{"id":4439,"date":"2019-07-26T11:03:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T11:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinese-private-rocket-firm-makes-successful-orbital-launch\/"},"modified":"2019-07-26T11:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T11:03:44","slug":"chinese-private-rocket-firm-makes-successful-orbital-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinese-private-rocket-firm-makes-successful-orbital-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese private rocket firm makes successful orbital launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/english\/n6465652\/n6465653\/c6806992\/part\/6781614.jpg\"><br \/>Photo by Wang Jiangbo\/Xinhua<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><br \/>JIUQUAN, July 25th &#8212; A carrier rocket developed by a Chinese private company successfully sent two satellites into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><br \/>The SQX-1 Y1, developed by a Beijing-based private rocket developer i-Space, is a four-stage small commercial carrier rocket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><br \/>The rocket&#8217;s body has a maximum diameter of 1.4 meters, length of 20.8 meters and takeoff weight of 31 tonnes. It has a lift capability of sending 260 kg of payload to 500 km high sun-synchronous orbit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><br \/>It marks the first successful orbital launch by a private Chinese firm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><br \/>Cai Jingqi, vice president of i-Space, said the successful launch shows that the company has fully grasped the related core technologies in carrier rockets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><br \/>Zhang Xiaomin from the School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, said the orbital launch is a milestone in demonstrating that China&#8217;s privately developed carrier rockets are capable of delivering payloads into space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><br \/>By the end of 2018, China has seen over 100 registered private companies in the commercial space industry, according to a market report. (Xinhua)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Wang Jiangbo\/Xinhua JIUQUAN, July 25th &#8212; A carrier rocket developed by a Chinese private company successfully sent two satellites into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday. The SQX-1 Y1, developed by a Beijing-based private rocket developer i-Space, is a four-stage small commercial carrier rocket. [&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-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439"}],"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=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}