Demo Flight
Ceres-2, Galactic Energy
Launch Area 95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Launch time
T-0
Sat 17 Jan, 05:08 CET
04:08 UTC
The rocket did not reach orbit, or the payload did not separate from it.
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Demo Flight on Ceres-2. Sat 17 Jan 2026, 04:08 UTC. Reported outcome: Failure. Launch site: Launch Area 95A. Source: Launch Library 2.
First test launch of Galactic Energy’s Ceres-2 rocket.
- Mission type
- Test Flight
- Orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission patches
- Ceres-2 Y1
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Source updates from Launch Library 2 (8)
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Launch failure.
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Refined launch window per new NOTAMs.
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NET January 17 per new NOTAMs; to be confirmed.
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Reverted back to NET December TBD with cancellation of NOTAMs.
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Rescheduled for December 27 per NOTAMs; Identification of the launch with this mission and payload are still uncertain.
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Apparently scrubbed for the day, new information pending.
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Updated possible launch date and time per new NOTAMs (in place of previous guess of Hyperbola-1 for this launch); Identification of the launch with this mission and payload are uncertain.
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Added launch.
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Launch pad
Launch Area 95A
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China (CN)
Coordinates: 40.969117, 100.343333
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