{"id":66596,"date":"2017-12-11T19:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T11:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/algeria-joins-the-space-club-with-new-satellite-in-orbit-2\/"},"modified":"2017-12-11T19:50:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T11:50:43","slug":"algeria-joins-the-space-club-with-new-satellite-in-orbit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/algeria-joins-the-space-club-with-new-satellite-in-orbit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria Joins the Space Club with New Satellite in Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Algerian Space Agency <\/strong>(ASAL) announced that the <strong>China Great Wall Industry Corp.<\/strong> (CGWIC) successfully launched the country\u2019s first telecommunications satellite, Alcomsat 1, just after midnight on Sunday, Dec. 10. A Chinese Long March 3B rocket carried the satellite into orbit from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province.<\/p>\n<p>ASAL engineers will control and monitor the satellite from operations centers in Medea and Algiers. According to the agency, Algeria will use Alcomsat 1 for broadcast services, broadband internet, audio transmission and telemedicine.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite is a culmination of the partnership forged between China and Algeria back in 2014, meant to promote peaceful international space activity. For this mission specifically, China has helped Algeria develop a training program for local engineers related to the design and construction of Alcomsat 1.<\/p>\n<p>For the next week, Alcomsat 1 will maneuver to its orbital position at 24.8 degrees west. ASAL engineers will spend the next three to six months conducting post-deployment and in-orbit test phases before the satellite enters full service, ASAL stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) announced that the China Great Wall Industry Corp. (CGWIC) successfully launched the country\u2019s first telecommunications satellite, Alcomsat 1, just after midnight on Sunday, Dec. 10. A Chinese Long March 3B rocket carried the satellite into orbit from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. ASAL engineers will control and monitor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66598,"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-66596","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\/66596"}],"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=66596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}