{"id":5354,"date":"2011-12-08T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T08:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-to-launch-communications-satellite-for-turkmenistan\/"},"modified":"2011-12-08T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T08:29:44","slug":"china-to-launch-communications-satellite-for-turkmenistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-to-launch-communications-satellite-for-turkmenistan\/","title":{"rendered":"China to Launch Communications Satellite for Turkmenistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) &#8212; China will launch a communications satellite for Turkmenistan with its Long March-3B carrier rocket in 2014, the Chinese launch contractor said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The satellite will be Turkmenistan&#8217;s first communications satellite.<\/p>\n<p>It will be sent into orbit at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan province, based on the SPACEBUS 4000C2 platform made by Thales Alenia Space France (TASF), according to a contract signed by the French company and the China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC).<\/p>\n<p>Carrying a Ku-band transponder, the satellite is designed to weigh about 4.5 tonnes with a life span of 15 years. <\/p>\n<p>As the only Chinese company engaged in international commercial satellite launching services, CGWIC, a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, has launched 38 foreign satellites since 1990.<br \/>Source: Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) &#8212; China will launch a communications satellite for Turkmenistan with its Long March-3B carrier rocket in 2014, the Chinese launch contractor said on Tuesday. The satellite will be Turkmenistan&#8217;s first communications satellite. It will be sent into orbit at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan province, based on [&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-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354"}],"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=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}