Demo Flight

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Overview

Destination: Unknown
Mission: Test Flight

Unknown Launch Area 95A Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

First test launch of Galactic Energy’s Ceres-2 rocket.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 17, 2026, 6:53 a.m.

Launch failure.


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 13, 2026, 5:45 p.m.

Refined launch window per new NOTAMs.


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 10, 2026, 6:15 a.m.

NET January 17 per new NOTAMs; to be confirmed.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 25, 2025, 3:40 a.m.

Reverted back to NET December TBD with cancellation of NOTAMs.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 24, 2025, 5:03 a.m.

Rescheduled for December 27 per NOTAMs; Identification of the launch with this mission and payload are still uncertain.


Ceres-2

Family:
Configuration:

Specifications
  • Stages
    4
  • Length
  • Diameter
    3.35 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    3.35 m
  • Launch Mass
    98.0 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Ceres-2
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Ceres-2
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    2000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    1300.0 kg

Galactic Energy

Galactic Energy

(GE)

Founded: 2018 Successes: 21 Failures: 3 Pending: 1

Agency Type:

Galactic Energy is a private aerospace company headquartered in Beijing, China. Established by senior engineers in 2018, Galactic Energy engages in low-cost commercial space launch business.

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