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Family-level launch record combining canonical variants, historical missions, public cadence forecasts, and available payload performance specs.
Historical missions are grouped by actual launch year. Forecast cadence uses family-level launch-rate rows.
| Year | Historical missions | Forecast launches |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 5 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 |
| 2021 | 4 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 |
| 2023 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
| 2027 | 0 | 1 |
| 2028 | 0 | 1 |
| 2029 | 0 | 1 |
| 2030 | 0 | 1 |
| 2031 | 0 | 1 |
| 2032 | 0 | 1 |
| 2033 | 0 | 1 |
| 2034 | 0 | 1 |
Payload capacity by variant and target orbit when structured capacity rows are available.
| Variant | Orbit | Capacity | Altitude | Inclination | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kuaizhou-1A | SSO | 200 kg | Unknown | Unknown | RocketLaunch.org Kuaizhou-1A vehicle overview |
Kuaizhou-1A E | SSO | 200 kg | Unknown | Unknown | RocketLaunch.org Kuaizhou-1A vehicle overview |
Latest launched missions using variants in this family.
| Mission | Variant | Launch |
|---|---|---|
| Jiaotong VDES A/B | Kuaizhou-1A E | Dec 5, 2025 |
| PRSS | Kuaizhou-1A E | Jul 31, 2025 |
| Haishao-1 Mission | Kuaizhou-1A E | Dec 4, 2024 |
| Tianqi 29-32 |
Canonical variants rolled up into this launch vehicle family.
| Variant | Stages | Missions | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Kuaizhou-1A | Not stated | 27 | Active |
Kuaizhou-1A E | Not stated | 3 | Active |
| 2035 | 0 | 1 |
| 2036 | 0 | 1 |
| 2037 | 0 | 1 |
| 2038 | 0 | 1 |
| 2039 | 0 | 1 |
| 2040 | 0 | 1 |
| 2041 | 0 | 1 |
1 launch location represented.
| Year | Location | Launches | Confidence | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2027 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2028 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2029 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2030 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2031 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2032 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2033 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2034 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2035 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2036 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2037 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2038 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2039 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2040 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
| 2041 | China inland launch centers | aggregate | 1 | 30% | Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot. |
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Kuaizhou-1A |
| Sep 20, 2024 |
| Tianxing-1 02 Mission | Kuaizhou-1A | Jan 11, 2024 |
| Tianmu-1 15-18 | Kuaizhou-1A | Jan 5, 2024 |
| Tianmu-1 19-22 | Kuaizhou-1A | Dec 27, 2023 |
| Tianmu-1 11-14 | Kuaizhou-1A | Dec 25, 2023 |
Upcoming mission rows with announced launch timing.
| Mission | Variant | Announced |
|---|---|---|
No forecasted missionsNo upcoming announced mission rows are linked to this vehicle family. | ||
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Kuaizhou 1A family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
CASIC stated plans to launch 12 Xingyun satellites in 2020 prior to the previous Kuaizhou-1A failure.
Expace achieved three successful Kuaizhou-1A launches in September, October, and November prior to the 2021-12-14 failure.
The Kuaizhou-1A rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 9 p.m. Eastern on 2021-12-14.
CASIC had planned to launch 12 Xingyun satellites in 2021 prior to the Kuaizhou-1A failure in 2020.
A Kuaizhou-1A launch took place on 2021-11-24.
CASIC expects to launch the Xingyun-2 satellites in pairs on Kuaizhou-1A rockets operated by subsidiary Expace.
A Chinese Kuaizhou-1A rocket launched the experimental Shiyan-11 satellite from northwest China late 2021-11-24.
The 2021-11-24 launch was the 13th flight of the Kuaizhou-1A rocket, with the first flight taking place in 2017-01-01.
The Kuaizhou-1A is capable of carrying 200 kg of payload into a 700-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit.
The Jilin-1 Gaofen 02F satellite was launched by a Kuaizhou-1A rocket at 2:19 p.m. Beijing Time and entered its planned orbit.
China launched an optical remote sensing satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) rocket on 2021-10-27.
The Kuaizhou-1A lifted off from a transporter erector launcher at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 2:19 a.m. Eastern on 2021-10-27.
A Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket carrying the Jilin-1 Gaofen 02F satellite launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province on 2021-10-27.
Since its first commercial mission in 2017, Kuaizhou-1A rockets have launched 21 satellites into space.
The 2021-10-27 Kuaizhou-1A launch had been delayed briefly by a COVID-19 outbreak close to the testing team and an earlier launch attempt was scrubbed on the preceding Monday.
Expace’s efforts to launch a second Kuaizhou-1A rocket 2021 have been affected by a COVID-19 outbreak.
The Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket was developed by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. (CASIC) and is operated by its spinoff Expace.
A Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket returned to flight from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 2:19 a.m. Eastern on 2021-09-27.
The Jilin-1 Gaofen 02C satellite was lost in a Kuaizhou-1A launch failure in September 2020.
Kuaizhou-1A and Kuaizhou-11 vehicles had been grounded following failures in 2020, and Expace commenced final assembly of both a Kuaizhou-1A and a Kuaizhou-11 in 2021.