{"id":4125,"date":"2015-12-21T12:58:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-satellite-to-shed-light-on-dark-matter\/"},"modified":"2015-12-21T12:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T12:58:15","slug":"china-launches-satellite-to-shed-light-on-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-satellite-to-shed-light-on-dark-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches Satellite to Shed Light on Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify\">JIUQUAN, Gansu, Dec. 17 (China Space News) &#8212; China on Thursday sent into space the country&#8217;s first space telescope in a fresh search for smoking-gun signals of dark matter, invisible material that scientists say makes up most of the universe&#8217;s mass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify\">The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite, nicknamed &#8220;Wukong&#8221; after the Monkey King with penetrating eyes in the Chinese classical fiction Journey to the West, was blasted off Thursday morning on a Long March 2-D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify\">It will enter a sun-synchronous orbit at a height of 500 kilometers to observe the direction, energy and electric charge of high-energy particles in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIUQUAN, Gansu, Dec. 17 (China Space News) &#8212; China on Thursday sent into space the country&#8217;s first space telescope in a fresh search for smoking-gun signals of dark matter, invisible material that scientists say makes up most of the universe&#8217;s mass. The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite, nicknamed &#8220;Wukong&#8221; after the Monkey King with [&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-4125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125"}],"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=4125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}