{"id":3974,"date":"2017-02-08T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T15:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-hi-res-sar-imaging-satellite-put-into-use\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T15:48:59","slug":"chinas-hi-res-sar-imaging-satellite-put-into-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-hi-res-sar-imaging-satellite-put-into-use\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Hi-res SAR Imaging Satellite Put into Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s first high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite has passed all its in-orbit tests and is now operational, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense on Monday.<\/p>\n<p >The Gaofen-3 satellite, which is accurate to one meter in distance, was launched in August 2016.<\/p>\n<p >Gaofen-3 is China&#8217;s first low orbit remote sensing satellite to have a long lifespan.<\/p>\n<p >With 12 imaging modes, Gaofen-3 has the most imaging modes in the SAR imaging satellite family. The high-definition observation satellite is capable of switching freely between various imaging modes, taking wide pictures of both earth and bodies of water, and detailed photographs of specific areas.<\/p>\n<p >Gaofen-3&#8217;s spatial resolution ranges from one meter to 500 meters and its largest viewing swath is 650 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p >According to the administration, Gaofen-5 hyerspectrual satellite is planned to be launched in September 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s first high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite has passed all its in-orbit tests and is now operational, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense on Monday. The Gaofen-3 satellite, which is accurate to one meter in distance, was launched in August 2016. Gaofen-3 [&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-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974"}],"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=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}