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Kaituozhe 1

Kaituozhe 1 (KT-1) was a small, solid-fueled launch vehicle based on the road-mobile DF-21 IRBM with an additional upper stage (in total 4 stages). It was 13.6 meters in length and 1.4 meters in diameter, with a launch mass of 20t. It was possible to launch KT-1 both from a truck-based platform or from airborne platform. It had a 100 kg to LEO payload capacity. It was possibly the launch vehicle for a Chinese ASAT system that was tested against an old Chinese weather satellite in 2007.

Missions: 3
Successes: 0
Partial Failures: 0
Failures: 3
Success Streak: 0
Success Rate: 0%
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Configurations

Kaituozhe 1
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Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 300 kN
Payload to LEO: 100 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 13.6 m
Fairing Diameter: 1.0 m
Fairing Height: 3.1 m

Launch Sites

Kaituozhe Launch Pad, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China

Launches

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Kaituozhe 1 | PS 3
Thu Jun 09, 2005
Kaituozhe Launch Pad, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China
CASIC
Kaituozhe 1 | PS 2
Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:30 UTC
Kaituozhe Launch Pad, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China
CASIC
Kaituozhe 1 | PS 1
Sun Sep 15, 2002 10:30 UTC
Kaituozhe Launch Pad, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China