{"id":4146,"date":"2015-10-08T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T09:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-20th-beidou-navigation-satellite\/"},"modified":"2015-10-08T09:57:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T09:57:47","slug":"china-launches-20th-beidou-navigation-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-20th-beidou-navigation-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches 20th Beidou Navigation Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">XICHANG, Sichuan Province, Sept. 30 (China Space News) &#8212; China launched a new-generation satellite into orbit that will support its global navigation and positioning network at 7:13 a.m. Beijing Time Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">Launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, the satellite was boosted by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. It was the 20th satellite for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), and puts China one step closer to providing an alternative to the U.S.-operated GPS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">For the first time the satellite featured a hydrogen atomic clock. A series of tests related to the clock and a new navigation-signal system will be undertaken, according to a statement from the center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The first Beidou satellite was not launched until 2000. Nonetheless, by 2012, a regional network had already taken shape, which provided positioning, navigation, timing and short message services in China and several other Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">China plans to expand the Beidou services to most of the countries covered in its &#8220;Belt and Road&#8221; initiative by 2018, and offer global coverage by 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XICHANG, Sichuan Province, Sept. 30 (China Space News) &#8212; China launched a new-generation satellite into orbit that will support its global navigation and positioning network at 7:13 a.m. Beijing Time Wednesday. Launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, the satellite was boosted by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. It was [&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-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146"}],"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=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}