- Launch of a Kuaizhou-1A satellite carrying a remote sensing satellite ended in failure following liftoff from Jiuquan.
- The Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket lifted off from a transporter erector launcher at Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert at 01:02 a.m.
- Chinese launches to low-Earth and Sun-synchronous orbits are usually confirmed successful within an hour of liftoff.
- The launcher was carrying the Jilin-1 Gaofen (‘high resolution’) 02C optical Earth observation satellite.
- Saturday’s mission was the fourth Chinese failure of 2020 from 26 launches. Inaugural launches of the Long March 7A and the Expace Kuaizhou-11 failed.