27 July 2022, 04:12 UTC
Maiden Flight
Kinetica 1 (Lijian-1), China's largest solid-fueled rocket, flew its maiden mission from Jiuquan, placing six satellites into sun-synchronous orbit, including the SATech-01 X-ray astronomy technology demonstrator and the Jinan-1 satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 899 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 16 Kinetica 1 flights
- Date and time
- 27 July 2022, 04:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Kinetica 1
- Builder
- CAS Space
- Launch site
- Launch Area 130, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Technology
- International designator
- 2022-087
- Launches in 2022
- 90th of 186
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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