{"id":10941,"date":"2021-09-29T18:05:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T10:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinese-test-satellite-fails-after-launch\/"},"modified":"2021-09-29T18:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T10:05:29","slug":"chinese-test-satellite-fails-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinese-test-satellite-fails-after-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese test satellite fails after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53527\" style=\"width: 1021px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53527\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lm3bshiyan10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lm3bshiyan10.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lm3bshiyan10-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lm3bshiyan10-678x551.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lm3bshiyan10-768x624.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a still frame from a video of the Long March 3B launch shared in China\u2019s Weibo social media network.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China\u2019s classified Shiyan 10 test satellite failed after launching into orbit on a Long March 3B rocket Monday, Chinese state media said.<\/p>\n<p>The new spacecraft, described by Chinese state media as an experimental satellite, lifted off on a Long March 3B launcher at 4:20 a.m. EDT (0820 GMT) Monday from the Xichang space center in Sichuan province of southwestern China.<\/p>\n<p>The launch occurred at 4:20 p.m. Beijing time. The liquid-fueled Long March 3B rocket, powered by four strap-on boosters and a core stage, headed southeast from Xichang, according to pre-flight airspace warning notices.<\/p>\n<p>The Long March 3B successfully reached the mission\u2019s targeted orbit, but ground teams detected a problem with the rocket\u2019s payload, according to the government-run Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft \u201cexperienced abnormalities,\u201d Xinhua said. \u201cSpace engineers are investigating the cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No details were released about the technical problems with the Shiyan 10 spacecraft. Chinese officials also did not disclose any details about Shiyan 10\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military tracking data indicate two objects from the launch are circling in an elongated orbit with a perigee, or low point, around 120 miles (200 kilometers) above Earth. The orbital apogee, or high point, was measured around 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers).<\/p>\n<p>The published tracking data showed the objects, possibly the Long March upper stage and the Shiyan 10 spacecraft, are flying in an orbit inclined around 51 degrees to the equator.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a still frame from a video of the Long March 3B launch shared in China\u2019s Weibo social media network. China\u2019s classified Shiyan 10 test satellite failed after launching into orbit on a Long March 3B rocket Monday, Chinese state media said. The new spacecraft, described by Chinese state media as an experimental satellite, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}