Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
04:37:00
Wednesday September 25, 2013
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First flight of Kuaizhou 1.
Kuaizhou 1 is reportedly a satellite for natural disaster monitoring. It will be used to monitor natural disasters and provide disaster-relief information for its user, the National Remote Sensing Center of China, a public institution under the Ministry of Science and Technology. Likely the satellite is integrated with the upper stage of the launch vehicle, which is consistent with only one object detected in orbit. It demonstrated the capability for orbital manoeuvres by raising the initial orbit was 275 km × 293 km × 96.7° on 27 September to 299 km × 306 km. It made reboosts about every two weeks. Kuaizhou 1 last maneuvered on 10 July 2015. On 1 September 2015, the satellite reentered the earth's atmosphere.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
Manufacturer
CASICRocket
Height: 13.6m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 100 kg
GTO: 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust
500 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 1m
Height: 3.1m
Stages
4
1st
Mission
1st
Mission of 2013
55th
Orbital launch attempt