{"id":78211,"date":"2025-08-18T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78211\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:56:10","slug":"china-launches-low-earth-orbit-satellite-group-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78211\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches low Earth orbit satellite group-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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’s Shanxi Province on Aug. 17, 2025. China launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites on Sunday. The satellite group — the ninth of its kind — 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

TAIYUAN, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — China launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The satellite group — the ninth of its kind — 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

The satellites entered their preset orbits successfully.<\/p>\n

The launch marked the 590th mission of the Long March carrier rockets. \u25a0<\/p>\n

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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’s Shanxi Province on Aug. 17, 2025.<\/p>\n

China launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The satellite group — the ninth of its kind — 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

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,95,47544,66,306],"class_list":["post-78211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-satellite-group","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}