{"id":4243,"date":"2013-09-25T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-new-weather-satellite\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:22:52","slug":"china-launches-new-weather-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-new-weather-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches New Weather Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">TAIYUAN, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) &#8212; China successfully launched a meteorological satellite into orbit at 11:07 a.m. Monday, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center said.<\/p>\n<p>The third Fengyun-III satellite, carried by a Long March-4C carrier rocket, will join the previous two which are in orbit to boost China&#8217;s weather monitoring capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The three Fengyun-III weather satellites, the country&#8217;s second generation polar orbiting meteorological satellites, are useful in monitoring natural disasters and the eco-environment. They also provide meteorological information for global climate change studies as well as aviation and navigation.<\/p>\n<p>The network of satellites will also shorten the updating hours of medium-range weather forecasting from 12 to six.<\/p>\n<p>The first and second Fengyun-III were launched in May 2008 and November 2010 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the 181st launch carried by a Long March rocket, according to the center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIYUAN, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) &#8212; China successfully launched a meteorological satellite into orbit at 11:07 a.m. Monday, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center said. The third Fengyun-III satellite, carried by a Long March-4C carrier rocket, will join the previous two which are in orbit to boost China&#8217;s weather monitoring capabilities. The three Fengyun-III weather satellites, the country&#8217;s [&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-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243"}],"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=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}