Haiyang 202 (HY-2B)

Launch data:

Spacecraft data:

Mission details:

• China′s Haiyang er hao 02 xing (HY-2B) oceanographic satellite was launched on Oct 24, 2018.
• A small secondary satellite was launched along with HY-2B, called 'Tangguo Guan' (`Candy can'). It is owned by the online retailer AliBaba and will apparently send promotional messages to shoppers′ mobile phones. Mass of Tangguo Guan has variously been reported as 20 and 29 kg. It apparently remains attached to the CZ-4B third stage, which lowered its orbit immediately after deploying HY-2B.
• Another secondary payload is China Aerospace′s SPP (Space Proving Platform), one of whose experiments is ManWei Tech′s DSB-01 which carries the DNA of eight Chinese people, described as the beginning of a program to explore technologies for interstellar migration. One of the Chinese news reports on this project shows an artist′s impression of a 1U cubesat, but it′s not yet entirely clear if SPP is really a cubesat or just another payload attached to the third stage.

External links:

• Satellite tracking (n2ya.com): Real time satellite tracking