{"id":3437,"date":"2022-12-15T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/commercial-rocket-smart-dragon-3-makes-maiden-flight\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T09:01:39","slug":"commercial-rocket-smart-dragon-3-makes-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/commercial-rocket-smart-dragon-3-makes-maiden-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial rocket Smart Dragon-3 makes maiden flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >China&#8217;s Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3) carrier rocket made its debut flight at the Yellow Sea on Friday, sending 14 commercial satellites into orbit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"height: 226px; width: 413px\" src=\"https:\/\/english.spacechina.com\/n17212\/c3702369\/part\/3702383.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p >According to its developer, the new solid-propellant spacecraft has not only provided more capacity options for commercial launches but also advanced the country&#8217;s development of this type of rocket to a new level.<\/p>\n<p >Developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, the four-stage SD-3 is the second member of China&#8217;s Dragon rocket family. Unlike the Long March rockets, the Dragon series is developed in a commercial mode to meet the growing market demand of launching low-orbit small commercial satellites and satellite networks.<\/p>\n<p >It has a total length of 31 meters, with a maximum diameter of 2.65 meters and a weight of 140 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p >Equipped with two fairings with diameters of 3.35 meters and 2.9 meters, the rocket can meet a variety of satellite installation requirements. It is designed for both land and sea launches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3) carrier rocket made its debut flight at the Yellow Sea on Friday, sending 14 commercial satellites into orbit. According to its developer, the new solid-propellant spacecraft has not only provided more capacity options for commercial launches but also advanced the country&#8217;s development of this type of rocket to a new level. [&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-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437"}],"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=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}