{"id":204299,"date":"2025-12-22T00:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204299\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T00:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:18:14","slug":"long-march-5-rocket-deploys-tech-demo-satellite-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204299\/","title":{"rendered":"Long March 5 rocket deploys tech demo satellite into space"},"content":{"rendered":"

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China launched a Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket on Saturday evening to deploy a technology demonstration satellite into space. [Photo\/Xinhua] <\/p>\n

China launched a Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket on Saturday evening to deploy a technology demonstration satellite into space, according to the State-owned conglomerate China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation”s dominant space contractor.<\/p>\n

The company said in a news release that the rocket blasted off at 8:30 pm from a coastal service tower at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province and soon placed the Communications Technology Demonstrator 23 satellite in its intended orbit.<\/p>\n

One of the world’s most powerful operational rockets, the Long March 5 model was designed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing, the nation’s major rocket maker and a CASC subsidiary.<\/p>\n

Compared to the conventional Long March 5 configuration, the rocket deployed on Saturday had an extended fairing \u2014 the top structure on a rocket that contains satellites or other payloads \u2014 that was 18.5 meters tall.<\/p>\n

The fairings on typical Long March 5 rockets are about 12.3 meters tall.<\/p>\n

The extended Long March 5 model has an overall height of 63.2 meters, making it the tallest-ever rocket type in China.<\/p>\n

Communications Technology Demonstrator 23 was built by another CASC subsidiary, China Academy of Space Technology, and is tasked with verifying multi-band high-speed satellite communications technologies, according to the company.<\/p>\n

The launch marked the 88th space mission in China and the 618th flight of the Long March rocket fleet. It is also the 17th launch of the Long March 5 family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China launched a Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket on Saturday evening to deploy a technology demonstration satellite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-204299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}