Launch
China Rocket Co. Ltd.
Smart Dragon 3 | Geely Constellation Group 06
- Mission
- rocket
- Pad
- Agency
Mission
Geely Constellation Group 06
Communications
Low Earth Orbit
12 LEO communications satellites for Chinese car manufacturer Geely Automotive for testing autonomous driving/inter-vehicle communication services. They also carry payloads for ocean observation.
Status
Launch Successful
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Pad
Oriental Spaceport mobile launch ship
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Latitude: 35.391667
longitude: 119.598667
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Location
Asia/Shanghai
Haiyang Oriental Spaceport
Chinese orbital launch vehicle launches supporting sea port located at Haiyang, Shandong Province, with dedicated piers and rocket/payload processing facilities for Chinese launch vehicles’ sea launches, and (as part of its expansion project) land based launch pads on artificial islands for various test vehicles and launch vehicles of private and government launch services providers. In operation as a remote base of Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center since 2019.
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Rocket
Smart Dragon 3
Smart Dragon-3 is a solid fuel orbital rocket designed by a subsidiary of the state-owned CASC group built for the commercial market.
Family: Smart Dragon
Details
Length: 32.0m
Diameter: 2.64
First Flight: Dec. 9, 2022
Total launch count: 8
Successful launches: 8
Consecutive successful launches: 8
Manufacturer
China Rocket Co. Ltd.
Commercial
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China Rocket Co. Ltd. is a spinoff of China’s state-owned launch vehicle manufacturer using a “commercial business model”.
Agency
China Rocket Co. Ltd.
China Rocket Co. Ltd. is a spinoff of China’s state-owned launch vehicle manufacturer using a “commercial business model”.
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Type: Commercial
Details
Total launch count: 9
Successful launches: 9
Consecutive successful launches: 9