{"id":13546,"date":"2018-10-25T21:59:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinese-oceanography-satellite-launches-successfully\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T21:59:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:59:49","slug":"chinese-oceanography-satellite-launches-successfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinese-oceanography-satellite-launches-successfully\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese oceanography satellite launches successfully"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35066\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35066\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lm4b_hy2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lm4b_hy2b.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lm4b_hy2b-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Long March 4B rocket launches with the Haiyang 2B oceanography satellite. Credit: Chinanews.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China\u2019s Haiyang 2B oceanography satellite, the follow-on to a space mission launched seven years ago, lifted off Wednesday from the country\u2019s Taiyuan launch base aboard a Long March 4B booster.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly 150-foot-tall (45-meter) Long March 4B rocket fired its four main engines at 2257 GMT Wednesday (6:57 p.m. EDT) to climb away from the Taiyuan space center in northern China\u2019s Shanxi province around 265 miles (425 kilometers) southwest of Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff occurred at 6:57 a.m. Beijing time Thursday, and the three-stage Long March 4B rocket pitched toward the south from the inland launch center to place the Haiyang 2B satellite into a polar orbit approximately 580 miles (935 kilometers) above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s state-run Xinhua news agency declared the launch a success, and the U.S. military published tracking data on two objects in orbit attributed to Wednesday\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Long March 4B\u2019s deployment of the Haiyang 2B satellite marked China\u2019s 29th space launch of the year \u2014 all successful \u2014 extending a record level of launch activity for the country\u2019s space program.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j1NyiZNV4mU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Haiyang 2B satellite was launched into roughly the same orbit as the predecessor Haiyang 2A spacecraft, which flew into space aboard a previous Long March 4B rocket in August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>In its report on the launch, Xinhua described Haiyang 2B as an \u201cocean dynamic satellite\u201d that will form a marine environment monitoring network with two satellites set for launch in the coming years \u2014 Haiyang 2C and 2D.<\/p>\n<p>China operates two families of Haiyang satellites \u2014 the Haiyang 1-series and Haiyang 2-series \u2014 that carry different sets of oceanography instruments. The latest member of the Haiyang 1 family, Haiyang 1C, launched in September with imaging sensors to measure ocean color, data which officials said will help track pollution and natural ocean constituents such as chlorophyll.<\/p>\n<p>The instruments aboard Haiyang 2A include a radar altimeter to measure ocean topography, a microwave radiometer to map sea surface temperatures, and a scatterometer to collect wind data over the oceans.<\/p>\n<p>The Haiyang satellite series is&nbsp;named for the Chinese word for \u201cocean.\u201d<\/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 4B rocket launches with the Haiyang 2B oceanography satellite. Credit: Chinanews.com China\u2019s Haiyang 2B oceanography satellite, the follow-on to a space mission launched seven years ago, lifted off Wednesday from the country\u2019s Taiyuan launch base aboard a Long March 4B booster. The nearly 150-foot-tall (45-meter) Long March 4B rocket fired its four [&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":[135,159,1712,2855,25,205,1780,2500],"class_list":["post-13546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-earth-observation","tag-haiyang","tag-haiyang-2b","tag-launch","tag-long-march","tag-long-march-4b","tag-oceanography"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546"}],"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=13546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}