{"id":15975,"date":"2015-10-26T21:03:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinese-rocket-deploys-third-tianhui-mapping-satellite\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T21:03:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:03:36","slug":"chinese-rocket-deploys-third-tianhui-mapping-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinese-rocket-deploys-third-tianhui-mapping-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese rocket deploys third Tianhui mapping satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10044\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10044\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/134751531_14458555122221n.jpg\" alt=\"A Long March 2D rocket blasts off from the Jiuquan launch center Monday with the Tianhui 1C mapping satellite. Thermal insulation panels are seen shedding from the rocket, a normal feature of a Long March 2D launch. Credit: Xinhua\" width=\"620\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/134751531_14458555122221n.jpg 811w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/134751531_14458555122221n-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/134751531_14458555122221n-768x852.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Long March 2D rocket blasts off from the Jiuquan launch center Monday with the Tianhui 1C mapping satellite. Thermal insulation panels are seen shedding from the rocket, a normal feature of a Long March 2D launch. Credit: Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China\u2019s third Tianhui mapping satellite, built for land resource surveys and scientific research, rocketed into space Monday aboard a Long March 2D rocket, Chinese state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan space center in northwest China\u2019s Inner Mongolia province at 0710 GMT (3:10 a.m. EDT) Monday.&nbsp;The launch, which was not officially announced ahead of time except for a notice to pilots, occurred at 3:10 p.m. Beijing time.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-story Long March 2D booster, fueled by a mix of liquid hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide, deployed the Tianhui 1C satellite into orbit a few minutes later. Tracking data released by the U.S. military showed an object attributed to Monday\u2019s launch, presumably Tianhui 1C, in a near-circular orbit about 300 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth at an inclination of 97 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The launch time and orbital parameters match two previous launches with Tianhui satellites in August 2010 and May 2012.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency reported the Tianhui 1C satellite \u201c<span id=\"content\" class=\"hei14\">will be used for scientific experiments, land resource surveys, mapping, crop yield estimation and disaster relief.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft was developed by a subsidiary of&nbsp;China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., China\u2019s primary government-run satellite and rocket builder.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s launch marked the 25th launch of a Long March 2D rocket since its debut in 1992, and the 12th Chinese space launch this year.<\/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 blasts off from the Jiuquan launch center Monday with the Tianhui 1C mapping satellite. Thermal insulation panels are seen shedding from the rocket, a normal feature of a Long March 2D launch. Credit: Xinhua China\u2019s third Tianhui mapping satellite, built for land resource surveys and scientific research, rocketed into space [&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":[135,159,1578,205,2184,2663,3920],"class_list":["post-15975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-earth-observation","tag-jiuquan","tag-long-march","tag-long-march-2d","tag-tianhui","tag-tianhui-1c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975"}],"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=15975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}