LAUNCH FAILURE: CERES-1 rocket of Chinese private firm Galactic Energy suffers rare setback

SADS NEWS: After a string of 9 successive successful launches, the Chinese CERES-1 private commercial carrier rocket was unsuccessful. It lost the Jilin-1 Gaofen-04 B satellite on Thursday, Sept 21, 2023 in a rare failure. Abnormal performance was detected during the flight of the rocket. The cause of the failure is under investigation. Private rocket firm GALACTIC-ENERGY’s 10th launch of CERES-1, mission Autumn Sonata, ended with a failure and CHANG-GUANG’s first resolution satellite Jilin-1 GF04B was lost 🚀 Liftoff was at ~04:59UTC on September 21. #chinaspace #Ceres1 #galacticenergy