{"id":3829,"date":"2019-04-15T17:38:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T17:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-tianlian-ii-01-data-relay-satellite\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T17:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T17:38:44","slug":"china-launches-tianlian-ii-01-data-relay-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-tianlian-ii-01-data-relay-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches Tianlian II-01 Data Relay Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, April 2 (<font face=\"Arial\">China Space News) &#8212; China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province late Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p >The Tianlian II-01 satellite was launched at 11:51 p.m. Beijing Time by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.<\/p>\n<p >As the first satellite to constitute China&#8217;s second-generation data relay satellite network, the Tianlian II-01 will provide data relay, measurement and control, transmission services for manned spacecraft, satellites, carrier rockets and other non-spacecraft users.<\/p>\n<p >The Tianlian II network will be markedly more advanced in mission planning, system management and operations than the first-generation network composed of Tianlian I satellites.<\/p>\n<p >The new network, with faster data transfer and higher multi-objective service capability, will play an important role in improving the transmission promptness, in-orbit security and mission flexibility for medium- and low-Earth orbiting satellites and manned spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p >The satellite is developed by the China Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.<\/p>\n<p >The launch marks the 301st mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, April 2 (China Space News) &#8212; China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province late Sunday night. The Tianlian II-01 satellite was launched at 11:51 p.m. Beijing Time by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. As the first satellite to constitute China&#8217;s second-generation [&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-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829"}],"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=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}