China's Kuaizhou-11 commercial rocket launch ended in failure on Friday (10/7). This incident resulted in the loss of two satellites.
The first is the Jilin-1 video satellite, developed by Changguang Satellite Co. Ltd for Bilibili. While the second satellite is CentiSpace-1-S2 (Weili-1-02).
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Kuaizhou-11 took off at 12:17 p.m. from a carrier erector launcher at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, northwest China.
Video footage shows the rocket working fine, for at least a minute.
The Xinhuanet report said the specific cause of the failure was in the stages of further analysis and investigation.
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China has had three failures this year according to Space News.
The last failed launch in April resulted in the loss of Indonesia's Palapa-N1 communications satellite.
Kuaizhou-11 is a larger version of the Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket, operated by Expace.
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