{"id":194177,"date":"2024-08-07T00:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T05:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/china-launches-first-satellites-for-thousand-sails-megaconstellation"},"modified":"2024-08-07T00:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T05:22:57","slug":"china-launches-first-satellites-for-thousand-sails-megaconstellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/china-launches-first-satellites-for-thousand-sails-megaconstellation","title":{"rendered":"China launches first satellites for Thousand Sails megaconstellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-launches-first-satellites-for-thousand-sails-megaconstellation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PRESTON, United Kingdom \u2014 China successfully launched the first batch of 18 satellites Tuesday for the Thousand Sails low Earth orbit communications megaconstellation.<\/p>\n<p>A Long March 6A rocket lifted off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, north China, at 2:42 a.m. Eastern (0642 UTC) Aug. 6. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240806090658\/https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/UdQiZ1ggLWTXzXB7iCbQFw\">announced<\/a> launch success just over two hours later.<\/p>\n<p>The Long March 6A upper stage deployed 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/first-satellite-for-chinese-g60-megaconstellation-rolls-off-assembly-line\/\">flat panel<\/a> Qianfan (\u201cThousand Sails\u201d) satellites into polar orbit for Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESTON, United Kingdom \u2014 China successfully launched the first batch of 18 satellites Tuesday for the Thousand Sails low Earth orbit communications megaconstellation. A Long March 6A rocket lifted off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, north China, at 2:42 a.m. Eastern (0642 UTC) Aug. 6. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced launch [\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-194177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194177","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=194177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}