{"id":3916,"date":"2018-02-07T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T09:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-electromagnetic-satellite-to-study-earthquake-precursors\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T09:59:14","slug":"china-launches-electromagnetic-satellite-to-study-earthquake-precursors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-electromagnetic-satellite-to-study-earthquake-precursors\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches Electromagnetic Satellite to Study Earthquake Precursors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >JIUQUAN, Feb. 2 (China Space News) &#8212; China on Friday launched its first seismo-electromagnetic satellite to study seismic precursors, which might help establish a ground-space earthquake monitoring and forecasting network in the future.<\/p>\n<p >A Long March-2D rocket launched at 15:51 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in northwest China&#8217;s Gobi Desert, carried the 730-kilogram China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 500 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p >Known as Zhangheng 1 in Chinese, it will help scientists monitor the electromagnetic field, ionospheric plasma and high-energy particles for an expected mission life of five years.<\/p>\n<p >The satellite is named after Zhang Heng, a renowned scholar of the East Han Dynasty (25-220), who pioneered earthquake studies by inventing the first ever seismoscope in the year 132.<\/p>\n<p >Covering the latitude area between 65 degrees north and 65 degrees south, it will focus on Chinese mainland, areas within 1,000 kilometers to China&#8217;s land borders and two major global earthquake belts.<\/p>\n<p >Zhangheng 1 was produced by DFH Satellite Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIUQUAN, Feb. 2 (China Space News) &#8212; China on Friday launched its first seismo-electromagnetic satellite to study seismic precursors, which might help establish a ground-space earthquake monitoring and forecasting network in the future. A Long March-2D rocket launched at 15:51 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in northwest China&#8217;s Gobi Desert, carried the 730-kilogram China Seismo-Electromagnetic [&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-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916"}],"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=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}