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Kuaizhou
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AKA: KZ. Status: Active. First Launch: 2012-03-17. Last Launch: 2018-09-29. Number: 5 .

• Test payload? - . Nation: China. Agency: PLA2AC. Apogee: 200 km (120 mi). Maybe orbital attempt.

• Kuaizhou-1 - . Payload: KZ-1. Nation: China. Class: Surveillance. Type: Surveillance satellite. Spacecraft: Kuaizhou satellite. Decay Date: 2015-09-01 . USAF Sat Cat: 39262 . COSPAR: 2013-053A. Apogee: 301 km (187 mi). Perigee: 279 km (173 mi). Inclination: 96.59 deg. Period: 90.31 min.

  First launch of China's Kuaizhou small quick-response launch vehicle. "Kuaizhou" means "Swift Boat". The solid propellant vehicle is thought to be built by CASIC in collaboration with the Harbin Institute of Technology and may be a derivative of the DF-21 family, like the failed KT-1 launch vehicle of 2002-2003. Development of the rocket began in 2010. The satellite's initial orbit was 275 x 293 km x 96.7 deg, raised on 27 September to 299 x 306 km. The satellite payload is operated by the State Remote Sensing Center. The satellite maneuvered following launch: its initial 275 x 293 km orbit, was raised on September 27 to 299 x 306 km. The orbit decayed to 279 x 288 km and then was raised on October 17 to 288 x 321 km; after a further decay another reboost on November 1 restored the orbit to 290 x 317 km. The third reboost on November 19 raised the orbit from 267 x 294 km to 287 x 322 km.

• Kuaizhou-2 - . Nation: China. Class: Surveillance. Type: Surveillance satellite. Spacecraft: Kuaizhou satellite. Decay Date: 2016-10-09 . USAF Sat Cat: 40311 . COSPAR: 2014-073A. Apogee: 318 km (197 mi). Perigee: 283 km (175 mi). Inclination: 96.50 deg. Period: 90.53 min.

  Second launch of the Chinese 2nd Artillery's operationally responsive Kuaizhou (Swift Boat) launch vehicle with a military payload. Kuaizhou 1 was launched to a similar sun synchronous orbit with 11:00 local time of the descending node in September 2013; after regular maintenance burns for a year, during October 2014 Kuaizhou 1's orbit was raised to 365 x 390 km. Kuaizhou-2 was in a sun synchronous orbit; 1300 GMT local time of the descending node.

• Linye 1 (Jilin-1S3) - . Payload: Jilin-1-03. Nation: China. Class: Surveillance. Type: Surveillance satellite. Spacecraft: Cubesat. USAF Sat Cat: 41914 . COSPAR: 2017-002B. Apogee: 545 km (338 mi). Perigee: 513 km (318 mi). Inclination: 97.50 deg.

  See Jilin-1 Video-03 (Jilin Linye 1). Kuaizhou-1A quick-response rocket test. The earlier KZ-1 rocket was used for two low orbit imaging satellites which remained integrated with the upper stage; in the commercialized KZ-1A version the 4th stage separates from the payloads, and launch services are provided by EXPACE, the commercial arm of KZ-1A builder CASIC (which also builds the DF-21 missile that KZ-1/1A was based on). The main payload was Chang Guang Satellite Technology Ltd's "Jilin-1 linqiao shipin xing 03 xing", also called Jilin Linye 1 Weixing (Jilin Forestry 1 satellite). The 165 kg sat has a 1m resolution Earth imager. Two 2U cubesats were also carried. 1030LT SSO.

• Caton-1 - . Nation: China. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. USAF Sat Cat: 41913 . COSPAR: 2017-002A. Apogee: 546 km (339 mi). Perigee: 530 km (320 mi). Inclination: 97.50 deg. See Kaidun 1 (Caton 1). Caton-1 (or Kaidun-1) for Caton Technology Co. Ltd. 1030LT SSO..

• Xingyun Shiyan 1 - . Nation: China. Class: Technology. Type: Technology satellite. Spacecraft: Cubesat. USAF Sat Cat: 41915 . COSPAR: 2017-002C. Apogee: 541 km (336 mi). Perigee: 529 km (328 mi). Inclination: 97.50 deg. See XY S1 (Xingyun Shiyan 1). 2U cubesat for the CASIC 9th Academy..

• Xiangrikui 1 - . Payload: Centispace-1-1S; CENTISPACE-1 S1. Nation: China. USAF Sat Cat: 43636 . COSPAR: 2018-075A. Apogee: 710 km (440 mi). Perigee: 695 km (431 mi). Inclination: 98.20 deg. Period: 98.82 min. See CentiSpace-1 S1 (Xiangrikui 1). ..