{"id":30929,"date":"2016-10-10T13:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/china-to-launch-pioneering-pulsar-navigation-satellite-in-november"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:29:57","slug":"china-to-launch-pioneering-pulsar-navigation-satellite-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/china-to-launch-pioneering-pulsar-navigation-satellite-in-november","title":{"rendered":"China to launch pioneering pulsar navigation satellite in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-to-launch-pioneering-pulsar-navigation-satellite-in-november.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China is already well on the way to establishing its own version of America\u2019s GPS network with its Beidou satellite constellation, but now it is seeking to take navigation and timing to stellar levels.<\/p>\n<p>In November China will launch the X-ray pulsar navigation satellite \u2014 XPNAV-1 \u2014 a satellite that will conduct the world\u2019s first test of the possibilities of using the regular emission of X-ray signals from pulsars for spacecraft navigation.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft will attempt to triangulate its position relative to the Sun using the highly regular emissions from pulsars.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gbtimes.com\/china\/china-launch-pioneering-pulsar-navigation-satellite-november\">http:\/\/gbtimes.com\/china\/china-launch-pioneering-pulsar-navi...e-november<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is already well on the way to establishing its own version of America\u2019s GPS network with its Beidou satellite constellation, but now it is seeking to take navigation and timing to stellar levels. In November China will launch the X-ray pulsar navigation satellite \u2014 XPNAV-1 \u2014 a satellite that will conduct the world\u2019s first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30929","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49755,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30929\/revisions\/49755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}