{"id":3117,"date":"2025-02-07T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-hainan-commercial-launch-site-to-build-two-new-launch-pads\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:39:03","slug":"chinas-hainan-commercial-launch-site-to-build-two-new-launch-pads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-hainan-commercial-launch-site-to-build-two-new-launch-pads\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Hainan commercial launch site to build two new launch pads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  >A commercial spacecraft launch site on China&#8217;s southern island province of Hainan on Saturday started constructing its second phase that will include two launch pads designed for liquid propellant rockets.<\/p>\n<p  >The second phase will cover a total area of over 133 hectares on the coast of suburban Wenchang City, according to the Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch Co., Ltd. (HICAL), the launch site&#8217;s operator.<\/p>\n<p  >In addition to the two launch pads and their supporting systems, such as a propellant fueling system and a gas supply system, the second phase will also include a commercial aerospace command and control center, a rocket assembly and testing building, and a tracking, telemetry and command station.<\/p>\n<p  >According to HICAL, the second phase will enhance the comprehensive launch capabilities of the site, meet the growing demand for commercial space launches in China, and boost Hainan&#8217;s efforts to build an innovative industrial cluster for the commercial space sector.<\/p>\n<p  >The Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site completed its first launch mission on Nov. 30, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commercial spacecraft launch site on China&#8217;s southern island province of Hainan on Saturday started constructing its second phase that will include two launch pads designed for liquid propellant rockets. The second phase will cover a total area of over 133 hectares on the coast of suburban Wenchang City, according to the Hainan International Commercial [&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-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117"}],"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=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}