The paper presents some progress on kHz ranging at Shanghai SLR station: 1) design and build a range gate generator with 5ns resolution based on a FPGA chip for kHz ranging; 2) measure time of laser flight with a Riga A032-Event Timer; 3) complete kHz control system made up of two computers: One is for registering start and stop events and matching them, displaying O-C, identifying returns, storing results; another is for tracking and controlling, range gating; 4) establish pre-processing software for handling kHz data on Windows Operating System. In April 2008, we borrowed a diode-pumping Q-switched Nd: YAG laser with 50ns pulse width, 2 mJ in 532nm and 1kHz repetition from North China Research Institute of ElectroOptics (NCRIEO) in China. This paper gives the preliminary results of 1KHz satellite ranging with the ns-pulses laser.