{"id":134796,"date":"2022-01-27T18:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T02:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/china-launches-l-sar-01a-as-new-methane-rocket-nears-first-launch-from-jiuquan"},"modified":"2022-01-27T18:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T02:23:50","slug":"china-launches-l-sar-01a-as-new-methane-rocket-nears-first-launch-from-jiuquan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/china-launches-l-sar-01a-as-new-methane-rocket-nears-first-launch-from-jiuquan","title":{"rendered":"China launches L-SAR 01A as new methane rocket nears first launch from Jiuquan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-launches-l-sar-01a-as-new-methane-rocket-nears-first-launch-from-jiuquan3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China successfully launched the Gongjian Ludi Tance-1 01A (L-SAR 01A) satellite into a quasi sun-synchronous orbit of 607 kilometers. The 3.2 metric ton satellite was launched at 23:44 UTC on Tuesday, January 25 on a Chang Zheng 4C from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite is equipped with an L-band and multi-channel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) payload. It is a civilian satellite that will use a 33 square meter array to survey the Earth after major events such as earthquakes and landslides.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/?s=SAOCOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> This is comparable to the Argentinian SAOCOM satellites which are also equipped with L-band and a SAR to monitor environmental disasters.<\/a> L-band brings the advantage of being able to penetrate clouds, rain, and vegetation which makes it easier to monitor the ground. It operates in a frequency range of 1\u20132 GHz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China successfully launched the Gongjian Ludi Tance-1 01A (L-SAR 01A) satellite into a quasi sun-synchronous orbit of 607 kilometers. The 3.2 metric ton satellite was launched at 23:44 UTC on Tuesday, January 25 on a Chang Zheng 4C from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite is equipped with an L-band and multi-channel synthetic aperture [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134796","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}