China's Orienspace Launches Debut Rocket Mission From Sea

gravity-1 launch off coast of Haiyang
Credit: China Daily
SINGAPORE—Chinese private space company Orienspace has launched its first rocket into orbit. The startup's solid-fueled Gravity-1 (YL-1) is carrying three Yunyao-1 remote sensing satellites. Gravity-1 blasted off from a sea barge off the coast of Haiyang, a city in China's eastern Shandong province...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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