{"id":87417,"date":"2019-02-05T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/china-is-developing-a-new-laser-satellite-meant-to-hunt-down-submarines-more-than-1600-feet-underwater"},"modified":"2019-02-05T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:42:24","slug":"china-is-developing-a-new-laser-satellite-meant-to-hunt-down-submarines-more-than-1600-feet-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/china-is-developing-a-new-laser-satellite-meant-to-hunt-down-submarines-more-than-1600-feet-underwater","title":{"rendered":"China is developing a new laser satellite meant to hunt down submarines more than 1,600 feet underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-is-developing-a-new-laser-satellite-meant-to-hunt-down-submarines-more-than-1600-feet-underwater.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China is developing a satellite with a powerful laser for anti-submarine warfare that researchers hope will be able to pinpoint a target as far as 500 metres below the surface.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest addition to the country\u2019s expanding deep-sea surveillance programme, and aside from targeting submarines \u2014 most operate at a depth of less than 500 metres \u2014 it could also be used to collect data on the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Project Guanlan, meaning \u201cwatching the big waves\u201d, was officially launched in May at the Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology in Qingdao, Shandong. It aims to strengthen China\u2019s surveillance activities in the world\u2019s oceans, according to the laboratory\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-project-gunlan-laser-satellite-could-track-subs-underwater-2018-10\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-project-gunlan-laser-s...018&#45;10<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is developing a satellite with a powerful laser for anti-submarine warfare that researchers hope will be able to pinpoint a target as far as 500 metres below the surface. It is the latest addition to the country\u2019s expanding deep-sea surveillance programme, and aside from targeting submarines \u2014 most operate at a depth of less [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87417","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}