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A private Chinese company, Galactic Energy, experienced its second launch failure with the Ceres-1 rocket, which carried three satellites into low Earth orbit. Despite a successful streak of 11 missions after a previous failure, the recent setback highlights ongoing challenges in China's private space sector. The company plans to learn from this incident and continue developing more advanced rockets.
Galactic Energy, a private Chinese company founded by former workers of the state-owned China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, has successfully carried out the first sea-based rocket launch in China. The launch of the CERES 1 rocket from a modified submersible ship in the Yellow Sea marks the company's ninth consecutive successful orbital launch and makes it the third Chinese rocket model, and the first produced by a private company, capable of launching from both land and sea. While Galactic Energy is making strides in China's commercial launch sector, it still has a long way to catch up to SpaceX, which recently broke its own record for the number of launches in a single year.