{"id":3137,"date":"2024-12-13T13:43:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-long-march-8a-rocket-set-for-maiden-flight-in-january-2025\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T13:43:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:43:19","slug":"chinas-long-march-8a-rocket-set-for-maiden-flight-in-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-long-march-8a-rocket-set-for-maiden-flight-in-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Long March-8A rocket set for maiden flight in January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  >The Long March-8A carrier rocket, designed to serve as China&#8217;s future primary launch vehicle for medium- and low-Earth orbit missions, is scheduled to conduct its maiden flight in January next year, according to its developer China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).<\/p>\n<p  >The Long March-8A was successfully loaded onto a ship on Monday and began its journey to the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province.<\/p>\n<p  >&#8220;The Long March-8A is an upgraded version of the Long March-8 rocket, specifically developed to meet the launch requirements of large-scale constellation networks in medium- and low-Earth orbits,&#8221; said Song Zhengyu, chief designer of the Long March-8 rocket from the CALT.<\/p>\n<p  >He added that the Long March-8A features advanced performance, low cost, high reliability and rapid launch capability.<\/p>\n<p  >The Long March-8A, developed over a period of 28 months, has completed 44 major ground tests to date and overcome several key technological challenges, said Xiao Yun, chief commander of the Long March-8 from the CALT. &#8220;We are confident and capable of successfully accomplishing this launch mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long March-8A carrier rocket, designed to serve as China&#8217;s future primary launch vehicle for medium- and low-Earth orbit missions, is scheduled to conduct its maiden flight in January next year, according to its developer China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT). The Long March-8A was successfully loaded onto a ship on Monday and began [&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-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137"}],"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=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}