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HEAD-3A/B/C/D/E

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Mobile Launcher Pad Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

5 commercial ship/traffic AIS tracking satellites.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 14, 2023, 6:27 a.m.

Launch success.

hitura-nobad • Aug. 12, 2023, 4:16 p.m.

delayed by 1 day

Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 8, 2023, 9:28 a.m.

Added launch per NOTAMs; payload and launch vehicle identity extremely uncertain.

Kuaizhou 1A

Family:
Configuration: 1A

Kuaizhou is a family of Chinese "quick-reaction" orbital launch vehicles. Flying since 2013, Kuaizhou 1 and 1A consist of three solid-fueled rocket stages, with a liquid-fueled fourth stage as part of the satellite system.

Specifications

Stages
4
Length
19.4 m
Diameter
1.4 m
Fairing Diameter
1.4 m
Launch Mass
30.0 T
Thrust
―

Family

Name
Kuaizhou 1A
Family
―
Variant
1A
Alias
―
Full Name
Kuaizhou 1A

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
―
Low Earth Orbit
300.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
―
Direct Geostationary
―
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
250.0 kg

ExPace

(EP)

CEO: Zhang Di Founded: 2016 Successes: 28 Failures: 4 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

ExPace is a Chinese space rocket company based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of missileer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite launchers to low Earth orbit.

WIKI

Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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