{"id":4144,"date":"2015-10-19T17:17:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-puts-new-communications-satellite-into-orbit\/"},"modified":"2015-10-19T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:17:06","slug":"china-puts-new-communications-satellite-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-puts-new-communications-satellite-into-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"China Puts New Communications Satellite into Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">BEIJING, Oct. 17 (China Space News) &#8212; China on early Saturday morning put a new communications satellite &#8220;APSTAR-9&#8221; into orbit in a commercial mission by the Long March-3B carrier rocket from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">Monitoring data collected 26 minutes after the satellite&#8217;s launch at 0:16 a.m. Beijing time indicated that it had separated from the rocket and reached its designated orbit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">Developed using China&#8217;s homegrown DFH-4 platform for the Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Company Limited, APSTAR-9 is designed to stay in service for at least 15 years. It will replace its predecessor APSTAR-9A, which was launched in 1998 with a designed mission life of 15 years also.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">With the new satellite, APT&#8217;s APSTAR fleet will be able to cover some three quarters of global population in Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia to provide TV transmission and transponder, data and satellite communications services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">Saturday&#8217;s launch is the 214th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Oct. 17 (China Space News) &#8212; China on early Saturday morning put a new communications satellite &#8220;APSTAR-9&#8221; into orbit in a commercial mission by the Long March-3B carrier rocket from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Monitoring data collected 26 minutes after the satellite&#8217;s launch at 0:16 a.m. Beijing time indicated that it had [&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-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144"}],"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=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}