{"id":3906,"date":"2018-04-11T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T12:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-sends-twin-beidou-3-navigation-satellites-into-space\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T12:59:53","slug":"china-sends-twin-beidou-3-navigation-satellites-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-sends-twin-beidou-3-navigation-satellites-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"China Sends Twin BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellites into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >XICHANG, Sichuan, March 30 (China Space News) &#8212; China on Friday sent twin satellites into space with a single carrier rocket, adding two more members for its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS).<\/p>\n<p >The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province at 1:56 a.m. The launch was the 269th mission for the Long March rocket family.<\/p>\n<p >The twin satellites are coded as the 30th and 31st satellites in the BDS.<\/p>\n<p >They entered orbit more than three hours after the launch and will work together with six previously launched BeiDou-3 satellites once they pass a series of tests.<\/p>\n<p >By around 2020, when the BDS goes global, it will have more than 30 satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XICHANG, Sichuan, March 30 (China Space News) &#8212; China on Friday sent twin satellites into space with a single carrier rocket, adding two more members for its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province at 1:56 a.m. The launch [&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-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906"}],"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=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}