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Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Launch Area 95A Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Test launch of Hyperbola-1 to test reliability after 3 successive failures in 2021-22.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • April 7, 2023, 4:30 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m.

April 7 launch date confirmed per NOTAMs.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 4, 2023, 1:18 p.m.

Reverting back to April TBD due to no update to NOTAMs and rumors of another delay.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 2, 2023, 4:39 a.m.

NET April 5 per NOTAMs.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 1, 2023, 4:50 p.m.

Launch apparently delayed with related NOTAMs cancelled and reported by insiders.


Hyperbola-1

Family:
Configuration: 1

i-Space's first orbital rocket.

See Details
Specifications
  • Stages
    4
  • Length
    38.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.5 m
  • Fairing Diameter
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  • Launch Mass
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  • Thrust
    ―
Family
  • Name
    Hyperbola-1
  • Family
    ―
  • Variant
    1
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    Hyperbola-1
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
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  • Low Earth Orbit
    300.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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  • Direct Geostationary
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  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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i-Space

i-Space

(i-Space)

Founded: 2016 Successes: 4 Failures: 4 Pending: 1

Agency Type:

i-Space is a Chinese private space launch company based in Beijing and founded in October 2016.

INFO WIKI

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Launch Area 95A


Long March 6A
Success
11 hours, 29 minutes ago
Yaogan 40 Group 04
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

3 Chinese reconnaissance satellites of unknown purposes, officially reported as for "Electromagnetic environment probing".


Long March 8A
Success
1 day, 6 hours ago
SatNet LEO Group 26
Commercial LC-1 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…


Kinetica 1
Success
4 days, 16 hours ago
9 satellites
Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Share-ride of 9 commercial Earth observation and technology demonstration satellites to SSO, details TBD.


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 18 hours ago
Starlink Group 15-27
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 2D
Success
5 days, 9 hours ago
PIESAT-2 13-16
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for the Chinese Earth observation satellite company PIESAT.


Electron
Success
5 days, 16 hours ago
Owl By The Dozen (StriX Launch 12)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.


Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Success
1 week ago
Glonass-K1 No. 20 (?)
43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Note: Satellite serial number and Cosmos designation not confirmed. Glonass-K are the third generation of satellite design for GLONASS satellite n…


Kuaizhou 11
Success
1 week ago
SpaceTY-51 & 52
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

2 Earth observation radar satellites built by the Chinese satellite manufacturer SpaceTY.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week ago
USSF-259
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

USSF-259 is a classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield …


Long March 12
Success
1 week ago
SatNet LEO Group 25
Commercial LC-2 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…