Launches / Hyperbola-1

Past launch Launched successfully

Kunpeng-03

Hyperbola-1, flown by i-Space

Hyperbola-1 lifting off with the Kunpeng-03 mission
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This was i-Space's first launch of 2025, and its eighth in all.

Counting every operator, it was the 164th orbital launch attempt anywhere in 2025, and the fifth from Launch Area 95A.

Launched
Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 4:11 a.m. UTC
Window
Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 4:03 to 5:00 a.m. UTC
Launch site
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China
Rocket
Hyperbola-1
Operator
i-Space

The mission

Commercial Earth observation satellite in SSO with sub-meter resolution capability.

Type
Earth science
Destination
Sun-synchronous orbit

The rocket

i-Space's first orbital rocket.

Height
38 m
Built by
i-Space
First flew
July 25, 2019
Lifts to low Earth orbit
300 kg
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Diameter
2.5 m
Stages
4

8 flights, 4 of them successful.

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The operator

i-Space

i-Space is a Chinese private space launch company based in Beijing and founded in October 2016.

Sector
Commercial
Based in
China
Founded
2016

8 launches so far, 4 of them successful.

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The launch site

It went up from Launch Area 95A at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China.

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