flown missionFailure
Kinetica 1 | DEAR-3 & 10 other satellites
CAS SpaceLaunch Area 130 — Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Either the launch vehicle did not reach orbit, or the payload(s) failed to separate.
mission
- Name
- DEAR-3 & 10 other satellites
- Type
- Technology
- Target orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
Launched 11 satellites including AZSPACE's DEAR-3 prototype recoverable science experiment spacecraft and the French CASAA-Sat cubesat from the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
- Fail reason
- 3rd stage loss of attitude control 3 seconds after ignition due to damage of the power supply wire to the 3rd stage motor Thrust Vector Control (TVC) mechanism during installation, then subsequent breaking due to vibration while in powered flight.
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Kinetica 1
- Provider
- CAS Space
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- CHN
launch site
- Pad
- Launch Area 130
- Location
- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Country
- CHN
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 40.8182, 100.2251