{"id":4105,"date":"2016-02-03T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T10:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-key-satellite-in-beidou-navigation\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T10:25:07","slug":"china-launches-key-satellite-in-beidou-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-key-satellite-in-beidou-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches Key Satellite in Beidou Navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify\">BEIJING, Feb. 2 (China Space News) \u2014 China put a new-generation satellite into orbit to support its global navigation and positioning network at 3:29 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify\">Launched from Xichang satellite launch center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, the satellite was aboard a Long March-3C carrier rocket. It is the 21st satellite in the Beidou Navigation Satellite System.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify\">The first 16 Beidou satellites formed a network that only covered China and nearby regions. The first new-generation satellite in the series, or the 17th in total, was launched in March last year to help the network transition from regional to global coverage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify\">Once in orbit, Monday&#8217;s satellite, the fifth of the new generation, will join its four predecessors in testing inter-satellite crosslinks and a new navigation-signalling system that will set the framework and technical standards for global coverage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify\">Named after the Chinese term for the Big Dipper constellation, the Beidou project began in 1994.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify\">The first Beidou satellite was not launched until 2000, but by 2012, a regional network had taken shape, providing positioning, navigation, timing and short message services for China and several other Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p >\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Feb. 2 (China Space News) \u2014 China put a new-generation satellite into orbit to support its global navigation and positioning network at 3:29 p.m. Monday. Launched from Xichang satellite launch center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, the satellite was aboard a Long March-3C carrier rocket. It is the 21st satellite in the Beidou [&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-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105"}],"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=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}