{"id":12933,"date":"2019-09-25T18:21:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T10:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-environmental-monitoring-satellite\/"},"modified":"2019-09-25T18:21:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T10:21:52","slug":"china-launches-environmental-monitoring-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-environmental-monitoring-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches environmental monitoring satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40883\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40883\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/138420383_15693789641341n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/138420383_15693789641341n.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/138420383_15693789641341n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/138420383_15693789641341n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/138420383_15693789641341n-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Long March 2D rocket lifted off at 0054 GMT Wednesday (8:54 p.m. EDT Tuesday) from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China. Credit: Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China launched a Long March 2D rocket Wednesday carrying a Yunhai environmental monitoring satellite into an orbit some 470 miles (760 kilometers) above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The Long March 2D booster took off from the Jiuquan launch base in the Inner Mongolia region of northwest China at 0054 GMT Wednesday (8:54 p.m. EDT Tuesday), according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of the two-stage, liquid-fueled Long March 2D rocket occurred at 8:54 a.m. Beijing time.<\/p>\n<p>The Long March 2D arced toward the south from its launch pad in the Gobi Desert to climb into an orbit flying over Earth\u2019s poles.<\/p>\n<p>Xinhua reported the launch was successful, and U.S. military tracking data confirmed the Long March 2D placed its payload into a nearly circular orbit with an average altitude more than 470 miles above Earth. The orbit\u2019s inclination was around 98.5 degrees, according to the satellite tracking data.<\/p>\n<p>The mission marked the 20th orbital launch attempt by a Chinese rocket this year, and the 18th successful satellite launch for China in 2019. It was the 63rd space launch worldwide to reach orbit this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chinese state media, the payload aboard the Long March 2D rocket was the Yunhai 1-02 satellite designed for \u201cdetecting the atmospheric and marine environment and space environment, as well as disaster control and other scientific experiments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The satellite and the Long March 2D launcher were developed by the&nbsp;Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., the country\u2019s primary government-owned space contractor.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese media did not provide any additional details about the satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Yunhai means \u201ccloud-sea\u201d in Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite launched Wednesday is the second of China\u2019s Yunhai 1-series missions, following the launch of the first Yunhai 1 environmental satellite in 2016.<\/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 2D rocket lifted off at 0054 GMT Wednesday (8:54 p.m. EDT Tuesday) from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China. Credit: Xinhua China launched a Long March 2D rocket Wednesday carrying a Yunhai environmental monitoring satellite into an orbit some 470 miles (760 kilometers) above Earth. The Long March 2D booster took [&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":[135,159,1578,25,205,2184,2515,2516],"class_list":["post-12933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-earth-observation","tag-jiuquan","tag-launch","tag-long-march","tag-long-march-2d","tag-weather-satellite","tag-yunhai"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933"}],"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=12933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}