NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

CHASE (Chinese Hα Solar Explorer) & Tianyuan-1

Launch Time
Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:51 UTC

Rocket

Long March 2D
Image Credit: CASC
CASC
Status: Active
Price: $29.75 million
Liftoff Thrust: 2,962 kN
Payload to LEO: 3,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 1,200 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 40.77 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.35 m
Fairing Height: 7.82 m

Mission Details

CHASE (Chinese Hα Solar Explorer)

The Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE) is designed to test a newly developed satellite platform and conduct solar observations. The scientific payload of the satellite is an Hα imaging spectrograph (HIS), which can, for the first time, acquire full-disk spectroscopic solar observations in the Hα waveband.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 500.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Tianyuan-1

Chinese satellite.

Payloads: 1
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

LC-9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China

Stats

2021

97th orbital launch attempt

Long March 2D

55th mission
4th mission of 2021
54th successful mission
23rd consecutive successful mission