SpaceSail Polar Group #17
Kinetica 2, CAS Space
Launch Area 140, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Launch time
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Tue 3 Nov, 01:15 CET
00:15 UTC
The rocket put its payload into the planned orbit.
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SpaceSail Polar Group #17 on Kinetica 2. Tue 3 Nov 2026, 00:15 UTC. Reported outcome: Success. Launch site: Launch Area 140. Source: Launch Library 2.
18 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with funding backed by the Shanghai local government. Initial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites.
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit
- Polar Orbit
Launch context
Generated from source records
SpaceSail Polar Group #17: Kinetica 2, operated by CAS Space. Pad: Launch Area 140, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China. Mission type: Communications; target orbit: Polar Orbit. Recorded timing: Tue 3 Nov 2026, 00:15 UTC. The source reports a successful launch. Provider: 12 orbital attempts in our records since 21 May 2025, including 7 in 2026 (UTC). Vehicle: 2/2 resolved orbital outcomes succeeded (100%) in our records since 30 Mar 2026. Pad: 2 orbital attempts in our records since 30 Mar 2026.
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Partial coverage of stored records, not lifetime or worldwide totals. Counts use known orbital attempts with a source date at or before this snapshot and a status confirming liftoff or an outcome. Scheduled, upstream-missing, suborbital and unknown-orbit records are excluded. Source dates are NET estimates, not verified actual liftoff times.
The vehicle percentage is Success / (Success + Failure + Partial Failure). In Flight and Payload Deployed count as attempts but are excluded from that denominator. Figures describe the stored record at this snapshot, not the vehicle's flight number or a prediction of this launch's outcome.
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Changes recorded by Space Right Now
Tracking since . 3 recorded changes.
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Status changed from Go to Success
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Date became more certain: from Hour to Minute
- Recorded change
NET moved from Tue 3 Nov, around 00:10 UTC to Tue 3 Nov, 00:15 UTC
Source updates from Launch Library 2 (2)
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Launch success.
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Added launch per NOTAMs; Payload and launch vehicle identities highly uncertain.
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Launch pad
Launch Area 140
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China (CN)
Coordinates: 40.81748, 100.21939
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