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Kuaizhou-1 (KZ-1) / Fei Tian 1

Kuaizhou-1 [EXPACE]

Kuaizhou-1A (Xingyun-2) [EXPACE]

The Kuaizhou-1 launcher, developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASIC), is a small, solid fueled launch vehicle, which is possibly based on the road mobile DF-21 IRBM with two additional upper stages.

The Kuaizhou-1 vehicle consits of three solid fueled stages and a fourth liquid fueled stage.

The vehicle is reportedly designed for quick-reaction launches and can reportedly place 400 kg into orbit. The payload of Kuaizhou-1 is integrated with the upper stage.

A commercial variant is offered under the designation Fei Tian 1 (FT-1). This one offers a separable payload. Another version, Kuaizhou-1A appears to be similar, also offering separable payloads. Possibly, these names refer both to the same version.

Version Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4
Kuaizhou-1 (KZ-1) ? ? ? ?
Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) ? ? ? ?
Kuaizhou-1B (KZ-1B) ? ? ? ?
Fei Tian-1 (FT-1) ? ? ? ?
Performance (kg) LEO LPEO SSO GTO GEO MolO IP
Kuaizhou-1 400 - - - -
Kuaizhou-1A 400 - - - -
Kuaizhou-1B - - - -
Fei Tian 1 400 - - - -
No:   TNr:  Type:             Serial    Date           LS              Payload

 1     1    Kuaizhou-1T       .         17.03.2012 *   Jq LP-43/95A    (R&D)
 2     1    Kuaizhou-1        .         25.09.2013     Jq LP-43/95A    Kuaizhou 1
 3     2    Kuaizhou-1        .         21.11.2014     Jq LC-43/95A    Kuaizhou 2 
 4     1    Kuaizhou-1A       Y1        09.01.2017     Jq LC-43/95A    Jilin-1 Shipin-03 / Xingyun S1 / Kaidun 1
 5     2    Kuaizhou-1A       Y8        29.09.2018     Jq LC-43/95A    CentiSpace-1 S1
 6     3    Kuaizhou-1A       Y10       30.08.2019     Jq LC-43/95A    Taizhi 1 (KX 09) / TY 1-07 (Xiaoxiang 1-07) 
 7     4    Kuaizhou-1A       Y11       13.11.2019     Jq LC-43/95A    Jilin-1 Gaofen-02A
 8     5    Kuaizhou-1A       Y7        17.11.2019     Jq LC-43/95A    KL-Alpha A / KL-Alpha B
 9     6    Kuaizhou-1A       Y2        07.12.2019     TY              Jilin-1 Gaofen-02B
10     7    Kuaizhou-1A       Y12       07.12.2019     TY LC-16        HEAD 2A / HEAD 2B / TY 16 / TY 17 / Tianqi 4A / Tianqi 4B
11     8    Kuaizhou-1A       Y9        16.01.2020     Jq LC-43/95A    Yinhe 1
12     9    Kuaizhou-1A       Y6        12.05.2020     Jq LC-43/95A    Xingyun-2 01 / Xingyun-2 02
13    10    Kuaizhou-1A       Y3        12.09.2020  F  Jq LC-43/95A    Jilin-1 Gaofen-02C
14    11    Kuaizhou-1A       Y4        27.09.2021     Jq LC-43/95A    Jilin-1 Gaofen-02D
15    12    Kuaizhou-1A       Y5        27.10.2021     Jq LC-43/95A    Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F
16    13    Kuaizhou-1A       Y13       24.11.2021     Jq LC-43/95A    Shiyan 11
17    14    Kuaizhou-1A       Y16.      15.12.2021  F  Jq LC-43/95A    GeeSAT 1-(01) / GeeSAT 1-(02)
18    15    Kuaizhou-1A       Y17       22.06.2022     Jq LC-43/95A    Tianxing 1
19    16    Kuaizhou-1A       Y.        23.08.2022     Xi              CX 16A / CX 16B
20    17    Kuaizhou-1A       Y.        06.09.2022     Jq LC-43/95A    CentiSpace-1 S3 / CentiSpace-1 S4
21    18    Kuaizhou-1A       Y.        24.09.2022     TY              Shiyan 14 / Shiyan 15
22    19    Kuaizhou-1A       Y19       22.03.2023     Jq LC-43/95A    Tianmu-1 03, ..., 06
23    20    Kuaizhou-1A       Y20       09.06.2023     Jq LC-43/95A    Longjiang 3
24    21    Kuaizhou-1A       Y22       20.07.2023     Jq LC-43/95A    Tianmu-1 07, ..., 10
25    22    Kuaizhou-1A       Y21       14.08.2023     Xi              HEAD 3A, ..., 3E
26    23    Kuaizhou-1A       Y26       25.12.2023     Jq LC-43/95A    Tianmu-1 11, ..., 14
27    24    Kuaizhou-1A       Y27       27.12.2023     Jq LC-43/95A    Tianmu-1 19, ..., 22
28    25    Kuaizhou-1A       Y28       05.01.2024     Jq LC-43/95A    Tianmu-1 15, ..., 18
29    26    Kuaizhou-1A       Y24       11.01.2024     Jq LC-43/95A    Tianxing 1-02


Planned:


Failures:

13: Stage 4 failure
17: ?

 
Launch sites:

Jq  = Jiuquan Space Center, Inner Mongolia, China China
TY  = Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC), Wuzhai, Shanxi, China China
Xi  = Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China China

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