{"id":21769,"date":"2026-07-06T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=21769"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:42:10","slug":"china-launches-new-satellite-group-for-commercial-constellation-aboard-long-march-6-modified-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-new-satellite-group-for-commercial-constellation-aboard-long-march-6-modified-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches new satellite group for commercial constellation aboard Long March-6 modified rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a new satellite group blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#8217;s Shanxi Province on July 4, 2026. (Photo by Li Tiantian\/Xinhua)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TAIYUAN, July 4 (Xinhua) &#8212; China sent a new satellite group into space on Saturday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#8217;s Shanxi Province.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite group was launched at 5:30 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket and entered its preset orbit successfully. It will form part of the Spacesail Constellation, a mega commercial Chinese low-orbit satellite network.<\/p>\n<p>This launch marked the 655th flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series, according to the launch center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a new satellite group blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#8217;s Shanxi Province on July 4, 2026. (Photo by Li Tiantian\/Xinhua) TAIYUAN, July 4 (Xinhua) &#8212; China sent a new satellite group into space on Saturday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135,25,205,136],"class_list":["post-21769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-launch","tag-long-march","tag-rocket"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769"}],"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=21769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21771,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769\/revisions\/21771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}