{"id":5328,"date":"2012-05-07T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T03:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-new-tianhui-mapping-satellite\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T03:00:43","slug":"china-launches-new-tianhui-mapping-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-new-tianhui-mapping-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches New Tianhui Mapping Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JIUQUAN, Gansu, May 6 (Xinhua) &#8212; China successfully launched its Tianhui I-02 mapping satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China&#8217;s Gansu province at 3:10 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, which was launched using a Long March 2-D carrier rocket, has entered its preset orbit. Another similar satellite, the Tianhui I, was launched into space in August 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, developed and produced by a company under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), will mainly be used to conduct scientific experiments, carry out land resource surveys and map territory, according to a statement released after the launch.<\/p>\n<p>Remote sensing information and test results from the satellite will boost both the country&#8217;s scientific research and economic development, said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The mission marked the 161st launch for the Long March rocket family since April 24, 1970, when a Long March-1 rocket successfully sent the country&#8217;s first satellite, the Dongfanghong-1, into space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIUQUAN, Gansu, May 6 (Xinhua) &#8212; China successfully launched its Tianhui I-02 mapping satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China&#8217;s Gansu province at 3:10 p.m. Sunday. The satellite, which was launched using a Long March 2-D carrier rocket, has entered its preset orbit. Another similar satellite, the Tianhui I, was launched into [&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-5328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328"}],"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=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}