{"id":4664,"date":"2011-04-10T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-eighth-satellite-for-indigenous-global-navigation-positioning-network\/"},"modified":"2011-04-10T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T16:26:07","slug":"china-launches-eighth-satellite-for-indigenous-global-navigation-positioning-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-eighth-satellite-for-indigenous-global-navigation-positioning-network\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches eighth satellite for indigenous global navigation, positioning network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China early Sunday morning successfully launched its eighth orbiter which will form part of its indigenous satellite-navigation and -positioning network.<\/p>\n<p>A Long March-3A carrier rocket carrying the &#8220;Beidou,&#8221; or Compass, navigation satellite took off at 4:47 a.m. Sunday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province.<\/p>\n<p>It will join seven other satellites already in orbit to form a network which will eventually consist of more than 30 satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The launching of the satellite marks the establishment of a basic system for the navigation and positioning network, said an unidentified spokesperson for the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.<\/p>\n<p>China will launch more satellites within the coming two years to finish a regional network to provide navigation services with high precision and credibility for industries and sectors such as mapping, fishery, transportation, meteorology and telecommunication, in the Asia-Pacific regions, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The network is scheduled to be able to provide global services by 2020.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China early Sunday morning successfully launched its eighth orbiter which will form part of its indigenous satellite-navigation and -positioning network. A Long March-3A carrier rocket carrying the &#8220;Beidou,&#8221; or Compass, navigation satellite took off at 4:47 a.m. Sunday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province. It will join seven other satellites [&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-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664"}],"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=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}