{"id":49423,"date":"2023-12-05T06:53:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T06:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/commercial-ceres-1-y9-rocket-sends-new-satellites-to-twilight-orbit\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T07:06:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T07:06:47","slug":"commercial-ceres-1-y9-rocket-sends-new-satellites-to-twilight-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/commercial-ceres-1-y9-rocket-sends-new-satellites-to-twilight-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial CERES-1 Y9 rocket sends new satellites to twilight orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commercial rocket blasted off at 7:33 a.m. (Beijing Time).<\/p>\n<p>The launch was the 11th flight mission to use the CERES-1 rocket series.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Beijing-based Galactic Energy, CERES-1 is a small-scale solid-propellant carrier rocket designed to send micro-satellites to low orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial rocket is 1.4 meters in diameter, and has a total length of about 20 meters and a takeoff weight of 33 tonnes. It can carry a payload of up to 300 kg to a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 500 km.<\/p>\n<p>With the capacity to carry both a single satellite and multiple satellites, the CERES-1 commercial rocket can be used for various tailored launch missions.<\/p>\n<p>Galactic Energy has served 16 commercial satellite customers and launched a total of 35 commercial satellites of various types.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s launch mission is the first by this commercial rocket developer to successfully send satellites to the twilight orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The twilight orbit is a special type of sun-synchronous orbit in which the satellite crosses the equator at approximately 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., exactly when the local sun rises and sets.<\/p>\n<p>This means the satellite can always be illuminated by sunlight as the orbital plane and the Earth&#8217;s twilight line are approximately coincident. Therefore, the satellite can receive adequate and continuous energy supply.<\/p>\n<p>One satellite carried by the CERES-1 Y9 rocket on Tuesday will focus on meteorological environment detection, while the other will provide real-time wide-area comprehensive perception satellite application services.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-61735\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-215.jpg\" alt=\"The CERES-1 Y9 carrier rocket carrying two new satellites blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Dec. 5, 2023. The commercial rocket blasted off at 7:33 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the launch site. The two satellites were sent into their planned orbits. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo\/Xinhua)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{China on Tuesday launched a CERES-1 Y9 carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, sending two new satellites to their planned orbits.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000061734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-49423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000061734,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ca47a0c125f44e17bd3b7d2ed687b197.jpg.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ca47a0c125f44e17bd3b7d2ed687b197.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ca47a0c125f44e17bd3b7d2ed687b197.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ca47a0c125f44e17bd3b7d2ed687b197.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ca47a0c125f44e17bd3b7d2ed687b197.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ca47a0c125f44e17bd3b7d2ed687b197.jpg.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000061734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49423"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=49423"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=49423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}