{"id":109139,"date":"2020-06-25T23:43:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/china-becoming-true-space-power-as-satellite-launch-completes-beidou-system"},"modified":"2020-06-25T23:43:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:43:29","slug":"china-becoming-true-space-power-as-satellite-launch-completes-beidou-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/china-becoming-true-space-power-as-satellite-launch-completes-beidou-system","title":{"rendered":"China \u2018becoming true space power\u2019 as satellite launch completes BeiDou system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-becoming-true-space-power-as-satellite-launch-completes-beidou-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Observers said that the fully fledged system could put China in a competitive position against the world\u2019s three other satellite navigation networks \u2013 the US-owned Global Positioning System (GPS), the European Union\u2019s Galileo and Russia\u2019s Glonass. It could also expand China\u2019s international engagement and offer an alternative to other countries that had been reliant on US technology, they said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Final satellite in the navigation network \u2013 China\u2019s answer to the US-owned GPS \u2013 is sent into orbit on Tuesday after technical problems delayed it by a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observers said that the fully fledged system could put China in a competitive position against the world\u2019s three other satellite navigation networks \u2013 the US-owned Global Positioning System (GPS), the European Union\u2019s Galileo and Russia\u2019s Glonass. It could also expand China\u2019s international engagement and offer an alternative to other countries that had been reliant on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}