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Over the weekend, the Chinese start-up OneSpace launched a rocket from the Gobi desert, and the whole was captured by a satellite in orbit 332 miles above the Earth.
OneSpace was testing the solid fuel booster of its OS-X1 rocket, according to the GB Times. The rocket took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and finally reached a suborbital altitude of 21.7 miles. The launch was filmed by Chinese satellite Jilin-1 and then posted on Sina Weibo ("Chinese Twitter") and Twitter. (Similarly, last year, a satellite saw a launch of Soyuz in Kazakhstan.)
OneSpace is one of the few private space flight companies in China in a sector dominated by the government space agency. OneSpace CEO Shu Chang told the press China Daily that he wants the company to be "one of the biggest small satellite launchers in the world" and that he plans to make 10 launches in 2019.
In May, OneSpace became the first private Chinese space company to launch a rocket. However, both of his tests were suborbital. He plans to launch his first orbital flight later this year.
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