Kaituozhe 1
Description
Kaituozhe 1 (KT-1) was a small, solid-fueled launch vehicle based on the road-mobile DF-21 IRBM with an additional upper stage (in total 4 stages). It was 13.6 meters in length and 1.4 meters in diameter, with a launch mass of 20t. It was possible to launch KT-1 both from a truck-based platform or from airborne platform. It had a 100 kg to LEO payload capacity. It was possibly the launch vehicle for a Chinese ASAT system that was tested against an old Chinese weather satellite in 2007.
Missions
3
Success Rate
0.0%
Successes
0
Failures
3
Success Streak
0
Partial Failures
0
Previous
June 9, 2005
PS 3
Kaituozhe 1 | CASIC
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China
September 16, 2003
PS 2
Kaituozhe 1 | CASIC
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China
Configurations
Retired
Kaituozhe 1
Active 2002 to 2005
Rocket
Height: 13.6m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 100 kg
GTO: 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust
300 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 1m
Height: 3.1m
Stages
4