{"id":4484,"date":"2017-06-16T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-receives-data-from-first-x-ray-space-telescope\/"},"modified":"2017-06-16T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:00:16","slug":"china-receives-data-from-first-x-ray-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-receives-data-from-first-x-ray-space-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"China receives data from first X-ray space telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; China Friday received the first package of data from its x-ray space telescope launched Thursday, according to the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The package of high quality data with a total size of 2.1 gigabytes was received by the remote sensing satellite station in northwest China&#8217;s Kashgar, before being transferred to the CAS National Space Science Center.<\/p>\n<p>The ground stations in Beijing&#8217;s Miyun District and south China&#8217;s Sanya also tracked the signals from the telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing 2.5 tonnes, the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope, dubbed Insight, was launched via a Long March-4B rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China&#8217;s Gobi Desert at 11 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In the following five days, other components of Insight will start working in succession.<\/p>\n<p>After five months of in-orbit tests and calibrations, the telescope will be officially put into use to conduct broadband x-ray space observations. Its main tasks are to observe black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off in March 2011, the Insight project was jointly carried out by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence and the CAS, and is a crucial part of China&#8217;s high-energy astrophysics space research.<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; China Friday received the first package of data from its x-ray space telescope launched Thursday, according to the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The package of high quality data with a total size of 2.1 gigabytes was received by the remote [&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-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484"}],"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=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}