NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

KX-09 & Others

Launch Time
Fri Aug 30, 2019 23:41 UTC

Rocket

Kuaizhou 1A
Image Credit: CASIC
ExPace
Status: Active
Price: $5.8 million
Liftoff Thrust: 537 kN
Payload to LEO: 300 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 19.8 m
Fairing Diameter: 1.4 m
Fairing Height: 3.4 m

Mission Details

KX-09 (Taizhi 1)

Taizhi 1 or KS 09 is a Chinese small satellite built by DFH Satellite Co. to test technologies for a future gravitational wave detector mission.

The tests include a laser interferometer demonstrating a 100 pm measurement accuracy, micro thrusters with < 1 μN control accuracy, drag-free attitude control, and electric Hall-effect thrusters.

Payloads: 1
Low Earth Orbit

Xiaoxiang 1-07

Xiaoxiang 1-07 (TY 1-07) is a commercial research nanosatellite developed by Spacety Aerospace Co. at the Changsha Gaoxinqu Tianyi Research Institute, Hunan.

The satellite is built to the 6U CubeSat form factor. It features a solar sail, which was successfully deployed.

The solar sail developed by the Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences based in Northeast China's Liaoning province is a spacecraft powered by the reflected light pressure of the sun on the spacecraft's membrane. Because it does not consume additional chemical fuel, a solar sail is considered to be the one and only spacecraft that may reach outside the solar system. It can be applied to a wide range of fields, including asteroid exploration, geomagnetic storm monitoring, solar polar exploration, and space debris removal. After the satellite platform is put into orbit, scientists carry out technical verification through two-stage deployment. In the first stage, the solar sail body is pushed out of the satellite platform and turned 90 degrees. The second stage is to erect masts and gradually spread the sail. The unfolded solar sail is about 0.6 square meters, which is equivalent to the size of eight Macbook Airs laptop computers.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 8.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China

Stats

2019

63rd orbital launch attempt

Kuaizhou 1A

3rd mission
1st mission of 2019
3rd successful mission