HELSINKI — Chinese launch startup Orienspace successfully conducted its second launch late Friday, with a Gravity-1 solid rocket lifting off from a barge in the Yellow Sea.

The second Gravity-1 rocket lifted off at 10:20 p.m. Eastern, Oct. 10 (0220 UTC Oct. 11) from a barge off the coast of Haiyang, Shandong Province, supported by the Haiyang Oriental Spaceport. The rocket climbed into cloudy skies, with exhaust and debris billowing off the specially converted barge.

The launch carried three satellites into near-polar orbits: the Jilin-1 Wideband 02B07 Earth observation satellite for Changguang Satellite Technology (CGST), and the Shutian Yuxing-01 and Shutian Yuxing-02 satellites developed by Geespace , the space arm of automaker Geely.

The Jilin-1 satellite is described as a high-re

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