China: ‘Gravity-1’ rocket simultaneously launched 9 satellites from sea into space


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China’s commercial space rockets Gravity-1 (Gravity-1 Y3) successfully launched 9 satellites into their fixed orbits simultaneously from the eastern seaboard of Shanghai.

According to foreign media reports, Orion Space, the Chinese commercial space company that develops the rocket, says that this mission has set new records in terms of payload weight and orbital altitude in the history of China’s sea rocket launching.

According to media reports, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center carried out the mission, the satellites included the new group of Qianfan Constellation satellites and an EUHT technology test satellite.

This solid fuel rocket uses stacked satellite launching technology for the first time in the world.

The Chinese-made solid-fuel rocket has a maximum payload capacity of 6.5 tons.

The satellites were launched into space by the ‘Gravity-1Y3’ carrier rocket at 6 am Beijing time, the mission being declared a complete success.

It should be noted that the Gravity-1 rocket has completed 4 sea launches so far and all these launches have been successful.

The recent single mission Gravity-1 was the first such launch to network satellites for a large satellite Internet constellation to be established in low Earth orbit.



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