaxy Power Aerospace, and the 5th for the Ceres-1 carrier rocket
Five, four, three, two, one, ignition!” On the evening of December 19, in the waters near Rizhao City, as the shore broadcast issued the launch command, the “Ceres-1” carrier rocket standing on the Haiyang “Oriental Spaceport” launch ship ignited its engine, huge clouds of smoke rose around it, and it slowly lifted off with the “Apocalypse Constellation” (stars 33-36). The tail flames from the rocket engine instantly illuminated the night, a huge roar resounded through the sky, and cheers from tens of thousands of spectators on the shore rose one after another. This is the second sea launch mission implemented in the waters near Rizhao after May 29.
At 18:18 on December 19, 2024, the Galaxy Power Aerospace Ceres-1 Sea-launched (Yao-4) (mission code: LOONG) successfully launched the “Apocalypse Constellation” 04 satellites (33 to 36 satellites) in the sea near Rizhao, Shandong Province. A total of 4 satellites entered the low-Earth orbit with an altitude of 850km and an inclination of 45°. The big red screen and mission badge “Apocalypse Constellation” is China’s first low-orbit Internet of Things communication constellation. The first phase consists of 38 satellites. 33 have been launched so far. It has the characteristics of global coverage, miniaturization, low power consumption and low cost. It provides global users with “air, space, land and sea” consumer-grade satellite Internet of Things data services, which have been widely used in forestry, agriculture, emergency response, and tourism.
Tourism, water conservancy, electricity, petroleum, ocean, ecological environment, smart cities and other industries as well as digital economy scenarios are moving towards the direct-connected satellite market for consumer electronic products.
This mission is the fourth sea launch mission completed by Galaxy Power Aerospace Company. It is also the fifth time that the Ceres-1 series of launch vehicles has launched networking satellites for the “Apocalypse Constellation” (Yao-1, Yao-5, Haiyao-1, Haiyao-2, and Haiyao-4). This marks that as the only private rocket type that can take into account both land and sea launch platforms, the Ceres-1 series of launch vehicles has achieved flexible regional and orbital adaptability and high-density launch capabilities, and can quickly meet the launch needs of different satellite users to the greatest extent. Up to now, Galaxy Power Aerospace Company has successfully carried out 15 commercial launch deliveries, accurately sending a total of 58 commercial satellites with different functions into the predetermined orbits.
❶The 66th launch of China’s space program in 2024 (64 successful launches)
❷The 16th launch of the Ceres-1 carrier rocket (15 successful launches)
❸The 4th launch of the Ceres-1 sea-launched carrier rocket (4 successful launches) ❹The 14th launch of the Oriental Spaceport of the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (14 successful launches)
❺The 147th launch of the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (141 successful launches) ❻The 36th launch of China’s civil and commercial space program (29 successful launches)
❼The 639th launch of China’s space program (604 successful launches)
星河动力空间科技有限公司 Galactic Energy- Galaxy Power (Beijing) Space Technology Co., Ltd.Located in Block D, Aviation Technology Plaza, E-Town, and Beijing – Beijing – China – People’s Republic of China ….Galaxy Aerospace is the first private aerospace company in China to achieve successful continuous launches, the first to send commercial networked satellites into a 500km sun-synchronous orbit, and the first to master the ability to launch multiple satellites with one carrier rocket
[The Ceres-1 sea launch adds 6 more satellites to China’s space program! ]
At 13:22 Hong Kong SAR- Beijing time on August 29th Thursday, 2024, on the “Dongfang Spaceport” sea launch ship in the Yellow Sea, the “Ceres-1” sea-launched Yao-3 carrier rocket carried six small optical remote sensing satellites, including “Yunyao-1” 15-17 satellites, Jitianxing A03 satellite, “Suxing-1” 01 satellite, and “Tianfu Gaofen-2” satellite, and sent the satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) at an altitude of 535 kilometers.
The “Ceres-1” sea-launched carrier rocket is a small solid-fuel carrier rocket. The arrow is about 20 meters high, 1.4 meters in diameter, with a takeoff mass of about 33 tons and a capacity of 300 kilograms in a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) at an altitude of 500 kilometers.
