{"id":3429,"date":"2023-01-16T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-14-new-satellites\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:14:13","slug":"china-launches-14-new-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-14-new-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches 14 new satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >China successfully launched a Long March-2D rocket on Sunday, sending 14 new satellites into space.<\/p>\n<p >The rocket blasted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#8217;s Shanxi Province at 11:14 a.m. (Beijing Time).<\/p>\n<p >The satellites, including Qilu-2 and Qilu-3, have entered their planned orbits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/english.spacechina.com\/n17212\/c3721228\/part\/3721242.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p >Qilu-2 and Qilu-3 are a high-resolution optical satellite and a wide-swath optical satellite, respectively, with payloads of optical-imaging devices for Earth observation.<\/p>\n<p >They will provide east China&#8217;s Shandong Province with remote sensing services for land survey, agriculture, forestry, environmental protection, and disaster prevention and reduction. They will also work in coordination with the in-orbit Qilu-1 satellite.<\/p>\n<p >This was the 462nd flight mission using the Long March rocket series.<\/p>\n<p >The Long March-2D rocket was developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.<\/p>\n<p >Known for its reliability and adaptability, this rocket can meet multiple launching demands for a single satellite and series satellites in series-or-parallel layouts aboard the rocket. In this mission, it carried 14 satellites from 7 different developers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China successfully launched a Long March-2D rocket on Sunday, sending 14 new satellites into space. The rocket blasted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#8217;s Shanxi Province at 11:14 a.m. (Beijing Time). The satellites, including Qilu-2 and Qilu-3, have entered their planned orbits. Qilu-2 and Qilu-3 are a high-resolution optical satellite and [&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-3429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429"}],"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=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}