{"id":12967,"date":"2019-09-03T21:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/two-satellites-launch-aboard-chinese-kuaizhou-1a-rocket\/"},"modified":"2019-09-03T21:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T13:02:22","slug":"two-satellites-launch-aboard-chinese-kuaizhou-1a-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/two-satellites-launch-aboard-chinese-kuaizhou-1a-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Two satellites launch aboard Chinese Kuaizhou 1A rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-6p7RQ6j-_U\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two experimental Chinese satellites have launched on a Kuaizhou 1A rocket from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China.<\/p>\n<p>The Kuaizhou 1A light-class launcher lifted off at 2341 GMT (7:41 p.m. EDT) on Aug. 30 from Jiuquan, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Two small satellites were aboard the Kuaizhou 1A rocket \u2014 one for the Chinese Academy of Sciences and another for the commercial smallsat builder&nbsp;Spacety Co. Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the Kuaizhou 1A rocket occurred at 7:41 a.m. Beijing time on Aug. 31, marking China\u2019s 16th orbital launch attempt of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Six of China\u2019s orbital launch attempts so far in 2019 have been flights of the country\u2019s new generation of solid-fueled light-class satellite launchers, including vehicles developed by the country\u2019s traditional government-owned aerospace contractors and companies with more private investment.<\/p>\n<p>The quickening cadence of Chinese smallsat launcher flights is emblematic of wider market trends, in which CubeSats and microsatellites are launched with increasing frequency.<\/p>\n<p>The Kuaizhou 1A rocket is managed by&nbsp;Expace, a launch provider owned by the&nbsp;China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp., the biggest Chinese state-backed aerospace contractor. Founded in 2016, Expace is charged with developing and manufacturing&nbsp;Kuaizhou rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The latest launch was the third flight of a Kuaizhou 1A rocket, which is capable of delivering some 440 pounds of payload to a 435-mile-high (700-kilometer) orbit. The four-stage Kuaizhou 1A rocket, designed for rapid call-up, is likely based on Chinese military missile technology.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military tracking data indicated the rocket released its two payloads into a polar orbit around 370 miles (600 kilometers) above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The KX-09 satellite for the Chinese Academy of Sciences will conduct unspecified microgravity technology experiments in orbit, according to Xinhua. Spacety\u2019s&nbsp;Xiaoxiang 1-07 spacecraft, a technology demonstration CubeSat about the size of a briefcase, was also launched by the Kuaizhou 1A rocket.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two experimental Chinese satellites have launched on a Kuaizhou 1A rocket from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China. The Kuaizhou 1A light-class launcher lifted off at 2341 GMT (7:41 p.m. EDT) on Aug. 30 from Jiuquan, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. Two small satellites were aboard the Kuaizhou 1A rocket \u2014 one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2088,135,1779,1608,2089,1578,2091,2225],"class_list":["post-12967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-casic","tag-china","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-cubesats","tag-expace","tag-jiuquan","tag-kuaizhou","tag-kuaizhou-1a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}