The Ceres-1 sea-launched rocket was developed by Beijing Galactic Energy. It is an adaptive improvement on the Ceres-1 standard rocket. It is a four-stage small rocket with a four-stage tandem configuration. The first, second and third stages use solid power, and the fourth stage uses liquid power. The rocket is about 20 meters high and 1.4 meters in diameter. It has a takeoff mass of about 33 tons and a takeoff thrust of 60 tons. Its altitude is 500 kilometers and the sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) has a carrying capacity of 300 kilograms.
Since its successful maiden flight on November 7, 2020, Ceres-1 has carried out 15 launches, 14 of which were successful, with a success rate of about 93.33%. Since the successful launch of the Ceres-1 sea-launched Yao-1 rocket on September 5, 2023, Ceres-1 has successfully carried out three consecutive sea launches, leading the way among private commercial aerospace companies.
This launch mission is the fourth launch of the Ceres-1 rocket in 2024, the third launch in the Yellow Sea (Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center), the 38th launch in China and the 156th orbital space launch in the world. At the same time, this launch is also the fourth marine space launch in China and the world this year.
This launch mission is the fourth launch of the Ceres-1 rocket in 2024, the third launch in the Yellow Sea (Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center), the 38th launch in China and the 156th orbital space launch in the world.
星河动力空间科技有限公司 Galactic Energy- Galaxy Power (Beijing) Space Technology Co., Ltd. Located in Block D, Aviation Technology Plaza, E-Town, and Beijing – Beijing – China – People’s Republic of China ….Galaxy Aerospace is the first private aerospace company in China to achieve successful continuous launches, the first to send commercial networked satellites into a 500km sun-synchronous orbit, and the first to master the ability to launch multiple satellites with one carrier rocket.
On the 25th July 2024 The latest news from Galaxy Power; Recently, the company completed a series of static, modal, and separation tests on the Pallas-1 launch vehicle fairing, all of which were successful. The Pallas-1 series of launch vehicles are compatible with fairings with diameters of 3.35m, 4.2m, and 5.2m to meet the needs of different satellite customers. The fairing used in this test is one of the series of fairing products independently developed and designed by Galaxy Power, and is consistent with the status of the Pallas-1 Yao-1 flight test product.
The Pallas- 1 has a maximum low-orbit carrying capacity of 8 tons, with seven 50-ton liquid oxygen-kerosene engines in parallel in the first stage. It is scheduled to make its maiden flight at the end of this year….
Recently , Galaxy Aerospace completed a series of static, modal and separation tests on the fairing of the Pallas-1 launch vehicle, and all the tests were a complete success!
The Pallas-1 series of launch vehicles are compatible with fairings with diameters of 3.35m, 4.2m, and 5.2m to meet the needs of different satellite customers. The fairing used in this test is one of the series of fairing products independently developed and designed by Galaxy Power, and is consistent with the Pallas-1 Yao-1 flight test product. The fairing adopts a von Karman shape, which has the advantages of low flight aerodynamic resistance, light structural mass and easy operation.
The fairing end cap is made of high-strength ablation-resistant composite material, a large area of honeycomb sandwich composite material structure, and a metal frame structure at the rear. The fairing separation system adopts a “hinge-spring” half-cover rotation separation scheme, and the lateral and longitudinal separation unlocking devices both use point-type explosive bolts, which have small impact during the separation process and high separation reliability.
The static test of the fairing assessed the fairing’s ability to resist external loads and verified the structural strength. The test achieved the intended purpose and obtained relevant data. The modal test obtained the fairing’s modal parameters, providing a basis for structural dynamics model modification and fairing separation calculation.
The fairing separation test fully verified the correctness of the fairing separation system design, obtained the collision boundary data between the fairing separation body and the payload, assessed the adaptability of the structural system to the separation concentrated force load and the impact load of pyrotechnics, and obtained important mechanical environment parameters.
The complete success of the fairing series tests indicates that Galaxy Aerospace has the ability to quickly design, analyze and test large liquid rocket fairings, laying a solid foundation for the company’s subsequent model development.
