{"id":2997,"date":"2026-01-16T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-opens-2026-space-mission-schedule-with-successful-satellite-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:44:59","slug":"china-opens-2026-space-mission-schedule-with-successful-satellite-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-opens-2026-space-mission-schedule-with-successful-satellite-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"China opens 2026 space mission schedule with successful satellite launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  >China on Tuesday sent the Yaogan-50 01 remote sensing satellite into space.<\/p>\n<p ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.spacechina.com\/n17212\/c4527161\/part\/4527171.jpg\"  border=\"0\" align=\"center\"> <\/p>\n<p  >Launched at 10:16 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified version of the Long March-6 rocket, the satellite has entered planned orbit, according to the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center.<\/p>\n<p  >It will be used for national land surveys, crop yield estimation, and disaster prevention and mitigation.<\/p>\n<p  >The launch was the 624th flight mission undertaken by the Long March rocket series and marked China&#8217;s first successful orbital launch of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Tuesday sent the Yaogan-50 01 remote sensing satellite into space. Launched at 10:16 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified version of the Long March-6 rocket, the satellite has entered planned orbit, according to the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. It will be used for national land surveys, crop yield estimation, and disaster prevention and [&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-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997"}],"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=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}