Kuaizhou-1A launch with several sats - JSLC - January 9, 2017 (04:11 UTC)

[Satori]

A solid fuel KZ-1A Kuaizhou-1A rocket will be launched from Jiuquan in December 2016. One of the satellites on board looks like to be a Jilin sat.

Can anyone help in translating the following from chinaspaceflight.com: 中新社武汉9月11日电 (记者 张素)中国航天科工运载技术研究院副院长张镝11日在武汉表示，拟在今年12月用快舟一号运载火箭发射“吉林一号”灵巧视频星03星及两颗立方体星。快舟十一号运载火箭将在2017年进行首次商业发射。

[Steven Pietrobon]

Bing translation.

"News Agency, Wuhan, September 11 (Xinhua Zhang Su) Vice President of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Research Institute of vehicle technology dysprosium 11th in Wuhan, to be held in December this year by fast boat first rocket launch "Jilin first," smart video 03 star and two cube star. 11th launch vehicles in 2017 and fast boats for commercial launches for the first time."

[Liss]

I'd understand this as

[China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp.] [Launch vehicles Technology Research Institute] [Vice-President] [Zhang Di] on 11th in Wuhan said to be in [this December] with [KZ-1 rocket] launch ["Jilin One"] [smart video satellite 03 Star] and [two cubes Star]. [KZ-11 launch vehicle] will be the first commercial launch in 2017.

So the main payload would be Lingqiao Shipin 03 of the Jilin-1 family of satellites. Two previous smart video satellites were launched with Jilin-1 per se.

[Satori]

I'd understand this as

[China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp.] [Launch vehicles Technology Research Institute] [Vice-President] [Zhang Di] on 11th in Wuhan said to be in [this December] with [KZ-1 rocket] launch ["Jilin One"] [smart video satellite 03 Star] and [two cubes Star]. [KZ-11 launch vehicle] will be the first commercial launch in 2017.

So the main payload would be Lingqiao Shipin 03 of the Jilin-1 family of satellites. Two previous smart video satellites were launched with Jilin-1 per se.

So, we have Lingqiao-1 (3) and two CubeSats in this launch.

[Steven Pietrobon]

Does that mean that Lingqiao A and Lingqiao B are actually Lingqiao 1-01 and Lingqiao 1-02, respectively?

[Satori]

Kuaizhou-1 scheduled to launch in December.

[russianhalo117]

Does that mean that Lingqiao A and Lingqiao B are actually Lingqiao 1-01 and Lingqiao 1-02, respectively?

probably.

[Skyrocket]

Does anyone know, what the differences between Kuaizhou-1A and Kuaizhou-1 are? Kuaizhou-1A for seperable payloads and Kuaizhou-1 for payloads integrated with the final stage?

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Does anyone know, what the differences between Kuaizhou-1A and Kuaizhou-1 are? Kuaizhou-1A for seperable payloads and Kuaizhou-1 for payloads integrated with the final stage?

This is what my impressions are judging from Chinese sources.

[Satori]

According to Chinaspaceflight.com, this launch will take place in late December.

[linxiaoyi]

Satellite by the end of November before leaving the factory assessment, the end of December estimated to keep up with the launch?
http://www.spaceflightfans.cn/6905.html (ftp://www.spaceflightfans.cn/6905.html)

[Phillip Clark]

Since the second Kuaizhou satellite decayed from orbit on October 9th this year, I would have expected another of these birds to have been launched.

[Satori]

KZ-1A to be launched on December 31.

[Satori]

Sats on this launch are Jilin-1 (3), Xingyun Shiyan-1 and Kaidun-1 'Canton-1'.

Jilin-1 (3) is a high resolution video observation satellite.

Kaidun-1 will be used for maritime management (?)

[Satori]

According to Chinaspaceflight.com the launch was delayed to January 2017.

[Galactic Penguin SST]

According to Chinaspaceflight.com the launch was delayed to January 2017.

The source is a certain Weibo user (who I think works in CAST or some other big organization) who has been spot on with all Chinese launches since 2015, so this should be credible.

[jcm]

Sats on this launch are Jilin-1 (3), Xingyun Shiyan-1 and Kaidun-1 'Canton-1'.

Jilin-1 (3) is a high resolution video observation satellite.

Kaidun-1 will be used for maritime management (?)

Not Canton-1,  Caton-1  for the Beijing company "Caton Technology Co.", a subsidiary of a California video streaming company.

[jcm]

According to https://www.chinaspaceflight.com/satellite/Jilin1/Jilin1-03-KZ-1A.html

This is the first mission contract between Chang Guang Satellite
Technology Ltd (CGSTL) and EXPACE/CASIC. Jilin-1 Smart Video Sat 3 is
now called  吉林林业一号卫星 (Jilin linye yihao weixing, Jilin   
Forestry 1 Satellite). There are  two 2U cubesats: Caton-1
(凯盾一号) for Beijing Caton Universal Technology Ltd. (a.k.a. Caton
Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd) and 行云试验一号 (Xingyun Shiyan yi
hao, Starcloud Test 1) for the 航天科工第九总体设计部
(Hangtian kegong di jiu zongti sheji bu, CASIC 9th Academy), which I think is also known
as the 中国三江航天集团 (Zhongguo sanjiang hagtian jituan, China
Sanjiang Space Group) based in Hankou, Hubei province.

The rocket is KZ-1A Y1

I welcome corrections from sinophone readers.

[jcm]

Also, https://www.chinaspaceflight.com/satellite/caton/caton-1.html
says that Caton is involved in ship traffic management and AIS. It doesn't say anything about the payload of Caton-1
itself, but an AIS ship-tracking receiver seems like a good bet.

[Galactic Penguin SST]

https://www.chinaspaceflight.com is reporting a January 6 launch date with the launch time around noon local.