{"id":4470,"date":"2018-03-14T11:59:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T11:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-plans-rocket-sea-launch\/"},"modified":"2018-03-14T11:59:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T11:59:33","slug":"china-plans-rocket-sea-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-plans-rocket-sea-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"China plans rocket sea-launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\">China is planning its first sea-launch of satellites carried by a Long March rocket, according to an aerospace official.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">Yang Yiqiang, commander-in-chief of the Long March-11 rockets project of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said that 2018 would see five launches of Long March-11 rockets, with four missions for commercial payloads on land, and one at sea.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">&#8220;The sea launch will meet the growing needs for launching near-equatorial and low-inclination satellites, and improve the rockets&#8217; adaptability,&#8221; Yang said. &#8220;The solid-propellant Long March-11 rockets have strong quick-response ability with low prices, which provide better, competitive services in space commerce.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">Launches in the equator region are more fuel-efficient. They cost less but demand a more stable rocket performance, which is affected by sea waves and high temperatures.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">Wenchang, centered at 11 degree east longitude and 19 degrees north latitude, in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, is the only launch center near the sea. As for missions with an inclination of zero to five degrees, the sea launch will fill the gap.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">China started developing modern carrier rockets in 1956, and the Long March rockets have become the main carriers for China&#8217;s satellite launches. (Xinhua)<\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is planning its first sea-launch of satellites carried by a Long March rocket, according to an aerospace official. Yang Yiqiang, commander-in-chief of the Long March-11 rockets project of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said that 2018 would see five launches of Long March-11 rockets, with four missions for commercial payloads on land, [&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-4470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470"}],"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=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}