9 January 2017, 04:11 UTC
Multiple payloads
Maiden flight of China's commercial Kuaizhou-1A rocket carried the Jilin-1 Shipin-03 hyperspectral imaging demonstrator plus the Xingyun S1 IoT testbed and Kaidun-1 tech-demo cubesat to sun-synchronous orbit from Jiuquan.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 170 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 30 Kuaizhou 1A flights
- Date and time
- 9 January 2017, 04:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Kuaizhou 1A
- Builder
- ExPace
- Launch site
- Launch Area 95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2017-002
- Launches in 2017
- 2nd of 90
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