{"id":167981,"date":"2025-09-29T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167981\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:32:09","slug":"china-successfully-launches-two-new-test-satellites-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167981\/","title":{"rendered":"China successfully launches two new test satellites -Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"nc0tJCD4b5xqcV0hPW\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/knKGcY642XPY6V0C.jpeg\" data-material-id=\"25092910622933\" data-name=\"2025092999b3b2ccf3ce4f5ab450f046e5b31480.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying test satellites, Shiyan-30 01 and 02, blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province, Sept. 29, 2025. The two test satellites were launched at 11:00 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered their preset orbits successfully. The satellites will be mainly used for experimental verification of Earth observation technologies. (Photo by Yang Xi\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>XICHANG, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) &#8212; China on Monday sent two new test satellites into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan.<\/p>\n<p>The test satellites, Shiyan-30 01 and 02, were launched at 11:00 a.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-2D carrier rocket and entered their preset orbits successfully.<\/p>\n<p>The satellites will be mainly used for experimental verification of Earth observation technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The launch marked the 598th flight mission of the Long March series carrier rockets. \u25a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"13Nw1e2aHgYP35YicK\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SltktBxo2y5vqRCU.jpg\" data-material-id=\"25092907811075\" data-name=\"20250929eb97f1e5f02d4dc398e2a38028c9e260.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying test satellites, Shiyan-30 01 and 02, blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province, Sept. 29, 2025. The two test satellites were launched at 11:00 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered their preset orbits successfully. The satellites will be mainly used for experimental verification of Earth observation technologies. (Photo by Yang Xi\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ApkRYz3qAVHOV6SHeQ\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aHNJOyI2tx9tjNcQ.jpg\" data-material-id=\"25092907808951\" data-name=\"20250929d61f0b3ad7fd4f8fbce6384ef5ec70da.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying test satellites, Shiyan-30 01 and 02, blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province, Sept. 29, 2025. The two test satellites were launched at 11:00 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered their preset orbits successfully. The satellites will be mainly used for experimental verification of Earth observation technologies. (Photo by Yang Xi\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying test satellites, Shiyan-30 01 and 02, blasts off from the Xichang Satellite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[891,12989,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-167981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-satellites","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}