The Long March 1 (长征一号), also known as the Changzheng-1 (CZ-1), was the first member of China's
Long March rocket family
Long may refer to:
Measurement
* Long, characteristic of something of great duration
* Long, characteristic of something of great length
* Longitude (abbreviation: long.), a geographic coordinate
* Longa (music), note value in early music mens ...
. Like the U.S.'s and the Soviet Union's first rockets, it was based on a class of ballistic missiles, namely the
DF-4 class.
History
Development started in January 1965 as the Seventh Ministry of Machinery Industry issued a design task. The two stage liquid fueled
DF-4 was modified by adding a third stage in order to make it to the desired orbit. Long March 1's second flight launched China's first satellite
Dong Fang Hong 1
''Dong Fang Hong 1'' (), in the western world also known as China 1 or PRC 1, was the first space satellite of the People's Republic of China (PRC), launched successfully on 24 April 1970 as part of the PRC's Dongfanghong space satellite prog ...
to space on 24 April 1970. The rocket was operational during 1970–1971.
Wang Xiji
Wang Xiji (; born 26 July 1921) is a Chinese aerospace engineer. The chief designer of China's first sounding rocket ( T-7), first space launch vehicle ( Long March 1) and first recoverable satellites, he was awarded the Two Bombs, One Satelli ...
was the chief designer of the rocket.
Launch History
See also
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DF-4 -
ICBM
An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a range greater than , primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads). Conventional, chemical, and biological weapons c ...
on which this rocket is based
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Long March 1D
The Long March 1D was a member of China's Long March rocket family. During the 1990s CALT developed an improved version of the DF-4 to test the reentry vehicle warheads of the DF-31. They took advantage of this development and offered it as the L ...
- Other member of this rocket family
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YF-2A - Main propulsion module
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FG-02
The FG-02 was a Chinese solid rocket motor burning Polysulfide. It was developed by China Hexi Chemical and Machinery Corporation (also known as the 6th Academy of CASIC) for use in the Long March 1 third stage. It has a total nominal mass of , ...
- Upper stage
References
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Long March (rocket family)
Vehicles introduced in 1970