The nickname "Scorpio" reveals the "first passenger" of the Ceres 1 carrier rocket

Image source: Shanghai AES Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd.; image description: data map, photo by Zheng Yingying, the eleven star of the Apocalypse Constellation

　　China News Service, November 7 (Zheng Yingying and Guo Chaokai) As the first passenger of the Ceres-1 carrier rocket, the nickname "Scorpio", the constellation Eleven of the Apocalypse, successfully lifted off on the 7th.

　　At 15:12 that day, the Ceres-1 carrier rocket successfully made its first flight at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China.

"Passenger" Apocalypse Constellation Eleven Star is a component of the Apocalypse Internet of Things constellation, mainly used to provide data collection and transmission services.

According to the naming principle of the related space missions of the satellite system, the eleven stars of the Apocalypse constellation are named the "Scorpio" mission.

　　As the manufacturer of the Eleven Stars of the Apocalypse Constellation, Shanghai Aerospace Science and Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the 805 Institute of the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, introduced that the Eleven Stars of the Apocalypse Constellation is a data acquisition spacecraft with a multi-band IoT payload. system.

The spacecraft adopts the streamlined development model of "one-step production and rapid iteration", and it only took three months from the finalization of the plan to the delivery of the entire star.

The eleven stars of the Apocalypse constellation achieve full autonomous management of spacecraft in orbit, and the load will automatically turn on when transiting, and the ground terminal will be automatically awakened by broadcasting the ephemeris, which greatly reduces the average power consumption of the entire satellite and the ground terminal.

Picture source: Shanghai AES Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd.; Picture description: At 15:12 on November 7th, Beijing time, the Ceres-1 carrier rocket successfully flew for the first time at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China and successfully sent the eleven stars of the Apocalypse Constellation Into the scheduled track.

Photo by Zheng Yingying

　　In addition, the spacecraft also uses inter-cabin wireless modules for cableless telemetry data transmission within the spacecraft, which has the advantages of space saving, plug and play, and flexible data transmission.

　　Next, the "Scorpio" spacecraft "in position" will start its research mission in space.

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