{"id":2940,"date":"2026-06-05T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-two-groups-of-internet-satellites-within-24-hours\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:59:23","slug":"china-launches-two-groups-of-internet-satellites-within-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-two-groups-of-internet-satellites-within-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches two groups of internet satellites within 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  >China launched two groups of internet satellites within 24 hours, speeding up the in-orbit construction of one of its massive internet networks.<\/p>\n<p  >At 7:39 pm Thursday, a Long March 6A carrier rocket blasted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province, placing 18 communication satellites into their preset orbits for the Spacesail Constellation.<\/p>\n<p  >It was the seventh time the Long March 6A model had deployed low-orbit internet satellites for Spacesail. By now, the rocket has sent 126 satellites for the system.<\/p>\n<p  >At 2:34 pm Friday, a Long March 8 rocket lifted off from the Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch Center \u2014 a coastal spaceport in Wenchang, Hainan province. It also deployed 18 satellites for a space-based internet network.<\/p>\n<p  >The Long March 8 has carried out four flights to transport 72 Spacesail Constellation satellites.<\/p>\n<p  >After the latest launch, a total of 200 satellites have been lifted into space to form the Spacesail Constellation, which is being established by the Shanghai-based Spacesail to provide high-speed, secure and reliable broadband internet services to users around the world.<\/p>\n<p  >If everything goes according to plan, the colossal system will have more than 10,000 satellites operating in low-altitude orbits by the end of 2030, according to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China launched two groups of internet satellites within 24 hours, speeding up the in-orbit construction of one of its massive internet networks. At 7:39 pm Thursday, a Long March 6A carrier rocket blasted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province, placing 18 communication satellites into their preset orbits for the Spacesail Constellation. [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940"}],"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=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}