{"id":3286,"date":"2023-12-22T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lengthened-long-march-5-becomes-height-benchmark-of-chinas-launch-vehicles-in-commission\/"},"modified":"2023-12-22T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T16:30:04","slug":"lengthened-long-march-5-becomes-height-benchmark-of-chinas-launch-vehicles-in-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lengthened-long-march-5-becomes-height-benchmark-of-chinas-launch-vehicles-in-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Lengthened Long March 5 becomes height benchmark of China&#8217;s launch vehicles in commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">China&#8217;s newly-launched Long March 5 rocket has for the first time used an 18.5-meter-long fairing, setting a new height benchmark for China&#8217;s carrier rockets in commission. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The rocket, coded as Long March 5 Y6, blasted off at 9:41 pm (Beijing Time) from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the southern island province of Hainan on Friday, sending a high-orbit optical remote sensing satellite into its planned orbit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The new fairing, which is 5.2 meters in diameter, is over 6 meters longer than the fairing of previous Long March 5 rockets, according to Zhu Haiyang, designer of the two-stage Long March 5 rocket that is developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The longer fairing enhances the loading capacity and mission adaptability of Long March 5, and also makes its height exceed that of all Long March launch vehicles in commission. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">In the next few years, the Long March 5 will enter a high-density launch cycle. The research team will further optimize the test and launch system relying on remote assistance to improve the test and launch efficiency. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The Long March-5 made its maiden flight in 2016.<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s newly-launched Long March 5 rocket has for the first time used an 18.5-meter-long fairing, setting a new height benchmark for China&#8217;s carrier rockets in commission. The rocket, coded as Long March 5 Y6, blasted off at 9:41 pm (Beijing Time) from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the southern island province of Hainan on [&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-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286"}],"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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}