ExPace (ExPace Technology Corporation),
[ also called CASIC Rocket Technology Company,]state-owned
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space rocket
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company, based in Wuhan
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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 China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation
The China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation Limited (CASIC) is a Chinese state-owned enterprise that designs, develops and manufactures a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipmen ...
(CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite
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launchers to low Earth orbit
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Kuaizhou launch vehicles
ExPace's line of Kuaizhou (KZ; ) launch vehicles use solid rocket motor
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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 interceptor
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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
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; [
*: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.
]
Marketplace
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.Galactic Energy
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History
Galactic Energ ...
, LinkSpace, i-Space, OneSpace
OneSpace ( zh , s=零壹空间 , p= Líng Yī Kōngjiān , l= Zero One Space ) or One Space Technology Group ( zh , s= 零壹空间科技 , p= Líng Yī Kōngjiān Kējì , l= Zero One Space Technology ) is a Chinese private space launch group b ...
and Deep Blue Aerospace.[
]
See also
* LandSpace
* LinkSpace
* OneSpace
OneSpace ( zh , s=零壹空间 , p= Líng Yī Kōngjiān , l= Zero One Space ) or One Space Technology Group ( zh , s= 零壹空间科技 , p= Líng Yī Kōngjiān Kējì , l= Zero One Space Technology ) is a Chinese private space launch group b ...
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Aerospace companies of China
Commercial launch service providers
Companies based in Wuhan
Transport companies established in 2016
Chinese companies established in 2016
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