{"id":102246,"date":"2025-10-26T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102246\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:01:11","slug":"china-successfully-launches-new-satellite-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102246\/","title":{"rendered":"China successfully launches new satellite -Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"KgQ2IU8LFQQKu3zlca\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sb2ij9jVL6Goanoz.jpeg\" data-material-id=\"25102600600938\" data-name=\"20251026e80d6b2ec13d42d7804587795c1ab0df.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying the Gaofen-14 02 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province, Oct. 26, 2025. (Photo by Wang Yinjie\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>XICHANG, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) &#8212; China on Sunday sent a new satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in its southwestern Sichuan Province.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaofen-14 02 satellite was launched at 11:55 a.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully.<\/p>\n<p>This satellite is capable of efficiently acquiring high-precision stereo imagery on a global scale, providing fundamental geographic information support for national economic development and national defense construction.<\/p>\n<p>The launch marked the 603rd flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series. \u25a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"zGqmQTU6dRcJTgZp4G\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WctCDKDFmkvUo2Kr.jpg\" data-material-id=\"25102604341269\" data-name=\"2025102618f2bcd2e6ad4fdfa1de25894e74183f.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying the Gaofen-14 02 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province, Oct. 26, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite was launched at 11:55 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit successfully. (Photo by Wang Yinjie\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying the Gaofen-14 02 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[607,111,139,69,4029,147,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-102246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-satellite","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}