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This page records Gravity-1 | SpaceSail Polar Group #16 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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LAUNCH SITEHaiyang Oriental Spaceport
Mission
9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with funding backed by the Shanghai local government. Initial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites.
- Launch vehicle
- Gravity-1
- Mission type
- Communications
- Destination orbit
- Polar Orbit
- Launch pad
- Yellow Sea (launch location 5)
- Provider
- Orienspace Technology
The vehicle
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Launch vehicle
Gravity-1
A 4 stage launch vehicle by Chinese private company OrienSpace, consisting of 5 solid rocket motors clustered together but with the center motor igniting just before boosters separation. The upper two stages also uses solid fuel.
- Height
- 29.4 m
- Stages
- 3
- Recorded launches
- 4
- First flight
- 2024-01-11
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Haiyang Oriental Spaceport
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