KT-1 satellite?

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Earth Science

Low Earth Orbit Kaituozhe Launch Pad Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Reported orbital launch failure.

Kaituozhe-1

Family:
Configuration: 1

A small solid fueled launch vehicle based on the road mobile DF-21 IRBM with an additional upper stage.

Specifications
  • Stages
    4
  • Length
    18.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    2.0 m
  • Launch Mass
    20.0 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Kaituozhe-1
  • Family
  • Variant
    1
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Kaituozhe-1
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    100.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation

(CASIC)

Successes: 5 Failures: 0 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

The China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation Limited (CASIC) is a Chinese state-owned corporation that designs, develops and manufactures a range of spacecrafts, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment.

INFO WIKI

Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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