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China Aerospace Science and Technology CorporationLaunch SuccessfulEarth ScienceLong March 2D
Launched 2025-06-14 07:56 UTCLaunch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603), Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Success
Reached Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Worldwide
132nd
orbital launch attempt in 2025
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
27th
launch this year
Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603)
7th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
16 d 3 h
since the pad's previous launch
Zhangheng 1-02, also known as CSES-02 (China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite-02), is the follow-on mission to Zhangheng 1/CSES, a Chinese–Italian space mission dedicated to monitoring the electromagnetic field and waves, plasma parameters, and particle fluxes induced by natural sources and artificial emitters in near-Earth space, to study their correlations with the occurrence of seismic events.
The satellite mission is part of a collaboration program between the CNSA (China National Space Administration) and ASI (Italian Space Agency), and developed by CEA (China Earthquake Administration) and INFN (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics), together with several Chinese and Italian Universities and research Institutes.
Launch Provider
Government · China · Founded 1999 · Chairman & President Lei Fanpei
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has a number of subordinate entities which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment. It was officially established in July 1999 as part of a Chinese government reform drive, having previously been one part of the former China Aerospace Corporation. Various incarnations of the program date back to 1956.
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scheduled
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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Delayed to June 14 per new NOTAMs.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Added launch per NOTAMs; Payload and launch vehicle identities highly uncertain.
Cosmic_Penguin
Height
38.3m
Diameter
3.4m
To low Earth orbit
3,500kg
Liftoff thrust
2,962kN
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