ExPace (ExPace Technology Corporation), also called CASIC Rocket Technology Company, is a Chinese

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company, based in

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, Hubei, China. Its corporate compound is located at the Wuhan National Space Industry Base space industrial park. ExPace is a wholly owned subsidiary of missileer

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(CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on

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launchers to

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. ExPace was established in February 2016. ExPace was founded as a Chinese commercial launch vehicle company.

Kuaizhou launch vehicles

ExPace's line of Kuaizhou (KZ; ) launch vehicles use

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s, thus being available all the time once built, without need to fuel the rockets. The Kuaizhou (''Fast Vessel'') launch vehicles are based on Chinese ASAT and BMD mid-course

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launch vehicles. Development on the KZ launch vehicles started in 2009. ExPace charges about US$10,000/kg for launches. * Kuaizhou 1 (KZ-1): *: to SSO; *:First launch: 25 September 2013; * Kuaizhou 1A: *: to LEO; *:First launch: 9 January 2017; * Kuaizhou 11 (KZ-11): *: diameter; payload fairing; lift-off mass; to LEO; to SSO; US$10,000/kg; *:First launch: 10 July 2020.

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The first commercial space launch company in China, China Sanjiang Space Group Co., another subsidiary of CASIC, is planning it first launch for 2017, using ExPace's KZ-11 launch vehicle. The KZ-11 launch vehicle has launched but failed to reach orbit on 10 July 2020. ExPace is in competition with several other Chinese space rocket startups, being

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, i-Space,

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and

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Kuaizhou launch vehicles

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