{"id":5310,"date":"2012-08-17T15:48:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T07:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-apmt-to-launch-50-miniaturized-satellites\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T15:48:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T07:48:14","slug":"china-apmt-to-launch-50-miniaturized-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-apmt-to-launch-50-miniaturized-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"China APMT to Launch 50 Miniaturized Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Aug. 9 (China Space News) \u2014 China Asia-Pacific Mobile Telecommunications Satellite Co., Ltd. (China APMT) has signed a QB50 Project Memorandum of Understanding with the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI).<\/p>\n<p>According to the agreement, China APMT will launch 50 miniaturized satellites for VKI from 2014-15. It will also launch two regular satellites for the Belgium institute using its newly-developed launch vehicle in the next 10 years. <\/p>\n<p>China APMT is owned by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, which is attached to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Jean Muylaert, director of VKI, said signing the agreement showed the world that any country or region can partner up with China in scientific space exploration. <\/p>\n<p>The QB50 Project, funded by the European Commission, deals with the design and the launch of a network of 50 miniaturized satellites to study the lower layers of the thermosphere\/ionosphere. <\/p>\n<p>A number of world-renowned research institutes and universities have participated in the project, including China&#8217;s Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Northwestern Polytechnical University. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Aug. 9 (China Space News) \u2014 China Asia-Pacific Mobile Telecommunications Satellite Co., Ltd. (China APMT) has signed a QB50 Project Memorandum of Understanding with the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI). According to the agreement, China APMT will launch 50 miniaturized satellites for VKI from 2014-15. It will also launch two regular 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-5310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310"}],"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=5310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}