{"id":63715,"date":"2018-10-29T21:47:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T13:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-spacex-fails-1st-satellite-launch-another-launch-sees-success\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T21:47:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T13:47:44","slug":"chinas-spacex-fails-1st-satellite-launch-another-launch-sees-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-spacex-fails-1st-satellite-launch-another-launch-sees-success\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cChina\u2019s SpaceX\u201d Fails 1st Satellite Launch, Another Launch Sees Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The first attempt to launch a rocket into space by the Chinese company dubbed \u201cChina\u2019s <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>\u201d by state-owned media has failed, while China successfully sent an ocean-observing satellite into space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s SpaceX\u201d saw a complete loss of its small satellite payload, but <strong>Landspace Technology Corporation<\/strong> enters China\u2019s history books as the first privately-licensed company to launch a commercial rocket into space. Landspace was founded only in 2015 and also planned to be the first Chinese private company to deliver a satellite into orbit. Landspace said its launch vehicle, Zhuque-1 (ZQ-1), was carrying a small satellite named \u201cFuture\u201d built for the state-run broadcaster, <strong>China Central Television<\/strong> (CCTV). It reported the three-stage launch vehicle attained successful burns and ejections of its first and second stages.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ocean-observing satellite was launched into space today, which will enable scientists to simultaneously study, for the first time, ocean surface winds and waves. The China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSat), atop a Long March-2C carrier rocket, took off at 8:43 a.m. from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China\u2019s Gobi Desert and entered a sun-synchronous orbit 520 kilometers above Earth. Jointly developed by the <strong>China National Space Administration<\/strong> (CNSA) and the <strong>Center National d\u2019Etudes Spatiales<\/strong> (CNES), France\u2019s space agency, the satellite will conduct 24-hour observations of global wave spectrums, effective wave height and ocean surface wind fields, said Zhao Jian, a senior official with CNSA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first attempt to launch a rocket into space by the Chinese company dubbed \u201cChina\u2019s SpaceX\u201d by state-owned media has failed, while China successfully sent an ocean-observing satellite into space. \u201cChina\u2019s SpaceX\u201d saw a complete loss of its small satellite payload, but Landspace Technology Corporation enters China\u2019s history books as the first privately-licensed company to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63717,"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-63715","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\/63715"}],"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=63715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}