{"id":84418,"date":"2011-08-09T21:16:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T13:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-to-launch-hd-civil-survey-satellite-by-2012\/"},"modified":"2011-08-09T21:16:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T13:16:48","slug":"china-to-launch-hd-civil-survey-satellite-by-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-to-launch-hd-civil-survey-satellite-by-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"China to Launch HD Civil Survey Satellite by 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-09-11] Officials from China\u2019s <b>National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation<\/b> confirmed Aug. 8 that the Chinese government is set to launch a high-definition civil survey satellite by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; At a press conference, the administration\u2019s deputy director Song Chaozhi unveiled the ZY 3 satellite and outlined plans to launch the spacecraft from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on a Long March 4B carrier rocket.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cOnce successfully launched, the satellite will operate in a sun-synchronous orbit at about 506 kilometers in altitude and be capable of producing seamless imagery of the earth\u2019s surface from 84 degrees South latitude to 84 degrees North latitude,\u201d said Chaozhi. \u201cThe satellite will provide images with the highest definition and accuracy in China, and greatly help the mapping efforts in the country\u2019s western regions, where geographic information is difficult to collect and update due to limits of equipment and technology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-09-11] Officials from China\u2019s National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation confirmed Aug. 8 that the Chinese government is set to launch a high-definition civil survey satellite by the end of this year. &nbsp;&nbsp; At a press conference, the administration\u2019s deputy director Song Chaozhi unveiled the ZY 3 satellite and outlined plans to launch the [&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-84418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418"}],"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=84418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}