NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Jilin-1 07, 08 & Others

Launch Time
Fri Jan 19, 2018 04:12 UTC

Rocket

Long March 11
Image Credit: CASC
CASC
Status: Active
Price: $5.3 million
Liftoff Thrust: 1,176 kN
Payload to LEO: 530 kg
Payload to GTO: 2 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 20.8 m
Fairing Diameter: 2.0 m
Fairing Height: 5.0 m

Mission Details

Jilin-1 07, 08

Jilin 1 satellites are a series of Chinese commercial remote sensing satellites for high-definition video within the Jilin-1 constellation designed and owned by the Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co.

These satellites feature a dual-imager with 1 meter ground resolution for gaze video imaging, push broom imaging, shimmer imaging, and inertial space imaging.

Payloads: 2
Total Mass: 208.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

TY 2

Xiaoxiang 2 (XX 2), also known as TY 2 (Tianyi 2), is a commercial research nanosatellite developed by Spacety Aerospace Co. at the Changsha Gaoxinqu Tianyi Research Institute, Hunan.

The 8 kg satellite is built to the 6U CubeSat form factor.

Xiaoxiang 2, also known as Hunan Xiangjiang New Area satellite or TY 2 (Tianyi 2) was launched on the third CZ-11 flight in early 2018. It carries technology experiments developed by Tianyi Research Institute in Changsha, Hunan province.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 8.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

TY 6

QTT 1 (Quantutong 1) is a navigation communication integration test satellite developed by developed by Tianji Research Institute.

QTT-1 is the first technical verification satellite for the "future constellation programme" which is customized and developed by Tianyi Research Institute for Beijing-based Quan Tu Tong Co (Full Map Network Co. Ltd.) The satellite is based on the 6U CubeSat satellite platform of Spacety Aerospace Co. It carries navigation, communication, imaging, AIS, and amateur radio payloads.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 8.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

KIPP

Kepler Communications, a small satellite startup, is designing a constellation of CubeSats for the Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M), and inter-satellite communications services.

Kepler’s goals are to provide a vastly improved IoT backhaul for customers on the ground, as well as real-time access to satellites in the same orbit. In an interview with Via Satellite, Co-Founder and CTO Wen Cheng Chong said the fresh capital has given the company the means to start building out its system.

Kepler is starting with two 3U CubeSat operating in Ku-band and providing store and forward services, with the first to be launched in late 2017. The satellites are named KIPP and CASE in honor of fictional robots from the movie 'Interstellar'.

The constellation would then expand to an initial size of 10 to 15 satellites in a polar orbit. With this fleet, the company would provide low data rate communications for various user terminals to the satellite, and a very large pipe to the gateway when over ground stations. For a late phase, the constellation might be increased to 120 satellites.

The 3U CubeSat feature deployable solar arrays, software-defined radios (SDR), and high-gain antennas. Clyde Space has been contracted to build the satellites.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 4.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Zhou Enlai

HA 1 (Huai'An 1) or Zhou Enlai is an educational 2U CubeSat built by the Huai'an Youth Comprehensive Development Base, Teenagers Amateur Radio Center of Activity in Huaian in east China's Jiangsu Province involving primary and middle school students.

The 2 kg satellite will be put into a sun-synchronous orbit. It is equipped with an HD optical camera to acquire space photos for scientific education purposes. It also has a drag brake experiment on board.

It will be mainly used for teenagers in Huaian to carry out activities related to amateur radio and aerospace science education. The cubesat is equipped with an amateur radio repeater and SSTV (Slow Scan Television) component, which is to validate still image transmission in a narrowband voice channel. There is an SSTV beacon, which put Date/Time/Location information/temperature etc on an SSTV picture. Amateurs worldwide can also use HA-1 to test SSTV via the cubesat.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 2.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China

Stats

2018

8th orbital launch attempt

Long March 11

3rd mission
1st mission of 2018
3rd successful mission