{"id":3695,"date":"2020-12-03T14:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T14:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-to-build-new-production-base-for-solid-rockets\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T14:02:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T14:02:48","slug":"china-to-build-new-production-base-for-solid-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-to-build-new-production-base-for-solid-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"China to build new production base for solid rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >Chinese rocket manufacturer, China Rocket Co., Ltd., and the municipal government of Haiyang in east China&#8217;s Shandong Province signed a contract Wednesday pledging to build a 163-hectare production base for solid-propellant rockets.<\/p>\n<p >The base will be able to produce 20 solid rockets annually, including Smart Dragon series carrier rockets, upon its completion, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p >The production base will also offer services such as rocket assembling, testing and seaborne rocket launch for domestic and overseas aerospace companies.<\/p>\n<p >The base is part of a comprehensive aerospace project currently under construction in Haiyang City. With an investment of 23 billion yuan (about 3.5 billion U.S. dollars) and a total planned area of 1,860 hectares, the project includes an aerospace industrial park, a homeport for seaborne rocket launches, and an aerospace-themed tourist park.<\/p>\n<p >In June last year, China successfully launched a Long March-11 carrier rocket from a mobile platform in the Yellow Sea off the coast of Haiyang, marking the country&#8217;s first space launch from a sea-based platform. The rocket was transported from Haiyang Port to the launch site.<\/p>\n<p >So far, the port has seen two successful seaborne rocket launches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese rocket manufacturer, China Rocket Co., Ltd., and the municipal government of Haiyang in east China&#8217;s Shandong Province signed a contract Wednesday pledging to build a 163-hectare production base for solid-propellant rockets. The base will be able to produce 20 solid rockets annually, including Smart Dragon series carrier rockets, upon its completion, according to 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-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695"}],"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=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}