{"id":3989,"date":"2016-12-09T11:39:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T11:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-develops-non-toxic-propellant-for-orbiting-satellites\/"},"modified":"2016-12-09T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T11:39:16","slug":"china-develops-non-toxic-propellant-for-orbiting-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-develops-non-toxic-propellant-for-orbiting-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"China Develops Non-toxic Propellant for Orbiting Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) &#8212; A non-toxic propulsion system developed by Chinese scientists will enable satellites to carry more payload and save on satellite launching costs, the system&#8217;s developer said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p >The ammonium dinitramide (ADN) technology used in the system proved successful when it was tested in the Shijian-17 satellite sent into space last month, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p >Shijian-17 is tasked with verifying technology for observation of space debris, new electric sources and electric propulsion.<\/p>\n<p >According to scientists, the propulsion system is meant to help an orbiting satellite sustain its altitude as atmospheric drag and gravity can lead to gradual descent in orbit.<\/p>\n<p >It will also make China the second country after Sweden to master a non-toxic propulsion technology in orbit, it said.<\/p>\n<p >The technology will help avoid human injuries and adverse effects to equipment caused by propellant emission or leakage, according to the document.<\/p>\n<p >As most propellants currently used are toxic, countries are racing to develop more environmentally friendly and non-toxic propellants, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) &#8212; A non-toxic propulsion system developed by Chinese scientists will enable satellites to carry more payload and save on satellite launching costs, the system&#8217;s developer said Tuesday. The ammonium dinitramide (ADN) technology used in the system proved successful when it was tested in the Shijian-17 satellite sent into space last month, [&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-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989"}],"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=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}