{"id":11697,"date":"2021-05-07T01:10:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-four-satellites-on-long-march-2c-rocket\/"},"modified":"2021-05-07T01:10:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:10:19","slug":"china-launches-four-satellites-on-long-march-2c-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-four-satellites-on-long-march-2c-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches four satellites on Long March 2C rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51592\" style=\"width: 1023px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51592\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/139929032_16203441430061n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/139929032_16203441430061n.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/139929032_16203441430061n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/139929032_16203441430061n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/139929032_16203441430061n-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Long March 2C rocket lifts off Thursday with four Chinese satellites. Credit: Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three Chinese military satellites and a civilian data relay payload launched Thursday aboard a Long March 2C rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The four spacecraft rocketed into a 370-mile-high (600-kilometer) orbit from the Xichang launch base, situated in a mountainous part of Sichuan province in southwestern China, with a liftoff at 1811 GMT (2:11 p.m. EDT) Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Launch occurred at 2:11 a.m. Beijing time Friday, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, or CALT, the government-owned contractor that proceed the Long March 2C rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Officials declared the mission a \u201ccomplete success,\u201d according to a CALT statement.&nbsp;U.S. military tracking data indicated the two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket delivered its payloads to the intended orbit inclined 35 degrees to the equator.<\/p>\n<p>The satellites are the eighth triplet of Yaogan 30-type spacecraft since 2017 launched on Long March 2C rockets from the Xichang facility into similar orbits. The three Yaogan 30-08 satellites launched Thursday are designed for \u201celectromagnetic environmental detection and related technological tests,\u201d China\u2019s state-run Xinhua news agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government uses the Yaogan name for the country\u2019s military satellites, and the Yaogan 30 family is believed to be designed for a signals intelligence mission.<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts suggested the Yaogan 30 family of satellites could be testing new electronic eavesdropping equipment, or helping the Chinese military track U.S. and other foreign naval deployments.&nbsp;But details about the spacecraft and their missions have not been disclosed by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>The other satellite launched Thursday was Tianqi 12, a small commercial data relay satellite for the Beijing-based company&nbsp;Guodian Gaoke.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the three Yaogan 30 satellites was the 13th orbital launch attempt from China so far this year. Twelve of the missions have been successful.<\/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 Long March 2C rocket lifts off Thursday with four Chinese satellites. Credit: Xinhua Three Chinese military satellites and a civilian data relay payload launched Thursday aboard a Long March 2C rocket. The four spacecraft rocketed into a 370-mile-high (600-kilometer) orbit from the Xichang launch base, situated in a mountainous part of Sichuan province in [&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":[135,25,205,1740,1741,1742,1743,1744],"class_list":["post-11697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-launch","tag-long-march","tag-long-march-2c","tag-xichang","tag-yaogan","tag-yaogan-30","tag-yaogan-30-08"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697"}],"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=11697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}