17 December 2021
The 1st flight of the Huayi 1 suborbital rocket took place on 17 December at 14:30 h at a testing field in northwestern China, carrying the Agile Testbed experimental satellite and the biological experimental payload Sparkle 1 to an altitude of 250 km. The rocket was build by Huayi Spacetime, a startup in Shaanxi province that develops both suborbital and orbital rockets. Agile Testbed was manufactured by Cosats in 3D printing technology. The Agile Testbed provides a microgravity platform for space-based experiments from a wide range of businesses such as biological research and development of new medicines and materials.
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