{"id":211515,"date":"2025-12-26T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211515\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:14:09","slug":"chinas-long-march-8a-rocket-launches-internet-satellites-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211515\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s Long March-8A rocket launches internet satellites-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying a group of internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 26, 2025. (Photo by Liu Jianqiu\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n

WENCHANG, Hainan, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) — China launched a Long March-8A carrier rocket on Friday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a group of internet satellites into space.<\/p>\n

The rocket lifted off at 7:26 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site. It successfully placed the payloads, the 17th group of low-orbit internet satellites, into preset orbit. \u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying a group of internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[114,61,60,11830,82,247],"class_list":["post-211515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-china","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-satellites","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211515","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=211515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}