{"id":4249,"date":"2013-08-26T13:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-civilian-technology-satellites-put-into-use\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T13:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T13:11:07","slug":"china-civilian-technology-satellites-put-into-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-civilian-technology-satellites-put-into-use\/","title":{"rendered":"China Civilian Technology Satellites Put into Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s civilian technology satellites have officially been put into use, said the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The satellites, named SJ-9A and <span style=\"text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 14px arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0,0,0); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\">SJ-9B<\/span>, were developed by an affiliate company of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. They are the first in a series of civilian satellites designed for technological experimentation, said SASTIND.<\/p>\n<p>Development of the satellites is crucial for narrowing the space technology gap between China and other countries, said Guo Baozhu, a chief engineer of the <span style=\"text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 14px arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0,0,0); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\">SJ-9<\/span> satellites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The satellites can play an important role in promoting space technology innovation and application, as well as reduce risks of development,&#8221; said Guo.<\/p>\n<p>The satellites will be used to experiment with domestically developed components, satellite formations and inter-satellite measurement, according to SASTIND.<\/p>\n<p>China successfully launched the <span style=\"text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 14px arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0,0,0); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\">SJ-9A<\/span> and <span style=\"text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 14px arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0,0,0); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\">SJ-9B <\/span>satellites into space on Oct. 14, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s civilian technology satellites have officially been put into use, said the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) on Wednesday. The satellites, named SJ-9A and SJ-9B, were developed by an affiliate company of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. They are the first in [&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-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249"}],"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=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}