{"id":11568,"date":"2021-07-12T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-satellite-group-to-detect-global-radio-transmissions\/"},"modified":"2021-07-12T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:07:09","slug":"china-launches-satellite-group-to-detect-global-radio-transmissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-satellite-group-to-detect-global-radio-transmissions\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches satellite group to detect global radio transmissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52600\" style=\"width: 1023px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52600\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lm6ningxia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lm6ningxia.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lm6ningxia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lm6ningxia-678x452.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lm6ningxia-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chinese Long March 6 rocket lifts off Friday from the Taiyuan space center. Credit: Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China launched five small satellites designed to detect and monitor global radio transmissions Friday on top of a Long March 6 rocket, joining five similar spacecraft deployed in orbit in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The five Ningxia, or Zhongzi, satellites rocketed into orbit on top of a 95-foot-tall (29-meter) Long March 6 booster that lifted off from the Taiyuan space center at 7:59 a.m. EDT (1159 GMT) Friday, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., or CASC.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the three-stage Long March 6 rocket occurred at 7:59 p.m. Beijing time. The kerosene-fueled rocket headed southeast from the Taiyuan launch base in northern China to place its five payloads into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military tracking data indicated the rocket deployed its payloads in an orbit at an altitude of about 535 miles (860 kilometers), with an inclination of 45 degrees to the equator.<\/p>\n<p>The five satellites belong to a fleet owned by Ningxia Jingui Information Technology Co. Ltd., a company that provides radio spectrum monitoring services to commercial and Chinese government customers.<\/p>\n<p>A Long March 6 rocket launched the first five Ningxia satellites in November 2019. The second group of five satellites launched into a similar orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Ningxia, or Zhongzi, satellites were developed by DFH Satellite Co. Ltd., an entity within China\u2019s state-owned aerospace apparatus specializing in the production of small spacecraft platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The launch Friday marked the sixth flight of a Long March 6 rocket since 2015. The Long March 6 is sized to haul a&nbsp;payload of up to 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) to a sun-synchronous polar orbit a few hundred miles above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The Long March 6\u2019s first stage is powered by a kerosene-fueled YF-100 main engine, a staged combustion powerplant Chinese engineers have worked on since 2000. The engine generates approximately 120 metric tons, or 264,000 pounds, of thrust. A YF-115 engine provides propulsion for the Long March 6 second stage.<\/p>\n<p>The YF-100 and YF-115 engines are the same new-generation powerplants used on China\u2019s bigger Long March 5 and Long March 7 rockets.<\/p>\n<p>According to CASC, the Long March 6 rocket used on Friday\u2019s mission debuted nine \u201cadaptive improvements.\u201d The changes include a new third stage engine, the state aerospace contractor said in a statement.<\/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>A Chinese Long March 6 rocket lifts off Friday from the Taiyuan space center. Credit: Xinhua China launched five small satellites designed to detect and monitor global radio transmissions Friday on top of a Long March 6 rocket, joining five similar spacecraft deployed in orbit in 2019. The five Ningxia, or Zhongzi, satellites rocketed into [&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-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568"}],"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=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}