{"id":4493,"date":"2017-02-27T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T09:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-to-launch-first-high-throughput-communications-satellite-in-april\/"},"modified":"2017-02-27T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T09:21:23","slug":"china-to-launch-first-high-throughput-communications-satellite-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-to-launch-first-high-throughput-communications-satellite-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"China to launch first high-throughput communications satellite in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\">BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20 GB, will be carried into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the CAST.<\/p>\n<p>An increase in satellite throughput will provide better access to the Internet on planes and high-speed trains, said Wang Min, deputy head of the CAST&#8217;s Institute of Telecommunication Satellite.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, a large number of domestic components have been used on a communications satellite with an orbital life of 15 years, Wang said. It is also the first time electric propulsion has been used on a Chinese satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Shijian-13 has been transported to the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province. After completing in-orbit technical tests, it will be designated as Zhongxing-16.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, China plans to launch six communications satellites, including Shijian-13 and Shijian-18.<\/p>\n<p>Shijian-18 will be put into orbit by a Long March-5 carrier rocket in June, and will test the DFH-5 satellite platform, Wang said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday. The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20 GB, will be carried into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the CAST. An increase [&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-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493"}],"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=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}