{"id":4265,"date":"2013-04-10T13:01:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T13:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-conducts-first-space-science-active-experiment\/"},"modified":"2013-04-10T13:01:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T13:01:40","slug":"china-conducts-first-space-science-active-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-conducts-first-space-science-active-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"China Conducts First Space Science Active Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s first space science active experiment was conducted Friday morning to study the dynamical processes of the Earth&#8217;s ionosphere, a top scientific institute said.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment conducted at a sounding rocket launch site in Zhanzhou, south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, will provide in-situ measurements for studying the vertical distribution of space environment, said Wu Ji, director of the National Space Science Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).<\/p>\n<p>The vertical exploration test was completed with the help of a sounding rocket, which released a kilogram of powdered barium into the ionosphere at a height of 200 kilometers from the ground, Wu said.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket, manufactured by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, carried three kinds of detecting instruments in the eight-minute flight, including a Langmuir probe, an electric field probe, and a barium powder releaser.<\/p>\n<p>The CAS&#8217;s Hainan Sounding Rocket Launching Site close to the equator, was established in 1986. In addition to launching sounding rockets, it deploys more than 10 ground-based space environment observational instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s first space science active experiment was conducted Friday morning to study the dynamical processes of the Earth&#8217;s ionosphere, a top scientific institute said. The experiment conducted at a sounding rocket launch site in Zhanzhou, south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, will provide in-situ measurements for studying the vertical distribution of space [&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-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265"}],"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=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}