“Yizhuang Rockets” Achieve Two Successful Launches in Five Days

At 19:07 on March 21st, Galactic Energy, a company based in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (also known as Yizhuang), successfully launched the Ceres-1 (Yao-17) carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The rocket successfully delivered six satellites, namely Yunyao Meteorological Constellation 43-48, into a 535km sun-synchronous orbit. This marks the second launch of the “Yizhuang Rocket” within five days, following the launch of Ceres-1 (Yao-10) on March 17th.（Photo/@Youth Beijing）

By Fu Rui, Chen Xiaoran (Intern) and Yin Xining/China Youth Daily