{"id":906926,"date":"2026-09-27T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906926\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:14:09","slug":"claims-chinas-beidou-satellite-was-refuelled-in-orbit-could-change-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906926\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims China\u2019s BeiDou satellite was refuelled in orbit could change space race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese researchers<\/a> appear to have revealed a previously unknown satellite-to-satellite refuelling operation in high Earth orbit, putting the country at the forefront of a technology that could reshape the space race.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a paper undergoing peer review for the Journal of Deep Space Exploration, the team said China had \u201csuccessfully provided room-temperature propellant refuelling for a high-orbit BeiDou satellite for the first time\u201d.<\/p>\n

The researchers from the state-funded Deep Space Exploration Laboratory gave no details about the operation.<\/p>\n

They said it had given China valuable experience but emphasised the need to develop technologies for transferring extremely low-temperature propellants, which offered better performance for large spacecraft and deep-space missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese researchers appear to have revealed a previously unknown satellite-to-satellite refuelling operation in high Earth orbit, putting the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,83441,475079,71398,512,5225,451449,2755,7130,475078,126001,386332,128,273229,28765,285,475080,172499],"class_list":["post-906926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beidou","tag-beidou-g","tag-cas","tag-china","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-deep-space-exploration-laboratory","tag-florida","tag-gps","tag-international-journal-of-aerospace-engineering","tag-jonathan-mcdowell","tag-journal-of-deep-space-exploration","tag-science","tag-shijian","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-space","tag-us-global-positioning-system","tag-us-space-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906926","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=906926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}