15 December 2021, 02:00 UTC
GeeSAT X 2
Kuaizhou-1A failed during its third-stage burn shortly after launching from Jiuquan, destroying two GeeSAT commercial positioning satellites built for Geely's Geespace subsidiary; it was the type's second failure in 14 flights.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 14th
- of 30 Kuaizhou 1A flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 2021, 02:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kuaizhou 1A
- Builder
- ExPace
- Launch site
- Launch Area 95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Navigation
- Launches in 2021
- 134th of 146