Smart Dragon 3 | 10 x CentiSpace-1

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10 x CentiSpace-1

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Navigation

Low Earth Orbit Haiyang offshore launch location Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

Chinese commercial small satellites by Beijing-based company Future Navigation for providing GNSS augmentation signals services from LEO. They are part of a planned 160 satellites constellation.

Updates
Cosmic_Penguin • March 22, 2026, 5:16 p.m.

Launch success.

Link https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5279437360728438
Cosmic_Penguin • March 22, 2026, 3:50 p.m.

Liftoff.

Link https://weibo.com/l/wblive/p/show/1022:2321325279395111108916
Cosmic_Penguin • March 18, 2026, 9:55 p.m.

Added launch per NOTAMs; Payload identities uncertain.

Link https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2769690#msg2769690

Smart Dragon 3

Family:
Configuration:

Smart Dragon-3 is a solid fuel orbital rocket designed by a subsidiary of the state-owned CASC group built for the commercial market.

Specifications
  • Length
    32.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.64 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    3.35 m
  • Launch Mass
    140.0 T
  • Thrust
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Family
  • Name
    Smart Dragon 3
  • Family
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  • Variant
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  • Alias
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  • Full Name
    Smart Dragon 3
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
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  • Low Earth Orbit
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  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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  • Direct Geostationary
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  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    1500.0 kg

China Rocket Co. Ltd.

China Rocket Co. Ltd.

(CHNR)

Successes: 13 Failures: 0 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

China Rocket Co. Ltd. is a spinoff of China’s state-owned launch vehicle manufacturer using a “commercial business model”.

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