{"id":3780,"date":"2020-01-10T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-tests-micro-propulsion-technology-for-space-based-gravitational-wave-detection\/"},"modified":"2020-01-10T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T16:43:08","slug":"china-tests-micro-propulsion-technology-for-space-based-gravitational-wave-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-tests-micro-propulsion-technology-for-space-based-gravitational-wave-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"China Tests Micro Propulsion Technology for Space-based Gravitational Wave Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, Jan. 6 (China Space News) &#8212; Chinese space engineers have tested a micro propulsion technology on a recently launched satellite, which could be used in future space-based gravitational wave detection.<\/p>\n<p >Experts from the China Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said they tested the variable thrust propulsion at the micronewton level on the Tianqin-1 satellite, which was sent into space on Dec. 20, 2019.<\/p>\n<p >The thrust of one micronewton is equivalent to the weight of a 1-cm-long hair. And the accuracy of the micro propulsion system of the Tianqin-1 satellite could reach 0.1 micronewtons, according to the experts.<\/p>\n<p >The weak thrust is generated to continuously offset the interference of solar pressure and the atmosphere affecting the satellite.<\/p>\n<p >Only by eliminating these forces can the satellite become a super static and super stable platform and make the space-based detection of gravitational waves possible, said experts.<\/p>\n<p >\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Jan. 6 (China Space News) &#8212; Chinese space engineers have tested a micro propulsion technology on a recently launched satellite, which could be used in future space-based gravitational wave detection. Experts from the China Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said they tested the variable thrust propulsion at [&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-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780"}],"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=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}