A sea-launched Ceres-1 Y8 lifted off at 11:39 a.m. Beijing time on Oct. 21 from waters near Rizhao, Shandong, and placed the Xiguang-4 01 satellite into a 541 km orbit. Beijing News, citing Galactic Energy, said this was the seventh sea launch of that variant. Xinhua said the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center carried out the flight and that the satellite entered its planned orbit.
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