Xiangrikui 1

Launch data:

Spacecraft data:

Mission details:

• China′s EXPACE, a commercial launch provider which is part of the government CASIC missile company, launched the second Kuaizhou-1A vehicle on Sep 29, 2018 carrying a small commercial communications/navigation technology payload to orbit. Before launch the satellite was known as Centispace-1-1S in English and as Weili kongjian yi hao xitong S1 shiyan weixing (Micro-space 1 System S1 Test Satellite) in Chinese; after launch it was renamed Xiangrikui 1 (`Sunflower One'). It is a 97 kg payload built by the Shanghai microsatellite innovation center IMI-CAS for Beijing Weilai Daohang Keji YG (Beijing Future Navigation Tech Co Ltd). The satellite was placed in a 1030 local time sun-sync orbit and carries a GNSS receiver for orbit determination and a laser intersatellite comms link.
• The satellite separated from stage 4 in a 697 x 710 km orbit at about 0430 UTC; stage 4 made a 266 m/s depletion burn at 0453 UTC to a 265 x 820 km orbit.

External links:

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