{"id":3883,"date":"2018-07-12T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-two-satellites-for-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2018-07-12T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T09:21:00","slug":"china-launches-two-satellites-for-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-two-satellites-for-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches Two Satellites for Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >JIUQUAN, July 9 (<font face=\"Arial\">China Space News) &#8212; China launched two satellites for Pakistan on a Long March-2C rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:56 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p >The PRSS-1 is China&#8217;s first optical remote sensing satellite sold to Pakistan and the 17th satellite developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) for an overseas buyer.<\/p>\n<p >A scientific experiment satellite, PakTES-1A, developed by Pakistan, was sent into orbit via the same rocket.<\/p>\n<p >This is another space cooperation between China and Pakistan since the launch of PAKSAT-1R, a communication satellite, in August 2011.<\/p>\n<p >The PRSS-1 will be used for land and resources surveying, monitoring of natural disasters, agriculture research, urban construction and providing remote sensing information for the Belt and Road region.<\/p>\n<p >Monday&#8217;s launch is the 279th mission of the Long March rocket series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIUQUAN, July 9 (China Space News) &#8212; China launched two satellites for Pakistan on a Long March-2C rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:56 a.m. Monday. The PRSS-1 is China&#8217;s first optical remote sensing satellite sold to Pakistan and the 17th satellite developed by the China Academy of Space Technology [&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-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883"}],"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=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}