{"id":4001,"date":"2016-11-09T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-sends-satellite-upper-stage-craft-into-orbit\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T12:04:57","slug":"china-sends-satellite-upper-stage-craft-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-sends-satellite-upper-stage-craft-into-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"China Sends Satellite, Upper Stage Craft into Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >WENCHANG, Hainan, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) &#8212; China on Thursday sent a payload combination of a satellite and an upper stage aircraft into space with the latest heavy-lift Long March-5 carrier rocket.<\/p>\n<p >In its maiden flight, the rocket blasted off at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, at around 8:43 p.m. Thursday Beijing Time.<\/p>\n<p >Shijian-17, developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, is a satellite for verifying new technology in geostationary orbit, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence said.<\/p>\n<p >The Yuanzheng-2 is China&#8217;s largest liquid-fuel upper stage aircraft with the strongest capability for orbit transfer. The integration of Yuanzheng-2 with Long March-5 carrier rocket will strengthen China&#8217;s capability to launch multiple satellites with one vehicle and send satellites directly into orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WENCHANG, Hainan, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) &#8212; China on Thursday sent a payload combination of a satellite and an upper stage aircraft into space with the latest heavy-lift Long March-5 carrier rocket. In its maiden flight, the rocket blasted off at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, at around 8:43 p.m. Thursday [&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-4001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001"}],"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=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}