Kuaizhou is a family of Chinese "quick-reaction" orbital launch vehicles. Flying since 2013, Kuaizhou 1 and 1A consist of three solid-fueled rocket stages, with a liquid-fueled fourth stage as part of the satellite system.
Specifications
- Thrust
- —
- Height
- 19.4 m
- Diameter
- 1.4 m
- Launch mass
- 30 t
- Stages
- 4
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- 300 kg
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- 250 kg
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
31
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
90.3%
28 of 31
Current success streak
2
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
- Kuaizhou 1A | Traffic VDES A & B — Success
- Kuaizhou 1A | PRSC-S1 — Success
- Kuaizhou 1A | Unknown Payload — Failure
- Kuaizhou 1A | Haishao-1 — Success
- Kuaizhou 1A | Tianqi 29-32 — Success