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International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others) => Chinese Launchers => Topic started by: Galactic Penguin SST on 11/08/2014 07:39 am
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You know what? It looks like a model of KZ-1 appeared at the CASIC booth of this year's Zhuhai Airshow! ::)
.....or at least a commercialized version named FT-1 (Feitian-1). CASIC is also promoting "quick launch" Earth observation satellites as part of the deal. ::)
http://zhuanti.casic.cn/n1996649/n1996661/n1996681/index.html (http://zhuanti.casic.cn/n1996649/n1996661/n1996681/index.html)
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Are those satellites future missions or are only illustrative examples of possible missions?
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Are those satellites future missions or are only illustrative examples of possible missions?
Illustrative examples of possible missions.
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Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Any additional information would be appreceated.
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No metric differences between FT-1 and KZ-1 to see. Furthermore my guess is that the "Emergency Optical Remote Sensing Satellite" (the second from left in FT101 image) was the configuration used for the KZ-satellite.
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No metric differences between FT-1 and KZ-1 to see. Furthermore my guess is that the "Emergency Optical Remote Sensing Satellite" (the second from left in FT101 image) was the configuration used for the KZ-satellite.
So is one of the these the unidentified CZ-11 solid rocket listed on the schedule?? Discuss!! Also the the FT-1 graphic may not be to scale or a high fidelity model.
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No metric differences between FT-1 and KZ-1 to see. Furthermore my guess is that the "Emergency Optical Remote Sensing Satellite" (the second from left in FT101 image) was the configuration used for the KZ-satellite.
So is one of the these the unidentified CZ-11 solid rocket listed on the schedule?? Discuss!! Also the the FT-1 graphic may not be to scale or a high fidelity model.
Nah, the CZ-11 is built by someone else and has got national funding as a Minotaur-I class rocket. Will be flying sometime next year I believe.