China’s new carrier rocket Smart Dragon-1 （SD-1） blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on August 17， sending three satellites into planned orbit. Designed for commerc
China’s new carrier rocket Smart Dragon-1 （SD-1） blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on August 17， sending three satellites into planned orbit.
Designed for commercial use， the SD-1， with a takeoff weight of about 23.1 tons， is a small-scale solid-propellant carrier rocket capable of sending 200-kg payloads to the solar synchronous orbit at an altitude of 500 km.
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