China's commercial CERES-1 Y8 rocket launches new satellite
https://english.news.cn/20230825/3ed63f3116864d5b8b452bc4119c9633/c.htmlJIUQUAN, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- China on Friday launched a CERES-1 Y8 carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, sending one new satellite into a planned orbit.
The commercial rocket blasted off at 12:59 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the launch site, carrying the Jilin-1 Kuanfu 02A satellite.
The launch was the 8th flight mission to use the CERES-1 rocket series.
Hm, it seems the satellite shown at the big screen of JSLC is not the satellite realy launched (see earlier in this thread). Here is an image of Jilin-1 KF 02A released recently by Chang Guang Satellite Technology (
http://www.jl1.cn/product_view.aspx?id=3848).