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#SpaceflightNewsMemes Whenever I look at the sudden bloom of private Chinese small satellite launch service companies lately I cannot help but feel something like this has helped quite a few companies leap-frogging Western counterparts getting to the pad and upwards... 
(1/4)pic.twitter.com/nUg4h30rVs
And yup, for the 4th (!) time in just over 2 years, we have a Chinese small sat LSP private start-up attempting their 1st shot to orbit possibly within these few days (not including state enterprises spin-offs like CALT & CASIC). 
(2/4)
This time it's a certain Galactic Energy, not even 3 years old and (after some delays from the article below) apparently already going to fly their 1st rocket named Ceres-1 to orbit on November 5, confirmation pending. (3/4)https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/space-flight/galactic-energy-prepares-ceres1-rocket-first-launch …
As seen from my joke above, they are following the steps of 3 other companies previously launched (only 1 made it to orbit on 1st try) with a full solid motor rocket (~350 kg to LEO) as a stepping stone to the 2-stage-kerLOX-reusable Pallas-1 (which looks familiar ). (4/4)pic.twitter.com/8PX1YntS8X
BTW they have an English website for their full offerings as well (which looks familiar, again....): http://www.galactic-energy.cn//index.php/En
Well Galactic Energy had a press release today...that they have just closed out Series A round funding of CNY ¥200 million and that their Ceres-1 is flying "soon". ...uh nothing to see, carry on... http://www.galactic-energy.cn/index.php/Show/cid/11/aid/92 …
This launch is apparently now on Nov. 7. Payload is the Tianqi-11 LEO comsat to a 500 km SSO - several in the series already launched since 2018. https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/tianqi-1.htm …
And they apparently follows a certain NZ-USA LSP's footsteps in naming this launch "I believe I can fly". 
...and here comes the proof that Galactic Energy is following @RocketLab's idea of naming launches, with this one being "I Believe I Can Fly".
The rocket's parameters in the photo are the same as those on their official website, in English: http://www.galactic-energy.cn/index.php/En/List/cid/14 …pic.twitter.com/iBNkjUNMOt
The Ceres-1 first flight has been confirmed for tomorrow at ~07:10 UTC per air-space closure notices.
Launch should be happening around now. Sadly unlike even Alaska (@johnkrausphotos ahem) I don't think anyone filming in the Gobi Desert are able to post them online right now.
Someone might be able to pinpoint the launch pad from this photo (presumably the same one as for most new solid rocket launchers out of there)pic.twitter.com/cCp1DZnLYC
There are reports that the payload has nominally separated. Waiting for confirmation....
Thanks to the situation from the very first post of this long thread, the Chinese now has 2 of the 3 small sat LSP private start-ups that made it to orbit from the 2010s and beyond:
* @RocketLab (NZ-USA) Jan. 2019
** iSpace (China) Jul. 2019**
** Galactic Energy Nov. 2020**pic.twitter.com/ioigFANslo
This is the payload on this flight, Tianqi-11 LEO communication/data-relay comsat and 9th in orbit of its series: https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/tianqi-10.htm … T-0 was at 07:12 UTC.pic.twitter.com/INawNd4WQ8
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