12 LEO communications satellites for Chinese car manufacturer Geely Automotive for testing autonomous driving/inter-vehicle communication services. They also carry payloads for ocean observation.
Vehicle
Smart Dragon 3
Smart Dragon
Height
32 m
Diameter
2.64 m
LEO capacity
0 kg
Successful launches
12
Launch complex
Oriental Spaceport mobile launch ship
Haiyang Oriental Spaceport
Chinese orbital launch vehicle launches supporting sea port located at Haiyang, Shandong Province, with dedicated piers and rocket/payload processing facilities for Chinese launch vehicles’ sea launches, and (as part of its expansion project) land based launch pads on artificial islands for various test vehicles and launch vehicles of private and government launch services providers.
In operation as a remote base of Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center since 2019.
