{"id":63358,"date":"2018-12-29T19:35:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T11:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-test-satellite-for-leo-broadband-system\/"},"modified":"2018-12-29T19:35:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T11:35:40","slug":"china-launches-test-satellite-for-leo-broadband-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-test-satellite-for-leo-broadband-system\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches Test Satellite for LEO Broadband System"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>China launched a test satellite as part of its Hongyun Project, a low-orbit broadband communication satellite system, on Dec. 22.&nbsp;A Long March-11 rocket carrying the satellite lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:51 a.m. local time, before successfully entering its preset orbit.<\/p>\n<p>As the first satellite of the Hongyun Project, the successful launch signifies China\u2019s progress in mapping the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband communication satellite system, said the <strong>China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation<\/strong> (CASIC), a state-owned spacecraft developer.<\/p>\n<p>With this launch, China will extend the test and application demonstration of LEO space-based internet technologies. The Hongyun Project is designed to be a low-orbit globe-spanning broadband internet access network based on a satellite constellation of 156 satellites, and aims&nbsp;to bring broadband internet access to remote areas in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China launched a test satellite as part of its Hongyun Project, a low-orbit broadband communication satellite system, on Dec. 22.&nbsp;A Long March-11 rocket carrying the satellite lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:51 a.m. local time, before successfully entering its preset orbit. As the first satellite of the Hongyun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63359,"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-63358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63358"}],"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=63358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}