星河动力空间科技有限公司 Galactic Energy- Galaxy Power (Beijing) Space Technology Co., Ltd.Located in Block D, Aviation Technology Plaza, E-Town, and Beijing – Beijing – China – People’s Republic of China ….Galaxy Aerospace is the first private aerospace company in China to achieve successful continuous launches, the first to send commercial networked satellites into a 500km sun-synchronous orbit, and the first to master the ability to launch multiple satellites with one carrier rocket
At 7:39 am Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time today, China. People’s Republic of China successfully launched Aurora Constellation 01 and 02 satellites using the Ceres-1 commercial carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center inner Mogolia. The satellites successfully entered the predetermined orbit and the launch mission was a complete success. The mission also carried and launched the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Satellite, Yunyao-1 26 Satellite and Hebei Linxi-1 Satellite
Just two days after a successful sea launch, Chinese commercial space company Galactic Energy launched another rocket on Friday (May 31). The CERES-1 Y12 carrier rocket delivered five satellites into the planned twilight orbit. The company has set a record for the shortest……..Only one day later! The launch of Ceres-1 was a complete success again! At…….7:39 am on May 31, 2024, Beijing time, the Galaxy Power Aerospace Company successfully launched Ceres-1 (Yao 12) Jiangnan Central Area Code Launch Vehicle (mission code: Heroes) at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, successfully sending Aurora Constellation 01 (Fudan Information Satellite), 02 (Shanghai Institute of Electric Power No. 1), Hebei Linxi No. 1 Satellite, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Satellite, and Nishuihan No. 2 Satellite into a 535km dawn-dusk orbit.
Aurora Constellation 01 (Fudan Information Satellite) and 02 (Shanghai Institute of Electric Power No. 1) were jointly developed by Beijing Aurora Starcom Technology Co., Ltd., China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Shanghai AES Aerospace, Galaxy Power Aerospace Company, Beijing Tianlian Measurement and Control, Fuchang Space, Xuntian Aerospace, the 29th Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, School of Information Science and Engineering of Fudan University, Shanghai Institute of Electric Power and other units. They will carry out long-term communication verification between satellites and between satellites and the ground in orbit, build an “on-orbit laser communication experimental platform”, which can respond to business scenario requirements of different rates, different systems, and different orbital spacings in orbit, fully explore the impact factors of key industry concerns such as space environment, hot and cold alternation, platform attitude disturbance, orbit control maneuvering on long-term link establishment communication, further optimize the ATP tracking algorithm, explore the feasibility and robustness of low-level components in commercial aerospace, carry out on-orbit verification in advance for the feasibility of laser communication application in my country’s low-orbit satellite Internet giant constellation, accumulate on-orbit data, and share the experimental data with users and industry experts, laying the foundation for accelerating the construction of my country’s giant constellation.
Hebei Linxi-1 satellite was jointly developed by Tianjin Yunyao Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Juntian Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd. The satellite is a meteorological remote sensing satellite equipped with GNSS occultation atmospheric detection payload, which can obtain information such as atmospheric temperature, humidity, air pressure and ionosphere electron density, making up for the shortcomings of traditional meteorological observation methods. The satellite adopts the Juntian-1 satellite platform, which fully reflects the modular, integrated and low-cost design concept. The platform uses the intelligent on-orbit management system independently developed by Juntian Aerospace, which greatly improves the satellite’s autonomous control capability and comprehensive use benefits.
Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Satellite and Nishuihan-2 Satellite fully inherit the mature products and development technology solutions of infrared remote sensing satellites, and have the characteristics of high integration, light weight, small size and high cost performance. The satellite is equipped with GNSS occultation and long-wave infrared camera payloads. The atmospheric temperature, humidity, pressure and ionosphere electron density can be obtained by inverting GNSS occultation data. The target information is obtained through the long-wave infrared camera, and the atmospheric and hot spot targets are detected. It has broad application prospects and application value in the field of meteorological observation.
As the test payload, the perovskite components of Photon Technology were sent into space along with the rocket to collect and analyze data such as the operating tolerance and efficiency of perovskite solar cells in the extreme environment of space.
Thanks to Jiangnan Concentration Zone and NetEase Game “Nishuihan” for their strong support for this launch!
This launch mission is the launch mission that Galaxy Dynamics Aerospace Company completed consecutively just one day after completing the Ceres-1 sea-launched (Yao-2) mission on the 29th of this month. It is the two shortest launch time intervals between private commercial rocket companies. Commercial launch delivery demonstrates the huge potential and broad prospects of China’s commercial aerospace market. Galaxy Power Company is helping China’s commercial aerospace industry continue to grow and develop with broader technological innovation and more efficient commercial operations.
Up to now, Galaxy Power Space Company has served nearly 20 commercial satellite customers and successfully launched 44 commercial satellites of different types.
