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| Launch Vehicle | Payload [kg] | Launch Site | Builder | First Flight |
Last Flight |
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| LEO | Polar | GTO | Jiuquan | Xichang | Taiyun | Wenchang | |||||
| CZ-1 |  |
CALT | 1970 | 1970 | |||||||
| CZ-1D | 900 | 300 | |
CALT | 1995 | 2002 | |||||
| CZ-2A | 2,000 | 700 | |
CALT | 1974 | 1978 | |||||
| CZ-2C | 2,000 | 700 | |
CALT | 1982 | active | |||||
| CZ-2C/2 | 2,400 | |
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CALT | 2004 | 2009 | |||||
| CZ-2C/SD | 2,000 | 700 | |
CALT | 1997 | 1999 | |||||
| CZ-2C/CTS | 1,400 | |
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CALT | 2003 | 2004 | |||||
| CZ-2C/3 | 3,900 | |
CALT | 2004 | 2008 | ||||||
| CZ-2C/3/SMA | 1,000 | |
CALT | 2008 | 2008 | ||||||
| CZ-2D | 3,000 | 1,250 | |
CALT | 1992 | active | |||||
| CZ-2D/2 | 3,000 | |
SAST | 2003 | 2008 | ||||||
| CZ-2E | 8,800 | 3,375 | |
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CALT | 1990 | 1995 | ||||
| CZ-2E(A) | 12,000 | 3,375 | |
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CALT | TBD | TBD | ||||
| CZ-2F | 8,400 | 3,500 | |
CALT | 1999 | active | |||||
| CZ-2F/G | 12,000 | |
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CALT | 2012 | active | |||||
| CZ-2F/H | 12,500 | |
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CALT | N/A | N/A | |||||
| CZ-3 | 5,000 | 1,400 | |
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CALT | 1984 | 2000 | ||||
| CZ-3A | 7,200 | 2,500 | |
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CALT | 1994 | active | ||||
| CZ-3B | 13,500 | 4,000 | |
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CALT | 1996 | active | ||||
| CZ-3C | 3,700 | |
CALT | 2009 | active | ||||||
| CZ-4A | 2,500 | |
SAST | 1988 | 1990 | ||||||
| CZ-4B | 2,500 | |
SAST | 1999 | active | ||||||
| CZ-4C | 4,200 | 2,800 | 1,500 | |
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SAST | 2004 | active | |||
| CZ-5 | 11,000 | 11,000 | ? | |
CALT | 2016 | |||||
| CZ-5B | 25,000 | ? | |
CALT | 201? | ||||||
| CZ-6 | 1,000 | |
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CALT | 2015 | ||||||
| CZ-7 | 13,000 | |
| CALT | 2016 | ||||||
| CZ-8 | ? | 4,500 | 2,500 | ? | ? | CALT | 2018 | ||||
| CZ-9 | 140,000 | 66,000 | ? | ? | CALT | 2026 | |||||
| CZ-10 | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||||||
| CZ-11 | 1,000 | 350 | |
? | CALT | 2015 | |||||
| FB-1 | 2,000 | 700 | |
SAST | 1973 | 1981 | |||||
| KT-1 | 300 | 100 | | 2002 | 2005 | ||||||
| KZ-1 | 500 | |
2013 | ||||||||
| KZ-11 | 1,000 | |
2016 | ||||||||
| Shenlong | ? | ? | ? | 2030 | |||||||
| Shuttle | ? | ? | ? | CALT | |||||||
| Tengyun Space Plane | ? | ? | ? | CALT | 2030 | ||||||
| Hyperbola | 100 | |
StarCraft Glory | 2019 | |||||||
| ZQ-1 | 200 | |
LandSpace | 2019 | |||||||
| ZQ-2 | 4,000 | 2,000 | |
LandSpace | 2020 | ||||||
| OS-M | 200 | 70 | |
OneSpace | 2019 | ||||||
Image courtesy Dragon in Space
Spent rocket components falling to land are common in China, which has three inland launch sites at Jiuquan, Taiyuan and Xichang, with only one coastal site - Wenchang - which opened in 2016 and has hosted just four missions. To prevent injuries and deaths, China releases notices and in some instances evacuates areas within the carefully calculated drop zones ahead of launch. However, footage of falling and recently landed rocket stages taken by locals suggests that some ignore orders and also approach the highly toxic wreckage.
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