{"id":3578,"date":"2021-12-24T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-sends-two-new-shiyan-satellites-into-space\/"},"modified":"2021-12-24T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:16:22","slug":"china-sends-two-new-shiyan-satellites-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-sends-two-new-shiyan-satellites-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"China sends two new Shiyan satellites into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >China launched a Long March-7A rocket to place two satellites in space on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p >The rocket blasted off at 6:12 p.m. (Beijing Time) at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in southern Hainan Province and soon sent Shiyan-12 01 and Shiyan-12 02 satellites into preset orbit.<\/p>\n<p >Developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the pair of satellites will do space environment surveys and other related technology tests.<\/p>\n<p >As a modified version of the Long March-7 rocket, the launch vehicle represents the new generation of China&#8217;s medium-sized high-orbit rocket.<\/p>\n<p >It has three stages and a total length of 60.7 meters, making the Long March-7A the tallest rocket in service in China.<\/p>\n<p >With four 2.25m-diameter additional boosters, the liquid-fueled rocket can send a payload of 7 tonnes to geosynchronous transfer orbit, about 36,000 km above the Earth&#8217;s equator.<\/p>\n<p >The mission marked the 402nd flight of the Long March carrier rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China launched a Long March-7A rocket to place two satellites in space on Thursday. The rocket blasted off at 6:12 p.m. (Beijing Time) at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in southern Hainan Province and soon sent Shiyan-12 01 and Shiyan-12 02 satellites into preset orbit. Developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the [&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-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578"}],"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=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}