HELSINKI – The launch of the Kuizhou-1A satellite, which carries a remote sensing satellite, ended in failure on Saturday following a lift satellite from Juquan.
At 1:02 a.m. Eastern Saturday, Kubizou-1 launched a solid rocket from the Transporter Erector Launcher at Jiquan in the Gobi Desert at 1:02 a.m. Saturday. Amateur footage of clear projection After a while the Chinese appeared on social media.
Launches in Chinese low-earth and sun-synchronous orbits are usually confirmed to be successful within an hour of the liftoff. State media officially confirmed the failure (Chinese) five hours after the launch. The ambiguous report states that further analysis and investigation into the specific causes of the launch anomaly is underway.
The launch was the Jilin-1 Gaofen (‘High Resolution’) 02C Optical Earth Observation Satellite. The satellite was understood to have 0.76-meter resolution capabilities with a switching width of 40 km.
An unofficial social media post announcing the launch’s success with opening images was later deleted from Cena Weibo (see Twitter Post again).
Saturday’s mission was the fourth Chinese failure of 2020 out of 26 launches. The opening of Long March 7a And express Quizho-11 Failed, while the issue with Workhorse Long March 3B hurt Indonesia Palp-N1 Communication satellite.
The inconsistency of the Quizo-1A launch on September 17 and 22 is also in question. All three had hit airspace closure notices for launches in recent days. In 2020, three U.S. Attempts to launch (including new launchers and Astra rockets) and launch Iranian orbits have also ended in failure.
The Quizo-1 rocket is operated by a well-known trading company, Express. Nevertheless, it is owned and operated by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC), a large state-owned enterprise, missile-maker and defense contractor.
The Kuazhou-1A, derived from missile technology, has three solid phases and a liquid propellant upper phase, and is capable of loading a 200-kilogram payload into a 700-kilometer solar-synchronous orbit (SSO).
Jilin-1 Earth Observation Satellites Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd. (CGST). CGST is a government-owned Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Saturday’s launch was the first failure of ten flights for the Quizhou-1A. There was another failure in the hours following the launch Termination During its first phase of burning, a rastra rocket 3..1 vehicle.
