{"id":79005,"date":"2013-12-24T23:38:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T15:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bolivia-launches-first-telecommunications-satellite\/"},"modified":"2013-12-24T23:38:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T15:38:18","slug":"bolivia-launches-first-telecommunications-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bolivia-launches-first-telecommunications-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia Launches First Telecommunications Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-24-13] On Friday Dec. 20, 2013, Bolivia launched its first telecommunications satellite, designated Tupak Katari. The launch took place at 16:42 UTC onboard a Long March 3B rocket from China\u2019s Xichang satellite launch center.<\/p>\n<p>Bolivian president Evo Morales traveled to China to watch the launch, making him the first foreign head of state to witness a launch in China. In Bolivia, hundreds of people watched the rocket take off on a giant screen outside the country\u2019s parliament building located at Plaza de Armas, La Paz.<\/p>\n<p>Tupak Katari carries 30 transponders (26 Ku-band, two Ka-band and two C-band), and will begin on-orbit operations at 87.2 degrees west longitude. The satellite has a design lifetime of 15 years. It is named in honor of an 18th century indigenous leader who resisted Spanish colonization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-24-13] On Friday Dec. 20, 2013, Bolivia launched its first telecommunications satellite, designated Tupak Katari. The launch took place at 16:42 UTC onboard a Long March 3B rocket from China\u2019s Xichang satellite launch center. Bolivian president Evo Morales traveled to China to watch the launch, making him the first foreign head of state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79006,"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-79005","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\/79005"}],"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=79005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}