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DEAR-5
Kuaizhou 11, flown by ExPace
Launches / Kuaizhou 11
Kuaizhou 11, flown by ExPace
This was ExPace's 4th launch of 2025, and its 32nd in all.
Counting every operator, it was the 303rd orbital launch attempt anywhere in 2025, and the ninth from Launch Area 95A.
DEAR-5 is a commercial in-orbit payload and micro-gravity experiments hosting spacecraft developed by Chinese commercial company AZSPACE for various civilian customers, with capability to carry a maximum of 300 kg of payload for up to 1 year in orbit.
The Kuaizhou-11 (KZ-11), is a planned Chinese commercial launch vehicle. Reportedly, the payload is about 1000 kg for low earth orbit and 700 kg for a sun-synchronous orbit. The three stage rocket is possibly based on the DF-31 missile. It consists of three solid-fueled stages. The principal diameter is 2.2 m and the launch weight is 78 tons. the first stage features four grid rudders. The vehicle is launched from a launch truck.
6 flights, 5 of them successful.
ExPace
ExPace is a Chinese space rocket company based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of missileer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite launchers to low Earth orbit.
34 launches so far, 30 of them successful. The last 5 in a row went to plan.
It went up from Launch Area 95A at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China.
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