{"id":178560,"date":"2023-12-18T00:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/china-launches-large-classified-optical-satellite-towards-geostationary-orbit"},"modified":"2023-12-18T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:23:16","slug":"china-launches-large-classified-optical-satellite-towards-geostationary-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/china-launches-large-classified-optical-satellite-towards-geostationary-orbit","title":{"rendered":"China launches large classified optical satellite towards geostationary orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eknd1eG57k4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>HELSINKI \u2014 China sent the classified Yaogan-41 optical satellite towards the geostationary belt Friday using the country\u2019s largest launch vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth Long March 5 rocket lifted off from the coastal Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 8:41 a.m. Eastern (1341 UTC) Dec. 15. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) <a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/VXRX5pyKpXmbF39lX53ofg\">announced<\/a> launch success around an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>CASC revealed the payload to be the Yaogan-41 (\u201cremote sensing-41\u201d) satellite. A new, elongated 18.5-meter-long, 5.2-meter-diameter payload fairing shrouded the spacecraft. Previous fairings were 12.3 meters long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELSINKI \u2014 China sent the classified Yaogan-41 optical satellite towards the geostationary belt Friday using the country\u2019s largest launch vehicle. The sixth Long March 5 rocket lifted off from the coastal Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 8:41 a.m. Eastern (1341 UTC) Dec. 15. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) announced launch success around [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178560","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}