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General News of EXPACE (a subsidiary of CASIC)
« on: 08/31/2017 01:11 pm »
Expace Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp., is specialized in R&D, manufacturing and marketing of KUAIZHOU series launch vehicle to provide cost-effective, reliable and accurate commercial launch service for customers all over the world.
http://expace.com.cn/index.aspx
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #1 on: 08/31/2017 01:11 pm »
4 rockets in 1 week to be launched

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, a major space contractor, said on Wednesday that it will launch four Kuaizhou 1A rockets within one week in early 2018.

Each of the rockets will lift a remote-sensing satellite into orbit for a client, said Zha Xiongquan, a senior rocket designer at CASIC and vice-president of Expace Technology, a subsidiary of CASIC that provides commercial launch services.

He did not disclose the name of the client or the timetable for the missions, saying only that they will "definitely set a world record for launch frequency for a single model of carrier rocket".

No other rockets in the world have been used four times within one week, he said.

Zha made the remarks at the Third China International Commercial Aerospace Forum, which was sponsored by CASIC in Wuhan, Hubei province. Nearly 400 government officials, company representatives and industry experts from more than 20 nations, including the United States, Russia and Iran, attended the event and discussed technological developments and business opportunities in the space industry.

The Kuaizhou 1A, a solid-fuel carrier rocket developed by the CASIC Fourth Academy in Wuhan, has a liftoff weight of 30 metric tons and is capable of sending a 200-kilogram payload into a sun-synchronous orbit, or a 300-kg payload into a low-Earth orbit. Unlike most Chinese carrier rockets, it uses a transporter-erector-launch vehicle for liftoff rather than a fixed launchpad.

The first flight of the Kuaizhou 1A, carrying three small satellites, was in January. It was launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China.

The CASIC Fourth Academy began to develop Kuaizhou-series solid-fuel rockets in 2009 in hopes of presenting a low-cost, quick-response rocket family to the commercial launch market. It has launched three of the rockets.

Zha said a new-generation-the Kuaizhou 11-is under development and will make its first flight next year to send six satellites into orbit. He added that the rocket is undergoing testing.

According to the academy, the Kuaizhou 11 will have a liftoff weight of 78 tons and will be capable of placing a 1-ton payload into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 700 km, or a 1.5-ton payload into a low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 400 km.

The academy is also building the Wuhan National Space Industry Base, which will have an area of 68.8 square kilometers, in Wuhan's Xinzhou district. CASIC will invest 1.7 billion yuan ($258 million) in the base to build production and assembly plants for Kuaizhou rockets. It said it plans to make about 20 rockets at the base each year.

The CASIC Second Academy will also invest 300 million yuan to construct a research, development and manufacturing complex at the Wuhan base for making small satellites.

The aerospace company has said it will launch 156 small communications satellites into low-Earth orbit, at an altitude of 160 to 2,000 km, from 2018 to 2025. They would form a network capable of global coverage.
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2017-08/31/content_41505727.htm
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #2 on: 08/31/2017 01:19 pm »
EXPACE said they would offer two rideshare services for free in 2018/2019 :-X
http://weibo.com/5598304842/FjFBD2PJg?type=comment#_rnd1504185688544

EDIT: Only cubesats
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #3 on: 08/31/2017 01:50 pm »
I think that the closest we can come to for a previous series of launches is Soyuz 6-7-8 On October 11, 12, 13 1969 and then Cosmos 302 on October 17 which used the closely-related Voskhod launch vehicle.
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #4 on: 09/05/2017 05:09 am »
What's with the sudden rush though? Are they using DF-31 cores that are nearing the end of their shelf life, similar to what was happening with Dnepr and former SS-18 cores?

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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #5 on: 09/30/2017 12:14 pm »
One posted some images of KZ-1A in Baidu Tieba, these should be some screenshots from a video, but the OP didn't attach the original source...Really a badasssss truck :-\
Just for reference
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #6 on: 10/01/2017 01:10 pm »
Not the same video, but the following two videos with many details of Kuaizhou rocket confirm the truck

http://exhi.weain.mil.cn/eportal/ui?pageId=595026&articleKey=605082&columnId=595962

http://tv.cctv.com/2017/10/01/VIDEtnOxj9Ikh4gsWFDf8nWz171001.shtml
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #7 on: 10/01/2017 02:34 pm »
Here's that same vid on youtube;

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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #8 on: 10/01/2017 07:32 pm »
What's with the sudden rush though? Are they using DF-31 cores that are nearing the end of their shelf life, similar to what was happening with Dnepr and former SS-18 cores?
Single RV DF-21 family phaseout and Single RV DF-31/DF-31A phaseout to make inventory space for MIRV capable DF-31B and upcoming MIRV capable DF-41. this allows for the Chinese "Commercial "programme to exist.

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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #9 on: 10/02/2017 04:22 am »
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #10 on: 10/02/2017 07:32 am »
Some grabs.
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #11 on: 10/02/2017 07:41 am »
Some grabs.
Interesting. I have never heard of Kz-m, Kz-K1, Kz-K2
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #12 on: 10/02/2017 12:34 pm »
Some grabs.
Interesting. I have never heard of Kz-m, Kz-K1, Kz-K2
I just asked an EXPACE source on this question. He said the development plan of KZ-M KZ-K1 and KZ-K2 is being suspended
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #13 on: 10/02/2017 12:35 pm »
AFAIK, the KZ-21 is still a developing program. Its goal is to carry 20t payload to LEO with a 4.5m solid first stage and a LH2/LOX upper stage(another option is using conventional solid stage 2 and stage 3)
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #14 on: 10/30/2017 11:53 am »
Now, CASIC confirmed that they would develop a 4.2m solid stage with vertical carbon fiber winding technology for the coming KZ-21 and KZ-31
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/EK0MyD-V9yO3cmCZpDrz7g
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #15 on: 12/19/2017 02:32 am »
EXPACE has raised more than 1.2 billion yuan($180 million) in A funding round
http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/J3wmZJwqd9ok6ErBCmkGtA
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #16 on: 12/20/2017 05:49 am »
Design work starts on two big carrier rockets (China Daily)

"With a diameter of 4.5 meters, Kuaizhou 21 will be the largest and tallest in the Kuaizhou rocket family. The rocket's launching capacity is similar to that of the United States' Falcon 9 Full Thrust, and it will be capable of sending a 20-metric-ton spacecraft to a low-Earth orbit.

"...The Kuaizhou 16, a smaller model, will have a diameter of 3.5 meters and can place large satellites-those weighing up to 5 tons-into a low-Earth orbit"

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Also, Kuaizhou 1A and Kuaizhou 11 carrier rockets will lift 10 satellites for the Hainan Earth-Observation Satellite Constellation

From '10 satellites planned for Hainan project' (China Daily via China.org.cn)
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #17 on: 12/29/2017 04:17 pm »
China to test fire new super-large diameter solid propellant rocket engine


Kuaizhou 31 is being designed to lift 70 tons to LEO! That's astounding to say the least.
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #18 on: 12/30/2017 02:19 am »
The new motor has a diameter of 4.0 m. KZ-21 and KZ-31 have payloads of 20 t and 70 t to LEO, respectively. I'm guessing that KZ-31 might be a three core version of KZ-21.
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Re: General News of EXPACE(a subsidiary of CASIC)
« Reply #19 on: 10/30/2019 02:15 pm »
This video, originally posted in the KZ-1A Y11 thread, appears to show that the unsuccessful static fire test whose failure we'd only seen in grainy images on Twitter, and that it was caused by debonding of the solid propellant next to the peripheral insulation.

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