{"id":145785,"date":"2022-09-06T17:27:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/china-launches-mysterious-new-spy-satellite"},"modified":"2022-09-06T17:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:27:15","slug":"china-launches-mysterious-new-spy-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/china-launches-mysterious-new-spy-satellite","title":{"rendered":"China launches mysterious new spy satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-launches-mysterious-new-spy-satellite2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was the country\u2019s 35th successful rocket launch this year.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s space agency, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) continues its impressive launch cadence for this year with its latest launch. The agency launched a mystery spy satellite that may gather military intelligence for the country, a report from <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, called Yaogan 33, launched atop China\u2019s Long March 4C rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 7:44 pm (23:44 GMT) on Friday, September 2.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>China launched a mysterious spy satellite that will \u201cmonitor land, crop yield and natural disasters\u201d but could also gather military intelligence, analysts think.<\/p>\n<p>The Yaogan 33 (02) satellite lifted off atop China\u2019s Long March 4C rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 7:44 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 2, (2344 GMT, or 7:44 a.m. Beijing time on Sept. 3) in what was the east-Asia\u2019s space power\u2019s 35th successful launch this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the country\u2019s 35th successful rocket launch this year. China\u2019s space agency, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) continues its impressive launch cadence for this year with its latest launch. The agency launched a mystery spy satellite that may gather military intelligence for the country, a report from Space.com reveals. The satellite, called Yaogan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145785","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}