{"id":629174,"date":"2026-09-27T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629174\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:00:11","slug":"why-claims-that-chinas-beidou-satellite-was-refuelled-in-orbit-could-change-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629174\/","title":{"rendered":"Why claims that China\u2019s BeiDou satellite was refuelled in orbit could change space race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/china-science?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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 <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/space?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">space race.<\/a><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The researchers from the state-funded Deep Space Exploration Laboratory gave no details about the operation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[80972,284427,35574,1657,988,284426,1210,5957,85,284425,46,47365,249690,141,169998,5959,145,284428,91323],"class_list":["post-629174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-beidou","tag-beidou-g","tag-cas","tag-china","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-deep-space-exploration-laboratory","tag-florida","tag-gps","tag-il","tag-international-journal-of-aerospace-engineering","tag-israel","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}