{"id":3169,"date":"2024-09-27T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-smart-dragon-3-rocket-launches-8-satellites-from-sea\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:10:15","slug":"chinas-smart-dragon-3-rocket-launches-8-satellites-from-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-smart-dragon-3-rocket-launches-8-satellites-from-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Smart Dragon-3 rocket launches 8 satellites from sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  >China launched a Smart Dragon-3 carrier rocket from the waters near the city of Haiyang in east China&#8217;s Shandong Province on Tuesday, placing eight satellites into planned orbit.<\/p>\n<p  >The commercial rocket blasted off at 10:31 a.m. (Beijing Time), carrying Tianyi-41 and other satellites.<\/p>\n<p ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.spacechina.com\/n17212\/c4201980\/part\/4201990.jpg\"  border=\"0\" align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p  >The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center carried out this offshore launch.<\/p>\n<p  >Smart Dragon-3 commercial carrier rocket is developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.<\/p>\n<p  >The four-stage solid-propellant Smart Dragon-3 rocket is a type of cost-effective and highly reliable launch vehicle that is mainly used for launching spacecraft to the sun-synchronous orbit or low Earth orbit, according to the developer.<\/p>\n<p  >Smart Dragon-3 has a strong carrying capacity and is suitable for a variety of commercial space launch missions. With a length of 31 meters and a maximum diameter of 2.64 meters, the rocket has a carrying capacity of about 1.5 tonnes for a 500 km solar synchronous orbit, said the developer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China launched a Smart Dragon-3 carrier rocket from the waters near the city of Haiyang in east China&#8217;s Shandong Province on Tuesday, placing eight satellites into planned orbit. The commercial rocket blasted off at 10:31 a.m. (Beijing Time), carrying Tianyi-41 and other satellites. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center carried out this offshore launch. Smart Dragon-3 [&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-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169"}],"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=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}