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Maiden flight
Gravity-1
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Mission status
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LAUNCH SITEHaiyang Oriental Spaceport
Mission
First launch of Chinese private company OrienSpace's Gravity-1 launch vehicle from an ocean-going launch platform. Payload is Yunyao-1 18-20, 3 weather satellites performing atmospheric measurements using GNSS Radio Occultation for a Tianjin based company. Constellation is planned to have an eventual 90 satellites.
- Launch vehicle
- Gravity-1
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Launch pad
- Haiyang offshore launch location
- Provider
- Orienspace Technology
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
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
- 2
- First flight
- 2024-01-11
Recorded timing
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Launch site & orbit
Haiyang Oriental Spaceport
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