Xingyun VDES

Returned ExPace's solid-fueled Kuaizhou-11 to flight from Jiuquan after its 2020 debut failure, deploying a VHF Data Exchange System test satellite for the Xingyun low-Earth-orbit maritime communications constellation into sun-synchronous orbit.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

500 kg (est.)

Flight

2nd

of 7 Kuaizhou 11 flights

Date and time

7 December 2022, 01:15 UTC

Rocket

Kuaizhou 11

Builder

ExPace

Launch site

Launch Area 95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Communications

International designator

2022-164

Launches in 2022

169th of 186

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