{"id":76755,"date":"2025-08-18T06:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76755\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:14:10","slug":"china-launches-low-earth-orbit-satellite-group-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76755\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches low Earth orbit satellite group-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"aHy3cdptkRidxiHhfP\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kjhIGYoivxPZ2UwT.jpg\" data-material-id=\"25081811020116\" data-name=\"20250818c407a590b1de45fe9f1b0add73f8496a.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#8217;s Shanxi Province on Aug. 17, 2025. China launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites on Sunday. The satellite group &#8212; the ninth of its kind &#8212; will form an internet constellation. It was launched at 10:15 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket. The satellites entered their preset orbits successfully. (Photo by Shang Yuhang\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>TAIYUAN, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; China launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite group &#8212; the ninth of its kind &#8212; will form an internet constellation. It was launched at 10:15 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The satellites entered their preset orbits successfully.<\/p>\n<p>The launch marked the 590th mission of the Long March carrier rockets. \u25a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"HKh1nsT8LD5YPQbE45\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5TJEbHnCXZMe6vOQ.jpg\" data-material-id=\"25081811022000\" data-name=\"2025081858306a6780ef4e4396b861000bc77dca.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#8217;s Shanxi Province on Aug. 17, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>China launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite group &#8212; the ninth of its kind &#8212; will form an internet constellation. It was launched at 10:15 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The satellites entered their preset orbits successfully. (Photo by Shang Yuhang\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,512,58958,128,285],"class_list":["post-76755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-satellite-group","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}