{"id":46501,"date":"2026-07-30T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=46501"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:49:35","slug":"china-launches-tianlian-iii-01-data-relay-satellite-aboard-long-march-7a-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-tianlian-iii-01-data-relay-satellite-aboard-long-march-7a-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches Tianlian III-01 data relay satellite aboard Long March-7A rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit on July 29, 2026, from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan.<\/p>\n<p>The Tianlian III-01 satellite was launched at 7:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-7A carrier rocket. The satellite entered the preset orbit successfully.<\/p>\n<p>Tianlian III-01 is primarily used to provide data relay and TT&amp;C (telemetry, tracking, and command) services for crewed spacecraft such as spaceships, space laboratories and space stations, as well as for medium- and low-Earth-orbit resource satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The launch marked the 659th mission of the Long March series carrier rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit on July 29, 2026, from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan. The Tianlian III-01 satellite was launched at 7:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-7A carrier rocket. The satellite entered the preset orbit successfully. Tianlian III-01 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135,9814,25,20,9921],"class_list":["post-46501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-data-relay-satellite","tag-launch","tag-satellite","tag-tianlian-iii-01"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46501"}],"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=46501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46514,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46501\/revisions\/46514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}