{"id":3279,"date":"2024-01-05T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T10:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-first-commercial-space-launch-site-reaches-construction-milestone\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T10:33:58","slug":"chinas-first-commercial-space-launch-site-reaches-construction-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-first-commercial-space-launch-site-reaches-construction-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s first commercial space launch site reaches construction milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Construction work was completed Friday on the No. 1 launch pad of China&#8217;s first commercial spacecraft launch site, in the city of Wenchang, on south China&#8217;s island province of Hainan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The project serves as the dedicated site for China&#8217;s new-generation medium-sized rocket, Long March 8, according to Yang Tianliang, chairman of Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch Co., Ltd. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The construction of the No. 1 launch pad has introduced several advanced technologies for the first time, including a cone exhaust guide and extrusion water spray for cooling and noise reduction, said Yang. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Construction of the No. 1 launch pad started in July 2022, and the equipment-installation phase is almost complete. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The No. 2 launch pad is still at the construction phase, with the capping of the diversion trough&#8217;s main body now finished. On-site equipment installation is due to be completed by the end of May 2024.<\/span> <\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction work was completed Friday on the No. 1 launch pad of China&#8217;s first commercial spacecraft launch site, in the city of Wenchang, on south China&#8217;s island province of Hainan. The project serves as the dedicated site for China&#8217;s new-generation medium-sized rocket, Long March 8, according to Yang Tianliang, chairman of Hainan International Commercial Aerospace [&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-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279"}],"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=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}