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Kaituozhe-1

Retired

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation

A small solid fueled launch vehicle based on the road mobile DF-21 IRBM with an additional upper stage.

Key figures

Total launches
3
Successes
0
Failures
3
Success rate
0.0 %
Success streak
0
Maiden flight
Sep 15, 2001
Reusable
No
Shortest launch interval ⓘ
366d
Planned launches
0
Kaituozhe family total
4 launches · 1 successes · 3 failures (2 variants)

🧐 Data check

Automatic plausibility checks — anomalies are surfaced transparently here:

  • ℹ️The figures above apply only to the “Kaituozhe-1” variant. The Launch Library counts each variant separately — the Kaituozhe family totals 4 launches across 2 variants.

Technology

Length
18 m
Diameter
2 m
Launch mass
20 t
Stages
4
LEO (low Earth orbit)
100 kg

Launches per year

of which in our database: 3

2002: 1 Failures120022003: 1 Failures120032005: 1 Failures12005
Successes Failures Other/planned

History & events

  1. Sep 15, 2002🚀 Maiden flightHangtian Tsinghua 1-01View launch →
  2. Sep 15, 2002💥 FailureHangtian Tsinghua 1-01View launch →
  3. Sep 16, 2003💥 FailureHangtian Tsinghua 1-02View launch →
  4. Jun 9, 2005💥 FailureKT-1 satellite?View launch →

Sources