China: Kuaizhou No. 1 failed to launch: 4th failure this year

 

China: Kuaizhou No. 1 failed to launch: 4th failure this year

-Loss of commercial earth observation satellite “Yoshibayashi No. 1 Takamin 02C”-

China:

On September 12, the Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) rocket was launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province.

Kuaizhou-1A:

According to information from Xinhua News Agency

It has announced that “an abnormality was detected during flight.”

“We failed because we couldn’t get it into the target orbit,” he reports.

CASIC: (China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp.)

At the beginning of the launch, we announced that the launch was successful through SNS.

But later I’m deleting the post.

The cause of the failure has not been clarified, and analysis and investigation are being conducted.

Fourth failure this year

In addition, China has carried out 26 launches in 2020 (as of September 14),

March 16 “Long March 7A”,
April 9th ​​”Long March 3B”,
“Kuaizhou No. 11” on July 10th,
And this time “Kuaizhou No. 1”,

I have been hit by a total of four failures.

sorae Portal site to space

https://sorae.info/space/20200914-jilin-1.html

Kuaizhou-1A fails during Jilin-1 launch

China
launched a new high-resolution remote sensing satellite for the Jilin-1 satellite constellation on Saturday morning from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

However, the solid fuelled Kuaizhou-1A launch

was declared a failure after several hours of waiting for information from Chinese state media.

No specifics were noted other than the rocket failed to deliver the satellite into the designated orbit.

Also known as Neimenggu-1 – Inner Mongolia 1 – the Jilin-1 Gaofen-02C

is a result of the cooperation between

the Changguang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. and People’s Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

With its high resolution, large width, and high-speed data transmission, the new satellite

was to be used in

natural resource surveys,
ecological environmental monitoring, urban construction,
disaster prevention and mitigation, and other fields.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/09/kuaizhou-1a-fails-during-jilin-1-launch/