{"id":82382,"date":"2012-10-01T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-second-satellite-for-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T22:35:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:35:19","slug":"china-launches-second-satellite-for-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-second-satellite-for-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches Second Satellite for Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[10-01-12] The Chinese state-run <b>Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center<\/b> has sent a second satellite built for the Venezuelan government into orbit on a Long March rocket, China\u2019s <i>Xinhua News Agency<\/i> reported Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The Venezuelan spacecraft VRSS-1 is a remote sensing satellite that aims to provide images for tasks such as mapping croplands, counter-drug efforts and monitoring floods.<br \/>\nThe satellite is also nicknamed after Venezuelan independence hero Francisco de Miranda. Chinese officials said the satellite cost $140 million to produce. <br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;China launched Venezuela\u2019s first satellite, Venesat-1, or \u201cSimon Bolivar\u201d in 2008 to carry communications gear.    The satellite is also nicknamed after Venezuelan independence hero Francisco de Miranda. Chinese officials said the satellite cost $140 million to produce. China launched Venezuela\u2019s first satellite, Venesat-1, or \u201cSimon Bolivar\u201d in 2008 to carry communications gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[10-01-12] The Chinese state-run Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has sent a second satellite built for the Venezuelan government into orbit on a Long March rocket, China\u2019s Xinhua News Agency reported Sept. 30. &nbsp; &nbsp;The Venezuelan spacecraft VRSS-1 is a remote sensing satellite that aims to provide images for tasks such as mapping croplands, counter-drug efforts [&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-82382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82382"}],"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=82382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}