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HELSINKI \u2014 A Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket failed after liftoff late Tuesday with the loss of a pair of commercial satellites to test navigation enhancement for autonomous driving.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kuaizhou-1A light-lift solid rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 9 p.m. Eastern Dec. 14, as indicated by airspace closure notices. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese state media <\/span>confirmed <\/span><\/a>the launch failure hours later, tersely stating that the launch had failed and the specific reasons are being further analyzed and investigated.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flight carried the first two satellites for Geespace, a subsidiary of automaker Geely. The pair were intended to test navigation assistance and connectivity for autonomous driving, according to earlier statements. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The failure is a blow to commercial launch service provider Expace, a subsidiary of giant state-owned missile and defense contractor China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC). CASIC is a separate entity to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), which is the country\u2019s main space contractor and operator of the Long March rockets.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CASIC and Expace had <\/span>stated plans<\/span><\/a> at a commercial space forum late November for seven launches in the following three months for a variety of customers. The Kuaizhou-1A will likely be grounded until an investigation is concluded and the causes isolated and addressed.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expace had been encouraged by three successful Kuaizhou-1A launches across September, <\/span>October <\/span><\/a>and <\/span>November<\/span><\/a>, which followed the Kuaizhou-1A being grounded for one year as a result of a failure in <\/span>September 2020<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CASIC and its subsidiaries also plan an 80-satellite narrowband constellation named Xingyun, with plans to launch at least 12 Xingyun-2 satellites<\/a> in 2022 to form the second stage of the three-state constellation. It stated similar plans for launches of 12 Xingyun satellites back in 2020, before the previous KZ-1A failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday\u2019s mission was the 14th Kuaizhou-1A flight and the second failure. The first launch took place in January 2017. The launcher consists of three solid stages and a liquid propellant upper stage. It is capable of carrying 200 kilograms of payload into a 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit (SSO).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The larger Kuaizhou-11 had a first flight in July 2020 which ended in <\/span>failure<\/span><\/a>. A return-to-flight has yet to take place. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The struggles of Expace present potential opportunities for competitors in China\u2019s emerging commercial space sector.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The failure follows a week after a<\/span> second successful launch<\/span><\/a> of a Ceres-1 light-lift solid rocket by private rocket firm Galactic Energy, which is one of a number of other launch providers emerging in China to compete for commercial contracts. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another state entity spinoff, CAS Space, is preparing its first launch for the first quarter of 2022, and has, like Geespace, <\/span>established facilities<\/span><\/a> in the Nansha district of the southern city of Guangzhou.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expace however is one of the best funded launch firms in China and has an established industrial chain in Wuhan.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The satellites aboard Tuesday\u2019s flight belonged to Chinese private automaker Geely, which plans to<\/span> establish a constellation<\/span><\/a> to provide navigation and connectivity services needed for self-driving cars.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few details of the satellites had been provided, but Geely has put significant funds into the endeavor. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geely announced plans for a $326 million facility in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, in March 2020. It began manufacturing satellites in October, following license approval from China\u2019s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geely stated it had been encouraged by an NDRC decision to add \u201csatellite internet\u201d to a list of \u201cnew infrastructures\u201d in <\/span>April 2020<\/span><\/a>, seeing an opportunity to establish an industrial chain including research and development, design, manufacturing, launch and market application for its own satellite network.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taizhou facility has an estimated production output of over 500 satellites per year, according to a press release. Geespace in September <\/span>signed <\/span><\/a>a deal with CGWIC of CASC for Long March launch services for its GNSS-enhancing and high-speed connectivity satellites.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A <\/span>report <\/span><\/a>in April 2020 stated that two Geely satellites had been transported to Jiuquan for launch in the second half of 2020, while the first satellites <\/span>rolled out of Taizhou<\/span><\/a> in late September. It is unclear if the satellites lost on Tuesday\u2019s launch are the earlier pair, delayed by Kauizhou-1A launch issues, or a new set from Taizhou.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China opened portions of its space sector to private capital in late 2014. <\/span>Policy support and guidance \u2014 including regulations for <\/span>launch <\/span><\/a>and <\/span>small satellites<\/span><\/a> and national strategies supporting \u201c<\/span>satellite internet<\/span><\/a>\u201d \u2014 as well as <\/span>investment<\/span><\/a>, from a mix of venture capital and government-linked investment vehicles, has followed in recent years. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday\u2019s launch was China\u2019s 51st launch of 2021 and the third failure. China\u2019s previous national record for launches in a calendar year was 39 launches, achieved in 2018 and 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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