{"id":4027,"date":"2016-08-30T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-first-ever-quantum-communication-satellite\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T12:00:44","slug":"china-launches-first-ever-quantum-communication-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-first-ever-quantum-communication-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches First-ever Quantum Communication Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">JIUQUAN, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; China successfully launched the world&#8217;s first quantum satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gobi Desert at 1:40 a.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">In a cloud of smoke, the satellite, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), roared into the dark sky on top of a Long March-2D rocket.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The 600-plus-kilogram satellite will circle the Earth once every 90 minutes after it enters a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 500 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">It is nicknamed &#8220;Micius,&#8221; after a fifth century B.C. Chinese philosopher and scientist who has been credited as the first one in human history conducting optical experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIUQUAN, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; China successfully launched the world&#8217;s first quantum satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gobi Desert at 1:40 a.m. on Tuesday. In a cloud of smoke, the satellite, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), roared into the dark sky on top of a Long March-2D rocket. The 600-plus-kilogram [&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-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027"}],"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=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}