{"id":4459,"date":"2018-10-29T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-ocean-observing-satellite-under-closer-sino-eu-space-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:51:02","slug":"china-launches-ocean-observing-satellite-under-closer-sino-eu-space-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-ocean-observing-satellite-under-closer-sino-eu-space-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches ocean-observing satellite under closer Sino-EU space cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/english\/n6465652\/n6465653\/c6803529\/part\/6779165.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>China on Monday sent an ocean-observing satellite successfully into space, a joint mission pursued under close Sino-French space cooperation that will enable scientists to study, for the first time, ocean surface winds and waves simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSat), atop a Long March-2C carrier rocket, took off at 8:43 a.m. from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in northwest China&#8217;s Gobi Desert, and entered a sun-synchronous orbit 520 km above the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Jointly developed by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Centre National d&#8217;Etudes Spatiales, the French space agency, the satellite will conduct 24-hour observations of global wave spectrum, effective wave height and ocean surface wind field, said Zhao Jian, a senior official with the CNSA.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Monday sent an ocean-observing satellite successfully into space, a joint mission pursued under close Sino-French space cooperation that will enable scientists to study, for the first time, ocean surface winds and waves simultaneously. The China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSat), atop a Long March-2C carrier rocket, took off at 8:43 a.m. from Jiuquan Satellite Launch [&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-4459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459"}],"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=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}