{"id":164524,"date":"2023-05-25T04:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T09:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/china-launches-two-satellites-to-monitor-earths-weakening-magnetic-field"},"modified":"2023-05-25T04:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T09:23:02","slug":"china-launches-two-satellites-to-monitor-earths-weakening-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/china-launches-two-satellites-to-monitor-earths-weakening-magnetic-field","title":{"rendered":"China launches two satellites to monitor Earth\u2019s weakening magnetic field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-launches-two-satellites-to-monitor-earths-weakening-magnetic-field2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two Macau Science 1 satellites lifted off atop a Long March 2C rocket on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>China launched two satellites designed to investigate and monitor Earth\u2019s magnetic field changes at 4 pm local time on Sunday, May 21, at the Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert.<\/p>\n<p>The mission called Macau Science 1 lifted a pair of satellites weighing 500kg (1,100lbs) each atop a Long March 2C rocket. It is the first Chinese space mission operated as part of a partnership with scientists in Macau, according to a report by the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two Macau Science 1 satellites lifted off atop a Long March 2C rocket on Sunday. China launched two satellites designed to investigate and monitor Earth\u2019s magnetic field changes at 4 pm local time on Sunday, May 21, at the Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert. The mission called Macau Science 1 lifted a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164524","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=164524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}