{"id":4167,"date":"2015-04-02T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-upgraded-satellite-for-satnav-system\/"},"modified":"2015-04-02T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T15:14:20","slug":"china-launches-upgraded-satellite-for-satnav-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-upgraded-satellite-for-satnav-system\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches Upgraded Satellite for SatNav System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">BEIJING, April 1 (China Space News) &#8212; China launched a new-generation satellite into space for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network at 9:52 p.m. Beijing Time Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">Launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, the satellite was boosted by a Long March-3C carrier rocket developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">It is the 17th satellite for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). The launch marked the beginning of expanding the regional BDS to global coverage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">A newly-developed upper stage was installed on the carrier rocket, marking the first time China has used such technology in blasting off spacecraft into medium to high orbit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The upper stage, dubbed a &#8220;shuttle bus in space&#8221;, can send one or more spacecraft into different orbits in space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">China launched the first BDS satellite in 2000. The BDS began providing positioning, navigation, timing and short message services to civilian users in China and surrounding areas in the Asia-Pacific in December 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The system has been gradually put into use in extended sectors including transportation, weather forecasting, the marine fishing industry, forestry and telecommunications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, April 1 (China Space News) &#8212; China launched a new-generation satellite into space for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network at 9:52 p.m. Beijing Time Monday. Launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, the satellite was boosted by a Long March-3C carrier rocket developed by the China [&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-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167"}],"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=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}