{"id":3564,"date":"2022-01-27T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-l-sar-01a-satellite-for-land-observing\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:02:07","slug":"china-launches-l-sar-01a-satellite-for-land-observing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-l-sar-01a-satellite-for-land-observing\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches L-SAR 01A satellite for land observing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >China launched a Long March-4C rocket to place a new satellite in space Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p >The rocket blasted off at 7:44 a.m. (Beijing Time) at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and soon sent the L-SAR 01A satellite into preset orbit.<\/p>\n<p >The satellite, equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), will be used to monitor the geological environment, landslides and earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p >The mission marked the 407th flight of the Long March carrier rockets, said the launch center.<\/p>\n<p >China&#8217;s L-SAR 01 is a satellite group composed of two satellites (L-SAR 01A and L-SAR 01B), which are designed to be put in an orbit at an altitude of 600 km, according to the China National Space Administration.<\/p>\n<p >Boasting wide coverage and high spatial resolution, the L-SAR satellite project will help reduce China&#8217;s dependence on foreign data in fields such as geology, earthquake monitoring and emergency support, said the administration.<\/p>\n<p >The L-SAR 01B is scheduled to be launched at the end of February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China launched a Long March-4C rocket to place a new satellite in space Wednesday. The rocket blasted off at 7:44 a.m. (Beijing Time) at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and soon sent the L-SAR 01A satellite into preset orbit. The satellite, equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), will be used to [&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-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564"}],"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=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}