“Starting from this mission, we aim to achieve approximately one launch per month,” Shi Xiaoning, the chief designer of a commercial carrier rocket, told CGTN.
This ambitious goal will be gradually achieved by CAS Space, a commercial space company that developed Lijian-1 (or Kinetica-1). On Wednesday, it successfully put five satellites into the preset dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbits from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
The five satellites, two as pioneers for the company’s AIRSAT satellite constellation, a Jilin-1 SAR01A, and the Yunyao-1 21 and 22, are mainly for land surveys, meteorological observations and other fields, according to the company.